2020 Collapse

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  1. wrcmad

    wrcmad Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    My Missus works in an Emergency Department, and she has for 25 years, so she is fairly hardened. She came home from work this afternoon in tears about what they are in for.
    The preparations being broadcast on the news vs the reality of the chaotic organisation of the medical system are miles apart.
    They were talking to some colleagues in New York today about what to expect, and her words were "we are fkd".
     
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  2. TreasureHunter

    TreasureHunter Well-Known Member

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    What is that?
     
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    Home made sauerkraut...
     
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    JulieW Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Can you expand and be a bit more specific?

    This is Australia your wife is talking of?
     
  5. JohnnyBravo300

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    Same here in the us, we are effed too.
    It's obvious that this has all been allowed to progress on purpose and mass hysteria was planned.
     
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  6. TreasureHunter

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    In German "Sauerkraut" is sour cabbage. Usually they use vinegar to make it.

    But this looks like some peculiar fruit and I can't what it is :D
     
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    Thank god someone else sees this. My FB feed is full of people reinforcing the edicts and singing on their balconies. It's incredible how quickly and slyly they changed the world.I feel depressed for what is coming for us all.
     
  8. Holdfast

    Holdfast Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Sauerkraut
    Basically fermented cabbage but, the fermenting process actually increases the Vitamin C content, weird but, that's what they say. :)
     
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    JohnnyBravo300 Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    It tastes like rotten ass.
    If the Germans were known for good food they would have invented Mexican!
    Who doesnt love a #fat taco!?
     
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    Thank god all the smoking, Cheeto eating alcoholics can shield themselves with some sauerkraut.
     
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  12. wrcmad

    wrcmad Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Yeah, talking about Australia.

    To give you a couple of examples:
    Her hospital is already rationing PPE for staff because of shortages of things like face masks and gowns, and shit hasn't even got real yet.
    They are also relaxing precautionary stay-away rules for staff (such as 14 days after returning from overseas), and relaxing the flue-like-symptom criteria for not coming in to work - because they are already desperately short of staff.
    The above 2 points simply increase the risk of medical staff being transmitters.... in a hospital.

    Then there are the behind-the-scenes planning meetings happening every day ATM:
    She told me of one planning meeting with the local nursing homes (it is well known the aged get hit hard by COVID). It was suggested to the nursing homes that they split their facilities into dirty and clean sections (Corona and Corona-free), especially for the recovery phase, as the hospitals will need to ship patients out as soon as they show they are over the worst and starting to recover... in order to free up precious bed-space. The nursing homes said they would not accept residents back to their facilities until they are test-confirmed totally clear of the virus. The hospital then suggested that in this case, they won't accept any residents who test positive, because it will choke up the resources they have. They then additionally suggested that under normal circumstances, no matter what the illness 90-year old Berryl presents with, reality is that they don't put a 90-year old on a respirator - because treatment for COVID requires being put on a respirator, it is probably better use of resources if Berryl is kept in the Nursing Home facility and just comforted. Apparently at this point, the nursing home hierarchy sat stunned, with eyes wide open, and a quiet stalemate ensued.
     
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    Can they administer morphine in nursing homes?
     
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    If it smells like that then it is rotten not fermented. Don’t eat it.
     
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    .....It was nice knowing you Berryl.....
     
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    With a doctor’s prescription they can
     
  17. heartastack

    heartastack Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    It's going to be on-tap then
     
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    They probably know that it can’t be avoided, so let it happen, let the young get infected on a controlled basis so a herd immunity is built in the society, and get over with it.

    It’s the same mindset in Sweden and also in Singapore. If you stop it completely like China, are you going to quarantine all arrivals for 14 days forever? How are you going to do business? How are you going to live? This virus is going to come back year after year in winter just like the common cold, it’s not going to go away.
     
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    SauerKraut is not made with vinegar it is fermented in water with salt and water
     
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    Some humour in the gloom & doom. ;)

     

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