Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

hey, you mad because business is dropping? i know 1400 is not good, but we are moving in the right direction, looked forward to the day where there are maybe 100 or so, again too many but a goal.

 

He is obviously thinking about the trend, which is moving in the right direction for now. We will see if it keeps up in the longer term, but I’m pretty skeptical.

 

now you want top talk about cooking the books on numbers, russia with almost 200,000 cases and less than 1,900 dead.

 

Sorry about your pup. 18 years is one hell of a run, esp. for a Chihuahua (I think). You must have been a wonderful pet owner. So sorry.

 

Hell no I'm not mad. I want this shit out of our lives as quickly as possible.

 

I know that but the phrasing is weird. I would definitely not call today a good day. I'm also skeptical that this trend will keep up but hope like hell it does.

 

IOW - you're tough enough to suck it up and make it happen for other people. Thank you! Unfortunately, many Americans are just not ready to accept this cultural paradigm.

 

Depends on where you live I assume. I am on the other end of the state from @citygator and honestly tonight I went to Food Lion and saw 4 people wearing masks because in my city we havent had a death in a month. 1 death per 100,000 people in our metro area. It's basically a non issue. We wear them in our office and in environments where long exposure is going to occur...but basically no one wears them to the store unless the store requires.

There has been no push for masks here and there hasn't needed to be.

 

If 80% of Americans Wore Masks, COVID-19 Infections Would Plummet, New Study Says

 

And I’m an 80%er., most of the time.

 

In what ways is alachua county doing less than the state has asked?

 

Been trying to get delivery from Giant and Harris Teeter, 1 and 2 miles away respectively, since the beginning. No go. Today, Whole Foods delivered for free from Fairfax (I'm in Manassas) and had it here in under two hours. Two things out of stock, otherwise complete order of ~$60. The free delivery only required $35.

Just FYI, in case, like me, you've been struggling to work out grocery delivery/pickup. Obviously this is one place in time, but I was blown away that this worked.

 

Again, while this makes sense from a containment perspective, I think it ignores the preventative perspective. This might ax sully be the best time for your community to enact these measures as the virus hasn’t yet become a problem.

 

Perhaps...or it is proof that masks in the grocery store aren't that helpful. The stores have strict guidelines. (One way aisles etc). Maybe those are the measures that actually help. Most settings that contribute to longer exposures (offices like mine) require them.i require my staff to wear them and they are kept from any public facing activity at this time.

Our county went above and beyond the states already pretty tight restrictions.

I think we may be a testament to how it should have been handled.

 

Small dogs can live forever. My wife got him as a 14 year old birthday present from her parents and she was the one that took care of him through high school, college and well into the real world (married with two kids).

Was a good life lesson for her, and going to do the same for our kids. I don’t get any credit as I am an average dog owner at best. And yeah, 18 years broke the scale in dog years. All the charts I checked stopped at 16 or 17.

Sorry to interrupt, back to C-19 fun.

 

My wife found a couple secrets for Walmart grocery pick up. Log in right after midnight and just get the minimum to get your foot in the door. Once you seal your spot you can log in later and add to existing orders since orders are often a few days out.

 

"actually". It took me a minute to figure out what your pre-autocorrection word was meant to be.

 

This seems entirely too much of a coincidence.
Fauaci, Redfield and Hahn in self quarantine after exposure to the virus.

All were set to testify in front of a senate committee on Tues.

Three key U.S. coronavirus officials in self-quarantine after COVID-19 exposure

 

Traced to ONE person. And in the US we don't have anywhere near the amount of contact tracing they have in SK.
South Korea's Moon warns of COVID-19 second wave as cases rebound