That seems counterproductive.
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I hear fire is one of the best ways to sanitize hard surfaces.
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CMC fnord!
We Texans have been pumping our own gas for years. If we can do it, Oregonians can do it. If they’re not high.
You’re welcome. 
When I first read this on I think Thursday, I had my doubts because it was a Fox article, but now the Wall Street Journal is also reporting… New York Mandates Nursing Homes Take Covid-19 Patients Discharged From Hospitals.
I guess the elderly in NY aren’t dying fast enough of the coronavirus as it is? This is like the least logical thing I’ve seen yet, even compared to going on Spring Break and March cruises.
But having been raised in a self-service state, I look like a studly hero to my quivering Oregon relations when I pump the gas!
So, like I said- China is lying:
China has reported 3,299 coronavirus-related deaths, with most taking place in Wuhan, the epicenter of the global pandemic. But one funeral home received two shipments of 5,000 urns over the course of two days, according to the Chinese media outlet Caixin.
And yes, I know- Fox? So here are more cites:
*But some in China have been skeptical of the accuracy of the official tally, particularly given Wuhan’s overwhelmed medical system, authorities’ attempts to cover up the outbreak in its initial stages, and multiple revisions to the way official cases are counted. Residents on social media have demanded disciplinary action against top Wuhan officials…Many people who died had Covid-19 symptoms, but weren’t tested and excluded from the official case tally, Caixin said. *
Even in normal time, hospital discharge planning is challenging.
So if the right kind of family isn’t there to jump in, should they discharge recovering patients to the street?
New York City ambulance calls are running as high as 7,000 calls a day, up from 4,000. If patients aren’t discharged, there is no available space in New York hospitals. And the record ambulance volume sure doesn’t give crews a few hours to deposit a patient in Pennsylvania (we’re a few weeks behind).
Compared to other westernized countries, the U.S. has a lot of ICU beds, but few hospital beds overall. Google it. This means they have to discharge to allow in more patients they can save.
From what I read in the New York Times, there is a crisis up there. I wouldn’t second guess without a lot more evidence than what seems logical in normal times.
Animated mapshowing daily progression of cases in the USA.
Sorry if someone has already posted this.
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There are those who are recovered and under any other circumstance, such as influenza, would be going home, if they had a home, or back to their nursing homes. Nursing homes have been refusing to accept these resolved patients and therefore hospital beds are not able to be opened up to take new patients who are acutely ill and in desperate need. They have been requiring that patients use up the valuable resource of testing with two negative RT-PCRs before they will accept the stable afebrile considered noncontagious by current guidelines patient back in. If the guideline of 72 hours of fever free and consistent improvement of symptoms is good enough for HCWs to return to work, it is good enough for people to return to their skilled nursing facilities and open up the bed for someone in critical need. Cohort resolved SNF patients together in one wing or floor if you want but keeping the hospital resource from another patient who is in acute need is unacceptable.
If anyone wants to know what’s going on in Canada, all the facts you need are here:
It has blown up worse in Quebec, in part because Quebec had March break one week earlier; as a result
a) Imported cases have had more time to get worse, and
b) People from Quebec were likelier to have spread it after returning because the gravity of the situation was not as well understood when their vacations ended.
The numbers suggest that social distancing is working, though we don’t know for sure yet.
Is it possible to just replace the elastic rather than manufacturing new masks from scratch?
I don’t know the answer to that question but I do know that a very clever person is not printing the key part of the mask and if you have a 3D printer, you can too. (3:54 video)
The NRA is suing Gavin Newsom for shutting down gun shops as not essential services. They claim it’s a violation of their 2nd Amendment rights, and want gun shops reclassified as essential.
Guns are essential in California, abortions in Ohio are not essential. Life in America.
Probably, particularly if you had a large workforce of cheap dedicated labor (Vietnam?)
Masks are hard to keep air-tight at the best of times. And judging by myself as a standard, people who want to use masks mostly aren’t the same people who are good at mask rebuilding.
You mean “now printing” right?
663,741 confirmed infections
30,880 dead
142,183 recovered
In the US:
123,750 confirmed infections
2,227 dead
3,231 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
Total confirmed infections will top 1,000,000 no later than Thursday. The US will account for more than 20% of them (200,000) and have more than 5,000 people dead.
Yes; obviously. The rest of the sentence doesn’t make any sense otherwise, does it?
I followed the link. Yes, “now”.