Posted on 04/30/2020 3:05:32 PM PDT by RaceBannon
Corona Virus Daily Thread #49 COVID-19 4/30/2020
“The Looming Civil-Liberties Battle - The stage is set for a post-shutdown showdown between personal freedom and public health.”
- see https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-looming-civil-liberties-battle-11588198523
Sheltering in place encourages family and roommate transmissions, even though it may excel at stopping crowd transmissions. Another reason it should end tomorrow.
(I know, I know, I’ve been saying end it April 30, but that horse left the barn. May 1 is convenient enough, since the current Fauxci rules are supposed to end today.)
So back in January when he was telling everyone not to
panic, he had a vested interest.
Why is this guy still walking around free?
He can be investigated, if necessary, following this disaster. After all, even treason is an acceptable thing to charge him with, if he was doing the Chicomms’ bidding. The Constitutional witness requirement for it will be satisfied by all those millions of Americans watching him on the Tee Vee.
Store in what town?
They’re not STAYING at home.
The day after ‘we’ locked down, the parking lot at the local walmart was totally full, cars parked up and down the road. More than black friday even. Giant gaggles of people milling around in the parking lot.
Turns out, with nothing ELSE to do (because it was all closed down) whole families hopped into the conveyance of choice and headed to walmart. To socialize with hundreds of their nearest and dearest.
We have a neighbor that has made 2 or 3 trips EVERY SINGLE DAY to go somewhere. Walmart, drugstore, hardware store, sonic, drive thru, grocery store. She literally can’t stay home for more than a cpl daylight hours.
Neighbor on the other side had a family reunion the weekend of Easter. We didn’t notice a smaller than normal crowd this year.
When people say ‘lockdown doesn’t work’, they think we actually, you know, locked down.
We slowed it down bigtime though.
It’s not gone though. As soon as we open back up, cases will increase in 10 days-2 weeks.
WE are going to stay home though, until a working treatment protocol is developed and fast enough testing that it will make a difference BEFORE we need to be admitted to the hospital. ‘We’ aren’t there yet. WE will let the people who think they need a haircut or steak dinner just to ‘get out of the house’ be the guinea pigs for the treatments/tests/protocols. Flubros to the rescue!
...Also after meeting with Hospital Officials and Staff Hospitals will open this Monday for Admissions, Elective Surgeries etc.
Additionally Road and Bridge Construction will begin tomorrow.
He’s also the same one telling us we’ll have mandatory vaxs for 300M+ people by January.
Wonder what conflict of interest he has in THAT little bailiwick...?
I find that interesting. Our road guys were fixing potholes last week in fact. Also mowing the median/ditches with the giant bushogs. Even during ‘lockdown’.
They were doing maintenance things here as well....but this enlarges and brings back workers for the large construction projects that were on hold.
Thanks for this find!
LilFarmer wrote:
“Early Predictor of Severe Respiratory Failure in Patients With COVID-19 Identified
Findings published in Critical Care suggest that high plasma levels of the protein suPAR are associated with worse outcomes
30-Apr-2020 3:15 PM EDT, by Rush University Medical Center Contact Patient Services
Newswise — A very high level of a protein known as suPAR in the blood of patients with COVID-19 may be a predictor of severe respiratory failure, according to new research published in the Journal of Critical Care on April 30. The findings by researchers at Rush University Medical Center and other institutions suggest suPAR could be a potential predictor for which patients with COVID-19 will need to be put on ventilators to help them breathe.
“This is the first report in the world to show that suPAR is elevated in COVID-19 and is predictive. Since suPAR is a reactant of the innate immune system, it’s an indicator of disease severity,” said Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, the Ralph C. Brown, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, chairperson of the Department of Internal Medicine at Rush.
“These results show that the higher the plasma suPAR level, the worse the outcome will be in the lungs of these patients,” said Reiser, who is co-correspondent author of the study. “The higher the suPAR level, the shorter the time before patients needed intubation.”
Reiser’s research team tested suPAR levels in 15 Rush patients when they were admitted or tested for COVID-19. The University of Athens Medical School measured 57 patients for suPAR and followed them in their clinical course. Time to intubation was followed and found to be shorter in patients with a higher plasma suPAR.
“There is a body of literature that suPAR is associated with poor outcomes from acute respiratory distress syndrome (a condition in many patients with severe COVID-19) and poor lung functioning in critically ill patients,” Reiser said.
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Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor, aka suPAR, is produced in the endobronchial tree in the lungs and by immune cells in the bone marrow and repeatedly has been shown to harm kidneys. In two publications in The New England Journal of Medicine, Reiser’s research showed that chronically elevated blood levels are linked to development of chronic kidney disease, yet a high plasma suPAR also increases the risk for acute kidney injury – a sudden decline in kidney function that can be a severe side effect of general medical procedures.
That’s good.
They’re opening that back up so the graft can continue.
—agnes the cynic.
Totally understand.
You realize that highway construction is riddled with graft/corruption.
Highway commissioners/supervisors are the worst.
Interesting. Always glad when I hear anything new id understood about this.
Though nowadays what’s learned is often over my head.
RUSSIA
Anger rises among Russia’s doctors as coronavirus hospitals get put on lockdown
Moscow (CNN)... Medical facilities in the country have emerged as one of the main breeding grounds for Covid-19, and two dozen hospitals have had to shut down for long quarantines, with many doctors falling sick.
The numbers are stark. On Thursday, Russia’s total number of reported coronavirus cases surpassed the 100,000 mark, exceeding numbers reported from Iran and China. And of 285 coronavirus hotspots the country is trying to contain, 64% are in hospitals...
...Initially, the quarantine was supposed to end last week, but public health officials later said the center will stay closed “until further notice.” On Sunday, April 26, a health worker at the hospital posted a cry for help on YouTube...
Head of the spinal surgery ward in that hospital, Dmitry Ptashnikov, said in an Instagram post all doctors in his department contracted the coronavirus...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/europe/russia-coronavirus-hospitals-lockdown-anger-intl/index.html
Well this explains part of the kidney morbidity issues.
81...
I think it got to 60° here in Greenville, cloudy, cool, light breeze.
in 3 weeks, it will be 85° at noon, though...
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