Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Letting Florida and Georgia walk point works, too. I feel for their citizens, but if they get virused all to hell in two-three weeks some of the others might listen a little.

 

The thing is, even if we get virused all to hell, it won't be noticeable in two-three weeks, but in five weeks at the earliest, by which time it'll be too far past the opening and lots of other states will have at least partially opened too, so there won't be as obvious a link.

 

Ousting vaccine chief ‘is going to set us back,’ former FDA head says

 

Maybe. It's not like they've adhered to the guidelines closely. A couple of Alabama counties have suddenly blown up into hot spots. Whether its a meat packing plant, or a nursing home, aftermath of a church or a a demonstration, there are already some pockets out there cooking, sure as hell. If you get one of those, is it handled quickly and well, or does it get the response get booted and it spreads?

 

We may never know, because those two states will simply stop reporting numbers if they break bad.

 

From a former stop.
Workers at Hanford meat packing plant infected with coronavirus

 

great job america

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...-includes-attempts-stop-abortion/?arc404=true

 

Again, it's an immense trolley problem. Who lives? Who dies?


A bioethicist on the hidden costs of lockdown in Italy | Aeon Essays

As a bioethicist, I can’t help but reflect on the situation with my professional hat on. A major ethical issue during the Italian crisis has been the fact that doctors have been thrust into a position of responsibility for allocating healthcare resources under conditions of dramatic and unexpected scarcity. After the Lodi outbreak, hospitals in Lombardy quickly reached capacity, with beds laid out in camp-like conditions, and with an insufficient number of respirators and ventilators for all the patients who required them. The Italian College of Anaesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care tried to make the decision criteria for access to intensive care transparent, to relieve some of the pressure placed on doctors. The document they released in early March aimed to guarantee ventilators for patients with the highest probability of therapeutic success – that is, those with the ‘highest hope of survival’. The criteria adopted were utilitarian: age and pre-existing medical conditions were factors that pushed a patient down the line.

 

agreed