FWIW
His family has financial ties also. F Trump.
How far from the river are you, I thought you would have catfish on the menu?
About 85 meters from the river bank. I had fresh caught catfish along with my last yellow squash last night. It was good
Also, he probably knows a bunch of people with money in this. Plus Giuliani has been pimping it on Fox News, so you know that Daddy Putin has a stake here too.
According to what their web site is showing me now, every HEB between Waco and New Braunfels (at least) is saying there are no available time slots for pickup or delivery.
I just picked up the curbside order that I placed two Sundays ago from an HEB five miles further than my normal store. Iâm thinking I didnât stay ahead of the curve enough and shouldâve placed my next order a few days ago.
Hereâs an interesting read. Doctors in Europe are starting to revise how they treat COVID-19 patients, specifically, when to put them on ventilators.
It seems that theyâve been using pneumonia protocols so far - which makes perfect sense because the sickest patients have plummeting oxygen levels and fluid build up in the lungs. However, the forcing of oxygen into the lungs by a ventilator itself damages the delicate lung tissues. Plus, the recovery rates of intubated patients is frightening poor, recognizing that it is only the sickest of them who get intubated in the first place.
However, what the Europeans are seeing is that, despite off-the-charts low blood-oxygen levels, patients do not exhibit the symptoms of oxygen starvation. In fact, these patients continue to maintain good levels of carbon dioxide, which means their lungs are still removing CO2 from their systems. So this isnât like pneumonia, itâs like altitude sickness.
So, anecdotally, they are seeing that some patients are better supported with non-invasive means to increase oxygen in the lungs rather than intubation (which requires them to be anesthetized). Good news if this proves out.
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Sort of what weâve experienced: 2.5 to 3 weeks ahead. Weâve had to supplement those pickups with an occasional run.
Thatâs very interesting. Itâs fascinating to me how little we knew about this at first and how the knowledge on this increases over time.
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I signed up for a Costco membership and ordered some dry goods which should get here in about a week. Doesnât help for frozen stuff, though, unless I want to pay $100+ for 10lbs of ground beef.
Lots of people are saying its a generic drug with eleven manufacturers, but donât let that stop you.
Waldo: I use the app and check it frequently. Folks drop out every day. I have gone to E 7th the last two times.
Favor Senior Delivery is my in between with H-E-B. Same day delivery but the youngest eligible age is 60. H-E-B owns Favor, as you likely know.
Jose Camacho, who heads the Texas Assn. of Community Health Centers, said his group was trying to purchase a small order of just 20,000 masks when his supplier reported that the order had been taken.
Camacho was flabbergasted. Several of his member clinics â which as primary care centers are supposed to alleviate pressure on overburdened hospitals â are struggling to stay open amid woeful shortages of protective equipment.
âEveryone says you are supposed to be on your own,â Camacho said, noting Trumpâs repeated admonition that states and local health systems cannot rely on Washington for supplies. âThen to have this happen, you just sit there wondering what else you can do. You canât fight the federal government.â
A page right out of the micropenisâs playbook.
Are you sure it isnât many people?
This is the problem when the administration - from the top - is rife with corruption. You assume everything has a corrupt motivation because youâre usually not wrong.
There was a piece on local news of an online auction house having a large stash of PPE. Some in the city/county administration saw it, and commandeered the equipment. They were ready to distribute it to local hospitals when the Feds came in and took the lot (I guess they were watching too).
Separately, in a painfully tragic press conference (last week I believe), the rep. from FEMA was explaining how they are distributing equipment but, under simple and obvious questioning from the press corps, it basically devolved into this.
It turns out that the equipment theyâre âprocuringâ was being made available to private wholesalers for them to re-sell. No controls on who bought the stuff. No controls on price. Some of it was sold to overseas buyers. Clusterfuck.
Did that include commandeered equipment? I have no idea - which probably puts me on equal terms with FEMA - but I bet you it did.
Senate Republicans are all over the pandemic issue, working for the American people. To wit, they have opened an investigation into the World Health Organization for itâs âflagrant mishandling of the response to COVID-19â.
At least they didnât call it the âChina virusâ.
On the innovation front: Auburn University engineering facility have created a way to turn a CPAP into a ventilator. It just passed the first test on a live animal - 200 lb Boer goat.
The innovative unitâwhich turns a CPAP machine into an emergency ventilatorâwas successfully tested on a live goat last Friday.
The device, named RE-InVENT, can be assembled using approximately $700 in readily available components, in addition to a standard CPAP machine.
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COVID-19 is turning into APOLLO-13.
Swedish hospitals abandon trial of chloroquine for coronavirus patients after it caused them blinding headaches, vision loss and agonising cramps