The Trump Pandemic

[JimC]

Pussies! Ours went from 8PM!

[L'Emmerdeur]

The happy vaccine talk by the president on Friday was as usual an unconscionable passel of lies, to buttress the idiotic 'rounding the corner' Trump narrative.

‘No One Is Listening to Us’

Hospitals have put their pandemic plans into action, adding more beds and creating makeshift COVID-19 wards. But in the hardest-hit areas, there are simply not enough doctors, nurses, and other specialists to staff those beds. Some health-care workers told me that COVID-19 patients are the sickest people they’ve ever cared for: They require twice as much attention as a typical intensive-care-unit patient, for three times the normal length of stay. “It was doable over the summer, but now it’s just too much,” says Whitney Neville, a nurse based in Iowa. “Last Monday we had 25 patients waiting in the emergency department. They had been admitted but there was no one to take care of them.” I asked her how much slack the system has left. “There is none,” she said.

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In the imminent future, patients will start to die because there simply aren’t enough people to care for them. Doctors and nurses will burn out. The most precious resource the U.S. health-care system has in the struggle against COVID-19 isn’t some miracle drug. It’s the expertise of its health-care workers—and they are exhausted.

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Short-staffed hospitals could transfer their patients—but to where? “A lot of smaller hospitals don’t have ventilators or staff trained to take care of someone in critical condition,” says Renae Moch, the director of Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health, North Dakota. “They’re looking to larger hospitals,” but those are also full.

Making matters worse, patients with other medical problems are sicker than usual, several doctors told me. During the earlier surges, hospitals canceled elective surgeries and pulled in doctors from outpatient clinics. People with heart problems, cancers, strokes, and other diseases found it harder to get medical help, and some sat on their illness for fear of contracting COVID-19 at the hospital. Now health-care workers are facing an influx of unusually sick people at a time when COVID-19 has consumed their attention and their facilities. “We’re still catching up on all of that,” says Choo, the Oregon physician. “Even the simplest patients aren’t simple.”

[rainbow]

Overnight curfew will stop...what? Drinking?
https://www.kios.org/post/cities-and-st ... not-enough

Denver will implement a 10 p.m. curfew beginning Sunday for residents and nonexempt businesses in a last-ditch effort to curb rising COVID-19 cases and avoid another citywide stay-at-home

Colorado has had legal dope for a while as has Washington and Oregon. Clearly lower cases of Covid correlates to the legality of weed.

Shuh-wow!

[Tero]

58 dead in our county of 300 000

The additional confirmed cases push the community total to 12,467. For the week ending Saturday, there were 1,500 new cases reported locally, and the positivity rate for the week was 29.3%. Both are pandemic highs.

[Brian Peacock]

When do we change the name of this to The Biden Pandemic?

[Scot Dutchy]

Start a new thread. The Orange Scrotum is still responsible.

[Sean Hayden]

The news is claiming we could have the vaccine here this month.

[Scot Dutchy]

For the 1%! First things first.

[Brian Peacock]

Start a new thread. The Orange Scrotum is still responsible.

#FAKESCROTUM

[Tero]

He who starts the pandemic is stuck with the name. It's either Chinese of Trump.

[L'Emmerdeur]

He who starts the pandemic is stuck with the name. It's either Chinese of Trump.

Your logic is impeccable, sir.

[rainbow]

When do we change the name of this to The Biden Pandemic?

Nope. Like a miracle, it will just disappear.

[Tero]

Some patients are so convinced the virus does not exist that, when they test positive, they insist it must be flu, pneumonia or even lung cancer, said Doering.

Nurses, for their part, are watching patients get sick in the same ways, receive the same hospital treatment and then die in the same way — and then the nurses come back the next day as the cycle repeats. “It’s like a movie where the credits never roll,” Doering said.

and they voted for Trump 60 plus percent in the state
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/south ... 2020-11-16

[Tero]

Feed the people
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/15/us/dalla ... index.html

[NineBerry]

Why is someone a senator who doesn't know the difference between a disease and a vaccine?