COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread

[MillCreek]

Isn't there some oath or ethic that requires DRs, RAs, EMTs, etc to at least try to resuscitate a person?  

This also reminds me of one of my favorite healthcare recommendations: everyone here should have a living will, and as you get older/sicker/terminal, a POLST form that spells out your wishes for resuscitation and other life-saving or preserving treatment. It also would not kill you to have a durable power of attorney for healthcare, if you don't have a spouse, significant other or adult children readily available.

If you spell out your wishes, that will make the risk manager's job much easier when you are in the hospital and all of your relatives have different ideas on what should be done for you.

[MillCreek]

The linked article has been updated at the time of this post.  The DNR orders have been rescinded.  The folks that entered the order must have pissed someone off pretty seriously to have higher ups rescind it.

I suspect it was rescinded due to optics: if you aren't putting on a good show for the onlookers and family, it looks bad.  The people running the EMS system know that rescinding the order is not going to lead to more people making a meaningful recovery, but by gosh, we are going to make it look like it will.

[Pb]

This also reminds me of one of my favorite healthcare recommendations: everyone here should have a living will, and as you get older/sicker/terminal, a POLST form that spells out your wishes for resuscitation and other life-saving or preserving treatment. It also would not kill you to have a durable power of attorney for healthcare, if you don't have a spouse, significant other or adult children readily available.

If you spell out your wishes, that will make the risk manager's job much easier when you are in the hospital and all of your relatives have different ideas on what should be done for you.

You are right.

Forcing your family to make these decisions for you is cruel.

Everyone should have a living will, and explicitly tell their family their wishes.

[MillCreek]

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/two-new-york-cats-tested-positive-for-coronavirus/

So....what caliber for infected housecat?

[Ben]

Interesting, considering the arrests in parks, beaches, etc. while things like subways get a pass.

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/04/23/bam-new-study-shows-covid-19-is-not-spreading-out-of-doors-most-outbreaks-occurred-in-home-or-public-transport/

[WLJ]

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/two-new-york-cats-tested-positive-for-coronavirus/

So....what caliber for infected housecat?

They got it from their humans, shoot the humans

[Angel Eyes]

How to make your own mask:

https://youtu.be/U4c5eo_3-y0

[MechAg94]

They got it from their humans, shoot the humans

I was going to say suppressed 22 LR for the cats.  SS&S.  Might need a bigger caliber if you take that further. 



Was that what the shooter in Canada was actually doing?  ...probably too soon.

[Perd Hapley]

Everyone should have a living will, and explicitly tell their family their wishes.

[makattak]

Interesting, considering the arrests in parks, beaches, etc. while things like subways get a pass.

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/04/23/bam-new-study-shows-covid-19-is-not-spreading-out-of-doors-most-outbreaks-occurred-in-home-or-public-transport/

This is new? I saw this information last week.

[Perd Hapley]

How to make your own mask:

https://youtu.be/U4c5eo_3-y0

Am I the only one who remembers her from MadTV?

[Angel Eyes]

Am I the only one who remembers her from MadTV?

You might be the only one who remembers MadTV.

[charby]

Appears Illinois is getting 30 more days in the hole.

[Perd Hapley]

You might be the only one who remembers MadTV.

Since the dawn of the YouTube era, I've learned that sketch shows are generally much better digested sketch by sketch, than by episode.

[DittoHead]

The left is always hoping the youth vote will actually turn out and save them (and it never does), maybe they'll come at it from the other direction now and just try eliminating enough of the elderly vote?

An academic journal projects that deaths of 65-and-over Republican voters in several swing states will far exceed those of Democrats.

“The pandemic is going to take a greater toll on the conservative electorate leading into this election — and that’s simply just a calculation of age,” Andrew Johnson, the lead author and a professor of management at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, said in an interview. “The virus is killing more older voters, and in many states that’s the key to a GOP victory.”

[bedlamite]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8249875/Wuhan-laboratory-scientists-did-absolutely-crazy-things-alter-coronavirus.html

[MechAg94]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8249875/Wuhan-laboratory-scientists-did-absolutely-crazy-things-alter-coronavirus.html

Interesting.  If true, I am curious how long they have been doing it.

[bedlamite]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-israeli-prof-claims-simple-stats-show-virus-plays-itself-out-after-70-days/

[zxcvbob]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-israeli-prof-claims-simple-stats-show-virus-plays-itself-out-after-70-days/

He's getting a lot of hate for that.

[bedlamite]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-new-york-idUSKCN2252WN

[dogmush]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8249875/Wuhan-laboratory-scientists-did-absolutely-crazy-things-alter-coronavirus.html

From the article:

'They did absolutely crazy things, in my opinion.

'For example, inserts in the genome, which gave the virus the ability to infect human cells.

'Now all this has been analysed.

'The picture of the possible creation of the current coronavirus is slowly emerging.'

He told Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper: 'There are several inserts, that is, substitutions of the natural sequence of the genome, which gave it special properties.

Then later in the article:

It's too early to blame anyone.

Is it, though?

[makattak]

From the article:

Then later in the article:
Is it, though?

I'm sorry, back in January and February, I was told that the virus CLEARLY showed no signs of manipulation by humans, and so HAD to have come from nature.

(Whether or not either is true, I have no idea, but I was quite curious as to how they determined that information so quickly.)

[Jamisjockey]

I wouldn't trust the analysis of a Russian on the virus as far as I could throw him.  Pitting us against China takes the heat off Russia's shenanigans.

[RoadKingLarry]

I'm sorry, back in January and February, I was told that the virus CLEARLY showed no signs of manipulation by humans, and so HAD to have come from nature.

(Whether or not either is true, I have no idea, but I was quite curious as to how they determined that information so quickly.)

We were also.told by the WHO back in January that the virus wasn't showing human to human transmission.

[bedlamite]

I wouldn't trust the analysis of a Russian on the virus as far as I could throw him.  Pitting us against China takes the heat off Russia's shenanigans.

While I tend to agree with you on the trust issue, I also think it's important to point out when someone doesn't toe the line with their official propaganda.