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weatherfide said:
Yeah, we had an emergency about a month ago, broken wrist, we were in and out of the ED in about two hours. It’s not stressing the system at all. Hospitals want to keep the beds at eighty percent to keep the receivables up. Part of the problem with free market health care.
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it is stressing the hospitals around here.
 
Shaggy said:
it is stressing the hospitals around here.
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North Alabama too. Several of the smaller hospitals have over 50% of their patients as Covid. Huntsville Hospital Systems are starting to postpone elective surgeries at some hospitals. The bigger hospitals are having a staffing shortage and not a bed shortage at this time
 
Already at 2200 deaths reported today and approaching 280k total. Sadly I think 300k will be reached before Christmas.
 
Hospitals in mid TN are full as well. Went to a high school basketball game last night with hardly any masks and no social distancing. So sad for our health care workers. If everyone would do their part we may not have to shut down but we know that people are going to do what they want. Sad
 
weatherfide said:
Yeah, we had an emergency about a month ago, broken wrist, we were in and out of the ED in about two hours. It’s not stressing the system at all. Hospitals want to keep the beds at eighty percent to keep the receivables up. Part of the problem with free market health care.
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It's starting to hit the LTC facilities in Fayette again.

thecitizen.com

Fayette long-term care facilities see big Covid increases - The Citizen

The Dec. 1 report by Ga. Department of Community Health (DCH) on Covid-19 cases in Fayette County long-term care facilities showed 10 new residents testing positive for the virus, one …
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Nerman said:
It's starting to hit the LTC facilities in Fayette again.

thecitizen.com

Fayette long-term care facilities see big Covid increases - The Citizen

The Dec. 1 report by Ga. Department of Community Health (DCH) on Covid-19 cases in Fayette County long-term care facilities showed 10 new residents testing positive for the virus, one …
thecitizen.com
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10 people, are positive. LTC is short for "waiting to die soon". Everything is a threat to people stuck in these places. It's sad, but a fact of life. We can't shut down economic engines everywhere to save them all.
 
The actual number is 5,600 new cases. A record day for both new cases and hospitalizations. And the hospital capacity is probably getting close to the point that we see stricter restrictions. Just a guess though.
 
Poimen said:
The actual number is 5,600 new cases. A record day for both new cases and hospitalizations. And the hospital capacity is probably getting close to the point that we see stricter restrictions. Just a guess though.
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Yeah not good trends. Mask wearing is down around here quite a bit especially among the college crowd.
 
Poimen said:
The actual number is 5,600 new cases. A record day for both new cases and hospitalizations. And the hospital capacity is probably getting close to the point that we see stricter restrictions. Just a guess though.
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I think there’s probably some backlog after the holiday/holiday weekend still contributing, but yeah, not ideal.
 
weatherfide said:
Holy cow! 98!!!! That is amazing! What long life!
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What's really weird is her daughter works at the hospital and apparently brought it home, and had a lighter case but was sicker longer than her mom. It's a strange disease, and the best thing is to just not get it. I had pneumonia twice last year, and I wear three n95's, and and safety glasses, and wash everything down in alcohol. With a big freakin' bullseye on my back, and many of my fellow citizens apparently are happy to kill me, I ain't taking any chances. I know 4 people who have had it and survived. But none of them had pneumonia twice last year. The most dangerous thing I have to do, and the most dangerous thing I have ever done regularly is going to the dump. Each week I have to take the garbage, and the people running the recycle center don't wear masks, or wear them on their chin, and come right up to you. Some bean counter in local government letting authority go to their head, decided every one needs to have their license checked before they can depost their trash. Reading your plates isn't enough, they want to make sure the one in 3000 who live out of the county but still with county tags don't get to polute the dump with their ill gotten trash, lol....... In a pandemic. You can't make this ship up.
 
GaWx said:
What nobody knows is how many cases would there now be without masks. I think you and others here are smart enough to realize that there could have been a much higher number of cases had there been no mask wearing. Correlation is not at all equivalent to causation but I shouldn't have to tell you folks this as that's stating the obvious.
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And yes the virus mutated. The version that came out of Italy is much easier to catch and spread, thus the wild fire we have here. Mask wearing keeps you from killing others. You cough and the particles of mucus/spit/moisture are caught inside your mask, and the ones that get thru don't go far....lacking momentum. Someone coughs on you, the droplets travel with momentum... stick to the outside of your mask and work their way in, thus the need for multiple masks. Wearing one mask won't save you...and hasn't stopped the pandemic either. You need to wear at least three, and for one tear up that 1000 thread count Egyptian cotton sheet and make your middle mask from that.
 
BirdManDoomW said:
^ Folks, I bring the breaking news. I had covid in late 2018. Everyone needs an antibody test. It’s been here for 1-2 years at least.
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Dude. It wasn't Covid 19. It very well could have been a virus called Covid but there have been several. COVID stands for CO-Corona, VI-Virus, D-Disease, 19-year discovered. You DID NOT have Covid-19 in 2018. Also, did they find anything else during their examination? You clearly have some unique underlying syndromes.
 
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NC folks, I thought our current phase that was extended ended today but I don't see any mention of the Gov speaking, do I have that wrong?

edit: I see it goes through Dec. 11. Looks like no presser today, he'll shut it down next week..... ugh
 
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