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Covfefe-19 The 11th Part: Suck It Up And Die Grandpa I Need A Manicure!!

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Texas, Florida, NY and California are four of the big states that have refused to follow CDC reporting guidelines. None of them are reporting "probable" cases in their numbers, just those cases confirmed by test.
 
SJHovey said:
Texas, Florida, NY and California are four of the big states that have refused to follow CDC reporting guidelines. None of them are reporting "probable" cases in their numbers, just those cases confirmed by test.
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yet, California, with only about 3/4 again the number of cases that Texas has, has about 2.5 times the number of deaths.
 
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Our high school girls basketball team is starting full practices here next Monday. We've told our daughter she'll be skipping it for now. Seems nuts that pretty much every business including other youth sports still have rules requiring social distancing but full contact basketball practice is somehow ok.
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Even the NCAA is not allowing that yet and they would sacrifice anyone on the altar of $$
 
Things are not perfect, but any bit of good news is good...

From today's New York Times daily news summary:

Where Reopening Is Working

We journalists don’t always pay enough attention to good news. So I want to highlight some this morning: Across much of the United States and Europe, the coronavirus has been spreading less rapidly than many people feared.

Yes, the caseload is growing in some places, and they’re rightly getting a lot of attention. But the full story is more complex. Over the past six weeks — as communities have started to reopen, Americans have flocked to beaches and lakes and European schools have reopened — the number of new cases has continued falling in many places.

Across the Northeast and Midwest of the U.S., they’re down more than 50 percent, and often much more, since May 1. Nationwide, weekly deaths have fallen for six weeks in a row. And Europe “seems to have turned a corner,” Caitlin Rivers of Johns Hopkins University says.

How could this be?

I put that question to public health experts, and they gave two main answers. One, the virus spreads much less easily outdoors than indoors. “Summer — being outside, warmer weather, humidity — seems to help, and we may have underestimated how much it’s helped,” Ashish Jha, the incoming dean of Brown University School of Public Health, told me.

Two, many people are taking more precautions than they were in February and March. They’re wearing masks, remaining six feet apart and being careful about what they touch. “Even absent top-down health interventions” — like lockdowns — “people want to keep themselves safe,” Rivers said.

The combination appears to have eliminated most “superspreader events,” like parties, concerts and restaurant meals, where multiple people get sick. Such events may account for 80 percent of all transmissions, research suggests. (Read this Times Op-Ed for more.)

I recognize that this is a somewhat dangerous message. Transmission rates in the U.S. are higher than they need to be, and they have begun rising again in parts of the South and West. In Arizona, where the governor has played down the virus and hospitals are filling up, the situation looks especially bad. But many other places are showing what a responsible and effective reopening looks like.

One crucial caveat is that the virus will outlast the summer — everywhere. During the 1918-19 flu, transmission rates fell in the warmer months, only to soar again in the fall. “People thought it was over,” as Apoorva Mandavilli, a science reporter at The Times, said, “and stopped taking precautions.”

Where the news is worse: A few big countries where cases are still rising — India, Mexico, Russia, Iran and Pakistan — are nevertheless ending their lockdowns, citing economic reasons.
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Abolish the GOP.

As the Ohio state Senate was discussing a resolution that would declare racism a public health crisis earlier this week, state Sen. Steve Huffman (R), who is also a doctor, offered a racist theory as to why black communities have been hit harder by the COVID-19 outbreak than others.

“Could it just be that African Americans — the colored population — do not wash their hands as well as other groups?” he asked Ohio Commission on Minority Health executive director Angela Dawson, who is black, during a hearing on Tuesday.
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Here in Michigan, most of us are fatigued, and said "we quit." This past Saturday, I wanted my Mama Bears, and Mama Bears couldn't come. Monday, one Mama Bear stood up and gave me a hug, and when I stopped at two of my best friends' apartment to get something, I got hugs from them too.
 
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Things are not perfect, but any bit of good news is good...

From today's New York Times daily news summary:
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Over the last few days I have read or listened to a number of epidemiologists- Not one of them agrees with the other. It is so frustrating! Even more frustrating is people cherry pick what they see, hear or read and translate it to what fits their needs.

One of the local stations had some guy on saying there were certain things that were safer or very little risk with the caveat (like an afterthought) that it would depend on disease burden in the area. Part of the area the station covers is a low impact area. Our area had horrible community penetration and the number of cases up by us is not really decreasing at all. He made no effort to point out that a large swath of the area he was speaking to would be not included as low risk. So of course people up here started posting it on FB. I was a fearmongerer again- and pointed out to people we were not low risk- esp since he also put it out there that to keep it low risk people had to be trying to be safe. A large # of the people around here are knuckledraggers, don't do anything to keep themselves or others safe and like to proove their immortality by having parties, going places with no mask or my personal favorite- wearing the mask on their chin or with their nose hanging out*.

*I cannot unsee the meme with one picture of a nose hanging out of the mask and the other picture a guy with his weenie hanging out from the top of his shorts. It makes me simultaneously want to laugh in ther face and slap them.
 
Maybe they are seeing who can do better? I give FL the win. They are cooking the books so it will be worse than they say. And winnnnnning- the GOP is going there. Lucky them
 
Here we go! Our town has decided that they are going to hold a town meeting live. The State guidelines forbid gatherings over 10 people inside. The answer from the chick on the school committee? "I don't think that applies to things like town meetings." Did you know the virus suspends all activity when you want to do something? I didn't either.

What the actual fvck? I posted the link to the orders and said I am not going as well as the latest #s for out county. Now I need to bite my fingers. My town is full of nasty and very, very stupid, ignorant people. Logic and fact are definitely not welcome and can cause some really scary consequences. The last time I spoke out, in very logical way, the local paper published a blog saying I called for a boycott (I didn't) and then shut down comments and didn't respond to my query.
 
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Here we go! Our town has decided that they are going to hold a town meeting live. The State guidelines forbid gatherings over 10 people inside. The answer from the chick on the school committee? "I don't thing that applies to things like town meetings." DId you know the virus suspends all activity when you want to do something? I didn't either.

What the actual fvck? I posted the link to the orders and said I am not going as well as the latest #s for out county. Now I need to bite my fingers. My town is full of nasty and very, very stupid, ignorant people. Logic and fact are definitely not welcome and can cause some really scary consequences. The last time I spoke out, in very logical way, the local paper published a blog saying I called for a boycott (I didn't) and then shut down comments and didn't respond to my query.
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“The State Guidelines” lol

“The State Guidelines Forbid” lmfao
 
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