Wouldn’t wanna normalize that sort of pulmonary deviance.
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FYI, Fairmont WV is my hometown, I was treated at Fairmont General as a kid and it was one of the major employers in that town. Hard for me to believe it is gone. Especially in light of current happenings. Sigh.
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If you are talking about the photos I am thinking of, they are taken in Guilin, in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Trade and consumption of wild animals was banned on Feb 24 so Wuhan’s wet markets should still be shut. I’m not sure what’s going on with the photos in Guilin, whether they are running illegally (hence the guards stopping people from taking pictures) or if there’s some peculiarity of the legal system that means autonomous regions can ignore some national laws.
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Just a reminder of the two most important items on the agenda during this time period:
(eta just the image, because it appears broken to me in the link):
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”Nero, golfing is like fiddling right?”
“Hey, you smell smoke?”
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Headline should be:
Alabama refused to expand medicaid, now more people will die.
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But how are you going to pay for that?
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True across red states, but they will never admit that. Evidence will not dent their close epistemological bubbles. Frustrating does not begin to describe it.
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I am completely done with “ZOMG! How to Survive Corn Teen So BOOORING!” articles. Do what you always do: talk continually on the phone without stopping to breathe.
There are two types of people under quarantine: those whose work duties have doubled and now have to also split time to take care of their children during school hours and those living in terror of what happens when rent/mortgage comes due and they have no income. Everyone else isn’t under quarantine, they’re on vacation.*
*Not including those who don’t get the safety of quarantine at all because they have to risk their lives in order to keep society going. But hey, at least they don’t have to fret about what to watch next on Netflix.
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We have similar developments in Germany right now. Clinics are asking students to volunteer.
However, to calm your nerves a slight bit, they aren’t stand-ins for highly qualified medics. They do simpler tasks, and this will definitely ease the problems of staff shortage and rotating shifts for many. A pair of hands and a brain which is already partly attuned to the medical profession will do wonders.
I am really grateful for their efforts.
Of course, you are right in general. Seeing what happens is like observing the retreating water before the tsunami. And this? This is like scrambling for higher ground by climbing on a roof. You can only hope the wave isn’t too high, and the building can persist the powers unleashed.
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Given that the US and Europe have no coherent response, we will likely see this continue in waves over the next couple of years, as people from f
d regions re-infect areas that had managed to control it.
Assuming no silver bullet appears: my memory is hazy, but I don’t remember anyone coming up with a treatment or vaccine for SARS or MERS, so I’m not sure why we expect one to appear in a week for COVID-19.
From what I read, it will probably end sooner in Africa and Central and South America; at unimaginable cost.
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I agree. A good 4th year medical student may not know the solution but should at least recognize when things are not going according to plan. An extra set of eyes, ears, and fractional brain for the attendings.
And I can’t leave that without the old joke:
– Name 3 simple tools.
– The incline plane, the pulley, and the medical student.
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He’s always been a complete fuckwad. He is easily the most hated sports owner in the New England area. and one of the most hated NHL team owners.
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Not sure if that is an actual question.
If so, I would form a central government and give it taxation authority to pay for important functions that are vital to the national interest. Defense, social security, health care, etc.
If the question is how Alabama will pay for that, I would cash the damn check that the feds keep trying to send me.
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That is absolutely an actual question, but Joe Biden is asking. Good luck explaining it to him…
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This, in fact, boils down to “lost interest because it was contained, and there’s no money in that”.
Seriously. Christian Drosten said as much. And he worked on MERS. There was a candidate for MERS vaccination which never made it to production-level.
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Ah, I see now. I didn’t figure you were asking me so wasn’t going to answer. But medicaid expansion was such a no-brainer for the states that the topic really gets my goat.
Being in isolation decreases my odds of running into Joe, but if I do I’ve got plenty of time to explain it all to him. Guessing I should go chalkboard over powerpoint.
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Via tagesschau.de, German news.
Protective masks may exceptionally be reused
6:41 pm
Given the huge demand, protective masks for medical personnel should exceptionally be reusable under certain conditions. The Health and Labor Ministry announced after a meeting of the German government’s crisis team that special security requirements had to be met.
If there is insufficient personal protective equipment, a method is thus possible in which masks can be assigned to a person and decontaminated by heating. In particular, respirators with a filter function could be reprocessed a maximum of three times.
Translation via Google.
I was outside half an hour ago. I was the only person wearing a mask. The riverbank was full of people taking a walk, in the sunshine. Many keep a polite distance. Allowed are two people not belonging to the same household or family. Police drove by two times. But I also witnessed many encounters which I would deem unsafe. That’s just me. But we already have a discussion on how long we will keep this up, and just today government declared that it is definitely prolonging over Easter, earliest possible date 19th of April.
Not going to happen by my impression.
Saw photos and a video from a friend in Bilbao yesterday. Literally ONE person on the streets.
Germany has done quite well so far.
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