Are things any different at hospital A&E depts where you are? Have you seen any similar citizen-reporter films or written reports in your own part of the world? If so, please post links. Thanks.
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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:27 am
by semper occultus
we need to keep asking these questions Mac I agree with you. I was tempted to ask how China figured into this plot given they have already got the techno-totalitarian dystopia thing pretty much in the bag already but given what was happening in Hong Kong I began to shift uncomfortably. The real nub of the issue is not whether Grandma is going to die next week or not but challenging the stripping away of what tattered remnants of civil liberties, privacy & freedoms we have managed to cling to post-9/11 & making that a key political issue.
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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:37 am
by MacCruiskeen
Global lockdown and ongoing techno-fascist coup attempt.
But let's keep this thread strictly on-topic & the posts in it brief & informative, with links. We need to gather evidence, fast. (And get it out there.)
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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:11 am
by semper occultus
‘LIES’ – MADRID’S HEALTH AUTHORITY DENIES TAKING VENTILATORS FROM THE OVER-65S DESPITE VIRAL VIDEO OF CRYING SPANISH DOCTOR
The denial follows a viral video of a Spanish man calling the moves 'genocide'
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:41 pm
by MacCruiskeen
Been hearing reports about similar citizen smartphone-videos filmed at at least two NYC hospital A&Es, Presbyterian and some other big one that begins with a B. If anyone has seen these videos and they aren't obvious attempts to mislead, please post them here. Thanks.
(Or from anywhere else, of course.)
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:06 pm
by alloneword
@Charlotte3003G To confirm Sir Simon Stephens said - we have 9000 confirmed COVID patients in hospitals - we have enough beds - we have enough ICU beds - but they are going to get the Nightingale Hospital ready anyway Ferguson said hospital admissions are slowing down None of this add up. Quote Tweet Charlotte Gracias @Charlotte3003G · 5h UK #COVID19 stats now Tested as positive 19,522
Active cases 18,159 Mild symptoms 17,996 Serious critical 163
Closed cases 1,364 Recovered / discharged 135 Sadly 1,228 died
We have 141,000 beds in the UK and 4000 ICU beds
Can anyone please explain, where is the bed crisis?
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:00 pm
by Nordic
This one is interesting, posted today.
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:03 pm
by Nordic
At this huge modern hospital in Portland, OSHU, this doctor seems to have nothing to do but make dance videos on Tik Tok.
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:55 pm
by MacCruiskeen
^^ N., I think that last one, from Portland, is just a bit of trivial feelgood TV fluff. And there's no reason why the guy shouldn't have a bit of fun & exercise on a 1- minute break from work. Nothing fo see there really.
It's the same strange thing as in the two videos in the OP, the ghostly quiet of these places, the almost complete absence of ambulances or staff or patients or traffic or people or urgency of any kind. (But why do Americans find it so hard to get into a hospital, even as a visitor? Serious question, not sarcastic.)
Note that all three of these amateur reporters are risking ridicule by doing this, actually visiting their local (big) hospitals, showing how little appears to be going on there, and in some cases (Dublin, Berlin) asking polite and relevant questions of the medics and receptionist. If they were just hoaxters they'd surely have been given hell on social media by now, by other locals who know those hospitals well. Or by the hospital staff themselves.
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:24 pm
by JackRiddler
Guy walking around Brooklyn is full of shit. Walks around on the street outside a hospital narrating what he already thinks to himself, affecting incredulity at the supposedly astonishing scenes of nothing going on. Sum total of his investigation. Great method.
I did some Brooklyn walking too today. First of all, everywhere is empty, everyone's home. I expect people aren't lining up for tests because everyone's staying home long as they're feeling well or only mildly sick. They're conforming to the orders, overwhelmingly. And the news keeps telling them how pointless expecting a test is going to be if you're not going in because you are seriously sick.
On walks, have seen relatively high numbers of ambulances about. For whatever it's worth. I suppose I should take video and create my own out-my-ass narratives about how dramatic it all is.
Seem to be less cops about than usual.
Getting reports from real-life people I know about major hospital activity in Queens around where the highest numbers are. I know a few medical personnel and they're all doing hair-on-fire. Are they exaggerating? We will see, right?
Record numbers of EMT calls. No data on how these break down, but it's beyond extremely unlikely to be from fallout effects from isolation measures, as was suggested earlier.
Carry on. I really do hope in a couple of weeks you will still have relatively low death numbers to spin into your preferred narratives. I am agnostic on much of it regarding the case numbers and the impact of the disease itself, and I definitely don't want to see the definitive proof that the conclusions you deliver with such certainty at still an early stage were wrong.
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:53 pm
by MacCruiskeen
JR wrote:the conclusions you deliver with such certainty
Stop doing that, boss. Uncurl your lip, please, massa. Stop fucking lying at my fucking expense, at long fucking last.
I am agnostic
That's one way of putting it. There are others and I am still allowed to think them at least, even under your humanely supercilious prison regime.
#Lockdown #DieGedankenSindFrei
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:10 am
by JackRiddler
Does a CNN interview with the president of the New York State Nurses' Association describing overcrowded hospitals and ERs and overloaded staff count?
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:44 am
by MacCruiskeen
No, of course it fucking doesn't and of course you fucking well know it. You have some fucking cheek, really, usernameJackRiddler. Who the fuck do you think you are?
Stop trolling this thread with your knowing and deliberate flamebaiting and your shamelessly off-topic CNN mindpoison, or I will complain to the RI moderators, who are Elvis, DrVolin and Jeff Wells, as listed at the top of this page.
But who knows if anything this fucking place claims or has ever claimed about itself can be trusted at all.
Who can even ask honest questions with impunity any more?
Enough of this endless cat-and-mouse game, this sadistic double-bind horsecrap.
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Unanswered Questions, Demanding Answers:
1. Where is Elvis? He was a good moderator. Seemed like a nice guy too. Tell him we miss him.
2. Is DrVolin really still moderator? Is he even still alive? When did anyone here last hear from him? He too was a good mod and seemed like a nice honest man.
3. Also. and do please forgive my uppitiness in even inquiring, sir, but where is our absentee landlord, the Invisible Man, Mister Jeff Wells?
It must be at least four or five years since Jeff last even condescended to check in here at Hotel Rigor Mortis.
Is he still alive? If so, why does this institution never hear from him?
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:18 am
by MacCruiskeen
^^ If straight and verifiable answers are not finally given to those questions soon, we will all know beyond doubt that this place is -- and always has been? -- a sick spook experiment, a smirkingly sadistic timesink and mindfuck that honest people everywhere should be warned against and told to avoid at all costs.