Sunday, November 01, 2020

Observations two days from an election

 All Saints Day - two days until the election

Two days to go in this election madness and regardless of who wins, by the end of this year, we’ll start seeing people jockeying for the nomination in 2024. 

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When you’re down, fight it

March uphill

Keep marching 

Find what’s wrong and right it.


If they knock you down, get up

Fight it.

Fix what’s wrong and right it.


Just remember that you are part

Of what they call the riff raff 

And of that you should be proud

When you want cry instead just laugh

Cuz you are part of a larger crowd

We outnumber them

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The GOP will try to change the rules of counting votes. Democrats will try to count the votes. On election night, no candidate is awarded electoral votes. That only comes after the votes are tallied and certified by each state. Some states will have all their ballots tallied. Most won’t. Patience will be a virtue more than ever. I keep telling myself that.

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Doctors and nurses DO NOT make any more money on COVID patients than they did before the pandemic. I wish Trump would stop telling that lie. As one health care worker said:


It is true, however, that hospitals do get 2000 bucks. According to researchgate.net, 

“The average cost of an ICU day is estimated at US$10,794.00 for the first day and then plateaus at US$3,968/day by the third day, depending on the need for mechanical ventilation, 25 and surgical floor costs are estimated at US$1,488/ day” 

While the average ICU stay is a 3.3 days, the ICU stay for COVID ranges from 5 to 19 days. Seems that an extra 2000 bucks that hospitals get is cheap.


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