Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020

[walrus]

Walrus

I have Ulcerative Colitis but as far as I know no Covid yet. Hopefully my wife gets first shot Friday, I tried to sign up but no signing up as Maine has no vaccine at this point.

 

[MichVandal]

All the more crazy since SD hasn't done s**t for overall testing - 49th for tests / 1M while they are 6th for Deaths / 1M. ND is not far off. WI is much better off but also not doing well at all for testing.

Come on, all, we are not supposed to care about either Dakota. They are doing great and are free- that's all that matters. Allegedly.

Have to totally ignore that the states they are among WRT infections and deaths were some of the very first states hit vs. having months, and months to not ony plan but to copy processes from other states, and we should remember that they are so spread out that distancing comes normally. All is well.

 

[rufus]

I have Ulcerative Colitis but as far as I know no Covid yet. Hopefully my wife gets first shot Friday, I tried to sign up but no signing up as Maine has no vaccine at this point.

Call up yer pal Suzie and express to her your concern.

 

[dxmnkd316]

I have Ulcerative Colitis but as far as I know no Covid yet. Hopefully my wife gets first shot Friday, I tried to sign up but no signing up as Maine has no vaccine at this point.

Good to hear your wife is getting hers. Did you have a scare earlier? I could have sworn there was something that came up this summer or fall. Maybe you hadn’t posted in a while.

 

[dxmnkd316]

How many people have insurance that will cover most of the costs of a hospital stay for covid in SD? 1 in 141 hospitalized means the hospitals there are probably in bad financial shape and worse yet, it probably also means there are goi g to be a LOT of people in serious financial trouble with medical bills. I have to assume they went against most of the expansions of Medicare/Medicaid

 

[walrus]

Good to hear your wife is getting hers. Did you have a scare earlier? I could have sworn there was something that came up this summer or fall. Maybe you hadn’t posted in a while.

No scare as in I got tested and it was negative. My kid on the other hand has been tested numerous times and has lucked out as they were all negative. He has got the first shot a week ago or so.

 

[Drew S.]

Full lockdown of W.A. because of one case. If only we had taken similar measures here.

 

[hockeyfan77]

The Minnesota Wild have reported the reason that Marco Rossi has left and returned home to Austria is because of COVID complications.


Rossi tested positive for COVID in November and apparently hasn't fully recovered. He is also suffering from an upper-body injury. The Athletic is reporting that Rossi is done for the season. He is expected to return to Minnesota in six weeks where he will be re-evaluated. The Wild expect his recovery to be full and complete but for now, it's a lost year for the forward.

 

[geezer]

I tested positive a month ago. I had what amounted to a bad cough/cold - but no fever or headache- for 4-5 days, then lost my smell and most of my taste. I hope it’s gone, I don’t have any lung issues or anything but my sniffer isn’t back all the way, and I sense a sour ashy taste in the back of my throat once in a while. My family seems to have escaped most of a month of quarantine without obvious symptoms.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I tested positive a month ago. I had what amounted to a bad cough/cold - but no fever or headache- for 4-5 days, then lost my smell and most of my taste. I hope it’s gone, I don’t have any lung issues or anything but my sniffer isn’t back all the way, and I sense a sour ashy taste in the back of my throat once in a while. My family seems to have escaped most of a month of quarantine without obvious symptoms.

Hopefully you don’t regress. My smell came back, but my moms really didn’t and now everything smells burned to her.
The insomnia I now have didn’t hit until about 3 months post covid

 

[Handyman]

Warp Speed Doesn't Work Without Fuel

Top Trump officials actively lobbied Congress to deny state governments any extra funding for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout last fall — despite frantic warnings from state officials that they didn’t have the money they needed to ramp up a massive vaccination operation.

The push, described to STAT by congressional aides in both parties and openly acknowledged by one of the Trump officials, came from multiple high-ranking Trump health officials in repeated meetings with legislators.

 

[rufus]

Before, or after the election?

 

[Handyman]

Before, or after the election?

Starting in October it would seem.

The previously unreported lobbying efforts underscore that even after the Trump administration spent billions helping drug makers develop Covid-19 vaccines, it not only dismissed states’ concerns about the help they would need to roll them out, but actively undermined their efforts to press Congress to get the funding they needed.

Much of the lobbying push came from Paul Mango, the former deputy chief of staff for policy at the Department of Health and Human Services. He argued, repeatedly, that states hadn’t demonstrated they needed additional funding because, at least as of last October, they hadn’t spent the $200 million that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent to states in September.

The Trump Clown (named Mango...cause that is just perfect!) actually accused the states of wanting more money to cover the loss of tax revenue.

 

[SJHovey]

Come on, all, we are not supposed to care about either Dakota. They are doing great and are free- that's all that matters. Allegedly.

Have to totally ignore that the states they are among WRT infections and deaths were some of the very first states hit vs. having months, and months to not ony plan but to copy processes from other states, and we should remember that they are so spread out that distancing comes normally. All is well.

Actually, North Dakota has done quite well for the last month plus. I think they're running at maybe 50 hospitalizations on average at any given point in time with single digit ICU patients, compared with 350 hospitalizations on average back in November. The seven day average positivity rate for testing has been below 5% since Christmas, and lately has been below 3%. I think they averaged something like two deaths per day for the month.

That's not to say they won't see another surge. The state has really only gone through one big surge, that peaked in November, but lately the numbers look very good for them.

 

[burd]

Actually, North Dakota has done quite well for the last month plus. I think they're running at maybe 50 hospitalizations on average at any given point in time with single digit ICU patients, compared with 350 hospitalizations on average back in November. The seven day average positivity rate for testing has been below 5% since Christmas, and lately has been below 3%. I think they averaged something like two deaths per day for the month.

That's not to say they won't see another surge. The state has really only gone through one big surge, that peaked in November, but lately the numbers look very good for them.

That's good to hear. But from what I hear from family and friends, the behaviors, especially masking, are still reckless. But I'm not there, and my information is very limited.

 

[SJHovey]

That's good to hear. But from what I hear from family and friends, the behaviors, especially masking, are still reckless. But I'm not there, and my information is very limited.

I think the state is still pretty open. If I recall correctly, there really isn't much for a business shut down, and most mask wearing is "recommended" but I don't think there is any sort of enforcement.

I assume the drop is largely due to much colder weather, and the fact that we're past the holiday seasons. The other thing is that I think they've vaccinated about 100,000 people, last I heard. Together with the 100,000 who already had the disease, the ability of the virus to spread has to be somewhat impeded in a state with only 760,000 people.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Oh good. B117 in the UK has picked up a key mutation that the SA strain had that helped reduce the vaccine effectiveness.

 

[Deleted member 3166]

Hopefully you don’t regress. My smell came back, but my moms really didn’t and now everything smells burned to her.
The insomnia I now have didn’t hit until about 3 months post covid

My wife and I never lost taste or smell but now we smell stale cigarette smoke everywhere we go.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

I still can't believe our country was dumb enough to make masks a political issue.

 

[burd]

I still can't believe our country was dumb enough to make masks a political issue.

Why not? Masks were a political issue in our last pandemic 100 years ago.