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Indeed, medic. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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As a retired RRT, we manage the Ventilators after getting settings, then changes, from the Drs. This comes after consulting with the Doc about changes in the pts condition. I’m sure there both working a bigger caseload than normal. A lot of what a RRT does is suctioning, aerosol txs, postural drainage and clapping on each vent pt. And working codes. That’s just the ICUs. Helluva time to be sucking snot for a living. | |||
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Government just cannot and will not be honest in dealing with this issue. Somebody needs to ask a few of these morons to answer the following question. "If you had 1,000 people needing a vaccine that you only had 100 doses of, what would you do? A) Refuse to administer the vaccine as it would insure the deaths of 900 people, or B) Administer the vaccine to the best candidates of the group and accept the decision isn't perfect." I guarantee you, if this question were asked of 100 politicians in Washington, you'd be lucky to find even a small handful that would even attempt to answer it. We are represented by utter cowards who refuse to be honest while assuming all of us are simply too stupid to see them for who and what they are. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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Based upon the last paragraph I’m pretty sure you’re joking but I’m just going to double check- you are joking right? Rationing health care based solely upon age is wrong regardless of who is doing it. When the talks of death panels came about during the enactment of Obamacare everyone was up in arms. I would hope that people would be equally up in arms if some “authority” were to begin making decisions with respect to treatment and policies towards the elderly. Letting old folks die without treatment just because they’re old and we can keep the Ponzi scheme of social security and Medicare going a little longer is repugnant. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | |||
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An RT is state licensed, has an associates or bachelors degree. It’s not OJT. My wife ran a NICU and can run a ventilator there. She says if the RT is very good they can run two. There’s suction, blood work and adjustments all the time, so two is pushing it. Yes, she’s been called. Her reply was they might as well put her in the bed next to the patient. She’s very high risk “ The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. | |||
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Just what exactly is your problem? Explain this to me. | |||
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I know I don't think it is a good idea. My point is that it is a higher probability than many would suspect, and could be catastrophic. The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. | |||
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this is the next update comparing actual NY data to the Cuomo prediction on 24 Mar This is important because it was the 24 Mar prediction that drove things like the need for 40,000 ventilators. Actual data so far looks diff than the 24 Mar prediction  The 24 Mar projection assumed the cases doubled every 3 days. Now the doubling wouldn't really go all the way to 11 Apr because at some point the exponential slows down and peaks. As of about 10pm tonight the "cumulative cases" for NY are at 92,739. Even that needs an adjustment. With 2382 deaths and 6507 recoveries, the "active cases" for NY are 83,850 IHME is now predicting the NY peak resource day is 9 April (earlier than the prior assumption of 11 Apr) So unless something very dramatic happens, the 24 Mar projection will be pretty far off. In particular that means NY would need a lot less ventilators than 40,000. Let's hope that is how it plays out. In defense of Cuomo, the data at 24 Mar did look like a doubling every 3 days. The rate slowed down a little after 24 Mar. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx one more thing to watch is the NY death rate. At the moment it looks like a drop for today, but we will need to see what the final is for today and what happens tomorrow. | |||
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Contact tracing isn't really tracking and control - it's someone sitting down with an infected person and saying, "please tell me every person you've talked to and every place you've gone for the last two weeks so we can try to find them and make sure no one else gets sick." That's why it is only possible if the active number of cases is small. Certainly if we were all willing to accept constant government surveillance, an automated system could do the same thing at a much larger scale, but I agree that would be a very dangerous precedent to set and I would absolutely oppose such measures. | |||
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Guess he's taking a page out of the Baltimore Mayors handbook. It didn't work there. A few people got shot this past weekend even after a plea not to clog the hospitals with shooting victims. _____________________________________ Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac | |||
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My bet, that delta continues to increase even as things get worse for NY.This message has been edited. Last edited by: bigdeal, ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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Well, if they'd improve their damn aim a bit, they wouldn't be adding to hospital volumes.  ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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| Corgis Rock |
Thank you Para “ The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. | |||
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My hat is off to the RT’s and the anesthesiologists who are literally looking down the throats of COVID patients. I heard a statistic this morning that 20% of those on vents survive in the COVID ICU | |||
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If you look back at Skins' post history in this thread, that post looks like dark sarcasm aimed at the "put everything back to normal right now" idea. Something in the vein of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," which (not seriously) suggested we could fix a lot of the world's problems if we just started eating babies. | |||
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Don't give the Dems new ideas. The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. | |||
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That's an old one, it was published in 1729.  The full title is "A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick." It's about as dark as it gets, and was satirizing less extreme but pretty terrible social policies and attitudes. | |||
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I am aware. But most Dems don't read, much less even know who Swift was. Besides, I was sort of tongue in cheek referencing the whole Pizza Gate thing. The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. | |||
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Supposed Amazon worker agering women everywhere. (NSFW language) Link to original video: https://youtu.be/3BWQj2-8t8s | |||
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