COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (4 Viewers)

[bonnjer]

Sitting on the tarmac in Philadelphia in the middle of a winter storm and they are now disinfecting the outside of the planes with heavy machinery before allowing departure.

Ok, maybe my coffee hasn't kicked in yet, but why are they disinfecting the OUTSIDE of the plane? That's not where the rona lives.

 

[faceman]

Ok, maybe my coffee hasn't kicked in yet, but why are they disinfecting the OUTSIDE of the plane? That's not where the rona lives.

I think he meant de-icing

 

[bonnjer]

I think he meant de-icing

Yes, that makes sense. Like I said, the gears weren't spinning up yet.

 

[efil4stnias]

Yes!! I got pics for any of the doubters.

oh man...i remember that in Denver several years back

i watched a guy spray de-icing on wings in 18 degree weather. Lasted a few min, but at one point i was watching...he missed a whole section and i was like "ok hang on a second...do i tell someone??!?!"

Last trip i just closed the window lol. didnt even want to know.

 

[Eeyore]

Meanwhile at the site of the 'Lympics

Beijing locks down office building with workers still inside after single Omicron case detected | CNN

At an office building in China's capital on Sunday, masked Covid control personnel lugged boxes of pillows and bedding through the closely guarded entrance for white collar workers stuck inside, preparing for what may be days of lockdown as Beijing rushes to prevent the spread of Omicron ahead...

www.cnn.com

 

[not2rich]

oh man...i remember that in Denver several years back

i watched a guy spray de-icing on wings in 18 degree weather. Lasted a few min, but at one point i was watching...he missed a whole section and i was like "ok hang on a second...do i tell someone??!?!"

Last trip i just closed the window lol. didnt even want to know.

I once was flying a prop plane from Denver to WY. Waited in line to de-ice, got de-iced, started taxi-ing to the runway, and then the pilot announced we were going back to the gate to refuel because they lost too much fuel while going through the whole process. Had to get off the plane and do it all over.

 

[efil4stnias]

I once was flying a prop plane from Denver to WY. Waited in line to de-ice, got de-iced, started taxi-ing to the runway, and then the pilot announced we were going back to the gate to refuel because they lost too much fuel while going through the whole process. Had to get off the plane and do it all over.

a prop plane?

Yeah ive seen WAAY to many FAA "crash investigation" shows to EVER fly a prop plane.

Ever. lol.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

The CDC continues to beclown themselves with goofball guidance that nobody outside of hardcore adherents and/or reclusive hermits will follow. So people quit listening. And our federal leadership has shown no willingness to reform this obviously broken system because it might cut the wrong way politically to tell Fauci et al to shut up and hire a PR team.

Part of the problem, Schaffner and others say, is that CDC scientists are sometimes stuck in a bubble.
"You've got nerds -- literally science nerds -- who are writing these things," said Dr. Otis Brawley, who worked with the CDC on cancer guidance while he was chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society from 2007 to 2018.

CDC's suggestion to cancel football, band in nearly every US school called 'unrealistic' | CNN

If the scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had their way, to curb the spread of Covid-19 right now, nearly every US school would cancel football, wrestling, band and loads of other mainstay school activities.

www.cnn.com

 

[efil4stnias]

The CDC continues to beclown themselves with goofball guidance that nobody outside of hardcore adherents and/or reclusive hermits will follow. So people quit listening. And our federal leadership has shown no willingness to reform this obviously broken system because it might cut the wrong way politically to tell Fauci et al to shut up and hire a PR team.

CDC's suggestion to cancel football, band in nearly every US school called 'unrealistic' | CNN

If the scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had their way, to curb the spread of Covid-19 right now, nearly every US school would cancel football, wrestling, band and loads of other mainstay school activities.

www.cnn.com

well to be fair, it was a suggestion. The powers that be simply wouldnt allow.

So seems that the "chain of command" works.

Releasing the fact that some scientists wrote about wrangling COVID to the ground would require cancelling school sports/extra curricular activities doesnt help.

If I told you all the "inner discussions" had about decision making at my company would make your head spin.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

well to be fair, it was a suggestion. The powers that be simply wouldnt allow.

So seems that the "chain of command" works.

Releasing the fact that some scientists wrote about wrangling COVID to the ground would require cancelling school sports/extra curricular activities doesnt help.

If I told you all the "inner discussions" had about decision making at my company would make your head spin.

Everything out of the CDC is a suggestion or guidance, including the length of isolation/quarantine/ or masking - this is part of their specific updated guidance for schools.

 

[superchuck500]

But these complications do not fully explain the sheer rage generated by Silver. The furnace-hot backlash seemed to be triggered by Silver’s assumption that school closings were not only a mistake — a possibility many progressives have quietly begun to accept — but an error of judgment that was sufficiently consequential and foreseeable that we can’t just shrug it off as a bad dice roll. It was a historic blunder that reveals some deeper flaw in the methods that produced it and which demands corrective action.

School Closures Were a Catastrophe. Progressives Still Haven’t Reckoned With It.

If you don’t diagnose your error, you might repeat it.

nymag.com

 

[nolaswede]

Anyone else kind of looking forward to the updated numbers? Don’t want to jinx it, but hoping for a good day obviously!

 

[SaintInBucLand]

School Closures Were a Catastrophe. Progressives Still Haven’t Reckoned With It.

If you don’t diagnose your error, you might repeat it.

nymag.com

Policy makers will never admit they were wrong. No matter which side of the political spectrum they come from.

 

[DaveXA]

Policy makers will never admit they were wrong. No matter which side of the political spectrum they come from.

I don't think that's true. I've seen some admit certain policies were a mistake. But then that would require getting into a deeper political discussion.

 

[gboudx]

I don't think that's true. I've seen some admit certain policies were a mistake. But then that would require getting into a deeper political discussion.

With simply offering an example of what you said, the governor of Arkansas admitted it was a mistake to end the mask mandate last summer.