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Post by Wolfgang on Jan 29, 2020 22:57:52 GMT -5
If this turns into a zombie outbreak, I'm thinking I have to upgrade my parkour skills and learn how to kill from above. (The kill from below doesn't happen often unless it's Shadow of Mordor in which case, it happens all the frikkin' time). Plus get a shotgun.
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Post by preschooler on Jan 30, 2020 12:26:14 GMT -5
Thought this was a good explanation of the principle of the epidemic triangle and how it drives public health decisions in cases such as this . apple.news/AERWq6skpSV6mSHbJOL32FA
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Post by hammer on Jan 30, 2020 18:51:09 GMT -5
The Last Train out of Wuhan ...
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Post by XAsstCoach on Jan 30, 2020 21:12:40 GMT -5
Should see some videos coming out of China. Police are sealing apartment doors of residents who have the Coronavirus essentially locking the residents in, patients are attacking doctors...crazy!
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Post by ironhammer on Jan 30, 2020 21:27:51 GMT -5
Should see some videos coming out of China. Police are sealing apartment doors of residents who have the Coronavirus essentially locking the residents in, patients are attacking doctors...crazy!There is a long history of violent patients going after doctors in China. Granted, this doesn't happen in all disputes between patients and their healthcare providers, but it is a recurring trend. This is due to a evolving medical system that has not yet found a stable footing since post-Mao reforms were initiated. The medical care system was privatized but without a corresponding level of professional and regulatory checks. So hospital starts charging crazy sums. Doctors started prescribing non-necessary medication to bill patients more. And medical malpractice is covered-up. All this leads to anger from patients, and in some cases, triggering violent incidents as patients loose trust and confidence in the doctors having their best interest in mind. www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/business/china-health-care-doctors.html
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Post by XAsstCoach on Jan 31, 2020 20:59:30 GMT -5
There is a long history of violent patients going after doctors in China. Granted, this doesn't happen in all disputes between patients and their healthcare providers, but it is a recurring trend. This is due to a evolving medical system that has not yet found a stable footing since post-Mao reforms were initiated. The medical care system was privatized but without a corresponding level of professional and regulatory checks. So hospital starts charging crazy sums. Doctors started prescribing non-necessary medication to bill patients more. And medical malpractice is covered-up. All this leads to anger from patients, and in some cases, triggering violent incidents as patients loose trust and confidence in the doctors having their best interest in mind. Oh, I’m all too familiar with these stories. On the one hand I do feel sorry for these doctors because there are just so many patients to see every day. On the other hand, in the public hospitals they pretty much treat you like a cattle, just move you from one station to the next. Frustrating at time when it feels like they’re not understanding what ur problem is. Just this past Dec a man stabbed a “beloved” doctor in the neck because he was upset the treatments were not helping his mother. The doctor died, and as always there was outrage by the medical community and the public. This time, however, the govt put this type of crime back up as capital punishment eligible...and everyone knows this. Which is why I was surprised to see patients losing it on a doctor so soon after the ruling. My flight is becoming a mess now. Not sure if I can make it back to Shanghai or not next week.
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Post by ironhammer on Jan 31, 2020 21:57:44 GMT -5
There is a long history of violent patients going after doctors in China. Granted, this doesn't happen in all disputes between patients and their healthcare providers, but it is a recurring trend. This is due to a evolving medical system that has not yet found a stable footing since post-Mao reforms were initiated. The medical care system was privatized but without a corresponding level of professional and regulatory checks. So hospital starts charging crazy sums. Doctors started prescribing non-necessary medication to bill patients more. And medical malpractice is covered-up. All this leads to anger from patients, and in some cases, triggering violent incidents as patients loose trust and confidence in the doctors having their best interest in mind. Oh, I’m all too familiar with these stories. On the one hand I do feel sorry for these doctors because there are just so many patients to see every day. On the other hand, in the public hospitals they pretty much treat you like a cattle, just move you from one station to the next. Frustrating at time when it feels like they’re not understanding what ur problem is. Just this past Dec a man stabbed a “beloved” doctor in the neck because he was upset the treatments were not helping his mother. The doctor died, and as always there was outrage by the medical community and the public. This time, however, the govt put this type of crime back up as capital punishment eligible...and everyone knows this. Which is why I was surprised to see patients losing it on a doctor so soon after the ruling. My flight is becoming a mess now. Not sure if I can make it back to Shanghai or not next week. Don't hold you breath about flying to China right now. Airlines are cutting service and the US government is strongly advising against all non-essential travel until the outbreak dies down. As for the violent incidents between patients and doctors, it is symptomatic of an unresponsive system that is ill-suited to address the needs of the patients. Doctors are understaffed. Hospitals are told to run like a private for-profit company with little regulatory checks. Patients feel their complaints and frustration with the system is met with stone silence. So the end result is violence.
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Post by XAsstCoach on Feb 16, 2020 2:20:55 GMT -5
So I’m back in Shanghai for slightly more than one week. It’s a bit eerie, roads are not as busy and people are afraid of going out unless necessary...like grocery shopping. Haven’t been to a mall or gone out to eat, but have been to the Shanghai Costco and they’re still quite busy even though the foot traffic is only 1/3 of that pre-coronavirus.
Communities have shut down all roads except for one, which is manned by residents to take the temperature of returning residents. Don’t know if they understand that is completely useless when trying to block the virus from being carried in. Package deliveries can only be picked up at the community entrances, though in our complex SF Express can deliver your package to the your door.
Our factory has not been given the ok to open yet, but it’s because the local govt is coercing us to sign a document unrelated to the virus outbreak. Forcing a lot of factories in our situation to sign before letting them open. D!(kheads! And I hope karma rains hell upon the govt officials!
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Post by Phaedrus on Feb 17, 2020 7:43:01 GMT -5
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Post by XAsstCoach on Feb 17, 2020 9:57:15 GMT -5
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Post by Mocha on Feb 26, 2020 16:54:52 GMT -5
I hear vacations to Italy are cheap now.
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Post by cindra on Feb 26, 2020 17:51:02 GMT -5
CDC says it's officially when, not if, it hits the USA. Got a feeling that the market crash we've been putting off for 10 years is gonna come by big-time.
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Post by preschooler on Mar 1, 2020 1:00:28 GMT -5
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Post by mikegarrison on Mar 2, 2020 18:42:23 GMT -5
I was very sick last week. Fever for three days, coughing ("productive"), etc. I don't know if I had "the" coronavirus but I was pretty sure I had something like it. I was going to go to the doctor on the third day of my fever, except between 5am when I made that decision and 9am when I woke up again, my fever finally broke. I had been avoiding going to the doctor in large part because I didn't want to drive myself and I didn't want to expose my parents (who had offered to drive me). Also:
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Post by Wolfgang on Mar 2, 2020 19:04:02 GMT -5
I was very sick last week. Fever for three days, coughing ("productive"), etc. I don't know if I had "the" coronavirus but I was pretty sure I had something like it. I was going to go to the doctor on the third day of my fever, except between 5am when I made that decision and 9am when I woke up again, my fever finally broke. I had been avoiding going to the doctor in large part because I didn't want to drive myself and I didn't want to expose my parents (who had offered to drive me). ... I noticed you'd been getting sick here and there, more often than most people -- or you post about it here more than most. You always mention that you're home sick which allows you to play video games for a lengthy period of time. Also, one year, you had some sort of leg infection (I remember) that made your leg look like it's been dissected in Biology 301. (You either posted a representative disgusting photo or I may have googled it myself.) If you really have the Coronavirus, oh man, it's been nice knowing you but please don't die until after the All-VT Awards committee's first season run. Didn't want to say but you do fit the profile of the high risk group that tended to catch (and suffer from) the virus -- male, 50s, some health issues.
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