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originally posted by: CIAGypsy
a reply to: schmae
Isn't that why the USS Comfort is in the harbor? To admit any potential overflow patients?
originally posted by: Case74282
originally posted by: CIAGypsy
a reply to: schmae
Isn't that why the USS Comfort is in the harbor? To admit any potential overflow patients?
I had read the USS Comfort was there to take NON- Covid-19 patients who needed to be seen for other medical conditions. I thought this was very odd. Why would you keep positive Covid-19 patients inside a working hospital exposing the general public? Why not quarantine them on a ship?
I thought this was very odd. Why would you keep positive Covid-19 patients inside a working hospital exposing the general public? Why not quarantine them on a ship
originally posted by: OsirianObsidian
a reply to: UKWO1Phot
If they've got it, then that's exactly what they'll do.
But here's my point - the morgues in NYC have a capacity of 1000, yet 167,717 people died from pneumonia in 2017.
Let's say the flu season runs for 6 months, or 182 days. That means that 921 people were dying per day in New York in 2017 due to influenza and pneumonia. Now of course, anyone who is going to die from flu is going to be in a hospital, on a ventilator, so they will end up in the morgue for at least half a day while the family makes arrangements.
There were no freezer trucks required in 2017. And that's because there wasn't a ridiculous lock down on funeral homes, which I would consider just as essential as a hospital in terms of not only dignity for the deceased, but for simple disease mitigation. If they need to be cremated for health reasons, let them be cremated - the health reasons aren't going to change. Families should have a pretty good idea if their loved one is going to have a good chance of making it or whether they need to have arrangements in place.
Take the necessary precautions and state that it must be a closed casket ceremony or whatever. Have people being tested for the virus before and after the ceremony if you must.
But don't load up bodies on forklifts, FFS.
I find the spectacle that they are making of death - which should be when one is treated with the utmost respect - in order to push the narrative that this is a crisis absolutely disgusting.
originally posted by: OsirianObsidian
a reply to: UKWO1Phot
If they've got it, then that's exactly what they'll do.
But here's my point - the morgues in NYC have a capacity of 1000, yet 167,717 people died from pneumonia in 2017.
Let's say the flu season runs for 6 months, or 182 days. That means that 921 people were dying per day in New York in 2017 due to influenza and pneumonia. Now of course, anyone who is going to die from flu is going to be in a hospital, on a ventilator, so they will end up in the morgue for at least half a day while the family makes arrangements.
There were no freezer trucks required in 2017. And that's because there wasn't a ridiculous lock down on funeral homes, which I would consider just as essential as a hospital in terms of not only dignity for the deceased, but for simple disease mitigation. If they need to be cremated for health reasons, let them be cremated - the health reasons aren't going to change. Families should have a pretty good idea if their loved one is going to have a good chance of making it or whether they need to have arrangements in place.
Take the necessary precautions and state that it must be a closed casket ceremony or whatever. Have people being tested for the virus before and after the ceremony if you must.
But don't load up bodies on forklifts, FFS.
I find the spectacle that they are making of death - which should be when one is treated with the utmost respect - in order to push the narrative that this is a crisis absolutely disgusting.
originally posted by: UKWO1Phot
Personally I don't know what's going on.
My Missus is a nurse and at the moment her hospital is empty. (All normal patients have been shipped out).
So are we expecting 1000's of infected people to turn up this week???
I've asked over the last 3-4 weeks all my extended friends/relatives and their friends/relatives and nobody knows anybody who's had/got it.(Although I think my daughter may have had something like it over the Christmas holidays).
The UK are hoping less than 20,000 to die? We get that every year with normal flu so fook knows.???????