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

Working safely from home, Rush Limbaugh said Americans have to just get used to Corona virus and find a way to survive, like the Donner Party did.

Donner party as role models.

Tired of winning yet?

 

Seeing it once is enough for me.

 

* "A fast-rising tide of new coronavirus cases is flooding emergency rooms in parts of the United States, with some patients moved into hallways and nurses working extra shifts to keep up with the surge.

Patients struggling to breathe are being placed on ventilators in emergency wards since intensive care units are full, officials say, and the near-constant care they require is overtaxing workers who also are treating more typical ER cases like chest pains, infections, and fractures.

In Texas, Dr. Alison Haddock of the Baylor College of Medicine said the current situation is worse than after Hurricane Harvey, which swamped Houston with floodwaters in 2017. The state reported a new daily record for virus deaths Friday and more than 10,000 confirmed cases for the fourth consecutive day.

“I’ve never seen anything like this COVID surge,” said Haddock, who has worked in emergency rooms since 2007. “We’re doing our best, but we’re not an ICU.”

Patients are waiting “hours and hours” to get admitted, she said, and the least sick people are lying in beds in halls to make room for most seriously ill.

In the United States, where infections are soaring in many Sunbelt states, Megan Jehn, associate professor of epidemiology at Arizona State Universtiy in Tempe, said it’s important to monitor emergency room visits since increases there can signal that the virus is spreading more rapidly.

But it’s difficult to get a complete picture of how emergency rooms are faring in many places. In Arizona, one of the few states that reports data on visits to the emergency room by people with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 symptoms, numbers started to spike in early June and peaked earlier this month. More than 2,000 people went to an ER with coronavirus symptoms on a single day, July 7.

On Friday, COVID-19-related hospitalization figures for Arizona were near but below recent records set after the state became a national hot spot.

Dr. Robert Hancock, who works at multiple hospitals in Texas and Oklahoma and serves as president of the Texas College of Emergency Physicians, said some Texas emergency rooms are facing backups of patients awaiting ICU beds. And many of them are on ventilators, meaning they require more attention than other patients.

“Unfortunately, because of the increased demand for personnel, there typically isn’t anybody free to come down to the ER to help a lot of times from a nursing standpoint,” he said.

Burnout could await these health workers, as it did some in New York City, when it was the epicenter of the nation’s outbreak in the spring.

Emergency room doctors and nurses were caught off guard by the relentless stream of severely sick patients during shifts that often lasted 12 hours, said Dr. Bernard P. Chang of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

“You were on high alert the whole shift,” Chang said. “It was a brutal, sustained battle.” *

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-surge-emergency-room-swamped_n_5f13a08ec5b619afc40231c0

all this happening while stupid fucking right-wing idiots, some with assault weapons, protest masks.

Everybody's been saying it wrong: MAGA = Make America iGnorant Again

 

Do you know anything about the Donner party?

 

This photo of Trump proves that he's getting his fill of McDonald's Big Macs and large orders of fries. Looks like he's been throwing down milkshakes with his happy meals.

 

No, but I've heard that they liked each other a lot. What's wrong with that? Besides, aren't they named after dinner parties they had?

 

Aha, more insane people. I noticed a pattern, all of these insane people are not wearing masks. Could there be a connection?

 

That Ramses is from a very old movie that I remember watching when I must have been about 8.

 

Do you realize how much worse this would be if we didn't have our glorius and mighty Trump as President? Why we might have upwards of 500 deaths.

 

A little trivia for you.
Given 142,000 deaths out of3.65 Million infections that gives us a death rate of 3.9%.
Now, multiply 0.039 X 330 Million residents of the United States X 90% infections to acquire herd immunity and tell me how many dead that will equal. I get about 11 1/2 Million dead. Great job Trump. We're so lucky to have you on the job.

 

It was pretty sad what they had to resort to. crandc, apparently doesn't think so,

 

I didn't glean that from 'CRANDC's' post. I have a thing about referring to people by their correct names.

 

I understand. But you'll bash @SlyPokerDog all day long.......just as I do!