LA: grim days and getting worse
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Ambulances are instructed to stop transporting people to hospitals who probably aren’t going to make it.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/us/los-angeles-county-california-human-disaster-covid/index.html
On walkabout. Back soonish.
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@Just-Jeepin So depressing. And it won’t get better for weeks assuming there is a post-holiday lull. Of course with the spread of at least one, if not two more virulent strains that lull may not come.
One of my coworkers got it from his wife (teacher, assume she got it from in person teaching but no idea). He’s got 6-8+ months of rehab ahead of him...he was comatose for weeks and needs to learn how to exist again. Just awful.
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That's what worries me most - new strains. Those who thought we'd be seeing normal again by spring are going to be disappointed, I fear.
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@looseonexit Damn... very sorry to hear it, but glad he made it through with his life. Gets a lot more "real" when it hits so close to home, I'm sure.
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He’s very fortunate to be alive. His wife spent a couple days in ICU as well, but recovered much faster. He’s got a very long road ahead to recovery. So far the company has done him right and I hope they continue to. Aside from the obvious health issues, spending weeks in ICU and critical care has to be finically disastrous.
The most concerning part is how massively different it effects people. My wife lost a couple friends (early 30s fiancé's who were supposed to marry last year) in April - passed within a couple days of each other. My no-mask wearing COVID’s a hoax in-laws caught it this fall with no effect minus a lingering cough. So many unknowns...
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@looseonexit jeez that's horrible. Sending good thoughts. Glad he'll be able to return to live eventually but it's a somber reminder that "surviving" the virus isn't always easy if you're lucky enough to make it out alive.
I'm stocking up on booze haha-figure we're in for a long dark winter. Was really hoping to ski a bit but living with 60 year old family that's definitely on hold. Can't really take more precautionary measures-I basically school and work from home, grocery pickup only, and ride my bike these days.
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@fintail My old roomate and I have a running bet going-he's optimistic and thinks as a very nonessential worker in LA he'll have the vaccine by february...
...I'm betting february 2022 lol. Okay not really, but it's definitely going to take some time to resolve this in any sort of safe manner.
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@just-jeepin “ This order that was issued by the county emergency medical services really is very specific to patients who suffered from a cardiac arrest and are unable to be revived in the field.”
Sudden cardiac arrest has something like a 90% mortality rate. People who can’t be revived in the field are almost guaranteed to die or be severely brain damaged if they’re eventually revived.
Both people I know who died of covid contracted it at the hospital after being brought there for unrelated reasons. I think I’d rather die from an MI than covid.
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@spacekraken Not unless he's rich. I suspect there will be socio-economic ways of jumping the line.
I was thinking the return to normal like restaurants open as usual, sporting events, theaters etc - I'd wager on fall-ish, and that's if everything goes smoothly (and the current attempted coup in DC doesn't impede any plans).
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@fintail Yeah seems likely on all counts.
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@dipodomysdeserti I can see the logic, but that's got to be tough for the EMTs and family members.
As a family member, it's easier to see someone taken to the hospital, because that means there's still some hope.
To be abandoned by the EMTs is a death sentence.
Even if both scenarios are effectively death sentences, one feels much more civilized.
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@just-jeepin For the uninitiated, yeah, that’s going to be a tough one to swallow. As someone who knows what happens when those types of patients are taken to the hospital, I’d rather have a dying loved one left at home. There is nothing civilized about dying (or living) at a hospital. Unfortunately our society doesn’t deal with death very well, so people feel more comfortable letting others deal with it, even when it is their family member.
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@dipodomysdeserti Yep, I've been around dying family members, and I'd be happy to never have to do that again.
On walkabout. Back soonish.
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@just-jeepin Being around them is much better than not. It’s painful, but helps us process their life and death a lot better. Handing them off to strangers to die alone is much worse.
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My inlaws family live an hour from LA. Their father, is a 'retired' dentist who lost his dental license. he doesn't beleive in hand washing and thinks covid is fake. The second oldest sibling is a cop with 4 kids, again thinks covid is fake who got covid a week before christmas. The youngest is a respiratory xray technician on a covid ward, who flew in for christmas, the mother was going and visiting everyone and playing with grandkids, oh and the middle brother had a lung transplant and is holed up in his room.
Needless to say my inlaw is furious and enraged, let alone if anything happens to his brother. -
@gmporschenut-also-a-fan-of-hondas I just can't even.
