Ain't workin'...............................
I’ll mark my calendar.
Was this guy a holdover from the Jarret/Obama administration?
Open Letter to the world from an infectious disease specialist about Covid-19:
https://www.facebook.com/abdu.sharkawy?__tn__=%2CdCH-R-R&eid=ARDIStwGP8KCBe-SzZ8wj1mdvQ2JWwKV6WYIJ3Z | 03-05 | Abdu Sharkawy
Posted on 3/10/2020, 6:01:51 PM by MNJohnnie
I’m a doctor and an Infectious Diseases Specialist. I’ve been at this for more than 20 years seeing sick patients on a daily basis. I have worked in inner city hospitals and in the poorest slums of Africa. HIV-AIDS, Hepatitis,TB, SARS, Measles, Shingles, Whooping cough, Diphtheria...there is little I haven’t been exposed to in my profession. And with notable exception of SARS, very little has left me feeling vulnerable, overwhelmed or downright scared.
I am not scared of Covid-19. I am concerned about the implications of a novel infectious agent that has spread the world over and continues to find new footholds in different soil. I am rightly concerned for the welfare of those who are elderly, in frail health or disenfranchised who stand to suffer mostly, and disproportionately, at the hands of this new scourge. But I am not scared of Covid-19.
What I am scared about is the loss of reason and wave of fear that has induced the masses of society into a spellbinding spiral of panic, stockpiling obscene quantities of anything that could fill a bomb shelter adequately in a post-apocalyptic world. I am scared of the N95 masks that are stolen from hospitals and urgent care clinics where they are actually needed for front line healthcare providers and instead are being donned in airports, malls, and coffee lounges, perpetuating even more fear and suspicion of others.
I am scared that our hospitals will be overwhelmed with anyone who thinks they “ probably don’t have it but may as well get checked out no matter what because you just never know...” and those with heart failure, emphysema, pneumonia and strokes will pay the price for overfilled ER waiting rooms with only so many doctors and nurses to assess.
I am scared that travel restrictions will become so far reaching that weddings will be canceled, graduations missed and family reunions will not materialize. And well, even that big party called the Olympic Games...that could be kyboshed too. Can you even imagine?
I’m scared those same epidemic fears will limit trade, harm partnerships in multiple sectors, business and otherwise and ultimately culminate in a global recession.
But mostly, I’m scared about what message we are telling our kids when faced with a threat. Instead of reason, rationality, openmindedness and altruism, we are telling them to panic, be fearful, suspicious, reactionary and self-interested.
Covid-19 is nowhere near over. It will be coming to a city, a hospital, a friend, even a family member near you at some point. Expect it. Stop waiting to be surprised further. The fact is the virus itself will not likely do much harm when it arrives. But our own behaviors and “fight for yourself above all else” attitude could prove disastrous.
I implore you all. Temper fear with reason, panic with patience and uncertainty with education. We have an opportunity to learn a great deal about health hygiene and limiting the spread of innumerable transmissible diseases in our society. Let’s meet this challenge together in the best spirit of compassion for others, patience, and above all, an unfailing effort to seek truth, facts and knowledge as opposed to conjecture, speculation and catastrophizing.
Facts not fear. Clean hands. Open hearts. Our children will thank us for it.
#washurhands #geturflushot #respect #patiencenotpanic
Life includes good and bad. Then, you die. Make the best of it.
3 posted on 3/11/2020, 7:06:58 AM by SaxxonWoods
This ain’t a “Pandemic”.... It is a “Dem-Panic”!
We’ve already had previews of what’s coming the hospital system’s way with the nursing homes becoming hotspots for the outbreak. The turn into virus black holes.
Calendar Mark
> New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the positive cases in the city are “coming in so intensely now” that public officials are struggling to keep up with them.
There are 46 cases in NYC and public “officials” are struggling to keep up.
Ordering lunch for the office must be a nightmare.
BS, if this disease was that contagious there would be 80-90% infection rates on these cruise ships... and we all know that isn’t true...
This mass hysteria has to end.
bookmark - come back in 10 days with Nelson Muntz picture...
Is it a ‘former’ for some interesting reason?
My take is that when the "media" dredges up these obscure fourth tier "experts" they often see it as an opportunity to become a 'media darling', so they come up with anything that will shock and grab a headline.
The key word here is 'former'.
I don’t think this is about Trump. And I don’t think it will bring Trump down. Who thinks Senile Joe could do a better job?
But I think this guy is sort of right. I’ve seen projections of the healthcare system being overwhelmed by early May and by mid-April.
This is the earliest projection I’ve seen. Seattle was already talking about having to triage CV patients. Italy is having to triage patients, because they have more severe/critical cases than ICU beds.
So what happens is Doctors start having to make triage decisions like, do you give the ventilator to the 85 year old who has a low chance of recovery regardless. Or the 57 year old?
Yeah right. We’ll see in ten days won’t we
Clueless libs love the number 10.
Ten years until climate catastrophe.
Ten days from virus catastrophe.
Oh well, it does involve the limit of their counting ability.
Good lord people. This thing actually is serious.
Viruses don’t care if the president is a Republican or a Democrat, or if the tissue they infect is a Capitalist or Socialist.
It’s a real thing. It is very contagious, and while most people get well, not all people get well, and those who don’t get well are going to need hospital beds and if the virus spreads TOO rapidly there won’t be enough hospital beds.
Slowing the SPREAD of the outbreak IS KEY to saving lives. This is a FACT. It is not partisan. It is not fake news. It is not scare tactics.
This is happening all over the world, not just here. Get the head out.
80,000 US citizens died of the flu in the winter of 2017-2018 and nobody said a word because they were too busy with the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA hoax.
This is a completely manufactured “crisis” meant to bring down Trump.
And sadly we have FReepers completely on board with these Deep Staters and the Fake News in pushing Coronavirus as some type of pandemic! Amazing how hysteria can cloud your judgement and good sense!
Current COVID-19 death toll worldwide: 4,382.
Current US COVID-19 death toll: 31.
Most people are indeed recovering!