Coronavirus COVID-19

[HI54UNI]

[HI54UNI]

[AshevilleApp]

I see nothing.

[AZGrizFan]

I see nothing.

[HI54UNI]

Wife got the 1st dose of the Moderna vaccination yesterday.

[HI54UNI]

[kalm]

How many droplets were stopped? Do we know the estimated cell count for infection? Are they 6 feet?

[kalm]

Think of the progressive benefits of getting people to the grave faster:

1. Reduced medical expenses = more money for Medicare for All.
2. People collect less of their social security benefits making the program more solvent.
3. People spending less of their personal retirement funds = increased estate tax collections help to fund the progressive wish list.
4. Old people tend to be conservative and the damn Baby Boomers are the ones who bankrupted the government for their own benefit. Fvck them, society is better off without them.

It's win/win/win/win.

Kalm, Jelly, Houndy, Jon, JSO did I miss any?

Kalm, this is where you chime in with a "why do you want to push grandma off a cliff" quip.

Paying the bills for my mom’s skilled nursing, palliative, and hospice care was eye opening.

You liquify all of your assets (savings, investments, property) before Medicaid kicks in and replaces the $10,000/month out of pocket bill.

‘Murica!

[GannonFan]

Hey, how come we're allowed to call the new strain of COVID-19 the "UK Variant" but it's taboo to make any location reference to Wuhan or China when talking about COVID-19? Methinks the Brits aren't as good at control of mass media as the Chinese apparently are. Or the percentage of white people in the UK is still crazy high despite what we see in movies like "Bend it Like Beckham".

[Gil Dobie]

Kalm, this is where you chime in with a "why do you want to push grandma off a cliff" quip.

Paying the bills for my mom’s skilled nursing, palliative, and hospice care was eye opening.

You liquify all of your assets (savings, investments, property) before Medicaid kicks in and replaces the $10,000/month out of pocket bill.

‘Murica!

As of 2018
1. Hawaii 82.3
2. California 81.6
4. Minnesota 80.9
9. Washington 80.4
12. Arizona 79.9
13. North Dakota 79.9
15. Oregon 79.8
19. Virginia 79.5
25. Texas 79.1
USA 78.8
28. Montana 78.8
31. DC 78.6
34. Delaware 78.4
35. Pennsylvania 78.3
40. Missouri 77.3
42. South Carolina 77.0
44. Louisiana 76.1
51. West Virginia 74.8

[andy7171]

Hey, how come we're allowed to call the new strain of COVID-19 the "UK Variant" but it's taboo to make any location reference to Wuhan or China when talking about COVID-19? Methinks the Brits aren't as good at control of mass media as the Chinese apparently are. Or the percentage of white people in the UK is still crazy high despite what we see in movies like "Bend it Like Beckham".

[andy7171]

Paying the bills for my mom’s skilled nursing, palliative, and hospice care was eye opening.

You liquify all of your assets (savings, investments, property) before Medicaid kicks in and replaces the $10,000/month out of pocket bill.

‘Murica!

As of 2018
1. Hawaii 82.3
2. California 81.6
4. Minnesota 80.9
9. Washington 80.4
12. Arizona 79.9
13. North Dakota 79.9
15. Oregon 79.8
19. Virginia 79.5
25. Texas 79.1
USA 78.8
28. Montana 78.8
31. DC 78.6
34. Delaware 78.4
35. Pennsylvania 78.3
40. Missouri 77.3
42. South Carolina 77.0
44. Louisiana 76.1
51. West Virginia 74.8

WTF man. Maryland has CS.com presence.

[Gil Dobie]

As of 2018
1. Hawaii 82.3
2. California 81.6
4. Minnesota 80.9
9. Washington 80.4
12. Arizona 79.9
13. North Dakota 79.9
15. Oregon 79.8
19. Virginia 79.5
25. Texas 79.1
USA 78.8
28. Montana 78.8
31. DC 78.6
34. Delaware 78.4
35. Pennsylvania 78.3
40. Missouri 77.3
42. South Carolina 77.0
44. Louisiana 76.1
51. West Virginia 74.8

WTF man. Maryland has CS.com presence.

24. Maryland 79.1

[SDHornet]

Kalm, this is where you chime in with a "why do you want to push grandma off a cliff" quip.

Paying the bills for my mom’s skilled nursing, palliative, and hospice care was eye opening.

You liquify all of your assets (savings, investments, property) before Medicaid kicks in and replaces the $10,000/month out of pocket bill.

‘Murica!

You've just explained why I'm a fan of euthanasia and end of life planning.

[kalm]

Paying the bills for my mom’s skilled nursing, palliative, and hospice care was eye opening.

You liquify all of your assets (savings, investments, property) before Medicaid kicks in and replaces the $10,000/month out of pocket bill.

‘Murica!

You've just explained why I'm a fan of euthanasia and end of life planning.

I am too but that’s irrelevant.

[UNI88]

You've just explained why I'm a fan of euthanasia and end of life planning.

I am too but that’s irrelevant.

Only because the Bernie Bro Death Panels of the future Medicare for All will make those decisions for us ...

[SeattleGriz]

Hey, how come we're allowed to call the new strain of COVID-19 the "UK Variant" but it's taboo to make any location reference to Wuhan or China when talking about COVID-19? Methinks the Brits aren't as good at control of mass media as the Chinese apparently are. Or the percentage of white people in the UK is still crazy high despite what we see in movies like "Bend it Like Beckham".

Now we have the Africa strain as well.

[SDHornet]

You've just explained why I'm a fan of euthanasia and end of life planning.

I am too but that’s irrelevant.

Not really. You have your whole life to plan for your demise. Some people don't and depend on their crotch fruit to take care of them (not saying you fall in this bucket). When I become a vegetable, I want to be dragged out back and shot in the face.

[kalm]

I am too but that’s irrelevant.

Only because the Bernie Bro Death Panels of the future Medicare for All will make those decisions for us ...

Wait till the Covid healthcare costs and deferred care come home to roost. Providers, insurance companies, investors, and the under-insured will all be rooting for socialist medicine. But I get it, when the economics and health outcomes aren’t on your side, cry “death panels!”.

I’m thankful to have you and Ganny around and remind there are still semi-reasonable center right conks out there.

[GannonFan]

Hey, how come we're allowed to call the new strain of COVID-19 the "UK Variant" but it's taboo to make any location reference to Wuhan or China when talking about COVID-19? Methinks the Brits aren't as good at control of mass media as the Chinese apparently are. Or the percentage of white people in the UK is still crazy high despite what we see in movies like "Bend it Like Beckham".

Now we have the Africa strain as well.

Nah, that's not sticking. Besides potentially being racist because of the predominately Black population in Africa, they think what they're seeing in South Africa is just the UK Variant showing up there. It's still the Brits fault. Damn colonizers. Like I said, nary a peep that we shouldn't be calling it that.

[GannonFan]

Only because the Bernie Bro Death Panels of the future Medicare for All will make those decisions for us ...

Wait till the Covid healthcare costs and deferred care come home to roost. Providers, insurance companies, investors, and the under-insured will all be rooting for socialist medicine. But I get it, when the economics and health outcomes aren’t on your side, cry “death panels!”.

I’m thankful to have you and Ganny around and remind there are still semi-reasonable center right conks out there.

Universal health care is coming, like Thanos, it's inevitable. But it's not going to change anything, just where the angst and criticisms are directed. We'll still have relatively crappy health care for those less fortunate and for the affluent they'll have access to the private health care industry that will be fabulous. It'll be just like the UK's NHS, but without the weird patriotic fervor that they have for it, in spite of its shortcomings. We'll still have the same issues with life expectancy here - we still have guns, enormous amounts of unhealthy food, tremendous miles of roadways that we travel on a ton, and an amazing disregard for personal health and well being. Affordable, or even free, access to health care does little to change any of that.

[UNI88]

Only because the Bernie Bro Death Panels of the future Medicare for All will make those decisions for us ...

Wait till the Covid healthcare costs and deferred care come home to roost. Providers, insurance companies, investors, and the under-insured will all be rooting for socialist medicine. But I get it, when the economics and health outcomes aren’t on your side, cry “death panels!”.

I’m thankful to have you and Ganny around and remind there are still semi-reasonable center right conks out there.

The death panel comment was tongue-in-cheek but I do think that there will be significantly more unhappy outcomes with Medicare for All than proponents are willing to admit or gullible believers understand.

We should be writing down our debt to China by every penny we spend on COVID-related expenses.

[GannonFan]

Wait till the Covid healthcare costs and deferred care come home to roost. Providers, insurance companies, investors, and the under-insured will all be rooting for socialist medicine. But I get it, when the economics and health outcomes aren’t on your side, cry “death panels!”.

I’m thankful to have you and Ganny around and remind there are still semi-reasonable center right conks out there.

The death panel comment was tongue-in-cheek but I do think that there will be significantly more unhappy outcomes with Medicare for All than proponents are willing to admit or gullible believers understand.

We should be writing down our debt to China by every penny we spend on COVID-related expenses.

Hey, don't be racist, it's COVID-19, it could've popped up anywhere, and if we believe the Chinese, it probably did originate somewhere else. Now, that UK Variant, that's different, we know it's the fault of those royalty-loving Brits. Darn hooligans too.

[SDHornet]

Only because the Bernie Bro Death Panels of the future Medicare for All will make those decisions for us ...

Wait till the Covid healthcare costs and deferred care come home to roost. Providers, insurance companies, investors, and the under-insured will all be rooting for socialist medicine. But I get it, when the economics and health outcomes aren’t on your side, cry “death panels!”.

I’m thankful to have you and Ganny around and remind there are still semi-reasonable center right conks out there.

And who's call was it to shut everything down?

[SDHornet]

Wait till the Covid healthcare costs and deferred care come home to roost. Providers, insurance companies, investors, and the under-insured will all be rooting for socialist medicine. But I get it, when the economics and health outcomes aren’t on your side, cry “death panels!”.

I’m thankful to have you and Ganny around and remind there are still semi-reasonable center right conks out there.

Universal health care is coming, like Thanos, it's inevitable. But it's not going to change anything, just where the angst and criticisms are directed. We'll still have relatively crappy health care for those less fortunate and for the affluent they'll have access to the private health care industry that will be fabulous. It'll be just like the UK's NHS, but without the weird patriotic fervor that they have for it, in spite of its shortcomings. We'll still have the same issues with life expectancy here - we still have guns, enormous amounts of unhealthy food, tremendous miles of roadways that we travel on a ton, and an amazing disregard for personal health and well being. Affordable, or even free, access to health care does little to change any of that.

This.