Acebuckeye13 posted:

https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1248318170328379392?s=20

Both moves are limited, but student debt forgiveness in particular is a pretty big concession from Biden. Apparently his campaign is in active talks with the Sanders campaign, so it'll be interesting to see what other concessions they lay out in the weeks/months to come.

That Works posted:

So's "Enemy of the People" but the POTUS used that one so often directly at several news agencies that no one even blinks at it anymore.



Also lmao just listen to the 1st 30 seconds.

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1248046216539242496

"within 5 years" , covid - 2019

mlmp08 posted:

Individual national guard units don't deploy as often as active duty units. Now, there are some enablers or types of units that are basically 100% filled by national guard units, but they're individually on MUCH less frequent deployment timelines than active units.

mlmp08 posted:

Aviation is more tasked than most but their D2D doesn’t approach active, I wager. Could be wrong.

I live in the world of utterly bonkers D2D, though, where we perpetually break all of the supposed limits and other active units think our D2D must be made up.

facialimpediment posted:

Please clap.

https://twitter.com/TheWTFNation/status/1250081097192529926?s=19

Nick Soapdish posted:

Oh 100% of course he has not watched it. Just remember his favorite movie is Bloodsport and only the action parts

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/an-oral-history-of-trumps-love-of-van-dammes-bloodsport

mlmp08 posted:

https://twitter.com/iamthewarax/status/1250153226332180481?s=21

facialimpediment posted:

I'm trying not to directly link things that make me/you mad, but

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1250491829155500032

I wish injury upon these people.

BigDave posted:

Because it's about THEIR RIGHTS

BigDave posted:

How DARE they disparage the good name of gun nerds!

True gun nerds meet at the range once a month and brag about how the serial number on their Mosin is lower then anyone else's, then start a debate about how the FG42 was the true first assault rifle!

It wasn't.

facialimpediment posted:

I'm trying not to directly link things that make me/you mad, but

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1250491829155500032

I wish injury upon these people.

The Onion posted:

Person Who Will One Day Become Warlord-Ruler Of What Was Once Nebraska Born In Omaha Hospital

BELLEVUE, NE—Shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday, Landon Matthew Crowley, a 7-pound, 14-ounce baby boy and the future warlord who will rule over the charred remnants of what was once the state of Nebraska, was welcomed into the world at Omaha's Methodist Hospital, sources reported.

golden bubble posted:

poo poo in Iran is so nuts that they are using disinfectant trucks instead of tanks and makeshift hospital beds on trucks instead of surface-to-air missiles for their military parades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltG3zYZmXnQ

Mustang posted:

It also costs a fortune to send soldiers to the border, many of them are being housed in hotels.

WSJ posted:

The Hidden Toll of Untreated Illnesses
As Covid-19 overwhelms doctors and hospitals, patients with other conditions receive less care, leading to a rise in mortality.

EMTs at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn, April 1.
PHOTO: ANDREW KELLY/REUTERS
By Sandeep Jauhar
April 17, 2020 8:59 am ET
Most weeks at my hospital near New York City we see about 40 acute or near-acute heart attacks. For the past few weeks, we’ve seen an average of five, a 90% drop. We’re hardly alone. At Detroit Medical Center, the number of heart attacks being treated has dwindled from 15 to 20 a week to one or two. Hospitals in Atlanta and Boston have seen similar drops. The decline is also being observed abroad. In Milan, for example, the number of heart attack cases is down by 70%. In Madrid, the dip may be closer to 80%.

The downturn seems to be true for a range of medical conditions besides heart attacks. Case volumes have plummeted for appendicitis, gallbladder infections and obstetric emergencies, to name just a few conditions that reliably appear in emergency rooms in non-pandemic times. “Eerie and worrisome” is how a hospital physician on the West Coast described it. People aren’t coming in for strokes, either. “We’re seeing less than half the number we normally see,” a neurologist told me last week.

What is happening? Is the coronavirus pandemic somehow stabilizing health across a range of medical conditions? Given what we know about the virus, that doesn’t seem plausible. Is society’s response to the pandemic, such as social distancing, reducing exposure to pollution or to other germs that can exacerbate chronic conditions? Such a hypothesis might explain some of the reduction in cardiovascular cases, but the sudden and simultaneous disappearance of so many hospitalizable conditions suggests that a social or behavioral factor is at play.

Could it be that patients with medical emergencies are staying away from hospitals out of fear of viral transmission? On Twitter, doctors have written of patients with urinary retention, severe abdominal pain and incipient foot gangrene refusing advice to be hospitalized. Others have told of patients with cardiac arrhythmias and chest pains toughing it out at home. This isn’t the first time patients with acute conditions have avoided the hospital in an infectious outbreak. In West Africa during the 2014 Ebola epidemic, outpatient visits decreased by 90% as people avoided hospitals out of fear of contracting that virus. If something similar is happening today, the health consequences will far outlast this pandemic.

Those consequences may already be unfolding. In hard-hit regions in Italy, the death rate is currently six times higher than in comparable earlier periods. A study published in the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera recently looked at the spike in deaths in Nembro, a town in Lombardy severely affected by the coronavirus. The report suggests that deaths directly attributable to the coronavirus may account for only about a quarter of the rise. A portion of the excess deaths may be the result of undetected coronavirus infections, but many more are probably occurring because people with non-coronavirus diseases aren’t receiving the proper care.

In Spain, too, recent reports suggest that mortality rates may have doubled last month, in large part because of non-coronavirus illnesses. Though death rates in the U.S. showed a paradoxical drop in March, there is every reason to believe that they too will soon show massive rises out of proportion to coronavirus infections.

“Indirect” deaths have always been a major problem in viral pandemics. In the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, lack of routine care for malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis led to an estimated 10,600 additional deaths. “As unprecedentedly catastrophic as the Ebola outbreak has been,” one study concluded, “we estimated that (the) indirect repercussions of the Ebola outbreak may have been even greater than the deaths directly attributable to Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.” These deaths occurred because people didn’t seek proper treatment but also because health care systems were strained beyond capacity. Malaria control programs, for example, took a hit.

“ Viral transmission can occur at hospitals and clinics, and people may not receive the care they have come to expect. ”

It is understandable that fear—of both contagion and substandard care—would lead people to avoid crowded hospitals and clinics in a pandemic. Viral transmission can occur at these facilities. And people may not receive the care they have come to expect. During the 2009 influenza pandemic, patients with acute strokes, congestive heart failure or heart attacks who were treated at hospitals facing a surge of flu cases had significantly higher death rates than comparable patients treated at non-surge hospitals, possibly because of protocol changes and staff shortages.

So what should patients be doing today? For routine issues, such as blood pressure or diabetes management, patients should not be going to hospitals or clinics to see their doctors face-to-face. There is a risk of viral exposure, but more immediately there is a risk of diverting scarce resources from the patients who most need them. Recognizing this, America’s health care system has quickly ramped up telemedicine visits and canceled procedures, such as routine biopsies, that can be scheduled for a later date.

For patients with serious health emergencies, however, it would be a grave mistake not to seek treatment. In New York City, there are disturbing reports of a spike in deaths from cardiac arrests at home. We may never know how many are because of the coronavirus and how many because people having heart attacks stayed at home instead of going to the hospital. But a plethora of anecdotal reports suggest the latter isn’t a small number.

One cardiologist wrote on Twitter about a patient with what was thought to be stable coronary artery disease who was brought to the hospital in cardiac arrest. Six months ago, the patient might have received closer evaluation, including an angiogram or even bypass surgery, before such catastrophic deterioration. But today such patients are being ignored. Even those who survive their heart attacks may have higher death rates in the future and suffer long-term health problems, such as arrhythmias and heart failure. Because of the prevalence of cardiovascular disease, even small increases in the mortality rate will have outsize effects.

Judging from prior epidemics, we may see a precipitous rise in “non-coronavirus” deaths in the coming months. Many will be health-related; others, such as suicides or opioid overdoses, will occur because of economic and psychological disruption. The official number of deaths from the coronavirus will never tell the full story of this pandemic’s devastation. For a full reckoning, we will need to keep counting.

—Dr. Jauhar is a practicing cardiologist and the author, most recently, of “Heart: A History.”

shame on an IGA posted:

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/1253069021924265984?s=19

Great loving use of time and money

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/evanmcmurry/status/1253721595903868930

shame on an IGA posted:

She's got a strong challenger for the first time ever, fire up the phone and help us make sure she doesn't.

https://shahidforchange.us/

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Permaban Twitter

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

DTS is the mediocre-to-nonfunctional travel software that some branches of the US military use.

A Bad Poster posted:

I'm surprised nobody has nuked the moon yet.

But now that I think about it, putting a nuclear bomb in a cold war era rocket is probably not a great idea.

ManMythLegend posted:

What is this? There is no way I'm Googling it.

Milo and POTUS posted:

Without knowing anything about the politics at play, would it be practical for the more western slavs to form a mutual defense pact or are the russians just too damned strong for that to be practical

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1255181355798978566

Our big wet Prez isn't going to miss any of his McDonald's meals

stealie72 posted:

I'd like to think the people would be horrified if they saw the conditions in a modern meat packing plant, but I would just be disappointed that they are not.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

The GOP applauds your enthusiasm.