The Coronavirus Thread

[Cunt]

Ah, the mounties. Good thing a few bullying police officers doesn't mean fascism.

That guy is free to speak to news agencies. Free to rally support.

Fascists aren't the cop who fucked up that day. Fascists are more like the wealthy politician, donning a mask and kneeling like that dirty cop, to celebrate having his knee on our necks or something.

Drumming up hate for HIS RCMP force, which somehow is a good thing...

Look to Rebel media for criticisms of him though. He has paid off most other media companies.

[Brian Peacock]

God bless the RCMP and their illegal invasion of the Wet'suwet'en nation to facilitate the construction a private oil pipeline, arresting protestors, children, and journalists as they went.

[Svartalf]

God bless the RCMP and their illegal invasion of the Wet'suwet'en nation to facilitate the construction a private oil pipeline, arresting protestors, children, and journalists as they went.

isn't this for the sarcasm thread instead

[Cunt]

God bless the RCMP and their illegal invasion of the Wet'suwet'en nation to facilitate the construction a private oil pipeline, arresting protestors, children, and journalists as they went.

Do you side with the hereditary chiefs? Or the elected ones?

[NineBerry]

The news showed images of anti racism protests all over Europe. Boy, this can really create a lot of problems if we are unlucky...

To return to the actual topic of this thread.

[Cunt]

Some lady was shot in her bed, in a 'no-knock' raid, in the US. Probably most folks don't know her name (I don't remember it)

But some other person, who happened to be killed on film, creates worldwide government-supported protests during a disease lockdown.

I'm supposed to believe that racism is more important somehow...it doesn't make sense to me. Virus's use people of ANY race as carriers.

[NineBerry]

Some lady was shot in her bed, in a 'no-knock' raid, in the US. Probably most folks don't know her name (I don't remember it)

If you refer to Breonna Taylor, then she was black as well.

[Cunt]

Some lady was shot in her bed, in a 'no-knock' raid, in the US. Probably most folks don't know her name (I don't remember it)

If you refer to Breonna Taylor, then she was black as well.

That sounds like the victim in the story I heard.

Thanks.

That was my point. People outraged at the one incident, often don't know how many other cases there are. Or even how many overall.

You know what phacking ph is, I assume.

You also know what human (hb bias is (a bit).

So if you take ph and multiply it by hb, that yields a figure which describes how confounded the stats can be by politics.

[Brian Peacock]

$1m bill for Covid treatment...

Remember Michael Flor, the longest-hospitalized COVID-19 patient who, when he unexpectedly did not die, was jokingly dubbed “the miracle child?”

Now they can also call him the million-dollar baby.

Flor, 70, who came so close to death in the spring that a night-shift nurse held a phone to his ear while his wife and kids said their final goodbyes, is recovering nicely these days at his home in West Seattle. But he says his heart almost failed a second time when he got the bill from his health care odyssey the other day.

“I opened it and said ‘holy [bleep]!’ “ Flor says.

The total tab for his bout with the coronavirus: $1.1 million. $1,122,501.04, to be exact. All in one bill that’s more like a book because it runs to 181 pages.

The bill is technically an explanation of charges, and because Flor has insurance including Medicare, he won’t have to pay the vast majority of it. In fact because he had COVID-19, and not a different disease, he might not have to pay anything — a quirk of this situation I’ll get to in a minute.

But for now it’s got him and his family and friends marveling at the extreme expense, and bizarre economics, of American health care.

Flor was in Swedish Medical Center in Issaquah with COVID-19 for 62 days, so he knew the bill would be a doozy. He was unconscious for much of his stay, but once near the beginning his wife Elisa Del Rosario remembers him waking up and saying: “You gotta get me out of here, we can’t afford this.”

Just the charge for his room in the intensive care unit was billed at $9,736 per day. Due to the contagious nature of the virus, the room was sealed and could only be entered by medical workers wearing plastic suits and headgear. For 42 days he was in this isolation chamber, for a total charged cost of $408,912.

He also was on a mechanical ventilator for 29 days, with the use of the machine billed at $2,835 per day, for a total of $82,215. About a quarter of the bill is drug costs....

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... ital-bill/

[NineBerry]

Ehm. The protests are not because of a single incident. They are because these things happen all the time. If it was single case, no one would care so much. The protests are there because these things happen all the time and now because there is video footage, everyone can see it happening.

I also heard the argument that the way black Americans have been hit especially hard by the Corona crisis (both by the virus itself and by the economic problems) was another trigger for the protests.

[Cunt]

$1m bill for Covid treatment...

Remember Michael Flor, the longest-hospitalized COVID-19 patient who, when he unexpectedly did not die, was jokingly dubbed “the miracle child?”

Now they can also call him the million-dollar baby.

I've been hearing some blame placed on public sector unions for this. Unsurprisingly.

It's hard to get away from, with any amount of socialized health care though...

[JimC]

rainbow, this post: viewtopic.php?p=1867587#p1867587

contains a personal attack on a fellow member. Please, in future, attack the post rather than the person.

[DRSB]

A second wave of the coronavirus is on the way. When it arrives, we will lack the will to deal with it. Despite all the sacrifices of the past months, the virus is likely to win—or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it already has.

In absolute terms, the United States has been hit harder than any other country. About a quarter of worldwide deaths have been recorded on these shores. And while the virus is no longer growing at an exponential rate, the threat it poses remains significant: According to a forecasting model by Morgan Stanley, the number of American cases will, if current trends hold, roughly double over the next two months.
...
When the first wave of COVID-19 was threatening to overwhelm the medical system, back in March, the public’s fear and uncertainty were far more intense than they are now. So was the reason to hope that some magic bullet might rescue us from the worst ravages of the disease.

At this point, such hopes look unrealistic. After months of intense research, an effective treatment for COVID-19 still does not exist. A vaccine is, even if we get lucky, many months away from deployment. Because the virus is spreading especially rapidly in parts of the Southern Hemisphere, from Latin America to Africa, heat is clearly no impediment to its dissemination.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... in/612946/

[pErvinalia]

Some of the states in the US are looking really bad. LA, Nebraska, Florida and Oklahoma I think it was. They are in exponential growth.

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah, global infection rates are still rising.