Think airline toilet with a suction cup seat. (hopefully with a more gentle vacuum!)
Posted on 03/14/2020 8:36:34 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Thirty-seven deaths (77% of total) are in Washington state.
Two women in their 90s at Life Care Center died on March 6.
A woman in her 80s at Life Care Center died on March 6.
A man in his 70s at Overlake Medical Center died on March 4.
A man in his 80s at Swedish Issaquah hospital, died on March 9.
Woman in her 70s with underlying health conditions died on March 11.
Four Washington state deaths are from Snohomish County
A woman in her 70s with underlying health conditions died March 11.
Woman in her 80s with underlying health conditions died March 10.
Man in his 80s with underlying health conditions, died March 9 at the Josephine Caring Community
A man in his 40s with underlying health conditions died but the date has not been specified. One Washington State death is from Grant County, a patient in his or her 80s.
Four deaths are in California:
A woman, 90s, in assisted living.
A woman, 60s, hospitalized in Santa Clara.
An elderly man in assisted living.
A man, 71, with underlying health conditions who had been on a Grand Princess cruise ship.
Two deaths are in Florida:
A man and woman, both in their 70s, died after returning from foreign travel. One death is in New Jersey:
A man, 69, who is diabetic and suffered two cardiac arrests, has died. One death is in South Dakota:
A man in his 60s with underlying medical conditions has died. One death is in Georgia:
A man, 67, with underlying medical conditions has died. One death is in Kansas:
A man in his 70s with underlying health conditions died at the Life Care Center in Kansas City. One death in is Colorado:
A woman in her 80s with underlying health conditions has died.
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That’s interesting reading.
I like the guy who laughed himself to death; and the one who, being roasted alive, quipped, ‘Turn me over, I’m done on this side’.
But, regarding the toilet seat falling from the sky: how does a toilet even operate in outer space?
There’s a post on FR today on the swine flu in 2009.
They figure something like 60 million people contracted it, about a quarter million were hospitalized, and maybe ten to twelve thousand died (fuzzy numbers because they’re extrapolations / estimates).
What that tells us most people who pick up these viruses are just carriers - their immune systems deal with things as a matter of course, and they end up with minor symptoms if anything at all. Only a very small fraction of the people infected get really sick or die.
And ultimately it’s that large number of unaffected carriers that provides the herd immunity that ultimately leads to end of one of these runs.
You could view it that way and I suppose one could view all old people as the canary in the coal mine too.
Without modern medicine and 102 more years of experience and knowledge; this could indeed be another Spanish Flu.
We can consider ourselves lucky in that.
I'm 100% with you on not panicking. Take the precautions, get through the next month or so, and hopefully move on with our lives without the devastating effects of 1918.
Typical of CA teens I'd say. That attitude has probably spread to the rest of the country by now. Karma is a real beyotch though so they better watch their 6. Nature abhors a vacuum; especially in the heads of teens.
The disease itself isn’t a problem. Never has been. Never will be. But look what the MSM managed to stampede a bunch of paranoid sheeple into doing without much effort at all. It was their goal all along.
And a lot of people here on FRee Republic went right along for the ride, screaming Black Death at the door.
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Think airline toilet with a suction cup seat. (hopefully with a more gentle vacuum!)
Thanks :-)
So you're saying our governments response is equally paranoid since they are ramping up more and more policies to slow the spread and get past it.
Now you might be right; the government might be using this as a test bed/run for a possible larger contamination later. It would indeed be a good, but very expensive, opportunity for them to do that. Of course $100+B is nothing to our government these days it seems.
If they are indeed doing that then maybe it's something we as a country need to do. The next biological may not be as low risk as this one is to anyone.
Yup, all these governors declaring emergencies and shuttering schools (think teacher’s unions) exacerbated the panic. IIRC, there have been almost NO cases in any US schools. But look at the economic and social dislocations from those moves.
“So you’re saying our governments response is equally paranoid since they are ramping up more and more policies to slow the spread and get past it.”
I was pretty skeptical about the federal response initially, but I think I may see what the strategy is.
There was a good article by Steve Sailer in Taki Mag that provides the background:
https://www.takimag.com/article/crushing-the-coronavirus-curve/
Essentially what it said is that the normal infection rate can be so steep that it’s easy to overwhelm health care responses, especially intensive care facilities - that’s what happened in China. So more people die than need to. But if you can slow the spread of the infection you can also spread out the occurrence of really bad cases, so that the hospitals can keep up. In the long run you get about as many people infected, both mildly and seriously, but you don’t get battered all at once. And then the health care system can do its job in handling the tough cases.
“Demographers estimate that approximately 2% of all live births in England at this time would die in the first day of life. By the end of the first week, a cumulative total of 5% would die.Another 3 or 4% would die within the month.A total of 12 or 13% would die within their first year.With the hazards of infancy behind them, the death rate for children slowed but continued to occur.A cumulative total of 36% of children died before the age of six, and another 24% between the ages of seven and sixteen. In all, of 100 live births, 60 would die before the age of 16.”
https://www.plimoth.org/sites/default/files/media/pdf/edmaterials_demographics.pdf
Visit really old cemeteries and it is easy to see.
While (not surprisingly) the top (liberal) Google result for Italy has a single payer system health care system is "Single Payer Health Care works in Italy" (an immature infomercial), yet as an American doctor (who affirms universal HC) states,
The Italian healthcare landscape includes crumbling hospitals, doctors trained on books rather than patients, and per capita spending one-third that of the United States. And Americans like to say their medical care is the best in the world, while Italians consider their National Health Service to be hopelessly dysfunctional. (In 2000 the World Health Organization ranked the Italian system second-best on the planet. But that stellar rating was based solely on equality of access on the one hand and health outcomes such as life expectancy on the other, ignoring any on-the-ground realities in between: waiting times, emergency room efficiency, surgical statistics, etc.)
But here’s the rub: Italians are much healthier than Americans in terms of everything from overall health longevity, infant mortality, obesity, cancer, diabetes, suicide, drug overdoses, homicides, and disability rates. On many of those measures, they beat out the UK as well.
The latter is much due to culture: that of a healthier lifestyle and diet. - https://www.thelocal.it/20190322/what-can-italy-teach-the-rest-of-the-world-about-health
Also, Hospital beds per capita:
Total hospital beds per 1,000 population, 2016 or nearest year
That sounds like a good plan whomever came up with it.
At least the evidence appears to show this will be mostly over with in a month or two at most. I guess the next question is if this will be part of the seasonal landscape going forward.
They say a vaccine is a year out so if this shows back up next winter then the world will be in trouble again I guess unless an anti-viral med is readily available by then (worldwide).
That really puts things in perspective!
Thank you!
Italy demographics: Smokers, old, unhygienic, socialist healthcare.
Excellent post. Thank you.
Italy apparently has more hospital beds per capita than the USA. No word on ventilators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hospital_beds
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