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I mean, my wife is a nurse in an ICU that has had to triple capacity in the last 6 weeks and still has less than 15% capacity remaining, so, yeah, I'd imagine I

I mean, my wife is a nurse in an ICU that has had to triple capacity in the last 6 weeks and still has less than 15% capacity remaining, so, yeah, I'd imagine I'd have some inkling.

feralimal 6y ago
Tripling capacity in flu season, after having cleared out the hospitals and cancelled all the operations in previous months, doesn't say anything to me. We are living in a clown show. If this was real, we would see bodies on the streets, and the government would be fighting to keep businesses open. We don't and its not. This is just the first stage to a transition of a new economic paradigm - technocracy - where there are no small businesses, everything and everyone is tracked and traced, were we will own nothing, and be completely dependent on government/corporations/military. And most people are cheering this on. Shout some more hate at Goldstein!!
kardianos 6y ago
So, like 2018? https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/15/flu-hospital-pandemics/ https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/15/flu-hospital-pandemics/ SARS2-COVID-19 is a novel virus. True. Would we notice without modern medicine and rtPCR tests? I'm not convinced.
- Enginerrrd 6y ago
  >Would we notice without modern medicine and rtPCR tests? I'm not convinced. With all due respect, this statement tells me with near-certainty that you've never worked a patient-facing role in healthcare. The fact that you feel free to espouse your opinion on the subject directly related to patient-facing care should be a red flag to you. I have worked in healthcare as a paramedic. My wife is a nurse. My mother is a nurse. My brother-in-law is an MD. The public-health policy makers usually have worked in patient-facing healthcare. My local public health director was one of the best and brightest physicians I've EVER met. He cut his teeth working on eradicating smallpox in his youth, and has remarkable depth in his knowledge of epidemiology. ...All of us agree that this definitely IS different than the status quo. It is NOT different from historical precedent though, and there are many people that are quite alert to these things. These same people would notice unusual clusters of patients suggesting a terrorist attack, chemical exposure, water contamination, etc. Just because it requires knowledge you do not have doesn't mean that experts wouldn't have identified this. Which, funny enough, is exactly what DID happen.

I mean, my wife is a nurse in an ICU that has had to triple capacity in the last 6 weeks and still has less than 15% capacity remaining, so, yeah, I'd imagine I'd have some inkling.

feralimal 6y ago

Tripling capacity in flu season, after having cleared out the hospitals and cancelled all the operations in previous months, doesn't say anything to me. We are living in a clown show. If this was real, we would see bodies on the streets, and the government would be fighting to keep businesses open. We don't and its not. This is just the first stage to a transition of a new economic paradigm - technocracy - where there are no small businesses, everything and everyone is tracked and traced, were we will own nothing, and be completely dependent on government/corporations/military. And most people are cheering this on. Shout some more hate at Goldstein!!

kardianos 6y ago

So, like 2018? https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/15/flu-hospital-pandemics/ https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/15/flu-hospital-pandemics/ SARS2-COVID-19 is a novel virus. True. Would we notice without modern medicine and rtPCR tests? I'm not convinced.

Enginerrrd 6y ago
>Would we notice without modern medicine and rtPCR tests? I'm not convinced. With all due respect, this statement tells me with near-certainty that you've never worked a patient-facing role in healthcare. The fact that you feel free to espouse your opinion on the subject directly related to patient-facing care should be a red flag to you. I have worked in healthcare as a paramedic. My wife is a nurse. My mother is a nurse. My brother-in-law is an MD. The public-health policy makers usually have worked in patient-facing healthcare. My local public health director was one of the best and brightest physicians I've EVER met. He cut his teeth working on eradicating smallpox in his youth, and has remarkable depth in his knowledge of epidemiology. ...All of us agree that this definitely IS different than the status quo. It is NOT different from historical precedent though, and there are many people that are quite alert to these things. These same people would notice unusual clusters of patients suggesting a terrorist attack, chemical exposure, water contamination, etc. Just because it requires knowledge you do not have doesn't mean that experts wouldn't have identified this. Which, funny enough, is exactly what DID happen.