Meanwhile in Atlanta: The Thread
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While this is bad I have to wonder why the experts failed to prepare the nation's hospital system for the event that COVID showed some form of seasonality back in the summer time when deaths were in the 500-700 per day range despite the much ballyhooed Sunbelt Surge. After seeing what happened in NYC and using years of evidence that respiratory diseases are extremely virulent in the fall/winter months you'd think the healthcare system would have beefed up staffing, secured more space and beds, acquired more PPE and other critical supplies, made sure the life saving therapeutics were on deck and plentiful etc etc, yet, here we are getting caught with our pants down......again.
In America hospitals don't have to become overwhelmed for people to start dying in large numbers, they just need to become "stressed." Once things even start looking to be going downhill, the medical professionals; not known for providing the best care under normal circumstances, go straight to survival mode. A lot of the early NYC deaths were due to staff using ventilators as early as possible instead of less invasive and more survivable alternatives because they were under the assumption that the ventilators protected the staff from COVID aerosol expelled by the patients. Turns out the amount of virus expelled was similar regardless of the type of breathing treatment used.
We're seeing this play out in LA now. People of color are receiving worse treatment than normal and it will all be explained away as overwhelmed hospitals instead of poor treatment and lack of preparation. They have oxygen shortages in some LA hospitals because of outdated pipe infrastructure.
AMERICA SUCKS.
So yes, while it is stupid to be out crammed together with thousands, masked or not, the failing no one seems to be talking about is the complete lack of preparation in the several months where COVID was experiencing a summer lull (relatively speaking).
But it's not just America I suppose. Western Europe is experiencing much the same thing but their healthcare workers have much more fortitude and ethics than ours stateside.
In America hospitals don't have to become overwhelmed for people to start dying in large numbers, they just need to become "stressed." Once things even start looking to be going downhill, the medical professionals; not known for providing the best care under normal circumstances, go straight to survival mode. A lot of the early NYC deaths were due to staff using ventilators as early as possible instead of less invasive and more survivable alternatives because they were under the assumption that the ventilators protected the staff from COVID aerosol expelled by the patients. Turns out the amount of virus expelled was similar regardless of the type of breathing treatment used.
We're seeing this play out in LA now. People of color are receiving worse treatment than normal and it will all be explained away as overwhelmed hospitals instead of poor treatment and lack of preparation. They have oxygen shortages in some LA hospitals because of outdated pipe infrastructure.
AMERICA SUCKS.
So yes, while it is stupid to be out crammed together with thousands, masked or not, the failing no one seems to be talking about is the complete lack of preparation in the several months where COVID was experiencing a summer lull (relatively speaking).
But it's not just America I suppose. Western Europe is experiencing much the same thing but their healthcare workers have much more fortitude and ethics than ours stateside.
Larry King is in the hospital with COVID by the way. It's probably the end for him.
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I didn't know this
Wow
Yeah it's breaking news. I mean he'll probably get the best care given his status and random 100 year olds have beaten back the virus before but at his age and with his medical history it could be a fight to the finish.
The last thing you want to happen is be hospitalized with COVID in a COVID hotspot. They will let you die if they so choose and they know there's nothing your family or anyone else can do about it.
South Korea yes, Japan not so much. They just kind of powered through their initial surge with the standard lockdown and it was more lax than some of the western ones.
They are experiencing another surge now though due to that UK variant.
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yep. You can't even get in there to see them to be able to at least put eyes on the situation for yourself and see what's up.
That's what happened with my fam. We couldn't even see her, so we'll never know how bad she was, or whether or not the hospital just didn't want to use the resources to try to save her.
Cause after all, that's what they're doing. They feel they can't save everybody and so they have to pick people that they feel have the best chances.
But that doesn't mean anything when it's your family that's the one that's being picked as someone they can't save. And we couldn't even see her before she passed to be able to know for ourselves. We had to trust people in hospitals that we don't even know.
It could have been a group of white doctors who ultimately made the decision that this black woman wasn't worth the effort.
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Boy I remember parties like this in college packed in like sardines and grabbing ass and pussies of
Chicks with dresses on without panties, straight scum bag shyt
was it really scumbaggish when they wanted to be grabbed? I mean, no #metoo and I have never engaged in such behavior
but i'm just sayin...
That's the thing, they aren't even at triage care yet. NYC was close but that's because their hospitals didn't coordinate properly and most COVID patients were dumped at a few already overcrowded hospitals full of stressed staff. LA is at the breaking point though and they might end up worse than NYC. More people are dying than necessary at these hospitals though. But until someone exposes the truth (never) we can only speculate. But things trickle out every now and again. The fact that a critically ill COVID patient beat to death his equally ill roommate lets me know those patients are often abandoned to their own devices and it's in God's hands (or Science or whatever makes you feel good to believe) on whether or not they live or die.
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The last 2 presidents both went to lengths to prepare us for a pandemic. The current president and chief cut those plans and fired staff dedicated to running those programs that would help us.
It was a different timewas it really scumbaggish when they wanted to be grabbed? I mean, no #metoo and I have never engaged in such behavior
but i'm just sayin...
Here in Baltimore either.
Okay I agree but what does that have to do with places like California allowing themselves to be overwhelmed by the virus despite having months to prepare for a possible seasonal surge?
