Posted on 05/09/2020 7:11:22 AM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus
Thanks so much for the info!
Glad to hear he is doing better and testing negative. What part of the country are you at where they are running out of hospital beds and ventilators? He was probably lucky, intubation, being put into a medically induced coma and the ventilator would most likely have killed him./p>
LA
The ICUs at our local Overlake Hospitals were the only facilities here which came close to being overwhelmed, but even they cleared out in mid March before our governor's stay at home order went into effect. The deaths around here since have been trickling along at a steady linear rate since largely the result of “creative” accounting. Even my brother-in-law who was on hospice care for an inoperable cancerous brain tumor was counted y CDC guidelines as a “presumptive covid-19 death.
In early April 11 people on the fire department that I retired from tested positive. Two weeks later all tested negative. Only 1 had any symptoms at all and they were from his seasonal allergies.
In this area most people believe that they have been exposed and they typically tell a tale about the bad flu like symptoms that they had in February or March. I infuriate many when I say that they probably have been exposed but the symptoms that they had were more likely from the flu. The vast majority of people under 50 who are active and have no health problems or bad habits like your neighbor experience no symptoms or very mild symptoms from “covid-19”.
Almost everything we are being told by the media is either exaggerated or an outright lie. Your neighbor's situation reminds me a little of my former neighbor. He was an old lawyer and a real character. I got home from work one morning and there were fire department vehicles in front of his house and as I watched with other neighbors they wheeled him out while doing CPR on him. The other neighbors said that the fire department had been there for more than an hour. I said that we probably wouldn't see him again.
Two days later he was back and jubilant to be alive and telling a yarn about how the fire department had saved his life. I kept my mouth shut, because anyone who actually needed CPR and was kept on scene for an hour instead of being promptly transported would have been dead. The problem he had was passing out due to a drop of blood pressure from the Viagra he was taking to help him have sex with the prostitute that he had hired. He would have sued someone if I had shared my assessment with him.
Where do you find BHT?
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