Tinley Park once had a large mental hospital as well, but it’s been closed so long that I doubt it could be reopened.
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Worst timeline strikes again:
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Example 1,693 of how Trump & the GOP screwed over their older, rural base
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I want to put a warning out for anyone watching the worldometer numbers. There will appear to be improvement in rate of growth yesterday and today. I will point out that last weekend there was a similar “improvement.” I think that what we see here is that while the virus does not take weekends off, some of the data gatherers do. Not trying to quash hope, but we need to stay real.
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Waiting for next week’s shitstorm to hit the UK is tense.
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- Philadelphia has set up 20 sites offering free boxes of food to households who need them. You don’t have to show ID or proof of income to the 5-day supply, available for pickup 10 a.m. to noon, Monday to Thursday.
The resource also lists where students can get their school Provided meals.
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Tips for safe social distancing:
- Spray on lots of intense perfume or body cologne: Poison, Obsession, Axe, Genocide…
- People will automatically distance themselves from you, keeping everyone safe.
- Anyone coming closer obviously has no sense of smell.
They are a zombie, kill them!They have COVID-19, keep away.
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Dude, what the fuck?
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Maybe the resident of the White House shouldn’t have been dismissive of how serious this is. This may not stop for her even after she hopefully recovers - she could have limited lung function for the rest of her life.
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The data is still a bit rough in both cases, but by my reckoning, the UK is about 15 days behind Italy on the deaths curve.
Unless you filter for senior government officials, then the UK pandemic seems to be well and truly ahead of Italy. 
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meanwhile, in the united states
In April 2012, a senior Health and Human Services official testified before Congress that the program was “on schedule to file for market approval in September 2013.” After that, the machines would go into production.
Then everything changed.
The medical device industry was undergoing rapid consolidation, with one company after another merging with or acquiring other makers. Manufacturers wanted to pitch themselves as one-stop shops for hospitals, which were getting bigger, and that meant offering a broader suite of products. In May 2012, Covidien, a large medical device manufacturer, agreed to buy Newport for just over $100 million.
Covidien — a publicly traded company with sales of $12 billion that year — already sold traditional ventilators, but that was only a small part of its multifaceted businesses. In 2012 alone, Covidien bought five other medical device companies, in addition to Newport.
Newport executives and government officials working on the ventilator contract said they immediately noticed a change when Covidien took over. Developing inexpensive portable ventilators no longer seemed like a top priority.
Newport applied in June 2012 for clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to market the device, but two former federal officials said Covidien had demanded additional funding and a higher sales price for the ventilators. The government gave the company an additional $1.4 million, a drop in the bucket for a company Covidien’s size.
Government officials and executives at rival ventilator companies said they suspected that Covidien had acquired Newport to prevent it from building a cheaper product that would undermine Covidien’s profits from its existing ventilator business.
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Agreed. Best I can do for the next coupla days is this:
and it looks like you’re on that thread (yay!).
I’d add his approval of construction/operation of the Keystone XL pipeline over one of the biggest freshwater aquifers in North America–definitely right up there, regrettably. Irreversible contamination would damn untold generations in some far lengthier version of Flint. That pipeline has dumped petroleum twice already.
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Is that name a just a coincidence?
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which name?
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Yes, it’s a coincidence. The name goes back to 2007 when Tyco Healthcare was spun off the conglomerate Tyco International, when the three main Tyco branches scrambled to re-brand after the Kozlowski scandal. Tyco Healthcare was a combination of a huge number of acquisitions, including Kendall, US Surgical, Mallinkrodt, and Puritan Bennett.
Covidien is now under Medtronic.
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OMG. Let a hundred conspiracy theories bloom.
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