Oh come on. Let he who is without sin throw the first stone.an upright member of the community in the PNW but was kicked out for murder
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Oh come on. Let he who is without sin throw the first stone.an upright member of the community in the PNW but was kicked out for murder
I could definitely use something to flatten my world.maybe they need some stronger chit.
No. It's proof that our health care system in general, and public health agencies in particular, were woefully unprepared for the pandemic, and are apparently using an unreliable test.
Are you saying that scientists at Harvard and other universities are part of a global conspiracy because they did studies that showed that PCR tests, at the cycle threshold we are running in the US, have a high rate of false positives? Are they part of a global conspiracy because they want a more reliable test? Are they part of a global conspiracy because they want the test results earlier so that people that are positive can quarantine sooner and stop the spread of the virus?
I'm confused.
Well that sucks.One of my wife's coworkers has her 80 year old mother living with her. Her niece wanted to come visit her in California. So she told her niece to test and if negative, come stay with her. Coworker, because of her mom, has been testing regularly. Always negative. Sometime after nieces arrival, mom, who never leaves the house, gets sick. She tests positive. Coworker tests positive as well. She asks niece to test again. Turns out the niece didn't test the first time because she thought the whole COVID thing was a hoax. Mom dies alone in the hospital from COVID. Coworker is in the hospital fighting for her life. She has asthma and things aren't looking good.
It is.Okay, I get that but isn't the problem that our health care system can't handle the load the even a small % of the population getting this sickness that requires a high resource cost to manage?
Isn't that the issue?
Intubated 5 patients in 4 hours yesterday.Do you think the stories of the hospitals being overwhelmed are fake?
I doubt there's anything they can do about this. Latinos seem to realize it spreads worse in their community. I see them all wearing masks, even when they're just out walking as a family. The problem is they live in higher density, multi-generational housing and much higher rates than whites. This feeds into the secondary attack rate and there's nothing they can do about this. They also work real jobs where they're out in the community. They may have obesity at higher rates than whites and asians which is the main risk factor for serious complications after old age. The one lady in our church who got COVID and then pneumonia was obese and not particularly old. The very old in our church are mostly thin and seem like they're doing well.Couple of funny things in regards to CA right now
a) CA numbers are high because of the latino population. San Diego latino population is 30% but they represent 55% of all hospitalizations. Infection rate is 6x higher then every population group in the county. CA officials need to address this cultural aspect openly - would save lives - they won't because they're about feelz.
My grandparents are in their late 90s in a CA nursing home and are getting it. I wonder, will any record be kept of who was vaccinated and whether they still died of COVID or had an adverse event? As I stated above, Pfizer is prone to lying. Their plan seems to be to throw the vaccine over the wall, deny any culpability from the vaccine itself (blame the customer), and get paid. Every medical intervention has some risks, so it may well be that this vaccine is no more dangerous than any other medical intervention, but we won't know if we don't collect more data and Pfizer won't TELL THE TRUTH.b) Red states already vaccinating high risk and over 75s. Doing it everywhere from grocery stores to retirement communities. WTF California?
Keep posting. You're pretty much the only reliable source of news on this besides the data on Worldometers and the JHU website.Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. This volume argues that medical nihilism is a compelling view of modern medicine. If we consider the frequency of failed medical interventions, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods in medicine, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions ought to be low. Part I articulates theoretical and conceptual groundwork, in which Jacob Stegenga offers a defence of a hybrid theory of disease, which forms the basis of a novel account of effectiveness, and applies this to pharmacological science and to issues such as medicalization. Part II critically examines details of medical research. Even the very best methods in medical research, such as randomized trials and meta-analyses, are malleable and suffer from various biases. Methods of measuring the effectiveness of medical interventions systematically overestimate benefits and underestimate harms. Part III summarizes the arguments for medical nihilism and what this position entails for medical research and practice. To evaluate medical nihilism with care, Stegenga states the argument in formal terms. Medical nihilism suggests that medical research must be modified, that clinical practice should be less aggressive in its therapeutic approaches, and that regulatory standards should be enhanced.
I don't think that is the issue.Like I've told you from the beginning: you have to tell people the truth about this stuff, otherwise they're going to find out for themselves and they're not going to trust you.
Not casa, but same line of work."But the truth is it's mostly something from the the sniffles to the flu. For the vast majority of people."
Casa.....if a person comes in with severe flu like symptoms and gets a positive Covid-19 test.....is the treatment protocol any different compared to the person that comes in with severe flu like symptoms and tests negative?
For example...for the flu and some breathing issues....do you administer oxygen and possibly put them on a CPAP?
But if they're Covid-19 positive....do you skip the oxygen / CPAP route and go straight to intubation?
This right here! Who sets the standards for what is the truth? No matter what truth you are telling, there are others claiming proof of the contrary, conspiracy theorists selling distrust and half the population too dumb to know the difference.... TELLING THE TRUTH (this may be impossible in a post-truth society) ...
The pot smokers I call friends discuss stuff like:Can't tell you how many heavy weed users have talked to me about one conspiracy or another.
Good to see my old friends are still up to much ado about nothing.The pot smokers I call friends discuss stuff like:
1 - Is it better to love someone who doesn't love you or is it better to be loved by someone you don't love?
2 - What is it with time?
3 - Remember that time when you did that thing and we all were laughing so hard we forgot what started it? Do you remember what we were laughing about? Me neither!
4 - Who does reverb the best now? You know what would be good, classical orchestral music with reverb. I'd totally buy that.
5 - Lets get some delivery and watch old surf movies.
6 - We should be camping. Lets go camping this summer. Why don't we do that anymore? Remember that time we went camping and we stopped to help at that car wreck? Did you ever stay in touch with them? The ambulance people, not the people in the wreck.
7 - Can we not talk about politics? Or physics. Or law. How about ex-partners or highschool flings?