Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

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It's a couple of weeks old, but I don't think it was posted:

Tensions rise over masks as virus grips smaller US cities​

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-mask-requirements-tension-us-7898d8d87a12fe88145986ec38db45e9 (https://archive.vn/2aNji)
Excerpt:
Arguments over mask requirements and other restrictions have turned ugly in recent days as the deadly coronavirus surge across the U.S. engulfs small and medium-size cities that once seemed safely removed from the outbreak.

In Boise, Idaho, public health officials about to vote on a four-county mask mandate abruptly ended a meeting Tuesday evening because of fears for their safety amid anti-mask protests outside the building and at some of their homes.

One health board member tearfully announced she had to rush home to be with her child because of the protesters, who were seen on video banging on buckets, blaring air horns and sirens, and blasting a sound clip of gunfire from the violence-drenched movie “Scarface” outside her front door.
"violence-drenched"? These reporters deserve every single thing that's coming to them.
 
Just what we needed, more dancing idiots.

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https://twitter.com/HRHospital/status/1341730574529118209 (https://archive.vn/sz81Q)
 

Maskless young conservatives chant ‘four more years’ with Pence at West Palm Beach conference that flouts COVID-19 rules​

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/p...0201223-imqanbdptfd7bb622xnix5v6vi-story.html (archive)

Seriously? Here are some pictures from June of some West Palm Beach, FL protestors flouting COVID-19 rules and guidelines. Many of these people are maskless, not practicing social distancing and gathering in large groups. The Sun-Sentinel (or anyone for that matter) had nothing to say about this at the time (source)
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You have to be willfully blind at this point to not see the double standards at work.

Unrelated to COVID but there are some hilarious pictures at the source linked above. The description text says that an aggressive woman approached peaceful protestors but the associated pictures don’t quite reflect that.
 
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Aren't these people supposed to be running around exhausted cause they have an overflow of patients? Did they catch the nurses on their [usually unpaid] lunch break and made them film 10-30 seconds acting like an idiot so they could go back to their sandwich?
I would absolutely love to see where Nurses/Nursing fall on the trustworthiness scale in the public mind after this. Once upon a time I was (somewhat) familiar with the profession and they constantly brought up how high up on the "trustworthy professions" nurses were in public opinion polls, and how you needed to live up to that expectation and professionalism in carrying out your duties.

There will be consequences from these condescending jerkoffs scolding everyone for not wearing masks and killing grandma, then doing a fucking dance for Tik Tok while they're allegedly inundated with dying grannies.
 
Aren't these people supposed to be running around exhausted cause they have an overflow of patients? Did they catch the nurses on their [usually unpaid] lunch break and made them film 10-30 seconds acting like an idiot so they could go back to their sandwich?
Im sure there are some wards in some cities that are really slammed but for the most part its business as usual (busy, its winter), or slightly quieter.

The whole healthcare workers are regularly dropping from exhaustion is a myth. Although i will say im mentally sick of thinking about covid at my job all day every day, its most of what i do a lot of days.
 
To the people breathlessly posting hospital fear porn, have you ever asked what is the normal operating capacity in hospitals during flu season for the past 10 years? Are we at or above those levels currently? Are the death rates super high for this year?

Spoiler: If you don't know the answer to those questions you are both uninformed and needlessly scared. But don't let me get in your way of feeling useful by "informing" us heathen covid deniers how scared we should be. I know when I saw your video of fat and old people with colds <gasp> at a hospital I immediately stapled a mask to my face and cowered in the corner.

Much of my work life has revolved around working in hospitals and I can confirm at least in Canada; that the hospitals are no worse off than they are any other flu season. Hospitals are having a ‘discharge’ problem, not a capacity problem. They can’t get elderly people waiting for long term care; out of hospital because of admission restrictions on the LTC homes.


Yet our premier is locking us down hard because ‘Muh hospitals’ is overwhelmed supposedly.
 

36% people whose deaths were linked to Covid-19 in NI also had a form of dementia​


Of 902 Covid-related deaths registered in Northern Ireland between March and September, 327 (36.3%) patients had a form of dementia. The next most common pre-existing condition was hypertensive disease, which affected 180.


44% were in nursing homes, 65.5% were 80 or older, 91.5% had preexisting conditions and the average number of preexisting conditions was 2.32. It bears repeating that this isn't actually new information, Italy was recording similar numbers back in early March. But we're still supposed to believe it's a terrifying supervirus that cripples young healthy people en masse.

As an aside, I'm seeing some mini panic attacks from people saying the numbers are starting to resemble the ones being reported in March/April, ignoring the fact that most people couldn't get a test for love nor money back then and at one point they just deleted the waiting list and started over because people were fully recovering by the time they could get an appointment. It was strictly limited to healthcare workers, people who'd been to Lombardy or China, and certain at-risk groups but only if they showed multiple symptoms. The real daily numbers back then could easily have been 5-10 times higher.
 
2 of my immediate family members have taken the vaccine as of today. (They work in healthcare and it was not required by either of their employers.) One of them was literally giddy about being a "guinea pig" despite her educational accomplishments. I really feel like I would be one of the only ones not to take this thing if it is mandated or is implicitly mandated through employers and/or business owners.

GG Bill.

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I un-ironically don't want to live on this planet anymore.
One lady around here bitterly said "we'll die with our masks on" in response to "when will the New Normal end?" - I really hope coronapanic doesn't drag on for years. But seeing as how the show is run by power-hungry assholes, it easily could.

(and like I said 2020 has made me somewhat of a misanthrope)
 
I would absolutely love to see where Nurses/Nursing fall on the trustworthiness scale in the public mind after this. Once upon a time I was (somewhat) familiar with the profession and they constantly brought up how high up on the "trustworthy professions" nurses were in public opinion polls, and how you needed to live up to that expectation and professionalism in carrying out your duties.

There will be consequences from these condescending jerkoffs scolding everyone for not wearing masks and killing grandma, then doing a fucking dance for Tik Tok while they're allegedly inundated with dying grannies.

I would absolutely love to see where Nurses/Nursing fall on the trustworthiness scale in the public mind after this.



No doubt things change from this point on. Who knows, some people will probably have more respect for nurses after all this. Others not so much.

The truth is, Nursing is a thankless job. It's pretty low social status and LOT of the people that go in to it are quite simply cunts. Cunts that can't get another job, or cunts that maybe could get another job, but nursing suits their sociopathic so perfectly, that that is the life for them!

There are many many good nurses.

They are the people that take your blood sample when you have a suspected serious illness.

They are the people that wipe the shit from your arse when you can't do it yourself.

They are the ones that come out and bandage your wounds, again, just like they did yesterday and will do tomorrow, when you have been burned or your skin is rotting and falling off, for whatever reason.

They have to see all this and maintain their good humour and professionalism through it all; being both healer (in the medical sense), and faith healer (in the spiritual sense). They are a notch below the Doctors whilst still being a cut above them in many ways.

They are both Madonna and whore, so to speak.

Same as that ever was and same as it will always be thus. That much won't change.

Everyone needs a dog to kick when things are going bad. And sometimes that damn dog really does deserve a kicking. But probably not as much as they do get kicked, overall.

Did I say it was a thankless task?

A lot of nurses are uptight bastards that feel powerless, hate their lives hate their jobs, hate their 'patients', hate their 'superiors' and hate themselves, when it really comes down to it. Pretty much like 90 percent of the rest of the skivvy population.

If you ain't got it made it's a struggle not to fade.

Indeed.

Some of the tarts do it until they can bag a Doctor, which was the whole game from the start for them. Bit like the old Air Hostess game. Or people that go Ball Room Dancing at the age of 50. Meet new friends...

Some do it to make a difference, and they do, and they do it until they burn out.

Some didn't hate the game when they went in to it, but they certainly hate it when they leave.

Nurses are human. Prone to the same frustrations and annoyances that plague us all. They have a bit more power to act out, but not much.

But they do what they can. Whether that is overdosing patients and killing them out of sheer spite, or overdosing them and saving them out of some kind of munchie complex, or just doing their thankless mundane jobs under a pile of shit from both their superiors, the patients, the administrators, the do-gooders, the angry relatives that blame them that 'Little Billy' died, whilst being 30Kg overweight and with a liver that shoud really be buried separately with honours. And a big red flag in the ground that warns others about the hepatoxicity that lies here within. Here be demon drinkers. It doesn't really work like that, but try telling that to Bubba!

Tie those fucking whores to the whipping post and beat them one last time!

Or maybe beatify them.

Blowing hot and cold. Nurses get stress-tested on not just a daily but an hourly basis.

It's a testament to their fortitude and deeper character. Of course a lot of them can't cut it. But many do.

And that's the real miracle, here.



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Don't be too hard on the silly cunts. People do stupid shit at work and that gets magnified. They'd prolly cringe themselves if you showed it to them a week/month/year later.

Nurses, in more ways than one, are the backbone of the health system. You can survive without doctors, you can't really survive without nurses, not in the greater regard.

Doctors diagnose. Nurses, 'nurse', 'heal', 'give comfort'...

We need them more than they need us!
 
Hospitals loose money if they're operating below... what... 80% capacity? I know CA has a 20% extra surge capacity so really we have 120% bed capacity. I also hear that the problem right now is not bed, it's a shortage of nurses, cause they're all trying to get out of Covid positions.

Anyhow, I'm as anti-lock down as they come. My gut assumption is that the video my friend posted is probably the worst possible situation. I assume the video is fear driven, because that the news that's selling this year, but I'm trying to read past the propaganda to ask questions like, "Why are there patient beds in the hospital lobby?" I don't *think* it's worth shutting down the world for, but I'm also trying to stay critical and I do trust nurse friend not to post lies. He may post emotional stuff that reflects his exhaustion though.

Also, every time someone's like "but it's only fat, old, diabetic, whatever people"... that's my entire family. Sooooo, ya know.
Look up the same articles they recycle every year (except this year) about how bad this flu season is, and how the hospitals are full and old people are dying and/or having to be shipped to other hospitals. This is how hospitals operate, and have most of my life.

It's almost as if the news has been sensational and bullshit for so long that we're just used to it. Nobody gave a fuck 2 years ago when the flu did the yearly rounds around the old fucks home, yet for some reason this year it's worth shutting down the world for because of marginally higher mortality rates. /<oy vey>
 
My nurse friend posted this news clip from a hospital he's been working at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/vide...KKQWx7Uk0X0bx3m70VQc7O-9vVMO4tQGlAshy3SeilIAY

It aint good looking footage. I wish I could see the whole hospital for myself... I'll poke my friend for details when I can but it's becoming a touchy subject cause he's exhausted and frustrated that less and less people are taking lock-downs seriously.
Friendly reminder that the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, whose Amazon empire is making a killing off all these lockdowns that are running small and medium sized businesses out of business around the western world.
 
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