Comment Re: Data? (Score 1) 73
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Avoid early intubation that is based solely on oxygen requirements. Allow "Permissive hypoxemia" as tolerated.
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Avoid early intubation that is based solely on oxygen requirements. Allow "Permissive hypoxemia" as tolerated.
You may believe that is true, but do go and read up a bit on how money is actually spend. (Don't watch Fox or CNN)
Most of the money was going towards loans, and if that money then later was used to pay rent or salaries during this period then part of that loan may be forgiven..
Do go read up on what the democrats wanted to get included in deals.. Trump did want to pay out money to people straight from the tax-office.. It was the democrats that demanded that it should be handled by the banks....
I do agree with it being crazy of the Fed loaning out money to artificially keep the markets high.. But do reflect on what will happen to your 401k or life savings if the market crashes.
We might have reduced amount of CO2 released for the past few month's..
Problem is that we are living on borrowed money and goods. When we do open up again there will be much less money available for large-scale environmental projects by governments, and a lot less money for companies to switch over to more environmentally friendly processes.
This hole covid-19 will result in a HUGE step back in our fights against pollution and climate change, and there is not much we can do about it except to open up as soon as possible.
Light therapy was used before antibiotics where invented, with some success, so there is some history to this still.
We also have a few more recent things:
https://www.bu.edu/articles/20...
https://www.genengnews.com/top...
Hydrogen peroxide ( a disinfectant ) has been used to treat asthma and has shown promise in treating viral infections in the respiratory system.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2... ( study first posted in 2016 )
http://www.drwlc.com/blog/2020... ( origin 1990 )
WTF are you talking about
Please stop with your FUD. The US is still fairing a lot better than here in Europe.
Just a snapshot of a few countries here..
Spain 402 dead per million people.... Older people (around 60-70) where disconnected and put to sleep because there where missing ventilators.
Italy 358 dead per million people... Older people (around 60-70) where refused ventilators because not enough where available for younger people.
UK 190 dead per million people... Reports of people dying in their rooms alone in care-homes... Quite far to go still..
Sweden 119 dead per million people... Official guidelines for who will get access to a ventilator, if one is available, is that the person should have a good chance of surviving at least one year after.. Still a long way to go before we have our heard immunity..
USA 86 dead per million people... You have more respirators and beds available per patient that most of Europe has.
https://www.worldometers.info/...
And the second thing... It seems like i know more about your country than you.. Your president cannot force lock-down on the states, it has to be the governors that enact that.
The national stockpile you have should have been restocked after the last swine-flue, but was never restocked.. 2009
Blame can be thrown everywhere... But please stop spreading FUD!
This has actually been proven false and written about in quite a few papers. Even the linked story says "Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect comment from the Pentagon." that contains the below quotes.
On April 8, Colonel R. Shane Day, Director of the NCMI stated: "in the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists."
And blame shifting goes on from both sides.. I do prefer presenting actual facts and not spreading FUD. Let people make up their own minds with correct facts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In the Financial Times of March 20, 2020, "Taiwan said its doctors had heard from mainland colleagues that medical staff were getting ill—a sign of human-to-human transmission. Taipei officials said they reported this to both International Health Regulations (IHR), a WHO framework for the exchange of epidemic prevention and response data between 196 countries, and Chinese health authorities on December 31."[47]. According to Reuters, Taiwan's Centres for Disease Control chief Chou Jih-haw said that it has written to the WHO and China on 31 December, asking for information about the virus outbreak in Wuhan, including whether there was human-to-human transmission. The WHO confirmed it had received the letter but did not respond to it.[48]
https://www.statnews.com/2020/...
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
1 December
The earliest traceable and confirmed patient, the 55-year-old man started experiencing symptoms on 1 December 2019. He had not been to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market of Wuhan. No epidemiological link could be found between this case and later cases.[14][15][16][17]
So that's just a 1.5 month delay after the first verified confirmed case.... And if this person did not have any contact with the wet-market where this is claimed to originate then it points to community spread this early. If there was community spread that early it does increase the probability of the unofficially reported cases during November was accurate.
To paraphrase a UK study. "If information would have been made public just 3 weeks earlier then 95% of all cases could have been prevented."
This might have allowed us to do full contract tracing, like Taiwan and South Korea, and quarantining of infected instead of just trying to make our healthcare systems not break down completely with the "flattening the curve" tactic.
I was just trying to point out a better place to get the facts on this since the link to the source-material was not obvious in the article.
It is up to you to decide if you think this is a good or bad thing.
https://home.treasury.gov/news...
Probably better to read it from the actual source...
I own a macbook pro from 2013 for personal use that works quite ok... But planning to upgrade quite soon..
+ HDMI output
+ Thunderbolt
+ 2x USB-A ports
+ MiniSD port
+ Magnetic power-cable
+ Possible to replace the SSD.
+ Still quite ok battery-life (~5h)
+ physical F-keys
+ Good screen.
+ Good keyboard.
+ Low weight.
- CPU is not the most recent..
- Nvidia card is quite old and slow..
- Not user upgradable RAM so stuck with 16G.
- Not a spill-proof keyboard.
At work i have a macbook pro from 2017 and it sucks..
+ Quite recent CPU with ok performance. (enough for what i do at work)
+ Ok battery life.
+ Good screen
+ Low weight.
- Only USB-C ports so you have to use dongles for everything.
- No F-Keys but only that touchbar..
- Non-replacable SSD so when it wears out or breaks the whole machine is toast.. Also if anything on the mainboard craps out the data is lost.
- Not a spill-proof keyboard, that i just found out i will have to send in because a key stopped working due to a design-miss they made. (for them to make it thinner)
- Bad keyboard to type on.
- Overheats (thermal-throttles) constantly.
If i go with a similarly priced PC i get:
* user-upgradable RAM (some with Ryzel 3xxx series CPU's supports up to 64Gb!)
* user-upgradable SSD (some even have the option of 2.5" SATA + M.2 Nvme drive)
* spill-proof keyboards have been "standard" in the laptop industry for quite a few years now.
* About the same weight as my 2017 macbook pro (some, even less)
* Thin enough.. Not thicker than my 2013 macbook pro anyway.
* More recent CPU's (with the option of up to 8 cores!)
* Better cooling without thermal throttling of the CPU.
* Much better options on graphics-cards (nvidia 10xx 20xx 1660 etc, or maybe go with a AMD CPU with Vega 10 for better battery-life)
* USB-A ports
* USB-C ports
* HDMI and/or Displayport (but some use USB-C for external displays)
* Real ethernet port (but some do require a dongle)
* Same or even lower weight, but some are not as rigid... but i'm not planning to throw my laptop across the room anytime soon.
* Even better battery time on some.. up 13-15h is not too uncommon..
* Possible to repair at the place of your choosing, and at a lot lower cost.... You are not locked into the Apple sandbox and can buy parts for it yourself or let a 3'rd party repair-shop do it for you..
* Possible, for the same money as a apple-care, to get *on premesis* repair the next work-day. In my city (around 150k ppl) we don't have a apple-store so any repair has to be shipped to one of their other locations.
* Good screen, but still a bit tough to find one with a quality 4k screen combined with good enough performance and battery-time.
I have using macbooks for the last 10 years, but now i'm fed up with them.. They are quite far behind on what CPU's/GPU's they offer and limit the number of configurations that can be ordered. Initial price may not be that expensive, but when you factor in all the extras (dongles / only apple-certified repair-centers / non-upgradable parts so you will have to switch laptop / etc ) they do become quite expensive over time..
Are you having fun yet?
