Coronavirus thread

[Earlymonk]

To follow up from a few pages back, I had this sent to me this evening.

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Nation's top coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci forced to beef up security as death threats increase
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/polit...ail/index.html

[Welder]

My sister's house was built during the days of coal mining and steel mills in Pittsburgh. It had a rough shower in the basement. The drill, way back then, was that the husband would enter the home through the basement door. He would strip, shower, put on clean clothes and then go upstairs to his family.

That's how I grew up. We had a 'mud room' entrance that had a shower/bathroom directly attached. Then you could go into the rest of the house. Guests and clean family members used a different entrance.

[JM Campbell]

From the "American Ingenuity Files":
Bravo Zulu, Professor Conley.

Absolutely awesome innovation and humanitarian action people can learn from.


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[ccmdfd]

From the "American Ingenuity Files":
Bravo Zulu, Professor Conley.

Without seeing the device in use, difficult to say how well it will be adopted.



It needs to be adjustable so one can deliver specific amounts of air to each patient and adjust up or down as needed.


That being said, there may be some pulmonologist/ICU docs who don’t care and will use it as a Hail Mary approach.


I’ve discussed these type of devices with our local critical care MD’s (I do primarily outpatient work) and they say they won’t use them. They’d rather just make a decision as to which patients get a vent and which don’t and deal with the consequences. Different strokes for different folks.



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[Half Moon]

More crazy in the news:

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-...as-suspicious/

Or as I saw one commenter say - it was a loco motive...

[Earlymonk]

moved

[Redhat]

I guess the Fed's weren't joking about hoarding medical gear:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj...plies-to-nj-ny

[5pins]

Everything should be okay now, McKinsey and Jared are in charge...

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...esponse-160553

There is a thread for this stuff.

https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....olitics-Thread

[BehindBlueI's]

The difference is one is homicide while the other is death from natural causes.

Inverting that same philosophical exercise, why do we allow drinking, smoking, & junk-food eating? Far more than 1,000 a day die from these preventable deaths.

One is done to you, the other is self-inflicted. Same reason there's not a huge public uprising about overdose deaths. Those without a personal stake figure the person did it to themselves/had it coming. If you drink yourself to death, meh, that's on you. If you get killed by a drunk driver, there'll be a go fund me, etc. Die from lung cancer and if you weren't a smoker, it'll be prominent in the discussion of your death, distancing you from fault in your own demise. Plenty of "fuck cancer" posts, very few to no "fuck suicide" posts. All have that common theme, done to you by an outside force vs internal cause/at fault.

So which is someone infecting you with a potentially fatal disease when it's preventable? Seems like "done to you" to me.

[blues]

One is done to you, the other is self-inflicted. Same reason there's not a huge public uprising about overdose deaths. Those without a personal stake figure the person did it to themselves/had it coming. If you drink yourself to death, meh, that's on you. If you get killed by a drunk driver, there'll be a go fund me, etc. Die from lung cancer and if you weren't a smoker, it'll be prominent in the discussion of your death, distancing you from fault in your own demise. Plenty of "fuck cancer" posts, very few to no "fuck suicide" posts. All have that common theme, done to you by an outside force vs internal cause/at fault.

So which is someone infecting you with a potentially fatal disease when it's preventable? Seems like "done to you" to me.

Don't Covid-19 me, bro'!