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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    static111 said:
    https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/shawn-windsor/2020/04/15/gretchen-whitmer-protest-michigan-capitol-coronavirus/5142203002/

    I am sorry to live among people like this
    It’s the natural outcome of an extreme focus on individual “rights” over collective good. It leads to millions upon millions of people who believe that no one has the right to tell them what to do, even if their actions harm others. 
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  • Hi!
    Hi! Posts: 3,095
    Whitmers 2 biggest mistakes:
    Exemption for religious services 
    Not banning those stupid yellow “don’t tread on me” flags.

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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,807
    mfc2006 said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    i got called in to cover a surgery tuesday morning. i had not been in a hospital or a surgery center in 11 days. it is insane that some of these hospitals are still doing elective procedures. it is going to get hospital staff sick, and potentially patients, and ancillary staff like me. 

    we had a conference call yesterday saying that kansas and missouri will be the last two states to resume elective surgeries, sometime in late june. as a surgical sales rep in missouri and southern illinois, i could be fucked for awhile.
    Sorry to hear that, man. My wife had her planned procedure put on hold & I really hope it's sooner than late June. Be well.
    thanks man. I do too. Missouri is actually predicted to be the last state to resume them. i am not sure why that is, but i think it might be because they were the last to recommend canceling elective cases. 

    hopefully they can get your wife taken care of sooner than later.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,795
    oftenreading said:
    static111 said:
    https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/shawn-windsor/2020/04/15/gretchen-whitmer-protest-michigan-capitol-coronavirus/5142203002/

    I am sorry to live among people like this
    It’s the natural outcome of an extreme focus on individual “rights” over collective good. It leads to millions upon millions of people who believe that no one has the right to tell them what to do, even if their actions harm others. 
    It goes beyond that.  I am having these conversations with people here in NY and they believe that "their civil liberties are being trampled on".  
    They say they "have a right to not wear a mask or social distance but if you want to do it that's ok but don't force it on us/me."

    These same people are saying that "the government made the usa a totalitarian country , just like that and everyone fell in a row."

    When you have places that have 40 deaths in the state of course you are going to have angry people but they don't get it.  What we are experiencing here in NY is like no other place.  I do wonder if it is because of our mass transit system?  Our high rises?

    The rest of the US isn't getting what we are and they are frustrated, I get that.  How do you make someone understand?


  • elvistheking44
    elvistheking44 Posts: 4,551
    josevolution said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    i got called in to cover a surgery tuesday morning. i had not been in a hospital or a surgery center in 11 days. it is insane that some of these hospitals are still doing elective procedures. it is going to get hospital staff sick, and potentially patients, and ancillary staff like me. 

    we had a conference call yesterday saying that kansas and missouri will be the last two states to resume elective surgeries, sometime in late june. as a surgical sales rep in missouri and southern illinois, i could be fucked for awhile.
    Sorry to hear, here there’s only a few cases being done none are elective we went from over 65 elective cases a day  to basically zero..
    Yesterday I asked if you could shed some light on the patients in your hospital that are losing the battle to covid19.  Can you provide anything? Pre existing conditions, how bad were they when they got to your hospital, what was their age? How did they contact the virus? Stuff like that.Thanks.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,795
    elvistheking44 said:
    josevolution said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    i got called in to cover a surgery tuesday morning. i had not been in a hospital or a surgery center in 11 days. it is insane that some of these hospitals are still doing elective procedures. it is going to get hospital staff sick, and potentially patients, and ancillary staff like me. 

    we had a conference call yesterday saying that kansas and missouri will be the last two states to resume elective surgeries, sometime in late june. as a surgical sales rep in missouri and southern illinois, i could be fucked for awhile.
    Sorry to hear, here there’s only a few cases being done none are elective we went from over 65 elective cases a day  to basically zero..
    Yesterday I asked if you could shed some light on the patients in your hospital that are losing the battle to covid19.  Can you provide anything? Pre existing conditions, how bad were they when they got to your hospital, what was their age? How did they contact the virus? Stuff like that.Thanks.
    I believe I can get some of that info for you.
  • elvistheking44
    elvistheking44 Posts: 4,551
    tempo_n_groove said:
    elvistheking44 said:
    josevolution said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    i got called in to cover a surgery tuesday morning. i had not been in a hospital or a surgery center in 11 days. it is insane that some of these hospitals are still doing elective procedures. it is going to get hospital staff sick, and potentially patients, and ancillary staff like me. 

    we had a conference call yesterday saying that kansas and missouri will be the last two states to resume elective surgeries, sometime in late june. as a surgical sales rep in missouri and southern illinois, i could be fucked for awhile.
    Sorry to hear, here there’s only a few cases being done none are elective we went from over 65 elective cases a day  to basically zero..
    Yesterday I asked if you could shed some light on the patients in your hospital that are losing the battle to covid19.  Can you provide anything? Pre existing conditions, how bad were they when they got to your hospital, what was their age? How did they contact the virus? Stuff like that.Thanks.
    I believe I can get some of that info for you.
    Thanks. I feel like the stories of who and how people are catching this are fading away. I’m just curious from someone on the front lines how it’s going. 
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,954
    We had what I believe was our highest death toll yesterday in NJ.  350+ leaving this existence.  
    New York still doubled that.
    Glad to see some places with less than those totals in the whole deal.  
    Hope that can hold.

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  • FiveBelow
    FiveBelow Posts: 1,379
    tempo_n_groove said:
    oftenreading said:
    static111 said:
    https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/shawn-windsor/2020/04/15/gretchen-whitmer-protest-michigan-capitol-coronavirus/5142203002/

    I am sorry to live among people like this
    It’s the natural outcome of an extreme focus on individual “rights” over collective good. It leads to millions upon millions of people who believe that no one has the right to tell them what to do, even if their actions harm others. 
    It goes beyond that.  I am having these conversations with people here in NY and they believe that "their civil liberties are being trampled on".  
    They say they "have a right to not wear a mask or social distance but if you want to do it that's ok but don't force it on us/me."

    These same people are saying that "the government made the usa a totalitarian country , just like that and everyone fell in a row."

    When you have places that have 40 deaths in the state of course you are going to have angry people but they don't get it.  What we are experiencing here in NY is like no other place.  I do wonder if it is because of our mass transit system?  Our high rises?

    The rest of the US isn't getting what we are and they are frustrated, I get that.  How do you make someone understand?


    Explaining NYC to someone who has never been there is difficult, there is no other city in the US that comes close as far as comparison. It also has to be the easiest to spread a virus like this due to the population density, close living quarters, mass transit and incoming/outgoing travel. If the virus can be controlled there it will be exponentially easier to control anywhere else, but the rest of the country doesn't need to be naive about it.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,795
    elvistheking44 said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    elvistheking44 said:
    josevolution said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    i got called in to cover a surgery tuesday morning. i had not been in a hospital or a surgery center in 11 days. it is insane that some of these hospitals are still doing elective procedures. it is going to get hospital staff sick, and potentially patients, and ancillary staff like me. 

    we had a conference call yesterday saying that kansas and missouri will be the last two states to resume elective surgeries, sometime in late june. as a surgical sales rep in missouri and southern illinois, i could be fucked for awhile.
    Sorry to hear, here there’s only a few cases being done none are elective we went from over 65 elective cases a day  to basically zero..
    Yesterday I asked if you could shed some light on the patients in your hospital that are losing the battle to covid19.  Can you provide anything? Pre existing conditions, how bad were they when they got to your hospital, what was their age? How did they contact the virus? Stuff like that.Thanks.
    I believe I can get some of that info for you.
    Thanks. I feel like the stories of who and how people are catching this are fading away. I’m just curious from someone on the front lines how it’s going. 
    My friend did tell us last week that the bodies were mountaining because there is literally a backlog of dead people in the morgues.
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,319
    edited April 2020
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    This is what it will take to get us back outside
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,760
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    i got called in to cover a surgery tuesday morning. i had not been in a hospital or a surgery center in 11 days. it is insane that some of these hospitals are still doing elective procedures. it is going to get hospital staff sick, and potentially patients, and ancillary staff like me. 

    we had a conference call yesterday saying that kansas and missouri will be the last two states to resume elective surgeries, sometime in late june. as a surgical sales rep in missouri and southern illinois, i could be fucked for awhile.

    Oh man, that fucking sucks.  I hope you have all the protective gear you need.  Maybe consider going so far as to shower and toss your clothes in the washer when you get off work. 

    There should be no elective surgeries at this time.   I have a basal cell carcinoma that I had scheduled for removal this month and back in mid-March I called to have it cancelled.  They said they were cancelling all elective surgeries and I said, "Good! Thank you!"

    Stay well and keep us posted, my friend.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,179
    New numbers from NJ

    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,179
    NJ schools closed until May 15.  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,807
    brianlux said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    i got called in to cover a surgery tuesday morning. i had not been in a hospital or a surgery center in 11 days. it is insane that some of these hospitals are still doing elective procedures. it is going to get hospital staff sick, and potentially patients, and ancillary staff like me. 

    we had a conference call yesterday saying that kansas and missouri will be the last two states to resume elective surgeries, sometime in late june. as a surgical sales rep in missouri and southern illinois, i could be fucked for awhile.

    Oh man, that fucking sucks.  I hope you have all the protective gear you need.  Maybe consider going so far as to shower and toss your clothes in the washer when you get off work. 

    There should be no elective surgeries at this time.   I have a basal cell carcinoma that I had scheduled for removal this month and back in mid-March I called to have it cancelled.  They said they were cancelling all elective surgeries and I said, "Good! Thank you!"

    Stay well and keep us posted, my friend.

    I have the masks i need. they provide scrubs for me to change into and out of, but that account does not have a shower i can use. it is 2.5 hours away from my home so i wish i could shower before i hit the road back home. i do shower when i get home though as well as launder my personal scrubs.

    probably smart to reschedule that one if you can wait. hopefully they can take care of that soon for you. keep us posted on how it goes.

    thanks man, you stay well as well.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,296
    I just don’t understand how we can’t be locked down until a vaccine. 
  • bbiggs
    bbiggs Posts: 6,965
    mcgruff10 said:
    NJ schools closed until August
    Fixed.

  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,179
    bbiggs said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    NJ schools closed until August
    Fixed.

    Yeah no doubt it is gonna happen.  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,807
    mcgruff10 said:
    bbiggs said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    NJ schools closed until August
    Fixed.

    Yeah no doubt it is gonna happen.  
    missouri schools canceled the remainder of the school year last week.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,795
    bootlegger10 said:
    I just don’t understand how we can’t be locked down until a vaccine. 
    Read what I wrote above and look at what Michigan did recently.

    There will be rioting soon, just you wait.
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