Friday, March 27, 2020

Corona

So the corona is the upper atmosphere of the sun. In our pictures of the coronavirus, all we are seeing is the surface of the virus. Does this imply there is a huge surprise inside the coronavirus.

What does the sun mean to you? It is the source of life on this planet.  It implies what is inside the coronavirus has the power of the sun. Is it good or bad?

The Sun

Corona - Wikipedia

Coronavirus Could kill 81,000 in U.S.

I feel US Containment is really weak. We as a nation love print millions of useless words and see ourselves on TV. I think our current containment at best might turn our infection curve, but it will settle at a lower level. The lower level will still massively overwhelm hospitals and it will lengthen the time it puts unconstrained pressure on the system. It will lengthen the economic startup.         
Coronavirus could kill 81,000 in U.S., subside in June -Washington University analysis
by Reuters
Friday, 27 March 2020 00:00 GMT

ABOUT OUR HUMANITARIAN CRISES COVERAGEFrom major disaster, conflicts and under-reported stories, we shine a light on the world’s hotspots

By Carl O'Donnell

March 26 (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic could kill more than 81,000 people in the United States in the next four months and may not subside until June, according to a data analysis done by University of Washington School of Medicine.

The number of hospitalized patients is expected to peak nationally by the second week of April, though the peak may come later in some states. Some people could continue to die of the virus as late as July, although deaths should be below epidemic levels of 10 per day by June at the latest, according to the analysis.

The analysis, using data from governments, hospitals and other sources, predicts that the number of U.S. deaths could vary widely, ranging from as low as around 38,000 to as high as around 162,000.

The variance is due in part to disparate rates of the spread of the virus in different regions, which experts are still struggling to explain, said Dr. Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, who led the study...

Unemployment At A Staggering 3.3 Million

Bodies Are Piling Up Outside US Hospitals.

They are piling up bodies in refrigerated trailers and ice rinks. Humans are a inventive species.  

Thursday, March 26, 2020

HCP Packaging Creates Coronavirus Hot Spot In Hinsdale NH

March 27 
HCP Packaging: A world-class leader in the design, development and manufacture of primary packaging containers for the colour cosmetics, skincare, fragrance and toiletry industries. With nine manufacturing locations in Asia, North America and Europe, HCP offer a cutting-edge global manufacturing synergy for international brands.

HCP Packaging (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.#9456, Songze Avenue Qingpu Industrial Zone | Qingpu County Shanghai | 201700

USA East Coast (New Jersey)
HCP Packaging USA, Inc.
430 Mountain Avenue, Suite 402
New Providence, NJ 07974
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USA East Coast (Shelton)
HCP Packaging USA, Inc.
1 Waterview Drive, Suite 102
Shelton, CT 06484
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Generally the warehouses order components and plastics from all over the world. It is all mostly trucked around. HCP Hinsdale manufactures the pieces and assembles many of the packaging. They then send it back to a warehouse or directly send it to the end users. 
*Truckers Wary of New York Deliveries Create Headache for GrocersBy 
Matthew Boyle

March 26, 2020, 4:56 PM EDT

Delivering food to New York City’s supermarkets isn’t easy even in normal times. Now, it’s become a supply chain conundrum that’s testing the nerves of grocers, truckers and manufacturers alike.

Some truckers are refusing to carry orders into the city and surrounding suburbs like New Rochelle that have been hard hit by the coronavirus, even as demand for groceries is double or triple normal levels as shoppers stockpile soup and other everyday goods.

There is no evidence that food is growing scarce in the city. But one index, which measures loads of all types of goods destined for Brooklyn that were rejected by shippers, has tripled compared with the same time last year, reflecting carriers’ inability or unwillingness to haul loads into the epicenter of the outbreak.

The White House’s call for all those leaving New York City to self-quarantine for 14 days has spooked and confused some drivers, according to people monitoring shipments, while delivery curfews and requests to register “essential employees” have created additional friction. Some warehouse operators are even insisting on taking truck drivers’ temperatures as they pull into depots.
Their infection quotient to me seems really high. They got company outsiders coming in and out all the time like the people who maintain their machines. They got upper managers from this facility going all over the place and their corporate managers coming in.  They have a lot of tractor trailers with drivers coming in and out. God knows where they have been.    

Update

So, anyways, this is me holding HCP accountable for the coronavirus hot spot they created in Hinsdale NH. Our governor is no better that Trump. He closed the state much too late. His justification for delaying the call is based on ideological considerations, not science and human safety. We are heading for an astonishing high level of infections and deaths.   


29 new COVID-19 cases reported; models show up to 50 percent NH infection rate


I probably was at HCP 1.5 hours before the governor called it.  


Thursday updates: Sununu issues stay-at-home order; Portsmouth firefighters plead for PPEs


Update

The greater truth, it is too late. The carnivorous has been cycling around this local community for weeks. We are two or three weeks away from NYC. 



























***Their car lots are full. I just went into their main office and raised my voice about how many people they have killed. How many employees they got there? This is a Chinese company. I never made a threat to anyone. I might have screamed and hollered about them killing us. I wanted to make a big scene to the front office, and I did. I wanted them to feel threaten by my fake emotional display equivalent to our national emergency and pandemic. I made certain they would call the police, and a bunch of them ran out out of the office to get a description of my car and possibly get my licence plates. I yelled my name loudly to everyone. 

I scared the crap out of them! Just like coronavirus is doing to all of us!

What side do you think cops going to be on? 

Monday, March 23, 2020

Surgeon General: This Week It's Going To Get Bad

I didn't expect that I'd be on the "Today" show for such a somber occasion. I want America to understand, this week it's going to get bad, and we really need to come together as a nation.

Sunday, March 22, 2020

How Big Is This?

Are you ready for it. Italy has a population of 61 million...we have 348 million people. We are six times as large as Italy.

There are more than 23,000 coronavirus cases in the US and 295 deaths

By Shane Harris

March 21, 2020 at 9:03 p.m. EDT

Global anxiety over the coronavirus centered on Europe on Saturday, where Italy is bearing the brunt of the pandemic’s unceasing spread. Italian officials announced that 793 people had succumbed to the virus in a single day. The staggering number brought the nation’s total dead to more than 4,800, the most for a single country.

As death tolls mount across the continent, Italy has become a symbol of the enormous challenges facing public health authorities in Europe and in the United States, who are struggling to contain the virus.

Eleven days into Italy’s nationwide lockdown, which includes travel restrictions and the closure of most stores apart from groceries and pharmacies, the number of confirmed cases still soared, with 6,557 new cases since Friday. Hospitals and morgues were overwhelmed. The government has reported 53,578 total cases, concentrated in the northern part of the country.
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Italy’s struggle to keep up with the virus offered a glimpse into what U.S. health officials fear could be ahead in New York and elsewhere: shortages of respirators, basic medical equipment and beds in intensive-care units.

Friday, March 20, 2020

Highway and Streets Empty Surrounding Hinsdale NH

Took a trip to Greenfield Ma last night at around 6 PM. The roads were empty with just a few cars. Never seen anything like it in my life. 

Thursday, March 19, 2020

$13 Dollar A Megawatt Electricity Indicates Our Grid And The Utilities Are Under Stress


March 20

$11 dollar today. It is 7 am and we are at the peak load time of the day historically 

*If we have very little load on the grid for six months, what are the implication...how about a year and a half?


All Advertisements On the TV Stations, Radios and Cables Should Be Suspended For The Duration

It is a war to mobilize our and we are in a grave nation emergency. We should repetitively fill up the empty spaces with
I give you an example. We could endlessly humiliate the behavior of our children on the beeches of Florida. We could fill up all the advertisement space in the vicinity of these beeches with warnings and generational humiliation. Let not forget about Facebook and the other social media. Talk tough to them and talk about death all the time. It could be the example for the nation!    
coronavirus information and public service notifications. We should mobilized the ad infrastructure to product public service information, notification and best advice.

What more could symbolize are dire war stance than to remove these worthless advertisement from our radios, social media, cable, TV stations and networks in the greater service to our to our nation. 80% of the advertisements should come from the USA government! 

Social Distancing: Brattleboro Are Killing Their Children and Elderly !

Assistant principals James Flynn and Erin Lyons-Barton, left, help distribute food to Meriden, Conn. students at Maloney High School on Tuesday.

Which one of these kids and adults won't be here next year!!!

You get it, nobody had the guts to put a end of it and tell management. We are all thoughtless robots!!!

Brattleboro has always had been intentional ignorant people. They are destabilizing their fragile hospital. The good news, there is going at lot less of them and their children in a year. Where the fuck is school management? We are seeing deaths and the collapse of economies all over the world...do these ignorant people have cable. Oh, this is going to a hot spot in the near future. We need the military to come in and completely isolate Brattleboro because they can't even protect their children. One mistake like this can and will say 50 people. 

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic: The Best Outcome


U.S. Virus Plan Anticipates 18-Month Pandemic and Widespread Shortages

The 100-page federal plan laid out a grim prognosis and outlined a response that would activate agencies across the government.

WASHINGTON — A federal government plan to combat the coronavirus warned policymakers last week that a pandemic “will last 18 months or longer” and could include “multiple waves,” resulting in widespread shortages that would strain consumers and the nation’s health care system.

“Shortages of products may occur, impacting health care, emergency services, and other elements of critical infrastructure,” the plan warned. “This includes potentially critical shortages of diagnostics, medical supplies (including PPE and pharmaceuticals), and staffing in some locations.” P.P.E. refers to personal protective equipment.

The plan continued: “State and local governments, as well as critical infrastructure and communications channels, will be stressed and potentially less reliable. These stresses may also increase the challenges of getting updated messages and coordinating guidance to these jurisdictions directly.”



Seventy Percent of Keene's Population Unemployed In A Month

It is going to last until the end of the year. When is the city of Keene going bankrupt?

Why Isn't Our NH Governor Interested In The Capabilities Of Our Hospitals

Why Isn't Our NH Governor Interested In The Capabilities Of Out Hospital 

Is Keene and Brattleboro A Month Away From Italy, or much Sooner

Obviously there is a delay to us from the big cities around us... with us getting the full brunt of the coronavirus Tsunami. No doubt our doctors and state administrators put us locally at a disadvantage with getting tested for coronavirus.

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Cheshire Medical: About Fucking Time!

March 18

I wondering if this guy walked up stairs to the doctor's office and back. He might have had a off site doctor and I sure the hospital did the testing. 

So you have that Keene state employee and now this Granite group person confirmed positive for coronavirus. This virus has been circulating in Keene unseen for weeks. This guy must have tested in the hospital.      
An employee of The Granite Group's Keene branch has tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19, according to a news release Thursday from the Concord-based wholesaler of plumbing, heating and other supplies.

The employee was feeling ill last week, was sent home and hasn't been at work since March 11. The employee will stay in self-isolation until cleared by medical professionals, the company said.
Update March 18

*Boston Globe: Hospitalizations For Coronavirus Escalates In Greater Boston 

*Well, life in Keene has been upended until next year. I know from personnel experience in recent weeks these school administrators are under unbelievable pressure and stress with the job of keeping out children safe and feeding their school children. These people are truly the heroes of these days. Everything is changed in Keene today.   
Keene State under 'extended curtailment' as faculty member tests positive for COVID-19

Keene State College students will no longer return to campus next month, after a faculty member tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, President Melinda Treadwell announced in a video address sent to faculty, staff and students Tuesday night. The message will also be sent to parents, according to college spokeswoman Kelly Ricaurte.

Prior to learning of the test results, the college alerted 66 people who could have potentially had contact with her as a precaution, in accordance with recommendations from the N.H. Department of Health and Human Services, Treadwell said.

"The increasing number of cases and new evidence of community-based transmission raises concern that the COVID-19 outbreak is intensifying in New Hampshire," said State Epidemiologist Dr. Benjamin Chan in the release. " ... We know that this novel coronavirus can be spread very easily through close contact, and the virus can be spread even when people are having very mild early symptoms of illness."
***This hospital and all hospitals are particularly dangerous during this times. Their big money and the best lawyers have paid off or have disproportion influence with the politicians. They made laws where outsiders can't see what is going on a the hospital, and mostly so they won't get sued. 

Did you assholes put a end to all elective procedures and surgeries? 

Are you measuring the temperature of everyone entering the hospital? One infected person walking around your facility would severely degrade the capabilities of your hospital? 
   
If these guys were patriotic and cared for the community...they would publicly disclose their top ten weak links. You would public advertise your "top ten" weak links allowing the state system and politicians to see you vulnerabilities. Tell them this is what we need. Please help us get through this? 

Like protective clothing, ventilators, and sufficient nurses, doctors, clinical people and quality lab people. I won't even talk about coronavirus test. 

What has been the capacity of the hospital for last month...what percentage of beds on average have been filled? What is your surge capacity?

Outsiders need to know about you vulnerabilities so we can all help you!  
Cheshire Medical bars all visitors

By Olivia Belanger Sentinel Staff 
4 hrs ago 

Cheshire Medical Center in Keene.Michael Moore / Sentinel Staff

Cheshire Medical Center is barring all visitors from its Keene campus to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19.


The restrictions include patient rooms, general waiting areas, emergency departments, clinics and hospital cafe, Matthew Barone, spokesman for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health affiliate, said in an email Tuesday morning.


Those with doctor's appointments are still able to keep appointments at this time, but only the patients themselves will be allowed into the facility.

1919 Spanish Flu

You know, you can't trust any information concerning the Spanish flu. The US gov had a pandemic stratify to lie about the suffering and deaths in this contagion. Our national government forced the states, cities and towns to severely minimize the extent of the pandemic. Our states, towns and cities had little required transparency. The newspapers didn't have the power of government transparency. They didn't make records like we do today. The differences between suffering and extents of the deaths between cities was I believe just a matter of who was a better at lying and minimizing. A matter of competitive advantage. It is disgusting we are taking the written information about the Spanish flu as factual and you are just too ignorant and lazy to put those times in contextuality of those days and our primitive government. Remember our society's interconnectivity was primitive at those times too.         

Monday, March 16, 2020

Its Aerosolized

WHO considers ‘airborne precautions’ for medical staff after study shows coronavirus can survive in air

New research out of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) finds that the novel coronavirus HCoV-19 (SARS-2) causing the COVID-19 pandemic can survive for days on plastic and stainless steel and even lasts up to a full day on a cardboard surface.

“We found that viable virus could be detected in aerosols up to 3 hours post aerosolization, up to 4 hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to 2-3 days on plastic and stainless steel,” reads a new study posted online Friday.

How Big A Hit Did China Take

China suffered an even deeper slump than analysts feared at the start of the year as the coronavirus shuttered factories, shops and restaurants across the nation, underscoring the fallout now facing the global economy as the virus spreads around the world.

Industrial output plunged 13.5% in January and February from a year earlier, retail sales fell 20.5%, and fixed-asset investment dropped 24.5%. The unemployment rate jumped to a record 6.2% in February, when the outbreak worsened and much of the economy was shutdown.

We Got To Quickly Spin Up Quality Child Care for Hospital Workers and Much More

We got to ask every hospital worker or professional what are your short and long terms needs for you to keep working. And keep asking it over and over again Then give them whatever they need to stay at work without question. Whatever they need including, temp housing, money, food and delivery, whatever they need. This is a grave national emergency never seen before in our country. I contend you have to substantially give them a coronavirus increase in wages and salaries to incentivize staying at work. These people are going to take a huge risk and we should pay and support them for that.

These people are our heroic rock stars and football/basketball players of these coronavirus days!!!

Expected Future Unemployment Numbers and GDP Next Quarter

update

China suffered an even deeper slump than analysts feared at the start of the year as the coronavirus shuttered factories, shops and restaurants across the nation, underscoring the fallout now facing the global economy as the virus spreads around the world.

Industrial output plunged 13.5% in January and February from a year earlier, retail sales fell 20.5%, and fixed-asset investment dropped 24.5%. The unemployment rate jumped to a record 6.2% in February, when the outbreak worsened and much of the economy was shutdown.

***These sit outside any historic records: At least a million unemployed and a GDP decline of a 5%.


Stock Market Signals They Understands The Scale of the Pandemic Next Week

*Down 3000 points today. Second worst down day in history. 

*Down 8% today at 2250 points. Circuit breaker tripped. Feds dropped interest rates now to zero yesterday and other things to support the stock market. It didn't work a planed, everyone interprets the move as hell is on the way to the USA. Our whole population is terrified. Hoarding and panic buying at the supermarkets are everywhere. Empty shelves at supermarkets. Everything is shut down in the USA. Most of our schools. Our financial system is freezing up...the business cable channel are increasing talking a depression. What is occurring all around our nation is something we never see in history before. The dollar is weakening and they don't know how low it will go. Everyone realizes our hospitals throughout our nation are going to collapse. All the states are in a state of emergency and so is our nation. This freeze-up took longer that I thought.
     
First posted on 1/25 and re-posted on March 16, 2020.

March 12


Dow Down 2350 points...10%. Worst point decline ever and worst percentage decline since Black Monday 1987.



In the United States, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell exactly 508 points (22.6%).[2] This was the largest one-day percentage drop in history.

Feb 24

Almost a month later they are finally get it:

*Coronavirus cases surge in Italy, Iran, South Korea



*The Dow was down 1000 points today over the upcoming coronavirus pandemic. They finally get it.  
 

Update Jan 27

Dow futures sink more than 400 points as coronavirus cases rise

*If the stock market understands the scale with the Pandemic, it will be down 3000 to 4000 points by the end of next week. It will be down my one half the current value in six months. 

When Social Distancing Begins To Not Work

When the infection level exceeds 1% in the general public social distancing doesn't work. The infectiousness of the virus plays a role too.

Sunday, March 15, 2020

To My Space Aliens Friends

The world desperately needs you to step and help us. I am available.

You need to park your spacecraft above Washington and ask for a meeting with the world leaders. Bring us the coronavirus vaccine or cure and allow us to distributed it. 

You could take over one of the  major cable new channels temporally  before you arrive. Tell us all you are coming to earth to cure coronavirus. The do it. 

Then establish a earth panel who could work our future interactions. 

You would have to demonstrate you can do it. I"ll pick a hospital filled with coronavirus patients and then you cure them all. Tell us the location and time and date before you do it. Then do it.

I would be disappointed with you it you made secret deals with governments to accomplish it. Everything would have to be transparent.       

Shutting Down The USA For Two weeks

This is ridiculous. There are afraid to tell you the truth. The two week shutdown is to make it politically palatable for the businesses and public. If we shutdown the nation for two weeks, we would stay shutdown until the end of the year. 

All Dead Bodies Should Be Tested For Coronavirus Within 12 Hours Of Death

It should be a federal law. It would immediately give us the extent of the Pandemic and it lead to giving us the true fatality rate. All bodies, not those just suspected with the infection.

Risk Perspectives and Priorities

I think these terms are all bullshitism. The burdens of these terms, and they are all ideological, are going to fall on the dis-empowered, poor and weak. We should live in a world that has enough resources for everyone and we should never hear risk perspectives and priorities again.

You should be outrage that Italians doctors have to make a choice of who is to live or dies because there is not enough ventilators. Those doctors, all of us, should be spitting mad at how coolly and clinically the doctors.

I tell you what, if I was in a system like that and I don't care how grave the emergency is, I'd quit or withdraw from the job or system. I would never let a long term dysfunctional system demand I make that choice. I would  fight them from the rest of my life. I would never let a corrupt system ruin my life because it set up this condition.

A shocking Lack of Imagination In Our Society...A stark failure Of Imagination

What is killing our imagination in our society? The idea we  are overly dependent on rules, laws, evidence and facts. The role of imagination  towers in importance over rules, laws, evidence and facts. 

We Need A Unprecedented Public Works Program Like Our 1930 Depression

It is got to be started up  immediately. From artist to PhDs. The massive infrastructure program we been contemplating for decades is enormously too small. 

What kind of public works projects can we create for the internet...     

Shocking Deflationary Depression On the Way

*Could our local hospitals handle this?

Italy reports 25 percent spike in coronavirus death toll, in deadliest 24-hour span to date

ROME — Italy on Sunday announced a 25 percent spike in its coronavirus death toll, reporting 368 deaths in the deadliest 24-hour span to date.


The country’s death roll has risen at an alarming rate: In each of the past three days, at least 200 people have been reported dead because of the virus. It was only three weeks ago that Italy had its first reported death from the virus. Now, more than 1,800 people have died.

The total number of active cases has been rising roughly 20 percent daily, and the government’s nationwide lockdown — restricting movement and stopping most commercial activity — has not yet caused a slowdown.

Some two-thirds of Italy’s deaths have happened in the region at the center of the outbreak, Lombardy. There, because of overloaded hospitals, the official fatality rate is more than 9 percent, according to government data. In the rest of the country, it is 5.1 percent. By either measure, Italy’s death rate is higher than other countries’ — in part because it has a larger proportion of seniors than any country other than Japa
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* I think it is baked into the cake. It is a inevitability. Our politicians need to prepare us for this. Panic more than we can imagine would happen, if we are deep in a Pandemic with bodies piling us, then we realize our economy collapses and it will be around for maybe a decade for us to repair it.   
Japanese minister says virus may be worse for economy than 2008 financial crisis

BLOOMBERG, REUTERS

MAR 15, 2020

The effect of the new coronavirus on the economy could be worse than the 2008 financial crisis, economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said Sunday.

Speaking on Fuji Television, Nishimura called for strong measures to protect the economy and said proper consideration should be given to whether reducing the sales tax would bolster consumption.

The economy was already teetering on the brink of recession when the effect of the virus began to kick in, partly due to an increase in the sales tax to 10 percent in October from the previous 8 percent. Some have called for the increase to be reversed to help encourage consumption.

“This may be on a par with the Lehman shock, or even worse,” Nishimura said, referring to the 2008 collapse of the Lehman Brothers U.S. investment bank. “We need measures on the same scale. They should be bold and not limited by what’s been done before.”

Mobilizing Our Military For Domestic USE

Yea, this is about protecting our military from coronavirus, but it sounds like we might use the military in a big way for domestic  use. Congress should pass the applicable laws to facilitate the use of the domestic use. I wonder if the National Emergency allows the use of our military domestically. I have absolutely no fear the military would turn against us. The internet and our news media would prevent this. 

The example is we have a ton of military, cargo planes, vehicles, trucks and drivers who could distribute food and other things. 

I think we will need the military to do security issues around the country. Remember in Katrina and that hard ass SOB U.S. Army Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré   
In the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic, the Navy’s top officer and his most senior enlisted adviser took to social media and official online sites Saturday to calm the fleet and explain the unprecedented orders they’re instituting to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
The brief message — 74 seconds — addressed sweeping changes in how personnel and their families will travel and work over the next 60 days, including the suspension of official, personal and PCS travel inside the continental United States and to designated locations worldwide where the disease is entrenched in local populations; plus "flexible work schedules and the use of telework.
“Our understanding of the coronavirus is rapidly evolving, and we may have to implement further measures to combat the spread of this virus,” warned Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday.
“America depends upon us to help provide security and stability to this nation, and that’s exactly what we will continue to do.”

The Battle Between Government Coronavirus Centralization and Decentralization

What we are seeing now with Trump is severe ideological  government decentralization. A patchwork of state and city action surrounding coronavirus. It is a tremendous waste of resources and actions end up failing or being unbelievably slow. Should we act as one or are we isolated rugged individuals. We have shifted all of government to the decentralization mode in service to the rich and businesses. They gain a unfair from this and it dis-empowers most of this. The rub with centralization it takes a highly educated and trained government work force... States rights versus federal rights. Basically one set of rules everyone follows and enforced. Our military is like that. I am talking about a democracy with public rights and processes that would soften authoritarianism.           

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Trump Declares A Coronavirus National Emergency On March 13

This will help put me in the future remember the context of the times we live.

Coronavirus in Italy: More Younger Patients Going Into Intensive Care and Sicker

The second wave is younger and sicker. Is this guy mutating right in front us. There is absolutely no reason this won't happen in the USA. And it just might get more deadly!  
Coronavirus: More young patients being admitted to hospital, Italian doctor warns

Over 17,600 people are infected by Covid-19 in Europe’s worst-hit country

Italians admitted to hospital for coronavirus are getting younger, a health official has claimed.

“The type of patient is changing,” Luca Lorini, the head of anaesthesia and intensive care at a northern Italian hospital, has said.

“They are a bit younger, between 40 to 45 years old and the cases are more complicated.”

Dr Lorini, who works at a hospital in Bergamo, told radio programme RaiNews24: ”People are arriving who got ill six or seven days ago and treated themselves at home – and then their conditions became more and more critical.”

Twelve per cent of those who have been treated in intensive care are aged between 19 and 50, according to official figures released last week. Around 52 per cent are between 51 and 70 years old, with the rest all over 70. 

Recently, hospitals in Lombardy have seen people aged between 25 and 50 diagnosed with Covid-19 and subsequently hospitalised for treatment, according to local media reports.

“Even if the data is only preliminary, the fact there are more young people hospitalised and in intensive care compared to the first wave can be interpreted as a natural phenomenon,” Pierluigi Lopalco, a professor from Pisa University, told Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.

“In Italy, the first clusters of the infection started around hospitals, more commonly frequented by older people, and in small towns,” he said.

“Now the virus has spread, it is travelling around the whole country way more and it is younger people, with lots of social contact, that are more at risk of contracting the disease if they do not stick to the rules of social distancing.”...

When Will A Insurance Conglomerate Go Bankrupt?

These guys were some of the weak links in 2008.

Friday, March 13, 2020

self-aggrandizement

Basically Trump's speech was just filled corporate advertisement, deregulation, bully-ism and self-aggrandizement plus stinks with a extremist Ideology. 

Coronavirus: Brattleboro, Keene Hospitals Are Going to Be A Massacre Zone!


March 16

The most critical issues facing us today: Coronavirus USA Update: 2 Emergency Room Doctors Hospitalized In ‘Critical Condition’

March 15. One is 40 years old and the other 70 years old. A lot of emergency personnel and doctors caught the virus and died in China. There is something going on different with infections with the emergency staff than the normal public. They think it has something to do with the elevated virus levels they see in their work.      

March 15

Sorry, It was Kent State not Keene State. 

Keene State has a maintenance worker they suspect has an infection of coronavirus. He has been all over the facility. 

*All New York City hospitals will be required to cancel elective surgeries, mayor says
*Here it comes or it was always here and we just realized it: 


Coronavirus in Massachusetts: Brigham and Women’s Hospital worker tests positive for COVID-19

March 14

*Italy:“It’s a massive overload,” said Unks. “They have triage tents outside hospitals so if you and I walk in together, they decide: ‘Is Brian going to live or Shannon going to live?’ They pick the one most likely to live. They have to pick the person they think is going to survive the most. They do not have enough beds, respirators, not enough personnel to care for everyone.”

*Why isn't this happening here: N.Y. Hospitals Pitch Tents, Nix Surgeries to Prepare for Influx

*NYT: Coronavirus in N.Y.: Will a Surge in Patients Overwhelm Hospitals?

“We are not prepared,” one doctor said. New York City’s hospitals may be moving too slowly as the outbreak spreads, experts say.

In a stark email to colleagues across Europe, the doctor, who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote: ‘It is true that most patients have flu-like symptoms and recover, but there is a significant proportion – not only old people – who develop acute unexpected severe respiratory distress requiring breath assistance and intubation [inserting an airway tube].’

‘Hospitals are crowded with sick people, while emergency rooms are empty because people are afraid to go there,’ he wrote, adding that outpatient visits in the region’s hospitals were likely to be cancelled from tomorrow as colleagues around the country reported an ‘alarming shortage of doctors and nurses, making them unable to cover duties and shifts’.

‘Where I work, routine surgeries – for breast, kidney and colon cancers and other procedures – are postponed or reduced because of the shortage of intensive care assistance,’ he wrote. ‘My concern is whether – and for how long – our system can tolerate this.’

*Surgeon General Calls On Hospitals To Consider Stopping Elective Surgeries

“It’s a massive overload,” said Unks. “They have triage tents outside hospitals so if you and I walk in together, they decide: ‘Is Brian going to live or Shannon going to live?’ They pick the one most likely to live. They have to pick the person they think is going to survive the most. They do not have enough beds, respirators, not enough personnel to care for everyone.”


*My coronavirus quarantine in Italy: Learn from our mistakes
Do not ignore the warnings as we did in Italy

Italy is living through an incomprehensible tragedy, the likes of which the world has never seen. All 60 million of its residents are squirreled away at home, leaving only when necessary for food or medicines, armed with ID cards to show the police when we are inevitably stopped.

We’ve been asked to stay home and finally, we are listening, but it is too late for many.

I believe America is the most incredible nation to have ever existed but this virus does not care about that. Please learn from our mistakes. Do not ignore the warnings as we did.As I write this, there are nearly 136,000 official cases worldwide, 15,113 in Italy with 2,651 new cases in just the last 24 hours, and 1,016 deaths.


*Ex-Obama official warns US health system faces 'tsunami' over coronavirus

*Hospitals in the US could be overrun by coronavirus cases in little more than a week, a former Obama administration senior health official has warned, fearing a “tsunami-like” escalation that would leave tens of thousands in need of inpatient medical care but unlikely to receive it.

*Coronavirus Death Rate Soars to 7% in Italy – Is America Next?
Boston globe: 
Hospitals must now plan for pandemic’s worst


The number of people infected by coronavirus in Italy has risen by around 20% in one day to 21,157.

***The whole nation has been talking about hospitals in the last 24 hours. The governor of the state of Washington expects greater than 60,000 infected in two week with an additional 400 dead. We are going to have to completely destroy our economy to save our hospitals and prevent a massacre. We are deep into a national panic...shortages all over the place.  

***Our fatality rate in coronavirusville will be starting higher than average. 

Just saying, how much would you bribe your doctor or senior hospital administrator to get you "cuts" in the ventilator line to save your mother. What is the going rate: $50,000 to $100,000?  

Trump is going to declare a national emergency and get FEMA this afternoon. It is months late. We have to anticipate a Pandemic instead waiting for triplicate perfect proof with the Pandemic. We live in a world of incomplete information and are required to make judgement on fragmentary information and intuitions on a daily and hourly bases. The example is going out to get a gallon of milk. You never know in details what the road conditions are and even if the milk is in stock. We are completely capability of operating in a environment with incomplete and fragmentary information.       
"That analysis, based on data from the American Hospital Association, U.S. Census, CDC and World Health Organization, is purposely conservative. For example, it assumes all beds will be empty. Since two thirds of them are not, the reality could be far worse: about 17 people per open bed."
The US Gov's worst case based their analysis on a 7.5% infection rate for the population. The medical experts say the coronavirus infection rates can end up being 70%.
Honestly, I think this is baked into the cake. 
When are you going to stand up for us? 
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene  
So 17 patients will be competing for one hospital beds. I believe around here, it will be 28. We have a high population of poverty. We got nurses and doctor shortages leading to a diminution of skills and discipline all around. Not many medical people favor this kind of region. The flu at this point is ravishing our population with it being worst than normal. Heroin and other drugs are again ravishing our poor population. It is a perfect storm of death. 

You get what is going to happen. There will be 2 or more people competing for one ventilator or advanced services. The doctor will choose what patient gets the ventilator based on medical triage. The other will die. In normal times, the dead person would be saved. I'd make the case these doctors who choose who gets the ventilators...they will be force to kill (triage) more patient than to cure patients. There will be a ton more medical or medicine errors...this will be a sin against the medical community. 

There will be problems getting the dead bodies out of the hospitals and more big troubles with burying the dead.

I predict the biggest 2020 story in our area won't be coronavirus...it will be about startling levels deaths in our hospitals.

Remember the severe patients usually gets shipped off to specialized big city hospital. These hospitals will get overrun with sick patients first and they will be unavailable to hospitals like Keene and Brattleboro!   
Hospitals won’t have enough beds if coronavirus spikes


No state in the U.S. will have enough room for novel coronavirus patients if the surge in severe cases here mirrors that in other countries.
A USA TODAY analysis shows that if the nation sees a major spike, there could be almost six seriously ill patients for every existing hospital bed.
That analysis, based on data from the American Hospital Association, U.S. Census, CDC and World Health Organization, is purposely conservative. For example, it assumes all beds will be empty. Since two thirds of them are not, the reality could be far worse: about 17 people per open bed.
“Unless we are able to implement dramatic isolation measures like some places in China, we’ll be presented with overwhelming numbers of coronavirus patients – two to 10 times as we see at peak influenza times,” said Dr. James Lawler, who researches emerging diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the Global Center for Health Security.
Lawler added that “no hospital has current capacity to absorb that” without taking crisis care measures, such as postponing elective procedures and reserving finite resources for those coronavirus patients most likely to recover. The American Hospital Association wrote to congressional leaders in February to ask for money to build hospitals and housing to isolate patients.
USA TODAY’s analysis estimates 23.8 million Americans could contract COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus that first appeared in Wuhan, China.
That number is based on an infection rate of 7.4% – similar to a mild flu year. Experts say this infection rate will likely be far higher.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security estimates that 38 million Americans will need medical care for COVID-19, including as many as 9.6 million who need to be hospitalized – about a third of whom might need ICU-level care. In a February presentation to the American Hospital Association, Lawler estimated that as many as 96 million Americans could be infected.
Most people with COVID-19, however, will have only mild symptoms. Studies of cases in other countries suggest that some of those responsible for community spread were never identified as infected because they didn’t develop any symptoms...

Thursday, March 12, 2020

Italy's Hospitals At The Stage of Collapse

Our trend of coronavirus cases mimics Italy's cases eleven days ago. We are eleven days behind them.  
Monday March 23 is that day!

This is us in eleven days. We have seven times the population as Italy. You can't deny the rate of the intensifying Pandemic is extraordinarily scary.  


Coronavirus: Italy’s hospitals overflow with the dead as toll tops 1,000

Officials in hard-hit Lombardy region have cut red tape for burials and processing of death certificates

Hospitals in Italy’s hard-hit Lombardy region, already overwhelmed trying to care for the increasing number of sick people in limited intensive care units, are overflowing with the dead.

Lombardy’s top health care official, Giulio Gallera, said at the request of the hospitals, the region had simplified the bureaucracy needed to process death certificates and bury the dead, with the death toll in Lombardy alone reaching 617 by late Wednesday.