The Trump Pandemic

[Tero]

This is not good. With the current rate, in 4 weeks everyone will know at least one person that has it or had it.

[Sean Hayden]

Better get used to it.

[Tero]

State deaths topped 1000
https://www.kios.org/post/1000-covid-re ... s-nebraska

[Brian Peacock]

Well done.

[rainbow]

State deaths topped 1000
https://www.kios.org/post/1000-covid-re ... s-nebraska

A record number of deaths in the US yesterday, and the post election peak has not been reached, never mind Thanksgiving-Black Friday.

I think that the CDC said they are expecting another 150 000 deaths before the vaccine starts to make a difference.

[Brian Peacock]

Californians told to "STAY IN YOUR HOMES!"

[pErvinalia]

But freedum...

[Brian Peacock]

It's all part of Big Tech's plan to make us buy stuff on the internet.

[Tero]

We still need to have the Amazon trucks working.

That would be the huge clamp down for 3 weeks. Have everybody stock up on 3 weeks food. Keep some gas stations working, hospitals and police. Everybody else at home other than TV and Internet people working. By week 2 we would be bored. Allow freight planes to fly and Amazon delivery trucks. A few people would have to go in for a day at a time to pack our Amazon crap.

[Tero]

Onion Jimmy not taking vaccine
https://www.theonion.com/jimmy-carter-o ... 1845802241

[Seabass]

Wyoming health official says 'so-called pandemic' a communist plot


CASPER, Wyo. — A Wyoming Department of Health official involved in the state's response to the coronavirus questioned the legitimacy of the pandemic and described a forthcoming vaccine as a biological weapon at a recent event.

The “so-called pandemic” and efforts to develop a vaccine are plots by Russia and China to spread communism worldwide, department readiness and countermeasures manager Igor Shepherd said at the Nov. 10 event held by the group Keep Colorado Free and Open.

Shepherd was introduced as and talked about being a Wyoming Department of Health employee in the hour-plus presentation in Loveland, Colorado.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wy ... t-n1250096

[NineBerry]

Has no one told him to that there's no more communism in Russia?

[Brian Peacock]

Loveland.

[Seabass]

Secrecy and spin: How Florida’s governor misled the public on the COVID-19 pandemic


Throughout the COVID-19 crisis in Florida, Gov. Ron DeathSantis’ administration engaged in a pattern of spin and concealment that misled the public on the gravest health threat the state has ever faced, a South Florida Sun Sentinel investigation has found.

DeathSantis, who owes his job to early support from President Donald Trump, imposed an approach in line with the views of the president and his powerful base of supporters. The administration suppressed unfavorable facts, dispensed dangerous misinformation, dismissed public health professionals, and promoted the views of scientific dissenters who supported the governor’s approach to the disease.

The DeathSantis administration’s approach to managing COVID-19 information carries costs. It supports a climate in which people proudly disdain masks, engage in dangerous group activities that could spread the disease, and brush aside information that conflicts with their political views. With partygoers packing Florida bars and holiday travelers filling hotels and guest rooms, the state faces a few difficult months before the possible relief of vaccines.

These findings are based on interviews with more than 50 people, including scientists, doctors, political leaders, employees of the state health department, and other state officials, as well as more than 4,000 pages of documents:

• The Florida Department of Health’s county-level spokespeople were ordered in September to stop issuing public statements about COVID-19 until after the Nov. 3 election.
• The DeathSantis administration refused to reveal details about the first suspected cases in Florida, then denied the virus was spreading from person to person — despite mounting evidence that it was.
• State officials withheld information about infections in schools, prisons, hospitals and nursing homes, relenting only under pressure or legal action from family members, advocacy groups and journalists.
• The DeathSantis administration brushed aside scientists and doctors who advocated conventional approaches to fighting the virus, preferring scientists on the fringes who backed the governor’s positions.
• The governor’s spokesman regularly takes to Twitter to spread misinformation about the disease, including the false claim that COVID was less deadly than the flu.
• The governor highlighted statistics that would paint the rosiest picture possible and attempted to cast doubt on the validity of Florida’s rising death toll.

continued:
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronaviru ... story.html

[Seabass]

The U.S. Has Passed the Hospital Breaking Point


Since the beginning of the pandemic, public-health experts have warned of one particular nightmare. It is possible, they said, for the number of coronavirus patients to exceed the capacity of hospitals in a state or city to take care of them. Faced with a surge of severely ill people, doctors and nurses will have to put beds in hallways, spend less time with patients, and become more strict about whom they admit into the hospital at all. The quality of care will fall; Americans who need hospital beds for any other reason—a heart attack, a broken leg—will struggle to find space. Many people will unnecessarily suffer and die.

“If, in fact, there’s a scenario that’s very severe, it is conceivable that will happen,” Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease doctor, said in mid-March. “We’re doing everything we can to not allow that worst-case scenario to happen.”

Fear of this scenario drove many of the most stringent stay-at-home orders in the spring. “There will be no normally functioning economy if our hospitals are overwhelmed,” Liz Cheney, a leading House Republican, said a week and a half later.

Yet that worst-case scenario never came to pass at a national level. At the springtime peak, even as northeastern hospitals faced a deluge, 60,000 people were hospitalized nationwide. When the Sun Belt frothed with cases this summer, hospitalizations again reached the 60,000 mark before they started to fall.

A month ago, in early November, hospitalizations passed 60,000—and kept climbing, quickly. On Wednesday, the country tore past a nauseating virus record. For the first time since the pandemic began, more than 100,000 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States, nearly double the record highs seen during the spring and summer surges.

The pandemic nightmare scenario—the buckling of hospital and health-care systems nationwide—has arrived. Several lines of evidence are now sending us the same message: Hospitals are becoming overwhelmed, causing them to restrict whom they admit and leading more Americans to die needlessly.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/arch ... ed/617301/