re: Coronavirus is total hysteria

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What have you seen?

I work in Chicago at a hospital and we have multiple ICU rooms open and shifts @emergency have been Increased, I’m curious? I also regularly visit Northwestern Memorial Downtown, an absolute ghost town, they converted a tower into their “corona” headquarters and have it fully under control. PLEASE tell us what you’re seeing so diffeeent.

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Right now I’m bouncing between the VA and UMC in Nola when needed. Those ICU’s are pretty crowded normally do it’s definitely strained right now. PPE is almost nonexistent at this point. We got a huge box Friday from a local construction company so that helped. The ER’s are nonstop. A lot of people have one symptom so when they get turned away they lose their shite. We seem to be venting younger and younger patients. It’s not out of control by any means but we have nurses pulling double and triple shifts because of people calling in. I started helping out at UMC Thursday because they’re short handed.

I’m glad it’s not so bad where you are but it’s very daunting down here right now.

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Christ on a cracker. You’re going hysterical, Nancy

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LINK

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NewYork-Presbyterian performed more than 500 tests for the novel coronavirus Saturday, and 50% came out positive.

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We are still barely testing anyone, and when we do test, the % is much worse than we could have ever anticipated.

You are about to live through something horrific. I just hope you come to your senses with enough time to look out for your family.

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You are about to live through something horrific.

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Oh for frick's sake.

Go buy more toilet paper.

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Coronavirus is total hysteria
Most of you just don’t get it do you?! If we don’t do anything and let’s just say half the population gets it that’s 180 million people. If the mortality is 1% that’s 1.8 million deaths in a very short period of time. And for those of you saying it’s less than 1% let’s just say it’s .5%. That’s still 900,000 deaths.
A lot of people will want to go to the ER or hospital as well because they’ll be sick enough to warrant being looked at by a doctor. Let’s just say that’s another 10% of people. That’s 18 million people trying to get into the hospital. The system does not allow for those types of numbers. I don’t understand why it’s so hard for you guys to realize this. The system will be completely overwhelmed there won’t be enough medicine to treat people and tens of thousands of people would die needlessly.

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If you think everyone will get sick at once or even in the same 2-3 week time frame, I have some ocean front property in Arizona to sell you. If you think 180 million people would have gotten it had we not started this quarantine shite, I may also have some ocean front property in New Mexico to sell you


It’s literally impossible to know how long this has been here. It could have been here for
2-3 months.

The fact that this post has 90 upvotes is enough of a reminder to me to continue staying in the house for the time being.