OT: Coronavirus
Wow....
I’ve flown in and out of Denver Airport roughly 50 times. I’ve never seen it empty like this.
Yeah, DIA is never that empty. My goodness, this thing has really gotten ahold of people. But I suspect that it's going to make a far bigger dent in the global economy than the global population.
What changes have you made? Personally, I have tickets to fly to San Francisco with my kids to see my brother in a couple of weeks. And, so far anyway, I plan to go. But I have to say I'm a little nervous about it, especially with my kids. Not as much about the virus as how people are panicking about it. A flight yesterday was rerouted to Denver because someone, um...sneezed. And I am narrowing in on some ridiculously priced tickets to Cancun in May. Am I crazy?
“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't." - Tom Waits
Watch: Construction work for a coronavirus field hospital in Central Park, New York, began on Sunday and is expected to be operational on Tuesday https://t.co/OX30til4Or pic.twitter.com/YyQQAp7vnI
— TIME (@TIME) March 30, 2020
@"IDVikingfan" said: I think most religious people would consider their beliefs to be an important and essential part of their life. The church leadership in the above post has clearly failed to consider all aspects, including long term health of the congregation and community at large. They need to look at plans B, C, or D to serve their flock.
Or Darwin was on to something.
A stay at home order is issued for Virginians by @GovernorVA effective today, following similar action in Maryland. Residents should not leave their homes unless it’s for essential purposes. The order is place until June 10, 2020.
— NBC4 Washington (@nbcwashington) March 30, 2020
@"Vikergirl" said: https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1244482747197947904?s=19My mother in law, a retired nurse flies out tomorrow morning to start work there Wednesday. To put that in perspective the organization she does this volunteer work for is usually in 3rd world countries. Countries that are victims of genocide, civil war, horrific poverty, droughts famine etc. Shes usually in countries you could never find on a map 9 out of 10 times. Tomorrow shes in NYC!
My brother in law is an er tech at a city hospital in Iowa that is located in the county with the highest CONFIRMED cases in the state. He has stopped answering/returning calls from the hospital department charged with telling employees someone they've been exposed to tested positive. Too many calls not enough time in the day.
I work at a community mental health center in Iowa that's part of a regional healtcare system over several states. Last week I was put on a team of people tasked with opening a "mental health urgent care ". It will be next to our er and a huge triage tent that will eventually need to be used in the parking lot.
In November our board met for our strategic planning. The mental health urgent care was to be the crown jewel of our 5 year plan. We will be opening this in 6 days! The penny pinchers that usually ask for exhaustive studies and trial runs have told us money is no issue nor is staffing.
Typical hospital regulations and things like ADA are waived due to COVID-19. Our head of mental health is getting reports from large city hospitals that are refusing to see mental health patients who are suicidal/homicidal. They dont want to "waste beds". Hence us opening the urgent care.
Mid March I was in the group that thought this was over blown. Then was assigned to be on our hospitals COVID-19 preparedness response team and attended just one meeting. Between the meetings Ive attended for that and our mental health urgent care I am incredibly concerned.
Some of you get it, others not so much. But it's not the vrius that scares us in healthcare, its our healthcare infrastructure being overloaded. We aren't going to see these apocalyptic numbers some predict. But the numbers we see could have been prevented had our country had its shit together. Sorry for the rant, long day at work.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/1827177/some-drugs-used-to-keep-people-on-ventilators-are-in-short-supply/amp/
https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/03/26/coronavirus-north-carolina-masks-nurses-mission-va-hospitals/2903556001/
The hospital my girlfriend works for.
Disney executive chairman Bob Iger will forego his entire salary while other top executives will take major pay cuts to help pay employees during the coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/uJhlyxZMjX pic.twitter.com/nboqiNH3az
— IGN (@IGN) March 30, 2020
LMAO If our country had our shit together!
Laughable.
We should have stopped all travel from China in January. Oh wait. Trump did and was attacked by the left!
China should have told us it was transferred human to human and not lied that it wasn’t. China doctor critical of the government is missing.
WHO should have done its job. They didn’t. They allowed it to spread. Look it up.
Schumer, Pelosi, deBlasio, WHO - all attacked Trump for trying to isolate it.
And after all the feds have done - we have to hear the left pretend Trump didn’t do a great job!
Hahaha get a clue.
@"BarrNone55" said: https://youtu.be/F5pgG1M_h_UThanks, Barr. Needed that...
@"A1Janitor" said: LMAO If our country had our shit together!Laughable.
We should have stopped all travel from China in January. Oh wait. Trump did and was attacked by the left!
China should have told us it was transferred human to human and not lied that it wasn’t. China doctor critical of the government is missing.
WHO should have done its job. They didn’t. They allowed it to spread. Look it up.
Schumer, Pelosi, deBlasio, WHO - all attacked Trump for trying to isolate it.
And after all the feds have done - we have to hear the left pretend Trump didn’t do a great job!
Hahaha get a clue.
not the forum for this arguement. take the politics off this board.
@"JimmyinSD" said:@"A1Janitor" said: LMAO If our country had our shit together!Laughable.
We should have stopped all travel from China in January. Oh wait. Trump did and was attacked by the left!
China should have told us it was transferred human to human and not lied that it wasn’t. China doctor critical of the government is missing.
WHO should have done its job. They didn’t. They allowed it to spread. Look it up.
Schumer, Pelosi, deBlasio, WHO - all attacked Trump for trying to isolate it.
And after all the feds have done - we have to hear the left pretend Trump didn’t do a great job!
Hahaha get a clue.
not the forum for this arguement. take the politics off this board.
I was responding to this:” We aren't going to see these apocalyptic numbers some predict. But the numbers we see could have been prevented had our country had its shit together.”
Which you liked.
@"A1Janitor" said:@"JimmyinSD" said:@"A1Janitor" said: LMAO If our country had our shit together!Laughable.
We should have stopped all travel from China in January. Oh wait. Trump did and was attacked by the left!
China should have told us it was transferred human to human and not lied that it wasn’t. China doctor critical of the government is missing.
WHO should have done its job. They didn’t. They allowed it to spread. Look it up.
Schumer, Pelosi, deBlasio, WHO - all attacked Trump for trying to isolate it.
And after all the feds have done - we have to hear the left pretend Trump didn’t do a great job!
Hahaha get a clue.
not the forum for this arguement. take the politics off this board.
I was responding to this:” We aren't going to see these apocalyptic numbers some predict. But the numbers we see could have been prevented had our country had its shit together.”
Which you liked.
that is hardly a political statement, I believe we could have done better, we could have been better prepared, we could have done a lot of things better, but that isnt an indictment on either party or on any leader, its IMO a failure by our govt as a whole (federal, state and local), over long periods of potentially global reaching diseases to have a real plan in place to handle these situations.again, keep the political bickering off this board.
A very interesting discussion.
@"A1Janitor" said: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-biological-experiments-infect-humans-coronavirus-exposed-2015-italian-stateAnd this...A very interesting discussion.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/17/iran-and-italy-are-paying-a-hefty-price-for-close-ties-with-communist-china/
@"A1Janitor" said: LMAO If our country had our shit together!There is nothing political in the quote, unless you want there to be.Laughable.
We should have stopped all travel from China in January. Oh wait. Trump did and was attacked by the left!
China should have told us it was transferred human to human and not lied that it wasn’t. China doctor critical of the government is missing.
WHO should have done its job. They didn’t. They allowed it to spread. Look it up.
Schumer, Pelosi, deBlasio, WHO - all attacked Trump for trying to isolate it.
And after all the feds have done - we have to hear the left pretend Trump didn’t do a great job!
Hahaha get a clue.
This country (everyone of us) are in this together and hope we continue to act like it instead of looking for decisiveness and arguments.
It is OK to expect better of our local, state, and federal governments so that we can learn and improve because we all know these virus's are going to be more frequent. These are the situations that allow the local, state, government to use the taxes we have paid. No person and especially politician is perfect (Ha) and we need to hold them accountable.
@"minny65" said:@"A1Janitor" said: LMAO If our country had our shit together!Laughable.
We should have stopped all travel from China in January. Oh wait. Trump did and was attacked by the left!
China should have told us it was transferred human to human and not lied that it wasn’t. China doctor critical of the government is missing.
WHO should have done its job. They didn’t. They allowed it to spread. Look it up.
Schumer, Pelosi, deBlasio, WHO - all attacked Trump for trying to isolate it.
And after all the feds have done - we have to hear the left pretend Trump didn’t do a great job!
Hahaha get a clue.
There is nothing political in the quote, unless you want there to be.This country (everyone of us) are in this together and hope we continue to act like it instead of looking for decisiveness and arguments.
It is OK to expect better of our local, state, and federal governments so that we can learn and improve because we all know these virus's are going to be more frequent. These are the situations that allow the local, state, government to use the taxes we have paid. No person and especially politician is perfect (Ha) and we need to hold them accountable.
Yup.We should learn the truth about NYS.
@"A1Janitor" said:And what is that?@"minny65" said:@"A1Janitor" said: LMAO If our country had our shit together!Laughable.
We should have stopped all travel from China in January. Oh wait. Trump did and was attacked by the left!
China should have told us it was transferred human to human and not lied that it wasn’t. China doctor critical of the government is missing.
WHO should have done its job. They didn’t. They allowed it to spread. Look it up.
Schumer, Pelosi, deBlasio, WHO - all attacked Trump for trying to isolate it.
And after all the feds have done - we have to hear the left pretend Trump didn’t do a great job!
Hahaha get a clue.
There is nothing political in the quote, unless you want there to be.This country (everyone of us) are in this together and hope we continue to act like it instead of looking for decisiveness and arguments.
It is OK to expect better of our local, state, and federal governments so that we can learn and improve because we all know these virus's are going to be more frequent. These are the situations that allow the local, state, government to use the taxes we have paid. No person and especially politician is perfect (Ha) and we need to hold them accountable.
Yup.We should learn the truth about NYS.
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