I’m glad that my local school district had planned for remote learning well before this outbreak. They had also done full rehearsals with students. The transition was fairly fluid. There’s no way to fully replace the missing social-aspect of on-site schooling though because of the shelter-in-place order.
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Rebel free market ticket scalpers suddenly want socialism.
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Good old Mises! A strong opponent of government overreach as it curtailed individual liberty… and enthusiastic supporter of Mussolini who saved western civilisation.
Just like his acolytes who saw a welfare state and socialist health system as serfdom but throwing political opponents out of helicopters was liberty.
Save us all from having to pretend to take the intellectual positions of those right wing fucks seriously.
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This gentleman is about to learn that he done fucked up:
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Keep in mind, this beast is only about 4 months old. Let that sink in for a moment. We have no experience with it, it has no track record, we don’t even know what we don’t know about it. In a couple years we will probably know it inside out, but it is killing us now, and we are flying blind. This is the most uncomfortable I have been in my profession in pretty much ever.
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W.T.F.?!?!
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“the beatings will continue until morale improves”
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Hard out bro… check out Auckland’s volcano monitoring drum at Herne Bay.. Although currently well overdue an eruption, Auckland’s 50-odd volcanoes are usually quiet and all you see is daily traffic. Clearly it drops off following the 25th!
@FGD135 @vermes82 Gates was right. The data is getting sloppier to compare, but death rates in the U.S. are still very roughly tracking Italy minus ~21days. It’s going to be a tough few weeks. (edit: 21 is a better fit on the latest points than 20 days)
(edit: data is Johns Hopkins/CSSE, plots mine. Lots of good modelling is going on out there, all pointing to about the same thing.)
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“Just good business”, right?
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Literally punishing whole states for not being sufficiently deferential to his orange ass, or for voting for democrats. Assholes gotta asshole, but once Barr is no longer protecting him he must be investigated and prosecuted for this shitstorm he has unleashed.
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So here we see the actual systemic shortages appearing. Ramping up manufacturing of ventilators is the easy part. Ramping up training of personnel is just not possible on a relevant time frame. ARDS is a bitch to manage and changes rapidly and unpredictably. Having half trained or untrained people manning the machines is a recipe for disaster. But that training takes years, and gaining sufficient experience to do it well even more so. I have no answers, I guess just more screaming into the void. 
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That was last year week, in AZ, not far from me. I think I posted about it. But the real horror has already come to people who actually need those medicines for ailments they actually treat, and I believe that there is some expectation that there will be deaths because of it.
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One of the many things I never thought I would see
I should clarify. I know what it is to be a 4th year med student. I was one. It commonly thought tnat after med school you are a doctor (I mean, you have the MD after your name, right?) But the truth is that this is the point where you are judged to have sufficient background knowledge to begin learning to become an actual care provider. I suppose it is a bit like the combat tested sergeant looking at the freshly minted 2nd lieutenant and thinking “oh shit.” I understand the why, I really do, but the damage both to patient care and to the psyches of these students is incalculable. I made a bevy of stupid mistakes as a 4th year and intern that did not harm anyone only because of the close supervision we were under. Loss of that supervision is terrifying to me, looking back on 1989 me and thinking that stupid kid could be thrown into this. Of course, just add that to the long list of things that terrify me about this pandemic.
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Ooopsies!
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Texas is racing Florida for dumbest response to this
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