LOL (most) hospitals pleading poverty. Other than rural hospitals, they have literally been drowning in cash. Find me a large hospital in a large city and you’ll find a 9 figure construction project in the last decade. You’ll also find a couple dozen executives clearing 7 figures. In the words of Logan Roy, fuck off.
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I bet he used the same advisor his wife did.
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My sister is a nurse. She works with a doctor that grew up in China. He has been in touch with other doctors from China. They told him gargling salt water 3-4x a day helps. Apparently the virus doesn’t like saline or something. No idea if it’s true or not but my sister said this doctor she works with doesn’t mess around.
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USA #1 with the most new cases today. Thank you, working hard!
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Hospitals also shamelessly and disgracefully pursue patients for bills, even when insurance has already paid them. To the point of garnishing wages and, of course, ruining people’s credit.
Patient comes in with insurance. Hospital says that costs $100k. Insurance company says we will pay $50k (after deductible!). Hospital sends patient a bill for $50k and sues patient when they don’t pay.
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Loefller’s husband?
Tom Hanks maybe not doing so well:
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South Australia has made an announcement now. 14 day mandatory quarantine period for everyone entering the state, including returning residents. So I won’t be headed interstate until after this thing has cooled down.
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How are they enforcing it?
The state doesn’t have all that many road entry points. I would guesstimate something like 30. None of them are located in urban areas. They’ll put police roadblocks on all of them. Freight is exempt.
I was after something else.
If you’re selected for quarantine, I assume they’re not doing it China-style and sending to you a government facility. They’re just telling you to stay home, right? What happens someone decided to leave their home for some reason in that 14 days? A fine of some sort?
It’s a state issue. SA is drafting legislation at the moment, there are already fines for breaking quarantine in other states. I think SA is also considering emergency powers to forcibly detain people.
There’s a meeting of heads of state and federal government tonight where they will discuss policy. NSW and Victoria are pushing for tougher measures including shutdowns of all non-essential businesses. A nationwide closure of schools is a strong possibility, but I don’t think closure of businesses will happen nationally as some areas don’t have much of a COVID problem. NSW, Victoria and perhaps Queensland are then likely to go it alone and close businesses unilaterally.
4 members of our county Democratic central committee tested positive. These are all people I interacted with regularly during the campaign, though fortunately, I hadn’t seen any of them personally since mid February.
They are all in their 30s, and severity ranges from at home recuperating to in the ICU on a ventilator. Really makes me wonder what differentiates peoples’ responses to the virus.
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Just going off something I read earlier but do you know if any of them vape or smoke?
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Pure dumb luck when all else is equal. I don’t think we really know why some people develop SARS and some don’t. Same with ARDS, any number of things can cause from trauma to pneumonia to sepsis. most people won’t get ARDS from a bruised lung from being in a car accident, but some unlucky percent will be fighting for their life on a vent.