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Acropora

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  1. Basically, all these imaging findings are things we see with heart attacks and other reversible and irreversible sequelae of cardiac damage. We are very focused on mortality (people dying) but largely ignoring morbidity (serious illness). That makes sense since the horror of what is occurring is hard to fathom but I think we'll see a lot of chronic illness and disease in covid survivors (no hard data, just my own conjecture based on observations taking care of these patients). I see lung inflammation similiar to what I'd see in autoimmune and inflammatory processes in the lungs of "asymptomatic" young patients. My guess is they have a functional reserve which isn't exceeded and therefore feel "fine". It's akin to smoking. You don't really have problems with COPD and emphysema due to destruction of your lung until you've had a few years of exposure (generally, not including more acute episodes). We've had reports of young patients (under 20) with arrythmias (funny heartbeats) after full recovery. We've had neuropsychiatric issues with corresponding abnormal brain MRIs in young patients. In fact, one of the big issues is strokes in patients who are in their 20s. I worry about our children and long term effects of infection as well as even those patients who have recovered to date. We are making big, long term decisions with a minimal amount of data, a lot of wishful forecasting, and a fucking incompetent and disingenous leader who even now, can't find a tiny bit of decency and try to do the right thing and at least get out of the way of the people who should be leading our response.
  2. I predict your time here will be brief.
  3. Foreign medical grad... Which doesn't mean bad.... However, our best American trained grads don't become hospitalists for multiple reasons... And hospitalists are who take care of you when you aren't in the ICU. They have a large checklist of tasks they have to get done with a large number of patients that they don't know well. And often their fountain of knowledge is not as deep as it needs to be for a challenging task. In academic hospitals, fucking new guy is another fear this time of year! You don't want a new intern intubating you solo because the senior residents/attendings are overwhelmed.
  4. The reality is we've moved more and more inpatient care to hospitalists, who are often overworked, underpaid relative to their workload and generally draw from a higher fmg base. The ICU folks and subspecialists typically carry the burden and keep sicker patients alive and catch mistakes, which happen because 1) people are human and 2) those doctors taking care of your average patient are not the best and brightest (imo). When you add something like covid, which is both not fully understood but also explosive in the number of cases that can arise, it stresses the system. Add to that the scarcity of ICU beds (doesn't make economic sense to carry very expensive resources without being as close to capacity as possible), a non unified, often bizarre federal response that places politicians over scientists and physicians, and a public that has enough idiots that confuse mask use and public health initiatives with political issues like abortion, gun control, and taxes and you end with a brutal, embarrassing situation. Our hospital has about a 3% antibody reactivity rate after almost 2000 hfw have been tested, including ICU and er staff... And there was some serious lack of ppe and ignorance about precautions early on. It means that it's fucking embarrassing that the greatest country in the world can't get their collective heads out of their asses enough despite a large enough heads-up from Italy and China (who btw are now relatively fine) and more medical resources then most other countries. This isn't that hard. Wear a mask, physically distance and use some common sense. Keep doing that and open the economy carefully while contact tracing and locally shutting down as needed until a vaccine is made. Use said vaccine. Move on. So yeah, it's not surprising that as the workload exceeds our capacities, more mistakes aren't caught and more people die unnecessarily. It's not gross incompetance. It's just people dealing with a disease that they don't understand fully, under personal risk that clouds thinking further and at numbers that overwhelm. The only gross incompetance is watching a failed businessman ignore the recommendations of any competent person and waging a war against reason and science.
  5. Wouldn't that be a fire hazard? Grease fires are dangerous....
  6. Q. Over these eight practices, what did you and your defensive staff see from Cort to have confidence in giving him a start today, and with you being down a few linebackers, how big was his play? HEAD COACH TOM HERMAN: Oh, yeah, Cort's a great story. You know, if there was a Scout Team Player of the Year award, he would have won it probably back-to-back years. He's really tough, really physical and just understands football. He sees the game really, really well, and we knew that -- you know, we were going to be short in that area, especially with Joe and Jeff playing close to the line of scrimmage needing those guys to play close to the line of scrimmage. We were going to need him to be in that rotation and he came through in a big way.
  7. You know HankScorpio is a satire account, right(albeit a pretty hilarious one)? I'm a little new here but I thought that was pretty widely known?
  8. No, no Ohio State fan is fitting into an xs.
  9. Texas 28 LSU 21.
  10. Flying in for either/both. Would like to cut out online sellers fees.
  11. Austin_Seferian-Jenkins
  12. Is there a way to neg someone who's posts you have on ignore. Asking for a friend....
  13. I think you need a mixture of high floor, lower ceiling players as well as the more high ceiling, low floor players. Obviously, the highest ranked players tend to be more of the high floor/high ceiling types but this staff has done a great job of identifying and acquiring talent beyond the no brainer players. As the hopefully 3rd take on the defensive line, Fillinger offers that high floor player, who has some measureables (elite shuttle) which may translate to unexpected athleticism. He's also a high effort, relentless player who will be great in terms of culture fit and program mentality. Very, very excited about this pickup. He's a guy that needs a couple years to percolate and then unleash as a RS soph. Additionally, and this is probably an old guy preference but I'm a fan of players that have low key recruitments.
  14. OU 2021: Too many dicks, not enough bags? OU 2021: #WhoNeedsDefense
  15. So how do you really feel about Craig? Please don't keep sugar coating it.
  16. Delusion is rarely based on immutable facts. I know every fanbase has it's idiots but the Aggies definitely seem to have more of them. No one knows how Herman or Jimbo will do long term. However, there are enough data points to suggest that Jimbo requires a significant talent differential in order to be successful and that no matter how well he recruits, he's unlikely to have that talent differential when Alabama, LSU and Georgia are in his conference. There's also enough evidence to suggest that Herman is a good coach even without a large talent disparity that likely translates into even greater success when you start to get a healthy flow of talent in. By any measure, both teams had great recruiting classes. I think Herman's recent history argues that he's a better judge of under the radar talent but either way, Aggy had a good class. I just don't think it'll be enough to overcome Fisher's history of poor offensive line development, his antiquated offensive philosophy, and the general suckitude that is Aggy.. Still, it's cute that they are so focused on Herman and big brother that they can't see this. It'll make the inevitable tears even sweeter.
  17. Thanks @sushihorn for the great write-ups and discussion prior to and after the game. I'm hoping a similar game plan will be successful against lsu, which seems to be built similarly to Georgia
  18. I'd assume he's a tackle if he's already that big as a sophomore. It'll be good to have two brockermeyers on campus. We need a Studdard, Blaylock and Neil as well
  19. Is there a need to make homophobic slurs? It sounds a little Aggy. I mean, Baylor is Rape U. It's not only pejorative but also false.
  20. If only recruiting nuggets were like chicken nuggets....
  21. We will win because ou sucks. I will enjoy sending that inbred trailer trash home with another loss.
  22. Per OB, another Grayson player coming with Watson and Pappoe Kenyon Jackson https://rivals.com/content/prospects/30525
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