All things political. Coronavirus Edition. (1 Viewer)

[Maxp]

I fear we are really going to be in a bad place due to the obvious cuts to the federal agencies that deal with infectious disease, but also the negative effect the Affordable Care act has had on non urban hospitals. Our front line defenses are ineffectual and our ability to treat the populous is probably at an all time low. Factor in the cost of healthcare and I can see our system crashing. What do you think about the politics of this virus?

 

[nolaspe]

This could work...

 

[Lapaz]

I'm really starting to hate deathsantis...

It's ironic and hypocritical that Deathsantis is calling Biden a power hungry tyrant, when it is the Tyrant of Florida that has outlawed school districts from mandating masking. That's tyrannical. DeathSantis isn't allowing districts to take a common sense measure to prevent further spreading. The districts haven't asked to close down the schools, but they want to be allowed to take precautions. DeathSantis is like the idiots that drive motorcycles crazy without helmets. Does Florida mandate helmets?

 

[nolaspe]

It's ironic and hypocritical that Deathsantis is calling Biden a power hungry tyrant, when it is the Tyrant of Florida that has outlawed school districts from mandating masking. That's tyrannical. DeathSantis isn't allowing districts to take a common sense measure to prevent further spreading. The districts haven't asked to close down the schools, but they want to be allowed to take precautions. DeathSantis is like the idiots that drive motorcycles crazy without helmets. Does Florida mandate helmets?

Lol...

 

[zztop]

It's ironic and hypocritical that Deathsantis is calling Biden a power hungry tyrant, when it is the Tyrant of Florida that has outlawed school districts from mandating masking. That's tyrannical. DeathSantis isn't allowing districts to take a common sense measure to prevent further spreading. The districts haven't asked to close down the schools, but they want to be allowed to take precautions. DeathSantis is like the idiots that drive motorcycles crazy without helmets. Does Florida mandate helmets?

republican motto: "it's only okay when we do it"

 

[MT15]

Define Karma, Twitter:

 

[SaulGoodmanEsq]

Best comment was that if he has to miss games because of Covid, the Vikings will probably play better.

 

[MT15]

This makes zero sense from Texas. I feel terrible for parents who have to send their kids to those schools.



One of the comments posts the same body’s requirement that parents be notified of a case of head lice. Yeah, that’s just fine. Good lord, what is wrong with these people?

 

[Taurus]

This makes zero sense from Texas. I feel terrible for parents who have to send their kids to those schools.



One of the comments posts the same body’s requirement that parents be notified of a case of head lice. Yeah, that’s just fine. Good lord, what is wrong with these people?

Trump Derangement Syndrome

As with many things Trump, it's used to describe one thing while the reality is the exact opposite.

 

[zztop]

One of the comments posts the same body’s requirement that parents be notified of a case of head lice. Yeah, that’s just fine. Good lord, what is wrong with these people?

It was all very obvious when last year the Lt governor of texas said last year that older people would be willing to die in order for the businesses to stay open. Now it has "trickled down" to children I suppose. This is all very Ironic to me: laws signed by the TX governor (republican) - who also happen to be "pro life"

 

[SFIDC3]

Best comment was that if he has to miss games because of Covid, the Vikings will probably play better.

I used to like Kirk Cousins....but no longer, the guy is a straight up moron....and I was wrong, he is not a good QB or leader....

 

[brandon]

This makes zero sense from Texas. I feel terrible for parents who have to send their kids to those schools.



One of the comments posts the same body’s requirement that parents be notified of a case of head lice. Yeah, that’s just fine. Good lord, what is wrong with these people?

Jesus Christ.

 

[MT15]

This is a pretty good explainer about the current wave:

Covid-19 cases now fall into 3 distinct categories — Vox

The US epidemic — and people’s risk from Covid-19 — has changed in this latest wave of cases.

apple.news

 

[SaulGoodmanEsq]

On the eve of classes starting in St. Tammany Parish public schools, hundreds of people gathered outside a School Board meeting Thursday to protest the student mask mandate.

. . .

One woman read from the Louisiana Constitution section about torture being illegal. “My son has a right to not be tortured when he goes to school,” she said, tears streaming down her face.”

Several parents said they would home-school their children in light of the mask mandate.

“You’re treating children as if they are disease vectors,” said one mother who decided to home-school her two children this year. “I refuse to muzzle my children.”

Christian Suprean of Slidell said mask wearing is a “crime against humanity.”

A Folsom man who was wearing what appeared to be a gas mask said the fact that he needed to wear a mask to enter a public building “is a tragedy, and it shows just how far our nation has fallen.”

He said he home-schooled his daughter for six years but that she asked him to return to public school this year. He refused when he heard about the mask mandate. “The greatest lesson I can teach you as a father is that nothing is more important than your freedom and to breathe fresh air like a human being,” he said.

Several students addressed the board. Joshua Bachemin, a junior at Covington High, quoted President Ronald Reagan and asked the School Board to make the mask optional.

“As I would wear a mask seven hours a day all day, I would feel as if I couldn’t breathe. My face would begin to feel itchy and start to burn. I would also receive headaches and feel lightheaded. I believe in this,” he said, holding up a cross on a necklace. “I do not believe in you."

'No masks!': Hundreds of St. Tammany parents protest school mask mandate

Public school students and teachers must wear masks indoors, as well as on buses.

www.nola.com

I don't even know where to begin with people who so embrace the victim culture that they feel this is some great form of oppression. This is merely political brainwashing at its finest. If Democrats asked people not to jump off a bridge, these people would surely line up like lemmings to take a header in protest of their 'freedoms' being oppressed.

And, on a related note...

Brierre, a pulmonary and critical-care specialist who teaches at LSU, described a “worst-case scenario” in which ventilators are no longer available and a patient lands in the ER requiring intubation.

“I have to look at the group of people on ventilators versus the person who needs the ventilator and decide who has the least chance of survival,” Brierre said. “The person with the least chance of survival, I remove their ventilator without their family’s consent and provide it to the person who came in needing a ventilator.”

The thought of reaching that point makes Brierre sick to his stomach.

"I'm going to build as many freakin' ICUs as I can. I'm going to grab every device I can. I'm going to repurpose drugs to make sure that never happens," Brierre said. "But it is a possibility."

The document includes three stages of triage plans: conventional, contingency and crisis. In a crisis, when hospitals are operating with too few resources, not every sick person would be a candidate for admission to intensive care units, or even the hospital’s non-ICU areas.

“Priority should be given to patients for whom treatment would most likely be lifesaving and whose functional outcome would most likely improve,” the standards say. “Such patients should be given priority over those who would likely die even with treatment and those who would likely survive without treatment.”

To decide the level of care a patient should receive, the document suggests hospitals rely on how a patient performs on a test known as a modified sequential organ failure assessment score. The test assigns points based on how a patient’s brain, heart, lungs, kidneys and liver are performing.

Rolfsen said hospitals aren’t obligated to use that test in particular, but said it's important that they rely on objective medical evidence if they’re forced to make triaging decisions. The standards advise health care workers to ignore age, race, gender, disability status and class and focus only on how sick each patient is and how likely it is that he or she will recover.

“Social worth, age and other nonmedical factors should not be used in the decision-making process,” the document says.

It’s unclear how hospitals would signal that they’ve resorted to rationing care.

'The worst possible step': Louisiana doctors fear they'll have to ration care amid COVID surge

When Dr. Stephen Brierre drafted Louisiana’s “crisis standards of care” more than a decade ago, he hoped they’d gather dust for eternity. The grim guidelines spell out how hospitals, overwhelmed

www.theadvocate.com

I would suggest people like the protestors above be ranked low priority. If they want to be free to make a choice they should bear the consequences of that choice before those that didn't over-politicize a common sense issue.

 

[MT15]

It’s weapons quality psy-ops is what it is. Mass hysteria induced by brainwashing.

 

[JRad]

“You’re treating children as if they are disease vectors,”

Uh…because they are?

 

[MT15]

Just ask any teacher or parent if children are disease vectors, lol. What an idiotic thing to say.

 

[JRad]

Just ask any teacher or parent if children are disease vectors, lol. What an idiotic thing to say.

Heck, I’m even just thinking back to the (pre WFH) frequency of “my kid is sick” calls ins at work.

 

[MT15]

This thread should (should) give people an incentive to quit avoiding the vaccine.