I haven't seen the charts and don't care to, tbh. But I have to imagine that all those new hospitals are running on temporary power plants burning coal
And anyway my explanation doesn't need to make sense. It only needs to make more sense than the extra emissions coming from them burning millions of bodies in secret
I don't think containment is really an option now. It's just about keeping the hospitals running and converting urgent care facilities into pneumonia units
I think the best case scenario is that we keep isolating severe cases and leave normal cases alone. With luck it can split into a second strain that proliferates because the lesser severity allows it to be ignored. Then - and again with luck - if you get that one you gain some immunity to the big one.
If it never splits like that we're sort of just looking at a lifespan capped at 70-80 until there's a vaccine.
@AdamBv1 I've been noticing people changing behavior here in the US, at least in my hospital. First thing that changed was people started stealing our boxes of masks to the point that we need to keep them hidden now. Second change was sick people asking for masks set their used tissues down on the desk while putting them on. Basically we're fucked
The OPEC thing is funny. For a while they kept dropping production whenever the us raised exports so that prices could stay stable. Which basically meant the us could sell as much as we wanted at a fixed price because opec kept asking Russia to drop production for us. Seems Russia finally caught on and backed out of that
Isolating severe cases as a matter of policy means that there is a chance a less severe strain can mutate and get ignored because the focus is just on the serious cases. Over time the weaker version will win out.
I love the opec drama. Not that long ago the left was predicting the end of the world because the world was almost out of oil. Now the problem is we have too much
Yeah it doesn't take much to push an ICU to the breaking point. Most hospitals don't really have very many ICU beds. And that's just equipment; In the US, intensive care at the best hospitals means a 1:2 or even 1:1 nursing ratio. That's just not going to be an option.
I don't care if I get it. No kids, elderly relatives hundreds of miles away, and I'm 31 and healthy. The issue is me contaminating a couple hundred people in a single day
That's not unusual. At a certain point even in the best conditions it's just cruel to put someone through that kind of intense care in their final moments
My hospital wants us to self-quarantine for 14 days "If you have travelled domestically or internationally by air, ship, train or bus" or visited a specific location nearby known to have been affected.
