If I am going to die from this I really wish I could just get it over with now instead of having to wait around. I don't think there is anything I could accomplish stuck at home the next few months that will have made my life meaningful that I am going to miss.
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Teen Who Died of Covid-19 Was Denied Treatment Because He Didn't Have Health Insurance 3/27
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Real proud to be an American atm.
Teen Who Died of Covid-19 Was Denied Treatment Because He Didn't Have Health Insurance 3/27
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just flu It's the!A 17-year-old boy in Los Angeles County who became the first teen believed to have died from complications with covid-19 in the U.S. was denied treatment at an urgent care clinic because he didn’t have health insurance, according to R. Rex Parris, the mayor of Lancaster, California. Roughly 27.5 million Americans—8.5 percent of the population—don’t have health insurance based on the latest government figures.
“He didn’t have insurance, so they did not treat him,” Parris said in a video posted to YouTube. The staff at the urgent care facility told the teen to try the emergency room at Antelope Valley (AV) Hospital, a public hospital in the area, according to the mayor.
“En route to AV Hospital, he went into cardiac arrest, when he got to AV hospital they were able to revive him and keep him alive for about six hours,” Parris said. “But by the time he got there, it was too late.”
The name of the urgent care clinic that refused to treat the teen has not been released. Mayor Parris explained in his YouTube video that the 17-year-old is believed to have had no underlying conditions that may have contributed to his death.
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Fantastic idea on top of doling out respirators to the states whose governors figure out just the right angle the president prefers his ass to be kissed, or how to engage him on twitter.On Thursday, Donald Trump previewed his nightmare plan to encourage state governors and local officials to loosen social distancing guidelines put in place to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus through the nation, saying people need to be allowed to physically return to their workplaces soon.
As the virus surged to all 50 states, DC, and three U.S. territories (with over 81,000 cases reported as of Thursday afternoon—more than any other nation on Earth), markets have gone into a nosedive and millions have lost their jobs. States and localities have imposed shutdowns of non-essential businesses and restrictions on gatherings, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has put in place advisories calling for school closures, working from home when possible except in in “critical infrastructure” industries, and avoiding all indoor and outdoor venues where people gather.
These measures are necessary to lower the number of people who contract the virus at the same time; hospitals in some regions are already overwhelmed by the scale of the outbreak. One in Queens, New York, ordered a refrigerated truck to store corpses. Social distancing guidelines can help delay and lessen these kinds of outcomes but take a great deal of time for the effort to pay off. The U.S. has only been recommending those measures on a national scale for a bit over a week.
Real proud to be an American atm.
you're not nearly as bright as you think you are. In fact, you've never been anything but a follower.
jay one week ago.What the model is going to do is show x person infecting y and z person and y and z person infecting a, b, c and d, with d dying. That's exponential growth, and it's the absolute worst case scenario. It's also not realistic.
THE WEEK IN PICTURES
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this is the single biggest failure in trump's presidency and will likely be remembered as a bigger blunder than the wars in the middle east. costlier and more deadly.
remember, guys, the jet-setting elite brought coronavirus to the US. not working joe's!When the definitive history of the coronavirus pandemic is written, the date 20 January 2020 is certain to feature prominently. It was on that day that a 35-year-old man in Washington state, recently returned from visiting family in Wuhan in China, became the first person in the US to be diagnosed with the virus.
remember, guys, it's pointless to even try because *checks notes* humans are useless/people are selfish/cities are dehumanizing environments. it's not like one of the biggest metropolitan areas in the world, seoul, has had to deal with this!On the very same day, 5,000 miles away in Asia, the first confirmed case of Covid-19 was reported in South Korea. The confluence was striking, but there the similarities ended.
In the two months since that fateful day, the responses to coronavirus displayed by the US and South Korea have been polar opposites.
One country acted swiftly and aggressively to detect and isolate the virus, and by doing so has largely contained the crisis. The other country dithered and procrastinated, became mired in chaos and confusion, was distracted by the individual whims of its leader, and is now confronted by a health emergency of daunting proportions.
Within a week of its first confirmed case, South Korea’s disease control agency had summoned 20 private companies to the medical equivalent of a war-planning summit and told them to develop a test for the virus at lightning speed. A week after that, the first diagnostic test was approved and went into battle, identifying infected individuals who could then be quarantined to halt the advance of the disease.
Some 357,896 tests later, the country has more or less won the coronavirus war. On Friday only 91 new cases were reported in a country of more than 50 million.
The US response tells a different story. Two days after the first diagnosis in Washington state, Donald Trump went on air on CNBC and bragged: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
all the information was there, china was publishing in journals, epidemiological data was pouring out of europe, america's own top public health experts were saying what needed to be done. trump and co ignored it. they were thinking of ratings, re-electability, problems with the stock market and the 'great economic miracle' bubble bursting; and, of course, trump was taking it all yuuuuugely personally. no doubt his first thoughts were 'why me?'A week after that, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion article by two former top health policy officials within the Trump administration under the headline Act Now to Prevent an American Epidemic. Luciana Borio and Scott Gottlieb laid out a menu of what had to be done instantly to avert a massive health disaster.
Top of their to-do list: work with private industry to develop an “easy-to-use, rapid diagnostic test” – in other words, just what South Korea was doing.
It was not until 29 February, more than a month after the Journal article and almost six weeks after the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in the country that the Trump administration put that advice into practice. Laboratories and hospitals would finally be allowed to conduct their own Covid-19 tests to speed up the process.
official inaction, blocking tests, insisting on manufacturing your own faulty tests, incompetent resource allocation, political footballing ... the american story has it all. but now jay thinks the problem is poor people want to have sex, not that your leadership did nothing in a rapidly developing pandemic scenario for six weeks. that's a hell of a lot of time to let something go free around the contiguous 48. and all the while the right-wing media had mobilised around 'their' men to denigrate it as hysteria, as a conspiracy, etc etc. no wonder people are angry and confused.Those missing four to six weeks are likely to go down in the definitive history as a cautionary tale of the potentially devastating consequences of failed political leadership. Today, 86,012 cases have been confirmed across the US, pushing the nation to the top of the world’s coronavirus league table – above even China.
this is the single biggest failure in trump's presidency and will likely be remembered as a bigger blunder than the wars in the middle east. costlier and more deadly.
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Jay got to replace half of his wardrobe, so it all works for him. He must really love this shit.
you mean to say you can get content from people who are in twitter circles that freely sport hammer and sickles, without following those people personally? wow, incredible. tell me more about how this twitter website works.
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your administration is a ship of fools. who can take this shit seriously? when did the american people get so used to being talked down to like ignorant children?
your administration is a ship of fools. who can take this shit seriously? when did the american people get so used to being talked down to like ignorant children?
I have been reading Breitbart and they believe Trump is doing really well. They also don't think we should help the blue states and cities.
i find ideology truly frightening when it ignores reality to such an extent that people are willingly caused to die.
People in red states wanting people in blue states to drop dead isn't that bizarre. The feeling is probably mutual. What I find really disturbing is that people have elevated the dumbest, most selfish, and most petty person to godhood. I don't know how you can watch him and think he is intelligent, truthful or gives a single flying fuck about you or anyone else.
Sorry for making a World War 2 analogy but at least Hitler and Mussolini volunteered to fight in World War 1 and could make the argument that at one point they were willing to put it all on the line for their nation. Meanwhile what did Trump do for the average American before becoming president? Absolutely nothing. I am completely serious when I say that as a person and leader Trump is more repugnant than the fascist leaders of World War 2.
Sorry for making a World War 2 analogy but at least Hitler and Mussolini volunteered to fight in World War 1 and could make the argument that at one point they were willing to put it all on the line for their nation. Meanwhile what did Trump do for the average American before becoming president? Absolutely nothing. I am completely serious when I say that as a person and leader Trump is more repugnant than the fascist leaders of World War 2.
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Teen Who Died of Covid-19 Was Denied Treatment Because He Didn't Have Health Insurance 3/27
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didn't he dodge the draft like four times? lol.SuperJail Warden wrote:
People in red states wanting people in blue states to drop dead isn't that bizarre. The feeling is probably mutual. What I find really disturbing is that people have elevated the dumbest, most selfish, and most petty person to godhood. I don't know how you can watch him and think he is intelligent, truthful or gives a single flying fuck about you or anyone else.
Sorry for making a World War 2 analogy but at least Hitler and Mussolini volunteered to fight in World War 1 and could make the argument that at one point they were willing to put it all on the line for their nation. Meanwhile what did Trump do for the average American before becoming president? Absolutely nothing. I am completely serious when I say that as a person and leader Trump is more repugnant than the fascist leaders of World War 2.
He got a medical deferment for bone spurs in his ankles. He later claimed that dodging STDs in the 60s and 70s was his personal Vietnam. What a hero.uziq wrote:
didn't he dodge the draft like four times? lol.SuperJail Warden wrote:
People in red states wanting people in blue states to drop dead isn't that bizarre. The feeling is probably mutual. What I find really disturbing is that people have elevated the dumbest, most selfish, and most petty person to godhood. I don't know how you can watch him and think he is intelligent, truthful or gives a single flying fuck about you or anyone else.
Sorry for making a World War 2 analogy but at least Hitler and Mussolini volunteered to fight in World War 1 and could make the argument that at one point they were willing to put it all on the line for their nation. Meanwhile what did Trump do for the average American before becoming president? Absolutely nothing. I am completely serious when I say that as a person and leader Trump is more repugnant than the fascist leaders of World War 2.
I think this is the first crisis I actually feel fear and unease about. 9/11 and the War on Terror didn't make me afraid for my loved one's and my life. I always felt like the Great Recession would just screw up my earning ability but not my ability to live a fulfilling life. This is different. No one is safe. My prior lung problems make me nervous about my ability to survive this and I worry a lot about my older parents and sister nurses.
That was Cheney I think, although they all did.uziq wrote:
didn't he dodge the draft like four times? lol.SuperJail Warden wrote:
People in red states wanting people in blue states to drop dead isn't that bizarre. The feeling is probably mutual. What I find really disturbing is that people have elevated the dumbest, most selfish, and most petty person to godhood. I don't know how you can watch him and think he is intelligent, truthful or gives a single flying fuck about you or anyone else.
Sorry for making a World War 2 analogy but at least Hitler and Mussolini volunteered to fight in World War 1 and could make the argument that at one point they were willing to put it all on the line for their nation. Meanwhile what did Trump do for the average American before becoming president? Absolutely nothing. I am completely serious when I say that as a person and leader Trump is more repugnant than the fascist leaders of World War 2.
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No surprise the 'City of Assholes' is struggling.
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world's number one country. the best baby. numbah one!
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I wonder at what point would just setting Rikers Island on fire would be the best disease control measure we could take.
Just nuke New York
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Having lived to see 9/11, the Iraq War, the Great Recession, and the 2020 Pandemic, I think the last thing I am haven't experienced is nuclear war and true love.
Big data is neat.
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