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Things are already looking pretty grim in New York. THere are so many dead bodies they are now having to resort to forklifting them out of the hospital. To me, this is just the beginning of something worse to come. I could make some comments about the need for coffins, but it is so grim I will just hold my mouth even I hate to face this reality.
Brooklyn hospital resumes use of forklift to move bodies amid coronavirus
A Brooklyn hospital on Tuesday resumed its use of a forklift to move the dead bodies of coronavirus victims, just hours after the shocking practice was exposed on the front page of The Post. The re…
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Navy relieves captain who raised alarm about COVID-19 on ship
The Navy relieved the captain who sounded the alarm about an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
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The leaking to the public part is the kiss of death for him I think.U.S. Navy relieves aircraft carrier commander who wrote letter urging coronavirus action
The U.S. Navy relieved the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt's captain of his command on Thursday, punishing him for the leak of a scathing letter he sent to superiors that sought stronger measures for curbing a coronavirus outbreak aboard the ship.
Google can suck it.Tennessee just went under Stay at Home order.. Any violation is a Class A Misdemeanor .. ALthough, I know they are doing this for the greater good, the loss of freedom and now having to have letters my employer and explanation to the officers of where I am going just feels like I am in a Nazi ruled police state. I kind of feel a little of the feelings my ancestors felt in Europe.. You don't know how good freedom is until you lose it. I know they are all doing this for the "GREATER GOOD" . Obviously, being under full lockdown isn't really going to benefit anyone, leaders or the citizens from an economic standpoint. It is the hope of containing this disease we were very ill-prepared for and I think is more hopeful than practical, but we should definitely make an attempt. It's unfortunate it has to be under force of law; although, many have defied the "suggestions". But, what scares me is how you are under the total mercy of a police officer and his "opinion" of whether or not you should be allowed to travel or even if he wants to strip you of all your civil rights and good luck challenging it in a court.
On that note, I wanted to encourage everyone to turn on their tracking on their Google Maps app which actually tracks the places and times you have been. Yes, I know it is scary to have a place retain all that information about you. But, in this circumstance it can actually be to your advantage. At least you now have viable proof of exactly where you went and what times you went there .. If you end up with some rogue cop who is having a bad day and decides he wants to make an example out of you, you have evidence in court to refute his claims. It would be harder to justify penalizing you for violating the Executive Order if you have proof stored on a cloud server that proves otherwise.
Yes, I may sound paranoid, but considering many of my family members were killed under government orders, I just have to say you never can be too careful.
Hopefully, all this crap will come to end sooner than later. I am not so confident about the success of a quarantine, but understand it is an experiment that they will have to see can produce some significant results in reduce rate of spread. My worries is that even if it does, the spread will come back as soon as the quarantine ends and having to undergo half a year of this will be the end of our country economically, but also will result in civil unrest. We are not submissive CHinese people who grew up under centuries of tyranny from communist dictators and feudalistic emperors. I just know that over time, an extended quarantine will become a much worse epidemic than the disease, itself. IF it is proven the quarantine is effective, then yes, let it be. But, if after a quarantine there is a surge of cases, there is going to have to be another game plan than stripping people of their rights and shutting down the country. Soon people will start dying from simple diseases as America dwindles into third world status and the Coronavirus will become a lesser problem.
I do agree with Trump's original comment that has been lost, he hopes the cure isn't worse than the disease. That is my concern and so is the concern of the top disease researcher of CIDRAP, Dr. Michael Osterholm , who I am following very closely and watching every interview he has had on the subject. He is doing them like almost every week now.
