Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Humans can only be so caring for so long with those types of hours. It's just not possible to maintain.

Same with policing and other professions that serve people in intense situations.

 

COVID-19 Hospitalizations Surge In Dakotas: 'It's Like We Opened Up A Spigot'

 

Well we have the President’s latest crazy eyed representative here

 

I just saw this - it's almost as though this administration is trying to burn down the country because Trump lost. And Republicans seem completely incapable of any criticism of this administration.

 

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I have a night off from the hospital. As I’m on my couch with my dog I can’t help but think of the Covid patients the last few days. The ones that stick out are those who still don’t believe the virus is real. The ones who scream at you for a magic medicine and that Joe Biden is

Going to ruin the USA. All while gasping for breath on 100% Vapotherm. They tell you there must be another reason they are sick. They call you names and ask why you have to wear all that “stuff” because they don’t have COViD because it’s not real. Yes. This really happens.

And I can’t stop thinking about it. These people really think this isn’t going to happen to them. And then they stop yelling at you when they get intubated. It’s like a [expletive] horror movie that never ends. There’s no credits that roll. You just go back and do it all over again.

Which is what I will do for the next three nights. But tonight. It’s me and Cliff and Oreo ice cream. And how ironic I have on my “home”
Hoodie. The South Dakota I love seems far away right now.
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School concern over protecting other children from the Trumpss/Kuchners.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's children withdrawn from school after administrators raised concerns about adherence to Covid precautions - CNNPolitics

 

Guy should lose his medical license. He’s gone full quack. What’s he’s preaching now has nothing to do with medicine or science, in fact is the opposite of one of the oaths he supposedly took(first do no harm).

It’s most striking now because there is a successful vaccine right around the corner. The vaccine settles the debate over “herd mentality”. There is no longer a purpose to the suicide pact, unless he really is trying to maximize deaths.

 

The wins under President Elect Biden keep coming..

Moderna's coronavirus vaccine is 94.5% effective, according to company data

 

Meanwhile Florida Education Secretary spanking schools trying to keep kids separated.. Although I saw something saying most cases in school are sports related. Unknown if it was opinion or not

 

Watch the lag...

 

Do as I say, not as I do.

 

Pretty sure this is unpossible since the right-wing positively assured me that the entire covid hoax would just disappear the second week of November.

 

https://nypost.com/2020/11/14/new-stats-reveal-massive-nyc-exodus-amid-coronavirus-crime/

Looks like there might be some sales on real estate in NYC soon.

 

Why pay massive rent if you can’t enjoy it? Working from home will have an effect too. It will bounce back under Biden’s leadership though. Buy low sell high!

 

NOTE: schools are still open, but bars, restaurants & gyms are closed and work-from-home is standard.

 

Yeah, the problem with trying to slow Covid isn't that there aren't methods to slow or stop spread. It is that the response has so far been so unorganized and horrific that people in the US don't feel like there are. There is a reason that we are doing and have done far worse than Australia and New Zealand, who kept the virus out, but also Canada, Northern Europe aside from UK, Belgium, and Sweden, Greece, Portugal, and the democratic countries in East Asia, who didn't keep the virus out but have been actively fighting it with higher success rates than we have.

 

I feel badly for people in the service industry. They are losing their livelihoods and without being overly dramatic, in some cases losing their homes and their lives.

Unfortunately, it is now very apparent that the spread slows dramatically if you close the bars, reduce restaurants to take out only and close gyms. A huge percentage of super spreader events are eventually traced back to these settings.

I am pleased driving around on Sundays still seeing many, many congregations in lawn chairs on the grass or PA systems set up in parking lots for in-car service. I watch the 7 AM mass broadcast on local cable....our church has never re-opened for in person services. If people are willing to bend a little, they can still do much of what they did before, including not losing their "freedom to participate in their religion". They just do not have to do it inside a building, often small and poorly ventilated to begin with.

 

we have been ordering carryout at least 2x per week and tipping 20% to try and help. if this would have been handled properly the impacts would have been much less but Trump was more worried about optics than reality. If he would have done the right thing he would probably have been re-eleceted.

 

Sure sounds worse than “it’s just like the flu”

Texas nurse describes 'The Pit,' a room where coronavirus patients are sent to die