Oooh. Your frena are showing. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Unless DirectTV has some laser internet plan in their future, the company will only be servicing the most rural customers 10-15 years from now, and probably won’t be able to recoup operating expenses. AT&T should be elated to get $15B for it, and a decade of write offs.

So in all the live action films, we’ve had: Doc Oc, Electro, Vulture, Sandman, and Mysterio... Are we just missing Kraven (or Hobgoblin) for the Sinister Six?

I used to work for a company that regularly acquired other, failing companies to chop them up for parts... or cut their costs to nil and relaunch them as sub-brands of their own properties.

Yeah. Most likely, mask mandates that are in place at the time of the earliest vaccine availability will remain in place until we see infection numbers drop below a certain metric.

Problem is... if there are enough idiots, the emergency rooms and ICUs will be so clogged up with them, that you won’t be able to get swift treatment for non-Covid illnesses and emergencies.

Bro, what???

Anyone that’s worked around the C-suite knows that most of these people aren’t really geniuses... They’re often very bright, yes, but what really rockets them to the top is being such conniving, insufferable assholes that everyone else gets out of their way.

It’s obvious that the same empathy-ignorance is happening here, as it is in almost every other class-based system in America.

I think you’re inferring a flippancy I’m not implying.

I totally agree.

It certainly is a huge concern. And being that I live about a mile away from one of the biggest hotspots, it has me worried every single day. I was just commenting on the inference made from the incomplete data not exactly matching up to the reality.

It could, but to know that, we’d also need to know the fullness of the rest of the facilities in question, and how they were reporting ICU capacity; max possible, or max resources currently allocated to ICU. AFAIK the NPR report quoted here doesn't specify.

In this case they were not dire because the 95% stat represented specific facilities, not the whole city. No information was given as to whether the facilities in question expanded staff hours, flex space, or requested extra equipment... or they just ran at 95% of normal everyday capacity (due to a short term,…

Although it was an emergency situation that required extreme measures, NYC increased ICU beds during our worst surge by about 300%.

During the surge in April we had an increase in Covid beds by almost 300% in many hospitals in less than a month (due to need), not including outdoor tents, convention center conversions, “pop up” treatment centers, etc... And yes, the city did need increased personnel hours, equipment, and room; much of which it got,…

Such a fascinating way to diagnose someone’s health.

Hospitals grow and shrink their ICU capacity by need, so they frequently hover at a high percentage no matter the situation.

Or that the shipper would report that the package was opened and contents removed???

I don’t understand why Marvel keeps trying to make Moon Knight happen.