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Covfefe-19 The 11th Part: Suck It Up And Die Grandpa I Need A Manicure!!

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When it comes to TX, I think the most telling move will be what's done with Football... Not joking... If they really don't give a rat's ass, Kickoff will be 7:30pm on Friday with any and all welcome...
 
I wonder if a single person who goes around shouting, “but ICUs always run at 90% capacity!” have ever stopped to consider that there’s a REASON that ICUs are generally full. Namely, that a lot of people have non-Corona illnesses. Did all those other needs just magically go away so that we can now devote all of the capacity to Coronavirus patients? Or are people who could normally have benefited from an ICU bed now being kept in lower care level beds to keep some capacity open? Utilization can’t, by definition, go higher than 100%, so when thousands are dying in the streets and hallways, I imagine them still going around shouting, “but ICU utilization is only up by 10% above the typical 90%!”
 
Either today's numbers are including a lot of cases that didn't get counted over the July 4th weekend, or whalers' favorite 'gotcha' claim that deaths are falling is about to go the way of all whalers' covfefe pronouncements.
 
LynahFan said:
I wonder if a single person who goes around shouting, “but ICUs always run at 90% capacity!” have ever stopped to consider that there’s a REASON that ICUs are generally full. Namely, that a lot of people have non-Corona illnesses. Did all those other needs just magically go away so that we can now devote all of the capacity to Coronavirus patients? Or are people who could normally have benefited from an ICU bed now being kept in lower care level beds to keep some capacity open? Utilization can’t, by definition, go higher than 100%, so when thousands are dying in the streets and hallways, I imagine them still going around shouting, “but ICU utilization is only up by 10% above the typical 90%!”
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They operate near capacity because it is expensive to have ICU beds just sitting around. Read into it, all the info it is right there. You can even find plenty of it prior to Covid.

and yes they actually can go over 100%. It comes down to how much more capacity they can add which they are accustomed to doing. Again it’s all there look into it.
 
I am guessing it is a bit of both. The 50k cases we are adding a day though and the hospitals filling up is not a good sign though.
 
Jeb2020 said:
They operate near capacity because it is expensive to have ICU beds just sitting around. Read into it, all the info it is right there. You can even find plenty of it prior to Covid.

and yes they actually can go over 100%. It comes down to how much more capacity they can add which they are accustomed to doing. Again it’s all there look into it.
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Not to attack anyone, but I've worked in ICU's for over 30 years.

Many times, people have been admitted to ICU's just because a greedy/lazy/incompetent doc sent them there for a hang-nail and hoped for a more lucrative reimbursement for himself. That often failed, and then the non-profit hospitals ate the loss and shipped them to to floor ASAP... Many other times, those occupied beds bled money every day.

Having said that, ventilator patients are ALWAYS ICU material. Always. And there are many fewer beds in that level of care, and they are very costly to maintain, even when empty. The staff has to be there, just in case.

I'm fairly amazed at the number of medical experts here.

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I'm torn on whether or not dips***s like this should be fired. WATCH: Male ‘Karen’ Fired for Lashing Out in Florida Costco Store.

This a-hole however...and you gotta love what Patton did with this tweet. Funniest yet is the ahole being called out here retweeted Oswalt and owned himself.

Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt
Could everyone PLEASE stop sharing this video of Michael Lofthouse? He’s the founder & CEO of Solid8, a tech company based in San Francisco. If it goes viral it could hurt Michael Lofthouse and Solid8, his company. Let’s all be nice to Michael Lofthouse and Solid8.
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AP reporting this morning on the news show I watch that hospitals are running low on masks and protective gear again. Good fucking job, America.
 
Handyman said:
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1280676500656852993

"Navarro urges FDA to reconsider hydroxychloroquine as treatment for coronavirus"
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I am guessing that there's a lot of GOP members with large stakes in that company's stock. Plus you have DeSantis who bought like a million doses of it for Florida, and is now just sitting on them. Feds probably have huge stockpiles too that Jared's buddies want to unload for big profit.
 
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Weird, I saw someone on FB spreading rumors that Dallas hospitals are so empty that they were laying nurses off....
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Both can be true. I don't know about Dallas specifically but elective procedures are way down through this and people in those areas of the medical world have indeed seen layoffs.
 
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Both can be true. I don't know about Dallas specifically but elective procedures are way down through this and people in those areas of the medical world have indeed seen layoffs.
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That happened in Detroit. Instead of moving skill around to help the sick, many hospitals laid off people while they were filling up and moving patients to other hospitals. And if there was space, then it was a despicable response given the number of people who died- especially minorities.

Again, we are back to the "need" that hospitals make money first instead of supplying a need of taking care of people. Not sure how hospitals got to be a way to make a mint of money, but that has happened.

It's amusing to hear people worry about the cost of keeping hospitals open, but in the soon after are ok with a massive military build up, and the want to go kill people around the country- as if that doesn't cost a lot of money, too. More, most of the time. It's sad that we spend SO much money either being able to or going out and actually harming people when we hesitate to spend money to save American lives. How in the world did we get to a monetary position to kill people over saving people?
 
rufus said:
I am guessing that there's a lot of GOP members with large stakes in that company's stock. Plus you have DeSantis who bought like a million doses of it for Florida, and is now just sitting on them. Feds probably have huge stockpiles too that Jared's buddies want to unload for big profit.
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jfc. the GOP are so predictable.
 
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