Kiroy
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if this is the case how do we not execute most leaders and media (after legal tribunals)?
edit: wrong virus thread - jfc we might as well merge threads at this point
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Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
edit: wrong virus thread - jfc we might as well merge threads at this point
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Numbers today in NY, with still a small amount tested show us in the 1% fatality range. As testing finds much greater number of cases the denominator increases and the fatality ratio comes down.
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1,000 Inmates Will Be Released From N.J. Jails to Curb Coronavirus Risk (Published 2020)
No other state is thought to have taken such sweeping action to reduce its jail population in response to the pandemic.
'Lifesaving' lupus drug in short supply after Trump touts possible coronavirus treatment
The publicity surrounding hydroxychloroquine has fueled shortages across the country, NBC News found.
www.nbcnews.com
So now Azithromycin (safe in everybody and was a great, cheap, antibiotic) is now unobtainable and super-expensive.
Also; NY will need 30,000 ventilators. Cuomo, rightfully stated ""When we went to war we didn't say, 'Any company out there want to build a battleship?'"
So Trump Responded that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo "should be buying the ventilators his state needs to treat coronavirus patients rather than relying on the federal government."
Trump's remarks during a Fox News interview Monday come just hours after Cuomo issued a plea for more help from the federal government, one of several state leaders who says they still lack equipment necessary to fight the pandemic.
"He's supposed to be buying his own ventilators," Trump said.
what an ass... Good luck, America. NYC is the test case for what is to come for every city in America.
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ver_21
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igarthy said:
‘Cacophony of coughing’: Inside NYC’s virus-besieged ERs
New York City’s hospitals have become the war-zone-like epicenter of the nation’s coronavirus crisis.
www.inquirer.com
I grew up around Philadelphia, and I will always love its dirty smelly corrupt quirks and all the good people and food and sports and all else that comes with it.
For a man who has spent nearly all his life in orbit of NYC to turn his back on it is unfathomable to me.
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1,000 Inmates Will Be Released From N.J. Jails to Curb Coronavirus Risk (Published 2020)
No other state is thought to have taken such sweeping action to reduce its jail population in response to the pandemic.www.nytimes.com
'Lifesaving' lupus drug in short supply after Trump touts possible coronavirus treatment
The publicity surrounding hydroxychloroquine has fueled shortages across the country, NBC News found.
So now Azithromycin (safe in everybody and was a great, cheap, antibiotic) is now unobtainable and super-expensive.
Also; NY will need 30,000 ventilators. Cuomo, rightfully stated ""When we went to war we didn't say, 'Any company out there want to build a battleship?'"
So Trump Responded that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo "should be buying the ventilators his state needs to treat coronavirus patients rather than relying on the federal government."
Trump's remarks during a Fox News interview Monday come just hours after Cuomo issued a plea for more help from the federal government, one of several state leaders who says they still lack equipment necessary to fight the pandemic.
"He's supposed to be buying his own ventilators," Trump said.
what an ass... Good luck, America. NYC is the test case for what is to come for every city in America.
Fuck them.
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We're now doing a similar thing with the paper bags only adapted for the EMS world.
Also, we no longer are providing N-95 masks to anyone at the beginning of their shifts. I'm sorry to say, but I absolutely knew this was going to happen even if I didn't say it here.
Part of the problem is that in our initial reaction to this, we were telling crews to wear masks WAY more often than normal. So they did. So now we are at a critical inventory of them.
So now, instead of having a mask on-hand (we used to stock 4 on each ambulance, we now stock 0) we are asking crews to make a clinical judgement call on whether or not they suspect the patient might have COVID. If they think the answer is yes, they then leave the scene and drive back to base, get 2 masks, and then go back to the scene and run the call. After that, they are to put the mask in a paper bag, label it with their name, and then re-use that mask for the remainder of their shift and then dispose of it. The alternative is that a supervisor drives out to their location and gives them the two masks they need. That sounds good, but in practical reality the Supervisors are also stretched to the max and this part is going to happen less than %5 of the time.
We have been using so many cleaning supplies over the last 2 weeks that we are also at critical level on those as well. We are now watering down some of them, literally, otherwise we will run out completely.
We do, however, apparently have a large stash of toilet paper (commercial grade) at our main base. Thank pharmakos's Deity.
One of our ambulances had their N-95 masks stolen out of it while it was at rest in a parking lot at a nursing home while the crew was inside retrieving a patient. Rumors have it that this has also happened at least once to one of our competitors as well. The ghouls are starting to target the ambulances for supplies.
On the bright side, the Company has issued a new policy that allows people to use a deficit of Paid Time Off. This allows people to take time off of work, go into the negative, and still get paid at %100, however they are borrowing from the bank and any deficit PTO they have accrued will need to be paid back on a later date as time worked.
Also anyone who comes to work but also has child-care issues on that same day will be given a additional stipend of $50 a day. They said that they know that this doesn't fully cover the expense but that they hope it helps.
Overtime, interestingly, has not been approved for any of the regular road crews but has been approved across the board for all non-exempt members of the leadership team.
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my little town just had it 1st positive test, local nursing home has still been using traveling therapists. chick that apparently travels all over the state tested positive after failing the temp test when leaving the building.
so far no one else is showing symptoms
so far no one else is showing symptoms
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Not any more-- that's not the American way. Big pharma will now charge a FORTUNE for it. It's happening already with Azithromycin. And it happens regularly with simple drugs like Epi-pens (used to be $1.25, now almost $600). And colchicine- used to be pennies, now over $300...
Pretty sure the government could have made millions of test-kits for COVID-19. Jesus Christ, Singapore did and they still have ZERO deaths from it (and they were hit second after China). WHY? Their government was the single source of testing and information regarding the disease and took immediate, definitive action. We were told it was all a Democratic propaganda campaign and we were told that the cases would be “pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.”
Coronavirus Lessons From Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong
All three territories have kept their COVID-19 cases low despite strong links to China
time.com
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Shut up faggot. Also just a flu.Not any more-- that's not the American way. Big pharma will now charge a FORTUNE for it. It's happening already with Azithromycin. And it happens regularly with simple drugs like Epi-pens (used to be $1.25, now almost $600). And colchicine- used to be pennies, now over $300...
Pretty sure the government could have made millions of test-kits for COVID-19. Jesus Christ, Singapore did and they still have ZERO deaths from it (and they were hit second after China). WHY? Their government was the single source of testing and information regarding the disease and took immediate, definitive action. We were told it was all a Democratic propaganda campaign and we were told that the cases would be “pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.”
Coronavirus Lessons From Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong
All three territories have kept their COVID-19 cases low despite strong links to China
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Not any more-- that's not the American way. Big pharma will now charge a FORTUNE for it. It's happening already with Azithromycin. And it happens regularly with simple drugs like Epi-pens (used to be $1.25, now almost $600). And colchicine- used to be pennies, now over $300...
Pretty sure the government could have made millions of test-kits for COVID-19. Jesus Christ, Singapore did and they still have ZERO deaths from it (and they were hit second after China). WHY? Their government was the single source of testing and information regarding the disease and took immediate, definitive action. We were told it was all a Democratic propaganda campaign and we were told that the cases would be “pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.”
Coronavirus Lessons From Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong
All three territories have kept their COVID-19 cases low despite strong links to China
I can't imagine what it must be like to be this subservient to authority to be as pissed off about this as you are.
Imagine what it must be like to think that centralized planning is some sort of desirable outcome at the mere expense of your own life. The amount of sheer slave-mentality panic submission is nauseating to me.
Live free or die.
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By the way, I am still totally on board with the general idea of social distancing and I am doing my best to limit it to the extent of my ability.
But It needs to be said that I am not doing this because someone commanded me to. I am doing this because I have been blessed with enough information to make an informed decision.
I voted for Trump in 2016 and will likely do so again in 2020, but at no point during any of this have I looked to him for guidance. I also never recall asking him what brand of car I should buy.
I know for a fact that I know more about cars and viruses than he does. Why would I put my neck on his chopping block one way or the other? Whether he chooses to swing the axe or not is irrelevant. My neck simply won't be on the block. Not for him anyway. Not his block. Maybe I'd do such a thing for my family but even then it will not take any level of authority to get my head to lay on that chopping block.
No level of authority can force my head onto the chopping block. Only sheer naked force can do that. If my head is on the chopping block it is either because I placed it there willingly for the sake of my family or because Stalin's NKVD stormed into my bedroom in the middle of the night and caught me off my guard.
But It needs to be said that I am not doing this because someone commanded me to. I am doing this because I have been blessed with enough information to make an informed decision.
I voted for Trump in 2016 and will likely do so again in 2020, but at no point during any of this have I looked to him for guidance. I also never recall asking him what brand of car I should buy.
I know for a fact that I know more about cars and viruses than he does. Why would I put my neck on his chopping block one way or the other? Whether he chooses to swing the axe or not is irrelevant. My neck simply won't be on the block. Not for him anyway. Not his block. Maybe I'd do such a thing for my family but even then it will not take any level of authority to get my head to lay on that chopping block.
No level of authority can force my head onto the chopping block. Only sheer naked force can do that. If my head is on the chopping block it is either because I placed it there willingly for the sake of my family or because Stalin's NKVD stormed into my bedroom in the middle of the night and caught me off my guard.
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You need to look into your insurance plan, I know a restaurant that is claiming loss of income due to an act of god, or something. Also the Feds Stimulus package is meant to help businesses exactly like what you're describing.
For 2-6T every person & business better be taken care of.
Alex
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Post doesn't say "chopping block" enough.
I don't even know what this post is trying to say.
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It can be; it's an ancient drug that goes back to the '50s, and it's used to treat malaria in the developing world. Therefore there has been a lot of time and there is a lot of pressure to develop efficient synthesis pathways for it.
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Fair criticism.
It's an extension of a few conversations I've had recently.
People are either hating or praising their governments. My gut reaction is: "governments?"
There is a sense in some people that they NEED to be lead from up-on-high. This leads them to obsess over this or that reaction from this or that government official.
What COVID has reinforced in me is my sense of libertarianism, as a philosophy more-so than a political party.
I just can not imagine what it must be like to either praise or hate the President in the face of a biological phenomenon. It's completely alien to me to look to political figures for such things.
Some people are wired in such a way to do so, I am not one of those people. It both fascinating and disgusting to me all at once.
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Alex
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I think it has to do with how many people are retarded and still partying on Bourbon St and shit. Without some sort of enforcement the idiots would spread this to all the other idiots. Not really sure what the government can do besides deploying military everywhere though. And I don't think that's a good option. People just need to be less dumb.
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