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It is things like this that make me believe the nurses and doctors really need to get together and explain, you no fixie now, we no workie when the SHTF. Be clear, explain what you need and make it clear that a hospital without doctors and nurses is just a giant building full of lawsuits waiting to happen.This is from the only level two trauma center in the U.P. of Michigan. Pretty amazing in a deleterious way.
Michigan Nurses Union addresses unpaid layoffs, lack of PPE, at UPHS-Marquette
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - The Michigan Nurse’s union stated that U.P. Health System-Marquette is “failing to work with its nurses on preparing for the COVID-19 crisis”, according to a press release sent out Sunday afternoon.
According to the release, UPHS-Marquette has laid off up to 100 workers, without pay.
“We know the COVID-19 crisis is just around the corner for us here in Marquette and it’s urgent that our hospital is getting ready for it instead of abandoning our nurses,” said Stephanie DePetro, an OR nurse and president of the MGH RN Staff Council, an affiliate of the Michigan Nurses Association.
“Instead of having trained RNs screening people who come into the hospital for signs of COVID-19, the hospital is having others perform this vital task – when they even bother to perform it at all. Lack of proper screening at entrances is putting our nurses, patients and community at risk. Now is not the time for UPHS to try to increase its profits. UPHS needs to step up and do the right thing for our nurses so we can keep our community safe now and as the COVID-19 crisis worsens in the U.P.”
Improper PPE was also a concern, specifically that only some nurses are being issued an N95 mask, and nurses that receive them are expected to use them repeatedly. These masks are only supposed to be used one time.
The protections that the Nurse’s union is asking for include:
• paid time off for nurses who contract COVID-19 or have to self-quarantine
• exempting nurses who are immuno-compromised or pregnant
• clear and consistent screening protocols that adhere to best practices.
TV6 & FoxUP reached out to UPHS-Marquette for a statement, but have not yet received any comment.
Michigan Nurses Union addresses unpaid layoffs, lack of PPE, at UPHS-Marquette
According to the release, UPHS-Marquette has laid off up to 100 workers, without pay.www.uppermichiganssource.com
Four years ago this hospital was a community hospital and was bought out by one of the corporations whose main concern is the bottom line. Laying people off going into a pandemic and then hardly even screening anyone walking in? Incredible. There are only two confirmed cases in Marquette County but I monitor many of the U.P. EMS channels and heard a call in Marquette today of an 80 year old male who has been sick for a week. He has a high temperature, a persistent cough and now presenting with respiratory distress and that is why he called 911. So it's here as well now and the stupid hospital administration........
Then we need to start breaking up these large corporations that claim rights as people when it suits them and then hide behind it's a corporation when it doesn't.
Finally some food for thought for these idiots. It is stunts like this that will in the end force socialized medicine on this country and quite possibly nationalization of these hospitals to remove the mentality of the most profits at all cost, even if customers and employees are going to die for these decisions. Or maybe simply changing the laws just a little that all C level executives are personally liable both financially and criminally when their decisions result in bad outcomes and the only justification was a slightly larger profit.
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Get stuffed.
20Gauge
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That is a good one!!!
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Man watches bodies being loaded into truck via forklift in Brooklyn NewYork. Run time 5 minutes.
He prays for the hospital staff during the last minute. tiny url at bottom...
View: https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=CVRTx_1585530530
He prays for the hospital staff during the last minute. tiny url at bottom...
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Lol. Here I am
Texican
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Latest update from: United States Coronavirus (COVID-19) Tracker
CONFIRMED CASES 156,976 Increase of 2,244 cases since post above.
↑ 16% (+21446 past 24 hr)
DEATHS 2,889 Increase of 304 deaths since post above.
↑ 21% (+504 past 24 hr)
RECOVERED 5,572 Increase of 707 recovered since post above.
↑ 113% (+2960 past 24 hr)
Some wonder why so much uproar about the Wuhan Virus. The numbers are chilling and will be increasing.
The increase is upon us.
Be careful out there.
God help us.
Texican....
Tristan
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Texas reports 4 more coronavirus deaths, raising total fatalities to 38 - KVIA
DALLAS, Texas — Four more people in Texas with Covid-19 have died, as the number of people with the disease caused by the novel coronavirus swelled to nearly 2,900, the state health department said Monday. The reported fatalities were at 38 on Monday, up by four from Sunday while the number of...
Ohio coronavirus cases rise to 1,933 with 39 deaths, school closures extending to May
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine released the latest figures in the ongoing pandemic as Ohio coronavirus cases rose to 1,933 with 475 hospitalizations, 39 deaths. A major question parents want answered is when Ohio students will return to class as federal guidelines for "social distancing" are extended...
abc6onyourside.com
Tristan
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White House coronavirus coordinator to rural Americans: "You have to prepare"
From CNN's Gisela Crespo
Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sunday, March 29. Patrick Semansky/AP
Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, urged rural communities in the US to prepare for the spread of Covid-19, "even though you think it's not there.”
When Birx was asked on NBC's “Today” show what her message was to rural areas in the country, she said this:
"If you wait for that, if the metros and rural areas don't take care now, by the time you see it, it has penetrated your community pretty significantly. And that's what we're concerned about. And that's why you have to prepare, even though you think it's not there," Birx told NBC's Savannah Guthrie.
===White House coronavirus coordinator to rural Americans: "You have to prepare"
Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, urged rural communities in the US to prepare for the spread of Covid-19, "even though you think it's not there.”www.cnn.com
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Sh*t, I've been saying variations of that for 2 months now...
If you're relying on officially-recognized cases being reported in your county, town, neighborhood, whatever, you are likely to be surprised and not in a good way.
Excellent point! If everybody is leaning the same direction, things will just naturally fall in that direction. But that is usually sloppy with lots of dissidents who think things should fall the other way.
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Bps1691
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She looks REALLY really washed out!!
Rode hard and put away wet more than not comes to mind.
I HOPE she gets some quality sleep DAMN SOON!
Rode hard and put away wet more than not comes to mind.
I HOPE she gets some quality sleep DAMN SOON!
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Attention, Darwin Award Committee, please see Hospital AdministratorAstrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device
An Australian astrophysicist has been admitted to hospital after getting four magnets stuck up his nose in an attempt to invent a device that stops people touching their faces during the coronavirus outbreak.
Dr Daniel Reardon, a research fellow at Melbourne’s Swinburne University, was building a necklace that sounds an alarm on facial contact, when the mishap occurred on Thursday night.
The 27 year-old astrophysicist, who studies pulsars and gravitational waves, said he was trying to liven up the boredom of self-isolation with the four powerful neodymium magnets.
“I have some electronic equipment but really no experience or expertise in building circuits or things,” he told Guardian Australia.
“I had a part that detects magnetic fields. I thought that if I built a circuit that could detect the magnetic field, and we wore magnets on our wrists, then it could set off an alarm if you brought it too close to your face. A bit of boredom in isolation made me think of that.”
However, the academic realised the electronic part he had did the opposite – and would only complete a circuit when there was no magnetic field present.
“I accidentally invented a necklace that buzzes continuously unless you move your hand close to your face,” he said.
“After scrapping that idea, I was still a bit bored, playing with the magnets. It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears – I clipped them to my earlobes and then clipped them to my nostril and things went downhill pretty quickly when I clipped the magnets to my other nostril.”
Reardon said he placed two magnets inside his nostrils, and two on the outside. When he removed the magnets from the outside of his nose, the two inside stuck together. Unfortunately, the researcher then attempted to use his remaining magnets to remove them.
Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device
Australian Dr Daniel Reardon ended up in hospital after inserting magnets in his nostrils while building a necklace that warns you when you touch your facewww.theguardian.com
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desertvet2
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There is a natural progression of things.
Don't jack withit, actions like that tend to throw the universe out of balance.
Thanks.
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About those seeds:
Canning jars and lids have gone to non-existent within the regular sources in my AO two+ weeks ago. My AO isn't garden time yet ( still 2-3 weeks for potato's, peas, lettuce, etc.) but the canning jars and lids seemed to start disappearing in late February, early March.
Ordered my normal order of seeds for this year's garden way back in December and got in early January. Ordered second batch all open pollinated as extra just in case two+ weeks ago and still waiting on two suppliers who HAVE NOT SHIPPED YET.
The selection of open pollinated seeds were greatly reduced by the time I got to my second order. Lots of sold outs.
Canning jars and lids have gone to non-existent within the regular sources in my AO two+ weeks ago. My AO isn't garden time yet ( still 2-3 weeks for potato's, peas, lettuce, etc.) but the canning jars and lids seemed to start disappearing in late February, early March.
Ordered my normal order of seeds for this year's garden way back in December and got in early January. Ordered second batch all open pollinated as extra just in case two+ weeks ago and still waiting on two suppliers who HAVE NOT SHIPPED YET.
The selection of open pollinated seeds were greatly reduced by the time I got to my second order. Lots of sold outs.
Tristan
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The young lady was on the verge of tears and breaking down due to the conditions she and others are working in and the inability to help their patients and protect themselves from this Virus. This is wrong.
This is beyond sad. My heart and soul are sadden and tears of sorrow fill my eyes for this young lady and all that are on the front lines fighting the Virus.
Pray for the front line responders and medical professionals and staff for they are the last defense against the spread of the Virus and their health and lives are put in constant danger of the Virus infection.
God help us.
Pray.
Texican....
Let us hope the Silver Bullet works so well there is no need to go to 2000.
Silver Bullet=anything that stops the Chinese Plague in its tracks.