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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2021 13:28:15 GMT
India is having trouble and has hospitals unable to manage the numbers.
While hospitalizations have moderated here, the ICU cases and on ventilators are a majority of retained admissions. Mask mandates are being relaxed a bit. I had a service call Friday and the fellow responded on the phone he had been vaccinated and I was able to reply in kind. We were still distanced in the apt and he will be spending more time here tomorrow.
The population in my town is around 15,000 (7 villages) and there have been about 100 (roughly 6% of those testing positive) associated deaths with a bit more than 10% of the town testing positive. I remain fairly housebound, so I haven't seen retail and medical offices protocols. Most of my appointments the past year have been on the phone. I dread an impending visit to one of the big hospitals but I can't get a ct scan over the phone.
Anyway, things will remain in flux here in the US and the promises that even if one gets sick after vaccinated, there is less likely a chance for being hospitalized.
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Post by pgandy on May 8, 2021 0:56:07 GMT
SHTF here. Our hospitals are maxed out. Yesterday there were 48 patients without a bed; today there are 54 with nearly 2400 new cases. And the people don’t seem to help themselves. Monday was Labour Day, a holiday so the people decided to party. The police broke up 284, no telling how many more went undetected. At least Hazel stopped getting after me about not going anywhere and staying home trying to convince me the worse had blown over and that I was overly cautious. It looks like India is worse off as I saw them picking up bodies from the streets.
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Post by pgandy on May 13, 2021 0:51:07 GMT
Our hospitals are maxed out, there is as waiting line. 3 died in their homes yesterday, and we had +3100 new cases. Situation not good.
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Post by pgandy on May 14, 2021 23:57:06 GMT
32 died yesterday, a record, with 3,039 new case, the second highest in a single day. It's getting worse, not better.
The evening news just came on and it's 33 today.
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Post by paulmuaddib on May 15, 2021 0:24:39 GMT
Stay safe brother. Keeping you in my thoughts.
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Post by treeslicer on May 16, 2021 19:27:17 GMT
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Post by pgandy on May 16, 2021 21:04:45 GMT
Thanks for the post. I had already come to this theory and that reinforces my actions. When necessary I’ve been catching an early bus that is less crowed than later one, and wait outside until the business opens. The driver leaves the door open driving in such a manner. It surprises me though that the passengers open very few windows. My first action is to open one, two if I can. As for taxis, as entering I open both rear windows. Again I’m surprised at how many people get into a closed system and continue breathing the same air over and over. A week or so back I carried my computer in to be serviced and buy ink. Although there was a sign that clearly limiting the space to 2 people the owner permitted 3. There was a man wearing his mask below his nose and would remove it from time to time to speak. I packed up my stuff and got out of there.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2021 21:35:16 GMT
This is old and tired news. China was already doing droplet and aerosol studies as we ushered in 2020. Positive pressure icu rooms used after initial surges in China. Testing for micron levels of covid both on the street and building entries occurring as early as December 2019. The highest concentrations of covid laden aerosols occuring in public bathrooms. Outlined again in this linked article, it may seem hindsight to some but the previous (now removed) thread here spoke of it early on (I know I did).
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Post by pgandy on May 16, 2021 21:45:05 GMT
It appears that some of us are slower receiving news.
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Post by treeslicer on May 16, 2021 23:17:21 GMT
This is old and tired news. The information that the 5 micron aerosol limit (blindly accepted by the medical community) has been tracked to its historical roots, and officially discredited before the bar of scientific opinion, isn't "old and tired news" at all. Any time that the textbooks are forced to change so fundamentally, is an occasion worth announcing.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2021 1:19:13 GMT
Articles were being written right after the zoom call and Marr was more or less shunned, yet the data already existed and the media was beginning to discuss the airborne factors more and more a year ago. The Lancet was publishing the Chinese Dec studies by February 2020. The WHO was also eventually linking to Li's Dec studies but simply started pushing numbers of cases, hospitalizations and death. The size of the micron is somewhat irrelevant if the majority were dismissing the airborne factor over simple indoor distancing.
Unfortunately the text changes don't bring back the dead, aside from assigning blame and ignorance. There is still a long way to go and as the report out of Costa Rica shows, too many will still be getting sick.
Then, we still have the populace that still considers it all a big hoax.
In all, my perspective is that some were listening and reading Marr's (and other's) findings at the source, some were turning off media and others depending on media they trust (word of mouth).
I am not discrediting the information except that to me, it is old and tired news.
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Post by pgandy on May 17, 2021 12:21:01 GMT
I am not discrediting the information except that to me, it is old and tired news. Because one has knowledge of events is not cause for a superior, mightier than thou attitude and discouraging others from obtaining the same information.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2021 13:29:33 GMT
I have always encouraged others in studying most any subject and had provided sources all along the way in the removed thread. I also welcome data, even if I may have a different perspective and opinion. I am sure there is a wealth of information and talent I will never grasp.
I don't know if you agree, or disagree with the sentence of mine you quoted.
I did start this thread to replace the other in order to share data and I'll repeat myself, I am not discrediting the information except that to me, it is old and tired news.
That is not discouragement. It is a perspective and opinion.
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Post by pgandy on May 18, 2021 0:53:22 GMT
3 days and 6,000 new cases later...
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2021 1:42:44 GMT
We may be undoing progress in the US but the northeast states are getting ready to remove a lot of masking requirements. Some restrictions will remain but Massachusetts particularly pushing for 100% of businesses to return to work as before. The New York Times has several sub articles relating to CT, MA and RI. www.nytimes.com/live/2021/05/16/world/covid-vaccine-coronavirus-cases?#vaccinations-virus-cases-drop-northeastIn many instances, there really is no way to screen who has been vaccinated and who has not. Schools, healthcare facilities and some other businesses will retain mask mandates but I fear that because the big box stores, such as Walmart and entertainment such as movies and indoor concerts particularly may seem less than the current reductions in case loads. While there has been a drop in serious cases, the majority of the cases making it to the icu are the very sick. Some of us have been very cautious out of common sense concerns and the vaccines another good step. When I got the Janssen one shot, I got the rap that even if getting sick, the vaccine would virtually guarantee that it would prevent hospitalization.. This just as more variants were hitting the news articles. I still avoid walking through this apartment building when there is foot traffic and keep a mask with me but I am becoming less concerned of using the elevator. Some will continue to shun a covid vaccine and I don't see that there will be carding at Walmart, concerts, movie theaters, etc. It is going to still be a matter of acting in good faith with a good dose of common sense. As an aside, I would suggest any over 50 to get the Shingrix vaccine. While not covid related, I wouldn't hesitate. I did get a minor case of Shingles but I do need to get vaccinated even though mine was a short bout of blistering (kept in check early). Cheers GC
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Post by pgandy on May 23, 2021 23:39:53 GMT
The headline; “Costa Rica faces tragic pandemic wave amid vaccine push”
For the last 15 days >1/hr are dying. The hospitals are maxed out there is no room left. Also from the paper: “‘There are no beds. There is nothing’ Cristian Sandoval, 42, did have a serious respiratory setback and entered the ICU of Hospital México, also in the capital, San José. He stayed for 16 days and saw how five people died a few meters from his bed. “I definitely noticed the advance of this wave. Seeing the full rooms, hearing when the nurses said ‘There is no space; there are no beds; there is nothing.’ It was alarming, because I was critical and I just thought: Now what is going to happen with me?”
We were a leader at one time now this. The paper confirms what I predicted. “The new wave of infections has its genesis in the overconfidence [that is what I’ve been saying will happen] of the population in the face of encouraging signals through the Easter holidays,[the police broke up several hundred parties, no telling how many went undetected] said the epidemiologist from the National University of Costa Rica (UNA) Juan Jose Romero.”
I haven’t heard a peep out of Hazel lately about me not venturing out especially to restaurants. She was acting like it was over and I was a silly $emprini. I think what medical training I’ve had in addition to working in a microbiology lab was good training.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2021 0:33:01 GMT
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Post by pgandy on May 24, 2021 0:54:54 GMT
While sipping the last of the coffee I was thinking of the vaccine. In the long run I think it’s a blessing and will save many lives, but in the meantime I am wondering how many will get the virus due to it. An example; Earlier this week I entered a taxi and the cabby was wearing his mask under his nose. I asked that he pull it up which he was reluctant to do and told in effect not to worry. He assured me, with pride, that he had his first shot three days earlier. Ya sure, first shot three days ago now we are both safe. For those wondering he did, I could tell he was uncomfortable with it and before I had time to pay the man it was down. Here’s an early meme from Andi. I saved it because I thought it a jewel amongst jewels.
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Post by paulmuaddib on May 24, 2021 1:48:08 GMT
That was a jewel pgandy. Stay safe brother.
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Post by Lord Newport on May 24, 2021 19:09:48 GMT
This may effect the way the medical community deals with this...naturally occurring versus engineered. www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/politics/us-intelligence-report-wuhan-lab-researchers-coronavirus-origin/index.html(CNN)A US intelligence report found that several researchers at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and had to be hospitalized, a new detail about the severity of their symptoms that could fuel further debate about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, according to two people briefed on the intelligence.A State Department fact sheet released by the Trump administration in January said that the researchers had gotten sick in autumn 2019 but did not go as far as to say they had been hospitalized. China reported to the World Health Organization that the first patient with Covid-like symptoms was recorded in Wuhan on December 8, 2019.www.cnbc.com/2021/05/24/us-should-dig-deeper-into-theory-that-covid-originated-in-a-wuhan-lab-ex-clinton-official-says.html“Right now, the World Health Assembly is meeting, and the United States should be doing everything possible with our allies to demand a comprehensive investigation into Covid origins with full access to all the records, samples, and personnel in China and beyond,” Metzl, a former national security official in the Clinton administration, “Why would you have a bat coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan and not in southern China, where the horseshoe bats are located? And what we know that they do have in Wuhan, is China’s only level 4 virology institute, with the world’s largest collection of bat coronaviruses, that was doing aggressive research designed to make those pathogens more dangerous,” Metzl said.
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