LOUISIANA getting absolutely hammered

Two of my friends are married and traveling nurses. They've worked at some prestigious hospitals all over the country and decided they wanted to live in New Orleans for a couple months. Long story short they said the hospitals there were dangerous and unlike anything they'd ever seen in the North. Seriously, don't ever be in a position for a serious hospital stay in the deep south, it sucks down there.

new dad wrote:

The death rates are 8-10%, much higher than other states.

Is this because everyone is so unhealthy down there?

It's because of the pervert out-of-staters who went there during Mardi Gras and brought their dirty beads with them and threw them everywhere. Mostly from the northeast no doubt.

Large population of obese , crap food eating , drug addicted , smoking, drinking people.

new dad wrote:

The death rates are 8-10%, much higher than other states.

Is this because everyone is so unhealthy down there?

The situation in Louisiana is calling into question the theory that the virus will die out in hot weather.

doyenne wrote:

new dad wrote:

The death rates are 8-10%, much higher than other states.

Is this because everyone is so unhealthy down there?

It's because of the pervert out-of-staters who went there during Mardi Gras and brought their dirty beads with them and threw them everywhere. Mostly from the northeast no doubt.

Pretty sure nobody brings their own beads

My buddy says Baltimore is about to explode because of homeless and drug addicts. Same in Louisiana... unsanitary conditions rising to the surface in the next 14 days...

I find this post incredibly disrespectful. As a libertarian, I believe that these sorts of slanderous claims should be banned.

Louisiana is a state of good, christian, hardworking, conservative, traditional men and their wives and children.

#M.A.G.A.

They are NOT Unhealthy, LSU is good in almost all there Sports EVERY YEAR, you cant do that at the NCAA Level with mostly unhealthy people.

douglas burke wrote:

They are NOT Unhealthy, LSU is good in almost all there Sports EVERY YEAR, you cant do that at the NCAA Level with mostly unhealthy people.

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Louisiana is poor w high rates of obesity, diabetes, hypertension,. These are all risk factors for severe COVID infection and death. They were also late to shut down w poor testing which is likely skewing rates also. My guess is true mortality rate is lower but still higher than most states.

Late to shut down??? We were the 5th state.

Louisiana's COVID attributed death rate at present is 4.5%.

The uptick in COVID-19 cases in Louisiana is attributed in part to increases in local testing. As more tests and results come forth the mortality rate will likely decline. There are also at present no proper criteria for those dying with or from COVID.

Louisiana's Public Health lab criteria includes five groups that they test:

1) Hospitalized patients who have respiratory illnesses that have no identifiable cause;

2) Any homeless individual with suspected COVID-19;

3) People associated with high risk exposure settings with suspected COVID-19- nursing homes, institutional settings etc.;

4) Healthcare providers who develop COVID-19 symptoms;

5) Those expected in an outbreak, in other words a big group of individuals all develop COVID-19-like symptoms at the same time.

One would anticipate a higher rate of mortality in Louisiana due to already dramatic health problems associated with poverty, severe environmental degradation throughout the state (it's not called cancer alley for nothing) and lack of resources for health care.

https://www.propublica.org/article/welcome-to-cancer-alley-where-toxic-air-is-about-to-get-worse

Yes but COVID was already widespread by the time they shut down...Mardi Gras didn’t help

These testing stats mean nothing. Nearly 200 are dead there so far. Makes all the other states look pretty good, given population.

Problem is, the numbers of dead have been climbing, every day.

Serves them right. Sorry.

Obese, backwards racist Trump voters.

I went there for a race once. Never again.

Mardi Gras is French for “Fat Tuesday”

Libertarian Centrist wrote:

I find this post incredibly disrespectful. As a libertarian, I believe that these sorts of slanderous claims should be banned.

Louisiana is a state of good, christian, hardworking, conservative, traditional men and their wives and children.

#M.A.G.A.

Christians? You mean, like these people?

zoomx83 wrote:

Nearly 200 are dead there so far.

Only 2,000 people live in Louisiana?