News Briefs – 04/04/2020

I always see lots of r/K related stories I think might interest the readers here, but I only have time to blog about a few, so here are some additional news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. For unknown reasons, in some browsers the tweets in these posts display best if you click on the post instead of viewing it on the main page. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of the Fake News, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages, especially about President Trump.

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President Trump removes Coup plotter ICIG Michael Atkinson effective 30 days from today.

The lead judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court reprimanded the FBI over widespread flaws in surveillance applications uncovered by the Justice Department inspector general, and in an order issued on April 3, directed the FBI to turn over all of the names of the targets in the 29 applications audited by the inspector general. Boom. How many names would there be, who would be relevant to a potential covert Russian infiltration of the Trump campaign, which by its very nature would have to be a small, closed conspiracy. If Trump’s campaign was being penetrated, how many people would be a part of it? How many people would they need to look at? 10? 20? 150 would seem too large, right? Watch, because according to the math, if each warrant was only for one person (and they were probably each for more, as in groups of people associated with Trump, like everyone in the upper management of Trump’s companies), but if each warrant was only for one person, and if each warrant was used for the average 25,000 additional hops (and given it was Trump, they were probably used for far, far more), then they would have had coverage opened up on, at minimum, 725,000 people. That judge has got a lot of long nights ahead of him, looking over a lot of files on a lot of people, only to realize it was all a scam. Once they realize Trump’s warrants were just a fishing expedition to get the right to surveil everyone they possibly could, they will begin to look at the rest of the 45,000 FISA warrants out there, and realize it was just a cover for the creation of a massive STASI-like surveillance machine legally targeting each and every single American with Enemy of the State-type coverage. As Q said, this is the beginning.

John Durham investigation intensifies focus on John Brennan.

Recently released FBI memos show that a translator trusted by the State Department and other federal agencies, provided Mueller’s agents far more information than was quoted by Mueller, nearly all of it exculpatory to the president’s campaign and his eldest son, but Mueller hid it.

Former DOJ Assistant US Attorney admits the FBI examined Seth Rich’s computer and she met with the FBI and Mueller gang, but no 302 has ever been provided.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee is vowing to press forward with its investigation targeting former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, despite logistical challenges posed by the global coronavirus pandemic.

 JFK grand niece dies with her son in a canoeing accident off Martha’s vineyard. Interesting, given the Kennedys just did the “It’s going down, I’m saying Timber!” sing along for Q.

Just a reminder that heating mail to 56 degrees Celsius (133 F), for 15 minutes killed the first SARS coronavirus, which was noted as unusually hardy for a Coronavirus, and should be enough to kill any viral particles from the new coronavirus. Less temp can still be effective, it just means more time. I do this to my mail, except for large boxes, which get sprayed down with a bleach solution outside.

NY Governor Cuomo moves Coronavirus patients out of New York City Hospitals and shifts them upstate. If he leaves those patients where they are, this pandemic will ravage the places which voted for him, and reduce the numbers of his supporters. But if he moves them to more rural areas, the patients will infect the hospitals, the hospitals will infect the communities, and those will be his political opponents.

Cuomo signs an Executive Order shifting ventilators from hospitals upstate to hospitals in New York City. This was the plan. First he tries to get as much of Trump’s stockpile as possible, to drain the reserve ventilators, then he grabs up what he can from the rural areas, and shifts them to the city, where they will never stop being used on city patients to return them to the rural areas once cases begin to explode back there. This will shift mortality to the rural areas. Remember, last we heard he had 1,000 ventilators stored in a warehouse somewhere, as he was telling Trump he had 30,000 patients who needed ventilators and who didn’t have them that moment. Nobody asks where those 1,000 reserve ventilators are, let alone where the many Trump has already sent are. Have no illusions, unless you support Cabal, you’re not going to get help from any leftist government in this nation. You are the enemy, and you are on your own.

Democrat NYC nurses note that Andrew Cuomo led the ‘drive to close down hospital beds.’

Soros invested heavily in Chinese biotech research company with a facility in Wuhan that researches respiratory models and infectious disease.

Chinese doctors are pressured into discharging patients en mass so as to end the pandemic officially.

Ivermectin has been alleged to have antiviral activity in the past. In yesterdays brief a lab alleged Ivermectin was potently anti-viral against the Coronavirus. The way it was said to have worked in cell culture was a huge, huge opportunity that was impressive enough it should be moved to the top of all priority lists in dealing with the crisis. This needs to be figured out one way or another, as if it works in the body the way it worked in culture (and it should), it will be the end of the lockdown and the pandemic.

Italy warns cats, ferrets and dogs can get infected. This likely infects various species because it targets a cell surface receptor that is conserved between species, which may mean in can infect a lot more species. We get a different flu each year because it mutates as it jumps between pigs, birds, and humans. This might mean we will get new versions of this going forward as well, and it may spread into the wild and become endemic.

Kentucky is making residents with Coronavirus who refuse to isolate themselves wear ankle monitors. A question any rational intellect should ask – how do they know who the patients are who isolate themselves, and the patients who do not, and why not just use that to lay out who is refusing to isolate.

US urges citizens overseas to return or stay abroad for an “indefinite” timeframe.

US warns Americans ‘to leave Japan’, as Chinese Coronavirus cases begin to surge.

AOC wants coronavirus ‘reparations’ for minority communities.

Retail stores in large cities appear to be preparing for mass riots by boarding up their windows.

Blacks are really being hit hard by Coronavirus.

Pelosi wants to get at least $2 billion for a voting by mail scheme into the next stimulus bill.

Pelosi is using the Coronavirus crisis to push tax breaks for her wealthy neighbors.

Pelosi wants to talk blame for COVID spread? Here’s video of her telling people to crowd into the streets. There is probably video out there of her demonizing Trump for closing the border with China too.

All 6 early-infected states are Democrat-led. Not surprising, as migrants are r-strategists, and those who migrate freely will most likely be r-strategist leftists.

Coronavirus is spreading in Los Angeles’ homeless community.

A week after the Trump hating Democrat Governor of Nevada limited the ability for physicians to prescribe Hydroxychloroquine to treat Corona virus, news broke that Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak’s own Department of Corrections has been hoarding the drug for prisoners. Note, one of your own fellow readers here, with a confirmed case of Coronavirus, could not get it at a pharmacy anywhere, even overseas.

Coronavirus outbreak eats into EU unity. Splintering marks K-selection.

Walmart will limit the number of shoppers allowed in its store at one time. These stores should go to shopping-by-appointment if they are going to do that, so shoppers can make an appointment, drive out, go in shop, and go home, rather than get on a long line waiting for the opportunity to go inside.

11 Planned Parenthood abortion centers close in California due to coronavirus. Now they are beginning to fear for themselves.

Gary Sinise Foundation gifts NASA-grade decontamination units to a Fire Dept. during the virus outbreak.

The US is outbidding people all over the world in the global hunt for facemasks to protect frontline medical workers.

FDA to allow imports of KN95 masks from China amid PPE shortage. I would bet, if there was no Trump, this decision never happens. It has Trump’s practicality over blind rule-obeying written all over it. As Cabal tries to sabotage things, what is fucking them up to no end is they have never seen a politician who is anything like Trump.

Trump Administration plans to pay hospitals to treat uninsured Coronavirus patients.

Protective medical equipment made by US manufacturer 3M and bound for Germany was allegedly intercepted in Thailand and diverted to the US.

Calls mount for WHO chief to resign after running cover for Chinese propaganda on the Coronavirus, and facilitating a global pandemic.

First volunteers to receive potential coronavirus vaccine ‘are in good health’ as they complete two weeks of medical observation in China.

Anyone near Trump or Pence will be given a rapid CCP virus test.

Appearing on Laura Ingrahm, Dr. Stephen Smith, founder of the Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health in East Orange, New Jersey, said the results he is seeing with TrumpPills marks the “beginning of the end” of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this next tweet, I’d emphasize again, it is a mistake to treat the United States as homogenous. There are different cohorts, probably mostly determined by threat-perception abilities and time-frame-references in behavioral decision-making, and some cohorts, which will tend to be r and support leftism, are doing very poorly, while others who are more K will be doing much better. I think it is crucial to modeling the disease’s course in our minds, to keep in mind that we really only need to work some sort of herd immunity through maybe 10% of the population who are idiots, and that alone will drop the R0 of this disease precipitously. Add in masks, and it will drop even faster. And because these are the idiots, that should happen quite quickly as many of them might as well be trying to get infected. I am still of the Trump mindset, that we will be shocked at how bad things look as we work through that population (and extrapolate it out thinking that will have to pass through the whole population in that manner), and then suddenly this thing will collapse, long before everyone is exposed, and it will seem as if a miracle.

This next one probably means the reason China bought all of Australia’s masks was so they could mark them up and price gouge the Australians when they sold them back to them:

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1246154660353847296?s=20

https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/1246267156440010753?s=20

People are burning 5G masts after a conspiracy theory spread that ‘radiation sparked coronavirus’ symptoms. Wait until (((they))) find it was the energy put out by the tower that caused it to spontaneously self-combust itself, and they all tell us nevermind.

Google launches ‘mobility’ project that traces human activities worldwide.

Meghan Markle plans to return to acting but will only work with A-list directors like Ava DuVernay in a ‘breakout role’ because current offers are too ‘cheesy and beneath’ her.

Another young 16 year old actor dies suddenly and unexpectedly. Name was Logan Williams, and he acted on “The Flash.”

https://twitter.com/rooshv/status/1246119062872227840?s=20

Capt. Brett Crozier was removed from his post as commanding officer of the San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt, but he got a hero’s sendoff from his sailors as he left the aircraft carrier in Guam, as sailors cheered, applauded, and chanted his name as he left the vessel. Video:

‘Super high’ frustration in Biden camp as Trump dominates airwaves during coronavirus crisis.

Steve Bannon’s new film “Claws of the Red Dragon” will be screened at 9 p.m. ET on Sunday, April 5, on China in Focus, a Youtube channel from NTD that provides compelling, first-hand news from China.

https://twitter.com/ChinaInFocusNTD/status/1246128133264244738?s=20

There has been talk this next one is difficult to apply for, but there is a discussion here on a grant that is easier to apply for and quicker to get for anyone trying to keep their small business afloat through this virus outbreak.

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BreyerConstruct
4 years ago

Re the SBA loans, a few personal updates:

I applied last Friday for the Economic Disaster Relief loan for our primary company.
Was notified on Monday that the process was revamped…and needed to reapply to request the $10k grant. (Did that, immediately).
It’s now Saturday, 8 days past initial request, and 5 days past updated request. No funds received, and no further contact from SBA.
“Funds deposited within 3 days” changed to “within days” as of yesterday afternoon.

I can provide greater details, if needed.

mobiuswolf
4 years ago

How does one ignite a steel tower?

BreyerConstruct
Reply to  mobiuswolf
4 years ago

Jet fuel and aluminum.
Duh.
(LOL)

mobiuswolf
Reply to  BreyerConstruct
4 years ago

Bet they’re lighting themselves. They buy them from china?

Bman
Bman
4 years ago

Walmart does do shopping by appointment. Sam’s club as well. You place an order with their mobile app. Then schedule a time normally just in a one hour window. When the window arrives, you tell the app you are on your way and then when you arrive. They’ll send someone out and put the groceries in your vehicle. You have to sign there device unfortunately. Target just scans a barcode, but yesterday they didn’t just wanted our last name. This worked great. I just drove up, showed last name on a sheet of paper ( windows up) and i pre-opened my truck bed for them. They dropped the materials and left. I went outside with gear and closed it up. I bring home the materials and leave them locked up in my truck bed for 3 days. Then spray everything down after.

KR
KR
4 years ago

https://www.unz.com/isteve/even-in-south-korea-new-cases-arent-vanishing/#comments

I wish I could copy/paste the graph from this article … it shows a parabolic increase and decrease in the number of cases of virus in South Korea, and then a levelling out at about par. (R stays at 1)

My hunch is that this will happen in the US, that is, we’ll have a flurry of cases and then drop down to about R1. This means the disease will not disappear but will remain potent enough to cause social and economic disruption — assuming no cure.

I’m trying to wrap my head around how this will impact daily life. The only historical parallel I can draw (in contemporary Amer social history) is polio before the mid-1950s when the Salk vaccine was introduced. I remember seeing photographs of kids in “iron lungs” or with braces on their legs and wondering what had happened to them. Polio must have been every mum’s biggest fear … that this disease, so invisible, could be caught by her kids, in spite of every precaution she may have taken.

For more than two centuries, my extended family had property in northern New England to escape “summer polio” in the cities. Will people start thinking this way again?

Uncompliant
Uncompliant
4 years ago

I can’t seem to get beyond the sense that all of this — all of it — is somehow stage managed. Like even the virus is part of a planned run up to a world totalitarian government; like, even with President Trump being elected, the globalists are managing the plan, step-by-step, that was going into effect if Hillary had won. For just one iteration of the globalist plan, here is UN Agenda 2030 from Wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goals

Part of my sense that this is being stage-managed is watching the democrats and the fake news and then imagining the counter-factual of a Hillary victory.

Cat Lady Nancy had a 1400-page bill in her desk drawer ready to be passed in the event of a pandemic with every dream aspect from Agenda 2030 including vote-by-mail. The timing is convenient leading right into a counter-factual Hilldog’s reelection. She would have spread the panic wildly, like the fake news is trying to do. Democrat mayors and governors would pulled the trigger even quicker on lock-downs and prison releases. We’d have had nothing but screaming hysterical news reports even as some hospitals were empty and far-from-overwhelmed. More to the point, if we were locked in and locked down, how could we ever be out in the world discovering the lies that we were being told?

There would be no TrumpPills; HCQ would have been banned everywhere just like some democrat Governors tried to do; everything would have been closed down; everyone locked in (but prisoners released and crimes not policed or prosecuted); everyone eventually vaxxed with a geo-locational chip. We’d be heading towards a lot of deaths which fits the depopulation part of the UN’s Agenda.

There is plenty of evidence suggesting this virus is designed and that the release was accidental at the very least. Timing seems convenient, as noted.

It just feels coordinated. It feels like the Sixteen Year Plan I read about — Obama-Hilldog — is on autopilot or, maybe, the Cabal is thinking they should launch parts of the plan they still control and correct the course towards the Global government once President Trump is gone in 2020 or 2024.

Now here comes Kissinger offering his thoughts in the WSJ. Lots of concern-trolling wrapped around mighty heapings of globalism. Kissinger opines that after we find the cure, then we need to “heal the wounds to the world economy.” And he says: “Leaders are dealing with the crisis on a largely national basis, but the virus’s society-dissolving effects do not recognize borders … No country, not even the U.S., can in a purely national effort overcome the virus. Addressing the necessities of the moment must ultimately be coupled with a global collaborative vision and program”

He continues: “The pandemic has prompted an anachronism, a revival of the walled city in an age when prosperity depends on global trade and movement of people.”

Imagine if Hilldog had won; Kissinger would only have to tweak this a little bit and we get: “Restoring the world’s prosperity depends on a strong world government, free global trade and the fair and equal movement of people around the globe.” 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8187313/Henry-Kissinger-warns-coronavirus-spell-economic-doom-generations.html

I don’t know. I just can’t shake the feeling of being herded.

Rhapsody
Rhapsody
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
4 years ago

You forget their degenerate proclivities.

They want the world turned into a global favela of squabbling identity groups. Once the populace is fully distracted by that, they return to their walled enclaves to pursue their sexual deviancies without interruption. They could pluck children from the population at will. Even the parents will barely notice as they struggle for their patch of land against the other identity groups.

An eternal hellworld is what they want because it’s the ultimate shield and distraction. Their global government will operate ruthlessly, but it’ll become just a myth to most people.

New Name
New Name
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
4 years ago

You clearly aren’t thinking big enough, nor properly considering the ambition involved here.

First, with Hillary it’s more than a political office. She was going to be the first female President of the United States.

It’s quite evident that, just like many of us, Hillary has had her fair share of watchers and handlers over the years. People who instilled her specific motivations and guided her towards certain actions. Probably since high school. My guess is that she’s so incredibly brainwashed that there’s really “no there there.” A perfect cabal puppet.

And she certainly is utterly possessed by visions of glory and having her place in history. Bill? Well, I’m sure he just wants more pussy and I’m sure he felt he would have had plenty if he they got back in the White House. Stuff he’s not getting now that Epstein is gone.

These are people with deep passions and deep desires and deep lusts. Most likely cultivated and enhanced over decades of subtle and ongoing brainwashing.

And I’m sure that they had maniacal plans for Hillary. Nothing about the Q “16 year plan” scheme shocks me at all. I’m sure it’s very close. But I’m sure that she and others don’t look at it that way. This was going to be there chance to RID THE WORLD OF EVIL, the evil that they view in people like you and I who don’t submit. The evil of irredeemable deplorables.

Consider their mastery at mythmaking and narrative creation, I have no doubt that they intended history to write about us in the worst possible way, to see our removal from the planet as a beautiful thing.

Things are worse than even you realize.

Let me illustrate: think about the Q plan. Think about the fact that within our military there has been a group that has been closely watching what is going on, gathering intel, for decades. And certainly, in recent years, the awareness of this within the officer ranks must have grown. Undoubtedly it has in the last 3 years.

What does it tell you? My guess is that those who are really causing this plan to move forward aren’t just looking at this as a chance to save some trafficked teenagers from sex abuse. Nor are they merely interested in protecting a vision of their country.

No. They are fucking terrified for their very lives. They know that there is an evil afoot so foul that they believe “these people must be eradicated” and that “those who know can’t sleep at night.” They are scared for their lives and that is undoubtedly the mortar for their unity.

We are dealing with levels of genocidal evil, manipulation, mind control, and more that is so off the charts scary that if you’ve not yet vomited over realizing the scale you really don’t get it.

This is also the only thing that can explain how they’ve been able to develop partnerships with so many other militaries around the planet. They all must feel incredibly threatened.

Things are bad. We are ruled by genocidal madmen who are unwilling to share this world with us. They look at us as lower than animals.

They’ve unleashed a plague on our country and killed thousands and will destroy the lives of millions simply because some of us have become just a bit too rebellious and independent.

You think you know the scope of this thing. And by your posts and comments over the last year, I think you’re very close. Think deeper. It’s beyond horror.

And you really can’t understand their puppets. There’s clearly a level of mind control going on we can’t appreciate. Think about Nancy Pelosi, for example. Or Joe Biden. They are both sticking in the fight desperately. Why? Why would they do that? Nancy has enough money to never worry again. She could easily retire to someplace without extradition. What explains this? Some kind of mind control/manipulation we can’t fathom.

New Name
New Name
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
4 years ago

That’s entirely possible. I’d go with alien, in fact. I’m surprised to find myself saying it, but I can’t think of anything else. Or perhaps we’re all genetic experiments of an alien civilization.

One thing that’s interesting is that when I was a child, I instinctively disliked a few of my father’s associates. They were always good and gentlemanly to me, but I disliked them. I feared them. I had a dream that one of them was in fact an alien. Turns out years later he did something terrible to my family that I won’t name and that I can’t imagine anyone wanting to do to anyone.

I suspect he was blackmailed/extorted. Or maybe he just did it for kicks. Or maybe he felt he was saving the world by eliminating a bloodline that was known for creativity, contribution, and rebellion against authority.

As to Biblical, this “thing” I’ve witnessed has the power to get seemingly good people behave in a way that is ferocious beyond my ability to ocmprehend. Part of this, I’m sure, is simply a good knowledge of manipulation psychology, particularly the post WW2 stuff getting into getting people to torture each other. With some refined NLP techniques thrown in.

But in recent years, as I’ve seen unfold what exists, I can say that there’s nothing more horrible than this thing. That it represents a deep and vast human pathology that is wicked beyond comprehension. I would say all the darkness of the worst human hearts that have also been raised in complete absence of fear of consequences for their cruelty. Sick psychopaths who’ve never been punched in the nose.

Whatever it is, the only word for them is “wicked”. And in the Old Testament we learned that such people brought floods and plagues onto themselves over and over and over again. They apparently never really learn.

And honestly, I’d rather see this country go down than continue to empower this thing any longer. Because if it exists we are nothing but a menace to the entire world.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Uncompliant
4 years ago

Sometimes you have to follow the enemy’s plan and then insert small changes to make it fail.

Thersites
Thersites
Reply to  Uncompliant
4 years ago

Trump/MI is using their own plan against them. They knew that virus was going to be released no matter what happens. So they work the virus into their plans against the Cabal. We are being herded away from the cliff, while the rabbits are heading to the ledge. This pandemic is a K inducing event. Everyone is seeing how fragile the system is and the amount of rabbits that run around.

TRX
TRX
Reply to  Uncompliant
4 years ago

> Cat Lady Nancy had a 1400-page bill in her desk drawer ready to be passed in the event of a pandemic with every dream aspect from Agenda 2030 including vote-by-mail.

True, but I expect there’s a simple explanation: following the Democrat policy of “never let a crisis go to waste”, her staff probably opened the filing cabinets, made a pile of all the bills they had failed to get passed recently, and tacked it onto someone else’s small and reasonable bill as a rider.

REX 2020
REX 2020
4 years ago

Not trying to flex here but, if SARS-cov-2 really does have long term characteristics similar to HIV and China has been complicit in it’s spread (which it definitely has) then that meets all of the requirements for a complete U.S. Nuclear weapons release in retaliation. We’ve made this point for over 60 years in response to a bio attack.

SteveRogers42
SteveRogers42
Reply to  REX 2020
4 years ago

Radiation kills viruses.

everlastingphelps
everlastingphelps
4 years ago

Once they realize Trump’s warrants were just a fishing expedition

Wait until the start reviewing the unmaskings.

Farcesensitive
4 years ago

New Utah Law Will Force Porn Providers to Include a Warning Label about Dangers to Children

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/new-utah-law-will-force-porn-providers-to-include-a-warning-label-about-dangers-to-children/

K is coming.

Farcesensitive
4 years ago

Finns Warned World’s Best-Funded Welfare State Collapsing Under Virus-Triggered Mass Unemployment

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/finns-warned-worlds-best-funded-welfare-state-collapsing-under-virus-triggered-mass

M in the 517
M in the 517
4 years ago

Roosh with a 5 hour stream

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SvIQaIgKiO4

Uncompliant
Uncompliant
4 years ago

Sundance asked for ground reports about local hospitals — here is a quick summary of 600+ comments (as of midnight or so on 4 April 2020) —

Link: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/04/04/ground-reports-healthcare-focus-whats-going-on-in-your-city-town-neighborhood/#comments

Twitter hashtag to potentially follow —
https://twitter.com/hashtag/FilmyourHospital?src=hashtag_click

I will break this into at least two pieces (with Detroit getting special attention since there were several reports on both sided):

People/places reporting “war zone” conditions —
— DETROIT — is a “war zone” — 24 year old died
— but COUNTER-STORY from another poster: “Oh BS, I’m in Detroit, the hospitals are empty, I could do crazy 8’s in these parking lots in my 18 wheeler. Nurses I know are being laid off, there is no war zone here, the only hysteria is in the media.”
— another COUNTER-STORY — “Nothing going on here in Detroit, hospitals are nowhere near capacity, nursing friends that I know are being told to go home, we will call when there is work or they are being laid off or furloughed.”
— ANOTHER DETROIT — “I’m an hour outside of Detroit & know hospital employees. They seem to be pushing the majority of Wuhan virus cases into one hospital system, almost like creating a crisis. They are short on PPE & have to reuse their n95. They are issued only one n95. Several healthcare workers are symptomatic but the hospital just sends them home without testing them.”
— ANOTHER DETROIT — “I live in Michigan. I’m an adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner in a suburb of Detroit. My hospital system is overwhelmed. Our ICUs are full of COVID+ patients. We have 11 floors just dedicated to COVID. We are building tents outside the ED for the anticipated surge. People are dying. Hospital staff is overwhelmed. We don’t have enough supplies and get one n95 mask a shift (supposed to be single use). How can you report on this issue as if people are being laid off?! That is FAKE NEWS. I am being pulled from my team this coming week and am forced to take care of COVID patients.”
— DETROIT doctor — ICUs are full; “We have converted a number of operating rooms into ICU beds at multiple sites. Keep in mind our ICU is often at capacity and patients will “board” in the ED/PACU. This is worse though, especially given the lack of anything elective and a huge reduction in trauma.” ALSO — “We currently have 880 patients admitted in isolation, 670 admitted who have tested positive and 79 admitted with pending results. Cumulative statistics since March 16, 2020: 1,417 patients admitted to our hospitals with 654 lives saved (discharges) and 107 lives lost (deaths).”

— INDIANAPOLIS, IN — “My daughter in-law is an ICU nurse in Indianapolis. She’s working in an ad hoc ICU located at a different hospital than where she usually works. As of last weekend her patient load was 4X the acceptable limit and all of them on respirators. It’s tough, very tough.
— VIRGINIA (Fredericksburg, VA) — hospital “… is overwhelmed, 2 floor units + MICU have been designated CV units only, nurses are stressed and there isn’t enough PPE. This is a 400+ bed hospital.”
— LOUISIANA (New Orleans) — “2 floors full, 2 people to a room. 6 or 6 dying everyday, 5 or 6 going on respirator every day. Morgue is overrun and they are on their 2nd refrigerated semi truck with the bodies”
— MASSACHUSETTS (Hospital in Essex County, MA) — Nurse reports first hand; hospital now only taking COVID19 patients; they are 68% full; ICU is “overflowing”; “Not war zone yet, but by the end of next week and the week after has a huge potential. That’s supposed to be when we are going to start the beginning of the “peak”.. We have strict protocols for intubation and cardiac arrest.”
— NEW YORK — “I can tell you that NYC hospitals are packed with COVID19 patients and the ICUs are full.”
— WASHINGTON state — “Small, rural hospitals (200 beds or less) in northern WA still at capacity, but far fewer “ILI” (influenza-like illnesses) than came in last month.”

(continued in next post)

Uncompliant
Uncompliant
4 years ago

People/places reporting that their hospitals are empty, calm and quiet —

— ALABAMA (Huntsville) — expecting it to be bad in three weeks; “But two or three days ago they had 8 in-patients with Covid and zero on vents. The vents numbers were down from either 1 or 2, but there was a death.”
— ALABAMA (unspecified) — “Fwiw, a ‘friend’ went to UAB hospital in Alabama for an appointment, and said the place was a ghost town. Hardly any patients or medical personnel…. Main entrance was closed and had to enter through parking deck.”
— “I live just outside Montgomery Alabama. I went to hospital a week ago. The tent outside the ER was very casual and laid back no mask, no gloves were being worn. Once inside no one in waiting area nor was any nurses or Doctors wearing mask. Everyone was joking laughing and playing around. In my room I probably had 5 people in at one time. This particular hospital is normally standing room only on most nights.”

— COLORADO Western Colorado – Grand Junction — “Hospitals are quiet”
— rural COLORADO — “My daughter in law is a RN at one of the hospitals and she said they only had ONE patient in house and that there were only two RNs working the floor, the only floor that was open.”
— CALIFORNIA (Lome Linda University Hospital in SoCal) — “They set aside a wing for CV patients–beginning of the week had a dozen patients”
— Orange County, Ca. — my niece went to “a major hospital, I just asked her what the traffic was like, she said there were 4 people besides herself and one lady came in, coughing up blood they whisked her away.”
— suburban NORTH of LOS ANGELES — “they are following special protocols but all is pretty calm.”
— CALIFORNIA (Porterville which is in the south/central San Joaquin Valley in California) — “Yesterady I went into town and decided to take a trip by the hospital to see what was going on. There was only one small tent, about 12×12 feet but it appeared to be empty. The parking lots were almost completely empty. For all practical purposes the hospital looked closed. Not a person in sight and empty parking lots.”
— San Diego, CA — “I drove past the health care facility I usually use, and the place was a ghost town.”
— CALIFORNIA (South Santa Clara County) — “… considered a “hotspot” for the CCP Virus. ‘My friend went to emergency last night for tooth abscess and he said it was weird at the hospital, no body was there. hmm very strange.'”
— “Contra Costa County hospital. 300 beds, 59 in use. A friend who works there, everyday.”
— northern CALIFORNIA — “I work for a small but full service (ER, ICU etc) hospital in N. California. … 7 years I’ve worked there. Parking lots are empty and the staff that are there are pretty much twiddling their thumbs for most of the day.”
— SACRAMENTO — response to the above post: “Sutter, Kaiser, and UCD, in Sacramento, report the same as you.”
— SACRAMENTO, CA — “hospitals are busy but not overwhelmed”

— central CONNECTICUT — “Hospitals and other medical places around me are sleepy.”
— CONNECTICUT (Hartford) — “hospital was very quiet yesterday during two visits.”

— FLORIDA (Alachua County FL/Gainesville) — hospitals are empty
— FLORIDA (Halifax health Daytona Beach FL) — video of empty parking lot; apparently huge hospital (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niTnP8RY48E&feature=emb_logo)
— TAMPA, FL — “South of Tampa. [Daughter’s] unit had 5 patients & 3 nurses today. They’re sending Nurses home.”

— GEORGIA (Kaiser Hospital in Folsom) — “When I got there the parking lot was nearly empty.”
— ILLINOIS — southwestern Illinois — Daughter reports her hospital treated only 11 patients. “They tested 4 for Wuhan and sent specimens off to the lab. No rapid tests available at this time. They were expecting hoards of people. It’s been a quiet day. Remarkable.”
— ILLINOIS — Rockford (northwest of Chicago) — Daughter “was just laid off and her hospital is practically empty.”
— ILLINOIS (northwestern suburb of Chicago) — “We have Covid-19 patients in my facility but it is nowhere near a “war zone”.”
— ILLINOIS (Central Illinois) — “I’ve driven by multiple times and have yet to see any visible patient activity.” Cafeteria staff have been sent home… nurses are usually swamped, but now “there is nothing for them to do.” “low patient load.”
— CHICAGO — “I am a retired Chicago FD employeeand speaking to my friends who are active FD members they say emergency calls are nothing out of the ordinary.”
— Champaign County, IL — “In the city’s main hospital, there’s absolutely NO sign of panic or overcrowding… actually much LESS busy than normal.”

— MASSACHUSETTS (BROCKTON, MA) — “empty as heck”
— same for hospital WEST of BROCKTON
— BOSTON — “The ERs are about as busy as usual, the rehab hospitals are gearing up for COVID-19 patients who are trickling in.”
— “Salem, hospital is dead quiet, haven’t even heard the usual amount of sirens that I usually hear.”

— MARYLAND (Montgomery County) — “A few weeks ago I had business at Suburban Hospital that required me to stop by twice. The first time, no cars at the drive through testing. The second time a couple of cars. The people that I talked to would not say if they had China virus patients”
— MARYLAND (near Johns Hopkins complex) — “From what I can tell, it’s business as usual. There number of ambulances I hear and fire engine sirens I hear is the same as any other week. The number of shock trauma flights is definitely lower though. I haven’t heard a chopper all week.”

— MISSOURI (Greene County and Springfield) — “The parking lot of the 5 story Dr’s clinic was almost empty (usually full), and about half the parking lots at both hospitals were empty.”
— MISSOURI — “A friend and I went through: DePaul, St. John’s Mercy, MoBaptist and Mercy South ER entrances in St. Louis County yesteday. Lots of temporary tents and masked personnel standing around. Nobody there being tested. As if they were in Potemkin villages.”
— MISSOURI (somewhere) — same as the South of Tampa report; empty nurses being sent home
— someone agreed somewhere in MISSOURI — “My nurse friends are having shifts canceled. Whole floors dedicated to COVID are empty”
— ST. LOUIS — “My hospital (120 beds, 12 bed ICU) had 2 covid patients admitted this past week. I’m on call (I am in an ambulatory practice) … and have been for 3 weeks, but no call yet.”

— NEW MEXICO (Albuquerque, NM area) — empty parking lot
— MINNESOTA (small town) — “Anyhow I have been driving by our hospital where there is a Covid testing tent …zilch and no unusual action from clinics.”

— NEW YORK (ONEIDA) — “Oneida Ctr, ny — nurses laid off ”
— Albany NY — “Our hospitals are not overflowing, nowhere near.”
— NEW YORK — video — hour and a half of guy wandering around NYC; no evidence of “endless sirens wailing in NYC”; at the six minute mark, he comes across a bunch of ambulances just sitting around, says the idle ambulances has been the case for several days in a row as he wanders around the city; at 27 minute mark he comes across a funeral home that is not busy; seems odd if tons of dead bodies; but just one funeral home; more idle ambulances at the 36 minute mark; might have found a freezer truck (but not “on,” not running) at 37 minute mark; very calm in the video; talks to the EMT people; they have gotten “lots” of calls; they say — looking like they are 20 years old — the emergency call volume is “unprecedented since 9/11” (38 min mark); local artist setting up a plastic doll sculpture tribute to the emergency workers (40 mark); talks with a NYer they were not kept up at night by the wailing of sirens; haven’t heard many sirens (52 mark or so); 60 min mark guy comes up to the guy, very talkative, he HAS been kept awake where he lives, gives reports of bodies [wow — seems to me this was a Cabal plant in real time surveillance of this podcast]; another funeral home that is not busy (63 min mark) —

https://youtu.be/T4DD3Whe-8c

— PENNSYLVANIA — “A local “news” reporter interviewed a head nurse at the biggest hospital in Pittsburgh. They are empty. No crowds, no waiting, no problems. The report ran just once, and no more & was scrubbed from their Facebook page.”
— CHARLESTON, SC — “Hospital near Charleston is empty. ”
— somewhere SOUTH CAROLINA — “eerily quiet”
— “My husband works in a hospital in Myrtle Beach, SC. Recently the hospital is underwhelmed and patient count is extremely low.”
— NORTH CAROLINA (Charlotte, NC) — “the clinic was very slow, with everyone sitting on their hands due to no patients.” freezer truck recently parked at this hospital; supposedly peak will occur in 3 weeks

— MISSISSIPPI (north central Mississippi) — a handful of patients; calm
— a SOUTHWESTERN STATE — “The hospitals are as empty as they’ve ever been in her time there.”
— OHIO Toledo Ohio area (Lucas County) — one large medical practice very not busy
— OHIO (Columbus, Ohio) — “I live near a large hospital, and it is as quiet as usual.”
— “Columbus Ohio and live near a large hospital … it is usually lit up like a Christmas tree..now, a lot of lights are off.”
— “Cleveland here, I am an RN with a big hospital, only 6% covid pts. as of yesterday. Everyone being warned “the surge is coming”
— Canton, OH — discussing video: “… in this footage its apparent there’s NOTHING going on at this hospital-usually there are a lot of ambulances, cars waiting for drop/off/pick/up, the deck and entire parking lot is always FULL–60% of staff laid off while waiting for “THE SURGE!!!!!!!!!!!!”

— OREGON (Portland Medical Center) — “They peaked at 12 patients two days ago. Not overwhelmed and its quiet because elective and important surgeries have been canceled. ”

— TENNESSEE (Centennial Medical in Nashville, Tennessee) — “empty”
— TEXAS (San Antonio) — “When she called the staffing agencies the answer was every hospital in Texas has the same problem – no patients.”
— DALLAS, 10 miles west — hospital is empty
— Smith County, Tx (80 miles east of Dallas) — “Drove by one of the hospitals in town one hour ago. Parking lot maybe 25% filled with cars.”

— CROSS COUNTRY TRAVEL — “We just came from CA to IL, we passed through some small and big towns, and nothing like “war zones” on the Hospitals we passed. Exactly the opposite, everything seems calm, way too calm. Even at a huge Hospital in Kansas City the parking lot was almost empty. I can’t say what’s going on inside, but outside there’s nothing to report.”
— CANADA — “In a Canadian hospital close to where I live on the leftcoast it’s never been quieter.”

— WASHINGTON state (SEATTLE) — this “is the so-called epi-center? No patients, none at all…what’s going on here?”
— small town NW WASHINGTON state — empty

— VIRGINIA (HCA hospital in Richmond, Virginia) — “…today I drove by one of the bigger hospitals in the West End and the parking lot which is usually full with no place to park was half empty.”

CheeseBag
CheeseBag
Reply to  Uncompliant
4 years ago

The Virginia story definitely isn’t true. There’s only two hospitals in Fredericksburg and both are furloughing part time nurses. They’re empty. Not only are they empty, the first man that died was turned away repeatedly despite checking all the boxes for having CV. They just refused to test or treat him until right before he died.

Eric The Awful
Eric The Awful
Reply to  CheeseBag
4 years ago

This is true. The two hospitals are Mary Washington and Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center. The patient went to Spotsylvania, which kept turning him away until he finally died, apparently of the Kung Flu.

I can’t say his results would have been better at Mary Washington. That hospital sucks. Someone I know once spent two days admitted. All they had to do was a test that required wheeling a cart into the patient’s room. It took them two freaking days to get this organized. On another occasion, a patient was admitted to the ER and kept for observation. Three different doctors gave three different diagnoses, from a kidney stone (for upper back pain on the other side- WTF?) to cardiac. You got that right; an ER doctor didn’t know the difference between left and right, got one stuck in her head, and just ran with it. No amount of “no, it’s the other side” could change her mind.

If you find yourself in need of a hospital in the Fredericksburg area, just go 10 miles north to Stafford. It’s part of the Mary Washington system, but the care is marginally better. And stay out of the freestanding ER at Lee Hill, because they’ll just funnel you to Mary Washington.

Uncompliant
Uncompliant
4 years ago

Another interesting issue is the non-existence surge in business for supporting industries like florists. Here is one comment: “”I haven’t been to a hospital (yet) but there are supporting industries that should be overrun in addition to hospitals; doctors, nurses and patients eat – food service to hospitals should be in high demand. Florists should be delivering flowers to the sick.” She has not seen these supporting industries surging.

This is similar to many comments about funeral homes; they should be working overtime, yes?

Uncompliant
Uncompliant
4 years ago

Ironically, hospitals are going to be hard hit financially. Basically, all non-emergency and non-COVID19 procedures have been canceled everywhere. Hip replacements, for example, are canceled waiting for the coming COVID-19 surge. That is a lot of money for hospitals; they are going to be in huge financial trouble when — if — the lockdown is lifted. This will also cause a huge backlog in surgeries; that will cause problems too. Again, really convenient and, if the world-takeover-plan were proceeding, this all fits “nicely” since all that financial pain could easily lead the hospitals to support a fed takeover of health care….

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