OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

OANN and Parler are Skynet.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/katu.c...onal-protective-equipment-supply-issues-again

Some fear rise in coronavirus cases could lead to PPE supply issues again

 

^^^This has to be be FAKE NEWS because I was assured that "the hospitals are just fine" and that it's OK to "open back up". [posting "for a friend"]

 

It won't take effect for a year giving Biden plenty of time to reverse that stupid move.

 

Houston, we have a problem...

 

That clearly says that the hospitals throughout Florida have not hit capacity yet. More fake news from CNN.

 

Here is what that article clearly said:

At least 56 intensive care units in Florida hospitals reached capacity on Tuesday, state officials said. Another 35 hospitals show ICU bed availability of 10% or less, according to the Agency for Health Care Administration in that state.

Where in that section of the article does it say they AREN'T at full capacity and others are at near capacity and it's rising rapidly. Don't double down on stupid.

 

I agree.

The need for in-person class instruction is going to be outdated soon. The focus should be to transition into an online learning format for children. No more overcrowding. You can eliminate so much from the Education System.

When and if we get through this coronavirus, I think the focus should be less on schools and more on technology to bring education to children in their homes.

 

I am not sure anymore what you are even arguing here....it just seems like all you're doing is trying to Matlock a semantic argument about what "full" or "capacity" means. I read an article about the chain reaction of ICU capacity in hospitals in cities & states. Then this article talks about 91 hospitals. 56 at capacity and 35 within 10% of capacity. It's an informal system of hospitals. A couple of weeks ago it could have been 5 hospitals at ICU capacity and 86 within 30% of capacity. If an ICU reaches capacity at a hospital, they will generally transfer a patient needing an ICU bed to a hospital that has capacity.

keep in mind that hospitalizations, for Covid, especially ICU hospitalizations, usually run about 3-4 weeks behind current infection rates. 3-4 weeks ago Florida was averaging around 3200 positives a day. Over the last week, they have been averaging around 9000 positive cases a day. Now extrapolate what will happen 3-4 weeks from now: if those 91 hospitals are somewhere in the vicinity of 95-97% ICU capacity caused by an average infection rate of 3200/day, where will those hospitals be when dealing with an infection rate of 9000/day?

in other words, narrowing down 'right now' to an extremely simplistic semantic argument about current ICU capacity seems pointless to me since we already know what the curves of this pandemic look like, and what that means, having lived thru April and May.

Not only that, there seems to be a really shallow assumption at work here and that's that any open capacity can be earmarked exclusively for Covid. Forget about heart attacks, or car accidents, or strokes. And forget about the effort it takes to divide ICU's into infectious and non-infectious protocols. And forget about the burden and stress applied to health care workers. Forget about all that because you seemingly want to die on the hill of what capacity means

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we know that hospitalization rates and mortality rates track infection rates...they just lag behind by several weeks. Look at these two charts of world and state numbers:



and for states:



(Texas & Georgia are imposed on each other)

http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

it's not a coincidence at all that the Nation(s) and states that are doing the worst have leadership that keeps minimizing the risks of Covid while resisting policies that work. Fuck science. Meanwhile those doing better are the ones that gauge the risks and impact more seriously. And in the case of Florida and the USA, it's not a coincidence how poorly they are doing when those geographies are filled with people arguing that economy is more important than public health, that Covid is like the flu, or that herd immunity is the goal when they don't even know how fucking long immunity lasts or what the rate of immunity would be. Oh...and of course there are some people arguing pointless things like where we are today when we already know with a high degree of certainty where we're headed.

what's happening now is no surprise at all. Just about every expert on public health and infectious disease predicted this current surge would result from re-opening too fast and relaxing social restrictions. And here we are. Seems pretty likely where we'll be 3 weeks from now

 

Figure it out!
School ain't yo fucking babysitter!

Maybe have a community center set up, where they can be babysat and learn. Kind of like a school, but just computer terminals where they are taught remotely.

Either charge people who use that service or those that can have their kids stay at home will get a tax credit.

 

Not everyone has a computer in their home for a kid. Not everyone has one for multiple children. Theres more than just the actual book learning that kids get from a social school setting. Remove that and we get a bunch of online educated kids that sit at home with their katanas acting tough on the internet. We dont need more of that.

 

Everyone will find a problem for everything.

Trump: we need to open the schools.....

"NO! Orange Man Bad!"

"OK then, lets do all online learning"

"That won't work either. What about the poor kids without laptops and internet. No fair!"

Its not like the American education system is that great to begin with. Do something new. Now is the time to do that when everything is on "pause".

There's a pandemic, kids shouldn't be in school. Either do online school for everything or don't have school at all.

 

Robots taking over