Beaumont nearing capacity, supplies running low
As I'm sure many of you have heard, Beaumont Hospitals are nearing capacity. As of last night they had admitted 635 known or suspected COVID patients.
All of the local hospitals are now asking for donations of PPE. So help out if you can.
Also, there's this...
"During a conference call Monday night, state officials said no COVID-19 patient who has needed a ventilator has been removed from the ventilator -- they have either died or are still on it."
Stay safe out there everyone. And by out there I mean in your house.
March 25th, 2020 at 11:34 AM ^
The 4k ventilators getting to New York yesterday and today will help. Also 4 hospitals being rapidly built. Glad our Government isn’t dicking around and waiting for 12k to die like from Swine Flu.
March 25th, 2020 at 11:45 AM ^
The government dicked around plenty already but there is no point in telling you this. Based on your previous political posts you will repeat the same bullshit propaganda that Fox news is telling you.
March 25th, 2020 at 11:48 AM ^
I don’t watch Fox News or even have cable, man. The Government maybe hasn’t been perfect, but alot of good things happening from their end rn, if you’re willing to open your eyes to it. I trust Johns Hopkins. JH said in late 2019, our Government was more prepared for this than anyone else, PERIOD.
March 25th, 2020 at 11:54 AM ^
A lot has changed since the late 2019. As things have played out, we certainly have not been more prepared for this than anyone else. Take for example, South Korea, Germany, Taiwan....countries that were far more aggressive about this at the beginning while our President dicked around calling it a Hoax (or however people are spinning this statement). He also claimed the first few cases would be down to 0 in a matter of days while our experts are constantly having to correct his misstatements. The fact is, we were not as prepared as a country than we should have been.
March 25th, 2020 at 11:56 AM ^
Do you realize we tested as many people in 8 days, as S Korea did in 8 weeks? ??♂️??♂️
March 25th, 2020 at 12:01 PM ^
Do you realize I'm forced to wear the same paper/surgical mask multiple days in a row?! Do you realize how ridiculous that concept is? Quite possibly even dangerous and counter productive. That is not preparedness.
I’m on day #3 of my n95 mask that’s supposed to be single use.
I’m wearing goggles from home that I use when I light off fireworks at New Years.
Of course, despite being on the front line like millions of other healthcare workers, I’m lucky to have a shitty, overused mask. Some people are wearing scarves.
Godspeed man. I have a couple used n-95s here at home i found that I'll bring in later today. A used (much used) one of those HAS to be much better than repeatedly wearing these surgic masks. I'll ask around and see if they're worthy of donation but at the least I'll have one.
Appreciate your sacrifice. Keep doing the best you can we’re all pulling for you
March 25th, 2020 at 12:05 PM ^
My man *directly quoting* Trump tweets. Have some self-respect, dude.
March 25th, 2020 at 12:10 PM ^
Do you realize that is largely because New York has stepped up and significantly increased testing capabilities largely in spite ot]f, not because of, the federal government.
Fuck. You. You lying fuck.
Ignorant asshat. Don't have cable but obviously follow Rump on twitter. Your stupidity is what he feeds off of. Go lick a few handrails in NYC, would ya?
You guys have such a helpful attitude. Nothing like screaming in panic induced name calling to unite people during a national crises.
You do realize S. Korea has a population of 57 million and we have one well north of 300 million? So per capita, they have tested way more than we have. Do you also realize that we are running out of rooms in hospitals (which never happened in S. Korea)? Do you realize that S. Korea has had 9000 confirmed cases and only 126 deaths and ~3700 recovered, while we have had 60000+ cases, with 800+ dead and only 300+ recovered? If this trend continues, we will have tens of thousands dead in the coming weeks. But I'm sure you realized this.
You do realize Koreans and Chinese and other countries follow/harshly enforce laws while arrogant Americans continue to crowd beaches parks etc EVEN when pandemic reach is well established? You do realize when Trump called to stop any and all flights in and out of China at the start of this he was called a racist asshole? You do realize that if he stopped the spread the way China and Korea have...he'd face another impeachment because soft ass liberal fucks would cry that their feelings were hurt and their constitutional rights to be dumbasses were violated?
He didn't stop flights from China, only the entry of Chinese nationals. Not the same thing at all.
And it didn't matter because by that point it was already here.
S. Korea didn't lock down. Look it up. Their first case and that in the US were about the same time. They were prepared.
The hospital I’m at just got tests this Monday and we are in process of verifying them now. Before then we were sending to the state but they were tapped out then we sent to our reference lab and then they had to tap out. Not sure where your testing “facts” are from but my experience in the lab has been different.
March 25th, 2020 at 12:17 PM ^
Dicking around and calling it a hoax is one thing, but firing the Pandemic team two years ago takes it to a new level and is downright criminal.
But the stock market is always more important than saving lives.
He didn’t call it a hoax. Pandemic team or not US was still going to be woefully lacking in supplies and tests.
Your right our entire government was late to the party. Trump, Pelosi, Schumer, McConnel ect ect ect. None of them did anything in the early stages. Neither did the rest of the leaders of the world for that matter. New York Health Commissioner and city council members were encouraging people to go party at the lunar new year parade in “ defiance of the coronavirus” in February. All to virtue signal how “not racist” they are. They were really on top of it. Furthermore if seemingly everyone knew this was coming why were the few senators the only ones pulling out of the market? Let’s all move past this and try to work together towards the solution
Your right our entire government was late to the party. Trump, Pelosi, Schumer, McConnel ect ect ect. None of them did anything in the early stages. Neither did the rest of the leaders of the world for that matter. New York Health Commissioner and city council members were encouraging people to go party at the lunar new year parade in “ defiance of the coronavirus” in February. All to virtue signal how “not racist” they are. They were really on top of it. Furthermore if seemingly everyone knew this was coming why were the few senators the only ones pulling out of the market? Let’s all move past this and try to work together towards the solution
March 25th, 2020 at 11:57 AM ^
I'd suggest reading about the actual report for important context. And apparently the government itself determined it wasn't particularly equipped to handle a pandemic.
March 25th, 2020 at 12:13 PM ^
Apple had a larger stockpile of N95 masks than the entire US Government.
Which is insane.
It is insane. A friend of mine is an infectious disease doc and he told me it was a matter of when, not if, a virus like this would hit. This is true of other docs I've talked to about it.
The fact that the healthcare industry had no stockpiles is insane as well, considering Apple did. Not many people are mentioning that. Masks cost money. Healthcare is a business. Hopefully a lesson is learned here.
Plenty of blame to be spread around.
A huge issue with that assessment is that the people who ran that never even considered that there wouldn't be adequate testing. Literally wasn't a variable in their analysis, so a lot of it is out the window.
Not sure if I'm following you or not.
But, testing in this country was a problem of our own making. Plenty of other countries handled testing far better than we have. That is a failing of our government, there is no way to spin that.
I trust Johns Hopkins. JH said in late 2019, our Government was more prepared for this than anyone else, PERIOD.
Yeah, and I read that report too. It was how prepared we were based on background factors like wealth, government transparency, etc. So yeah, we WERE prepared. But there's a huge difference in being ABLE AND PREPARED to respond to a pandemic than the ACTUAL RESPONSE to a pandemic. In that case, we failed. Failed hard. Testing was the way to go. Test nearly everyone. We did not do this.
March 25th, 2020 at 11:51 AM ^
At this point everyone has pretty much gotten behind whichever political belief they held previously and attacked the other side for [fill in the blank].
March 25th, 2020 at 11:57 AM ^
there is a signficant in between. unfortunately, the most vocal tend to be on the extreme of both ends.
March 25th, 2020 at 12:00 PM ^
The problem is, you can't say anything without being attacked by one side or the other. So nobody in the middle is going to say a word. Oh wait that is politics in general ?
I couldn't agree more. I keep my political beliefs pretty close to the vest in general. I keep it to myself even more so on my sports blogs. On the occasions that I have had political discussions I have been accused of being a "Trumpanzee" by people on the left and a "commie-liberal" by those on the right.
The bottom line is I don't do internet fighting and nothing that I can say will make you change your mind so the angry posts and name calling is simply useless for everyone. Does hurling insults at each other and wishing each other harm make you feel better?
I guess I just miss sports.
So true. The politicalization of this is asinine. This was years in the making, and both parties, as usual, failed us. Politicians in general fail us, and the American spirit repetitively bails them out,
“The American Spirit repetitively bails them out”. I like that Sandy.
And yes there is plenty of blame to be shared all around. It’s like watching ping pong with rocks. It gets tiring.
It's not political to say "doctors and anyone with any understanding of infectious diseases agree that we are totally fucking this up."
It's not political to say "it was insane and stupid to fire the pandemics response team."
It IS political to say "WE SURE ARE DOING BETTER THAN OBAMA DID WITH SWINE FLU!" or "LIBERALS ARE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHTS BY MAKING US STAY INDOORS".
Uh...never mind.
March 25th, 2020 at 11:48 AM ^
Good lord, if you think the past couple of months wasn't "dicking around" by the government I don't know what to tell you.
March 25th, 2020 at 11:48 AM ^
My one silver lining I was hoping for was that coming out of the COVID-19 crisis we would become Americans first again; and while party politics will always exist the polarization would get tamped down.
Unfortunately, contrary to my hope, I see its having the opposite effect. We keep digging ourselves deeper into the hateful polarized rabbit hole.
March 25th, 2020 at 11:56 AM ^
I saw comments from state rep Matt Maddock running his mouth against teachers yesterday. Lots of people are stressed right now. It should be basic decency to just keep your thoughts to yourself if you've got nothing productive to offer.
March 25th, 2020 at 12:06 PM ^
I mean that's bound to happen given that by and large one side is pushing for the welfare of the people and keeping people safe and alive, while the other side is already pushing to get people back to work after like one week of quarantine even though deaths are rising and the worst of the pandemic hasn't even arrived yet because they know that without the economy, their reelections hopes are greatly reduced
March 25th, 2020 at 12:23 PM ^
At the state level, there have been governors of both sides seeing eye to eye and making similar decisions based on similar data.
March 25th, 2020 at 12:16 PM ^
I think that it is to early to draw conclusions out of what will happen. There are multiple people in both parties who have stepped up to work together. We shouldn’t let what is going on with a handful of national politicians (and the anger it is continuing to incite) overshadow the fact that there has been significant bipartisan success at the state level. Even the stimulus bill is significantly better because of bipartisan efforts.
i continue to hope that some good can come of this on the political front,
March 25th, 2020 at 12:26 PM ^
Nothing in the comment you replied to has anything to do with party politics. Michigan has a Republican Congress and a Democratic governor. How do you even know which of those he's crediting with the preparedness?
March 25th, 2020 at 12:43 PM ^
I’m replying to the comment:
My one silver lining I was hoping for was that coming out of the COVID-19 crisis we would become Americans first again; and while party politics will always exist the polarization would get tamped down.
Unfortunately, contrary to my hope, I see its having the opposite effect. We keep digging ourselves deeper into the hateful polarized rabbit hole.
If I may offer a different silver lining?: California now allows you to order take-out cocktails.
There is one large, orange reason for that. The party in power takes their direction from him, and so the minions.
One person could have still pulled our deeply fractured society together in this. Instead... we're having this conversation.
Ah, yes, the magical Fuhrer who will save us all!
No such person exists. There is no person who would pull this fractured society together.
Republican Governors have been fairly good in the Midwest at getting things rolling with quarantines and such. I was actually impressed with how seriously Ohio's governor took this from the start, nearly the first in everything.
The Florida gov and Texas Lt Gov have been asshats.