###The Healthcare Collapse
"We are not panicking, we are making calm decisions on how best to address the current state of the pandemic in the great state of Mississippi."
- Governor Tate Reeves, August 22nd, the Day of Failure
Across the American South the COVID pandemic has continued to surge as disinformation campaigns continue to result in notably low vaccination rates. In Mississippi, overflow beds had been placed in parking garages, terraces, and even a handful on balconies over the course of the previous week as rates of hospitalization continued to climb and many deep red counties remained under 1/3 vaccination. Finally, it was simply too many bodies, too many beds needed. As Mississippi began to fail, so too did Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, and Missouri, as the week progressed, it continued to worsen.
In Florida, overflow patients from the collapsing systems in the Southern Interior were turned away as Florida's own system began to reach 100% capacity across multiple hospitals. Florida reached total capacity August 28th.
Since then, deaths have skyrocketed as everything from couches to chairs are used as makeshift ICU beds. Lack of ventilators has condemned death upon most individuals who would need them, and teams of emergency nurses are being trained to manually feed air to those who can receive it through resuscitators, but this method causes intense lung and airway damage.
Deaths per day have ballooned once more, with rates now reaching towards height-of-pandemic levels of 1,400-2,000 a day. 100+ excess deaths a day being reported as non-COVID deaths due to strain on the healthcare system, with no signs of slowing down. Should this fail to be rectified, deaths per day focused on the American South will likely see deaths rise towards towards 3,000 per day focused on a portion of only 20% of the US population in the American South as the pandemic takes a turn for the apocalyptic.
In Florida, DeSantis has continued to downplay the pandemic with reported attempts by his office to supersede county reporting to remove deaths from persons who died before being tested for COVID. According to DeSantis, Florida is open for business, though it seems that despite his attempts to throw the bodies of his constituents into the economic grinder the Florida economy is grinding to a halt, with thousands of restaurants, factories, and retail establishments across the Sunshine State going dark as workers call in sick or die.
Summary: Over the last few days my computer has gone from monitors randomly shutting off more and more frequently, to the GPU not being recognized, to now the CPU overheating and the comp not booting past bios what so ever.
GPU/maybe driver issue: Very first sign of trouble was when my monitors random shut off a week ago with the computer still running, I force restarted my computer and thought nothing of it. As the days progressed it happened more and more frequently, so I thought it was a driver issue. Completely uninstalled nvidia driver, and reinstalled - same issue would happen when I played games. Tried reseating my GPU, had the same issue. Tried a few other older drivers and had the same issue. Did a full reformat and the problem persisted. At this point I’m worried it’s a hardware issue, but the computer is still booting up fine.
Then rebooting the computer stopped fixing the monitors. I had to plug a monitor directly into the mobo to interact with it.
CPU/fan going ham: So I’m thinking it’s my GPU failing until randomly one restart I hear the fans spinning really fast. Faster than I’ve ever heard them and it won’t get past the bios screen warning me that my CPU temps are really high. 89c and 6k rpm on cpu fan.
Would anyone know what these symptoms mean in regards to what’s wrong? I’m having a hard time pin pointing where the initial problem is because it seemed to jump from GPU to CPU.
WaPo, May 11, 2021 at 6:41 p.m. EDT
A former nursing aide was sentenced Tuesday to seven consecutive life terms and an additional 20 years in federal prison after confessing to injecting lethal doses of insulin into frail, elderly veterans in her care at a West Virginia Veterans Affairs hospital.***
[Reta Mays, 46, was the killer.]
As the sentencing took place, VA Inspector General Michael Missal released a blistering investigative report that concluded that cascading failures by the Louis A. Johnson Medical Center, the Clarksburg hospital that hired Mays in 2015, enabled the nursing aide to target patients for nearly a year.
Missal’s 100-page report cited “serious, pervasive, and deep-rooted clinical and administrative failures” that allowed the murders to go undetected as Mays injected patient after patient with insulin, from July 2017 through June 2018, that she was not authorized to administer, leading to their dying of severe hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar.
“Somebody should have been asking questions and looking into it, and they did not do that,” Missal said at a news conference Tuesday.***
None were about to die, and some were on the verge of being released when Mays, working the overnight shift with little supervision, injected them with insulin she found lying unprotected on medicine carts and in supply rooms, investigators found.
Investigators identified similarities in the deaths: Elderly patients in private rooms were injected in their abdomen and limbs with insulin the hospital had not prescribed — some with multiple shots. Within hours, the veterans’ blood-sugar levels plummeted. Despite those commonalities, the medical staff and those with oversight of hospital procedures failed to identify a pattern for months, the inspector general’s office found.***
No background check was conducted when Mays was hired from a local prison, where she had been the subject of several allegations that she used
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I recently had the problem of a cascading power failure.
My primary power was generated by deuteron fuel rods and their assembling were missing materials.
The source of the problem were insufficient magnets.
Easy to produce - easy to scale up.
I managed to recover from this but this also leads me to the question:
How to avoid that this is happening again?
How do you keep track of your fuel?
I'll start by saying I'm not diagnosed. My father and older brother both are, and about twenty years ago my father took me in to be evaluated. The psychologist concluded that I didn't have ADHD but that living with my father/brother had taught me similar behavior and a lack of discipline. That seemed reasonable at the time, but twenty years later I look back at my life and begin to seriously question things. And then last week happened.
I was eating when I felt something strange in my mouth. A filling had fallen out. I quickly realized I was going to need to go to the dentist. But I haven't been to a dentist in nearly ten years and I don't know where to go. It seems like it fell out because of tooth decay underneath and I'm 90% sure it will require a root canal. I have no insurance because I missed the open enrollment period. So now I'm looking for a dental school that would be less expensive. I find one, but it requires a photo ID. My licence expired a few years ago and I don't own a car and almost never drive so I never renewed it. Now I learn that it's been long enough that I have to start all over with a learner's permit, and driving classes, and a road test, etc. I'll also need several other forms of ID which I need to track down. I lost my SS card years ago and never replaced it. I lost my passport last year. I have a birth certificate somewhere but I'll need to tear my whole apartment to pieces to find it.
The list of neglected things that need to happen to deal with this fairly urgent issue is completely daunting. One day I was just living my life calmly and the next, I realize how so many aspects of my life had been ignored, leaving me in a far more precarious position than I'd known.
And then a random askreddit post is about what things are deadlier than people think and one of the very top posts is about tooth decay and how you can't procrastinate with it and how the pain is some of the worst imaginable when you do. I'm a week into dealing with this (or not dealing with it) and I can already picture myself ignoring it because it feels like far, far, far too many steps to solve.
How do you deal with tasks that involve a seemingly insurmountable number of steps and amount of follow-through?
I've tried a few different setups but still am having trouble nailing down getting thermal power to stay on consistently. I've tried linking power plants with fast sorters and I've tried keeping them just on a line. But the moment something goes wrong everything goes wrong.
- Coal is a slow start but eventually I move to burning graphene
- Crude and refined oil both burn really fast and don't get the job done
- Hydrogen from my refined oil was working for awhile but the moment there's an interruption or backup my thermals run out.
I know sat is more efficient but I'm trying to avoid spamming the planet with it this time around. does anyone have any setups that tend to work?
My situation is that I'm powering my planet with thermal generators. These generators are fed by the hydrogen from a series of oil refineries outputting hydrogen and graphite. I have several "generator patches" sprinkled around the planet, I'd just plop another one down when I started running up against ~50% power utilization. Obviously, as I scaled up my production, the hydrogen output couldn't keep up like I thought it would and I wasn't checking on it to make sure.
Then everything starts blinking with the lightning bolt power low issue, shortly followed by a complete power loss. I have everything on one power grid. I have logistics towers all over the planet filled with whatever I might need, I was just about to get started on whatever cube is after yellow (purple I think) when this happened.
I tried manually feeding some hydrogen to a few fuel generators but that only got me up to ~10MW power production out of ~400MW demand so it was mostly a futile effort. I made a new save once all power shut off (so if I have to I can go back a few hours before this happened, if I can't recover).
Now what? Am I totally boned?
There are at least five negative trends in the US that are mutually feeding off each other: mass civil unrest, coronavirus, unemployment, reduced consumer spending, and reduced government responsiveness.
It should be clear how those five trends exacerbate each other, but here's a few examples for the morons: Unemployed people lose faith in the system and are more likely to protest. People get infected at protests. Riots drive away jobs. Fewer jobs means reduced government revenue. Poorer governments react worse to outbreaks and protests, and hire fewer public employees, ect. ect. Added to these trends are the presence of radicals who think that right now is the best chance they'll get to bring upon a workers revolution or the Boogaloo or a race war or whatever. They will actively try to increase internal social and political tensions.
Atlanta Fed projects a roughly 12% GDP contraction in Q2. That's not the annualized rate - that's the total projected contraction in 90 days. The annualized rate is negative 51%. Hear that sound? That's the sound of your economy shrinking by one percent every week. This is unprecedented for any major economy in global history.
The collapsing economy, pandemic, mass civil unrest, and failed government response are feeding off each other. Normalcy bias makes it hard for people to imagine that systems can radically change, but they can, and sometimes very quickly. Even if somehow the US can quickly get a handle on these challenges before they get out of control, major turbulence is almost unavoidable. Uncertainty and reduced revenue should lead to a major correction in asset prices, unless there is serious monetary inflation.
TLDR: we're probably fucked. SPY 200p 12/16 GLD 200c 12/16 JNUG 200c 12/16
