Anybody want a Corona?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Note Tucker Carlson wasn't in that clip. (He's been saying everyone else on the channel was wrong lol)

Yeah Tucker was actually calling everyone on the right out about this early on. I don't like the guy but at least he had a brain about this.

[McParadigm]

Note Tucker Carlson wasn't in that clip. (He's been saying everyone else on the channel was wrong lol)

Yeah Tucker was actually calling everyone on the right out about this early on. I don't like the guy but at least he had a brain about this.

He was rock hard for the opportunity to segue its origins into racial panic.

[Superblood Wolfmoon]

Yeah, fuck Tucker Carlson. Just because he was right about this doesn't erase his history of being an absolute piece of human garbage. Jesus Christ, people's expectations are so low these days it's unreal.

[Orpheus]

Yeah, sorry B_I, this is probably your dumbest argument in a sea of them. Trump obfuscated, lied, and delayed for weeks, after (as McP pointed out) gutting and defanging the infrastructure that would respond to this. This is the nadir of his presidency and anyone who voted for him should be deeply ashamed if they already weren't. No one is talking about your weirdo fantasies of "APCs rolling up on black kids," we're talking about testing kits, telling the truth about the situation, and putting the health of the nation first.

Anyone defending the way Trump and this administration have handled this is a fucking moron, period.

[McParadigm]

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[Bi_3]

Yeah, sorry B_I, this is probably your dumbest argument in a sea of them. Trump obfuscated, lied, and delayed for weeks, after (as McP pointed out) gutting and defanging the infrastructure that would respond to this. This is the nadir of his presidency and anyone who voted for him should be deeply ashamed if they already weren't. No one is talking about your weirdo fantasies of "APCs rolling up on black kids," we're talking about testing kits, telling the truth about the situation, and putting the health of the nation first.

Anyone defending the way Trump and this administration have handled this is a fucking moron, period.

Let's say I grant you all that.

If you were President, what specifically would you do starting today to improve things?

[verb_to_trust]

NO ORANGE MAN FAULT!! -Bill3

[Bi_3]

NO ORANGE MAN FAULT!! -Bill3

I get that you’re scared. We are all scared. This is an unprecedented moment in our shared history. If you need to burn orange man in effigy, retweet you heart out, scream at the sky to get through the day, you do you. But each of has a choice. We either focus our energy on making tomorrow better or we don’t.

[digster]

It's silly to make it a binary. If you don't acknowledge how things have been monumentally fucked up, it heightens the possibility that things will get fucked up even more.

[verb_to_trust]

It's silly to make it a binary. If you don't acknowledge how things have been monumentally fucked up, it heightens the possibility that things will get fucked up even more.

Nah man, just get behind the King. The doctors can't believe how much he knows about this stuff!

[Bi_3]

It's silly to make it a binary. If you don't acknowledge how things have been monumentally fucked up, it heightens the possibility that things will get fucked up even more.

Nah man, just get behind the King. The doctors can't believe how much he knows about this stuff!

We have no option but to fall in line with what the feds are doing and look for ways we can help within our sphere of influence.

[Strat]

This brought tears to my eyes

Dear patients and community members,

We need to take this seriously, NOW.

In just a week, we’ve gone from 7 to over 50 confirmed COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases. The real number of local cases in the Eagle River Valley is more likely hundreds if not thousands of people. It is everywhere here; we just don’t have the test results to prove it, and we won’t anytime soon.

As we’ve seen in other countries, the way this disease spreads exponentially means it starts slow and then explodes and overwhelms hospitals and the healthcare system. This pattern stalls the healthcare system’s ability to adequately care for the surge of the severely sick and dying. This is what we are seeing in Italy and Spain right now.

The most effective way to shorten the cycle of the COVID-19 virus is to be diligent about practicing social distancing - reducing or eliminating gatherings that actually spread the virus in the community. We’ve seen this work in China and South Korea. The United States and Colorado have followed suit as evidenced by public health orders from Governor Polis and our own Eagle County public health department.

The truth is, if we don’t commit to disciplined social distancing now, our 56-bed Vail Health Hospital will be overflowing within 2-4 weeks. We will not have enough respirators to keep people alive, and locals of all ages will be dying. The other hospitals in America will be full too. We’ve already had a handful of COVID-19 patients transported to Denver for more advanced care; however, once the Denver hospitals are full, we will no longer be able to transport these people to a lower elevation.

As prepared as our hospital, County and public health department have tried to be, it won’t matter if we, as community members, relax on the importance of social distancing. We were one of the first communities in the state and nation to start aggressively testing, with Colorado’s first drive-up testing center open on March 6 in Gypsum. We set up a mobile emergency department trailer outside our hospital to protect patients and staff. We’ve done more tests per capita than any community in America. But the results are trickling in, and an inaccurate picture has been painted. Regardless of the number of confirmed cases, we are experiencing significant community spread; when someone is infected, but we aren’t sure where or how.

We have all been told it takes 24-48 hours to get test results, but it’s taking 3-5 days or more, and it’s getting worse. We have 400 local tests awaiting results, and we expect many of them to be positive. In the meantime, we are sending on average 70 samples for testing per day, and we’ve switched from the state testing center to commercial labs to hopefully speed up our results. We are prioritizing the limited medical resources to test the highest risk patients, healthcare providers, and others that are dedicated to this community response and we are using every channel possible to increase the turn-around time for the tests we do run.

Social norms are incredibly hard to adjust, but saving our Valley means starting now. Psychologically, when things feel safe at home, we feel safe in general. Don’t be fooled. Everything non-essential has to stop or close for now. It also means we have to cancel everything, and that goes against who we are as humans. This means no more dinners with friends, casual kid Nerf gun wars in the neighborhood, or basketball at the park. It’s going to be hard and feel wrong on many levels. But, it’s supposed to be hard because we are fighting a war of life and death right now. Not tomorrow, but now. It’s time to wake up. Sacrifices must be made, or we will lose people we know and love. At this moment, the focus must be on keeping lots of people from dying. Every three days, the number of infected individuals will continue to double unless social isolation is adopted by everyone here.

Thank you to Eagle County, our school district, many businesses and Vail Resorts for rolling out restrictions or closing up shop. As one of the most popular international ski communities in the world, people from all over the globe have been traveling to our Valley for the past three months. Many have brought COVID-19 here or taken it back to their homes. Like generations before us who united as a nation during world conflicts, we must now practice that same collective action and selflessness against an invisible enemy. We are all in this together. Please be part of the solution.

Every person and family in this Valley must start social distancing NOW.
#ProtectOurValley, #DoingMyPartCO

Will Cook
Vail Health President & CEO

[McParadigm]

Yeah, sorry B_I, this is probably your dumbest argument in a sea of them. Trump obfuscated, lied, and delayed for weeks, after (as McP pointed out) gutting and defanging the infrastructure that would respond to this. This is the nadir of his presidency and anyone who voted for him should be deeply ashamed if they already weren't. No one is talking about your weirdo fantasies of "APCs rolling up on black kids," we're talking about testing kits, telling the truth about the situation, and putting the health of the nation first.

Anyone defending the way Trump and this administration have handled this is a fucking moron, period.

Let's say I grant you all that.

If you were President, what specifically would you do starting today to improve things?

Elevate top level professionals to the task force in Jared K’s place. Consider utilizing some of the experts you previously removed, who were experienced in not only their fields but also in related government processes and laws.

Deploy the Army Corps of Engineers to retrofit existing facilities, preparing them to care for patients with coronavirus and focusing on those geographical areas identified by so, so much research as the most at risk for having their existing facilities overwhelmed.

Cease all immigration enforcement for people already living inside the United States, to reduce the need for resources, facilities, and processing apparatus.

Stop bragging.

Immediately begin looking at ways to declutter our prisons, facilitate food distribution, protect infrastructure, and expand internet access.

Put pressure on Republican senators who are balking at having to vote for a coronavirus aid bill that gives unemployment benefits to domestic partnerships.

These are the first things that come to mind.

[B]

US winning so hard right now

I'm kinda tired of winning.

[BurtReynolds]

Yeah, sorry B_I, this is probably your dumbest argument in a sea of them. Trump obfuscated, lied, and delayed for weeks, after (as McP pointed out) gutting and defanging the infrastructure that would respond to this. This is the nadir of his presidency and anyone who voted for him should be deeply ashamed if they already weren't. No one is talking about your weirdo fantasies of "APCs rolling up on black kids," we're talking about testing kits, telling the truth about the situation, and putting the health of the nation first.

Anyone defending the way Trump and this administration have handled this is a fucking moron, period.

Let's say I grant you all that.

If you were President, what specifically would you do starting today to improve things?

Elevate top level professionals to the task force in Jared K’s place. Consider utilizing some of the experts you previously removed, who were experienced in not only their fields but also in related government processes and laws.

Deploy the Army Corps of Engineers to retrofit existing facilities, preparing them to care for patients with coronavirus and focusing on those geographical areas identified by so, so much research as the most at risk for having their existing facilities overwhelmed.

Cease all immigration enforcement for people already living inside the United States, to reduce the need for resources, facilities, and processing apparatus.

Stop bragging.

Immediately begin looking at ways to declutter our prisons, facilitate food distribution, protect infrastructure, and expand internet access.

Put pressure on Republican senators who are balking at having to vote for a coronavirus aid bill that gives unemployment benefits to domestic partnerships.

These are the first things that come to mind.

At least three of those things are just exploiting the crisis to push political agendas.

[surfndestroy]

Yeah, sorry B_I, this is probably your dumbest argument in a sea of them. Trump obfuscated, lied, and delayed for weeks, after (as McP pointed out) gutting and defanging the infrastructure that would respond to this. This is the nadir of his presidency and anyone who voted for him should be deeply ashamed if they already weren't. No one is talking about your weirdo fantasies of "APCs rolling up on black kids," we're talking about testing kits, telling the truth about the situation, and putting the health of the nation first.

Anyone defending the way Trump and this administration have handled this is a fucking moron, period.

Let's say I grant you all that.

If you were President, what specifically would you do starting today to improve things?

Elevate top level professionals to the task force in Jared K’s place. Consider utilizing some of the experts you previously removed, who were experienced in not only their fields but also in related government processes and laws.

Deploy the Army Corps of Engineers to retrofit existing facilities, preparing them to care for patients with coronavirus and focusing on those geographical areas identified by so, so much research as the most at risk for having their existing facilities overwhelmed.

Cease all immigration enforcement for people already living inside the United States, to reduce the need for resources, facilities, and processing apparatus.

Stop bragging.

Immediately begin looking at ways to declutter our prisons, facilitate food distribution, protect infrastructure, and expand internet access.

Put pressure on Republican senators who are balking at having to vote for a coronavirus aid bill that gives unemployment benefits to domestic partnerships.

These are the first things that come to mind.

At least three of those things are just exploiting the crisis to push political agendas.

Science based policy and actions are hard to stick to.

In Vancouver they closed bars and restaurants in only part of the city and for just one day. I'd love to see the science behind this.

[Bi_3]

Bmore gonna Bmore:

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/03/ ... -pandemic/

[BurtReynolds]

Bmore gonna Bmore:

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/03/ ... -pandemic/

no thanks, that would destroy the economy!

[dimejinky99]

perhaps

Idris Elba is getting a world of shit for somehow being able to get tested immediately.

He just paid for it. All the super posh doctors in London’s Harley st are offering testing. You’ll pay through the nose for t but still.