COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US) (2 Viewers)

[bonnjer]

I'm not sure if this really goes in this thread, but since I was complaining about park closures earlier, I guess I'll file more neighborhood complaints here as well. How about a brake tag checkpoint during a stay at home order in which brake tag validation is suspended and the places in which to acquire them are closed anyway? How about multiple cars towed in the neighborhood for, get this, not moving from street parking for 3 or more days? And I'm supposed to take the mayor seriously when she tells me to keep my toddler out of the park.

Sounds like a good way for some people to line their pockets, but they wouldn't do that during a pandemic, right?

 

[someone]

 

[Brennan77]

Sounds like a good way for some people to line their pockets, but they wouldn't do that during a pandemic, right?

The city is hurting for money so they are tapping the usual sources, parking and vehicle violations. It's an ugly reminder of reality in the face of feigned altruism. It's not that different from enforcing parking regulations in some neighborhoods versus others. $$$ talks.

 

[Brennan77]

An uptick is expected. The point of a lockdown is not to prevent that. Or have we forgotten? Even those who managed the ICUs, who will not speak of the horror they attended to, are saying that the goal of the stay at home orders have been accomplished and that it is time to move on to living again.

 

[mattgdg]

But a gym where people are breathing hard, sweating and God knows what else. Hard pass.

God knows what else = releasing draft information

 

[Brennan77]

It's only a little death, it's still good, it's still good.

Death happens. I am well aware. The point of the stay at home strategy was not supposed to be about preventing it.

 

[Brennan77]

You really don't like this mayor.

When you find something she does or says that doesn't express contempt for taxpaying, rule following New Orleanians, you let me know. But this isn't about her in particular. She's just another face filling a perpetually corrupt and laughably egotistical office. I love New Orleans. And I also hate it. If you don't do both you're not a healthy person and I truly believe that. Right now, at the mercy of our local governmental powers, there's way more to hate than not.

During the last 7 weeks I've gotten out of the house as much as possible. Most of the time it's meant leaving Orleans Parish. And apparently those other times I've been violating rules that are only now being expressed in the last two days. What a joke.

 

[superchuck500]

Very interesting read about SARS1 in the context of SAR2.

The writer is a virologist (Ph.D.) at Penn State.

The mysterious disappearance of the first SARS virus, and why we need a vaccine for the current one but didn't for the other

COVID-19 and SARS are both deadly – but different. SARS symptoms were quick to appear, making it easier to contain. Because health officials were able to contain it, the virus died off.

theconversation.com

 

[0rion]

Pop quiz....can you spot the weekends?

 

[gboudx]

The only question is if their hospitals are overwhelmed? If not, carry on.

Not yet thankfully. Last I saw on local news yesterday is ICU beds were like 53% capacity and ventilators 68%.

 

[xpuma20x]

An uptick is expected. The point of a lockdown is not to prevent that. Or have we forgotten? Even those who managed the ICUs, who will not speak of the horror they attended to, are saying that the goal of the stay at home orders have been accomplished and that it is time to move on to living again.

I personally know quite a few ICU nurses and directors and not a single one of them has said this. Where are you getting that those who run ICUs are saying we shouldn't remain in quarantine?

 

[mb504]

I think a lot of the LaToya hate over her handling of this has been overblown. But now she wants businesses to keep customer logs of everyone who enters...and that is so far over the line that she can't even see the line any more. WTF?

 

[Brennan77]

Not yet thankfully. Last I saw on local news yesterday is ICU beds were like 53% capacity and ventilators 68%.

They never touched the majority of the makeshift units put in place. No one that needed a ventilator was denied. Everyone that was pulled from their regular jobs to man the response teams have been sent back. And now the hospitals are short hundreds of millions from the lack of business and employees are having to make sacrifices in vacation pay and contract employees are being voided. It's kind of weird for contract nurses to be fired during a pandemic because of restrictions placed in response to it, no?

 

[Brennan77]

I personally know quite a few ICU nurses and directors and not a single one of them has said this. Where are you getting that those who run ICUs are saying we shouldn't remain in quarantine?

I won't say more than that I know several as well. I'm not shooting from the hip.

 

[superchuck500]

Pop quiz....can you spot the weekends?

So it is curious that the curve moves on 7-day cycle like that - but what is the real premise here with the 'weekend' line? Certainly it isn't that the virus is somehow less lethal on weekends - that's silly.

So it must be that somehow we just report fewer Covid deaths on the weekends because of some human factor - but what? Are hospitals and public health officials workin' for the weekend, and they go out and party, leaving the numbers to the B team? Hospitals and public health officials don't really take weekends off.

Plus, if you look at the dates of those dips, the last three bottoms occur on Mondays (and this week looks like Tuesday) - not actually on the weekend. If it's some kind of 'weekend' theory, why would Monday record the fewest?

At the same time, it certainly does show three of the last four dip bottoms to be Mondays, and the fourth was a Sunday. So what's going on?