weekend COVID news (4/5)

[sonrisa]

Read this very grim article on ventilators and make sure you know what your loved ones would want. It's a stark description of the effects and after effects of ventilator use. 

www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/opinion/coronavirus-ventilators.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

[scout8]

sonrisa I think you should warn people that article is pretty hard to read right now. I was not expecting it to be quite so explicit. I'm already anxious and that made it worse.

ETA I see now you said it is grim. I missed that before. It's definitely grim.

[ESF]

Some info about the Chinese government’s cover up. My heart breaks for the people there.

[stinkyfeet]

Apr 5, 2020 5:41:22 GMT -5 scout8 said:

sonrisa I think you should warn people that article is pretty hard to read right now. I was not expecting it to be quite so explicit. I'm already anxious and that made it worse.

ETA I see now you said it is grim. I missed that before. It's definitely grim.

I made the mistake of reading it before bed last night.  Needless to say I didn't sleep much at all.  It IS important to have these hard discussions both with our loved ones and ourselves.  It just is very hard to accept that this is the new normal right now.  

[litebright]

www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/04/03/its-a-sh-sandwich-republicans-rage-as-florida-becomes-a-nightmare-for-trump-1271172

"Privately, Republicans admit that the $77.9 million system that is now failing Florida workers is doing exactly what Scott designed it to do — lower the state’s reported number of jobless claims after the great recession.

“It’s a sh-- sandwich, and it was designed that way by Scott,” said one DeSantis advisor. “It wasn’t about saving money. It was about making it harder for people to get benefits or keep benefits so that the unemployment numbers were low to give the governor something to brag about.”

...

With hundreds of thousands of Floridians out of work, the state’s overwhelmed system is making it nearly impossible for many people to even get in line for benefits. ... The new online system was part of a series of changes designed to limit benefits. The ultimate goal — which it delivered on — was to lower unemployment taxes paid by Florida businesses. A 2011 analysis done by the Florida Legislature estimated that the changes pushed by Scott would save businesses more than $2.3 billion between 2011 and 2020.

Now, as thousands of people try to get help, the system crashes or denies them access. Nearly 400,000 people have managed to file claims in the last two and half weeks. It’s not known how many have tried and failed."

[ESF]

Twitter is pointing out that Rand Paul has been silent since his diagnosis two weeks ago. If he was on the mend, you would think we would have heard something by now...

[mbcdefg]

YourVoice America host: maybe the dead are happier than the living, ever think of that?

[ESF]

Apr 5, 2020 9:36:29 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

YourVoice America host: maybe the dead are happier than the living, ever think of that?

someone collected this jerk's tweets on the virus, in case you want to see the evolution of hypocrisy in action.

[Velar Fricative]

Apr 5, 2020 9:22:43 GMT -5 ESF said:

Twitter is pointing out that Rand Paul has been silent since his diagnosis two weeks ago. If he was on the mend, you would think we would have heard something by now...

I didn’t even check Twitter but this just entered my mind a couple of hours ago.

[mbcdefg]

Navy Captain Removed From Carrier Tests Positive for Covid-19


www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/magazine/navy-captain-crozier-positive-coronavirus.html

[keyslover]

Apr 5, 2020 11:19:38 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Apr 5, 2020 9:22:43 GMT -5 ESF said:

Twitter is pointing out that Rand Paul has been silent since his diagnosis two weeks ago. If he was on the mend, you would think we would have heard something by now...

I didn’t even check Twitter but this just entered my mind a couple of hours ago.

Just reading his wiki page and forgot about the time his neighbor assaulted him, which lead to partial lung removal.

[dock]

Apr 5, 2020 9:22:43 GMT -5 ESF said:

Twitter is pointing out that Rand Paul has been silent since his diagnosis two weeks ago. If he was on the mend, you would think we would have heard something by now...

Do they mean publicly? Because he’s been tweeting.

[bears]

Apr 5, 2020 12:20:14 GMT -5 dock said:

Apr 5, 2020 9:22:43 GMT -5 ESF said:

Twitter is pointing out that Rand Paul has been silent since his diagnosis two weeks ago. If he was on the mend, you would think we would have heard something by now...

Do they mean publicly? Because he’s been tweeting.

That's his staff.

[sonrisa]

Apr 5, 2020 5:41:22 GMT -5 scout8 said:

sonrisa I think you should warn people that article is pretty hard to read right now. I was not expecting it to be quite so explicit. I'm already anxious and that made it worse.

ETA I see now you said it is grim. I missed that before. It's definitely grim.

Im sorry for raising your anxiety  

[ESF]

Sure, seems completely normal as not at all like he’s trying to enrich him and his shitty kids through secret investments in these drugs and/or allow for conspiracy theories to fester about these drugs so he can point to the failure to adopt them as the problem, not his leadership.

[ESF]

Apr 5, 2020 12:42:23 GMT -5 bears said:

Apr 5, 2020 12:20:14 GMT -5 dock said:

Do they mean publicly? Because he’s been tweeting.

That's his staff.

Yeah and none have been updates about his condition, which you’d think he’d be doing if he was in good enough condition to tweet.

[mbcdefg]

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted to hospital for tests, 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus


www.bbc.com/news/uk-52177125

[MixedBerryJam]

So Boris Johnson is hospitalized now? Supposedly so a doctor could check out his lingering symptoms face to face, but has the uk prime minister not had an actual human doctor checking in on him once a day this whole time? I can’t help but assume this is more serious than they’re saying.

[VillainV]

The Queen addresses the UK from Windsor:


www.cnn.com/2020/04/05/uk/queen-elizabeth-ii-coronavirus-address-gbr-intl/index.html

[ESF]

Shit. FYI this person is a journalist for the National Geographic, so I assume this is reliable.

[georgeglass]

Apr 5, 2020 15:53:17 GMT -5 ESF said:

Shit. FYI this person is a journalist for the National Geographic, so I assume this is reliable.

Of course. Of course it's a tiger.

[Patsy Baloney]

Wasn't there a story last week sometime that a house cat had coronavirus? I feel like I've read that cats are susceptible to it...not that I feel great about tigers having covid-19.

ETA: Yes, here's what I was thinking of: www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats-can-get-coronavirus-study-suggests-but-pet-owners-need-not-panic/ 

[mala]

Apr 5, 2020 15:53:17 GMT -5 ESF said:

Shit. FYI this person is a journalist for the National Geographic, so I assume this is reliable.

ABC is now reporting the same.

[mmmomof2]

I can’t find it now, but I read an account of someone’s COVID symptoms in Wuhan (British or Australian guy). He had a pretty bad case, and his kitten ended up dying.

[NewOrleans]

I absolutely blame Joe Exotic for this shit.

[scout8]

This is what I keep asking. Why is there no plan??!!

www.newsandguts.com/video/cnns-jake-tapper-wants-to-ask-trump-whats-the-plan/?fbclid=IwAR0i-9Z5lrV1szvSZ15og3pyIdMUjIaLCE6YqhohqYqm1MVFEIWmAYNyTAY

[readyin07]

Apr 5, 2020 17:55:24 GMT -5 scout8 said:

This is what I keep asking. Why is there no plan??!!

www.newsandguts.com/video/cnns-jake-tapper-wants-to-ask-trump-whats-the-plan/?fbclid=IwAR0i-9Z5lrV1szvSZ15og3pyIdMUjIaLCE6YqhohqYqm1MVFEIWmAYNyTAY

I sobbed watching that because I keep saying that too...what’s the plan? There must be a plan. The adults in the room who’ll make a plan...where are they? Where’s that pandemic team that we heard had been fired? Can they be given a lot of money to be rehired to make a plan?

[taratru]

Apr 5, 2020 17:55:24 GMT -5 scout8 said:

This is what I keep asking. Why is there no plan??!!

www.newsandguts.com/video/cnns-jake-tapper-wants-to-ask-trump-whats-the-plan/?fbclid=IwAR0i-9Z5lrV1szvSZ15og3pyIdMUjIaLCE6YqhohqYqm1MVFEIWmAYNyTAY

Requires leadership, honesty, and empathy?

Yeah. That shit left the building. *sob*

[aprilsails]

Apr 5, 2020 17:55:24 GMT -5 scout8 said:

This is what I keep asking. Why is there no plan??!!

www.newsandguts.com/video/cnns-jake-tapper-wants-to-ask-trump-whats-the-plan/?fbclid=IwAR0i-9Z5lrV1szvSZ15og3pyIdMUjIaLCE6YqhohqYqm1MVFEIWmAYNyTAY

This article is now over a week out of date and it is from Maclean’s in Canada (so excuse the Canadian pat on the backing), however it explains in more detail that I have seen elsewhere how this may progress. It’s enlightening and I think it’s hard for politicians to make decisions on any of this.
www.google.ca/amp/s/www.macleans.ca/society/science/what-does-the-covid-19-endgame-look-like-five-simple-steps/amp/

[VillainV]

Apr 5, 2020 18:52:51 GMT -5 readyin07 said:

Apr 5, 2020 17:55:24 GMT -5 scout8 said:

This is what I keep asking. Why is there no plan??!!

www.newsandguts.com/video/cnns-jake-tapper-wants-to-ask-trump-whats-the-plan/?fbclid=IwAR0i-9Z5lrV1szvSZ15og3pyIdMUjIaLCE6YqhohqYqm1MVFEIWmAYNyTAY

I sobbed watching that because I keep saying that too...what’s the plan? There must be a plan. The adults in the room who’ll make a plan...where are they? Where’s that pandemic team that we heard had been fired? Can they be given a lot of money to be rehired to make a plan?

There used to be people in the federal government whose job it was to come up with plans for exactly these scenarios. Most have them have been fired or silenced, and replaced by people who have no idea what they’re talking about.