COVID 19, CPAP, Ventilator MEGA THREAD...everything go here please

[DreamDiver]

* Snoredog rolls over in grave. *

... Snoredog must be shouting ...

I miss Snoredog. I miss Rested Gal.

Chris

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* Snoredog rolls over in grave. *

... Snoredog must be shouting ...

I miss Snoredog. I miss Rested Gal.

Chris

My eyes just wet themselves a little.

[DreamDiver]

* Snoredog rolls over in grave. *

... Snoredog must be shouting ...

I miss Snoredog. I miss Rested Gal.

Chris

My eyes just wet themselves a little.

[ChicagoGranny]

MAY 6, 2020
SURE, THE VELOCIRAPTORS ARE STILL ON THE LOOSE, BUT THAT’S NO REASON NOT TO REOPEN JURASSIC PARK

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sur ... assic-park

[zonker]

speaking of the cdc-

Team Trump Pushes CDC to Revise Down Its COVID Death Counts

https://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trum ... ref=scroll

<sigh>

[jnk...]

Revise Down Its COVID Death Counts

Another trick learned from Russia, maybe? I mean, hey, their mortality rate with this thing is AMAZING!

Wasn't it a Russian (Stalin?) who said, "It is not who [dies] but who counts the [deaths] that matters"?

Or maybe I got that quote wrong. I'm not good with quotes.

(Can someone please get Putin on the line for a fact check on that quote? Thanks.)

Do the spin doctors get hazard pay too?

The very idea of suggesting the advent of the COVID undead just sounds like a really bad Will Smith movie or something.

And, no, I don't get all my news from Colbert every night. That would just be ridiculous.

[palerider]

I have personally seen people get downright NASTY when asked to use a mask.
Do you choose to accept the "official" definition of "fake news"?
Or do you temper your thoughts with the knowledge that media is hideously COMPETITIVE,
and somewhat unreliable/irresponsible at best?
This has been the case for over a hundred years--not just lately.
Remember "yellow journalism"? Oh, yes, that was YESTERDAY.

You mean like this? ----->

PaleRider: Of course, we can slow the spread by wearing masks to protect others, but the idiots will screw that up like they do everything else. I had a confrontation at Costco this week. I wanted to talk to the manager to pass on a compliment about one of the supervisors. There was an idiot haranguing him about the new corporate policy that everyone has to wear a mask, employees and customers. "I'm not going to wear a mask, you can't make me, it's ridiculous to compare the deaths from this deaths from the Vietnam war, I'm going to cancel my membership!". At which point, I broke in and said that as an immunocompromised person, I was just fine with him not spreading disease in the store", of course he didn't like that, "you're not part of this conversation, besides, you're wearing a mask, you're protected!", to which I replied "that's.not how the masks work.". He huffed off, and I passed my complements on to the manager and condolences for having to put up with assholes, it's not like he has any choice about corporate policies.

It gets worse, we're surrounded by idiots.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/us/coron ... index.html

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surrounded by . . .

Speaking of which: I just woke up from a nightmare in which all our lives were placed into the hands of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Glad it was only a dream.

[jnk...]

i take your point.

And I take yours.

The Guardian: Where is the CDC? How Trump sidelined the public health agency in a pandemic.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... 9-pandemic

[palerider]

surrounded by . . .

Speaking of which: I just woke up from a nightmare in which all our lives were placed into the hands of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Glad it was only a dream.

As long as you stay out of Wisconsin, I've got a friend up there, so I'm a little concerned.

[ChicagoGranny]

How Trump sidelined the public health agency in a pandemic.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... 9-pandemic

And, this week he is pushing aside the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

[ChicagoGranny]

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[raisedfist]

Looks like I will be working from home for at least a few for months most likely. I still wish I lived by myself, I hate not being in complete control of my surroundings, especially now.

[DreamDiver]

High SARS-CoV-2 Attack Rate Following Exposure at a Choir Practice
— Skagit County, Washington, March 2020

[Lucyhere]

i really hope that a change in administration can get the ball rolling. but any such change can't happen until the end of jan 2021.

None of the quality opinions here matter, including the CDC and Dr. Fauci's, except maybe to us -- the above is the only chance we have.

VOTE - it Matters!