Talked to a nurse this morning. The issue isn't the lack of ICU or regular hospital beds...it's the lack of hospital staffing. But the media won't tell us any of that...

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
Talked to a nurse this morning. The issue isn't the lack of ICU or regular hospital beds...it's the lack of hospital staffing. But the media won't tell us any of that...

Now that’s one broadly-educated nurse! She’s trained in nursey stuff, all while using her PhD in public health to actively research the impact of C19 at the national level.

Well, as of today I couldn't walk into the local Race Trac to buy a soda without having a mask on. Place looked like a ghost town at 12 noon. I don't know if the Woo Flu would get me if I went in to buy a soda (as I do about five times a week), but I'm certain it's going to speed the closure of more and more local businesses as King Retard finger paints in his downtown office trying to come up with his next way to F-over Orange County.

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Originally posted by FHHM213:

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
Talked to a nurse this morning. The issue isn't the lack of ICU or regular hospital beds...it's the lack of hospital staffing. But the media won't tell us any of that...

Now that’s one broadly-educated nurse! She’s trained in nursey stuff, all while using her PhD in public health to actively research the impact of C19 at the national level.

I'd trust her perspective on this virus over the PhD technocrats on TV any day of the week.

Im a visual person.I ran across this.Will be interesting to see this weeks "surge" added.
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_5.html

Businesses in NC are terrified of being fined by Cooper and the Commies. I left NC today (vacation) and before I hit the road I topped off the gas tank of the truck. Went inside to piss and get a drink. Some busybody witch pointed at me OUTSIDE and said, “Get your mask on!” Inside I was barely a few strides in when an employee started harassing me. I said, “Medical” and went to the bathroom. The cashier was going to refuse to sell me a drink if I didn’t wear a mask. I calmly explained that I’d be willing to wear one if she took personal responsibility for the lawsuit after I passed out, fell and hit my head. Freakin sheep!

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Why is this important? Because in all likelihood, the actual Wuhan fatality rate is not much different from a relatively virulent seasonal flu.

The mortality rate may or may not be worse than flu.....I don't know. But, it's obviously lower than we are always told. We have been lied to constantly and it's been proven that numbers are inflated and deaths by almost any cause is being listed as a virus death and all for the $$$.

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Originally posted by FHHM213:

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
Talked to a nurse this morning. The issue isn't the lack of ICU or regular hospital beds...it's the lack of hospital staffing. But the media won't tell us any of that...

Now that’s one broadly-educated nurse! She’s trained in nursey stuff, all while using her PhD in public health to actively research the impact of C19 at the national level.

My ex wife was a RN. I can’t tell you how many times she needed to correct doctors on what medications were administered patients.

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Originally posted by FHHM213:

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
Talked to a nurse this morning. The issue isn't the lack of ICU or regular hospital beds...it's the lack of hospital staffing. But the media won't tell us any of that...

Now that’s one broadly-educated nurse! She’s trained in nursey stuff, all while using her PhD in public health to actively research the impact of C19 at the national level.

And YOUR credentials are what, exactly?? Just askin'...

Please excuse me while I wait for your answer...I'm gonna go put up a chain-link fence to keep the mosquitoes outta my yard.

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I don't know if the Woo Flu would get me if I went in to buy a soda...

You would probably be just fine. But people in Florida are getting concerned.

A month ago, on 5/27, there were just 379 new cases reported in all of Florida. Today, there are 9592 new cases in Florida. Granted, most of them are in the 3 counties around Miami in the southern part of Florida, but 989 new cases in Orange County . That's a big jump.

Yes, and the majority of those cases are in the under 50 crowd that has been shown to be particularly resilent to the Vid. Wait until schools open up and see the explosion of new cases in the 0-14 crowd.

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Originally posted by konata88:
I'd even be surprised is someone I knew directly catches it.

You do

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I would be doubly surprised if it was any worse than catching the flu in any given year.

It is much worst...I was half a step away from going into ICU

I threw up a flag for GA Gator a week ago, he’s not checked in a month after his last post about the effects of COVID-19 on him. No email in his profile or I would have asked him directly.

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:

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Originally posted by FHHM213:

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
Talked to a nurse this morning. The issue isn't the lack of ICU or regular hospital beds...it's the lack of hospital staffing. But the media won't tell us any of that...

Now that’s one broadly-educated nurse! She’s trained in nursey stuff, all while using her PhD in public health to actively research the impact of C19 at the national level.

My ex wife was a RN. I can’t tell you how many times she needed to correct doctors on what medications were administered patients.

Even if so (and if so, your wife should report the gross negligence of the docs), how is that relevant to being knowledgeable of the big-picture view of her hospital’s operation, much less the same in regards to all institutions across the country?

No disrespect to your wife but the original comment sounded too much like a 16-yr-old boy expressing his interpretation of law based on some second-hand anecdotal rumor started by his dipshit friend.

^^^ Obviously all of this went completely over your head.

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
^^^ Obviously all of this went completely over your head.

Well brother, explain it to me. Tell me exactly how a subordinate’s biased & limited perspective from a given department on a given floor of a given institution has any credence in regards to describing the broader issues in other communities scattered across the country.

I understand the temptation to blindly extrapolate, but seriously?

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
I'd trust her perspective on this virus over the PhD technocrats on TV any day of the week.

Every day and twice on Sunday, with the proviso that it may be a local view only. It may not, she may talk with compadres in other areas.

I wouldn't trust the Faucis of the world to actually know what is going on or to consider reality rather than the agenda they are trying to push.

Seek and you shall find. Keep testing and the cases will go up.

Maybe the tests are suspect? Tanzania

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
^^^ Obviously all of this went completely over your head.

Well brother, explain it to me. Tell me exactly how a subordinate’s biased & limited perspective from a given department on a given floor of a given institution has any credence in regards to describing the broader issues in other communities scattered across the country.

I understand the temptation to blindly extrapolate, but seriously?

What exactly is your professional and educational experience(s) which provides you the position to evaluate the credibility, or lack thereof, of someone else, from nothing more than an anecdotal missive posted on a public forum?


Or, Reader's Digest version. Pot meet kettle.

I'll take an altruistic person's POV and opinion, who works in a specific field who does not posture any agenda, over the types of "experts" that consistently and continually seek to gain ground and drive agenda, that encroaches upon the freedoms of the people in this nation every day of the week, and twice on Sunday.

We the People... are being gamed. To the point that I will stand with anyone that tosses the bullshit flag on the shenanigans, and then wait for the play to be reviewed. Well before I will trust one word that falls from the mouth of anyone that supports those who are gaming the people.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
...but 989 new cases in Orange County . That's a big jump.

Positive tests. No real indication at all if a majority of people are actually getting sick. The death rate continues to drop, and again, according to two doctors I live in the same neighborhood with, the local hospitals are no were near capacity. As someone else who chews on stats daily, I view all the current BS as a knee jerk before any real increase in hospitalizations or death rates has appeared to justify any policy changes. But hell, we've been in knee jerk mode from the beginning of this ridiculous bug, so why change now? And as I've mentioned a couple times here, when you have a retard as county mayor I guess I shouldn't be surprised when he offers retarded/illiterate dictates.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Originally posted by chellim1:
...but 989 new cases in Orange County . That's a big jump.

...As someone else who chews on stats daily, I view all the current BS as a knee jerk before any real increase in hospitalizations or death rates has appeared to justify any policy changes. ... retarded/illiterate dictates.

Some stats on Florida Hospitalizations for COVID: (Source data)

Average daily hospitalizations May 2 - June 27 = 150 per day
Average daily hospitalizations past 10 days = 176 per day
Average daily hospitalizations past 5 days = 184 per day
Daily hospitalizations yesterday = 151


There is a slight tick up over the past 10 days in hospitalizations in Florida but it is not anywhere near the exponential positive cases growth of the positive case numbers. My take away on this is that the vulnerable in Florida are still being very well protected and isolated. Younger healthy people are infecting one another at a high rate and are not being hospitalized.