the first wave's bed shortage was solved with significant shutdowns in combination with the weather getting hotter and we're not getting that this time. not to mention regular flu season is coming. looks bad, folks
a lot of the general population still doesn't realize that the relationship between cases and deaths is NOT LINEAR once you stop being able to treat people and they're dying in hallways
I work at a clinic in Liberal Acres, Iowa and we are already at basically maximum capacity. The turnover on beds are pretty high, we can get like ~50 patients out a day, but even with that we only have around 5 free beds in a day. If there is a surge in hospitalizations we literally aren't going to have enough room for them.
Liberal Acres, Iowa
Is this dox repellant or is this like what the kids are calling NYC now or something - I'm not very cool
there was a funny post about opsec that accused everyone of living on Liberal Mountain
Totally wrong in my case though; I live in Onetrueleftist Valley.
yes i saw some opsec post about it and I'm easily amused by geography lol
oh it has a Cuban sister city so I think it's some cultural exchange/humanitarian aid program thing
thank you comrade though I should note I'm not a doctor or nurse or anything. I don't want to steal any valor from our overworked medics lol
Either way, stay safe out there! Sounds like you'll be going through hell that couldve been easily prevented
I just caught the end of a news broadcast (in the UK) and it went something like:
*stern voice* and to recap our main headline: the UK's coronavirus hospitalization rate is now beyond the government's worst-case estimates
*cheery voice* and that's all from me tonight, bye!
It was like something from Children of Men.
At least we're taking it seriously now and implementing strict, easy-to-understand lockdown measures. I'm in a tier 2.7*-B area, so I'm not allowed to go to the pub with more than two guys called Dave unless there's a full moon (without a good reason), and I'm strongly advised not to cough in people's faces.
I'm so curious to see what happens to the medical system. It's already staffed and supplied to the barest minimum levels. The workers were already burned out to the point of striking in early summer. Despite having a fair amount of experience in the field, I wouldn't go back for the starvation wages they pay now with the added certainty of constant exposure. Even the performative bullshit of the daily clappers wore off so now there is only the resentment people feel toward NHS workers. Outpatient procedures make up like 50% of hospitals' revenue and the largest hospital in my area had to reschedule a 10 minute outpatient procedure three times now due to the virus, and the first thing they'll cut is their workforce. As the political collapse continues, skilled nurses and doctors are on the occupation lists accepted by most countries you'd want to flee to.
Thanks for sabotaging the effort for universal healthcare, Democrats.
More austerity will come.
Cuomo in NY bragged to the media that he wasn't going to allow a pandemic to stop him from budget cuts and massive slashes to medicaid.
This entire pandemic has been a rude awakening for the US after decades of neoliberal austerity in defunding institutions and stripping them. Despite all the wealth the US has, it's in the billionaire class. Our government since the Reagan era has been pushing their military and police budgets through the roof at the expense of stripping everything else. What we've ended up with is a highly authoritarian country with a militarized police and war industry, while we lack healthcare and other benefits.
DAE that in a socialist health-care system we could just train more and more healthcare workers until we had so fucking many of them they worked on like week on/week off schedules and shit?
I just want Cuba's system where you adopt a dog and it comes with a bag of food and a medical degree.
27 deaths in Montana today, the equivalent of 810 dead Californians or 8,600 Americans.
About 3 to 5% of North Dakota has an active covid infection right now
This is really it
i work a non-medical 'essential' job with maximum exposure and so does my partner. my fucking company is now issuing "uniform" masks with logos on it that are worthless and you only get one (how sanitary). basically blowing it off to use our faces to advertise and i can't slip an n95 under without being "out of uniform". fuck this shit we need a union bad but theres some bad blood from a previous unionization attempt
The official count is 230k. Just 10k from ww2 hitting the lower estimates ofww2 death numbers. We got an apparant new strain of covid eviolving in spain. A comorbid flu coming here in the US. Its gonna be a wild winter with no jobs, no houses, and no hope of improvement.
unrelated but buying beer in bottles is better than cans because bottles can be saved and reused for household projects
I see 240-290k
Diffrent nunbers. Not that either is really accurate. I feel like it is psychologically important though
my cousin is a physician's assistant who was working at a major university hospital right when the pandemic started. she was one of the first to get cut, and they've only fired more staff since then.
now she's working full-time hours for part-time pay at a separate COVID clinic and they're starting to get swamped. crazy shit.
If this isn't an exceedingly mild flu season that's gonna be pretty damning evidence of how poorly we're implementing pandemic countermeasures.
death death death
Republicans just want to cause as much damage to the citizenry as they are able to. Not doing anything about Covid is legit the best fucking strategy they could do.
Might be strategy but I wouldnt put it past them to just be maniacally apathetic to anything that won't produce revenue/capital
The flu this year is pretty brutal and seems to be mimicking covid symptoms from what my mom has been telling me.
I live down south in a bordertown in Texas so it hasn't rocked us as hard as the big cities. The closest major urban center El Paso is at 100% capacity in their hospitals rn and honestly it's a glaring sign that the rest of us in the boonies are straight fucked by the time covid hits us hard.
