Tom McDowell
BAMN
And now Idaho is dealing with a 6.5 earthquake. Lots of system fraying going on.
I really, really felt it here. About 30 seconds. Knew it was a big one. 400 miles south.
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And now Idaho is dealing with a 6.5 earthquake. Lots of system fraying going on.
Seen this yet? I've generally thought of Michael Snyder as a bit of an excitable fellow, but that doesn't make him wrong.
My wife and I are planning our veggie garden now: a few fast-growing, leafy vegetable/nutritions things, but mostly fleshy things with 'mass'. I've ordered some fresh seed.
I am also considering what we need to have on-hand if we should need to grow a little indoors in the fall/winter if things get bad. I also ordered a coupe 50 lb. bags of sunflower seeds for sprouting indoors (in addition to various other sprouting seed that I already have on-hand). Some of it is older, and some only a little -- we've started testing the various bags to see what will germinate, and how well.
If this pandemic stretches on for an extended period of time, food supplies are inevitably going to get even tighter.
So what can you do?
Well, perhaps you can start a garden this year if you don’t normally grow one. Apparently this pandemic has sparked a tremendous amount of interest in gardening programs around the country…
Food is only going to get more expensive from here on out, and growing your own food is a way to become more independent of the system.
But if you don’t have any seeds right now, you may want to hurry, because consumer demand is spiking…
For years, I have been warning people to get prepared for “the perfect storm” that was coming, but of course most people didn’t listen.
But now it is upon us.
Desperate people have been running out to the grocery stores to stock up on toilet paper only to find that they are limited to one or two packages if it is even available.
And now that “panic buying” of seeds has begun, it is probably only a matter of time before many stores start running out.
We have reached a major turning point in our history, and things are only going to get crazier.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans still have absolutely no idea what is ahead of us…
SCL Health Vice President of System Communications Nikki Sloup said that their hospital system, which includes St. Joseph's Hospital, currently has an adequate supply to meet patient needs. But Sloup warns that if they experience a patient surge, it could see shortages."We are starting to run out of proper sedation medication like propofol and fentanyl," one nurse says.
"It’s hard to watch when you have to flip these people onto their bellies and use oral medications to sedate them through their feeding tubes."
CNN reached out to Johns Hopkins Hospital for comment but did receive a response."We have put in place numerous conservation programs and continue to work with public and private partners to secure the supplies we need to provide safe and appropriate care to our patients and ensure the safety of our caregivers," Sloup told CNN in a statement.
"Being on a ventilator is a package deal -- it typically comes with the addition of sedation in order to tolerate being ventilated and that’s where fentanyl comes into play," they said. "It is being used in such high doses to appropriately sedate these patients."
Thank you very much for your thoughtful guidance. I have most of the items you referred to in storage after years of prepping (I even have supplies to do hydroponics). I do, though, have only modest gardening experience; helping my wife over the past 7+ years (I work full-time). It will be time to bone-up.If you have the room in your garden or on your property...
Don't know if it is applicable, but this site is Alaska based and sells seeds it test plots there.Thank you very much for your thoughtful guidance. I have most of the items you referred to in storage after years of prepping. I do, though, have only modest gardening experiencing; helping my wife over the past 7+ years (I work full-time). It will be time to bone-up.
We live in the high desert, at 7000 feet -- our growing season is short, so short-season beans and root vegetables are important (and I have largely overlooked the latter, other than carrots, and will attempt to rectify that).
Gratefully.
Thank you for the kindness.Don't know if it is applicable, but this site is Alaska based and sells seeds it test plots there.
*** FAT NAKED CRAZY WOMAN THRASHING THROUGH STORE ***
(NOT SEXY AT ALL, GUYS). OH, AND F WORD FOR THE PRUDES.
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The Defense Department has ordered commanders at all of its installations worldwide to stop announcing publicly new coronavirus cases among their personnel, as the Pentagon said Monday that more than 1,000 U.S. military-linked people had been sickened by the virus.
This constitutes perhaps the clearest admission thus far throughout the crisis that the coronavirus pandemic is a serious threat to US defense readiness and national security.The order issued by Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Friday is meant to protect operational security at the Defense Department’s global installations, Jonathan Hoffman, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, said in a statement Monday. He said Defense Department leaders worried adversaries could exploit such information, especially if the data showed the outbreak impacted U.S. nuclear forces or other critical units
Could you consider hoop gardening to extend your season? This is a method of covering the garden over hoops when needed. I have seen articles about people using this method in Alaska for a longer season.Thank you very much for your thoughtful guidance. I have most of the items you referred to in storage after years of prepping (I even have supplies to do hydroponics). I do, though, have only modest gardening experience; helping my wife over the past 7+ years (I work full-time). It will be time to bone-up.
We live in the high desert, at 7000 feet -- our growing season is short, so short-season beans and root vegetables are important (and I have largely overlooked the latter, other than carrots, and will attempt to rectify that).
Gratefully.
Wait, what quake? i am in SE Idaho and did not feel anything??I really, really felt it here. About 30 seconds. Knew it was a big one. 400 miles south.
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Yes, I had that in mind as well. I just need to pick-up some plastic electrical conduit and greenhouse polyethelene. Cheers.Could you consider hoop gardening to extend your season?
My daughter is an RN in the Er at OHSU Portland, she’s part time and yesterday she said picking up shifts was getting difficult.....lots of RNs from other units available. Today she texted they want her to go full time.....local news says 12 staff at OHSU are positive for Covid with 51 waiting for results.
In tears she also asked my wife and I if we would raise our grandsons if anything happens to her and SIL, he’s an RN there also. Of course we would, upped my praying for them.....
Turned down the full time.......5&7 yr old boys at home
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How to Treat Coronavirus Patients in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) | Covid-19
•Mar 30, 2020
Doctor Mike Hansen
How to Treat Coronavirus Patients in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) | Covid-19 Coronavirus (COVID-19) has brought unprecedented challenges regarding the ability to generate timely evidence, all while this pandemic overwhelms hospitals and health care workers. About 5% of patients with coronavirus require admission to the intensive care unit and mechanical ventilation. Based on the recent epidemiological models, Coronavirus is going to hit all the areas in the USA. Every ICU is preparing for the surge, there are a number of changes that intensive care units are making, including ours. We are preparing anesthesiologists (who are not CCM trained) and nurse anesthetists, to help us manage patients with COVID-19. Even though they are not CCM trained, we have a lot of overlap of knowledge, especially when it comes to managing ventilators, and we have a lot of overlap with certain procedures. By allowing anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists to help in this manner, it will help other intensivists like myself handle the surge of patients coming our way. And because they are helping us, that is the main reason for me making this video, so that they can watch this and be better equipped to handle the surge with us. “Knowing, and implementing all of the info in this video does not guarantee you save a COVID-19 patient living in the ICU, but, it will give you the best chance of doing so” If a patient with COVID-19 is coming to your ICU, they most certainly have pneumonia, and they probably have acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as well. Patients with severe disease who require ICU admission are likely to have high oxygen requirements. Although both High flow oxygen and noninvasive positive pressure ventilation have been used for COVID-19, the safety of these is uncertain, and they are considered aerosol-generating procedures that warrant specific isolation precautions. Most patients who require ICU admission have ARDS, and they will likely have a better outcome if intubated sooner rather than later. That is another reason why it likely better to skip Hi-Flow oxygen and NIPPV and jump straight to intubation. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) ARDS is a clinical diagnosis, based on non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema, with bilateral patchy infiltrates on chest imaging and a PaO2/FiO2 ratio of less than 300. In ARDS, there is this crazy, chaotic inflammatory response within the lungs, with damage to the alveoli and surrounding capillaries, which leads to excess protein and fluid accumulation in interstitial and alveolar spaces. That means decreased lung compliance, increased V̇/Q̇ mismatch, and increases in shunt and dead-space ventilation. Patients with ARDS are at high risk of mortality, which increases with ARDS severity. With that said, mortality is usually the result of the underlying disease that triggered ARDS, rather than refractory hypoxemia. The severity of ARDS is important because it’s going to determine how we manage patients with ARDS. With ARDS, the alveoli fill up with protein and fluid. This leads to at least partial alveolar collapse, and decreased lung compliance, with shunt physiology. Increasing the PEEP minimizes the repeated opening and closing of distal airways and alveoli. It also improves the homogeneity of the lung parenchyma by reducing drastic differences in regional lung compliance. It also improves V̇/Q̇ mismatch and shunt by maintaining alveolar recruitment. You’re essentially “popping open” as many collapsed alveoli as possible. What is the ideal level of PEEP? No one knows for sure. Typically for ARDS, we set the initial PEEP between 10 to 15. Sometimes all the way to 20 if they have severe disease. You don’t want to go too high though, because this increases the risk of pneumothorax. The recommendation is to give COVID-19 patients steroids only if they have ARDS. Critically ill patients with coronavirus often develop septic shock. And for shock, we give IVF and vasopressors. But ARDS patients generally do better when you keep them in a negative fluid balance state. COVID-19 patient, who is in shock and ARDS, what should you do? Based on my experience of treating ARDS patients who are in shock, my recommendation would be to use minimal fluid possible and to start vasopressors early. In my experience, patients tend to respond better to albumin than crystalloids, especially if they have low albumin levels. Either way, you’re going to want to assess fluid resuscitation responsiveness, and if they don’t respond well to fluids, just stick with the vasopressors. 1st line vasopressor is always going to be norepinephrine, aka levophed, with 2nd line being vasopressin, especially if they’re tachycardic. In critically ill adults with fever, the use of medications for temperature control is sometimes needed. Note: To get the proper details please watch the video from first to last without skipping.
Who are these clowns trying to implement this folly. People WILL NOT STAY INSIDE 24/7 for the next six months. They need to and WILL CONTINUE. TO GO OUTSIDE FOR EXERCISE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BUY TAKE OUT FOOD AND EAT THEM AT PARKS ETC. AND IF THE SYUPID MARXIST MORONS TRY AMD EMFORCE THESE BANS THEY WILL TRIGGER A VIOLENT RESPONSE.Bay Area Shelter in Place Extended to May 3, With New Rules For Grocery Stores and Restaurants
Essential businesses like grocery stores and cafes will need to come up with an official social distance plansf.eater.com
As expected, the current shelter-in-place order for the Bay Area has been extended for nearly a month, and with it comes new regulations for the restaurants and grocery stores still in operation during the pandemic.
According to a joint announcement from the six participating counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara, as well as the city of Berkeley (which operates its own Department of Public Health), the new end date for the order is Sunday, May 3 — a change from the Friday, May 1 extension that was previously touted, and a far cry from the initial April 7 end date.
Also new are restrictions on businesses termed essential that are therefore allowed to remain open. Under the new order (here’s Santa Clara’s, the language other than the county name is the same for all), which goes into effect as of 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31, restaurants may remain open for takeout and delivery as they have been since the initial order on March 16.
However, now those places — as well as grocery and food stores, which are also allowed to remain open — must prepare and post a “Social Distancing Protocol,” using this document as a template. As part of that plan, businesses must post signs at each public entrance “to inform all employees and customers that they should: avoid entering the facility if they have a cough or fever; maintain a minimum six-foot distance from one another; sneeze and cough into a cloth or tissue or, if not available, into one’s elbow; and not shake hands or engage in any unnecessary physical contact.”
Another new development is a per-person limit on “goods that are selling out quickly,” such as grocery store staples like beans. Stores are asked to place “per-person limits” on those items, with the goal of reducing crowds and lines. Stores must also “post an employee at the door to ensure that the maximum number of customers in the facility...is not exceeded.”
Finally, there are formal codifications of procedures most places are (one hopes) already following: For example, restaurants and grocery stores (as well as other businesses that might have lines) must now place “tape or other markings at least six feet apart in customer line areas inside the store and on sidewalks at public entrances with signs directing customers to use the markings to maintain distance.” And now it’s official: The new rules say that stores and restaurants may not allow “customers to bring their own bags, mugs, or other reusable items from home.”
Every restaurant, grocery store, and other Bay Area essential business must fill out and display this document is 11:59 p.m. on April 2, 2020, the order reads, and business owners must be ready and able to show “evidence of its implementation to any authority enforcing this Order upon demand,” which means that restaurants must prove to officials that even in tight quarters like kitchens, the six-foot rule is being officially observed.
Finally, don’t assume that you can grab some takeout and enjoy it during a nice, socially distant meal at a local park. As part of the new order, all “playgrounds, dog parks, public picnic areas, and similar recreational areas” have been closed to the public.
“What we need now, for the health of all our communities, is for people to stay home,” San Francisco Department of Public Health head Dr. Grant Colfax said via statement. “Even though it has been difficult, the Bay Area has really stepped up to the challenge so far, and we need to reaffirm our commitment. We need more time to flatten the curve, to prepare our hospitals for a surge, and to do everything we can to minimize the harm that the virus causes to our communities.”
WTF is this? The guy is speaking Spanish, I think, but you don't need to understand him.
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Everything will get more expensive in the future. I agree that the road ahead is longer than just beating the virus. It is fascinating as sheeple start realizing that what we want and what need are not the same things. As Hollywood lounges in their plush homes wondering why nobody cares about them, real people with real problems don’t have time to hear them whine and preach.
Thank you Marsh for an excellent video / article.
SHOUT OUT QUESTION to our medical / herbal folks:
There were many good comments below the video if you go to the You Tube site. One of these, in a long summation of the video and latest reccomendations written by "deenycest10710" was this---
Zinc - Again, check levels with your physician. Zinc interrupts the RNA synthesis of COVID 19, but taking it orally does nothing to that effect. There needs to be an ionophore to attach to the virus.
I have heard repeatedly here that Zinc "IS" a good preventative measure----is this untrue? If so, then are ALL forms or oral Zinc (dissolving tablet OR liquid) worthless? How else can we (as lay people) get Zinc "into" our systems? Is the only truly viable way by an IV or some such?
WTF is this? The guy is speaking Spanish, I think, but you don't need to understand him.
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