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I've had it with this Virus carp. Freaking people are just freaking stupid. More panic buying today. Beaverton costco a 9:30 am opening time was packed in the parking lot and the line up going it. Are they not done yet? WTH? I've got enough food, after my German deli run today (in and out in 15 minutes - no lines) for oh 12+ weeks and then some. Fresh fruit and veggies, eggs and milk and no Salmon, but I can live without these items for quite a while. TP is no problem - one costco pack lasts me a year... So I got to the end of the year probably. This is just insane - well 80 pct of the population needs a lobotomy, although it looks like many have one or two already based on current behaviors. If this thing had a 50+ pct mortality rate, yea ok, I'd get it, but 2-3 pct, unless your over 60+ and even then if you are in good over all health, you'd make it. If you are in bad health, you're on you way out anyway; Corona 19, Corona X. da Flu, hell OLD AGE is knocking on their door to get in. Well, play with m radios and then try shooting for the few items I desire but not really need, after 5PM. Worked like a charm 2 weeks ago; in and out in 15 minutes. Clean the guns, practice in case they come for your food or TP in the next panic...... Oh, need to add Corona beer to my list for today, for the Corona Virus party in 2 weeks. had one last weekend and it was a great success - nobody died or caught it. LOL -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. Ayn Rand "He gains votes ever and anew by taking money from everybody and giving it to a few, while explaining that every penny was extracted from the few to be giving to the many." Ogden Nash from his poem - The Politician | |||
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worldofmeters-italy again, i dont get it. if mild = no hospital and serious/critical = hospital. italy would need 1,500 additional beds available to handle the current and highest number they have seen so far. per capita/ratios etc. i think there are details missing from the italian case i am not aware of where the 1,500 hospital bed capacity for coronavirus is overloading their entire medical system. if they chose to let those 1,500 patients remain in a smaller even lower "per capita" region for containment sake...that is a choice. just like their choice to treat one person and not the other... | |||
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SIGforum's Berlin Correspondent |
That article is talking about "acute" care beds, i. e. anything available to treat incoming cases of whatever severity. I don't know where the guy got his data from, because the actual OECD number for Italy is 3.2 per thousand, in France it's 6.0 and in Germany 8.0. However, there are lots of European/Western nations with less - including the US, which has 2.8 per thousand. In general, the author can't get his facts straight to save his own life, much less that of others. Conversely, the US has the highest number of critical care beds per capita, which are needed to keep people alive with respirators etc. Note that the chart I posted back there lists only select countries, not all of them; I included a couple links below it showing more comprehensive numbers throughout the US, Europe and Asia, but didn't want to post more charts. Here's Europe; Italy is upper middle tier, just above the average. Asia: | |||
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Right now, coronavirus cases are highly concentrated in the Lombardy region of northern Italy (which, based on what has been reported, is the wealthiest area of Italy, with the most hospital capacity). Two issues: Moving hundreds or thousands of critically ill, contagious patients cross country is a nontrivial task. Italy has about 5,200 ICU beds across the country ( http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news...-overwhelm-hospitals ). However, that doesn't mean they have 5,200 ICU beds available for COVID-19 patients. At any given time, the majority of ICU beds in any country are in use for patients with other health issues. I don't know what the typical ICU occupancy rate in Italy is, but for perspective, in 2005 in the United States, the ICU occupancy rate was about 68% (meaning, on average, 68% of ICU beds were in use at any given time). ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5520980/ ) | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
Thanks for posting additional info and explaining the difference between types of beds. The article stated that he got his numbers from 2016 data, and you posted more recent data. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Ted Leonsis will still pay Capital One Arena workers despite games canceled due to coronavirus Caps and a number of other teams are taking a hit to make sure those affected by suspended season can still put bread on the table. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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SIGforum's Berlin Correspondent |
Aaand here we go. City of Berlin bans all public and private congregations of more than 50, effective immediately. Pubs, clubs, gambling halls, betting offices, fairs to be closed. Same for cinemas, theaters, museums, exhibitions and brothels (yup). Restaurants to remain open if tables have a minimum distance of five feet between them. I'm investing in alcohol and condoms. | |||
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From a friend in the healthcare business, you may want to check your inventory of your pain reliever of choice as these may come in short supply. _____________________ Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you. | |||
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A satellite hospital of Northwestern Memorial set up a drive thru testing facility late last night, the first facility I’ve seen around here. | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Doors slam shut across borderless Europe as coronavirus spreads Europe’s cherished Schengen network of open internal borders is on the brink of collapse as more and more countries shut their doors in a frantic effort to stave off the coronavirus pandemic, even as experts warn such tactics will delay its spread – but not halt it. At his daily briefing on the coronavirus emergency on Friday, Luca Zaia, the governor of Italy’s Veneto region, one of Europe’s worst-hit, told reporters that Europe’s borderless zone was “disappearing as we speak”. “Schengen no longer exists, it will be remembered only in the history books,” Zaia said, pointing to the long lines of traffic stuck at Italy’s northeastern border, where Austrian officials have reintroduced stringent controls. With Italy reporting the most virus cases and deaths anywhere in the world except China, the pandemic is increasingly wearing on the EU's cherished core principle, which envisions a border-free Europe where citizens can freely live, work and travel. Austria became the first country to impose drastic curbs on travel from Italy on Wednesday, urgently reinstalling border checkpoints in the exact spots where they had been dismantled back in 1997 when the country joined the Schengen Area. All travellers seeking to cross the Brennero border from Italy are now required to present health certificates proving they have not contracted the COVID-19 virus – a measure that has slowed traffic on the busy Alpine crossing to a near standstill. Since then, Slovenia and Switzerland, which also border Italy, have imposed similar curbs. But several other EU nations – including Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Cyprus – have announced restrictions that go far beyond travellers from Italy. "Most of the cases that have been propagating the coronavirus epidemic in Poland are imported cases," Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told reporters as he announced the closure of his country’s borders with all its neighbours starting at midnight on Saturday. "We don't want the coronavirus to head our way in droves." ‘Uncharted territory’ The successive border closures came as the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that Europe had become the pandemic's current “epicenter” after reporting more cases and deaths than the rest of world combined, excluding China. More than 22,000 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed across Europe, and nearly 1,500 people with the virus have died on the continent – most of them in Italy. While the virus is spreading across the continent, the rushed actions taken by individual states are highlighting the lack of a coordinated approach to fighting the coronavirus – not least among the European Union’s 27 member states. The European Commission, the EU's executive body, has recommended coordinated health screenings at the borders as a way to address infections, rather than border closures. “We’ve seen travel bans and controls being put in place in a number of member states,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters on Friday. “Certain controls may be justified, but general travel bans are not seen as being the most effective by the World Health Organization. Moreover, they have a strong social and economic impact. They disrupt people’s lives and business across the borders.” To avoid a patchwork of national policies that are ineffective and cause economic harm, “any measure that is taken must be proportionate" and coordinated with Brussels, she said, suggesting that preliminary checks for signs of infection could be done at the Schengen Area’s borders, both internal and external. “Member states, especially neighbouring ones, need to work very closely together," Von der Leyen said. "In this way, and it’s the only way, we can make sure that our citizens receive the healthcare that they need immediately, wherever they are.” But Von der Leyen’s commission, along with other EU institutions, has a very limited role to play in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. It polices the Schengen Area's rules, but individual countries are responsible for their own health and public safety policies. In a sign of the EU’s limited power, the Danish government also announced late Friday that it was closing all of its borders – land, sea and air – to travellers. Denmark consulted with neighbouring countries prior to the announcement but not with EU officials. "We are in uncharted territory," Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told a news conference as he announced the travel ban. "I know that the overall list of measures is very extreme and will be seen as very extreme, but I am convinced that it's worth it." ‘Foreign disease’ In many ways, the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated divisions that first came to the fore in 2015, when eastern and central European states closed their borders to migrants and thwarted EU efforts to implement migrant quotas across the bloc. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose country has also banned travel from Italy, has made an explicit link between the two crises. "We are fighting a two-front war: one front is called migration, and the other one belongs to the coronavirus – there is a logical connection between the two, as both spread with movement," Orban told Hungarian media on Friday. "Our experience is that foreigners brought in the disease, and that it is spreading among foreigners," he added, in remarks that mirrored US President Donald Trump’s description of the coronavirus as a “foreign disease”. Trump’s decision on Wednesday to slap a 30-day travel ban on people coming from the Schengen Area has stunned and angered EU officials, who were not consulted prior to the move. “Instead of tending to the problems of his country, and to a virus that knows no borders, he thinks that he can fight it like people that have a different citizenship than American,” said German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz. Though it has stepped up monitoring travellers for signs of infection, Germany has so far refused to close its borders. Spain and Italy have also opted to keep borders open, even as they place their own populations under lockdown. “This virus cares not for borders, be they internal or external,” said Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday as he said his country planned to declare a nationwide state of emergency. ‘Turn off the source’ French President Emmanuel Macron has also been critical of EU members that have unilaterally closed their borders, calling such moves counter-productive and pleading instead for coordination across the bloc. He has stressed the importance of scientific evidence, rather than ideology or political expediency, in guiding the world’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. But just as governments are divided over how to tackle the novel virus, so is the scientific community. In justifying Trump’s travel ban, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top official on infectious diseases at the US National Institute of Health, noted that 70 percent of new infections could be traced to Europe. “It was pretty compelling that we needed to turn off the source from that region,” he told a congressional panel on Thursday. Internal blockades have proved their effectiveness in China, where the virus first originated, said Sterghios Moschos, a virologist at Northumbria University in the UK. Appearing on the FRANCE 24 Debate show, Moschos noted that the blockade of Hubei province “stopped in its tracks the transmission intensity”, thereby sparing other parts of the country. Other medical experts are doubtful that the Chinese model would prove useful now that the disease has spread across the globe and is being passed through so-called community transmission – among people who haven't travelled overseas. Dr. Bruce Aylward, who led a World Health Organization team in China as the COVID-19 disease was surging last month, said countries might gain in the short term by limiting travel, but that overall “it doesn't help to restrict movement". Margaret Harris, a WHO spokesperson and medical doctor currently involved in the virus response, echoed the concerns about the false comfort of closing borders as a delaying tactic. “You divert a lot of resources when you are focused on closing borders, rather than focusing on protecting your health workers, preparing your health systems and enhancing your disease surveillance,” she told The Intercept. Even Britain, which was initially exempt from Trump's travel ban, has expressed scepticism about its effectiveness. "With regard to flight bans, we are always guided by the science as we make our decisions here," Finance Minister Rishi Sunak told BBC radio on Friday. He added: "The advice we are getting is that there isn't evidence that interventions like closing borders or travel bans are going to have a material effect on the spread of the infection." https://www.france24.com/en/20...-coronavirus-spreads ~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 | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
The headline's a bit hyperbolic, but still: I would not have expected this development. I'm surprised Brussels isn't going ballistic--given how invested they are to open borders to the flood of migrants from further south. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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It’s almost like they need a wall, or something. | |||
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Telecom Ronin |
We were in Prague last week...totally normal, now visiting friends in Zakopane Poland. Yesterday Slovakia closed it's border and Czech republic is limiting entry. Ukraine is closing tomorrow so we had to rush to find bus tickets for my inlaws so they could beat the deadline. Not sure if we can get back to Prague we reserved a flight out of Krakow thru Amsterdam...but that flight is canceled. Now we are hearing we should be able to enter Czech so in the AM we are going to try and if turned away we head to Krakow to reschedule with BA or wait for Delta. Or we just say " screw it and do spring time in the mountains" As a side note....if you like skiing or the mountains I cannot recommend Zakopane enough....beautiful and amazing food and people. | |||
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Remember when all the demokrats laughed when the President said Mexico would pay for the wall?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...ead-coronavirus.html ...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Pretty incredible action by the PM. ~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 | |||
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Ammoholic |
What would they do about it? Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Anyone have a firsthand feel for how things are in Vegas right now? My wife and I have an overnight trip in Vegas planned for our anniversary the week of the 23rd. My wife wants to cancel, but I don't. I have a feeling that the decision might be made for us real soon though. Our flight for instance is now nearly empty. ~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 | |||
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Sounds like a plan to me! Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. - Dave Barry "Never go through life saying 'I should have'..." - quote from the 9/11 Boatlift Story (thanks, sdy for posting it) | |||
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I think you just need to make the decision for yourselves. I'm in the same boat but my trip is next month, mid-month. But I'm going to the middle of the Pacific. My concern isn't for health, it's getting stuck there due to a cancellation of flights back home to the mainland. I'd be just fine, I can work there virtual. It's just my kennel costs that would rack up for the k9. It'd be $1200 a month I'd be on the hook for. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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