Posted on 04/16/2020 12:35:47 AM PDT by conservative98
WAIT! New York (New York!) is now trying to get rid of its ventilator stockpile. Not that Michigan needs them either. Truckloads of them are going to travel the country like a night circus... https://t.co/8DNfH6C4vx— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 15, 2020
In our hour of need, other states stepped up to help us.
We promised we would do the same.
We will be sending 100 ventilators to Michigan and 50 ventilators to Maryland.— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) April 15, 2020
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
So when Trump and Dr. Birx said Cuomo wouldn’t need 30000 ventilators - they were right https://t.co/Vmomlf3edZ— Susan Wilcox (@SuseWilcox) April 16, 2020
On March 29 @NYGovCuomo claimed it will be @realDonaldTrump fault that if he doesn't get 30000 #ventilators that 26000 people will die. 16 days later, #AndrewCuomo is giving excess ventilators to other States. https://t.co/iTJimI9tWM— Moonbatsfor (@Moonbatsfor) April 15, 2020
I thought he needed 30000 ventilators
Cuomo must be on crack
A hopeless alarmist— China Released Bio Weapon Covid19 (@Dontsto79034565) April 15, 2020
stupid headline as there was no need for them anyway. Laura Ingraham mentioned the number of people in ICU in California at present - something like 127 for the entire State!
Updated 16 Apr: Daily Mail: NONE of the 1,000 ventilators Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised have been delivered to California hospitals, Gov. Gavin Newsom says
•The billionaire initially called the coronavirus pandemic ‘dumb’
•California has since donated their own ventilators to other states
By Frances Mulraney
Despite the reported failure of Tesla to deliver ventilators, California has now begun to ship their own to other states in need, sending out hundreds of machines to New Jersey, New York and Illinois...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8221537/NONE-ventilators-Elon-Musk-promised-delivered-California-hospitals-Gov-Newsom-says.html
all FakeNewsMSM now pushing the following - note MARC LIPSITCH OF HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH is one of the authors:
16 Apr: NBC: Reuters: Social distancing may remain in place until 2022, Harvard researchers say
“Intermittent distancing may be required into 2022 unless critical care capacity is increased substantially or a treatment or vaccine becomes available,” the Harvard researchers said in findings published Tuesday in the journal Science...
Dr. Rosemary Guerguerian, NBC News’ medical fellow, said that as with most mathematical models, the researchers’ predictions are based on assumptions we don’t yet know about the virus...
The study acknowledged that prolonged distancing would most likely have profoundly negative economic, social and educational consequences.
The study added that even in the case of “apparent elimination,” SARS-CoV-2 surveillance should still be maintained, as a resurgence in contagion may be possible as late as 2024. According to the findings, it is likely that COVID-19 could re-emerge every winter...
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/social-distancing-may-remain-place-until-2022-harvard-researchers-say-n1184396
14 Apr: Science: Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period
Authors: Stephen M. Kissler, Christine Tedijanto, Edward Goldstein, Yonatan H. Grad, Marc Lipsitch
Abstract:
Absent other interventions, a key metric for the success of social distancing is whether critical care capacities are exceeded. To avoid this, prolonged or intermittent social distancing may be necessary into 2022. Additional interventions, including expanded critical care capacity and an effective therapeutic, would improve the success of intermittent distancing and hasten the acquisition of herd immunity. Longitudinal serological studies are urgently needed to determine the extent and duration of immunity to SARS-CoV-2. Even in the event of apparent elimination, SARS-CoV-2 surveillance should be maintained since a resurgence in contagion could be possible as late as 2024...
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/14/science.abb5793
what the …?
Bingo. NYC can give them all away for all the media cares. All they wanted, and got in spades, was the non-stop harangue of how horribly Trump has managed this and that he’s putting us all in danger if we leave our homes for lack of ventilators.
Orange Man Bad! We’re All Gonna Die!
And never lose sight of this: The media’s goal isn’t to convince people to vote against Trump. It’s to convince the rest of us that enough voters turned against him that the fraudulent votes that elect the Dem are perfectly legitimate.
15 Apr: LA Times: L.A. County reports 42 more coronavirus deaths, a new single-day high
By Hannah Fry, Taryn Luna, Rong-Gong Lin II, Maura Dolan; Times staff writers Marisa Gerber, Richard Winton, Colleen Shalby, Dakota Smith and Ben Welsh contributed to this report
“This is not the end, and it’s not even the beginning of the end, but perhaps the end of the beginning,” Anna Roth, director of Contra Costa Health Services, said Tuesday, quoting Winston Churchill’s comments after a victory in World War II in 1942. “Now is not the time for us to take a victory lap.”
Dr. Chris Farnitano, Contra Costa County’s health officer, went further. “It’s not even the end of the beginning. It’s still the beginning of the beginning in this crisis,” Farnitano told the county Board of Supervisors...
The latest number of those infected includes 28 people in the homeless community...
More than 2.3 million Californians filed for unemployment benefits in the last month as businesses closed due to state mandates, and the economy continues to unravel...
Despite his attempts to quell uncertainty, Newsom has not yet provided a timeline for when the state’s nearly 40 million people can expect to return to work — or move about freely. And to those struggling to make ends meet, that’s the question they want answered most...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-15/this-is-not-the-end-officials-say-its-too-early-to-scale-back-coronavirus-restrictions
the lies and obfuscations and embellishing of the rat political class and its lackey media darlings is just about too much to take...I find myself screaming at the tv set when these clowns come on and the lap dog media lets them get away with it....
Actually, this would script out real good for a reality TV series....Vent-A-Truck. You have four trucks touring the US with ventilators in the back....going state-by-state....some go to an empty building in Omaha. Some go to a basement in Tampa. You introduce political guys who show up with PR teams to accept the ventilators, but immediately show the same ventilators going out of the backdoor to the next PR opportunity.
Does Newsom still believe 25+ million Californians will be infected?
Watch as Cuomo will come out tomorrow and say “worst day ever” or “we have yet to hat peak, that will come in X weeks from now” and now one will ask how every prediction has been wrong.
It depends on what number he feels like making up today.
behind a paywall:
14 Apr: Telegraph UK: Just 19 patients treated at 4,000-bed NHS Nightingale hospital in London over Easter weekend
Few patients were treated at new overflow facility as intensive care capacity at existing London hospitals never went above 80 per cent
By Henry Bodkin
The new 4,000-bed temporary NHS Nightingale hospital in east London treated just 19 patients over the Easter weekend, it has emerged.
Leaked data shows the tiny handful of patients were treated at the huge overflow facility as intensive care capacity at other London hospitals did not go above 80 per cent.
It comes as an NHS chief in the north-east of England predicted that the Nightingale hospital under construction there is unlikely to be needed.
Occupying the Excel conference and events centre, NHS Nightingale London was built in just nine days after a massive operation involving military planners.
Including 2,900 intensive care beds, it is principally intended to be a critical care facility for seriously ill but stable Covid-19 patients who have transferred from permanent London hospitals...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/14/just-19-patients-treated-easter-weekend-4000-bed-nhs-nightingale/
Ebay?
The ‘LoveGov’ is full of ....
Imagine the money NY would get if they could fill all those beds.
same story is happening all over Australia:
14 Apr: 7 News Australia: Victorians face 18-month hospital wait time for elective surgeries if coronavirus bans continue
by Lucy Mae Beers
Many are becoming increasingly frustrated as wards lie empty to handle possible coronavirus cases...
All non-urgent elective surgery was cancelled in late March to free up hospital beds and resources for an impending influx of COVID-19 patients.
But it has not happened...
https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/victorians-face-18-month-hospital-wait-time-for-elective-surgeries-if-coronavirus-bans-continue-c-973915
academics just pretend there’s been a pandemic:
16 Apr: The Conversation: Hospitals have stopped unnecessary elective surgeries – and shouldn’t restart them after the pandemic
by Adam Elshaug, HCF Research Foundation Professorial Fellow, Professor in Health Policy and Co-Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
and Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
Australia’s elective procedure system after the pandemic should be different from before the pandemic. We should dramatically reduce the number of low- or no-value procedures....
Research in New South Wales public hospitals showed up to 9,000 low-value operations were performed in just one year, and these consumed almost 30,000 hospital bed days that could have been used for high-value care...
https://theconversation.com/hospitals-have-stopped-unnecessary-elective-surgeries-and-shouldnt-restart-them-after-the-pandemic-136259
more from UK:
15 Apr: Telegraph UK: Discharging coronavirus patients into care homes is ‘madness’, Government told
Growing evidence that policy, which Health Secretary said would continue, is fuelling virus outbreaks and deaths
By Bill Gardner
Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, said hospital patients who tested positive for Covid-19 would continue to be discharged into care homes despite growing evidence that the policy is fuelling outbreaks and deaths.
Charities and local authority leaders said the approach, designed to free up hospital beds, was “madness” because many homes do not have the resources to keep vulnerable and elderly residents safe.
It came with the Government facing growing criticism of the handling of the coronavirus crisis in care homes...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/15/discharging-coronavirus-patients-care-homes-madness-government/
With Florida’s high level of ground water, basements are exceptionally rare, so delivery instructions that designated “a basement in Tampa” would yield reality TV comedy gold.
There will be a ventilator and newly trained medical technician for every home in America by 2024. By 2025, the ventilators will be obsolete and the med techs who were trained to operate it, will be the largest segment of unemployed in the nation.
I guess New York’s idiot didn’t need 30.000 ventilators after all.
Hopefully the lesson learned from all this is to be prepared the next time China or whoever, or just nature, releases another virus that can spread before symptoms enable quarantines to be effective. Go ahead and stockpile ventilators and PPE at the state and national level. Bring pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the U.S. As we all get back to work, people should slowly build their own supplies of essentials and learn how to rotate supplies. That in itself could help the economy tremendously. Thankfully our family had some food and other supplies stored and avoided panic when the store shelves were bare.
If anything our enemies learned how fragile the economy is to a fear of disease. May be next year, maybe in 20 years, but this will happen again. Trial run of teleworking is actually working out a lot of kinks so some portions of the economy can continue, lots of lessons to be learned.
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