Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Sorry to hear that, hoping for the best.

 

I hope she is okay.

 

Oh my, gr8t. Sorry to hear that. Will keep your mother and family in my thoughts. Hope for a speedy recovery.

I'm with you in your frustration and anger.

 

that sux. Sorry to hear it. I wish her & her friends the best.

 

That sucks. And I just sat with my 81yo Mom and tried to explain this very thing. Don't think it sunk in.

Sorry to hear this. Fingers crossed!

 

I think I mentioned it on this thread, but there's rift in my family--well mainly I have ceased talking to my sister because she's been incredibly irresponsible about covid, endangering my 80yo father and thus my 78yo mother. Both with high risk health conditions.

It's almost daily battle to keep my father from visiting my sister/her fam (my mother refuses to). Frustrating af.

 

Dammit. I really hope she ends up with a mild case.

 

already lost her best friend in the place to covid. 36 hours in and she already has bad cough and headaches

 

are they allowing visitors to homes in Maine? Haven't seen her since February, no visitors allowed. Hopefully they get vaccine to your Mom before she gets infected

 

So is it a hoax?

 

now more covid deaths than combat deaths in WW 2. Think about that

More Americans Have Died From Coronavirus Than in Combat During WWII (msn.com)


The total number of people in the U.S. who have died after contracting COVID-19 has now exceeded the number of Americans who died in combat during World War II.

World War II was the deadliest war in American history in terms of the number of service members who lost their lives on a battlefield, with an estimated 291,557 combat deaths, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

On Thursday, December 10, the U.S. surpassed that number as coronavirus cases and hospitalization rates continued rising across the country. According to Johns Hopkins University, 291,754 Americans have died from the novel coronavirus as of December 10, at 5:26 p.m.

The somber milestone comes at a time when health experts have predicted that the country's battle with the pandemic will only worsen in the weeks ahead. The number of daily COVID-19 cases reported throughout the country steadily increased during the fall, raising alarms about how hospitals would handle surges in COVID-19 patients amid the traditional resurgence of winter respiratory diseases.

 

Some mensas still say deaths are going down

 

Not sure about visitors. My mom has been staying with us as she convalesces from a fall last summer (and avoids going back to FL - though ME is exploding now).

 

you didn’t read that and not be at least a little baffled as to why the US media is treating the Covid pandemic drastically different than the rest of the world? If not, then you are part of the problem.

 

Why are you being so negative bro?

 

But I like it!

 

Scientists finally getting enough time to go back and test stock piled blood samples from the red cross proving what some of us have maintained all along. That this virus was spreading in the US well before the official date of late January, especially no knowing the Chinese were hiding this back into November of 2019. Remember, if this thing had not found its way into a congregate living facility in Washington, there still would have been no alarm raise in the US into February. So, if a couple hundred people had "severe flu-like symptoms" or even a cluster of people with "severe flu-like symptoms" and no concentrated mass deaths (like a nursing home) would we have even noticed??

Coronavirus could have been spreading in US as early as mid-December 2019, study suggests

 

As has been noted, most kids seem to be minimally impacted by the virus and that is awesome. As predicted by some on these boards, not so much the teachers.
Fulton County in Atlanta has almost doubled their sub teacher pay in an effort to put an adult into the classrooms. Cobb county hasn’t yet but we are certainly seeing the vacancies. My wife has been taking her name out of the call queue every day as she has more sub work than she wants. My son’s math class hasn’t had a teacher all week. He is remote and is just told to sign off. The in person portion doesn’t have a teacher but the teacher across the hall sticks his head in every 15 minutes.
Hopefully it doesn’t get worse. Not sure it does any good to have your kid in a class without a teacher.

 

Most school systems in Arizona have either gone fully online or hybrid, like my kids, who only attend school in-person twice a week with half their class. The other half attend the other two days, and everyone is online once a week. In Chandler, the state's third largest district, they still aren't hybrid or fully online, and the teachers have had enough. They did a sick-out today, with over 150 teachers calling in sick. They say go hybrid by January, or they all walk out.