Covid-19

[Florida173]

The vast majority of the field hospitals that were deployed because doctors decided to kill people. I literally look at it that way. We have anecdotal evidence from @Muppet earlier.


We deployed hospital ships to LA and New York. Multiple CASH units all over the country only to have them go unutilized because of the "optics" as Muppet wrote of having someone sleep on a cot. So elderly patients all over the country were discharged and sent back to their nursing/retirement homes where governors like Cuomo forced those facilities to take their residents back even though they were infected with a highly contagious and pretty deadly [for elderly patients] virus. I know people who deployed with reserve CSH units to help support highly impacted areas that never saw a patient.

For example, 627th AHC deployed, stood up, and left after three days.

CenturyLink field hospital to be dismantled, sent to state with greater need

USNS Mercy had to unass itself from a refit to go do work in LA, it did some, but much. It returned to SD pretty rapidly.

USNS Mercy Hospital Ship Returns to San Diego

USNS Comfort was also barely used.

Hospital Ship USNS Comfort to Return to Virginia – gCaptain

I don't really think it's related though. What I am talking about is more than just a poorly executed military response to governors crying for support and likely just trying to make the President look bad in not responding. I'm talking about the coordinated DHS/FEMA federal response where the military is only one aspect within a menu of options from Emergency Support Function 13.

 

[Gunz]

That is a good question. Our institution is so big, We have a lot of flexibility and being able to expand ICU resources, to a point. Our next stop would be the state, we could set up a SMAT capability, there's also some creative room with redesigning rooms and other buildings as general patient wards in order to offload our ICUs into hospital beds to make room. We are still a long way from having to have the feds intervene.

What are you hearing re the new improved mutated version now hitting the UK?

 

[Brill]

@Devildoc , are you all testing for antibodies before vaccination?

 

[RackMaster]

Full lockdown, Boxing Day until Jan 23rd.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-19-ontario-december-21-lockdown-orders-1.5849760

 

[Devildoc]

@Devildoc , are you all testing for antibodies before vaccination?

No....

 

[RackMaster]

Canadian military deployed to remote communities to "fight" covid. I've been to some of these communities, this time of year and slept in tents; it was a good time. This on the other hand, does not sound like a good time.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mani...e-deployments-1.5625286?__vfz=medium=sharebar

 

[Blizzard]

I don't necessarily agree with the dude's approach, but the coming in hot comment is on point; the dude is fired up.

Right or wrong, almost certainly much more wrong, I still got a chuckle out of it.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1340755163359932417

 

[Dame]

I don't necessarily agree with the dude's approach, but the coming in hot comment is on point; the dude is fired up.

Right or wrong, almost certainly much more wrong, I still got a chuckle out of it.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1340755163359932417

Yeah, definitely being an asshole about it. But it made me shake my head and smile that he did it, and with no incident from security.

 

[ThunderHorse]

I don't necessarily agree with the dude's approach, but the coming in hot comment is on point; the dude is fired up.

Right or wrong, almost certainly much more wrong, I still got a chuckle out of it.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1340755163359932417

He has a point!

There's reports of ICU bed capacity being at zero in So Cal right now.

What public health leaders mean by ‘0% ICU beds available’

They're saying it's an explosion of COVID patients...no, it's not. OC Register did a good job of getting to the bottom of it, seeing way too many idiots share the headline of "Zero ICU beds in SoCal".

 

[Devildoc]

He has a point!

There's reports of ICU bed capacity being at zero in So Cal right now.

What public health leaders mean by ‘0% ICU beds available’

They're saying it's an explosion of COVID patients...no, it's not. OC Register did a good job of getting to the bottom of it, seeing way too many idiots share the headline of "Zero ICU beds in SoCal".

Our ICU's are almost always full, even without COVID. Really, it's not much different than a hotel with empty rooms, it's not making any money. There is a magical formula that gets calculated every day regarding bed capacity, and the bigger the hospital, the more surge capacity and flexibility they have with manipulating the formula.

Now, that's not to say we have not had an explosion in patients with COVID, even those admitted to the ICU, because we have.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Play stupid games....

Family of U.S. Student Jailed for Quarantine Violation Pleads for Her Release

 

[Steve1839]

Play stupid games....

Family of U.S. Student Jailed for Quarantine Violation Pleads for Her Release

Yeah, but it isn't dumber than this...this is one hard up MF'er...
Covid: Man jailed for Scotland-Isle of Man water scooter crossing - BBC News

 

[ThunderHorse]

Play stupid games....

Family of U.S. Student Jailed for Quarantine Violation Pleads for Her Release

The stupid games will be the IRS fucking all the Cayman shell company bank accounts. Fine her, ban her, four months? Fuck that shit, send in the Marines. Definitely serious about that.

Yeah, but it isn't dumber than this...this is one hard up MF'er...
Covid: Man jailed for Scotland-Isle of Man water scooter crossing - BBC News

Isle of Man, guy is literally a citizen of the same country. (Yes, I know Isle of Man is a Crown Dependency and has their own passport blah blah blah)

Reading UK twitter right now you have people clamoring for border walls between counties and destroying freedom of movement. WILD.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

@ThunderHorse -
Disagree because knowing no more than what the story shows, she is just another entitled American who feels that the rules don’t really apply to her.

 

[ThunderHorse]

@ThunderHorse -
Disagree because knowing no more than what the story shows, she is just another entitled American who feels that the rules don’t really apply to her.

I wouldn't say she's an entitled "American". She may be an "entitled" person. But being American has little to do with that, and I'll stick by that. I've had many foreigners in front of me act entitled and their shit doesn't stink. The feeling of "entitlement" is not an uniquely American disease.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

She may be an "entitled" person. But being American has little to do with that,

I’ll give you that.

That said, I still have no problem with the sentence.

 

[racing_kitty]

Per the AP, Dr Birx will be retiring, due to the flak received from dismissing her own recommendations against travel during the Thanksgiving holiday.

She should have thought about that sooner.

 

[Marauder06]

Regarding the American, I think punishment is deserved. I think what I would do is fine the shit out of her, give her a massive sentence to get headlines around the world (to show there are consequences, and that we’re not playing), and then the day after Christmas release her on “compassionate grounds” or on appeal or some such. I don’t think anyone’s interest are served by lengthy sentences over something like this.

So ultimately it’s token jail time (but you spend Christmas in the slammer). But that big ass fine? Yeah we’re keeping that. Being stupid SHOULD hurt.

 

[Blizzard]

Yeah, but it isn't dumber than this...this is one hard up MF'er...
Covid: Man jailed for Scotland-Isle of Man water scooter crossing - BBC News

4 1/2 hours on a jet ski? Did he have an auxiliary gas tank? That's a long time to spend on a jet ski...she must be amazing.

 

[Marauder06]

4 1/2 hours on a jet ski? Did he have N auxiliary gas tank? That's a long time to spend on a jet ski...she must be amazing.

I had a similar thought. They seems like a LONG time to be on a jet ski. Do those things have massive fuel economy or something?