They were sent on a “welfare check.”
Yeah, thanks alot.
Furtive. Waistband. Qualified immunity.
I miss Will Grigg.
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Wall Street Journal: Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin Continue to Show Results
In other words, it’s time for rioters to burn the FDA to the ground.
Only today, the 30th of March, have they finally approved this common — ahem, patent-expired — drug for use against the deadly pandemic.
Oh but you people love government so much, don’t you? Make sure not to wear a mask over you mouth and nose. Your overlords still do not approve.
Wall Street Journal: NY Hospital Prepares to Begin Triaging Patients
NYU Langone Tells ER Doctors to ‘Think More Critically’ About Who Gets Ventilators
NYU Langone Health, one of the nation’s top academic medical centers, told emergency-room doctors that they have “sole discretion” to place patients on ventilators and institutional backing to “withhold futile intubations.”
A March 28 email from Robert Femia, who heads the New York health center’s department of emergency medicine, underscored the life-or-death decisions placed on the shoulders of bedside physicians as they treat increasing numbers of coronavirus patients with a limited supply of ventilators.
New York state guidelines, established in 2015, recommend that hospitals appoint a triage officer or committee—someone other than the attending physician—to decide who gets a ventilator when rationing is necessary. The guidelines say that removing the decision from the physician treating the patient avoids a conflict of interest, allows an officer or committee with access to overall ventilator availability to make the call and prevents health worker burnout and stress.
Dr. Femia said in his email, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, that experts and leaders at NYU Langone were creating internal guidance on how to allocate ventilators, which are in short supply across New York City. But the emergency department couldn’t afford to wait, he said.
“In Emergency Medicine, we do not have the luxury of time, data, or committees to help with our critical triage decisions,” he wrote. “Senior hospital leadership recognizes this and supports us to use our best clinical judgment.”
Dr. Femia wrote that decisions about “airway management” and whether to use a ventilator or other respiratory support devices were at the sole discretion of treating physicians, but he told doctors to “think more critically about who we intubate.”
“For those patients who you feel intubation will not change their ultimate clinical outcome (for example cardiac arrests, some chronic disease patients at end of life, etc) you will have support in your decision making at the department and institutional level to withhold futile intubations,” he wrote.
Police: Murderers
Cops kick in wrong door, murder innocent woman sleeping in her bed.
Don’t worry boys, just tell the judge: “Furtive!” “Waistband!” and you can finish your paid vacation.
The “rule of law” is just some made up bullshit. Ask any black woman, she’ll tell you, they still have no rights the government is bound to respect.
Where Is All The Money Going From The Covid-19 Stimulus Bill?
The Visual Capitalist has an excellent graphic showing who-gets-what. Note their is approximately $17 billion “required for national security”. That is believed to be for Boeing. Of course money is fungible and this visual only shows broad categories.
Biden Household Running Low on Adderall
How in the world is this supposed to last until the fall?
Joe Biden is the Washington Generals & Donald Trump is the Harlem Globetrotters pic.twitter.com/SV6IFdsDqj
— Ken Webster (@KenWebsterII) March 30, 2020
This is Only the Beginning
America in 2020:
Nevada, a state in one of the richest countries in the world, has painted social-distancing boxes on a concrete parking lot for the homeless to sleep in. pic.twitter.com/svNJ0N9r3f
— Social Distancing Mancino-Williams (@Manda_like_wine) March 30, 2020
No Case for Closed Borders
Anyone who thinks the coronavirus pandemic destroys the case for open borders hasn’t thought the matter through terribly far. Bryan Caplan explains here. Just to give a taste, in the name of excluding viruses from our shores, the government would have to stop immigration even when no pandemic was in progress since pandemics can’t be counted on to announce themselves in advance. Moreover, tourism, commercial visits, and trade would have to be abolished too. And — yikes! — so would American travel abroad unless Americans were willing to leave home and never return.
One last thing: since we have nothing even close to open borders, Caplan writes, “How much protection have 98% closed borders given us against the pandemic? The answer: Virtually none…. The sad fact is that even very low absolute levels of international contact have been more than sufficient to spread infection almost everywhere on Earth. The marginal cost of higher levels of contact is therefore minimal.”
Liberty is a necessity, not a luxury — even during serious pandemics.
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