Is refusing to be tested a radical choice?

 

You mother fuckers are thinking, if those that contract CoVid have a death sentence....

Will this be the new social consensus for every virus that comes along?

Every virus, unfortunately, has a death toll, you folks are magnifying this beyond reality.

 

HOUSTON (AP) — The coronavirus kept surging in hot spots around the U.S. on Thursday, with one city in South Carolina urging people to pray it into submission, a hospital in Texas bringing in military medical personnel and morgues running out of space in Phoenix.

Record numbers of confirmed infections and deaths emerged again in states in the South and West, with hospitals stretched to the brink and fears worldwide that the pandemic’s resurgence is only getting started.

Texas reported 10,000 new cases for the third straight day and 129 additional deaths. The state has seen a third of its more than 3,400 total COVID-19 fatalities in the first two weeks of July alone.

Florida reached another ominous record, with 156 virus deaths, and health officials reported a staggering 13,965 new cases.

South Carolina confirmed 69 deaths, more than double any other day. In Louisiana, where officials thought they had contained the virus earlier this year only to become a hot spot again, it’s averaged more than 2,000 new confirmed infections a day over the past week.

Many of the governors leading states with the highest rising numbers had refused to mandate masks in public or prevented local officials doing so. While a number of them have reversed course — including Arkansas’ Republican governor — and at least 25 states now have mask rules, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp banned cities and counties from requiring face coverings and then sued Atlanta to prevent the city from defying his order.

Georgia’s capital and 14 other cities had ordered masks be worn, but the Republican governor has maintained that no local directive can be more or less restrictive than his statewide mandates.

“How can we take care of our local needs when our state ties our hands behind our back and then says, ‘Ignore the advice of experts?’” Savannah Mayor Van Johnson told reporters. He later added: “If you don’t want to protect us, then allow us the opportunity to protect ourselves.”

Arizona, meanwhile, has been so hard hit by the virus, the medical examiner’s office in metro Phoenix has gotten portable storage coolers and ordered more to handle an influx of bodies — reminiscent of New York City at the height of the pandemic there earlier this year.

The Arizona agency’s regular morgue storage was 63% full Thursday. Marcy Flanagan, executive director of the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, said many funeral homes are at capacity and unable to accept more bodies.

In Texas, the rising numbers are hitting big cities like Houston as well as smaller communities along the Mexico border. This month, Hidalgo County, about 220 miles (354 kilometers) south of San Antonio on the border, has reported more deaths than Houston’s Harris County.

Dr. Ivan Melendez, Hidalgo County’s public health authority, said it’s not uncommon for the body of a COVID-19 patient to lay on a stretcher for 10 hours before it can be removed in the overcrowded hospitals where intensive care space is running short.

“Before someone gets a bed in the COVID ICU unit, someone has to die there,” Melendez said.

Elsewhere in the second-largest state, health officials in San Antonio also turned to refrigerated trailers to store the dead, and soldiers prepared to take over a COVID-19 wing of a Houston hospital.

An 86-person Army team of doctors, nurses and support staff was setting up a nursing station at United Memorial Medical Center and expected to begin treating up to 40 patients in the coming days.

Some of the soldiers from around the country wore their uniforms. Others wore scrubs affixed with strips of surgical tape that had their ranks, names and medical titles.

 

From a similar article published just 5 hours ago

Statistically speaking, erasing all emotion from the equation...this is nothing at all.

 

Democrat PPE proposals may give China billions in taxpayer dollars
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 7:30 PM PT — Thursday, July 16, 2020

Mainland China appears to be capitalizing on the coronavirus outbreak as it continues to dominate the global trade in personal protective equipment. Meanwhile, some Democrats are calling for more PPE purchases. One America’s Kristian Rouz looks into the matter.

 

How long before the Airforce have to fly sick people to other states with spare hospital beds or strip other states equipment to give to the hot spots to use in army field hospital's.

 

In the UK we have been doing this for weeks up to 10 planes loads a day.And it flown in by Chinese aircraft

 

Here is the thing Ace........you are right that every virus has a death toll...............and we know a lot about every virus except covid-19..........it is new to us and to our immune systems.

Now when ebola breaks out we combat it with effort and expertise because it is fucking deadly but ebola never killed as many as Covid-19 already has!

Thinskin

 

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — Coronavirus cases have been increasing throughout Florida for weeks.
And hospitals are feeling the impact. { Hillsborough Co. is Tampa }

About 2,600 people were hospitalized across the state in the last week.

As a result, hundreds of nurses from other parts of the state are on their way to the Bay area to help at hospitals. And there's even talk about opening up a special skilled nursing center just for Covid-19 patients.

In Pinellas County, the medical director of Pinellas emergency services told commissioners Thursday the surge hospitals had braced for is happening now and medical professionals are "stressed and exhausted."

According to Spectrum Bay News 9 partner newspaper the Tampa Bay Times, an emergency room doctor at Tampa General Hospital said patients are younger and sicker than a few months ago.

To put it in perspective, in March, April and May, the hospital saw about 15 coronavirus patients each day. Now, there are often 70 or more. About 40 percent of those patients end up in the ICU, officials said.

According to the Agency for Health Care Administration, as of Friday, about 18 percent of all hospital beds for the Bay area are available.

Here's the breakdown:

Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco counties all have about 18 percent of beds available.

Citrus and Hernando counties are in better shape, with Citrus at about 25 percent of beds available and Hernando at 28 percent.

Polk has only about 16 percent of beds available and Manatee is reporting the fewest beds with about 11 percent available.

The number of available beds changes frequently and hospitals can move things around to create more space when needed.

Even more daunting, though, Baycare officials said they're bringing in additional refrigeration supplies in case existing morgues need to be expanded.

Advent Health officials said it is also expecting a surge in Covid-19 patients and is taking action to keep staff and patients safe.

Starting Friday, any elective surgery in the Bay area requiring an overnight stay will be put on hold.

 

Looking for some good news about the virus and I found this on a vaccine in development at Oxford University!

The woman leading this effort has 21 year old triplets all studying biochemistry and they are enrolled in the vaccine trials!

Read it for yourself.........

Covid Vaccine Front-Runner Is Months Ahead of Her Competition

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...id-19-vaccine-is-the-coronavirus-front-runner

Thinskin

 

Just non-fuck you @shootersa this just really fucking pisses me off.

The EU is going back to normal and we are wallowing in a deadly crippling nightmare that is getting worse by the fucking day because of your mentally ill mad king dictator and a disastrous federal government he has corrupted and destroyed. And you sit there and cheer, lie and deny. Because you know .... The Chosen One.

 

This is the perfect metaphor for Trump trying to make the pandemic conform to his delusions and the blind parrot cult followers that try to help him.

Florida Closes Pandemic Response Center After 12 Employees Test Positive for COVID-19

https://www.thedailybeast.com/flori...employees-test-positive-for-covid-19?ref=home

 

@stumbler - ''It's like a nightmare isn't it? It just keeps getting worse''. I'm quoting a-part from the movie '' The Color of Money''. I think

 

Here's what pisses me off the most and I am actually jealous. I see other countries especially the EU easing back to normal. They are going back to work and school because it's safe to.

And here we are in the US and we started out doing the same thing they did. We locked down and suffered through it. We paid for that. And then Trump just fucking blew it. He threw all that suffering away and demanded States open back up because he thinks that will get him re elected.

And now the pandemic is worse than ever and we are dying because of that mentally ill non fucking fool

 

Ah well you get what you voted for.

If you didn't vote ,
you got what you deserve.

So in the end , basically , everybody got what they deserve.

 

Pressuring governors to open back up was a bad move. But not all of them caved in. The ones who opened to early have a real fuck show. And the ones who stayed the course saw the same results they are seeing in Europe and other parts of the world. But here’s what I don’t understand. Why don’t people want to follow the recommendations of the top health officials? Why do people have a problem with social distancing? Why do people think that the mask mandate is an infringement of their rights? That’s what I don’t get and I honestly think that’s the key to all of this. If people were to act responsibly this wouldn’t be so bad. I hear a lot of people talking about the protesters vs the trump campaigns. But if you notice the protesters wear masks and your hard pressed to find someone at a trump rally wearing a mask. And that’s what pisses me off. If that dick head would only put on a mask and tell his supporters to wear one you know they would. He says jump they say how high!

 

Say rear admiral motherfucker, don't you remember??
Trump sent the national guard into hospitals to steal their data so he could hide those increasing numbers of cases and deaths!!

And now hes sending covid infected operatives into testing labs to infect lab techs, and that will let Trump delay the election and in that way ..... win.

Or is it that he's now taken control of ALL the hospital data?? Which he could have done without telling anyone, cause you know, CDV is part of HHS.....

Next up.
TRUMP laces nations water supply with Covid to kill seniors off.

 

It's a fool's errand to think the spread will stop, it just aint gonna happen.

The more you fools think there is a smoking chance in hell that the spread will stop, you only bang your head against the wall.

This mother fucker is going to take the natural course that all virus's take...spread, that's what this stuff does...spread...spread...spread.

Any measures that are suggested or mandated by Government idiots to stop the spread, are doing it for political reasons...you chicken little the sky is falling sheepish fools are falling for it, or promoting it for political reasons.