OT: Coronavirus

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Russian nurse punished for wearing only bra & panties under see-through PPE gown
https://mothership.sg/2020/05/russian-nu...a-panties/

That I'd like to see...

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You are having a good day Ralphie,Thanks

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https://twitter.com/mnstatefair/status/1...07105?s=19

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@Vikergirl said:
https://twitter.com/mnstatefair/status/1...07105?s=19

the big one will be what they decide in 2 weeks on the sturgis rally... 

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https://twitter.com/wsyx6/status/1263478...68225?s=19

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My state representative filed a lawsuit against the governor of Illinois over the stay at home rules. The governor asked that it be heard in federal court instead of state court. The judge in the federal court had this to say, before he threw it back to the state court according to the state representatives attorney, Tom Devore. The Honorable Judge McHaney’s exact words yesterday when he ruled in favor of my client. I would have only ask the Honorable Court to add a small business owner can’t open his fitness center because its non-essential but the Governor’s Hyatt hotels are allowed to have their fitness centers open inside the hotels.
“Since the inception of this insanity, the following regulations, rules or consequences have occurred: I won't get COVID if I get an abortion but I will get COVID if I get a colonoscopy. Selling pot is essential but selling goods and services at a family owned business is not. Pot wasn't even legal and pot dispensaries didn't even exist in this state until five months ago and, in that five months, they have become essential but a family-owned business in existence for five generations is not. A family of six can pile in their car and drive to Carlyle Lake without contracting COVID but, if they all get in the same boat, they will. We are told that kids rarely contract the virus and sunlight kills it, but summer youth programs, sports programs are cancelled. Four people can drive to the golf course and not get COVID but, if they play in a foursome, they will. If I go to Walmart, I won't get COVID but, if I go to church, I will. Murderers are released from custody while small business owners are threatened with arrest if they have the audacity to attempt to feed their families.”

“These are just a few of examples of rules, regulations and consequences that are arbitrary, capricious, and completely devoid of anything even remotely approaching common sense. State's attorneys in this state, county sheriffs, mayors, city councils and county boards have openly and publicly defied these orders followed by threats to withhold funding and revocation of necessary licenses and certifications unless you obey. Our economy is shut down because of a flu virus with a 98 percent plus survival rate. Doctors and experts say different things weekly. The defendant cites models in his opposition. The only thing experts will agree on is that all models are wrong and some are useful. The Centers for Disease Control now says the virus is not easily spread on surfaces. The defendant in this case orders you to stay home and pronounces that, if you leave the state, you are putting people in danger, but his family members traveled to Florida and Wisconsin because he deems such travel essential. One initial rationale why the rules don't apply to him is that his family farm had animals that needed fed. Try selling that argument to farmers who have had to slaughter their herds because of disruption in the supply chain. When laws do not apply to those who make them, people are not being governed, they are being ruled. Make no mistake, these executive orders are not laws. They are royal decrees. Illinois citizens are not being governed, they are being ruled. The last time I checked Illinois citizens are also Americans and Americans don't get ruled. The last time a monarch tried to rule Americans, a shot was fired that was heard around the world. That day led to the birth of a nation consensually governed based upon a document which ensures that on this day in this, any American courtroom tyrannical despotism will always lose and liberty, freedom and the constitution will always win.”

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Not to down-play their importance or significance, I think it's easy for us (for me) to get caught-up in all the political and ideological subterfuge. The economic carnage is tragic too. But we don't see the death, the horrible way it kills and I hope to goodness none of us here do...
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Dr. Jacques Sztajnbok is more restrained. "It's not a flu. It's the worst thing we have ever faced in our professional lives." His eyes slow and narrow, when I ask if he worries for his health. "Yes," he says, twice.

The reasons why are clear inside the overwhelming silence of the ICU. Coronavirus kills behind the veil of a hospital curtain, in a stifling quiet, that is so distant and alien to the global upheaval and noisy political divisions it has inspired. But when it takes a life, it is intimately horrifying.
The first noticeable break in the calm is a flashing red light. The second, a doctor's hair cover, moving up and down just above a privacy screen, as his rigid arms deliver hard, unforgiving chest compressions to a patient. 
The patient is in her 40s, and her medical history has meant for days the odds on her survival are bad. But the change, when it comes, is sudden. 
Another nurse runs in. In this ICU, the medical staff pause in an outer chamber to gown up and wash, but only moments before racing in. In the corridor outside, a doctor fumbles, clumsily pulling on his gown. These moments have come countless times before in the pandemic but, this day, it gets no easier. This ICU is full, and still the peak in São Paulo is probably two weeks away.
Through  the glass, gowned staff jostle tightly together and circle the patient's head; to replace tubes; to shift posture; to switch their position and relieve each other from the exhausting task. Their unforgiving compressions on the patients' sternum are all that keep her aliv

A  doctor emerges, sweat on her brow, to pause in the cooler, corridor air. A sliding glass door slams -- a rare noise -- as another rushes in. For 40 minutes, the quietly frenetic focus continues. And then, without audible warning, it suddenly stops. The lines on the heart monitors are flat, permanently.
Coronavirus has   so pervasively damaged our life, but its way of killing remains so often hidden in the confines of ICUs, where only valiant healthcare workers see the trauma. And for the staff here, it feels closer daily.