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- i_monk4
Teen Who Died of Covid-19 Was Denied Treatment Because He Didn't Have Health Insurance
- Paging Robo.PhanLo
- Urgent Care is a basic clinic. "The staff at the urgent care facility told the teen to try the emergency room at Antelope Valley (AV) Hospital"robotron3k
- But nice try Phan. BTW, never go to a walk-in clinic.robotron3k
- no, they asked if he had insurance first. then they told the teen to try the emergency room_niko
- Interesting "The teen’s death has been removed from the official U.S. death toll" because they believe there was another medical condition in play?!robotron3k
- Robo don't be a bobo.PhanLo
- They didn't gave her the slugs treatment because she was a Bactrian!
Asoka the greatest!
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- Ianbolton-6
SO here's my beef right. We have people who are working on the front-line of the NHS who haven't had COVID-19. We are severely under prepared and there's a good chance some will die. That's fucked up. Do we even know if once you've had this you can get it again? Or spread it? And if you can't, why the fuck should i be enforced into a lockdown with everyone else? Can I choose to be drafted in to work on the frontlines of the NHS to save lives if i'm now invulnerable? Just ranting guys. 7 days locked in a tiny house while it's beautiful outside it's driving me insane. AND I'VE RUN OUT OF FUCKING BANANAS
- if it helps to scare you to stayathome: no proof nor data that proofs immunity yet...most probably yes, but they don‘t know.uan
- yeah you can volunteer, i'm not sure how you missed the callout...kingsteven
- https://is.gd/K3srx0…kingsteven
- Well, this could end up like the flu and come back every year.Maaku
- yup, volunteer for the NHSfadein11
- Ate two bananas today as they were getting past their best. Feed bad now.webazoot
- Also I thought you said you thought you had it?fadein11
- Sorry, slightly tongue in cheek post. Yes, I had it but I couldn't get a test because I wasn't ill enough for hospital. Thanks for the NHS link dude. :-)Ianbolton
- I'm obviously going to stay indoors by the way, just wasn't sure why after 3 months we didn't know if we can spread or catch it again - once we've had it.Ianbolton
- Bennn2
Canadian Gov. is planning for a scenario that would end in August and there would be a major hit to the economy.
- Nairn2
The people who own all the buildings around here have stated that they will continue to collect rent, although may be amenable to some delay and would accept payments piecemeal. But it's all got to be paid.
The buildings around here are pretty much entirely filled with creatives of all flavours, including a great number on the bottom rungs with shitty service jobs supporting their endeavours otherwise.
I am literally the only person in at the moment - all the other people running businesses within earshot have closed down.
Money is absolutely everything to some cunts.
I'm interested to see how this willpan out.
I've got a good mind to write to some media outlets - particularly the ones Said Owners courted a few years ago when they were showing off about what 'they created' (they didn't - they let others do all the work and then happily raised rent prices every 18 months - no matter that this is all ex-industrial and they're fucking lucky to be getting any money at all given how poorly they'd delat with things the decades prior).
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I say this as someone who's going to carry on working and isn't intending to take any government payments personally (I'm hoping my partner may get some monies as she's timed everythignterribly what with just coming out of maternity, etc, the selfish cow) - I'm just seeing the decision through the optics of the majority around here.
- yeah and I'll bet you anything the landlords gave already gotten a mortgage deferral from the banks. Greedy fucks._niko
- My partner's actually prepared a CV for stacking fucking shelves in supermarkets. Ok, there's nothing wrong with honest work, But I'm so pissed off for her.Nairn
- The CV is remarkably empty, given how much of a successful career she's had otherwise, in TV and Film production.
No good for Tesco though 'lol'.Nairn - I'm adamant that she shouldn't bother - we'd just end up having to pay childcare anyway, or I stop working, neither of which really help matters.Nairn
- That's fine. it's useful work. I'd rather my hard earned money go to someone like her than paying a millionaire to put a ball in a hoop over and over again._niko
- Just for the record, the banks are not giving mortgage deferrals for commercial properties. That being said your landlord should do everything he can to help...zarkonite
- I'd be surprised to learn that these buildings aren't owned out-right, sans mortgage. But yeah, I'd expect them to hold off for a week or two before announcingNairn
- I don't deal with them directly - this is all from an email that was sent by the people who run the studios here, late last night.Nairn
- That's a noble move, nairn - you just know some fuckers will apply for everything going, whether they need it or not. I thought about working p/t in a supermktFax_Benson
- but will hold out for as long as possible - reckon others will need the job before I do.Fax_Benson
- it's not noble at all - i've been very lucky in that my crappy wee network has some great people who have dumped work in my lap when they know I need it mostNairn
- omahadesigns-11
- wrong thread?Bennn
- bobobodesigns strikes againmonospaced
- Why do you upload "memes" in every single thread?utopian
- Ramanisky21
- Oof. that's at the extreme end of accounts I've read but you can immediately understand how dangerous it is if you're older / unwell.Fax_Benson
- Just been told that someone in a warehouse adjacent to the one I lived in for years came out of a week and a half's Intensive Care with C-19Nairn
- I've no idea who it is, but the people that live in that environment aren't in their 70s and upwards (sure, there's a few 60-somethings)Nairn
- And yeah, these tweets were not a jolly read.Nairn
- Again, sounds exactly like what i had in December, thought i was a goner on a couple of occasions was off work for 3 weeks leading up to Christmas...kingsteven
- Impressive how hes managed to tweet his 'normal' output over the past couple of weeks considering all that. Think I'd take a day or two off.webazoot
- mg330
I know everyone has seen this map, but does it blow any else's mind to see just how much travel just take place on a daily basis for this virus to be showing up in just about every place on earth? And I mean far-flung islands thousands of miles from major land masses. It's just mesmerizing to try and connect the dots on how this evolved and spread and showed up at some of these islands? Or, in remote-as-hell northern Russia in a place called Sakha (Yakutia) Republic? Or in Canada's Northwest Territories, where there's one case as of today?
- it doesn't blow my mind at all - and I don't mean that in any big-headed way, just that I'm in LDN and have been flying and around airports since I was 5Nairn
- long-range consumer travel wasn't novel in the 80s when I started flying, and sure af isn't now, 40 years later. The human world is a tiny, tiny large place.Nairn
- Nairn1
Just been told that a litre of Isopropanol is going for £100 in some places.
*eyes 50Ltr barrel in corner of studio.
- like fuck I'm going to bother selling it, before anyone jumps down my throat!Nairn
- I wouldn't judge you.
It's not like you acquired those 50 litres with the *intent* to flip them at a handsome profit, right?Continuity
- Nairn1
Design job I have to do this weekend - stickers for a friend's food biz that will be giving away 100ml bottles of sanitiser with delivered orders. He's set up a kitchen to make the stuff - thousands in the pipeline. He's also spent a small fortune on military grade masks for his delivery drivers. He good people. Me, I'm sat on my ass trying to make dinero for me, myself and I.
- The stickers are for the bottles - that wasn't very clear.Nairn
- Ramanisky20
Dr. Birx has gone full MAGABOBO ...
especially at 5:56 .... America is fucked.- Thoughts and prayazzzzz.
Tiptopalypse Now.PhanLo - She was an Obama appointee. She has a pretty impressive background, especially as it relates to infectious disease. Seems like the right person for the job.SteveJobs
- Birx: "He's been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data. And I think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out ofRamanisky2
- his long history in business is...a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues."
#MAGABOBORamanisky2 - I was initially concerned by her fashion entire...she always looks like she is headed to a Vogue fashion shoot right after the press briefing. #AttentionWhoreutopian
- I think for the most part she seems ok, just weird they always pull the jesus into things.
I know for a lot of people believing in something help them through..PhanLo - ...but none of the briefings are like this in the UK.PhanLo
- Thoughts and prayazzzzz.
- NBQ000
Italy highest increase in new deaths. Today 919 new dead
- :(Krassy
- why? :-OBennn
- Vast majority are very elderly with multiple other diseases, and the virus got deep into medical facilities thereBustySaintClaire
- busty, i think the why is 'why are the numbers going back up?' not 'why won't someone just state the bloody obvious?'kingsteven
- Nutter2
16 year old girl dies of Covid-19 in France.
- Beeswax2
Little tip:
Last year I grew some magic mushrooms at home. You have to be extremely sterile to be able to grow some because psych mushrooms are super fragile against any contaminants.I learned this. If you have Isopropyl or Ethanol alcohol at home diluting it with water to make it 60%-70% percent alcohol is better than using at 90%-100% grade.
That water helps to penetrate the cellular membrane.I prepared a one litre bottle and wiping everything that comes in the house with that solution.
http://www.wisegeek.org/why-is-a…
"Ethanol, for example, works best against microorganisms at about 70% concentration, as it is easily absorbed by cells. At much higher concentrations, it coagulates proteins on the cell surface, preventing further penetration; microbes are often able to survive this, although they may be temporarily inactivated."
also
"Ethanol seems to be slightly more effective than isopropyl alcohol against viruses, while the reverse appears to be true for bacteria."
- FedEx me a sample :)Ramanisky2
- how were the shrooms tho?Krassy
- ^That's really the more important question, here. We demand answers!Continuity
- ^ yes ... also send me a sampleRamanisky2
- QBN care packageKrassy
- So everclear would be a good drink for Corona?robotron3k
- didnt get the chance to try them out. Microdosed one day and felt hyperactive. Waiting for a better weather to go to the beach.Beeswax
- I have enough for one maybe two good trips. I'd really send otherwise.Beeswax
- @robo definitely! Then you won't need corona to die. Cant imagine any sane person drinking that.Beeswax
- They grow in grain fed cow turds ...ayport
- This is, in an incidental sense, why i have a 50Ltr Barrel of Iso in my studio :)Nairn
- utopian0
Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 'is not a laboratory construct'
- Doesn't rule out Wuhan Virus Lab, taking delivery of wild animals(with the virus) to use in tests, then discarding and someone selling them at the market.shapesalad
- ^ yupKrassy
- "Study concludes" Ah, OK then. LOLKrassy
- From the people who brought you WMD.Chimp
- Any particular reason not to believe a study by scientists who work in the field over random theories?yuekit
- So they've been eating bats since forever but this one little "accident" escalated globally and Italy has more deaths than China's ground zero.Maaku
- Sure, most be a natural accident.Maaku
- sted2
- Macklemore has a gimp in his entourage?Ramanisky2
- Till Lindemann?Continuity
- Oh, shit, it *is* Till Lindemann!Continuity
- tested negative: https://www.blabberm…Krassy
- thanks Krassy!sted
- SteveJobs0
I've been doing some digging and the data from China is looking to be substantiated by the data coming from other countries. Pay attention to the dates below, though, as some of this data is many weeks behind, albeit still relevant.
So, as morbid of a thought as it may be, basically most members of this site who contract COVID 19 have an approximate 1 in 1000 chance of death.
https://ourworldindata.org/coron…
To put this in perspective, here are the odds of death by other causes. You're basically in the same range of dying from drowning or smoke or fire. Maybe not something to be get too excited over, but it may ease some minds a little.
- it's far less man. there are a lot of mild symptomatic and asymptomatic cases in all age groups that don't get tested.kingsteven
- but yes, agree in point. it's very unlikely you'll die from covid-19 if you dont have a serious underlying health condition.kingsteven
- Yes, it mentions the limitations in the chart but it still serves as a good worse case scenario point of reference for the many here who are concerned.SteveJobs
- Not afraid of this thing, more afraid of the economic fallout.grafician
- coronavirus: mostly imaginary
the economy: mostly imaginarykingsteven - let me rephrase:
coronavirus threat: mostly imaginary.
the economy: imaginary.
the economic threat: very real.kingsteven - The issue is not a shortage of coffins but a shortage of hospital beds.deadsperm
- Yes, the state of the economy is a real threat. My lack of mentioning it isn't meant to diminish it, but to point out a different issue to any it might interestSteveJobs
- Isn't it less about WHAT you might die of but WHEN? I may die of smoke inhalation or cancer, but Covid19 is knocking at our doors right this minutehardhat
- I see your point, but its a bit apples & pears. but yes, we're collectively unlikely to die or get super sick from ithardhat
- yuekit0
Found this interesting from utopian's link above...
https://directorsblog.nih.gov/20…
So, what is the natural origin of the novel coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic? The researchers don’t yet have a precise answer. But they do offer two possible scenarios.
In the first scenario, as the new coronavirus evolved in its natural hosts, possibly bats or pangolins, its spike proteins mutated to bind to molecules similar in structure to the human ACE2 protein, thereby enabling it to infect human cells. This scenario seems to fit other recent outbreaks of coronavirus-caused disease in humans, such as SARS, which arose from cat-like civets; and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which arose from camels.
The second scenario is that the new coronavirus crossed from animals into humans before it became capable of causing human disease. Then, as a result of gradual evolutionary changes over years or perhaps decades, the virus eventually gained the ability to spread from human-to-human and cause serious, often life-threatening disease.
- i've read the strain it most resembles is one most commonly found in snakes, so it's probably transferred between species multiple times to get to us.kingsteven
- Apparently they can track the strains, it's varieties and how it travelsrobotron3k
- yeah keep thinking of the walking dead. in the first season they tracked down that scientists who revealed "it's always been inside us"_niko
- 5GBeeswax
- "You are the Caretaker. You've ALWAYS been the Caretaker. I should know Sir, I've ALWAYS been here."microkorg
- hahahayuekit
- grafician2
Apple released a screening tool!
https://www.apple.com/covid19/
"COVID-19 Screening Tool
This tool can help you understand what to do next about COVID-19.Let’s all look out for each other by knowing our status, trying not to infect others, and reserving care for those in need."
- NBQ000
Well, somehow I‘m thinking China is BS‘ing with their numbers.
But then I look at South Korea and they seem to have low numbers constantly too.
Remember when people were saying it seems to be affecting only Asians?
- people are full of shitekingsteven
- Zero chance China is being honestGnash
- China is finish with Corona they on to Hanta20 in Yunnan Province now. Way less symptoms you just drop dead.robotron3k
