In the United States:
Hospitals consider universal do-not-resuscitate orders for coronavirus patients
The money quote from this article is at the beginning:
everything looks normal, the tides come and go, the birds peck around, the setting sunlight illuminates the valley. But for us these are uncharted waters, and for many it will hold much pain. My wish is that the pain recedes in time and a new chart is drawn, one less harmful to all of life.
The soon-to-be demise of the Saudi monarchy has come about from two stupid wars of choice that they intentionally started.
It couldn't have happened to a more deserving group of criminals.
The Oil Price War
Wednesday in The Guardian online there was a piece by Jonathan Portes titled "Don't believe the myth that we must sacrifice lives to save the economy." This is an attempt to rationally rebut the notion that "the economy" is some kind of god or gods which demands continual human sacrifice if the un
My county is has 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Testing is still very limited in Oregon and we are in a partial lock down. Some optimization if we follow the guidelines may not overrun our capacity of hospital beds. This will go on for several weeks and every few days there area a few more restrictive orders.
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday hired BlackRock Inc. to steer tens of billions of dollars in bond purchases. Again.
Heroes.
.@nytimes has video from a hospital in Elmhurst, Queens. It is horrifying.
“We had to get a refrigerated truck to store the bodies of patients who are dying.”
“Five ventilators...there’s a mythical 100 ventilators out there that we haven’t seen.” https://t.co/zARPofu6pS pic.twitter.com/JxKl46H5RC
— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) March 26, 2020
Actually after watching the first two minutes of a youtube video. I won't give you a link because the video is not really the point and I don't want to enable an idiot, but the gist is that the Democratic response to the "stimulus bill" is so bad that the person is voting for Trump.
She's deluded, but right.
