Sick and panicked New Yorkers are swamping the city’s 911 system with calls, breaking records and overwhelming first responders.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1300160
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1300160
Homeless could decimated with this disease in silence.
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They are trying where I live. It’s been slow but is beginning to ramp up.
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OMG. A Holland America cruise ship is headed for Florida. Four now dead at least two others positives for CV. Over 1,000 passengers.
Passengers are saying MF FL Gov told people to go about their lives…so people filed onto these death ships.
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I’m guessing the subway has screwed NYC over!
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MSNBC saying that a lot of people are being put on hold.
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People are going to be avoiding cruises for years to come. Eachof these incidents is a nail in the industry’s coffin.
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“They are absolutely swamping EMTs and paramedics.”
“They could have had 15 or 16,000 hired more EMTs and paramedics two years ago . . . They can’t blame us for that.” - Donald “Compassionate Conservative” Trump
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Don’t know if this has been posted on other threads, but it’s crazy.
https://www.crainsdetroit.com/coronavirus/whitmer-feds-told-vendors-not-send-medical-supplies-michigan
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That and all those elevator buttons.
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This virus is being conveyed out of facial and rectal orifices. Some people don’t wash their hands well and then touch a lot. Poopy hands on elevator buttons.
If you’re on a city septic sewer service, make sure that all your p-traps in your drain lines contain a water barrier. By code, p-traps (like the U-shaped pipe under a sink) are installed in every drain line (sinks, bathtubs, showers, toilets, floor-drains) in homes and some older garages. Check them and make sure they are not dry. A dry toilet or floor drain in a basement is a very bad thing!
I can’t hit the “like” button on that, but thanks for bringing it to our attention.
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This is frightening. A system that’s clearly overburdened, with little to no help coming from the federal government, whose responsibility it is to step in under these sorts of conditions. And this is just a preview of what’s to come to other areas. Smart leaders will pay heed, though they still have to deal with dithering Donald.
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Feature, not bug. Seems to me that this pandemic is Steven Miller’s wet dream come true. With undocumented people fearful of going to hospitals, many will be left to die at home. Others may decide that they’ll be better off returning to Central America. All of the prior bullying behaviour from ICE will now bear even further fruit. Miller’s efforts will lead to the immiseration of millions of additional people. The homeless? Icing on the cake.
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Ohio governor DeWine with a short thread, trying to tell it like it is, and the responses are frightening. Seems a lot of people don’t understand the power of exponentials.
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I think a lot of people are starting to catch on that Trump is deliberately sabotaging states with Democratic governors - I am speechless
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Some background: the OH director of public health lost a fair amount of credibility by dramatically overstating the cases a couple weeks ago (amplified by the governor):
https://twitter.com/GovMikeDeWine/status/1238177953126604801
This particular topic is one where competence matters a lot more than political affiliation, though I do expect to see a pretty strong correlation.
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Not by any means his worst offense, but absolutely petty, mean-spirited, and graceless.
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Today must be a day ending in “y” then.
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As I recall, Trump was begging NFL owners not to close up shop this fall. You know how the right wing loves to conflate NFL football with patriotism. If there’s no college football, fans in Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Oklahoma, and other red states are going to be very unhappy.
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