"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
03/15/2020 at 12:33 • Filed to: None
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"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
03/15/2020 at 12:33 • Filed to: None | 1
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Louisiana is about to be the next big hotbed of infection.
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People we know are posting how the restaurants in Baton Rouge are full and everyone is having a great time. In response to one of the posts , a nurse from New Orleans posted this:
“ I’m working at a hospital in New Orleans and we are having to turn away ACTUAL sick patients to take care of the possible COVID-19 patients...and so far only 4 of them are actual confirmed cases. How would you feel if your mother or Father had a massive stroke or aneurysm and had to be flown elsewhere because the Neuro ICU Nurse’s are having to take care of these people who refuse to use common sense. during a national emergency? Time is critical in those cases. So yes, I believe they should gotten off the streets. If hospitals across the state have implemented strict no visitor rules why should getting stupid drunk supersede family members from being there to comfort their sick and dying love ones?“
Please, people of Louisiana, I know you like to let the good times roll, but let’s be reasonable here. Stay home. You can entertain yourself by getting drunk at home for a few weeks.
ttyymmnn
> TheRealBicycleBuck
03/15/2020 at 12:58 |
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It’s not a very Christian thing to say, but maybe all the stupid people will kill themselves and the world will be better off.
facw
> TheRealBicycleBuck
03/15/2020 at 12:58 |
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I don’t know, it sounds to me like the airports are going to be a great source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2020/03/14/europe-travel-ban-airport-delays/
Let’s take hundreds of people who we believe are such high-risk of carrying infection that we are banning travel from the places they are coming from, and then squeeze them together in tiny spaces, before we do even rudimentary checks if they are sick, then turn them loose without even giving them guidance on avoiding sickening others.
jimz
> ttyymmnn
03/15/2020 at 13:02 |
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At some point it becomes like the old joke where God tells the guy at the gates “Hey, I sent a warning, a car, a canoe, a motorboat, and a helicopter. What more did you want me to do?”
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> facw
03/15/2020 at 13:06 |
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We saw a report last night that said people who are infected but asymptomatic may be a lot more infectious than previously thought. I’m not sure if it was based on this article, but the message is the same: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/03/study-highlights-ease-spread-covid-19-viruses
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
03/15/2020 at 13:06 |
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I’m afraid that does not bode well for the state of Louisiana.
Brickman
> TheRealBicycleBuck
03/15/2020 at 13:07 |
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I wonder how many is just common allergies . I have a cough, runny nose and dry throat . Every spring time. It’s because of the oak tree pollen and cutting grass... I mean weeds
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> Brickman
03/15/2020 at 13:09 |
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Common allergies don’t cause fever unless there’s a secondary infection. The problem is that most people aren’t very good at differential diagnostics.
SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> Brickman
03/15/2020 at 13:20 |
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Same here. The rain in SoCal is making EVERYTHING pollinate.
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SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> TheRealBicycleBuck
03/15/2020 at 13:23 |
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It’s astonishingly contagious. I’m kinda leaning toward the guy that contended there were probably at least 10X-100X more people carrying the damn thing already.
The good news in that “could” be that the rate of illness and resulting morbidity could be far lower than earlier estimates.
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facw
> Brickman
03/15/2020 at 13:29 |
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Runny nose is not a symptom from what I’ve read, so if you have that, it’s probably something else. Though I suppose you could have both covid-19 and allergies.
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Brickman
> facw
03/15/2020 at 13:35 |
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The WHO site mentions runny nose, but the CDC doesn’t.
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facw
> Brickman
03/15/2020 at 13:41 |
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Per the WHO report on China :
88 percent had a fever
68 percent had a dry cough
38 percent had fatigue
33 percent coughed up phlegm
19 percent had shortness of breath
15 percent had joint or muscle pain
14 percent had a sore throat
14 percent headache
11 percent had chills
5 percent had nausea or vomiting
5 percent had nasal congestion
4 percent had diarrhea
Less than one percent coughed up blood or blood-stained mucus
Less than one percent had watery eyes
So yeah, 5% of cases had nasal congestion, but that’s probably too low to useful for diagnosing.
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> jimz
03/15/2020 at 14:34 |
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This historically hasn’t gone well for Louisiana.
Stef Schrader
> TheRealBicycleBuck
03/15/2020 at 15:45 |
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Seriously. Especially i
f you’re in a town that gets pretty heavy tourist traffic, stay the hell away from anywhere crowded.
DipodomysDeserti
> TheRealBicycleBuck
03/15/2020 at 16:57 |
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“ How would you feel if your mother or Father had a massive stroke or aneurysm and had to be flown elsewhere”
I’d be relieved they were being taken to a better prepared hospital.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> DipodomysDeserti
03/15/2020 at 17:14 |
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As the virus spreads, this will be the situation in ALL of the hospitals.
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DipodomysDeserti
> TheRealBicycleBuck
03/15/2020 at 17:41 |
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Some more than others. My sister is a nurse and a doctoral candidate working in a metro area with a population larger than the whole state of Louisiana, and they’re doing fine. There are some very poorly run hospitals out there. We had our first confirmed case around the same time as WA, yet no one has died and only 13 people have tested positive in our entire state. All this despite it being our prime tourist season, and our state having lots of elderly people in it.
Pretty crazy to see how it is spreading like wildfire in some locales, but not others.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> DipodomysDeserti
03/15/2020 at 19:35 |
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New Orleans is going to be a problem for us. It’s spring break time and a lot of students decide to hang out in New Orleans and get drunk. They just identified a case where a 45 yr old guy tested positive and he was experiencing symptoms three days before the first confirmed case. He and the doctors thought he had the flu and were treating him for the flu until his wife took him to the hospital with delirium and double pneumonia.
I know there are better hospitals around, but it’s just a matter of time.
Derpwagon
> TheRealBicycleBuck
03/16/2020 at 00:50 |
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Louisiana, new Orleans especially, just seems like a shithole full of idiots in general. Not surprising that this is happening.