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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,114
    mrussel1 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    mrussel1 said:
    bbiggs said:
    Reading some of the stories coming out of New York. It is a very scary situation there.  The hospitals are starting to see what Italy has been seeing. This write up had a doctor explaining that she had to do chest compressions on 3 people; one in 80’s, one in 60’s and a 38 year old. All died from cardiac arrest. I wonder what it is that is causing cardiac arrest in some patients, being that it is a respiratory disease. Does the lack of oxygen have the potential to bring on cardiac arrest? 
    Yes, I think that's exactly it.  A few years ago, I went skiing back country at 12K feet with pneumonia and I didn't know it.  Well I developed High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE).  My pulse ox was down to 28 and I couldn't stay conscious.  I was told that most people go into cardiac arrest under 40.  I think this is exactly what's happening.  
    Damn bud that is scary shit.  I got altitude sickness once while in Wyoming but nothing like that.  Glad to hear you are ok.
    haha, yeah, this definitely isn't the same as altitude sickness. Although the first and only time I took my wife skiing (A Basin) she got the sickness and it blew up the whole weekend.  Totally sucked.  My ski trips after that were friends only, she had no interest.  
    I always wanted to ride in Colorado, such a beautiful state.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    mcgruff10 said:
    Yet another theory (which I like!)

    New Oxford study suggests millions of people may have already built up coronavirus immunity

    A model predicting the progression of the novel coronavirus pandemic produced by researchers at Imperial College London set off alarms across the world and was a major factor in several governments' decisions to lock things down. But a new model from Oxford University is challenging its accuracy, the Financial Times reports.

    The Oxford research suggests the pandemic is in a later stage than previously thought and estimates the virus has already infected at least millions of people worldwide. In the United Kingdom, which the study focuses on, half the population would have already been infected. If accurate, that would mean transmission began around mid-January and the vast majority of cases presented mild or no symptoms.

    The head of the study, professor Sunetra Gupta, an Oxford theoretical epidemiologist, said she still supports the U.K.'s decision to shut down the country to suppress the virus even if her research winds up being proven correct. But she also doesn't appear to be a big fan of the work done by the Imperial College team. "I am surprised that there has been such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial model," she said.

    If her work is accurate, that would likely mean a large swath of the population has built up resistance to the virus. Theoretically, then, social restrictions could ease sooner than anticipated. What needs to be done now, Gupta said, is a whole lot of antibody testing to figure out who may have contracted the virus. Her research team is working with groups from the University of Cambridge and the University of Kent to start those tests for the general population as quickly as possible. Read more at the Financial Times.

    This would be great... I just refreshed this page from this morning and the US numbers went up by 10k and the deaths by 200.  

    https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,074
    static111 said:
    static111 said:
    mickeyrat said:
    static111 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    tbergs said:
    static111 said:
    Hi! said:
    If I heard correctly it even covers payroll for 4 months up to 100k per employee?  is that right?

    Is there a link to this?  I didn't see that listed in the stories I read but people are citing some specifics that would suggest the text of the bill is out there for review.
    Can someone share, if so?
    https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3548/text
    Doesn't help me one bit.  Thx 
    What do you need? Do you fall under self employment, or having a struggling business?  Just wondering.....it really sucks that it won’t help you out.  I wrote my idiot congressmen, not sure if it helped at all but it is good to get your specific needs out there to people crafting these bills.
    If I am reading it right, I am over the annual salary exemption so I don't get anything.

    Living in NY I get the short end of the stick a lot...
    Well that sucks. Has your work or pay been impacted by this at all yet? Based on what I read, my family will receive around $3400, but my job has not been impacted as of yet so while I don't mind the boost, I am not one of the people who most needs it.
    Wait, does everyone get this check or just unemployed?

    Everyone who made less than 75000 in 2018 or less than 150000 jointly is my understanding regardless of current employment status. Plus 500 per child
    gross or net or adj gross?
    I would think gross since they are basing it off of taxes.  But if you look at the link I posted above Lindsey Graham and his ilk may try to block everything because they hate poor people and can’t say it without using coded language.  No problem giving trillions to the stock market and billions to the airlines though.  And people wonder why some of us want to go back to work....

    I thought this guy was attached to the end of Trump's unit. 
    If Trump wants it, he will vote for it.

    From a conceptual level I don't see how you could argue with his point.  Unemployment should not pay someone more than they make before they lose their job.   
    They write these fucking things so that they are tough to understand but I do not see that in the bill text that I have read so far.  If that is a part of the bill I agree with Lindsey Asswipe.  Having never had to go on it (yet, early in these days of crisis, I could find out soon enough I guess) I do not know how it works. 
    How would it be a statement that someone hates poor people to say that their unemployment if they lost their job due to The Rona should not pay them more than they made?
    First of all to even get unemployment you have to prove a work history and have paid in to the unemployment fund through your payroll taxes.  You can’t quit your job and get unemployment benefits.  Most people get less than 1/2 of their base salary an extra 600 isn’t going to do much.  This is a temporary provision for 4 months.  If your employer calls you back to work you have to go back or you lose your benefits. Basically no one making 15 an hour is incentivized to quit work or not go back to work.  Even if some people do get more than they would because they got laid off for 4 months due to corona virus how is that a bad thing.... but nobody batting an eye to trillions from the fed and billions to the airlines......

    Yeah, I am not trying to argue with you -- more-so trying to understand the plan.  I didn't read it all yet, which I will.
    As a business leader I do know that you don't get to quit and then automatically get unemployment. 
    I still would not think there is any reason to pay anyone more than what they made if their job was lost as a result of The Rona.
    We can agree to disagree on that note, but I don't think it makes me hate poor people.  I have a few poor people in my family and I (for the most part) love them more than the people with money.
    Didn’t think you were arguing just making my points.  I too agree that it’s not ideal that some people would get more than they make, but I just don’t see now being the time to make the argument against a temporary 4 month emergency measure.  I think people are really downplaying how desperate things could get in a couple of months when people aren’t getting money and the bills are still due. People are already overworked and desperate. I’m fortunate that we have enough saved up for a couple months if there is no help but millions aren’t so fortunate. It would be foolish not to help as many as possible at the expense of some recovering a very small temporary gain. If ever there was a time for the government to bailout anyone it is now and it should be citizens first.

    As a leader of business I hope you are doing right by your employees at this time. Given that you are a pj fan on a pj board I’m sure you are.
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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,114
    mrussel1 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    Yet another theory (which I like!)

    New Oxford study suggests millions of people may have already built up coronavirus immunity

    A model predicting the progression of the novel coronavirus pandemic produced by researchers at Imperial College London set off alarms across the world and was a major factor in several governments' decisions to lock things down. But a new model from Oxford University is challenging its accuracy, the Financial Times reports.

    The Oxford research suggests the pandemic is in a later stage than previously thought and estimates the virus has already infected at least millions of people worldwide. In the United Kingdom, which the study focuses on, half the population would have already been infected. If accurate, that would mean transmission began around mid-January and the vast majority of cases presented mild or no symptoms.

    The head of the study, professor Sunetra Gupta, an Oxford theoretical epidemiologist, said she still supports the U.K.'s decision to shut down the country to suppress the virus even if her research winds up being proven correct. But she also doesn't appear to be a big fan of the work done by the Imperial College team. "I am surprised that there has been such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial model," she said.

    If her work is accurate, that would likely mean a large swath of the population has built up resistance to the virus. Theoretically, then, social restrictions could ease sooner than anticipated. What needs to be done now, Gupta said, is a whole lot of antibody testing to figure out who may have contracted the virus. Her research team is working with groups from the University of Cambridge and the University of Kent to start those tests for the general population as quickly as possible. Read more at the Financial Times.

    This would be great... I just refreshed this page from this morning and the US numbers went up by 10k and the deaths by 200.  

    https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
    Holy shit.  wow.  Just found this article on how it spread in Italy.  Austria was beer pong, italy futbol.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/game-zero-soccer-game-attended-182603718.html

    'Game Zero?' Soccer Game Attended by 40,000 Fans Likely Made This Italian City a Coronavirus Epicenter

    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,296
    Anyone that hasn't listened to the new PJ song needs to unplug their brain from this topic and immediately go listen to it.  It's a banger!
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    static111 said:
    static111 said:
    static111 said:
    mickeyrat said:
    static111 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    tbergs said:
    static111 said:
    Hi! said:
    If I heard correctly it even covers payroll for 4 months up to 100k per employee?  is that right?

    Is there a link to this?  I didn't see that listed in the stories I read but people are citing some specifics that would suggest the text of the bill is out there for review.
    Can someone share, if so?
    https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3548/text
    Doesn't help me one bit.  Thx 
    What do you need? Do you fall under self employment, or having a struggling business?  Just wondering.....it really sucks that it won’t help you out.  I wrote my idiot congressmen, not sure if it helped at all but it is good to get your specific needs out there to people crafting these bills.
    If I am reading it right, I am over the annual salary exemption so I don't get anything.

    Living in NY I get the short end of the stick a lot...
    Well that sucks. Has your work or pay been impacted by this at all yet? Based on what I read, my family will receive around $3400, but my job has not been impacted as of yet so while I don't mind the boost, I am not one of the people who most needs it.
    Wait, does everyone get this check or just unemployed?

    Everyone who made less than 75000 in 2018 or less than 150000 jointly is my understanding regardless of current employment status. Plus 500 per child
    gross or net or adj gross?
    I would think gross since they are basing it off of taxes.  But if you look at the link I posted above Lindsey Graham and his ilk may try to block everything because they hate poor people and can’t say it without using coded language.  No problem giving trillions to the stock market and billions to the airlines though.  And people wonder why some of us want to go back to work....

    I thought this guy was attached to the end of Trump's unit. 
    If Trump wants it, he will vote for it.

    From a conceptual level I don't see how you could argue with his point.  Unemployment should not pay someone more than they make before they lose their job.   
    They write these fucking things so that they are tough to understand but I do not see that in the bill text that I have read so far.  If that is a part of the bill I agree with Lindsey Asswipe.  Having never had to go on it (yet, early in these days of crisis, I could find out soon enough I guess) I do not know how it works. 
    How would it be a statement that someone hates poor people to say that their unemployment if they lost their job due to The Rona should not pay them more than they made?
    First of all to even get unemployment you have to prove a work history and have paid in to the unemployment fund through your payroll taxes.  You can’t quit your job and get unemployment benefits.  Most people get less than 1/2 of their base salary an extra 600 isn’t going to do much.  This is a temporary provision for 4 months.  If your employer calls you back to work you have to go back or you lose your benefits. Basically no one making 15 an hour is incentivized to quit work or not go back to work.  Even if some people do get more than they would because they got laid off for 4 months due to corona virus how is that a bad thing.... but nobody batting an eye to trillions from the fed and billions to the airlines......

    Yeah, I am not trying to argue with you -- more-so trying to understand the plan.  I didn't read it all yet, which I will.
    As a business leader I do know that you don't get to quit and then automatically get unemployment. 
    I still would not think there is any reason to pay anyone more than what they made if their job was lost as a result of The Rona.
    We can agree to disagree on that note, but I don't think it makes me hate poor people.  I have a few poor people in my family and I (for the most part) love them more than the people with money.
    Didn’t think you were arguing just making my points.  I too agree that it’s not ideal that some people would get more than they make, but I just don’t see now being the time to make the argument against a temporary 4 month emergency measure.  I think people are really downplaying how desperate things could get in a couple of months when people aren’t getting money and the bills are still due. People are already overworked and desperate. I’m fortunate that we have enough saved up for a couple months if there is no help but millions aren’t so fortunate. It would be foolish not to help as many as possible at the expense of some recovering a very small temporary gain. If ever there was a time for the government to bailout anyone it is now and it should be citizens first.

    As a leader of business I hope you are doing right by your employees at this time. Given that you are a pj fan on a pj board I’m sure you are.
    We outsource some lower effort work to third parties, but we're pulling that back.  So while we're doing right by our people, the net effect is that we're hurting a different company.  Unfortunately, there's nothing we can really do to avoid that.  The situation is going to become very dire in the next month when mortgages, car payments and other things come due.  

    I know most don't pay attention to this, but the OCC has issued guidance to the nationally chartered banks that they can pull what is known as "bucket 1" collections back to current, waive fees and interest.  It's called TDR (troubled debt restructuring).  This is a big deal.  Most people think banks can just waive fees, interest, not charge off accounts, etc.  But that's not true.  The OCC are the ones that provide direction and legal approval for these actions.  They are responsible for the financial solvency of banks.  This is a big step and doesn't happen often.  
  • bbiggs
    bbiggs Posts: 6,964
    Jason P said:
    Anyone that hasn't listened to the new PJ song needs to unplug their brain from this topic and immediately go listen to it.  It's a banger!
    Yes sir! Gave it 3 listens already. 
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,808
    static111 said:
    static111 said:
    static111 said:
    mickeyrat said:
    static111 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    tbergs said:
    static111 said:
    Hi! said:
    If I heard correctly it even covers payroll for 4 months up to 100k per employee?  is that right?

    Is there a link to this?  I didn't see that listed in the stories I read but people are citing some specifics that would suggest the text of the bill is out there for review.
    Can someone share, if so?
    https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3548/text
    Doesn't help me one bit.  Thx 
    What do you need? Do you fall under self employment, or having a struggling business?  Just wondering.....it really sucks that it won’t help you out.  I wrote my idiot congressmen, not sure if it helped at all but it is good to get your specific needs out there to people crafting these bills.
    If I am reading it right, I am over the annual salary exemption so I don't get anything.

    Living in NY I get the short end of the stick a lot...
    Well that sucks. Has your work or pay been impacted by this at all yet? Based on what I read, my family will receive around $3400, but my job has not been impacted as of yet so while I don't mind the boost, I am not one of the people who most needs it.
    Wait, does everyone get this check or just unemployed?

    Everyone who made less than 75000 in 2018 or less than 150000 jointly is my understanding regardless of current employment status. Plus 500 per child
    gross or net or adj gross?
    I would think gross since they are basing it off of taxes.  But if you look at the link I posted above Lindsey Graham and his ilk may try to block everything because they hate poor people and can’t say it without using coded language.  No problem giving trillions to the stock market and billions to the airlines though.  And people wonder why some of us want to go back to work....

    I thought this guy was attached to the end of Trump's unit. 
    If Trump wants it, he will vote for it.

    From a conceptual level I don't see how you could argue with his point.  Unemployment should not pay someone more than they make before they lose their job.   
    They write these fucking things so that they are tough to understand but I do not see that in the bill text that I have read so far.  If that is a part of the bill I agree with Lindsey Asswipe.  Having never had to go on it (yet, early in these days of crisis, I could find out soon enough I guess) I do not know how it works. 
    How would it be a statement that someone hates poor people to say that their unemployment if they lost their job due to The Rona should not pay them more than they made?
    First of all to even get unemployment you have to prove a work history and have paid in to the unemployment fund through your payroll taxes.  You can’t quit your job and get unemployment benefits.  Most people get less than 1/2 of their base salary an extra 600 isn’t going to do much.  This is a temporary provision for 4 months.  If your employer calls you back to work you have to go back or you lose your benefits. Basically no one making 15 an hour is incentivized to quit work or not go back to work.  Even if some people do get more than they would because they got laid off for 4 months due to corona virus how is that a bad thing.... but nobody batting an eye to trillions from the fed and billions to the airlines......

    Yeah, I am not trying to argue with you -- more-so trying to understand the plan.  I didn't read it all yet, which I will.
    As a business leader I do know that you don't get to quit and then automatically get unemployment. 
    I still would not think there is any reason to pay anyone more than what they made if their job was lost as a result of The Rona.
    We can agree to disagree on that note, but I don't think it makes me hate poor people.  I have a few poor people in my family and I (for the most part) love them more than the people with money.
    Didn’t think you were arguing just making my points.  I too agree that it’s not ideal that some people would get more than they make, but I just don’t see now being the time to make the argument against a temporary 4 month emergency measure.  I think people are really downplaying how desperate things could get in a couple of months when people aren’t getting money and the bills are still due. People are already overworked and desperate. I’m fortunate that we have enough saved up for a couple months if there is no help but millions aren’t so fortunate. It would be foolish not to help as many as possible at the expense of some recovering a very small temporary gain. If ever there was a time for the government to bailout anyone it is now and it should be citizens first.

    As a leader of business I hope you are doing right by your employees at this time. Given that you are a pj fan on a pj board I’m sure you are.
    We have had to lay off a percentage, but they were temps.  No perm folks laid off yet and my CEO is doing everything he can to give us some stick.  Being a private business it is very risky for him, but we continue.
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  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,526
    mcgruff10 said:
    Yet another theory (which I like!)

    New Oxford study suggests millions of people may have already built up coronavirus immunity

    A model predicting the progression of the novel coronavirus pandemic produced by researchers at Imperial College London set off alarms across the world and was a major factor in several governments' decisions to lock things down. But a new model from Oxford University is challenging its accuracy, the Financial Times reports.

    The Oxford research suggests the pandemic is in a later stage than previously thought and estimates the virus has already infected at least millions of people worldwide. In the United Kingdom, which the study focuses on, half the population would have already been infected. If accurate, that would mean transmission began around mid-January and the vast majority of cases presented mild or no symptoms.

    The head of the study, professor Sunetra Gupta, an Oxford theoretical epidemiologist, said she still supports the U.K.'s decision to shut down the country to suppress the virus even if her research winds up being proven correct. But she also doesn't appear to be a big fan of the work done by the Imperial College team. "I am surprised that there has been such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial model," she said.

    If her work is accurate, that would likely mean a large swath of the population has built up resistance to the virus. Theoretically, then, social restrictions could ease sooner than anticipated. What needs to be done now, Gupta said, is a whole lot of antibody testing to figure out who may have contracted the virus. Her research team is working with groups from the University of Cambridge and the University of Kent to start those tests for the general population as quickly as possible. Read more at the Financial Times.

    Would this potentially explain why some people have tested positive but never present with systems? That they have already been through it and maybe just thought it was the flu?
  • dignin
    dignin Posts: 9,478

    13 Deaths in a Day: An ‘Apocalyptic’ Coronavirus Surge at an N.Y.C. Hospital

    Hospitals in the city are facing the kind of harrowing increases in cases that overwhelmed health care systems in China and Italy.



    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-hospitals.html
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,114
    pjl44 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    Yet another theory (which I like!)

    New Oxford study suggests millions of people may have already built up coronavirus immunity

    A model predicting the progression of the novel coronavirus pandemic produced by researchers at Imperial College London set off alarms across the world and was a major factor in several governments' decisions to lock things down. But a new model from Oxford University is challenging its accuracy, the Financial Times reports.

    The Oxford research suggests the pandemic is in a later stage than previously thought and estimates the virus has already infected at least millions of people worldwide. In the United Kingdom, which the study focuses on, half the population would have already been infected. If accurate, that would mean transmission began around mid-January and the vast majority of cases presented mild or no symptoms.

    The head of the study, professor Sunetra Gupta, an Oxford theoretical epidemiologist, said she still supports the U.K.'s decision to shut down the country to suppress the virus even if her research winds up being proven correct. But she also doesn't appear to be a big fan of the work done by the Imperial College team. "I am surprised that there has been such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial model," she said.

    If her work is accurate, that would likely mean a large swath of the population has built up resistance to the virus. Theoretically, then, social restrictions could ease sooner than anticipated. What needs to be done now, Gupta said, is a whole lot of antibody testing to figure out who may have contracted the virus. Her research team is working with groups from the University of Cambridge and the University of Kent to start those tests for the general population as quickly as possible. Read more at the Financial Times.

    Would this potentially explain why some people have tested positive but never present with systems? That they have already been through it and maybe just thought it was the flu?
    That s what I was thinking after I read it.  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,831
    As long as I have my job I don’t need the $, and I’m not getting it.  But I HATE the idea of sending checks to everyone. Many don’t need it. The person in NYC gets the same as the person in Montana don’t they?

    seem it would be better to work with businesses to guarantee and pay a certain % of the pay, etc to the employees to keep them on the payroll despite not working. And then shore up the systems we already have in place to move faster and provide more short term benefits.



    Pretty sure that is what they just said in the conference..and loans will be forgiven as long as kept as employeess
    Right, then why send checks to 90% of the country? 
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    As long as I have my job I don’t need the $, and I’m not getting it.  But I HATE the idea of sending checks to everyone. Many don’t need it. The person in NYC gets the same as the person in Montana don’t they?

    seem it would be better to work with businesses to guarantee and pay a certain % of the pay, etc to the employees to keep them on the payroll despite not working. And then shore up the systems we already have in place to move faster and provide more short term benefits.



    Pretty sure that is what they just said in the conference..and loans will be forgiven as long as kept as employeess
    Right, then why send checks to 90% of the country? 
    My understanding is that the loan guarantees are targeting small businesses.  Medium to larger businesses will also be cutting expenses.  
  • RYME
    RYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    I had all the exact symptoms that they're describing the last week of February (thought nothing of it)  and that lasted 3 days.   So I don't know if I had it or not?  I continued  life as normal as if it was a cold.  So I don't know if I had it or not?
    How many millions have already had it?  And have buit up an immunity herd immunity already??
    Herd immunity possibly is the best remedy outside of drinking a case of Corona with a lime please =) because then the the virus has no place to land??
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,586
    Jason P said:
    Anyone that hasn't listened to the new PJ song needs to unplug their brain from this topic and immediately go listen to it.  It's a banger!
    I wish I could just unplug and just enjoy music I really do I listened to the new song once but I can’t enjoy it, living here in NY and working in hospital has fucked my mind up, I’m a mess just trying not to lose it...
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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,235
    edited March 2020
    Man, I feel for you^^^ jose^^^ and NY at this time.


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  • Lerxst1992
    Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,855
    static111 said:
    static111 said:
    static111 said:
    I’m not very understanding on the economics of ventilator availability. Are there even 30,000 ventilators available at this point?

    Did we say that during world war 2? Too bad we dont have tanks nor planes? Was that our approach? No. We built them. Fast.

    Go ahead and google US WW2 deaths vs what can happen if the covid crisis continues to be mismanaged and false logic continues.

    The numbers should shock everyone. There is a chance this event is worse than a world war for Americans. 

    But hey, let Cuomo figure it out on his own. Makes perfect sense. Thanks trump
    Man you overreact quite regularly. I was just asking what is the reality of getting 30000 ventilators. Nothing partisan. No blaming. Just what is the necessary logistics of getting 30,000 ventilators? If they aren’t available who can make them?  And no this isn’t WW2 

    Your comment was reminiscent of what Trump said, I'm sure that was not your intent. “Are there even.” No, of course not. That’s why we need emergency action, not a govt more worried about bailing out big business first. Trump said yesterday let cuomo figure it out. Would that piss you off if you were at risk?

     NY is doubling cases almost every other day, this has the potential to get very bad. For the record, WW2 total US deaths were around 400,000. It’s not out of the question this could be worse, especially if there are multiple waves. If you think that’s an overreaction, I think you are not being realistic about the facts in this crisis.

    We dragged our feet for two weeks and probably mass contaminated a metropolitan area with about 25 million. Now Trump is dragging his feet again, about ventilators. Of course there aren’t 30,000 extra in a warehouse, but we need quick decisive action. Like in WW2, which had the added problem of the majority of the labor pool getting drafted to quickly produce needed equipment.

    The govt moved in two days to bail out the corporations. Good thing we saved the companies quickly, because if companies don’t get enough oxygen into its balance sheet, they will code out immediately. But Preventing mass contamination, fail. Getting or producing enough ventilators in time to save lives, looks like that’s not a priority for trump. 
    World War Two was a literal war with people bombing and shooting and gassing each other for 6 years and a day with an estimated total death toll of 75-80 million worldwide.  This is bad but not that bad. I agree and sympathize with you that some are more at risk of this disease than others and people need all the help they can get.  It is unrealistic to think anyone including the head Buffoon in charge can magic 30,000 ventilators into existence because there is an immediate need.  I also agree with you that more can and should be done.  Yes the war powers should be used, but I imagine retooling an entire manufacturer to make sterile ventilators would also take some time. There are no quick fixes...but now I know a lot more about the ventilator situation

    i also agree corporations should have been an after thought. Priorities should be

    healthcare
    economic assistance for those in need
    economic assistance to failing business
    and then maybe waaaaaaayyyyyy back there corporations and the stock market


    I thought I said parameters strictly dealing with US fatalities and how the US responds to a deadly crisis. US fatalities were about 400,000 in WWII. I did not insinuate we are at war. The comparison is to the most recent lethal crisis where immediate production needed to ramp up. 

    the federal govt is the resource of last resort, and are best equipped to get the specialized ventilator production industry to ramp up production, add second shifts, fortify it’s supply chain, etc. This should have occurred three weeks ago.


  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,586
    cutz said:
    Man, I feel for you^^^ jose^^^ and NY at this time.


    It’s a fucked up situation , Elmhurst hospital which is only a few mikes from the hospital I work in had 13 deaths yesterday this is just the beginning of the darkness to come over this whole state! My wife who’s at home will start to look at rentals way upstate if shit gets really really bad we’re thinking of packing up and just moving up to the mountains for a few months..
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Lerxst1992
    Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,855
    cutz said:
    Man, I feel for you^^^ jose^^^ and NY at this time.


    It’s a fucked up situation , Elmhurst hospital which is only a few mikes from the hospital I work in had 13 deaths yesterday this is just the beginning of the darkness to come over this whole state! My wife who’s at home will start to look at rentals way upstate if shit gets really really bad we’re thinking of packing up and just moving up to the mountains for a few months..

    You are a warrior man. That’s what I called the excellent nurses who cared for my daughter last week. Hang tough, JE.
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