March Madness and Covid-19

[coolm]

LOL. That’s not true but carry on with your rage dude

oh really? so you dispute that the entire world is laughing at us for the oafish buffoon in the white house and our complete nosedive from a position of world leadership? if so then you are seriously out of touch with reality.

 

[sheepdogs1]

oh really? so you dispute that the entire world is laughing at us for the oafish buffoon in the white house and our complete nosedive from a position of world leadership? if so then you are seriously out of touch with reality.

Do you have a window seat?

 

[Eielson]

oh really? so you dispute that the entire world is laughing at us for the oafish buffoon in the white house and our complete nosedive from a position of world leadership? if so then you are seriously out of touch with reality.

Deep breath!

 

[sheepdogs1]

Deep breath!

Or Bellevue!

 

[OU84]

everyone else is weighing in on their personal politics so i might as well do the same.

I first registered to vote in 1968 and i registered as a republican. Not a lot of deep thought went into it - my parents were republicans and dwight eisenhower was one of my heroes. At the time, i thought the republicans would be more careful with my tax dollar.

As time went on and the republicans became more and more conservative on social issues i wasn't as in tune with them as much. But, i didn't want to be a one issue voter and conventional wisdom said you needed to be a republican to have someone to vote for or against in the primaries so i stayed.

By the 1980s, i worked for a fortune 500 company. The employees at my company were treated well and what was good for business was good for me, right? So i stayed a republican. Fast forward a few years and things began to change. Pension plans were frozen but unless you were making significantly more than i made, you couldn't afford to put enough into your 401k to make up the difference. Premium payments on our health insurance went up and up but the amount they would pay shrank. Raises became smaller and smaller and then went away altogether. The company sold my part of the company and we were shifted from company, to company, to company - 6 different times. Each time, the bigwigs made a boatload of money and the rank and file employees got the shaft. Even so, i stayed a republican - even though i voted for fewer and few republicans - until about 5 years ago.

There were a few straws that broke the camel's back:

1) the constant strangulation of the oklahoma public schools by the oklahoma legislature.
2) the emergence of people like sarah palin in republican power circles.

I'm not sure if i've posted it here, but i loathe donald trump. I've voted in every presidential election since 1968 and he is the only candidate that has run that has absolutely no redeeming qualities - no integrity, no honor - nothing.

You say his policies have been good? Maybe if you had a lot invested in the stock market he is. But if you can't afford those luxuries, he hasn't been good for you. If you want more air pollution and more water pollution, he's your man. If you are a racist who has privately fumed at what you call political correctness, he's your man. If you are a guy who wants to grab women who don't want to be grabbed and suffer no consequences, he's your man. If you don't like public education you love the person he put in charge. I could go on but you get the message. History will look back on dt as the worst american president by far.

bravo!

 

[coolm]

Deep breath!

is that a yes or a no? at least be sure to provide an answer in the midst of making fun of me for speaking the truth.

 

[sheepdogs1]

is that a yes or a no? at least be sure to provide an answer in the midst of making fun of me for speaking the truth.

Do you hear voices?

 

[coolm]

Do you hear voices?

do you? I'm not the one delusional.

 

[hoopsaustin]

I agree with you for the most part.

It is just difficult to compare and say the words of a President is more impactful when addressing the country vs. that of a news conference or a tweet because we have never had a President in front of the public like Trump. Part of it is the media age we live in, compared to Reagan for example, but most of it is his narcissist egotistical desire to be at front and center. That is not a swipe, just fact he loves to be in front of the camera and get the attention.

Bush's moment in the rubble wasn't an address to the country, it was through a megaphone to first responders. Not that I approved of all his political ideology, but I think of one of Obama's most powerful moments was his White House briefing right after Sandy Hook. Obama was a media attention hound too. Clinton in OKC.

Those moments lead the spirit of our country, not necessarily motivational or inspire. But they move our country in a direction, whether intended or not.

Trump could literally jump on a grenade thrown by terrorists in a kindergarten class of transgender children with a black homosexual atheist socialist school teacher and die and the liberals would cheer and not say another word other then good riddance.. so you're not recognizing just how much politics have become polarized. Liberals want to end the constitutional electoral college simply bc Hillary got beat down... it doesn't matter what trump would do for the most part.

You can't deal in good faith with someone [media, dems, deep state] dealing with you in bad faith..

 

[hoopsaustin]

Really good synposis MJ. We are very much aligned on views and thoughts. I may be a little more libertarian than most, but like you, I am a constitutionalist. I was a Ted Cruz guy.....which may make a few on here shudder.

I said it several pages back, I don't like the way that Trump represents himself at times and wish he was better at presentation/speaking. However, he is a NY street fighter and at his age, I don't expect him to become "diplomatic" anytime soon.

As you pointed out, he has delivered on some things and others not so much yet. However, I do believe it is unprecedented the way he has been attacked and scrutinized from day 1....far more than any other president in my lifetime (considerably more than even Reagan or Nixon). It is a constant daily barrage of criticism (some warranted, some not) especially in this plugged-in, social media world. So using that as our filter, I think he has accomplished quite a bit.

After trump leaves office and Nikki Haley becomes president in 2024, shell be labeled the "literal hitler", bigot, racist, homophobe, la la la, rinse and repeat

 

[hoopsaustin]

Everyone else is weighing in on their personal politics so I might as well do the same.

I first registered to vote in 1968 and I registered as a Republican. Not a lot of deep thought went into it - my parents were Republicans and Dwight Eisenhower was one of my heroes. At the time, I thought the Republicans would be more careful with my tax dollar.

As time went on and the Republicans became more and more conservative on social issues I wasn't as in tune with them as much. But, I didn't want to be a one issue voter and conventional wisdom said you needed to be a Republican to have someone to vote for or against in the primaries so I stayed.

By the 1980s, I worked for a Fortune 500 company. The employees at my company were treated well and what was good for business was good for me, right? So I stayed a Republican. Fast forward a few years and things began to change. Pension plans were frozen but unless you were making significantly more than I made, you couldn't afford to put enough into your 401K to make up the difference. Premium payments on our health insurance went up and up but the amount they would pay shrank. Raises became smaller and smaller and then went away altogether. The company sold my part of the company and we were shifted from company, to company, to company - 6 different times. Each time, the bigwigs made a boatload of money and the rank and file employees got the shaft. Even so, I stayed a Republican - even though I voted for fewer and few Republicans - until about 5 years ago.

There were a few straws that broke the camel's back:

1) The constant strangulation of the Oklahoma public schools by the Oklahoma legislature.
2) The emergence of people like Sarah Palin in Republican power circles.

I'm not sure if I've posted it here, but I loathe Donald Trump. I've voted in every Presidential election since 1968 and he is the only candidate that has run that has absolutely no redeeming qualities - no integrity, no honor - nothing.

You say his policies have been good? Maybe if you had a lot invested in the stock market he is. But if you can't afford those luxuries, he hasn't been good for you. If you want more air pollution and more water pollution, he's your man. If you are a racist who has privately fumed at what you call political correctness, he's your man. If you are a guy who wants to grab women who don't want to be grabbed and suffer no consequences, he's your man. If you don't like public education you love the person he put in charge. I could go on but you get the message. History will look back on DT as the worst American President by far.

Lol dumb af. A vice president pick was a straw? Hahaha VP is so unimportant.. you must not politic

 

[BoulderSooner]

Back on topic. This is interesting

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464

 

[sheepdogs1]

do you? I'm not the one delusional.

How would you know? Really? You state that all of the free world thinks such and such about a person. How do you know this? It is because your reality revolves around "what you want." I mean there are 5 billion people or so in the "free world" and you really believe 100% think the way you want them to? If you do then you have all the answers you need and than some. Opinions are not facts and facts are not opinions. Your feelings are not facts regardless of how strong you feel about something.

 

[coolm]

How would I know? My view is based on empirical data and a cross-sectional survey of people from around the world. What about yours? you and your buddies in Bugtussel. you're delusional.

 

[WTSooner]

oh really? the entire free world considers him a piece of dung yet WE are the ones out of touch? sure. you're delusional.

I don't really care what the rest of the world thinks. One, he's putting a lot of their countries in their place. Something we should have been doing decades ago. Two, a lot of those countries are far more liberal than the US has been historically. Of course they are going to think some of our politics, and some of the things Trump is trying to accomplish, "aren't good."

Doesn't mean Americans feel that way. Check out his approval ratings. Doesn't really support the "rumor" that Americans overall aren't happy with him. Before this virus he was a lock to be re-elected.

 

[paboomersooner]

Guys, you're never gonna get though. However, by all means, don't stop trying. This is all highly entertaining.

f I could give advice to the planet, it would be; don't marry for looks alone, going either way, and I'll tell you why. In a few years, if Barbara's b**** start to sag too much, there's a place you can go where they can just lift 'em right back up to where they were. And they can point the n***** wherever they want 'em. You can actually go to a t**** bar, pick out a set of t****** and say, "I want those t****** on that woman right there." If her belly gets too big and she don't wanna work it off, you can go get a tummy tuck- they'll give you a belly that looks like a cheerleader. You know, if your eyes start to go bad, you can have Lasik surgery and they can give you 20/20 vision at any age. If your hearing starts to fail, they can put a device in your ear that'll make you able to hear as good as you could the day you were born. But let me tell you something, folks...you can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take, there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is fo-evah.-Ron White

 

[coolm]

Stupid is fo-evah.-Ron White

jagatmithya viveka ll satyambhaja kalpitamkuru adharmamtyaja ll atmana atmaneva tustah ll vayaṃ brahmanah smaḥ

 

[steverocks35]

Good morning.

I spent most of the day yesterday helping plan drive-up testing stations at the clinic in Tulsa and the hospital in Muskogee. The plan is to have them operational starting this weekend. You would think those would be simple to plan and implement. They are not. At this point we are expecting the hospitals to become Covid-19 facilities, and not much else. I feel for the nursing staff because they are basically going to be locked in isolation wards with incredibly infectious patients, and we ALREADY don't have PPE. You can't find an n-95 mask anywhere. You guys have probably already seen the nurses in New York using makeshift PPE made from garbage bags. That's about our starting point. We can't get testing in a timely manner. We have been sending out specimen to OSDH but they are completely overwhelmed, they can't keep up with the volume. We started sending to a private national lab, but the turnaround time has been an amazingly bad 7-8 days. The best case scenario would be to test them here. We have the instrumentation, but the reagent packs are ordered on a national basis and will be doled out according to need. Trust me when I tell you that we will be far down the list. Our policy so far has been to order a respiratory panel, a PCR test that screens for about 10 respiratory pathogens such as Flu A, Flu B, RSV, rhinovirus, etc. and then if that is negative send a specimen off for a Coronavirus test. The problem with this is that we only have about 70 of those panels left, and no prospect of getting more.

This is going to get much much worse. I can't give you specifics about any particular patient, but let me just say this: You can be slightly ill with flu-like symptoms, come to the hospital, get a workup and go home. The next day your situation will have deteriorated so much that you go to the hospital by ambulance are admitted to ICU and die 2 days later.

We are NOT prepared for what is coming.

 

[sheepdogs1]

Good morning.

I spent most of the day yesterday helping plan drive-up testing stations at the clinic in Tulsa and the hospital in Muskogee. The plan is to have them operational starting this weekend. You would think those would be simple to plan and implement. They are not. At this point we are expecting the hospitals to become Covid-19 facilities, and not much else. I feel for the nursing staff because they are basically going to be locked in isolation wards with incredibly infectious patients, and we ALREADY don't have PPE. You can't find an n-95 mask anywhere. You guys have probably already seen the nurses in New York using makeshift PPE made from garbage bags. That's about our starting point. We can't get testing in a timely manner. We have been sending out specimen to OSDH but they are completely overwhelmed, they can't keep up with the volume. We started sending to a private national lab, but the turnaround time has been an amazingly bad 7-8 days. The best case scenario would be to test them here. We have the instrumentation, but the reagent packs are ordered on a national basis and will be doled out according to need. Trust me when I tell you that we will be far down the list. Our policy so far has been to order a respiratory panel, a PCR test that screens for about 10 respiratory pathogens such as Flu A, Flu B, RSV, rhinovirus, etc. and then if that is negative send a specimen off for a Coronavirus test. The problem with this is that we only have about 70 of those panels left, and no prospect of getting more.

This is going to get much much worse. I can't give you specifics about any particular patient, but let me just say this: You can be slightly ill with flu-like symptoms, come to the hospital, get a workup and go home. The next day your situation will have deteriorated so much that you go to the hospital by ambulance are admitted to ICU and die 2 days later.

We are NOT prepared for what is coming.

In any event keep up the GREAT work!

 

[BoulderSooner]

Good morning.

I spent most of the day yesterday helping plan drive-up testing stations at the clinic in Tulsa and the hospital in Muskogee. The plan is to have them operational starting this weekend. You would think those would be simple to plan and implement. They are not. At this point we are expecting the hospitals to become Covid-19 facilities, and not much else. I feel for the nursing staff because they are basically going to be locked in isolation wards with incredibly infectious patients, and we ALREADY don't have PPE. You can't find an n-95 mask anywhere. You guys have probably already seen the nurses in New York using makeshift PPE made from garbage bags. That's about our starting point. We can't get testing in a timely manner. We have been sending out specimen to OSDH but they are completely overwhelmed, they can't keep up with the volume. We started sending to a private national lab, but the turnaround time has been an amazingly bad 7-8 days. The best case scenario would be to test them here. We have the instrumentation, but the reagent packs are ordered on a national basis and will be doled out according to need. Trust me when I tell you that we will be far down the list. Our policy so far has been to order a respiratory panel, a PCR test that screens for about 10 respiratory pathogens such as Flu A, Flu B, RSV, rhinovirus, etc. and then if that is negative send a specimen off for a Coronavirus test. The problem with this is that we only have about 70 of those panels left, and no prospect of getting more.

This is going to get much much worse. I can't give you specifics about any particular patient, but let me just say this: You can be slightly ill with flu-like symptoms, come to the hospital, get a workup and go home. The next day your situation will have deteriorated so much that you go to the hospital by ambulance are admitted to ICU and die 2 days later.

We are NOT prepared for what is coming.

thank you for the update