For those who only know Common Core mathematics, that would be $20,000-$110,000, just for the hospital, before fees for doctor, laboratory, imaging, etc. But before you get on your horse bassackwards, and ride off the cliff, a couple of wee notes to temper such blisteringly stupid jackassery.ġ) The average COVID patient thusly diagnosed is in hospital for 10-21 days, at an average cost of $2K-$5K/day. They receive $13,000 from Medicare for each Covid-19 patient and $39,000 for each patient put on a ventilator." Any number of people will treat this out-of-context factoid as their "A-HA! J'Accuse!" moment of Kung Flu clarity. "Doctors have been instructed to list Covid-19 as a cause of death if the deceased had any of the symptoms associated with Covid-19.
Someone, somewhere, (we'll let you follow the breadcrumbs yourself) posted the following, which was picked up in our regular read of Ol' Remus at this week's Woodpile Report Secondly, for those still addicted to the Tinfoil and Black Helicopter Hopeium-Huffing Theory Of Kung Flu, the following notations and explanations are in order. That will turn out well.Ĥ) Anyone involved at any level make phrenology and astrology seem rational and scientific by comparison.ĥ) This practice is akin to hiring Stevie Wonder to drive your bus, and RainMan to drive your car. So anywhere you see, hear, or read about anyone using temperature scanning in any form to screen out Kung Flu:ġ) the people actually doing it are dumber than a bag of hammers.Ģ) the people who decided to have people do that are dumber than a bag of dicks.ģ) 99.9999% of people infected and fully contagious with Kung Flu are being admitted to the premises as if they were "healthy". So for anyone with more sense than the Almighty gave any jackass in Christendom, anyone, anywhere using any sort of temperature-reading device as a means to screen people for Kung Flu is a thorough-going moron, of the type in the last century usually screened out by attempting to place an iron ring of a given diameter over their cranium.īecause if your head would fit through said ring, clearly there was insufficient space inside to support a brain big enough to breathe, walk, and chew gum without a handy guide, and/or regular reminders for any one of the listed functions - or even all all three - by means of regular applications of a stout stick somewhere between your head and your thighs, as a helpful reminder. This is where the genre genuinely started to boldly go where it had never gone before.If you're smarter than this guy, you could be the next head of the CDC,ī) only measure surface temperature, not core temp.Ĭ) is asymptomatic in (30%, 60%, 90%, you tell me) of infected personsĭ) incubates for 2-21 days before symptoms present, during some of which time period the infected person is fully contagious. But each of these helped the decade redefine where science fiction could go on the big screen, whether it was in a grungy grindhouse or a state-of-the-art multiplex. Some of them belong in the greatest-of-all-time canon others, we will fully admit, are the cinematic equivalent of a ripe Camembert.
So, in honor of the 10-year-period that made science-fiction filmmaking what it is today, we are counting down the 50 best sci-fi movies of the 1970s.
And the influences of this period are still showing up in theaters near you. umbrella and helped turn the genre into a gamechanger. But by the end of the 1970s, it was possible to have checked out postapocalyptic action-adventures, future-shock case studies, technophobic nightmares, low-budget exploitation movies about what-if scenarios and big-budget space operas - all of which fell under the S.F. As the Age of Aquarius slowly slid into the beginning of the nation’s Watergate-and-disco period, you could still find sci-fi movies that wanted to blow an audience’s possibly addled, probably enhanced mind.
But the Seventies were particularly kind to one specific cul-de-sac of cinema: the science fiction film, a subset category that was still buzzing from its late-Sixties head-trip phase courtesy of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was the decade that gave the world the maverick New Hollywood drama, the Nixon-era paranoid thriller, the slasher flick, the all-star disaster movie, the gross-out comedy and the modern mega-blockbuster.
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