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1/ Last night my wife and I made the decision to cancel my 7-year-old daughter's gymnastics birthday party this weekend due to #COVID19. Why? How did she react?
A thread from an ER doc/scientist who doesn’t freak out about most things:
A thread from an ER doc/scientist who doesn’t freak out about most things:
2/ With less than 2,000 cases of #COVID19 in the US many people think we are already over-reacting. Wrong. We are under-reacting. The truth is there have been countless patients US ER docs have wanted to test, but haven’t been able to: inquirer.com/health/coronav…
3/ With thousands of undiagnosed people in the US actively spreading #COVID19 unknowingly, there will be an inevitable tidal wave similar to what has happened in Italy and Europe. And since we can’t test and isolate, we need to “#FlattenTheCurve”
Canadians, a few weeks ago, responding to #ShutDownCanada: all these Wet'suwet'en solidarity actions are inconvenient and hurting the economy. We can't just cancel everything to fix social problems.
Canadians, now, responding to #COVID19: #CancelEverythingNow #ShutDownCanada
Canadians, now, responding to #COVID19: #CancelEverythingNow #ShutDownCanada
Well, that hit a nerve. Here's a short thread explaining why, though the two things (#ShutDownCanada and #CancelEverythingow) are obviously different, the way Canadians are responding to them is telling about our priorities and political will to deal with pressing social problems
The divergent responses to #ShutDownCanada and #COVID19 "inconvenience" reveals an uncomfortable truth: settlers care more about themselves/their own prosperity rooted in ongoing colonization than improving relations with Indigenous peoples, the original stewards of these lands.
An ethical argument for staying the fuck home during a pandemic: spiritualsoap.substack.com/p/weird-and-gd… 
When making choices, we invoke normative ethics (how we choose A over B). Dealing with COVID-19, we can agree on a desired outcome: fewer sick people. Consequentialism is a form of normative ethics by which you choose the option that likely results in your desired outcome.
Hedonistic egoism is a form of consequentialism that prioritizes the outcome of your pleasure. Utilitarianism prioritizes what benefits the majority. For obtaining a consequence that will affect the majority & deciding whether to stay the fuck home, use utilitarianism.
as long as corona virus doesn't cross throat it isn't serious
once it infects lungs, most (except children, pregnant women) develop cytokine storm immune reaction
Old, sick people will suffer. Need lots of Oxygen (ventilators & emergency care etc)
Hope govt paying oxygen bills
once it infects lungs, most (except children, pregnant women) develop cytokine storm immune reaction
Old, sick people will suffer. Need lots of Oxygen (ventilators & emergency care etc)
Hope govt paying oxygen bills
#CancelEverythingNow
#FlattenTheCurve
This is doctors in America trying to learn from experience of Italy
#FlattenTheCurve
This is doctors in America trying to learn from experience of Italy
#CancelEverythingNow
#FlattenTheCurve
This will impact old people, sick/immune compromised people & vulnerable people without access to medical care
Only preventive option is SOCIAL DISTANCING
#FlattenTheCurve
This will impact old people, sick/immune compromised people & vulnerable people without access to medical care
Only preventive option is SOCIAL DISTANCING
The best #COVID19 option, WHICH WE DON'T HAVE ANY MORE, was to develop a good test right away, deploy it in labs worldwide, test all people with concerning symptoms, test the contacts of all people who test positive, and quarantine all people with it. 1/
In the US we deployed a broken test, and now have too little testing capacity (and probably contact tracing capacity) so we're prioritizing (or "triaging") testing.
Triaging means not everyone gets it like they would in an ideal world. It's rationing. 2/
Triaging means not everyone gets it like they would in an ideal world. It's rationing. 2/
That means that many people who are being triaged out – people who are less sick or don't have a clear risk of exposure – won't get tested if they do present to healthcare settings. Many more are simply being told not to present in the first place. 3/
