I work for a large Healthcare company on the supply chain/consulting side. We just had a huge re-org with our sole focus on COVID response. This situation is dire.
Wait... So she claims in the press conference that, by criticizing Trump’s use of the term “China Virus” (I feel the need to add a “(sic)”) as racist, the leftist news media is siding with the Chinese Communist Party propaganda, and yet she did a story on some “citizen investigator” who claims it was created in NC, a position very similar to what the CCP has espoused in propaganda, and one much crazier to the rational mind than thinking a thinly veiled attempt to blame the Chinese is at least slightly racist. Some people man.
My wife is training for this right now in anticipation of it becoming reimbursable by Medicaid here in SC. Her clinic is closed for at least two weeks but they are planning to use this heavily when/if they reopen assuming the red tape on reimbursements is cut.
Mortgage payments would be suspended under that bill. That was my point. They'd have $6k a month with no bills coming in.
It’s arrestable in any amount, felony at 1.5 ounces but a citation is usually the case. I wouldn’t arrest anyone for weed right now with COVID-19 and we‘ll probably lose PC for it by the end of the year with smokeable hemp being legal now.
Wife does freelance writing so she has been getting a bunch of gigs. It's nice to have some income coming in while I'm out of work, and more importantly it gives her something to do during the day instead of driving me nuts.
I’d imagine the executive order Abbott just did will kill it. No bars or restaurants and public beach so no gathering of 10 or more.
I'm using the two weeks (minimum) WFH to grow a beard. If it fails as miserably as prior attempts, I suppose I will just give up on trying. Never really made it past about 7-8 days so maybe it just needs more time.
I actually think the local governments should be making the decisions. Three big issues though. First, due to multiple federally caused issues, the local governments don’t have reliable data and are way behind. Second, they don’t have the resources to handle this, and due to federal and state laws they cannot quickly raise them. Third, this virus isn’t stopping at jurisdictional lines and a much larger coordinated response is needed rather than a patchwork. This administration’s inability or unwillingness to acknowledge those three issues prevents local governments from being able to do much, despite telling them to do almost everything.
That is a very simplistic and binary view of this. There are other expenses associated with this, like NOT HAVING A FUCKING JOB or medical bills, etc. That is just scratching the surface though.
CRSSD in San Diego https://www.sandiegouniontribune.co...in-san-diego-county-touched-the-crssd-concert
I'm at like a 2.5 I go straight to work (where there are now only about 10 people in an office that normally has hundreds) and come home and only go out for essentials. I'll start working from home next week when we get moved into our new house and we have space for 2 people to work from home.
Day #1 of rapid respiratory urgent care duty stuff. Gotta come up with a cooler name. Kinda fun, actually. Basically get to larrydavidstare.gif patients in their car and tell em to either beat it or go to ED. Maybe you buy yourself a chest xray or throat swab if you're lucky. Mostly, just beat it. This is tinder medicine. In the absence of testing, we trailer park boys. Ok if you're here for uti go through that door but DON'T FUCKING TOUCH ANYTHING Id feel a lot less dumb if they'd give me a tent tho
You can tell who doesn’t follow politics that closely because they take Trump saying something and think it has substance.
3.5 I have to have some outside contact with work. We've also been walking with the neighbor couple outside every night. That's the extent of my outside contact.
siap Reports reveal what officials are being told about COVID-19 … and it's not what they are telling us Two reports have made their way into the public eye showing the real advice that national leaders in both the U.S. and U.K. are getting behind the scenes. And even for people who have seen stadiums idled, schools closed, and an unsettling unpredictability at the grocery store, what these reports have to say is worse than unsettling. These are definitely reports to be read while sitting down. Spoiler The two reports, one from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the other from Imperial College London, were generated separately, but both of them reach similar conclusions: We’ve already waited too long to “flatten the curve” with the kind of actions that have been taken to date. Instead, this is going to be a long, hard fight, requiring some genuinely dire steps. And there may be no end to the threat until a vaccine is widely available—more than a year from now. Reading the Imperial College report, it’s easier to see why the U.K. government has been tossing out a raft of ideas—even the patently ridiculous thought of allowing millions to become infected to generate a kind of fast herd immunity. Because the report’s predictions are somewhere beyond appalling. Focusing almost exclusively on just the effects of the pandemic on health and the healthcare system, the researchers behind the report (including a lead investigator who is himself now in isolation after displaying symptoms of COVID-19) provide information that paints a bleak picture of where we're going. What that report makes clear is that none of the half measures that have been taken so far, on either side of the Atlantic, are sufficient. The effects on people’s lives may already seem extreme, but what’s been done so far isn’t nearly enough to dent the rising arc of new cases. The report breaks the possible strategies down to two: mitigation strategies (those that try to slow the spread of the epidemic), and suppression efforts that try to keep overall case levels low. Most of what has been done so far in the U.S., from closing schools to halting meetings, really falls on the “suppression” side of the line. But what the report finds is that, at this point in the epidemic, the best outcome—the outcome that says the government immediately implements an optimal mix of both mitigation and suppression—“might reduce peak healthcare demand by 2/3 and deaths by half. However, the resulting mitigated epidemic would still likely result in hundreds of thousands of deaths and health systems (most notably intensive care units) being overwhelmed many times over.” The report concludes that an extreme level of suppression, essentially a lockdown on the most restrictive level possible, is the “only viable option.” And it makes a painful admission about how long everyone is going to need to practice social distancing and home isolation for these tools to be effective. Any break in harsh procedures would allow the epidemic to “quickly rebound.” As a result, there is no option but to hold those procedures in place … until a vaccine is available. Even if that takes 18 months or more. The only other option is to accept additional hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of deaths. The Imperial College report even casts doubt on what seem to be the good-news stories of China and South Korea, in which the curves genuinely were flattened and active case counts driven down. “While experience in China and now South Korea show that suppression is possible in the short term,” says the report, “it remains to be seen whether it is possible long-term, and whether the social and economic costs of the interventions adopted thus far can be reduced.” The HHS report makes some of the same assumptions about the extent and effects of the coronavirus itself: The fact that no one is immune makes it nearly impossible to prevent, or even slow, the spread of the disease. We still don’t have enough information to accurately define the spread, or the severity of the overall epidemic in the U.S. State, local, and tribal authorities are going to need federal assistance and look to the federal government for consistent guidance. The epidemic in the United States will likely last 18 months, or longer, and could include multiple waves of illness. That last point, laid on top of similar predictions from the Imperial College report, is more than daunting. Both reports are calling for a “lost year,” and then some. A year in which many of the wheels of everyday life grind to a halt. A year in which no one—no one—can determine the economic or societal fallout. But there’s one more major point in the HHS report that has to be discussed. The points above have been paraphrased, but on this issue … this is the exact language of the report. “Supply chain and transportation impacts due to ongoing COVID-19 outbreak will likely result in significant shortages for government, private sector, and individual U.S. consumers.” Read that again. The Department of Health and Human Services is predicting significant shortages across our economy. Over a period of 18 months. And that’s probably the biggest reason this report is stamped “Not for public distribution or release.” This is a report that demands not only the attention of every department in government, it demands extraordinary leadership and willingness to rethink everything. Where will we find that?