2019 Novel Coronavirus

[Platypus Engineer]

you know there are no do overs in life and I think most all elected officials of all political affiliation wish they could get a decision or two back, but the one thing Id really like to see the world come together on is how the F is this happening?

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Maybe  china is cooking the books, but pretty much every country of any size (not counting small islands like NZ) are trying everything to "contain" something that you cant contain and losing, yet the most populated country isnt having any issues? maybe they are wearing 2 maks and staying 8 feet apart? 

Did they shoot everyone in Wuhan? Are they just not providing numbers? Did they already develop a vaccine / magic pill?

It is accepted in a lot of place that China is grossly under reporting numbers.

N Korea is apparently shooting people:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/12/04/north-korea-has-strict-punishments-for-those-breaking-coronavirus-lockdowns-n2581083

 

[Supe]

NC just added a 10PM-5AM curfew with a 9PM alcohol serving curfew.

 

[Platypus Engineer]

What a joke:

https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/cuomo-accepts-emmy-as-pandemic-surges/

 

[csb]

NC just added a 10PM-5AM curfew with a 9PM alcohol serving curfew.

We now have a 10PM bar closure and my cheap ass is like, "Man, remember drinking at bars 16 years ago?" Then I laugh as I count my money. 

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

We now have a 10PM bar closure and my cheap ass is like, "Man, remember drinking at bars 16 years ago?" Then I laugh as I count my money. 

I'm like, "man, remember drinking anything besides (literally) free water???" *making it rain gesture*

 

[bwin12]

The guy who swabbed our noses shoved the thing up there and then LEFT IT FOR A BIT and shoved it in further and then extracted it. It was rough. 

I have never sneezed so hard/satisfyingly in my life. But the test I got was just barely in my nose, not the brain tickler I have heard descriptions of. 

 

[Dleg]

 

[Dleg]

I can't post memes and laugh all the time. This isn't the most pleasant read, but it's reality for hundreds of thousands of hospitalized Americans and the health care workers struggling to care for them right now. 

What seven ICU nurses want you to know about the battle against covid-19

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/icu-nurses-covid-19/

 

[Dleg]

https://www.theonion.com/i-am-immortal-screams-90-year-old-british-woman-emba-1845834963?utm_campaign=The+Onion&utm_content=1607466301&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook

 

[Supe]

We now have a 10PM bar closure and my cheap ass is like, "Man, remember drinking at bars 16 years ago?" Then I laugh as I count my money. 

The last time I drank at a bar that wasn't a hotel bar was when I met Mrs. Supe!  (We arranged to meet there, she wasn't a bar hag, LOL).  

 

[Platypus Engineer]

The link below is from a webinar I attended a few weeks ago. It discusses the explosion at the Port of Beirut from this summer. The before and after scenes are kind of stunning. The grain silos were a row of three, one left were the outermost set, are now permanently titled.  Forensic / structural not really my area of expertise, but attended mainly out of curiosity / expand knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxhEkKQBes

 

[Road Guy]

reminder, please do not post washington post links here, I swear to god I will give the keys to the site to someone in Orlando!

 

[csb]

Holy crap. At the risk of YKW taking over EB, that article was a gut punch and seems to go right along with the medical folks I've talked to through all of this. 

 

[Road Guy]

It leaves out some other observations ive heard around my house..

Nurses,staff continue to get treated like shit by hopsital management (inlcuding nurse supervisors and people who call themselves nurse educators) - they will hang out a '" heros work here sign" and then bitch  at them for asking for a new face shield (for example), or for not putting a smiley sticker on the white board. They will offer incentives to come to work for extra money and then do everything possible to cheat you out of it when you come in ( guess thats any job though) - Dont let this image being presented that the office schmucks who run these hospitals are really doing anything to make life better for the peasants that do the actual work at the hopsital. 

The one good thing about covid patients is they dont have to deal with what most consider the worst part of their job ( the patients asshole family members) -  just yesterday the lady I cohabitate with said she was scolded on the ipad /phonecall because it didnt look like her moms hair had been washed and she was concerned with the level of care she was receiving (if you have seen the pics of what these covid icu rooms look like this isnt  really priority #1) -

So maybe they could add in a "dont be a dick" when your family member is in the hospital to part of the article?  Maybe they could mention all the other BS that is part of their job that doesnt have to be instead of making it sound like the only bad part of their job is covid. 

They have hard jobs, ive been trying everything possible prior to all of this to get my lady out of this career because its a mental beat down every day, covid, non covid, its a shitty job that truly doesnt pay enough under any cicumstances.

 

[ruggercsc]

reminder, please do not post washington post links here, I swear to god I will give the keys to the site to someone in Orlando!

Are Infowars and OAN links okay?  BTW, I get a big laugh out of OAN calling Fox News the left wing media.

 

[Road Guy]

probably in the same boat but i dont think they parade as a legitmate news source like the washington post

 

[Road Guy]

one funny story about some over reaction on the staff (nurse) part and a combined dumb idea from "mgmt' is her hospital started spiking mid to late October, towards the end of the month the Director of Nursing and the idiot Epidemiologist came around handing out candy, on a covid floor.. apparently all the RN's were all GFY.. later when I was told this story I was like you know it may have just been a Halloween thing?  - but thats sort of the mood..

 

[Violator]

Am I the only one that thinks its a little strange to give the vaccines to 94 year olds?

 

[P-E]

Am I the only one that thinks its a little strange to give the vaccines to 94 year olds?

They should get the vaccine.  They are more apt to require a hospital bed and ventilator.  The idea is to reduce the number needed to go to the hospital, unless you are suggesting that they die at home. 

 

[Violator]

Oh sure say it like that and it makes me out to be a horrible person

I live in the land of old people and part of me thinks that if you have made it to 90 and not living in a home you are probably going to be okay.