Coronavirus

AgeofGrace · March 30, 2020, 1:55pm

USNS Comfort has arrived at her destination in New York with 1000 sick beds.

thinkingaboutit · March 30, 2020, 1:56pm

excellent news

AgeofGrace · March 30, 2020, 2:00pm

Okay, what are human laws?

Blah blah blah. So much crap it’s a wonder you don’t become imagination constipated.

Reg · March 30, 2020, 2:01pm

Given that this is the only good thing I’ve heard of the US military doing since Hurricane Harvey, those 1000 beds cost about 2 trillion dollars, or about 2 billion per bed.

MyBigMoon · March 30, 2020, 2:02pm

One thousand beds could be had a lot cheaper. This was a trump sideshow.

Reg · March 30, 2020, 2:03pm

It’s a total sideshow. I wouldn’t be surprised if 900 of those beds sat empty. They are obviously not equipped as ICU beds which is what’s needed.

AgeofGrace · March 30, 2020, 2:03pm

It may be too little for your large appetite but it’s more than Canada’s reserved military ever does.

thinkingaboutit · March 30, 2020, 2:04pm

be human and treat everyone in a humane way?

this is a good start:

https://www.hg.org/human-rights.html

MyBigMoon · March 30, 2020, 2:04pm

It got trump some facetime on tv therefore it was INCREDIBLE!

thinkingaboutit · March 30, 2020, 2:06pm

be positive, its better to spend money on this than building another war ship

MyBigMoon · March 30, 2020, 2:07pm

The netherlands had their fair share of greed and bloodbaths.

thinkingaboutit · March 30, 2020, 2:07pm

for sure and still have

Reg · March 30, 2020, 2:15pm

True, thank the Great Pumpkin. When we need hospitals, we build hospitals. We don’t build trillion dollar death machines and assign one ship as a hospital to treat our wounded.

MyBigMoon · March 30, 2020, 2:20pm

Mighty Mighty USA! We will eat your lunch! Go us!

Nickscafe · March 30, 2020, 2:43pm

I know we aren’t overbooked yet and there are a lot of positives. If the inpatient looks like they are going to live we just discharge them after a few days and tell them to go home. And probably call them daily.

AgeofGrace · March 30, 2020, 2:45pm

Gulp. I’m sorry. You have a point there. We are only building two because of this devastating virus. How many are you building in Canada?

MyBigMoon · March 30, 2020, 2:48pm

I do like Dudley Dooright. Great attitude.

Reg · March 30, 2020, 2:49pm

I don’t know that we’re building any. Hospital capacity is not expected to be a huge problem in Canada, although time will tell. If this is a point of great pride to you, you must be very impressed with the Chinese who built 16 hospitals for this outbreak (and have since closed them all).

MyBigMoon · March 30, 2020, 2:50pm

I was impressed with the speed in which the Chinese built the hospitals though I heard one fell down.

Reg · March 30, 2020, 2:52pm

I still haven’t learned what building a hospital in an emergency even means. Were these tents with beds in them? I’m assuming the US hospitals being built for this will also just be temporary shelters. There’s obviously no way to build buildings using conventional construction methods (and standards) in that time.