9 months after developing effective treatment and learning how not to kill people with ventilators. Does not fit, unless he had a coincidental heart attack or similar unseen condition. Really awful, and given what's happened, normal to be dubious like with scalia.
I get the reluctance to believe this could happen. I can share nothing that would lend credibility to what I'm about to say, other than that my wife is an ER doc. We live in TN, and she practices for a group that places doctors across various states in the south east. She's currently working in central Florida.
She was there in August when a "wave" hit their hospital so hard, they moved her to the ICU - a department that is usually staffed with intensivists, not ER docs. Since her practice up until that point was always with urgent/acute injured/sick patients, she never had the time to get to know them. They called it "flipping the meat". Stabilize them until they can be admitted to the proper service.
When she was put in the ICU, she was working with/under intensivists to help reduce their workload. She was never trained on how to avoid emotional bonds that develop with the sick, and more importantly with their family. In the ER, she barely got to know their names. In the ICU she was constantly in communication with family via phone/texts, etc. All but one of the dozens of patients she cared for died. And they all took 3-4 weeks after getting in the unit, to pass. She regularly cries herself to sleep. They've used all the latest therapeutics, but once they're on the vent, it's nearly certain death.
She's had patients begging her not to tube them. She'd put it off as long as possible, but ultimately, the patients relented "only if you're the one who does it" - talk about an emotional load! Through prayer and worship music on the patients' phones, they'd get put on a vent... and weeks later, they passed. The one patient that survived had been transferred to a larger hospital and received over a MONTH of ECMO (heart/lung bypass). She called my wife a month later, out of the blue to thank her for not giving up. That particular patient's mother and father both died of COVID while she was in her coma.
This got a lot longer than I intended, and I apologize. The point is, there appears to be a strong genetic component to how severely someone is affected. If one family member was particularly sick or died of it, it usually meant any other infected members also would succumb. It's easy to say that 99.9% of those infected will recover, but when you see that 0.1% that doesn't, day in and day out, you realize this is not like the flu or any other illness seen in the ER or ICU.
That said, my wife firmly believes that COVID is being WAY overplayed in the media and by politicians for political gain. But, anytime someone questions how devastating it can be, she gets quite vocal. If Letow was one of the genetically unlucky people, his progression and ultimate demise is exactly how she's seen it unfold. He is certainly not "the first one". Wife has PTSD-inducing experiences to prove it.
That’s one way to get a majority.
2021’s gonna be wild
No.
41 years old. no talk of preexisting conditions.
If this is true he is the first.
I don’t buy it for a second
9 months after developing effective treatment and learning how not to kill people with ventilators. Does not fit, unless he had a coincidental heart attack or similar unseen condition. Really awful, and given what's happened, normal to be dubious like with scalia.
Seems way too convenient. Now I'm worried if we will see others randomly drop before final votes for president.
well remember loefllers campaign manager in GA......
i think there was another close death too, can't remember the name. reminds me of the Clinton era again...
Wasn’t there a newly-elected man in Wisconsin that also died of “Covid” right after the election?
I get the reluctance to believe this could happen. I can share nothing that would lend credibility to what I'm about to say, other than that my wife is an ER doc. We live in TN, and she practices for a group that places doctors across various states in the south east. She's currently working in central Florida.
She was there in August when a "wave" hit their hospital so hard, they moved her to the ICU - a department that is usually staffed with intensivists, not ER docs. Since her practice up until that point was always with urgent/acute injured/sick patients, she never had the time to get to know them. They called it "flipping the meat". Stabilize them until they can be admitted to the proper service.
When she was put in the ICU, she was working with/under intensivists to help reduce their workload. She was never trained on how to avoid emotional bonds that develop with the sick, and more importantly with their family. In the ER, she barely got to know their names. In the ICU she was constantly in communication with family via phone/texts, etc. All but one of the dozens of patients she cared for died. And they all took 3-4 weeks after getting in the unit, to pass. She regularly cries herself to sleep. They've used all the latest therapeutics, but once they're on the vent, it's nearly certain death.
She's had patients begging her not to tube them. She'd put it off as long as possible, but ultimately, the patients relented "only if you're the one who does it" - talk about an emotional load! Through prayer and worship music on the patients' phones, they'd get put on a vent... and weeks later, they passed. The one patient that survived had been transferred to a larger hospital and received over a MONTH of ECMO (heart/lung bypass). She called my wife a month later, out of the blue to thank her for not giving up. That particular patient's mother and father both died of COVID while she was in her coma.
This got a lot longer than I intended, and I apologize. The point is, there appears to be a strong genetic component to how severely someone is affected. If one family member was particularly sick or died of it, it usually meant any other infected members also would succumb. It's easy to say that 99.9% of those infected will recover, but when you see that 0.1% that doesn't, day in and day out, you realize this is not like the flu or any other illness seen in the ER or ICU.
That said, my wife firmly believes that COVID is being WAY overplayed in the media and by politicians for political gain. But, anytime someone questions how devastating it can be, she gets quite vocal. If Letow was one of the genetically unlucky people, his progression and ultimate demise is exactly how she's seen it unfold. He is certainly not "the first one". Wife has PTSD-inducing experiences to prove it.
the gateway pundit is great! why you no like?