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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19


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2 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In what may be the first lawsuit filed in Louisville over workplace conditions during the coronavirus crisis, two employees of Radio Communications Systems say they were fired for complaining the company wasn’t complying with state-ordered precautions. 

The workers, Robbie Payne and Erica Shaw, allege the company’s owner “brushed off” their concerns and characterized the virus as “not that big of an issue,” stating that everyone was “overreacting.” 

The suit, filed Friday in Jefferson Circuit Court, said the workers were wrongfully discharged in violation of public policy and requests compensatory and punitive damages.  

It was filed by attorney Robyn Smith, who also represents an employee at the Rawlings Group in Oldham County who had complained about conditions there.

Smith said she believes the suit against Radio Communications System is the first filed locally over workplace conditions during the pandemic.

 

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/03/28/coronavirus-fired-workers-sue-after-they-say-owner-dismissed-concerns/2934867001/

Lots of people going to be looking for cheap scam money after this shutdown. No surprise there. 

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1 hour ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

 

Detroit rep says hydroxychloroquine, Trump helped save her life amid COVID-19 fight
 

A Democratic state representative from Detroit is crediting hydroxychloroquine — and Republican President Donald Trump who touted the drug — for saving her in her battle with the coronavirus.

 

Nice career you had there, Karen.

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I could be the last person some of these patients ever see, or the last voice they hear. A lot of people will never come off the ventilator. That’s the reality of this virus. I force myself to think about that for a few seconds each time I walk into the ICU to do an intubation.
This is my entire job now. Airways. Coronavirus airways. I’m working 14 hours a night and six nights a week. When patients aren’t getting enough oxygen, I place a tube down their airway so we can put them on a vent. It buys their body time to fight the virus. It’s also probably the most dangerous procedure a doctor can do when it comes to personal exposure. I’m getting within a few inches of the patient’s face. I’m leaning in toward the mouth, placing my fingers on the gums, opening up the airway. All it takes is a cough. A gag. If anything goes badly, you can have a room full of virus.
Thank you again to the doctors and other medical professionals fighting this! Heroes always
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7 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

The NYT's asks a question............

 

 

 

 

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There are numbers on the CDC website that back this up.

"With" has become "from" and it inflates the death numbers (this is happening worldwide).

 

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One of the reasons I do these press conferences is so they don't believe the fake new...

Uuuuut ohhhhh


OAN asking about Latin America drug dealing. Trump "we are hitting them hard."  (No wonder the rest of the press wants her gone.) Trump also bringing up human trafficking.


ha! The Democrats want open borders. These people may be sick, may be criminals, want sanctuary cities that protect criminals.

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Giroir talking about the  antibody tests. They want to make sure they actually work. They are hopeful to having working tests (tests that actually work) by May. (He's saying this is how America opens back up... ummmm )

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Pence: 2179 medical military personal in NYC. By next week that will be 3,000. (They will continue to arrive...)

Pence broke down where the 500 ventilators from California are going (he just learned the breakdown, and 50 are going to Guam!).

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I haven’t seen any of the pressers but just from reading this and some of the models you guys had above, today feels like a good day. A day we all needed. Not to dismiss the unfortunate who are suffering but a step back towards living life again. 

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Just now, CommonCents said:

I haven’t seen any of the pressers but just from reading this and some of the models you guys had above, today feels like a good day. A day we all needed. Not to dismiss the unfortunate who are suffering but a step back towards living life again. 


They keep reiterating that this week is going to be very bad. 

Dr. Brix is up now, and she is pointing out some micro-outbreaks in different states (VT, Montana, etc).

 



CDC.gov/coronavirus

The daily numbers where it is.

They are doing more with this system for early alerts in the future.

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8 minutes ago, CommonCents said:

I haven’t seen any of the pressers but just from reading this and some of the models you guys had above, today feels like a good day. A day we all needed. Not to dismiss the unfortunate who are suffering but a step back towards living life again. 

Hopefully this isn't just the calm before the storm.

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8 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:


They keep reiterating that this week is going to be very bad. 

Dr. Brix is up now, and she is pointing out some micro-outbreaks in different states (VT, Montana, etc).

 



CDC.gov/coronavirus

The daily numbers where it is.

They are doing more with this system for early alerts in the future.

 

It is going to be a bad week.

 

About 10,000 people are going to die.

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4 minutes ago, jrober38 said:

 

It is going to be a bad week.

 

About 10,000 people are going to die.

 

On 3/23/2020 at 8:13 PM, jrober38 said:

 

It adds up when you consider that most Federal Governments around the world are projecting 40-70% of their population to get the virus.

 

Considering that it kills 1-2% of the people it infects, you're talking about millions and millions of deaths. 

 

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3 minutes ago, CommonCents said:

Definelty is. Do you feel any better about the path forward?

 

I dunno. 

 

The lag makes it hard to predict anything. 

 

I assume many places are still 3-4 weeks from getting hammered. 

 

Maybe in a month 10,000 deaths in a week doesn't look that bad. 

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1 minute ago, jrober38 said:

 

I dunno. 

 

The lag makes it hard to predict anything. 

 

I assume many places are still 3-4 weeks from getting hammered. 

 

Maybe in a month 10,000 deaths in a week doesn't look that bad. 

Soft walk back. That’s like benching Peterman from his start only so you can bring him out for the second half. 

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1 minute ago, Magox said:

Ohhhh

 

Thats the prediction.

 

I think we may come up just a bit short of that

There's a reason I don't post about things I'm not knowledgeable enough to comment on. :lol:

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4 minutes ago, CommonCents said:

Soft walk back. That’s like benching Peterman from his start only so you can bring him out for the second half. 

 

I think there's a lot we don't know yet because people are walking around with the virus right now without knowing they have it yet. I think places that were slow to lock down like Florida are going to get destroyed.  Old population, one of the slowest to lock down. I think what's happening in Louisiana happens there in 2-3 weeks only a wide scale due to a larger population. 

 

I think ultimately it's still super early in the whole thing. Everything done so far has been done to flatten the curve and space out when everyone gets it, but pretty much every expert says this won't go away until there's a vaccine which will be at the end of the year at the earliest. 

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37 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

 

Per the CDC, 2,813,503 Americans died last year. 

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

 

That averages to 54,000 deaths per week


And there’s only one cause of death in the world right now... 

 

Quick question: if I shoot my neighbor for not returning my string trimmer, at trial can I say he died of rona? That’s air tight, right? 

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12 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

 

If Trump had only done something better and sooner!

 

He didn't do it sooner because he's a racist! And a liar! And he mocks journalists who try to make the story about themselves!

 

I know because I saw a graphic about his golf schedule!

 

IMPEACH!

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39 minutes ago, jrober38 said:

 

I think there's a lot we don't know yet because people are walking around with the virus right now without knowing they have it yet. I think places that were slow to lock down like Florida are going to get destroyed.  Old population, one of the slowest to lock down. I think what's happening in Louisiana happens there in 2-3 weeks only a wide scale due to a larger population. 

 

I think ultimately it's still super early in the whole thing. Everything done so far has been done to flatten the curve and space out when everyone gets it, but pretty much every expert says this won't go away until there's a vaccine which will be at the end of the year at the earliest. 

 

Florida being slow is a national media misnomer.  I live in Florida and South Florida Dade and Broward county which accounts for 60% of the cases has been on lock down for nearly 3 weeks now.  Orlando and Tampa who are the next most populous areas has been on lockdown for over 2 weeks now.  Disney world has been shutdown for nearly a month.

 

I live in Brevard county, we didn't have a lock down and the people of our county haven't been going out hardly at all.

 

So, this is just a national media creation, they know De Santis is the governor of Florida, it's an election year...

 

I could be wrong and maybe Florida is going to get "destroyed"...But there is no evidence of that yet.  

 

Considering Florida was one of the first 6 states to have a resident with "community" infection and with all the migration coming from New York, they have done much better than most of the country with deaths relative to their population on a per capita basis.

 

You can see that right here.

 

 

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47 minutes ago, IDBillzFan said:

 

He didn't do it sooner because he's a racist! And a liar! And he mocks journalists who try to make the story about themselves!

 

I know because I saw a graphic about his golf schedule!

 

IMPEACH!

And now he's pushing hydroxychloroquine because he must be profiting off of it somehow, just follow the money.

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1 minute ago, CarpetCrawler said:

And now he's pushing hydroxychloroquine because he must be making money off of it somehow, just follow the money.

 

Yeah, not because it, well, might work.  Morons.

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1 hour ago, jrober38 said:

 

I think there's a lot we don't know yet because people are walking around with the virus right now without knowing they have it yet. I think places that were slow to lock down like Florida are going to get destroyed.  Old population, one of the slowest to lock down. I think what's happening in Louisiana happens there in 2-3 weeks only a wide scale due to a larger population. 

 

I think ultimately it's still super early in the whole thing. Everything done so far has been done to flatten the curve and space out when everyone gets it, but pretty much every expert says this won't go away until there's a vaccine which will be at the end of the year at the earliest. 


No. This wave is mostly headed the right direction now. Peaking but trending right. 
 

What happens when we reopen is unknown but you can put away the doom and gloom for this wave heading way up. The distancing is working. 

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Posting for the clip, because it was devastating to the media talking point they pushed all day. Gotta ask why the reporters didn't find this information out first before running with it... they could have called the Admiral. But, that would be doing actual journalism rather than what they're truly engaged in... 

 

 

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6 minutes ago, shoshin said:


No. This wave is mostly headed the right direction now. Peaking but trending right. 
 

What happens when we reopen is unknown but you can put away the doom and gloom for this wave heading way up. The distancing is working. 

100%. The key is going to be timing. Get back to normal too soon, could be a huge mistake. For now, stay the ***** away from other people!!’ 

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2 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:


There are numbers on the CDC website that back this up.

"With" has become "from" and it inflates the death numbers (this is happening worldwide).

 

 

I have been saying this for a long time.  Dying with vs from is very different.  

1 hour ago, CommonCents said:

Soft walk back. That’s like benching Peterman from his start only so you can bring him out for the second half. 

 

STOP THAT!!

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