COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (16 Viewers)

[St. Widge]

I'll admit, I commented on the title. They are not technically running out of beds. They don't have the personnel to attend to all the beds. Still a problem, nonetheless, but the title suggested otherwise.

I mean, I think lack of personnel is actually a bigger problem. You can find more beds or more beds can be manufactured. You can't manufacture more qualified medical personnel.

But, that's the problem with the whole thing. It's like a deadly serious game of Whack-A-Mole when one area gets serious and knocks the virus back into its hole, it just pops up someplace else where people started acting normal because it appeared the virus was gone. And then the whole thing starts over. Problem is that those outbreaks cause medical personnel and equipment shortages in each area and then moves on to new places that then get shortages.

It's why a lack of a nationwide unified strategy to deal with this thing is such an issue.

 

[Saint_Ward]

Guys, this is getting exhausting.

Re-read the OP for this thread. Stick to it, or we're going to start removing folks.


From Dan and then Andrus...
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The original COVID-19 Outbreak thread has been closed but is still available as a read-only thread (sticky above). The original thread had become less and less about new information and more about petty bickering. The purpose of this new thread is to link or report new information as it comes out. Try not to go off course from the topic. Those of you who had been banned from the original thread feel free to participate in this new thread. Just stay on topic. Thank you.
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Edit - Andrus:
Bottom line is that moving forward we simply don't want any political bickering going on within this thread, and want to try to limit this thread to being as much about sharing Covid-19 information as possible.

If you want to discuss the political aspects of Covid-19 with other SR members, you can do so here (If you are not already registered there, you will be required to do so)... "

 

[St. Geezy]

It's a constant reminder of who I knew in HS that always needed help with their homework.. now I should listen to their valuable opinion?

The funny thing about this, at least in my world, is most of the people on my FB feed that are against this fit that sort of description. They're not complete idiots mind you (at least not all of them), but virtually none of the many true scholars I know or have come in contact with over the years are on the wrong side of this situation it seems.

 

[St. Geezy]

 

[Dago]

So I haven't played video games much in the past few years due to lack of time and lack of interest
well I certainly have the time now and started playing Outer Worlds whuch takes place in the year 2355. At the beginning you are in a town that has been dealing with people dying of a plague

First thought I had was "we still dealing with this sheet 335 year later?"

 

[RazorOye]

So, they are announcing right now what the provincial return-to-school will look like here. We report back on Sept 8 and it will be:

• 500 hundred nurses being hired for school surveilliance, testing, and monitoring only
• 1300 extra (minimum) extra janitorial staff hired for around the clock, with more intense/deeper/frequent cleaning
• students will have 5 days of instruction
• 300 minutes of instruction per day - in our school, it will be a single class per day (like a summer school course)
• mandatory masks for grades 4-12 students
• de-densification of spaces, so cohorts of 15 students per class 4-12 - students will travel with the same group
• elementary and middle will be on campus every day
• high school will alternate days - on campus and remotely
• PPE provided by the province to teachers and schools (primarily masks and hand sanitizer and wipes and etc); and masks for students will also be provided by the province
• increased funding for mental health support and the hiring of therapy staff to be available for students and teaching faculty
• on campus testing to track any asymptomatic carriers

I think those are the highlights - but if there are questions or more details wanted, just ask

 

[SaintRob]

So in retrospect, I did a stupid thing and now I'm self quarantining. A co-worker and I went to a vendor's office to learn more about a service that we inquired about. My co-worker and I were the only ones to wear masks during the meeting between us and 3 other people in a board room, where we were able to distance 6 feet. Although we were able to stay 6 feet apart, we were with them for almost two hours. It was my first time meeting one of their team members. He reached to shake my hand and I instinctively shook back, but realized immediately that I shouldn't and it must have showed on my face. The guy laughed it off and thought I was being crazy. He was very pompous about it. I immediately used hand sanitizer that was on the table. We should have either asked them to wear masks or rescheduled the meeting, but we didn't. No one was showing any kind of symptoms at all, so we didn't. You know where I'm going with this.

Hand shaker guy called us today to let us know that he tested positive. A family member that he had contact with last week showed symptoms yesterday, had the rapid test and was positive. Now he and several members of his immediate family are positive after having rapid tests done. My contact with him was on Tuesday. I know it's probably too early, but my wife and I went to be tested today. We're going to work remotely (luckily we both have jobs that we're able to do that) for the next several days and watch for symptoms, and get tested again on Monday regardless.

I'm so mad at myself, in retrospect. I really should have known better. Well, I do, I just didn't act on it.

 

[buzd]

So I haven't played video games much in the past few years due to lack of time and lack of interest
well I certainly have the time now and started playing Outer Worlds whuch takes place in the year 2355. At the beginning you are in a town that has been dealing with people dying of a plague

First thought I had was "we still dealing with this sheet 335 year later?"

The Division (and it's sequel) are basically about how civilization in New York and DC (respectively) has devolved after a virus has wiped out most of the people.

 

[Dago]

The Division (and it's sequel) are basically about how civilization in New York and DC (respectively) has devolved after a virus has wiped out most of the people.

so its a game and a reality show in one

 

[Dago]

So in retrospect, I did a stupid thing and now I'm self quarantining. A co-worker and I went to a vendor's office to learn more about a service that we inquired about. My co-worker and I were the only ones to wear masks during the meeting between us and 3 other people in a board room, where we were able to distance 6 feet. Although we were able to stay 6 feet apart, we were with them for almost two hours. It was my first time meeting one of their team members. He reached to shake my hand and I instinctively shook back, but realized immediately that I shouldn't and it must have showed on my face. The guy laughed it off and thought I was being crazy. He was very pompous about it. I immediately used hand sanitizer that was on the table. We should have either asked them to wear masks or rescheduled the meeting, but we didn't. No one was showing any kind of symptoms at all, so we didn't. You know where I'm going with this.

Hand shaker guy called us today to let us know that he tested positive. A family member that he had contact with last week showed symptoms yesterday, had the rapid test and was positive. Now he and several members of his immediate family are positive after having rapid tests done. My contact with him was on Tuesday. I know it's probably too early, but my wife and I went to be tested today. We're going to work remotely (luckily we both have jobs that we're able to do that) for the next several days and watch for symptoms, and get tested again on Monday regardless.

I'm so mad at myself, in retrospect. I really should have known better. Well, I do, I just didn't act on it.

good luck...chances are pretty remote but glad you are being cautious

 

[RazorOye]

Here in the province, we have been below 100 new cases two days in a row - 89 today and 76 yesterday. And yesterday, 28,000 tests were administered.

We added 3 deaths yesterday as a province.

There are currently 79 people in the hospitals province-wide with COVID - there were 84 yesterday.

In intensive care, we have 27 today. There were 28 in ICU yesterday, with 16 of them on ventilators.

The province has been trending in the right direction a couple of months, now. But a number of doctors are saying here that a second wave is inevitable and could be worse than the first one was. So any optimism is certainly guarded up here.

 

[insidejob]

It's why a lack of a nationwide unified strategy to deal with this thing is such an issue.

This is definitely the most infuriating part of this whole debacle. Not even considering a federally ordered mandate to control the spread and leaving it up to the states to decide their own "guidance" caused the politicizing of the virus to begin with. And now we're back where we were in April.

 

[insidejob]

Here in the province, we have been below 100 new cases two days in a row - 89 today and 76 yesterday. And yesterday, 28,000 tests were administered.

We added 3 deaths yesterday as a province.

There are currently 79 people in the hospitals province-wide with COVID - there were 84 yesterday.

In intensive care, we have 27 today. There were 28 in ICU yesterday, with 16 of them on ventilators.

The province has been trending in the right direction a couple of months, now. But a number of doctors are saying here that a second wave is inevitable and could be worse than the first one was. So any optimism is certainly guarded up here.

I'd love to have numbers like that even in just Louisiana.

The idea of a second, more intense wave of this virus is downright scary. We've messed up the first wave so bad that it won't even be gone by the time the second wave starts and then what? Lots of states are close to capacity with their ability to treat COVID patients today. If the second wave is what many predict it to be, I don't see how a second stay at home order will be avoidable.

 

[efil4stnias]

So in retrospect, I did a stupid thing and now I'm self quarantining. A co-worker and I went to a vendor's office to learn more about a service that we inquired about. My co-worker and I were the only ones to wear masks during the meeting between us and 3 other people in a board room, where we were able to distance 6 feet. Although we were able to stay 6 feet apart, we were with them for almost two hours. It was my first time meeting one of their team members. He reached to shake my hand and I instinctively shook back, but realized immediately that I shouldn't and it must have showed on my face. The guy laughed it off and thought I was being crazy. He was very pompous about it. I immediately used hand sanitizer that was on the table. We should have either asked them to wear masks or rescheduled the meeting, but we didn't. No one was showing any kind of symptoms at all, so we didn't. You know where I'm going with this.

Hand shaker guy called us today to let us know that he tested positive. A family member that he had contact with last week showed symptoms yesterday, had the rapid test and was positive. Now he and several members of his immediate family are positive after having rapid tests done. My contact with him was on Tuesday. I know it's probably too early, but my wife and I went to be tested today. We're going to work remotely (luckily we both have jobs that we're able to do that) for the next several days and watch for symptoms, and get tested again on Monday regardless.

I'm so mad at myself, in retrospect. I really should have known better. Well, I do, I just didn't act on it.

hindsight - moving forward i hope you shed this peer pressure stigma we all face. Its really tough, especially in business.

That said, if they are receiving outside folks and refusing to wear a mask, they are in violation of the mask mandate.

Wishing you well StRob.

 

[jasonsw]

Our party host 2020 has just given us another party bag of crap.

3 more areas in Travis County have West Nile Virus-positive mosquitoes

The county regularly tests groups, or pools, of mosquitoes in traps set around the area.

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