Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[hikesalot]

my BIL is an ER doc... spent his day intubating people. He has 5 N95 masks- he has to wear one all day and then switch. After 5 days he starts re-using them. He has a plastic face cover thing that someone made him on a 3D printer. So at least he has that extra layer - the other docs are using whatever they could find. Really stressful.

[Benny Profane]

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[Core Shot]

my BIL is an ER doc... spent his day intubating people. He has 5 N95 masks- he has to wear one all day and then switch. After 5 days he starts re-using them. He has a plastic face cover thing that someone made him on a 3D printer. So at least he has that extra layer - the other docs are using whatever they could find. Really stressful.

Have him check into
Www.intubationbox.com
And similar websites. I’ve built a few of them
Seems awkward as hell, but it’s actually been used and appreciated.

The idea of intubating these frothy airways with a paper n95 mask is just wrong.

They really need PAPR masks. Hospitals with PAPR don’t need the box. But sadly many hospitals are expecting intubation of an aersolized virus with a poorly fitting paper mask.

Also tell your brother in law to get a p100 respirator if he can find one. Way better seal. And many hospitals are allowing your own ppe since they are running out.

[beaterdit]

my BIL is an ER doc... spent his day intubating people. He has 5 N95 masks- he has to wear one all day and then switch. After 5 days he starts re-using them. He has a plastic face cover thing that someone made him on a 3D printer. So at least he has that extra layer - the other docs are using whatever they could find. Really stressful.

Yeah that's bad, hope it doesn't come to that for us. Our policy, so far, is full positive pressure headgear (PAPR/CAPR) for intubating, no N95s.

I saw one Doc who was using 99 cent clear plastic rain ponchos from Walmart. Actually pretty slick, you can put your hands through the arms and the RT can go in from the side. You need fiber optics for this for sure though, not everyone has it, or enough to go around.

Trackhead who used to post here is making Tyvek PAPR hoods and filter units now too. Pretty fuckin awesome.

[hikesalot]

Thanks for the suggestions- I’ll let him know. Yeah he does not want to be intubating right now.

Tonight he said, yeah we are so fucked. ( as in, he and his colleagues)

[Skistack]

The absurdity I hear about Trump "opening up the economy" that is, if course, fodder on CNN and, I suppose, other places, is such a joke. How could he do that? He didn't shut things down, the governor's did, and the governors have the power to reopen. We're somehow accepting his dickhead chest beating that he's running the show, when, of course, he isn't. My governor in CT. Just extended shutdown to 5/20. What's Trump going to do, tell CT. To get back to work, slackers, kill your grandma? How would he enforce it? Send in troops to open up WalMart? Meanwhile, Atlanta blows up, so it's whack a mole down there. Ridiculous.

Had this conversation w/ my dad today. Very smart guy, but gets alot of his news from Fox these days, unfortunately.




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[beaterdit]

Thanks for the suggestions- I’ll let him know. Yeah he does not want to be intubating right now.

Tonight he said, yeah we are so fucked. ( as in, he and his colleagues)

Fuck.

[snowaddict91]

Stay strong beaterdit! Times like this I'm thankful to be behind the scenes in the lab. Its stressful going to work and being around lots of people but nothing remotely like you are facing.

[LegoSkier]

Burning man canceled. Shit just got real.
https://journal.burningman.org/2020/...c-2020-update/

[MakersTeleMark]

Burning man canceled. Shit just got real.
https://journal.burningman.org/2020/...c-2020-update/

Fuck the org. I hope this completely takes them out.

[Core Shot]

Thanks for the suggestions- I’ll let him know. Yeah he does not want to be intubating right now.

Tonight he said, yeah we are so fucked. ( as in, he and his colleagues)

Rather than saying some random strangers on the ski interwebs had some ideas

If he’s on facefuckbook there’s an EM Doc group where they’ve been not only bitching and crying but also strategizing about PPE and best therapies and practices.

[Rideski]

This may be coreshots most bipolar schizophrenic page yet.

[Core Shot]

This may be coreshots most bipolar schizophrenic page yet.

It’s logical to both live free and resist tyranny and yet have your front line medical providers have ppe and other equipment to work safely.

Maybe I’m suicidal or optimistic but we have to live. It’ll never be the same, but it’s got to be life.

And if I get covid from living life, you are welcome to piss on my grave. Cheers.

[Rideski]

Although I’ll give you props for a reserved reply, I’d suggest that people living free in the form of congregating at mass of a few thousand for a fuck you March is going to result in needing more Ppe and more front line workers dying.

[hikesalot]

Rather than saying some random strangers on the ski interwebs had some ideas

If he’s on facefuckbook there’s an EM Doc group where they’ve been not only bitching and crying but also strategizing about PPE and best therapies and practices.

I ‘m sure he’s tapped in to other ER docs etc. His wife is also an immunologist. So they know their shit. But I will pass on what I hear also. Doesn’t hurt. He’ll prob be living in an RV in the driveway soon. At least they have a driveway now vs living in the city.

[S_jenks]

Fuck the org. I hope this completely takes them out.

Care to elaborate for an un-burned?

[PB]

How about a period of sacrifice/limited life to help us get to Life? Can't live a little less life now so you can live more life later?? Or must we only be here now???

[Core Shot]

Although I’ll give you props for a reserved reply, I’d suggest that people living free in the form of congregating at mass of a few thousand for a fuck you March is going to result in needing more Ppe and more front line workers dying.

Agreed. I’m not going to a rally. Or church. Or rock concert.
Yet.

But the last weeks news has seen increasingly fascistic stazi police state bullshit that it’s pissing me off.
No hike to ski?
No surf?
No being in public without a mask?

And yet so many regions never had the overloaded icu ventilator fear porn issue.
So maybe we flattened the curve. Or maybe this was overhyped.
Either way, let’s start to ease back into living.
Instead gubmint is going harder on the oppression.

The rare times I flip on the news it’s all about number of positive cases. Which means jack shit nothing.
Then they emotionally state the number of deaths which is still not pandemic. And not more than normal flu deaths.

40,000 die in car crashes. Let’s ban cars. Etc.

Peace to the deceased. But life must go on. And this is not living.
Shelter in place. No work. Nothing to do. No hope.

[The AD]

Then they emotionally state the number of deaths which is still not pandemic. And not more than normal flu deaths.

40,000 die in car crashes. Let’s ban cars. Etc.

Oh for fuck's sake...

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

The car crash comparison is the height of idiocy.

[Rideski]

But your wife is in a hazmat zone. And gravitylover is already going through grief, and living in a hazmat zone, and people are organizing a march there and you told him to stfu.

But I’ll freely admit I’m pissed off, three people in my personal sphere lost people to ratflu today.

And with that I’m headed for steak and bourbon.

[rideit]

Get over yourself, Core Shot. This is not about you, it’s about RBG.

[Core Shot]

But your wife is in a hazmat zone. And gravitylover is already going through grief, and living in a hazmat zone, and people are organizing a march there and you told him to stfu.

But I’ll freely admit I’m pissed off, three people in my personal sphere lost people to ratflu today.

And with that I’m headed for steak and bourbon.

Sorry for the losses.
My mom is toast if she gets this.
I may not survive, due to chronic bronchitis

But I am at peace with that.

You can’t hide for long. This flu goes round the world and comes back next year to fuck us again.

This lockdown is not living. It’s subsistence.
And it’s not satisfying enough.

I want to live again.

[LHutz Esq]

Car crashes are contagious? What a stupid analogy


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[Ted Striker]

Get over yourself, Core Shot. This is not about you, it’s about RBG.

She's in space

https://extranewsfeed.com/justice-gi...e-679a7b667a1f