Early frontrunner for a Darwin Award in a competitive field this year
30-year-old dies after attending 'Covid party' in Texas
Patient said: ‘I think I made a mistake"
A “Covid party” is a gathering held by somebody diagnosed with coronavirus to see if the virus is real and to see if anyone gets infected, she explained.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 13 Jul 2020, 4:35,
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thick but arty, like my exes
lost before they're found
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 13 Jul 2020, 8:25,
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It's Texas, so anything is possible. But these 'Covid Parties' are for the most part media gakery.
Mind you, I wouldn't expect The Guardian to question the validity of the story, considering it's essentially a carbon copy of a New York Times article.
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it's just a funny news story, not a movement, and it has a link to a video of the doctor directly making the claim
I'm not sure what the fuck you're on about. It's like the elements are all there for a Trumpista rant: fake news, the guardian, and the NYT for some reason even though it was guardian written article. But you think just mentioning them all together is enough to make some stew of conspiracy inference.It's pretty thin gruel
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 13 Jul 2020, 13:15,
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Not wishing to agree with the conspiratorially minded lunatic, but...
"“Just before the patient died, they looked at their nurse and said ‘I think I made a mistake, I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not,’” said Dr Jane Appleby, the chief medical officer at Methodist hospital in San Antonio."
Just before he died? Really? Did he wake up from his induced coma and unplug himself from the ventilator to say that? Or was the illness so strong that one moment he was sat up talking to his nurse and the very next moment he dropped dead?
Of course the main takeaway is that Covid parties are for suicidal idiots, but Grauniad journalists suck, and/or that quoted doctor misspoke.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Mon 13 Jul 2020, 13:55,
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so you have a practising doctor going on record, but you think it's a media conspiracy based on what, your pissant opinion of covid?
you make a quite misinformed assumption that all those who die from covid die on mechanical ventilation?
I put together training for doctors and nurses on all the different ways people are dying of covid, and there's a lot of people dying in many different ways.
sepsis is a major killer of covid patients, to name one. basically after covid is done ravaging your body and immune system, starving oxygen from vital organs and damaging them, you become a big risk of sepsis death, which can happen days or weeks after you're taken off ventilation if you were on it in the first place, which not all patients are. intubation is quite a serious step and not without it's risks or difficulties. A scenario where a covid patient is still able to communicate and then dies in less than an hour from untreatable sepsis is not particularly far fetched or uncommon. Some are told they're likely to die, as health professionals have an obligation not to give inaccurate information to patients. This includes this treating doctor who would lose her job if it turns out she's been inventing patient histories, though there's not a skerrick of evidence to support your wild aspersions.
It's not the guardian who sucks, they're reporting a story from a verified on-record source, it's your massively uninformed opinions talking about shit you don't know just because it makes some dicks feel better to believe everything is fake news.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 13 Jul 2020, 15:02,
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harumph
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 14 Jul 2020, 0:48,
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yes, several newspapers covered the story, given the doctor made an on-record video statement
including the daily mail, ABC news, and Tuổi Trẻ Online - for all your vietnamese news. That's how news works. As I said, the NYT is different article written by a different journalist, and only relevant to some "fake news lying NYT" idiot
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 13 Jul 2020, 23:14,
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So you're saying the writer of the Guardian's article on no way borrowed from the NYT article?
I mean, it wouldn't be the first time...
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why on earth would they need to?
the story appeared first in news4sanantonio.com, and I'd say most newspapers around the world sourced it from that, something the Guardian acknowledge in the fucking article
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 14 Jul 2020, 0:34,
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I don't doubt the veracity of anything in the article. But, well, let's just say I think we can agree it's just a funny news story rather than a movement (nb. I think America is insane, coronavirus is real, Trump is a dictator).
Interestingly, this type of article is exactly the type of thing the Russians ran on facebook in order to help get Trump elected: they put Black Lives Matter posts in the newsfeeds of white nationalists, and put NRA adverts in the groups of liberals who hate guns.
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