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Foosters

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  1. Downtown LA courthouse today was biz as usual. Crowded hallways, galleries, elevators. I declined the elevators and have walked a total of 53 flights today. In a suit. 

    You think AT THE LEAST they would bar persons from the building who don't have business. Like, is there any reason to allow a family of 6 to stroll in to watch a 10 second pre-trial hearing where its just put over for a month?

  2. 10 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    yep. I am fucking amazed at how the school here is handling it. 

    I'm in Los Angeles and the lack of any response whatsoever is staggering. All LAUSD has done is cancel sporting events. I work in the criminal justice system where I am in frequent contact with the homeless and the incarcerated. We're basically being told to be careful and that they are working on getting hand sanitizer to us. Otherwise, business as usual.

    There are going to be a lot of people in positions of power who will have a lot of explaining to do when this is all said and done.

  3. 1 hour ago, WBT said:

    I don't think it would make much difference.  This was going to spread globally no matter what.

    So the countries who were proactive and had testing and care in place having a much better handle on it than others is a coincidence?

    And Iran and Italy having fucking meltdowns is just bad luck?

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  4. 48 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    Maybe this is me wishcasting, and I in no way want anyone to die or be harmed for this to happen, but you might think US buttfucking this pandemic as hard as it seems to be doing, that universal healthcare might be gaining more votes with this?

    One would hope.

    At the very least, I'm hopeful that this will be just bad enough to revamp our entire approach to pandemic prevention. Of course, memories are short, so even if we do allocate funding and resources to bolster prevention, in 20+ years, this will be a distant memory and people will be moving to cut, cut, cut again.

    Edit: The above reads like I'm rooting for catastrophe in order to have better prevention down the road. I'm obviously hoping that we get a hold of this asap.

  5. 1 minute ago, Larry T. Spider said:

    It’s definitely an ongoing conversation at my elementary school. Ultimately the state is going to have to have a funding mechanism for districts that shut down in Texas. We get funded based on attendance and 85% of that goes to salaries. 

    Same in California, I haven't been following that aspect too closely, but I hope the states have reached out to the schools to alleviate concerns and ensure they will get funding regardless. The last thing you want is schools making the decision to remain open based on funding (which of course, is likely what they're doing.)

  6. 4 minutes ago, Telegraph_it said:

    Thinking back on it now I traveled to Australia in November. Upon returning home I came down with high fever, body aches, dry cough, and fatigue. Second night the fever broke and it was like I wet the bed. Cough stayed around for a week but it didn’t seem that abnormal. 
     

    I don’t think this thing started spreading in Wuhan until December but it makes me wonder. 

    Hey look everybody, its patient zero! 

    Can we call it the Koala Virus?

  7. This is terrifying. I hope the information within is incorrect or embellished: 

    https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-11/italy-doctors-coronavirus-covid-19-quarantine-milan-health/

     

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    She said: "There are a lot of young people in our Intensive Care Units (ICUs) - our youngest is a 38-year-old who had had no comorbidities (underlying health problems).

    "A lot of patients need help with breathing but there are not enough ventilators.

    "They've told us that starting from now we'll have to choose who to intubate - priority will go to the young or those without comorbidities.

    "At Niguarda, the other big hospital in Milan, they are not intubating anyone over 60, which is really, really young."

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    He added: "You have no idea how many young people are here, I mean even 20-year-olds with no underlying conditions, in need of assisted breathing because of horrible pneumonia.

    "There aren’t the resources to screen doctors for Covid-19 anymore - they’re just telling them 'stay home if you have symptoms, otherwise come to work'."

    He continued: "Non-specialised medical graduates are being brought in.

    "At Milan’s Policlinico hospital they are dealing with 50 new pneumonia cases every day".

     

  8. 7 minutes ago, EMAWesome said:

    Dude, this virus only broke out about a month ago.  You don't just snap your fingers and create a vaccine.  If it was that easy we would have cures for every disease known to mankind.  And we are still the country everyone looked to as a model in these times.  As of yesterday there had been 1020 cases reported in a country with a population that will be right around 350 million after the census is finalized.  Compare that ratio to practically any other country on earth.  Turn the goddamn media off.  If the media actually told you how good we have it in this country compared to the rest of the world no one would ever have a reason to watch them and they know that.  That not only applies to this virus but to every supposed shortcoming the U.S. has that they won't shut up about.

    Please address the following question. I have zero confidence you will because your pattern is to make claims and when confronted with contrary facts or context, to disappear.

    So, here's the question if you are up for it:

    Do you think the fact that we are doing far less testing than other countries impacts the number of reported cases?

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