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In the New Yorker...
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: southendmd on April 28, 2020, 06:41:40 pm ---This came up during a zoom call with my colleagues. We psychiatric folk are trying to support our fellow medical workers, because the trauma has been extreme. We sometimes have several deaths a day and it takes a toll on people. We lost our first hospital employee and that hit hard.
We have social workers embedded in the ICU teams. No one is taking any time off, because we're still in a surge. I'm working directly with positive patients and it's exhausting at times. And I have to support my staff as well who are on the front lines. I fear this thing will be with us in some shape or form for quite a while.
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I can't even imagine the toll this is taking on our health care professionals. Sending you all hugs and love!
Front-Ranger:
Very good article about the origins of the new coronavirus:
"The Warnings" by David Quammen
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/why-werent-we-ready-for-the-coronavirus
Talk about heroes. Ali Khan is a former CDC scientist, now with the National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne, and Enteric Diseases and dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. He began by studying Ebola in Zaire and was instrumental in stopping SARS before it became a pandemic.
The last part covers the origins of the new virus in Wuhan. Will it put the kibosh on all these conspiracay theories? It did for me.
Jeff Wrangler:
On a perhaps cheerier note, Naomi Fry's article about Zoom (April 27) made me laugh so hard I couldn't stop.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 07, 2020, 11:53:15 am --- Will it put the kibosh on all these conspiracy theories? It did for me.
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So wait, you're saying it's not a conspiracy among Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci and George Soros to destroy the American economy to keep Trump from getting re-elected?!*
Thank God, at least vitamin D keeps you from getting it!*
:laugh: :laugh:
*Things people told me in all sincerity they actually believe.
It's so funny -- I have never heard anyone even mention George Soros who wasn't a far-right-winger. I would never have heard of him if it weren't for right wingers! I still don't even know what country he's from or precisely what he's done to become liberals' beloved leader.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 08, 2020, 09:24:05 am ---So wait, you're saying it's not a conspiracy among Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci and George Soros to destroy the American economy to keep Trump from getting re-elected?!*
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Actually it's a conspiracy among the Great Orange Satan and his minions to overthrow the Constitution so he can become another Vladimir Putin and hold onto power for life.
--- Quote ---Thank God, at least vitamin D keeps you from getting it!
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I love the smell of Clorox in the morning.
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