Throatwarbler posted:

So surely the CFR has to go down somewhat as doctors get more experience and gain better treatments right? Even in the old thread doctors were posting that they were having good results with certain therapies (IL6? I don't know what any of these mean) and while obviously they're not silver bullets there likely will be other therapies too that will together at least reduce the death rate?

Turdfuzz posted:

so corona threads are the new trump threads which were the new USPOL threads

Shear Modulus posted:

imo the president should provide an example of effective social distancing by locking up hillary clinton

Gripweed posted:

Dixville posted:

Well I'd like to think medical professionals aren't into eugenics as they dedicate their lives to saving people but I guess there can always be a few bad apples. Kind of scary to think about. Up to now the only triage I've heard of has been not choosing to put really old people on ventilators since they are not likely to ever get off of them. But I'm sure plenty of tricky decisions are being made and will be even more as time goes on. With probably not a lot of oversight. It's just up to the doctors and other health care personnel. Huh

TheWeepingHorse posted:

People are off the roads for one thing

gregday posted:

https://twitter.com/joelockhart/status/1245433038915481602

Grizzled Patriarch posted:

elon musk loudly boasting that he was going to mass-produce ventilators, followed by him buying a bunch of chinese cpap machines and then literally slapping tesla stickers over top of their logo on the boxes and just calling them ventilators anyway, to the raucous applause of millions of gullible faux-intellectual dipshits who insist that this naked pr stunt is a genuine and inspirational act of philanthropy, is such a perfect encapsulation of this dumbass country lol

Lawman 0 posted:

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1245745097855156226

Zotix posted:

https://v.redd.it/kchlqwzicgq41


lol

PokeJoe posted:

Venom Snake posted:

https://twitter.com/jallepap/status/1245912262344204288

what the gently caress???

pancake rabbit posted:

hahahahahahahahahahaha fifty state landslide

https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1246195409631969280

BULBASAUR posted:

lol if you think this will peak in 2 weeks

OhFunny posted:

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1246224055067385856?s=19

quote:

(CNN)The streets of Ecuador's western city of Guayaquil are deserted, with few residents in sight -- and a few dead, as bodies are being left in the streets of this overwhelmed place.

The coronavirus pandemic is overloading this city's public services to a point of collapse. Hospitals have no beds left to accept sick patients, and morgues, cemeteries and funeral homes are straining. With no place left to put them, some residents say they have no choice but placing them outside.

It's unclear how many of the deceased are dying because of Covid-19. Many families say their loved ones had symptoms of the virus, while others only know the ill were unable to be treated at Guayaquil's overwhelmed hospitals.

"We have been waiting for five days," Fernando Espana said in a video obtained by Reuters on March 30, as he complained about the struggles to have authorities come pick up his family member.

"We are tired of calling 911 and the only thing they tell us is to wait, they are working to solve this," he continues as he moves the camera through a window to show a black plastic-wrapped shape inside the home, with two fans blowing on it.

The smell is too much to take. "It's the odor from the body that one can no longer handle," Espana's neighbor, Glenda Larrea Vera says in the same video, from across the street and behind a mask. "And we also have neighbors that are elderly. I have my mother who is 80 who is also having respiratory problems."

Video surveillance from last week obtained by CNN shows a motorcyclist abandon a body in the street. Hours later, a group of people, dressed in special hazmat suits are seen picking up the deceased, then driving off in a vehicle.

In another video obtained by CNN, a group of people remove a body from a car. Covered in face masks, they wrap the body in a what appears to be a black tarp when a police vehicle approaches minutes later. A conversation takes place and the group puts the body back into the car. Police tell CNN they could not offer details about the video.

National figures show that Ecuador's authorities have collected more than 300 bodies from private homes in the city between March 23-30.

Jorge Wated, head of a joint military task force created to deal with Ecuador's coronavirus crisis, in a televised interview on Wednesday said that his task force had gone from "taking away 30 deceased per day to 150" over the past three days. Wated added that this was "independent of the hard work reactivated by the private funeral homes and graveyards in the country."

Guayaquil's mayor Cynthia Viteri has desperately begged for help from the national government in a video posted to her Twitter account last week. "What is happening in the country's public health system? They are not taking away the dead from houses, they're leaving them on the sidewalks, they're falling in front of hospitals. No one wants to pick them up," she said, adding later, "we need to know the causes of why people are dying in their homes."

Farm Frenzy posted:

https://twitter.com/abbyhoward26/status/1245510918299103232

Paramemetic posted:

p sure Bolsonaro's been couped

https://www.eldestapeweb.com/nota/horacio-verbitsky-revelo-que-un-alto-militar-se-hizo-cargo-del-gobierno-de-brasil-2020438560

Is this corona's first government overthrow? lmao

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/realjuliasong/status/1246236104019316739?s=20
https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1246234006850383872?s=20
https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1246079948345036800?s=20
https://twitter.com/YossiGestetner/status/1246210105093361664?s=20

Can't let the medicine be worse than the disease

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1246210382085185539

A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:

???

Gas went from $2.59 to $1.29 in East TN.

What happened in TX?

Inceltown posted:

As a side note go gently caress yourself, I'm trying to provide up to date and accurate information from serious health experts.

A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:

Yo but seriously those little thin N95 masks eventually fill up with breath germs and start being expelled and the cat avatar guy is 100% correct and screaming "the sky is falling"right now is completely, legitimately underselling how hosed medical staff are in this pig poo poo dog dick fuckface dipshit assclown moron country.

We're hosed and already in hell and you're all coming with us so get right with your god now because this rear end-blasting is just doing its stretches before its pre-exercise warm-up.