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The Coronavirus thread

So you're saying, the longer the lockdowns continue and the more people suffer, one resident non-contributing member, Floggy, stands to enrich himself?

Isn't that kind of like hospitals making $30K per stated COVID case or something like that?

yep - and that singular case could last 1 day or 1 century. regardless, the hospital gets paid the same exact amount.

unlike SN, which gets paid nothing to host, post and promote Flog's idiocy.
 
Speaking of lockdowns and mask wearing, California is at the top of the list for that; and now at the top of list of current Coronavirus cases. Floggy?
 
Speaking of lockdowns and mask wearing, California is at the top of the list for that; and now at the top of list of current Coronavirus cases. Floggy?

Been in a never ending debate with a guy on FB about this. I think we've been in this experiment of face mask wearing long enough to know - that **** ain't working. If it is having any effect at all it isn't statistically noticeable. There's no locale you can point to where a mask mandate was implemented and you saw a reduction in cases long term or permanently.

Everywhere COVID is on the rise. But masks work they tell us. But I'm watching the cases skyrocketing....so do the masks work or not? 'Parently not.

It's also pretty apparent lockdowns aren't working much either and virus gonna virus (thanks OFTB).

So I'm tiring of Big Daddy Gubmint telling us what to do, which we have done, only to sit back and watch it not work a damned bit.
 
my girlfriend's daughter is now quarantined from work. on her last shift, she worked with a girl who was exposed to the virus. so she's not allowed back to work until next Wednesday. She works at Starbuck's. She'll still get paid her usual check while she's forced to stay away.

now, if i'm a college-aged kid looking to wrangle the system, I'm taking note of this and find ways to be continuously quarantined. why not?
 
my girlfriend's daughter is now quarantined from work. on her last shift, she worked with a girl who was exposed to the virus. so she's not allowed back to work until next Wednesday. She works at Starbuck's. She'll still get paid her usual check while she's forced to stay away.

now, if i'm a college-aged kid looking to wrangle the system, I'm taking note of this and find ways to be continuously quarantined. why not?

Combine that with the workers who either made and/or are making more on unemployment than they did working, nope, no way anybody would ever take advantage of a system like that.
 
Been in a never ending debate with a guy on FB about this. I think we've been in this experiment of face mask wearing long enough to know - that **** ain't working. If it is having any effect at all it isn't statistically noticeable. There's no locale you can point to where a mask mandate was implemented and you saw a reduction in cases long term or permanently.

Everywhere COVID is on the rise. But masks work they tell us. But I'm watching the cases skyrocketing....so do the masks work or not? 'Parently not.

It's also pretty apparent lockdowns aren't working much either and virus gonna virus (thanks OFTB).

So I'm tiring of Big Daddy Gubmint telling us what to do, which we have done, only to sit back and watch it not work a damned bit.

The masks are doing the equivalent of Jack n ****. Everyone is wearing this stuff. Doing it for many months. Dingbat Joe Dirt only spews mandates, because that's all he has. And destroy a lifetime of work for many in buisness.

I see daily stupid **** with people wearing masks in places they have zero need for one. People are so damn gullible and easily pushed into mindless hysteria brought to you by 24/7 media influence.


How long will some of these govenors try to hold onto their emergency tyrant power.
 
How long will some of these govenors try to hold onto their emergency tyrant power.

Once Flog's drive to/from work is disturbed, the mandate and stay-home will kick back in, regardless of when it's lifted.

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my girlfriend's daughter is now quarantined from work. on her last shift, she worked with a girl who was exposed to the virus. so she's not allowed back to work until next Wednesday. She works at Starbuck's. She'll still get paid her usual check while she's forced to stay away.

now, if i'm a college-aged kid looking to wrangle the system, I'm taking note of this and find ways to be continuously quarantined. why not?

Especially since you don’t have to prove close contact. All you have to do is say you are.
 
Speaking of lockdowns and mask wearing, California is at the top of the list for that; and now at the top of list of current Coronavirus cases. Floggy?

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If you're a CA resident, you likely just received an emergency stay-at-home order text alert. I know the lot of you warned me to get the **** out of here, and believe me, I heard you - it's just really difficult when you're so close to family who seemingly refuse to leave.

Getting a feeling that's going to be changing in the coming months.
 
If you're a CA resident, you likely just received an emergency stay-at-home order text alert. I know the lot of you warned me to get the **** out of here, and believe me, I heard you - it's just really difficult when you're so close to family who seemingly refuse to leave.

Getting a feeling that's going to be changing in the coming months.

shut your door, sit down, shut the **** up, pay your taxes and HOPE King Gavin doesnt decide to do more.
 
UPMC had a press conference today regarding vaccine distribution. They are NOT mandating that their employees get the vaccine. They also said that although they are seeing an uptick in admissions, they feel confidant that they have the capacity to not be overwhelmed. They also said that they are not cancelling other services and surgeries.
 
UPMC had a press conference today regarding vaccine distribution. They are NOT mandating that their employees get the vaccine. They also said that although they are seeing an uptick in admissions, they feel confidant that they have the capacity to not be overwhelmed. They also said that they are not cancelling other services and surgeries.

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UPMC had a press conference today regarding vaccine distribution. They are NOT mandating that their employees get the vaccine. They also said that although they are seeing an uptick in admissions, they feel confidant that they have the capacity to not be overwhelmed. They also said that they are not cancelling other services and surgeries.

That's a bunch of bullshit because I have aunts, cousins, and second cousins that LIVE this man...so that makes me an expert on this subject.
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I have no doubt that's at the top of Floggy's playlist.
 
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UPMC had a press conference today regarding vaccine distribution. They are NOT mandating that their employees get the vaccine. They also said that although they are seeing an uptick in admissions, they feel confidant that they have the capacity to not be overwhelmed. They also said that they are not cancelling other services and surgeries.

So far I'm not hearing that western PA hospitals are full of Yinzers with the 'Rona.
 
If I’m given the option of either masking up or getting the vaccine, I’m choosing NO.
 
Here’s a website for Florida blue cross with examples of how to calculate payments for the same DRG with various length of stays. Seems strange they put a lot of work into coming up with this if length of stay is completely moot as you stated.

https://www.floridablue.com/sites/floridablue.com/files/docs/Length of Stay Examples.pdf

You see, in the real world, DRG have what are called trim points. That’s the number of days that are included in the initial payment but then if the stay is longer than the trim point, a different rate applies. It could be a different calculation of % or it could simply be a Per Diem payment. Per Diem meaning per day. Funny that a concept of Per Diem would even exist if the length of stay didn’t matter at all.

You see, Hospitals whose contract was not negotiated by a retard, build in additional payments for when the stay is long or has very high billed charges. They 3 day stay and the 200 day stay might pay exact;y the same for those first 3 days, but after that, they most likely pay very differently. The 200 day stay will likely get paid a set rate Per Diem (per day) for days over the agreed upon number of days that are included in the initial DRG payment. Then some contracts even have a $ threshold where the Hospital is paid a % of charge over a certain amount.

but again, your thesis that hospital gets paid the same regardless of length of stay or billed charges is ridiculously false.

It is obvious that you don’t really know anything about this. All you know is some blurb you read somewhere or maybe a conversation you overheard in an elevator and that blurb was either a basic oversimplified example or that person also had no idea what they were talking about. This is the point where a normal person would admit they were wrong and that they were misinformed, but I’m sure you will try to carve out some other angle to claim you are correct. Let me help. Maybe you can claim that only Florida is different and every place else, Hospitals accept $20K for a stay that billed over a million dollars. Yeah, sound legit.

One, non-contributing, free-loading, always-wrong poster is noticeably absent after your rebuttal...(more of an *** whipping)

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Glad he called out this crap.
 
Just saw breaking that PA Governor Tom Wolfe has the Rona....guess the govt overreach didn’t work....
 
Just saw breaking that PA Governor Tom Wolfe has the Rona....guess the govt overreach didn’t work....

From what I've heard he hardly leaves his house in York and almost never comes to Harrisburg.
 
If the Chinese flu killed those who deserve it, I would be much less angry with the Chinese.

No ****... My stepdad was a young 94 and he got it while rehabbing from back surgery. It was a f'n crime that due to the Gov's restrictions nobody could visit him while in rehab....He then caught the Rona and the rehab place moved him to an isolation room without a WORKING PHONE,,,so we could not visit him, nor could we talk to him...He was asymptomatic for a week and then he started getting symptoms and was transported to the hospital...Guess what,,,the rehab place LOST his f'n hearing aid so we could not even talk to him on the phone. He died alone and unable to communicate with his family....

The cure is worse than the f'n virus...
 
One, non-contributing, free-loading, always-wrong poster is noticeably absent after your rebuttal...(more of an *** whipping)

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