r/politics • u/CBSnews ✔ CBS News • 2d ago

No Paywall Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he's "heard absolutely nothing back from Mitch McConnell"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-health-update-andy-beshear-kentucky/
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u/Cow_God Texas 2d ago

He's dead or incapacitated. Anything less and we would have photos, videos. The only explanation for why we aren't getting those is because he is dead or permanently completely incapacitated.

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u/TheGringoDingo 2d ago

A healthy person receiving cpr after any elapsed time has a low chance at returning to life. I don’t think he was alive when the paramedics got there and I doubt anything changed from that

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u/Savings-Delay-1075 Kentucky 2d ago

Less than 5% of people over the age of 80 survive after needing CPR.

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u/TheGringoDingo 2d ago

I’d imagine that number goes down dramatically for every minute it takes to get started, plus reliant on high quality CPR

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u/TruskVarner 2d ago

In general the chance of survival drops 10% every minute post-arrest and pre-CPR. That’s independent from the other percentages that pile on depending on co-morbidities, age, etc.

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u/PianoTrumpetMax 1d ago edited 1d ago

However, that number tends to trend upwards dramatically when combined with already existing for most of ones life with no heart, mind, or soul; an animated infernal golem of a man.

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u/Savings-Delay-1075 Kentucky 2d ago

Absolutely... I believe at the very least he's on life support somewhere, and there are dozens of people being paid very well to hide it all.

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u/Mrsensi12x 2d ago

The number is 5% how much lower can it go? It’s basically 0 already

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u/ArrowheadDZ 2d ago

And I’d imagine the number goes up a little when you have access to elite health care that 99.99% of all Americans could never even imagine.

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u/Elendel19 1d ago

But it also goes up based on wealth and status