More Banjo: Coronavirus And Sports

[texaspackerbacker]

Tell that to the health care workers tex. That its all a big nothing. A media invention. Those 200 beds in King County on a soccer field are just a PR stunt.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/king-county-to-put-200-bed-field-hospital-on-shoreline-soccer-field-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/

You could be glad other states and cities are taking the hit to help keep you city healthy, but I kind of doubt you will see it that way.

The hospital crowding is a direct result of the stupid panic and the idiotic promotion of testing as some kind of solution. All testing does is get a lot of the positive cases with zero or very mild symptoms sent to hospitals unnecessarily.

My city and the huge majority of other cities are not "taking a hit" because of not having a cluster of pre-travel ban people from China like King County, Washington or from Italy and the rest of Europe like New York.

I wonder how many of those health care workers are in favor of the stupidity of widespread testing and unnecessary hospitalizing people. Several I know are not real happy about if and see testing of asymptomatic people as a bad thing.

[pbmax]

The hospital crowding is a direct result of the stupid panic and the idiotic promotion of testing as some kind of solution. All testing does is get a lot of the positive cases with zero or very mild symptoms sent to hospitals unnecessarily.

My city and the huge majority of other cities are not "taking a hit" because of not having a cluster of pre-travel ban people from China like King County, Washington or from Italy and the rest of Europe like New York.

I wonder how many of those health care workers are in favor of the stupidity of widespread testing and unnecessary hospitalizing people. Several I know are not real happy about if and see testing of asymptomatic people as a bad thing.

Testing isn't in-patient tex. People aren't on respirators for the test.

[mraynrand]

What's crazy, is that I have spent the afternoon watching ESPN the OCHO! I have watched arm wrestling, Golden Tee Championships, the Tetris World Championships, E60's report on Monster Wrestling, Dodgeball, and now the Marble World Championships.

Have you lost your marbles?

[texaspackerbacker]

Why are the hospitals being overrun with critcally sick in just a few weeks? Why hasn't that happened with all the comparison illness you keep referencing?

Who says they are "being overrun with critcally sick"? If anybody, it's the agenda-driven fake news media as well as panic-stricken dupes soaking up their crap.

You asked, "Why hasn't that happened with all the comparison illness you keep referencing?" Isn't the answer obvious? No idiotic big deal was made about those other maladies, even though they were more serious, probably much more serious than this corona thing. The difference now is the stupid testing and panic mongering.

[texaspackerbacker]

Testing isn't in-patient tex. People aren't on respirators for the test.

Did I say that? The overcrowding problem is the unnecessary hospitalization caused by the testing.

[texaspackerbacker]

I wonder if he will need a respirator? I hope they are available. Along with masks and gloves for his caregivers if he indeed becomes symptomatic.

He didn't even have symptoms despite being 57 years old. This is what I'm talking about - stupidly unnecessary testing leading in many cases (not Sen. Paul apparently) getting sent to hospitals unnecessarily.

[Joemailman]

He didn't even have symptoms despite being 57 years old. This is what I'm talking about - stupidly unnecessary testing leading in many cases (not Sen. Paul apparently) getting sent to hospitals unnecessarily.

Good Lord. Do you really not understand? Because he had not been tested, and continued to meet with people, he may have infected others, including other Senators.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/22/polit...rus/index.html

A statement from Paul's office posted to his Twitter account Sunday said he was "feeling fine" and was "tested out of an abundance of caution." But some senators and aides are angry at Paul for not doing more to self-quarantine earlier and for potentially exposing senators to the coronavirus.
[b]Paul attended a major black-tie social event in Louisville, Kentucky, two weeks ago where several attendees have subsequently tested positive, including the wife of Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told fellow senators Sunday in a lunch that Paul got tested because he had been at that event, several Republican sources told CNN.
Upon learning the news, Utah Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney both announced they'd be self-quarantining.
Senate Republicans, emerging from their closed-door lunch where they received the news about Paul, were extremely unsettled.
GOP senators told CNN Paul was in the gym with colleagues Sunday morning, and several pointed out how close Paul had sat to others during Senate lunches in recent days. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas said he saw Paul in the Senate swimming pool Sunday, according to a source in the GOP lunch.
"This is a different ballgame now," one Republican senator told CNN.
Senate Majority Whip John Thune of South Dakota said on the Senate floor that senators will be seeking medical advice.
"We'll consult with the attending physician here at the Capitol about appropriate measures for those of us who have been in contact with the senator, but this is the kind of situation that Americans across the country are dealing with right now and it underscores the importance of acting immediately to deliver more relief for the American people," Thune said.
Romney, speaking before his decision to self-quarantine, echoed similar concerns.
"All the senators are going to seek medical advice as to what action we should take to make sure that we don't in any way spread this virus ourselves," Romney told reporters. "We had a lunch together with Rand, and hope he's doing very well, but we have to determine whether any of us should self-quarantine as a result of being in the same room."
Two Senate sources told CNN Paul's fellow senators are especially frustrated with him because he is also a doctor, and they feel that he should have known better -- noting that Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and other members of Congress self-quarantined in recent weeks after being exposed to someone who tested positive.
"Furious. Staff too. Everyone," a senator told CNN in a text message, describing the view among him and his colleagues.
A statement on Paul's twitter account said he left the Senate "immediately" after learning about his test results. The senator is in quarantine and asymptomatic, according to an earlier tweet posted to his account.

[mraynrand]

Good Lord. Do you really not understand? Because he had not been tested, and continued to meet with people, he may have infected others, including other Senators.

who do you think infected him?

[sharpe1027]

Did I say that? The overcrowding problem is the unnecessary hospitalization caused by the testing.

What basis do you have for this claim?

[pbmax]

Did I say that? The overcrowding problem is the unnecessary hospitalization caused by the testing.

Yes, there is nothing the hospital system is noted for quite like its propensity cancel elective procedures to free up hospital beds for unnecessary hospitalizations.

[call_me_ishmael]

What basis do you have for this claim?

He has none. In his opinion, this is all fake news and much ado about nothing. He’s an idiot.

[call_me_ishmael]

Second order effects kicking in.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1241905579745931265?s=20

[call_me_ishmael]

The hospital crowding is a direct result of the stupid panic and the idiotic promotion of testing as some kind of solution. All testing does is get a lot of the positive cases with zero or very mild symptoms sent to hospitals unnecessarily.

My city and the huge majority of other cities are not "taking a hit" because of not having a cluster of pre-travel ban people from China like King County, Washington or from Italy and the rest of Europe like New York.

I wonder how many of those health care workers are in favor of the stupidity of widespread testing and unnecessary hospitalizing people. Several I know are not real happy about if and see testing of asymptomatic people as a bad thing.

I’m guessing they’re low level, lowly education medical assistants. Not highly educated and qualified doctors.

[mraynrand]

FYI: This is the model that everyone is using for combatting the virus

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imp...16-03-2020.pdf

[texaspackerbacker]

Yes, there is nothing the hospital system is noted for quite like its propensity cancel elective procedures to free up hospital beds for unnecessary hospitalizations.

True - yet another way of sticking it to regular otherwise unaffected people and forcing them to sacrifice.