Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Take the Shutdown Skeptics Seriously

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/take-shutdown-skeptics-seriously/611419/

It didn’t have much evidence for some claims unfortunately.

I think that is because we are in uncharted waters. Here is an article about the surge of suicides attributed to the 2008 recession.

More Than 10,000 Suicides Tied To Economic Crisis, Study Says

https://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2014/06/12/more-than-10000-suicides-tied-to-economic-crisis-study-says/#40544c0e7ae2

I actually have known a few people that have committed suicide because of business failure. Contrary to popular belief, suicide doesn't void life insurance claims if you have had the life insurance for more than a couple of years. These poor people felt they were worth more dead than alive.

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ORIGINAL: Nomad

Here is a sad story about Covid-19 and the Navajo. https://apnews.com/c77cc3c537c9a2510b67dcb631b4d988

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ORIGINAL: RFalvo69

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Take the Shutdown Skeptics Seriously

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/take-shutdown-skeptics-seriously/611419/

It didn’t have much evidence for some claims unfortunately.

I think that is because we are in uncharted waters. Here is an article about the surge of suicides attributed to the 2008 recession.

More Than 10,000 Suicides Tied To Economic Crisis, Study Says

https://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2014/06/12/more-than-10000-suicides-tied-to-economic-crisis-study-says/#40544c0e7ae2

I actually have known a few people that have committed suicide because of business failure. Contrary to popular belief, suicide doesn't void life insurance claims if you have had the life insurance for more than a couple of years. These poor people felt they were worth more dead than alive.

It is important, however, to remember that stress, fear and quarantine can increase suicide tendencies in clinically depressed people - even if they are not economically desperate. It is a variant of one of those scenarios when people die due to the virus but not of the virus.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

We know everything – and nothing – about Covid

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/we-know-everything-and-nothing-about-covid

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In Groningen in northern Holland the overall death rate is up just 4 per cent on last year, while in North Brabant, in the south of the country, the death rate has doubled.

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Are you implying that these would not be needed if the restrictions were not to be relaxed?

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you have some "unproven allegations" there?

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Yo...vaccine guys....Hurry up!

Gone to full face masks in the office too. No scribes. Takes forever to run a Zoom telehealth visit because it takes time to set up and you can't contemporaneously document. I takes at least 30 minutes of bullshit to see a suspected finger fracture and then you have to bring them in to X-ray and splint it. Sure, you could have an RN screen them but the RN's are busy doing COVID testing. Our main office LVN's are both out but thankfully are negative for COVID. I saw 18 patients yesterday and it felt like a 10 mile hike with a 40 lb pack and 4000 ft gain.

Hospital call this weekend and the night time triage nurse filling in from Northern Calif somewhere didn't know s*** about pediatrics and put every damn call through. You go to sleep at 8 because you are tired from the night before and then they deliberately time the calls to catch you when you have just reached REM sleep. I can't imagine what all those poor bastards in Italy went through.

I am so ready to go to Maui and stick my feet in the sand and drink G&T's all day

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Yo...vaccine guys....Hurry up!

Gone to full face masks in the office too. No scribes. Takes forever to run a Zoom telehealth visit because it takes time to set up and you can't contemporaneously document. I takes at least 30 minutes of bullshit to see a suspected finger fracture and then you have to bring them in to X-ray and splint it. Sure, you could have an RN screen them but the RN's are busy doing COVID testing. Our main office LVN's are both out but thankfully are negative for COVID. I saw 18 patients yesterday and it felt like a 10 mile hike with a 40 lb pack and 4000 ft gain.

Hospital call this weekend and the night time triage nurse filling in from Northern Calif somewhere didn't know s*** about pediatrics and put every damn call through. You go to sleep at 8 because you are tired from the night before and then they deliberately time the calls to catch you when you have just reached REM sleep. I can't imagine what all those poor bastards in Italy went through.

I am so ready to go to Maui and stick my feet in the sand and drink G&T's all day

I went to the bank yesterday. Drive thru. One person in the bank, he was gloved and masked. We sent our paperwork into the tube and into the teller. The teller pulled out a disposable wipe, wiped the tube down, processed our paperwork, wiped the tube again, sent it back and then he gingerly changed his rubber gloves.

Not sure if that is the technique for every transaction....just for ours.

We were the only car at the drive thru teller for the entire process. In normal times, all lanes would have been filled.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Anxiety From Reactions to Covid-19 Will Destroy At Least Seven Times More Years of Life Than Can Be Saved by Lockdowns

https://www.justfacts.com/news_covid-19_anxiety_lockdowns_life_destroyed_saved

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ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

Minnesota, Texas and Arizona are big states trending up (bad). Can't figure out how Vermont is doing so well and New Hampshire isn't. Happy to say New York continues to be among the lowest R0 states in the Continental U.S. Some of the mid=state will have partial reopening Friday and most of the rest is getting close. These are partial reopening, not much at first, but the trends are excellent. Economy-wise tourism will be last, but much of the rest of the economic engine should come back on line over the summer. I think they are waiting for after the Memorial Day weekend to open some things like the beaches (that's me, beach rat, big, ocean waves and swim out until the life guard has to whistle for me to come in). Transit and schools are the big challenge but they have a plan for both. Germany and Korea had to relock some hot spots. In both cases the hotspots were centered around bars and clubs so that's a good data point. Can't figure out how they are going to open up much of the offices in NYC while PPE is still a bit difficult to find and employers are required to provide. Better, but if you figure 1 mask , per person , per day, that is millions of masks per day.
https://covid19-projections.com/infections-tracker/

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Sitrep in PA:

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The State's decision making on which businesses can open, are considered essential, was secret. One building contractor could, another couldn't even though they did the same type of construction, etc.

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

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ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

Yesterday I had my first experience of being with someone as they slowly died. He was mentally disabled, and had very little verbal communication. In the past few weeks our bond had became stronger. In the past month The only time he wanted to get out of bed and sit in his chair was when I was there.

Yesterday he kept wanting me to get him out of bed. I could not do it. It was too painful for him for me to move him and I did not want to put neither one of us through it.


I was alone with him for hours yesterday morning. Three times he told me "It's Sunday". Sunday was a special day for him. No one had heard that in months.


Then he told me "They're coming". A minute later "No...No."



It had nothing to do with Coronavirus.

Man, that is hard. Hope he wasn't truly fearful in the end

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ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

Minnesota, Texas and Arizona are big states trending up (bad). Can't figure out how Vermont is doing so well and New Hampshire isn't. Happy to say New York continues to be among the lowest R0 states in the Continental U.S. Some of the mid=state will have partial reopening Friday and most of the rest is getting close. These are partial reopening, not much at first, but the trends are excellent. Economy-wise tourism will be last, but much of the rest of the economic engine should come back on line over the summer. I think they are waiting for after the Memorial Day weekend to open some things like the beaches (that's me, beach rat, big, ocean waves and swim out until the life guard has to whistle for me to come in). Transit and schools are the big challenge but they have a plan for both. Germany and Korea had to relock some hot spots. In both cases the hotspots were centered around bars and clubs so that's a good data point. Can't figure out how they are going to open up much of the offices in NYC while PPE is still a bit difficult to find and employers are required to provide. Better, but if you figure 1 mask , per person , per day, that is millions of masks per day.
https://covid19-projections.com/infections-tracker/