outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

Condolences.

Really sorry for your loss, Fred.

Took my husband to the ER yesterday - he was complaining of shallow breathing, increased heart rate and night sweats. Thought it would be wise to get him checked out even though he didn’t have a fever and no known close contact with anyone positive. It wasn’t covid - turns out it was a panic attack. :/ He just didn’t know how to describe it. Take care of your loved ones, folks.

Very sorry indeed, Fred.

Kaiser Permanente is discontinuing routine chloroquine prescriptions for lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and malaria patients to deal with a shortage driven by #covid19, and thanking them for their "sacrifice" https://t.co/TK1MzsosiT via @tanyachen and @dvergano

— Azeen Ghorayshi (@azeen) March 25, 2020

Condolences Fred

Kaiser Permanente is discontinuing routine chloroquine prescriptions for lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and malaria patients to deal with a shortage driven by #covid19, and thanking them for their "sacrifice"

Yeah but socialist "death panels" would be wrong

Bevon Bloise, a registered nurse at Mount Sinai West, complained on Facebook that the hospital does not have sufficient personal protective equipment, or P.P.E. “I’m also very angry with the Mount Sinai Health System for not protecting him. We do not have enough PPE, we do not have the correct PPE, and we do not have the appropriate staffing to handle this pandemic. And I do not appreciate representatives of this health system saying otherwise on the news.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/nyregion/nurse-dies-coronavirus-mount-sinai.html

Boris. Welp.

plsss

roz, sounds terrifying

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/politics/coronavirus-ventilators-trump.html

sharpen the pitchforks, seriously

murder

does anyone even produce guillotines anymore?

Is there a country anywhere in the world that is dealing with this worse than the US?

Brazil maybe?

contrast that with this: https://www.constructiondive.com/news/border-wall-construction-continues-with-additional-contract-for-12b-proje/574917/

(in case you just read the URL, it's 1.2B not 12B)

this is straight up murder

fucking NYT:

But in an interview Thursday night with Sean Hannity, the president played down the need for ventilators.

“I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators,” he said, a reference to New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appealed for federal help in obtaining them. “You go into major hospitals sometimes, and they’ll have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?’”

Yet no response from the governors; his claim just sits there.

Roz I hope your husband is doing better.

there are lots of them. on a per capita rate, it's still worse in many areas (including most of Europe)

for example, italy and spain are in the thick of it right now, with overflowing morgues

xposts to Matt DC

Matt DC's question wasn't whether the virus is currently hitting any countries worse than the USA at present (answer to *that* question: it is) but rather, whether any country is handling the crisis worse than the USA (answer seems no).

xpost to the hannity quote

it's always kind of newly shocking to realize the extent to which he does _NOT_ get it. like he truly doesn't even understand the problem of ventilator shortages and why you might need surplus capacity at this time? wtf

xp oops, i misunderstood the question! on who is handling it worse, i'd assume the US is near the bottom, but i would also assume that there are places with even more authoritarian leaders who are actively suppressing the bad news. for example, north korea miraculously has "zero" cases right now

I worry about Egypt.

(for people who find relief in tracking things, NYT has launched a new county-level

https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-county-data-us.html

No single agency has provided the public with an accurate, up-to-date record of coronavirus cases, tracked to the county level. To fill the gap, The New York Times has launched a round-the-clock effort to tally every known coronavirus case in the United States. The data, which The Times will continue to track, is being made available to the public on Friday.

...

In late January, not long after the first known case was reported in Washington State, The Times began tracking each known U.S. case as counties and states began reporting results of testing. Such testing, which had been delayed, gradually became more widely available. For the last eight weeks, a team of Times journalists has recorded an array of details — locations, dates, ages and conditions, when possible — about newly confirmed cases reported by state and local officials.

By Friday morning, The Times had tracked more than 85,000 cases in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories. There have been more known cases in the United States than in China, Italy or any other country, and more than 1,200 people have died in the United States. Researchers, scientists, government officials and business executives have requested access to the information. The Times is releasing its data publicly in an effort to broaden understanding of the virus’s toll.

they're posting this county-level data on GitHub

The Greatest Nation on Earth. https://t.co/HhyDm0ZHxe

— Nuha Serrac 💙 Bernie Sanders (@NuhaSerrac) March 27, 2020

'Literally why it's so great' — Republicans, probably.

well, you heard the man, let's get this thing back up and running

https://i.redd.it/xsn79wrgw6p41.png

jesus christ thats grim

it really is

all the older women are probably like "speak for yourself, old man."

I don't need to see the rest of his body to know he doesn't do a lot of stepping up, period.

i feel like someone's kids stopped calling him.

I volunteered for DC's Medical Reserve Corps last week (apparently social workers are considered healthcare providers these days, and tbf I did train in an ICU). Got a text this morning summoning me to a 4-hour training to do screening and testing. Which obv I am OK with or I wouldn't have volunteered, but really does it have to start at 8am?

lol that would totally be my reaction. "I am totally happy to put my life on the line to help people, but does it have to be at 8am?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ZChHuelyg

it's ok if I pass away
cut myself into pieces
this is my last resort
it's ok if I pass away

Matt DC's question wasn't whether the virus is currently hitting any countries worse than the USA at present (answer to *that* question: it is) but rather, whether any country is handling the crisis worse than the USA (answer seems no).

scottyfrommarketing.jpg

just wondering, for people outside of the US and GB, do you also have prominent media people who actively try to make the situation worse, every single day?

Rush Limbaugh: Health experts are part of the the "Deep State"

“We didn't elect a president to defer to a bunch of health experts that we don't know. And how do we know they're even health experts?"https://t.co/LG0hBNwRr8 pic.twitter.com/LOW5mCdILw

— Media Matters (@mmfa) March 27, 2020

i wonder if anyone in the administration has -- from a purely utilitarian viewpoint -- considered the value of (redacted) the president in order to potentially save more lives with a brief pence presidency

who has a history of solving problems

...by declaring bankruptcy.

are prominent media voices in other countries advocating for coming up with some sort of "job assessment" for public health experts in the government, right now?

just fucking die, rush limbaugh

As a fairly old person I know it would be okay if I passed away, if only because I know that is part of the deal with being alive in the first place. But I'll be damned if I think it's okay for me to die so the fucking stock market won't tank. It's called getting your priorities straight, you meme guy. Get your head out of your ass.

get your head out of your ass, meme guy, and get it straight into rush limbaugh's ass. then start twisting, biting, and pushing your way up through his body as far as you can

"it's ok if I pass away" but maybe not ok to ask him not to go out and do all the people-adjacent things he likes to do regularly and infect other people too

just wondering, for people outside of the US and GB, do you also have prominent media people who actively try to make the situation worse, every single day?

Why are you including GB there? What's Rush Limbaugh got to do with us?

You belong to the other country most inflicted by dumbass blowhards, afaict