I like calling it the CCP Virus. I defend your right to be offended even if you don't defend my right to free speech.
In my county in CA, we had as many suicides last month as we had all of last year. It is 3x the number of deaths related to the CCP Virus. The youngest was 72 years old. A large % were in nursing homes.
I see the main problem as a data collection screw up:
How the CDC wants the reporting done:
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Here is the report form:
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Do we ever get a breakdown of this data? Do you truly believe that all hospitals and healthcare workers are filling out these forms accurately? Are they all able to compile this data? I doubt it.
So when a CCP virus death is reported, is the virus the main cause of death, a contributing factor that hastened the death or the patient had it but it was not a factor? Like he was killed in a car accident or murdered. We'll never know, will we? All we get is the sensationalism and the Useful Idiots and Political Hacks out there eat it up.
This is how the Feds are handling the reimbursements to the states for treatment. Now just imagine the US with a single-payer program administered by these people:
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The Executive Branch has only minimal control over this reimbursement. If you want to blame someone, blame the ones who have been in DC for 20+ years, they are the ones who have engineered this and are administrating it. If you are expecting the Federal Government to come to your aid and fix problems be prepared to be very disappointed.
My opinion: The reporting on this virus is just more of the same sensationalism that mainstream media thrives on because of ratings and advertising revenue. Unfortunately, they need to dumb it down for their viewers who won't understand the real-world data and implications. The politicians from both parties use it to rally their "Useful Idiots" while being the height of hypocrisy and poor decision making themselves.
To get a real picture of the situation every person in the country needs to be tested EVERY DAY and the results sent in to be determined. How many people have had the virus, didn't know, and recovered? Probably in the 10's of millions but we'll never know. How much false reporting has been done? We'll never know.
How efficient is the testing data collection? We're finding out it is pretty poor. What is the error rate and false positives for the testing? Who knows. They are using a variety of testing techniques. Do they all give the same level of accuracy? Probably not. Have many test kits been defective? Yes, ten's of thousands, maybe more. How much cross-contamination has there been? Who knows.
So when the sensational new media reports about XX,000 new cases reported what exactly does that mean? How many new cases are unreported? We'll never know what is really occurring for at least 5 years after the experts get to review, compile, and study the information.
At this point there is no consensus as if the virus is airborne, how long it lasts in the air, the level of saturation to overcome your body defenses, what systems and organs it affects, and how, what permanent damage is done after recovery, can you get re-infected, etc?
With that said, I'm sure they are doing the best they can with what they have and we should not have an expectation that we can control this, despite what the "experts" and politicians are saying. Everyone eventually gets the common cold, most of us will be exposed to the CCP virus.
FYI: In the past, I worked with a county in California for a pandemic response. We put on mass inoculations. I was responsible for and data collection for patient biometrics, geographics, and tracking. I also did the data collection for First Responders and we were able to get the data reported to the ER before the patient arrived using a combination of digital handwriting capture, text narrative, and voice input.
After the patient intake form was filled out the data was sent to the country EMS and hospital ER. We identified the patient biometrics and collated them to give a level of probability that the patient is suffering from a communicable disease. This was a trigger for the county/state pandemic response team. The delay from EMS arrival to the patient to the data being collected, reported, entered into the county database and a real-time report generated was less than 30 minutes.
The electronic form would take the data and export a text-based narrative that would go into a voice recognition system that would send a voice mail to the patient's personal physician if we had the phone #.
I did ride alongs with some county fire departments to implement the same successful system for them. What happened? They basically sabotaged the system by not following the directions. Evidently, one of the ways they spiked their pensions was to let all of the handwritten forms from a 24-hour shift pile up. Then a designated person would spend the next two hours manually entering them into their system taking his time because he was getting overtime to do the data entry. The County EMS manager told us he was well aware of it but he could not do anything against the Firefighter union.
The state also has plans to set up a 10,000-bed hospital to respond to a pandemic. The next governor canceled it. The state of California was prepared for supplying PPE. However, in January when they opened the storage all of the equipment, millions of dollars worth, was outdated and no longer certified to use.
I think it's clear to see how difficult this is, there is no sense of blaming it on one specific group or person. Our pandemic response plans and strategy are a WIP. I hope we learn something to be prepared for the next one.
I found this Dr. Hansen to be an unbiased source for good information:
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worries about not losing his rules stuff.
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