When in doubt, blame China. Or the last administration (Obama). Maybe blame the media, or the Deep State, yeah that sounds good. Anything to avoid taking responsibility or accountability for failures in leadership. That is the Trump Doctrine.
When in doubt, blame China. Or the last administration (Obama). Maybe blame the media, or the Deep State, yeah that sounds good. Anything to avoid taking responsibility or accountability for failures in leadership. That is the Trump Doctrine.
Time flies? Like I said, this virus is exposing our structural faults and flaws, especially in Public Health and Healthcare. Trump is acting "surprised" that African Americans have higher rates of death, even tho they have higher co-morbidity -- directly related to income and access disparities -- but he's gonna look into that.
Just waiting for the crisis to hit (white) rural red states with crappy healthcare, his "base" voters who fit the same poverty metrics.
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A dog in Hong Kong and a tiger in the Bronx zoo have tested positive for covid-19. The only reason we know that is because journalists have been reporting *facts*. We don't know what that means for human health, or Public Health policy, but the Trump Doctrine is all about obfuscating *facts* and portraying the press/media as Fake News or part of the Deep State.
Don't believe what you're reading or hearing, says the Dear Leader. And remember, only he can solve our problems!
Is it possible that the conservative political establishment consists of actual morons?
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Do we need a moron-interpreter at every interview with a Trump admin official?
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Trump is turning his pandemic, that has a projected death total of hundreds of thousands. into his personal $2 trillion slush fund.
https://www.axios.com/trump-inspecto...44483d847.html
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Pts no longer staying away from ER, and covid cases on the rise, so being on call is getting more challenging. Now, every little thing I do requires more consideration, more planning, and often much more time. It'll be a while before this starts to feel normal. Lot of reorganization at my hospital and we're now testing every patient that gets admitted irrespective of index of suspicion. Results still take far too long (usually not in until the following weekday). Serological tests haven't been rolled out yet, but there are large and growing supplies ready to be deployed upon official validation. Trials of convalescent plasma therapy starting. One thing I've been wondering about re. appropriate approach to ventilation in ICU-pts is being more widely discussed, with more evidence mounting that many of these pts don't have a typical ARDS phenotype, suggesting a possibility that rigid adherence to protocol-based approach for their treatment—as opposed to approach informed by physiology & clinical phenotype—may be doing harm. I don't want to be overly optimistic but think trials comparing different approaches to ventilation guided by clinical phenotype may have a great impact on outcomes in the absence of effective antiviral treatment & treatment of presumed cytokine storm.
There's continuing—and slowly growing—disappointment in our ministry of public health, esp. in their inadequate—and dodgy—communication strategy; I'm concerned about their Trumpian framing of how our strategy should be evaluated. Swedish parliament has voted to give our minority govt. greater authority to implement lockdown measures, subject to ongoing evaluation; important move, but perhaps belated (although unlikely govt. would've implemented such measures without explicit recommendation from ministry of public health even if it had had the authority). Easter coming up, will be a lot of time spent with family. It turns out our baby daughter loves curry and hindi music—who knew?! Must remember to give ourselves opportunities to keep discovering who we are.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Isn't it fairly normal to keep a patient with pneumonia in as upright a position as blood pressure will allow?
Congratulations America
Some of our media is getting bloody stupid. Sky keep spending half their time it seems wondering who is in charge of the country or why we don't have a deputy PM when not only has it been said that Raab is in charge but that if Raab is incapacitated then next in line to take over is the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak.
I hate to knock the media but this is just trite nonsense and a waste of everybodies time and breath. It would be good if the media started sending medical correspondents who know what they're talking about rather than political correspondents to some of the press conferences.
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The real issue is that they don't trust the speakers any longer. Are you very surprised?
Congratulations America
Repeatedly asking the same question only to get the same answer isn't clever.
Seperately this is good.
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This moron is running Florida...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-d...f?guccounter=1
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"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
That's good to hear.
I'm pretty scared. It feels like only a matter of when and not if I get it. I'm still having chemotherapy, thankfully, as I'm lucky enough to have it privately and at home; however it does mean nurse visits. These nurses go all around the region and come into contact with lots of people. They've recently been wearing PPE but it's still a massive worry. They have to ask people whether they show any symptoms in a call before they visit, but some morons haven't been honest and the nurse today said she saw somebody a few days ago with a cough and high temp. That's not uncommon with cancer patients, and they think it was a chest infection, but it defo feels like it's coming my way.
If/when I do get it I'm probably done for as I can't see how my body will be able to fight it (after 16 cycles and nearly 12 months of chemo.) I wonder what will be a nicer way to go. On sedation with a ventilator, relatively quickly, or the last stages of cancer. Dark thoughts, but thankfully there's a new Red Dwarf on in a few mins
Take care, Gogo.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/11/83217...19-supplies-go
That doesn't really sound to me like how a federal system distributing emergency supplies should work..Firms partnering on the Airbridge flights tell NPR that under their agreement with the White House and FEMA, roughly half the medical equipment in those deliveries is theirs to sell however they like. The other half will be shipped to COVID-19 hotspots but not necessarily to the worst-hit hospitals. Once again, supplies go to existing customers.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
You snooze, you lose.
I hope some lessons can be learned from this once the dust has settled, but I'm not hopeful.
When the sky above us fell
We descended into hell
Into kingdom come