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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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Onebuckfan said:
As long as Medicare has existed providers have been gaming the system. Every once and a while they celebrate a prosecution on fraud. It’s not a CoVid thing.
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Never said it was a Covid thing. Point is that it's in the hospital's best interest to report as many cases as they can as Covid-related, regardless if Covid is actually a factor or not...
 
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[QUOTE="buckeyebri, post: 3298202, member:]I guess Shelby where I am from has a Meth problem.[/QUOTE]

Well, I for one, am shocked.

Nah, its too bad, I haven't been to Shelby in probably 15 years. And even then it was taking my old man to Glenn's supply for what the fuck ever it was he needed.
 
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Here's a fun one;

PA Gov Tom Wolfe has decided to peg all re-opening activities to a single metric; positive tests per thousand by county. He also has a wonderfully idiotic red/yellow/green scheme attached to it to make it seem more "science".

Now the fun part, the various counties are asking him to consider the highly at risk sectors of the population (say retirement homes) differently than the low risk sectors (say 20 somethings that need to work) and roll out a more nuanced approach to this thing.

Wolfe won't even respond. Just uses his sign language and spokespeople to tell the counties the king has spoken, there will be no unlocking until you reach a certain threshold of positive test a day for a two week period.

Now, I'm not as smart as politicians but I have heard of this concept called unintentional consequences. What do you, the readers of this thread, think is going to happen to the efficacy of testing in counties that want to open but are being told by El Jeffe that they have to get their positive test numbers down first?
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Here's a fun one;

PA Gov Tom Wolfe has decided to peg all re-opening activities to a single metric; positive tests per thousand by county. He also has a wonderfully idiotic red/yellow/green scheme attached to it to make it seem more "science".

Now the fun part, the various counties are asking him to consider the highly at risk sectors of the population (say retirement homes) differently than the low risk sectors (say 20 somethings that need to work) and roll out a more nuanced approach to this thing.

Wolfe won't even respond. Just uses his sign language and spokespeople to tell the counties the king has spoken, there will be no unlocking until you reach a certain threshold of positive test a day for a two week period.

Now, I'm not as smart as politicians but I have heard of this concept called unintentional consequences. What do you, the readers of this thread, think is going to happen to the efficacy of testing in counties that want to open but are being told by El Jeffe that they have to get their positive test numbers down first?
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What's he looking for 10% positive or less?

Well, I mean, I'm sure the same people are gonna get sick of that thing up their nose over and over while the also test some people who might actually be sick... or any number of other ways to cook the books.

I'll be honest, I wasn't super thrilled with DeWine going forward with the loosen up before they had the test capacity they're looking for in place, but, I suppose the test capacity is going to be there a couple weeks behind it, so, I mean, that's when you're gonna find out if there's problems anyway (provided they get the testing rolled out as planned)

The other problem is... what if out in Washington County... no one shows up to get tested?
 
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Hstead said:
Our county has had 28 confirmed cases, zero hospitalizations, and zero deaths. Our largest three hospitals have had 16 combined hospitalizations and zero deaths. All three hospitals have furloughed employees and are breaking the bank sitting empty.
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Major hospitals are also struggling mightily sitting empty. UH and Mayo have either instituted pay cuts or furloughs. It does seem that hospitals are starting to open up, but the fear is that people will still avoid them, even when they shouldn’t.
 
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Bucklion said:
Major hospitals are also struggling mightily sitting empty. UH and Mayo have either instituted pay cuts or furloughs. It does seem that hospitals are starting to open up, but the fear is that people will still avoid them, even when they shouldn’t.
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I am certain there have been more people in my region that have been negatively affected from the shut down, ie cancer, cardiac issues, child abuse, etc than have been harmed by the covid-19 virus. For some reason the media wants to treat the entire country like we are all experiencing what NYC has experienced.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Here's a fun one;

PA Gov Tom Wolfe has decided to peg all re-opening activities to a single metric; positive tests per thousand by county. He also has a wonderfully idiotic red/yellow/green scheme attached to it to make it seem more "science".

Now the fun part, the various counties are asking him to consider the highly at risk sectors of the population (say retirement homes) differently than the low risk sectors (say 20 somethings that need to work) and roll out a more nuanced approach to this thing.

Wolfe won't even respond. Just uses his sign language and spokespeople to tell the counties the king has spoken, there will be no unlocking until you reach a certain threshold of positive test a day for a two week period.

Now, I'm not as smart as politicians but I have heard of this concept called unintentional consequences. What do you, the readers of this thread, think is going to happen to the efficacy of testing in counties that want to open but are being told by El Jeffe that they have to get their positive test numbers down first?
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[sarcasm]Fantastic decision making skills![/sarcasm]
My employer is HQ'ed in Philly. The global innovation center has been shut for weeks. With decisions like this by the Guv, it appears that there will be no re-opening any time soon.
Just glad I don't live, work, nor approach Philly any more than scarce occurrences.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Here's a fun one;

PA Gov Tom Wolfe has decided to peg all re-opening activities to a single metric; positive tests per thousand by county. He also has a wonderfully idiotic red/yellow/green scheme attached to it to make it seem more "science".

Now the fun part, the various counties are asking him to consider the highly at risk sectors of the population (say retirement homes) differently than the low risk sectors (say 20 somethings that need to work) and roll out a more nuanced approach to this thing.

Wolfe won't even respond. Just uses his sign language and spokespeople to tell the counties the king has spoken, there will be no unlocking until you reach a certain threshold of positive test a day for a two week period.

Now, I'm not as smart as politicians but I have heard of this concept called unintentional consequences. What do you, the readers of this thread, think is going to happen to the efficacy of testing in counties that want to open but are being told by El Jeffe that they have to get their positive test numbers down first?
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Don’t know about PA, but in Chicagoland we’d start administering tests to those people who voted from the grave yard in the past general election. We use those dead bodies for anything that serves our interests.
 
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