COVID-19 - On the Ground

[MICHHAWK]

i trust my primary care physician.

i do not trust the bad actors in washington.

[jhawks99]

Illy's gotta illy

[Deleted User 89]

i trust my primary care physician.

i do not trust the bad actors in washington.

might be the smartest thing you’ve ever posted

[twocoach]

i believe her point was that she would trust the health experts over politicians (while simultaneously throwing a jab at trump)

I agree. And she's right.

But the jab contributes to the politicization of the vaccine/pandemic imo.

Onky because you choose to read it that way.

[MICHHAWK]

today, uncle joes inflation is the bigger problem than chinas fungus.

[jfish26]

today, uncle joes inflation is the bigger problem than chinas fungus.

Because 600,000+ Americans have died of high ground beef prices.

[ousdahl]

Ground beef?

I was hoping he had a good recipe for Chinese fungus.

Maybe like a spicy Sichuan mushroom dish?

[jhawks99]

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/141717 ... nt-1859805

Interesting thread here.

[ousdahl]

Between this and the sat shack, I can’t remember a day when the boreds made me just plain hungry.

We had those tea tree shrooms at hot pot and, oh yeah.

[Deleted User 887]

i trust my primary care physician.

i do not trust the bad actors in washington.

Me too. Until I become cynical and a conspiracy guy and realize my primary care physician is affiliated with Northwestern Hospital - which is in cahoots with "big pharma" - and is a "teaching" hospital - so PERHAPS people are treated for things they just may not really have.

[ousdahl]

Average Merican life expectancy fell 1.5 years last year.

Covid a big factor, but also rising overdoses, rising homicide rates, among others.

[Deleted User 89]

i’ve got colleagues at Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety, and was shocked at the numbers i was hearing as far as overdoses last year...more than 93,000 nationally

[jhawks99]

KY has it bad, numbers are going in the wrong direction.

[Deleted User 89]

shhh...don’t tell mich

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... =applenews

[MICHHAWK]

now that we are all vaccinated, number of cases does not really matter anymore.

[Deleted User 89]

[twocoach]

shhh...don’t tell mich

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... =applenews

In a country that thrives on unique solutions, one area that is universally weak is standardization. The issues faced in that article sound eerily similar to the issues with a number of other systems such as criminal databases in that every system has different data, different fields, different values, different approaches. If the groups do not get together and design some sort of common protocol and common data to be collected, it will never be able to be linked together in a real time environment to produce quick, accurate benefits.

Add in the practical hurdles of how hard it is to have all samples provided in a uniformly timely manner as well as the hurdles put in place by all of the differences between states laws, rules and policies and it is a near pipe dream. Much easier for a smaller country to successfully achieve.

[Deleted User 89]

shhh...don’t tell mich

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... =applenews

In a country that thrives on unique solutions, one area that is universally weak is standardization. The issues faced in that article sound eerily similar to the issues with a number of other systems such as criminal databases in that every system has different data, different fields, different values, different approaches. If the groups do not get together and design some sort of common protocol and common data to be collected, it will never be able to be linked together in a real time environment to prodcue quick, accurate benefits.

it’s one of the awful byproducts of individualism, mixed with skepticism of the government

the sadly ironic part for me in reading that, was that the US literally pioneered the technology used for genomic sequencing, yet we’re far behind other countries in sequencing and tracking variants

[PhDhawk]

pffft...

I just saw a bunch of know-it-alls and academics, who I've been assured provide nothing to society.

If Mich's gut says the worst is behind us, that's good enough for me.

Oussie had to have liked this little nugget:

PRL decided to begin doing the work for free. “It’s a nonrational business decision if you just care about shareholder value,” Brennan-Badal says.

mjl prolly got pissed off by it.

Honestly, though I wouldn't worry about global share of sequences, it's really not about how many sequences you run, you just need to run enough to recognize when a more virulent strain emerges, so being efficient and strategic (having testing centers in major population centers spread out geographically) matters even more.

[TDub]

i’ve got colleagues at Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety, and was shocked at the numbers i was hearing as far as overdoses last year...more than 93,000 nationally

Thats a side effect of people being on lockdown for months on end.