Not mine; someone sent it to me without an attribution.
"From a nurse, on a forum..."
Effing hilarious.
I don't know who wrote this, but I love them like family.
And the Gods of Nursing and Medicine looked down and spake:Amen
Oh thee of Joint Commission and thee of CMS.
May fuck be upon thee.
Thou hast promoted disposal of the Holy PPE for all these years based upon arbitrary expiration dates. This, in spite of evidence to the contrary by SLEP; In spite of other research; and in spite of common sense. Now, those who provide care must do without.
Lead us not by citation, but deliver us from stoopid. Know now that this must end. Your reign of terror is over.
From this day forth be it known that we shall not comply. We shall not waste. We shall not grovel for you.
Instead, we shall rise up, as one, to administer the Whole Pineapple Suppository of the Just to all transgressors. Sideways.
As it is spaketh, thus shall it be done.
~1st Covidians 1:1~
Aesop,
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that you know about the _company_ "Covidien", but it's become more than a play on words, given our present time of troubles. Apparently, they did a corporate "Buy competition - Kill their products" on Newport Medical Instruments, aggravating the current shortage of ventilators.
"In 2012, Covidien acquired Newport Medical Instruments, a small ventilator manufacturer supplier. Newport Medical Instruments had been contracted in 2006 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to design a cheap, portable ventilator. At the time, Newport Medical Instruments had 3 working prototypes produced, and was on schedule to file for market approval late 2013. Covidien then effectively halted the project, subsequently exiting the contract, as it was not profitable enough. Government officials and other medical equipment suppliers suspect the Newport acquisition was largely done to prevent a cheaper product from undermining Covidien's existing ventilator business. This contributed to the shortage of ventilators during the 2019 - 2020 coronavirus pandemic.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covidien
Sorry to see what happened on the other blog re: commenting.
ReplyDeleteI've been reading perspectives and arguments all across the spectrum on this over the past week and I keep coming back to the same things:
"It's just the flu" was the initial Chinese response. Then, they freaked out and locked down 700 million people. Now, far too much of the right wing in the USA - and to a lesser extent in Europe - is loudly proclaiming that it's just the flu.
All the available concrete data, obtained in multiple independent city-sized experiments since, indicates that it's 20-30 times worse than the flu, and that's just in deaths, without counting follow-on health effects.
All the available data from said experiments tends to fall within a certain range, except for China's published data, which is wildly far out on its own in terms of low apparent severity. And does not correlate with the Chinese governmental actions taken in response.
No evidence is available indicating this thing will go away on its own, or in the presence of vigorous assertion of BillOfRightsian principles. Not saying it won't - it may - but there is no evidence indicating such as yet. At best, it plateaus for a while.
China continues to be vehemently aggressive in pushing storylines that are flat out contrary to known facts. China does not seem to be the least bit aware of how thoroughly they are pissing everybody off with this behavior. China is a net food importer.
Far too many people on the right wing are reflexively taking the tack that "if the media says it, the opposite must be true". There was a time when the right was right because they started from first principles and worked things out logically, and if the result happened to agree with what the left was saying, fine, move on to the next item and focus on where the answers are different. That critical thinking ability has near-totally evaporated. Including, regrettably, at WRSA.
I used to think a second wave was possible during the summer and likelier in the late fall. Now, based on the behavior I'm seeing in the news, I expect it to become endemic in the red states and by September to be surging back to worse than it is right now. Long-term, there's no telling - still very little information on long-term effects on people who recover, and how long immunity lasts, if at all.
As a kid, visiting elderly relatives in France, I remember discussions of money between my grandmother and great-grandmother that inevitably included the phrase "Wait, is that in old francs or new francs?" It wouldn't surprise me if something similar happens to the dollar.
Thanks for your efforts in writing out your perspective on this.
Can you say "poetic justice"? I knew you could:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8239557/Ohio-man-60-blasted-COVID-19-lockdown-political-ploy-dies-contracting-coronavirus.html
Howdy there, brother. Couldn't ask this "over there"; so I'm trying here. I have read that the RNA sequencing for Covid19 has, for lack of a better word; "implanted" HIV and SARS rna. I probably got the science verbiage incorrect, but to your knowledge, Aesop, is that true?
ReplyDeleteI passed your "Math for Common Core" piece on to someboody I know who's taught a math-centric field for 30ish years. His response (roughly transcribed from in-person convo):
ReplyDelete"He's making a logic error. He takes the claimed 50 times prevalence, applies it to Santa Clara, gets 4% of the population there, then applies the 4% to New York City. There's no reason for Santa Clara and New York to be at the same stage of prevalence. He should just take the 50 times multiplier and apply it directly to New York. That gets you fairly different results."
Oh Aesop. I had to search around in the hopes of finding a way to reach you. Just finished reading your
ReplyDeletehttps://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2020/04/ontology-epistemology-and-life-in.html
and I have to tell you: I LOVE YOU!!!
Yours the second blog I read every day (after Vox Day's Vox Popoli; been following him for years). I'm a Navy vet, 64-yr-old lady who runs a manufacturing co. Many decades ago, I used to be Medical Affairs Director for an ambulance corps. (One hobby is 'keeping a eye on medicine,' so I'm still semi-educated.) My sole remaining web clients are "risk communication" specialists (www.psandman.com): Peter Sandman, who invented the field back at Three Mile Island, and his MD wife Jody Lanard -- so I've been coding up and reading their articles and interviews for some-26 years... (so, through H1N1-Swine-Flu-SARS- MERS-Zika-etc.-etc. as well as various antenna-siting controversies and so on.
Just some bona fides for why I mean it when I write: I LOVE YOU! YOU ARE AMAZING!!! Please God, LOOK AFTER this amazing nurse, throwing himself into the breach over and over! Stay safe, stay healthy.... stay Aesop!
@Rollory,
ReplyDeleteUm, NO.
I took claimed statistics, applied them to actual populations, and showed why they're so much horseshit.
nothing more, and nothing less.
The variables are "Percentage infected", and "What is the C-19 CFR?"
Period.
Using sensible numbers, I get the exact 3% CFR I supposed, which was considered factual until this all got politicized by jackholes on both sides of the spectrum.
I never said I assumed the same state of prevalence in two entirely different places. In fact, exactly the opposite is true. I merely plugged in worst-case and best-case numbers to the same variable.
One comports with reality; the other is ludicrous, as I said.
So either your friend isn't as math-centric as he thinks he is, or he's so math-centric he lacks basic reading comprehension. I don't know him, so I can't say which.