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... another bottleneck exposed in modern society by the virus, just-in-time funeral services.
I bet Silicon Valley can come up with a funeral home share app for that, with surge pricing to cater for unexpected demand too.
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... risky hack to double up on ventilator machine could save lives. https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/03/20/2048226/risky-hack-could-double-access-to-ventilators-as-coronavirus-peaksAn emergency medicine physician says she and a colleague invented a way to connect four patients to a single ventilator, a hack that could significantly increase the capacity of overburdened hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic. Doctors Greg Neyman and Charelene Irvin Babcock published a pilot study of the technique in Academic Emergency Medicine in 2006. Babock is now an emergency medicine physician at a hospital in Detroit, Michigan and posted a YouTube video on March 14 describing the technique.
The technique is remarkably simple. "Four sets of standard ventilator tubing were connected to a single ventilator via two flow splitters," the study said. "Each flow splitter was constructed of three Briggs T-Tubes which included connection adapters with the valves removed." In Babock's video, she said the adapters were 22mm in size. Basically, any kind of T-shaped tube can be adapted to extend the ventilator to more than one patient. Babock's video has gone viral, and she told Motherboard in a phone interview that she put together the four way adapter set in her YouTube video in 15 minutes using supplies her hospital already had. In an interview with Motherboard, Babcock said that actually using it on coronavirus patients is a tough call, but a potentially life-saving one in a last-resort situation.]An emergency medicine physician says she and a colleague invented a way to connect four patients to a single ventilator, a hack that could significantly increase the capacity of overburdened hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic. Doctors Greg Neyman and Charelene Irvin Babcock published a pilot study of the technique in Academic Emergency Medicine in 2006. Babock is now an emergency medicine physician at a hospital in Detroit, Michigan and posted a YouTube video on March 14 describing the technique.
The technique is remarkably simple. "Four sets of standard ventilator tubing were connected to a single ventilator via two flow splitters," the study said. "Each flow splitter was constructed of three Briggs T-Tubes which included connection adapters with the valves removed." In Babock's video, she said the adapters were 22mm in size. Basically, any kind of T-shaped tube can be adapted to extend the ventilator to more than one patient. Babock's video has gone viral, and she told Motherboard in a phone interview that she put together the four way adapter set in her YouTube video in 15 minutes using supplies her hospital already had. In an interview with Motherboard, Babcock said that actually using it on coronavirus patients is a tough call, but a potentially life-saving one in a last-resort situation. |
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... this sounds awful, over 60's no longer being given access to ventilators in Italian hospitals. I guess this is coming to UK and other deficient healthcare systems where the government let the outbreak become overwhelming. https://www.jpost.com/International/Israeli-doctor-in-Italy-We-no-longer-help-those-over-60-621856Peleg said that, from what he sees and hears in the hospital, the instructions are not to offer access to artificial respiratory machines to patients over 60 as such machines are limited in number. ... don't know anything about jerusalem post as a news source though, |
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... there is a high risk for the financial markets closing this week and we might then have a banking holiday for 2-3 weeks. On-line banking systems will keep functioning but may get progressively more 'spotty'.
Plan accordingly all those who think access to exchanges and fiat system is a weak point for them. BTC in hand is the name of the game.
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Whatever happened to Lambie 'it's just a flu' Slayer?
He's been quiet.
... the level of sock muppetry reached a peak on friday. Must be getting new shouting points to change the psy-op 'angles'. |
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Why wouldn't he just use his regular account?
What you are saying, Cryptotourist, does not make any senses, unless there is something wrong with Roach's regular account.
Shit, I don't know JJG, I'm only fucking with him here. That cunt had the audacity to call me a paid shill/agent - whilst most likely being exactly that himself - what the fuck was I supposed to respond to that? He also kinda reminds me of r0ach in a more refined way. That's it. ... clearly a paid shill troll. Spamming WO with crap posting and huge font histrionics drama. Seems to be tag teaming; Lambie Slayer on weeks cryptotourist on weekends and night. Pair of bitches on a govvie leash most likely. Maybe the same scumbags who invented roach persona to crap up this place for 3 years, who got reassigned. |
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Ok, later.
You girls need to ask for a raise from your handlers. Getting led around like bitches on a leash and made to bark lies on demand is very demeaning.
Maybe the public doesn't need to be told what to think by agents of the state who have to slink around covertly lying and manipulating in public forums?
... ~ paranoid rant ~ ... insomnia? Guilty conscience? They don't pay you to post outside your hours, shilling is soulless work. And keep it seemly, you aren't being paid to think for yourself. |
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This child is off to bed.
The other one should pick up shortly.
Ta-da.
Ok, later. You girls need to ask for a raise from your handlers. Getting led around like bitches on a leash and made to bark lies on demand is very demeaning. Maybe the public doesn't need to be told what to think by agents of the state who have to slink around covertly lying and manipulating in public forums? |
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The virus appears to be a particularly vicious threat to generally sick societies.
Generally sick societies?... yes, like endemic obesity, high blood pressure, poor diets, low exercise, unfit, sedentary lifestyles, high smoking rates, high alcohol intakes, heavily medicated, high background pollution levels, high depression levels, poor mental health, high cancer rates, high average age, low vigor, etc. Generally sick societies. |
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51978164Four people in the same family have died from coronavirus in the US state of New Jersey, with three more relatives in hospital.
Grace Fusco, 73, and six of her adult children fell ill after attending a large family gathering. ... I have feeling overweight Italian (or Italian heritage) maybe particularly vulnerable. High BP, lots of social touching, (holding hands, kisses, hugs, cheek squeezes, etc). The virus appears to be a particularly vicious threat to generally sick societies. Edit: Number of cases testing +ve and deaths still doubling every 4 days ... i.e. 4 day doubling time. Estimating back-of-envelope calculation. ~200k global cases confirmed, Fauci says this is 4 days behind actual and only 80% of cases getting tested. We probably have 2 million global cases right now. Therefore between 20,000-100,000 deaths in the pipeline (assumes infection spread halted totally today).
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shits turning feral out there. Just in time food supply chain may have made supermarket barons uber wealthy but the fragility of such a risky approach is now apparent.
The problem is not the virus, even though it is a nasty little bug to contract for many, it is the whole modern way of life. The production, distribution, economic, bureaucratic governance and especially socialistic healthcare systems in the western world are highly vulnerable to the disruption of a global pandemic. No one knows how this ends yet. Not to mention the financial system was on borrowed time due to prolonged malfeasance and mismanagement compounding a demographic anomaly leftover from WWII.
I don't know if we are at the 'blood in streets' point yet. It feels like the civil unrest phase is just beginning. Calls to close the equity markets is a significant milestone though. Institutional panic is almost breaking through to the surface, that is a rare occurence. I think that will happen more and fuel a wider panic in people who hold ultimate faith in institutions, although there is good evidence many of these are now mostly irrelevant, ineffective institutions, failed entities established in a bygone era.
A loss of faith and confidence in the modern way of life is the biggest hurdle psychologically that needs to be surmounted here. After that the denial, anger, grieving and ultimately acceptance of the new paradigm of possibilities and opportunities can begin. I'm optimistic the whole evil ways of the past can collapse and be consumed in a giant inferno and we can move ahead peacefully, but war is an ever present threat.
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Whew ... so much more peaceful when the children go to bed.
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Because we are talking about a fraction of the deaths snake bites cause each year.  Yes, King Bitcoin will do well ... predicts deaths from coronavirus are going down ...  ... next sentence predicts bitcoin will do well. Your cognitive dissonance on predicting trendlines is impressive. |
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https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-dumped-up-to-1-6-million-of-stock-after-reassuring-public-about-coronavirus-preparednessHere's another scumbag. Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $628,000 and $1.72 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 33 separate transactions.
As the head of the intelligence committee, Burr, a North Carolina Republican, has access to the government’s most highly classified information about threats to America’s security. His committee was receiving daily coronavirus briefings around this time, according to a Reuters story. ... when does hunting season open over that way?
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-kelly-loeffler-dumped-millions-in-stock-after-coronavirus-briefingHoly shit, this brazen, isn't this illegal? The Senate’s newest member sold off seven figures worth of stock holdings in the days and weeks after a private, all-senators meeting on the novel coronavirus that subsequently hammered U.S. equities.
Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) reported the first sale of stock jointly owned by her and her husband on Jan. 24, the very day that her committee, the Senate Health Committee, hosted a private, all-senators briefing from administration officials, including the CDC director and Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institutes of Health of the United States, on the coronavirus.
“Appreciate today’s briefing from the President’s top health officials on the novel coronavirus outbreak,” she tweeted about the briefing at the time. ... she's the person running the cash-settled bitcoin exchange BAKKT I recall.
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