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New wave of infections threatens to collapse Japan hospitals

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Hospitals in Japan are increasingly turning away sick people as the country struggles with surging coronavirus infections and its emergency medical system collapses.

 

In one recent case, an ambulance carrying a man with a fever and difficulty breathing was rejected by 80 hospitals and forced to search for hours for a hospital in downtown Tokyo that would treat him. Another feverish man finally reached a hospital after paramedics unsuccessfully contacted 40 clinics.

 

The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine and the Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine say many hospital emergency rooms are refusing to treat people including those suffering strokes, heart attacks and external injuries.

 

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8 minutes ago, SlipperySlope said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/apr/18/coronavirus-us-live-growing-protests-stay-home-orders-trump-latest-news-updates

 

Lots of protests, we need a patriot with Covid to go hang out with them and save us.

 

you know what .....fuck it.  open everything back up so everybody gets this and dies.  the human race deserves to be wiped out and rebooted for the pure stupidity that has been unleashed.

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https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/business/106942/international-interest-for-antwerp-companys-corona-armband/

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International companies have begun to show an interest in an armband developed for workers which helps enforce social distancing rules.

The armband was developed by Rombit, an Antwerp company that specialises in digital applications for maritime services, port terminals and petrochemical plants.

It consists of a bracelet based on an existing safety armband, which gives off a signal when it comes within a certain distance of another bracelet. Calibrated to a distance of 1.5m, the Covid Radius bracelet ensures no breach of social distancing rules in the workplace, even inadvertently.

The bracelet works without an internet connection. The only requirement is that every worker must wear one.

The company stresses, in addition, that the armband offers complete privacy: no information is transmitted to the employer regarding the location of the wearer at any time.

It can, however, store information on which other workers came within a distance of 2.5m, even if not involved in any alarm, to help with contact tracing in the event someone becomes infected.

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20 minutes ago, Firewithin said:

 

you know what .....fuck it.  open everything back up so everybody gets this and dies.  the human race deserves to be wiped out and rebooted for the pure stupidity that has been unleashed.

Speak for yourself... I don't deserve to die because of a bunch of dumb assholes who are being manipulated by people who don't have their best interest at heart and are profiting off of their stupidity

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1 minute ago, sblfilms said:

So our drive in got approval to host graduation ceremonies. Already booked 3, hoping to get 10-15. Would float us another few months. 

Well done sir

How you manage to keep it going and keep it running is nothing short of amazing.

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Based on the posts from my right wing facebook friends, this is going to get super ugly super fast.

 

I know that many people are quite stupid, but many of these people are especially stupid. I know there are a lot of left wing dingbat morons, there isn't a political divide amongst intelligence... but right wing morons are a special breed. Truly a different kind of dipshit. They almost delight in being dumb. It's like a point of pride for them.

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15 minutes ago, ort said:

Based on the posts from my right wing facebook friends, this is going to get super ugly super fast.

 

I know that many people are quite stupid, but many of these people are especially stupid. I know there are a lot of left wing dingbat morons, there isn't a political divide amongst intelligence... but right wing morons are a special breed. Truly a different kind of dipshit. They almost delight in being dumb. It's like a point of pride for them.

It's that potent mix of anti-intellectualism, anti-elitism, and that overwhelming desire to do anything that "sticks it to the libs." 

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There has always been tension between rigid ideology and reality. Libertarianism always had trouble dealing with climate change because the market, absent a carbon tax, would do nothing about it. The solution usually was to simply deny climate change was happening. How could it be? The market takes care of everything. In this case, the chronic nature of climate change made it easy to bend the facts and confuse people because in order to firmly conclude it's happening, you have to believe experts and charts. Now we see the ideology being brought to its knees by SARS-CoV-2, an acute health issue that people can see with their own eyes. You would think this would be a point where people got off the crazy bus, but it appears that even still people will cling to ideology even as a virus is killing them right in front of their eyes.

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Libertarianism literally makes no sense at all... like, I don't get how anyone who isn't a total simpering git can't see how it would play out if we lived in their ideal version of libertarian society. We would have zero freedom in 10 year or less. We would be ruled by a single corporation and no one would have anything. Without government regulations we would all be so mega fucked. It takes a special kind of willful ignorance to not understand that.

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3 minutes ago, ort said:

Libertarianism literally makes no sense at all... like, I don't get how anyone who isn't a total simpering git can't see how it would play out if we lived in their ideal version of libertarian society. We would have zero freedom in 10 year or less. We would be ruled by a single corporation and no one would have anything. Without government regulations we would all be so mega fucked. It takes a special kind of willful ignorance to not understand that.

 

"If you can't kill another man for your freedom, then you don't deserve to be free."

- Libertarian fantasy in dystopian world

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18 minutes ago, ort said:

Libertarianism literally makes no sense at all... like, I don't get how anyone who isn't a total simpering git can't see how it would play out if we lived in their ideal version of libertarian society. We would have zero freedom in 10 year or less. We would be ruled by a single corporation and no one would have anything. Without government regulations we would all be so mega fucked. It takes a special kind of willful ignorance to not understand that.

Libertarian makes sense to adolescents and college aged kids, but at some point you would have to out grow that shit especially once you start living in the real world. 

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On 4/17/2020 at 10:04 AM, skillzdadirecta said:

Yeah it's bad in Ecuador and some fear that it is a precursor for other parts of Latin America and Africa as well.

Every time I talk to my teams in LATAM they talk about it’s worse than reported in the news. Lots of dead in homes with no safe removal options, few being tallied in the Covid death count.

 

In my Tuesday meeting they talked about their governments possibly opening the economies soon. But the people are ready to get back to work, just for the sake of having work.

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