Posted on 03/30/2020 3:07:00 PM PDT by buckalfa
See what happens when people don’t live right on fricking top of each other?
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Same thing in Austin hospitals. My son’s worried about getting enough hours to make a check.
Behold, Idiocracy in action...
Yeah agree totally. IIRC W.Va. was one of the last if not the last state to have any cases.
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You would think Austin’s population density would make it worse. Climate make a difference?
CC
I live an hour outside Detroit. Wayne county (Detroit) has 3195 cases. The county where I live, which is semi-rural and has one major city of not more that 35000 people has 25. Do the math.
CC
Sounds like they did a good job preparing for the upcoming onslaught. Good management there.
He works in the OR and all surgeries have been canceled. He was going to try to get in some hours in the Emergency Room but they’re not that busy.
One of the interesting things about our republic, is how different, regions can be.
Perhaps this current time in history should illustrate that what works in WVA, and what works in the city of New York, can and should be different measures.
Same thing in Austin hospitals. My sons worried about getting enough hours to make a check.
Same in my part of Florida. There is going to be a bunch of irritated docs. They’ll be making a fraction of their normal salaries with the kibosh put on elective surgery.
Sounds like they did a good job preparing for the upcoming onslaught. Good management there.
No, they just cancelled all elective procedures.
Yup - this entire approach globally is completely F’ed up. Please chicken with the global economy and our way of life to maybe save a few hundred thousand if the worst predictions are right (out of billions).
I have argued repeatedly with others online that “cookie cutter” solutions don’t work under these circumstances. You see that being played out in W. Virginia.
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Why do they not send non-CV patients from new york to these hospitals? It’s a win-win.
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1821
Secession is the only remedy.
My county has the 3rd most in our state — 79. In response, we are on lockdown, and the beaches are closed until June.
In the past 6 days, our case count went up by 101, 69, 144, 135, 151, and 130. Notice the lack of a trend.
We have 136 people in hospital now. We have thousands of beds, and 1700 usable ICU beds (lack of doctors/nurses/support staff). At our current rate, we should hit about 300 hospitalizations before the oldest start dying or getting better, so we are at under 30% of our total capacity. Of course, it could get a lot worse.
Not possible! The Navy ships the Mercy and Comfort were sent into relieve these hospitals from their overloaded burdens.
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