COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US) (11 Viewers)

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Or walk outside too.


Yep, it's recommended a person get 15 minutes of sun daily to activate Vitamin D production in the body. Taking a pill and not getting
any sun isn't going to do much good.
 
I'm also wondering if the increased vitamin D due to sun exposure in the summer is reducing the severity of the disease. Some studies have proven that vitamin D has a pretty big impact with SARS in correlation with the severity of the case. The fall/winter months will likely give us this answer. It could just be the younger age, still a lag between tests/deaths and better treatment options but even with steroids and remdesevir the death rate should only change a little. My concern with this wave will get going in about another 10 days. That's when the transmission between the young and older populations are likely to start happening.
I've been taking extra vitamin D because I work in an office all week and am staying home as much as possible rather than getting out on the weekends like I normally would. Can't hurt, IMO.
 
No doubt that segment of the population exists, though I think it might be smaller than it appears online.
If you drive by the Bulldog or any other restaurant/bar along Magazine St over the last few weeks, there are not a lot of masks and I would estimate 1% of the crowd are Trump supporters.

Or the block party in Kenner that made the news this weekend after a shooting took place. It's not just MAGA that aren't on board

Agree, I'm seeing that it's also a function of age. Young people (<30 or so) are far more likely to be going out to restaurants and bars, indoors, without masks. Very likely not Trump supporters.

I think there is an element of the broader population that think the mask issue is something that the educated/science crowd believes but it's probably just pseudo-science and they don't believe it (e.g. climate change). Many of that mindset seem to support Trump but I don't think it's necessarily co-extensive.

A lot of people are just being lazy or insecure about it. I was quite shocked last night when I went to pick up a to-go order. The restaurant was fully sat up to its 50% capacity it has adopted by policy. All employees had masks on. Not a single dining customer had a mask - not one. And I saw families with kids aging from toddler through high school age. The only other customer with a mask was another to-go customer like me. We're having a massive spike here, the 7-day average has already doubled twice in the last 10 days and the county (400K people) is now over 250 new cases per day.

It's just so irresponsible IMO for these people to be behaving like that - that's precisely why the case count is spiking. And I don't at all believe that they're all MAGAs, not even close. But I do think that the lack of leadership at the federal and state level are substantially contributing factors.
 
No doubt that segment of the population exists, though I think it might be smaller than it appears online.
If you drive by the Bulldog or any other restaurant/bar along Magazine St over the last few weeks, there are not a lot of masks and I would estimate 1% of the crowd are Trump supporters.

Or the block party in Kenner that made the news this weekend after a shooting took place. It's not just MAGA that aren't on board

NOLA is its own strange, bon temps rouler thing, though. In Austin and surrounding areas, I've seen two distinct segments of no mask crew:

- Stupid young kids under 25 whose politics/beliefs I can't discern but suspect there's no pattern. While I roll my eyes and think they should get off my lawn, I remember myself at 25 and I thought I was unbreakable.

- MAGA hat types.


There is absolutely a correlation between political affiliation and mask usage.
 
@bclemms : Perhaps evidence that the demographics of the new Florida spike are beginning to include older residents (as you suspected would happen).

 
Gilead announces pricing structure for Rendesivir. US taxpayers helped fund the research and now Gilead is charging US insurers 30% more than the rest of the world.
That’s the case for the vast majority of drugs produced in the US — socialism for the research, capitalism for the sale.
 


That's crazy, and we didn't even get the benefit of keeping the economy open (though Sweden didn't really see any benefit from that in the long run).

Seems like the "save the economy" approach will end up hurting the economy in the long run. It's almost as if you can't govern via catchphrase and emotion and expect good results.
 
That's crazy, and we didn't even get the benefit of keeping the economy open (though Sweden didn't really see any benefit from that in the long run).

Seems like the "save the economy" approach will end up hurting the economy in the long run. It's almost as if you can't govern via catchphrase and emotion and expect good results.
August seems like it's an eternity away so November feels like it may never come. I'm terrified to see what the cases look like nationwide when it gets cold outside and cold and flu season start raging - as will COVID, even though it hasn't even stopped. We did that entire shutdown for nothing. It's going to take another one to contain this thing and that's going to require leadership from the top, something we've really been lacking throughout this whole thing. Louisiana postponing their phase three opening isn't enough, IMO. We should at least be rolling back to phase one. Edwards catch phrase of "People are saying they're done with the virus. Well, the virus isn't done with us," isn't enough to get people to take this seriously. You see it everywhere you go. Nobody (a majority of people really) is taking this thing seriously as the cases continue to skyrocket all around us.
 
If anyone wants to read this article, a Dallas Morning News reporter and photographer were given access to the Covid area at Parkland Hospital in Dallas which is the county public hospital.

Edit: Requires a subscription.

 
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If anyone wants to read this article, a Dallas Morning News reporter and photographer were given access to the Covid area at Parkland Hospital in Dallas which is the county public hospital.


Paywalled. :mad:
 
Let me say this about wearing a mask. It's strange. Very surreal - I'm still not used to it. And I'm not going out much - it's usually to the store or for something "essential" so I guess I'm slower getting used to it, but it's so odd going to the grocery on a beautiful day and everyone (pretty much 95% at Rouse's these days) is in a mask. You can't see or feel the virus so there is a real temptation to just take it off niggling at the back of your mind.

I'm certainly not arguing against mask wearing and am all - in, but it really is kind of an unnatural thing. I guess I can understand why some succumb to not wearing them (although it doesn't make me any less mad).
 
I saw this yesterday regarding the vaccine progress. What I quote below stood out to me.


Vaccine experts say it’s time to set public expectations. Many scientists don’t expect a coronavirus vaccine to be nearly as protective as the measles shot.

If the best COVID-19 vaccine is only 50% effective, “that’s still to me a great vaccine,” said Dr. Drew Weissman of the University of Pennsylvania.

“We need to start having this conversation now,” so people won’t be surprised, he added.

And for all the government promises of stockpiling doses in hopes of starting vaccinations by year’s end, here’s the catch: Even if a shot pans out -- and it’s one that your country stockpiled -- only some high-risk people, such as essential workers, go to the front of a very long line.

“Will you and I get vaccinated this year? No way,” said Duke University health economist David Ridley.
 
Crap. The DMN makes Covid news free, but I guess this story didn't make the cut.

I think Nola.com/The Advocate is making things free for locals and paywalling for others, so maybe DMN is doing the same. IDK.
 
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