Latest Coronavirus - Yikes

[Orange_Vol1321]

The situation in Italy is getting close to the breaking point. The Italian Society of Anesthesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care is considering imposing age restrictions on those accessing ICU for those that may have the chance to live longer.

If all our hospitals fill up like this the same will be going on here.

 

[AM64]

It is starting to feel like lack of testing may be a result of political pressure by the WH.

Congress funds the CDC. There are limited numbers of text kits. The CDC understands bureaucracies and funding, so existing kits are probably reserved for the special people in DC. Some pigs are simply always more equal.

 

[lawgator1]

The situation in Italy is getting close to the breaking point. The Italian Society of Anesthesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care is considering imposing age restrictions on those accessing ICU for those that may have the chance to live longer.

We are trying to cancel the May trip over there. At this rate I just won't go, refund/credit or no.

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

 

[MontyPython]

If he loses it won't be because of this. Most of America is more intelligent then you give them credit for

Ummm... no. Our society is largely ignorant. Exhibit A: Trump got elected.

 

[AM64]

No drama queen to it, just common damn sense. I’m wondering why you can’t seem to comprehend that the actual numbers of confirmed cases in the US is being held at low levels due to a ridiculous lack of testing. Medical personnel are requesting certain patients presenting symptoms get tested and are being told NO on testing, send them on their merry way.

Not all cases will require hospitalization so you really can’t use that as a gage. People with little to no symptoms are still infecting others because they don’t know they have it since they can’t get tested. You can be asymptomatic and contagious for up to 28 days.

Lack of testing and appropriate response could seriously hinder mitigation efforts.

I'd believe more that they are rationing test kits because China, Inc isn't up and running and churning out Coronavirus test kits. It also sounds a lot like the kits are barely past the prototype stage - not anywhere near the quick test variety needed.

 

[Carl Pickens]

I went to Dollar General this morning and bought every pack of toilet paper they had. This coronavirus will not prevent me from wiping my ass

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

I'd believe more that they are rationing test kits because China, Inc isn't up and running and churning out Coronavirus test kits. It also sounds a lot like the kits are barely past the prototype stage - not anywhere near the quick test variety needed.

Speaking of, I asked the other day. Is this a nasal swab that's grown on a petri dish? If so what do we need made, that should be readily available.

 

[MontyPython]

That’s why I’m angry.

I understand getting a few minor details wrong and having to issue a retraction every now and then.

I don’t understand blatantly lying to an entire community, state or country to push a false narrative.

Wait... I thought you were a diehard Trumpster. Guess you missed his15,000+ lies over the past 3 years.

 

[volfanhill]

Well responsibility goes a long way. Just like Iran and NK doesn't need nuclear weapons.

Yes but ChIna is our peer on the world stage. Furthermore we are the last power on earth to ask for responsibility. How many wars are we in? When was the last time China was in one? They are gearing up for one but they aren’t in the business of invading.

 

[BartW]

Screeech: Trump is a dictator!

Screeech: I want Trump to be a dictator.

Weird straw man. I never mentioned Trump or dictators. But your eager defense of dear leader is noted.

 

[ajvol01]

Wait... I thought you were a diehard Trumpster. Guess you missed his15,000+ lies over the past 3 years.

This isn’t hyperbole or bragging.

This is lying about a supposed epidemic/pandemic.

Use your brain

 

[AM64]

Speaking of, I asked the other day. Is this a nasal swab that's grown on a petri dish? If so what do we need made, that should be readily available.

Ask kiddiedoc so he can explain it for about the fifth time. My comment would be that when you offshore manufacturing and things go wrong, you're screwed regardless of whether somebody develops a quick test kit. Especially when the country that manufactures is the one that let the virus slip in the first place and then had to close the country down because of it.

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

Yes but ChIna is our peer on the world stage. Furthermore we are the last power on earth to ask for responsibility. How many wars are we in? When was the last time China was in one? They are gearing up for one but they aren’t in the business of invading.

You're taking the goalposts by helicopter.

A war in Afghanistan isn't putting the whole world in a possible crosshair of death from a virus.

 

[AM64]

Maybe we should be manufacturing drugs here instead of getting them from China?

 

[volfanhill]

You're taking the goalposts by helicopter.

A war in Afghanistan isn't putting the whole world in a possible crosshair of death from a virus.

Our troops are only engaged in active combat there?

 

[volfanhill]

Maybe we should be manufacturing drugs here instead of getting them from China?

Yes but profits. Are you advocating for some socialist type of control?

 

[AM64]

Gates-funded program will soon offer home-testing kits for new coronavirus

Hallelujah. They going into competition with Jim Bakker?

Doctor warns of coronavirus 'hucksters' after televangelist Jim Bakker pitches fake cure

 

[volfanhill]

Hallelujah. They going into competition with Jim Bakker?

Doctor warns of coronavirus 'hucksters' after televangelist Jim Bakker pitches fake cure

If you believe that’s what gates is up to then you need help

 

[AM64]

Yes but profits. Are you advocating for some socialist type of control?

Nope, simply thinking that if our home brew capitalists can't see putting our country first out of pride, chauvinism, or whatever; that they might be intelligent enough to figure that if a very small number of people control most of the wealth, and they deprive their own people of jobs then they might wind up without a market for their goods. Henry Ford got the concept some time ago - supposedly we are even more enlightened today.

 

[AM64]

To Joe Biden. Who probably has the Wuhan Virus

Joe has the Wu Who? virus.

 

[ajvol01]

Ummm... no. Our society is largely ignorant. Exhibit A: Trump got elected.

Not very self-aware, huh?

 

[OHvol40]

If all our hospitals fill up like this the same will be going on here.

Our hospitals already run at capacity basically 365.

 

[AM64]

Ummm... no. Our society is largely ignorant. Exhibit A: Trump got elected.

Yeah, but your buddies keep reminding us more people voted for the loser - how dumb was that? Apparently more than half the country could have voted for the winner and they chose incorrectly, so you may be correct about the ignorance factor.

 

[Burhead]

Family of Missouri's first coronavirus patient broke self quarantine, attended school dance

The family was originally told to stay at home after their older daughter -- who returned from Italy -- contacted public health officials to report having symptoms of the fast-spreading virus on Thursday. She had been self quarantining herself at home with her parents who were not showing symptoms. She went to a hospital on Friday and tested "presumptively positive" on Saturday.

The family was told to stay at home, but the father brushed aside instructions by the state's health department, according to County Executive Sam Page.

They reportedly didn't learn of the diagnosis until after they were at the dance and left immediately.

After going to the dance, Page said officials told the man on Sunday that "he must remain in his home or they will issue a formal quarantine that will require him and the rest of his family to stay in their home by the force of law."

More idiots.