Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

I think they got themselves labeled as "restaurants" probably. We were on emerald isle. Definitely one restaurant there on the main road wasn't following orders (I asked my in-laws about it and they said that all the locals knew about it but didn't do anything).

 

the wife and i went to our local cracker barrel here in gainesville sunday for breakfast. going to my table it looked like 75-85% of the tables were occupied, if they get shut down again, their fault.

 

OK. Yeah, I have heard about a couple places way out on the outer banks, but very few people live out there. The areas being hit, (Charlotte, Raleigh etc) are pretty soundly wearing masks. I know Wake County (Raleigh) and New Hanover (Wilmington) are.

Another note is there is a cutoff to serve alcohol. (10PM For some cities, 11PM for the state.) So even a bar claiming to be a restaurant is likely missing out on the bar crowd. They risk losing their liquor license if they violate the law.

 

Yeah, how hard you have been hit definitely is a major factor in mask wearing. Outside of a couple of notables, you hear a lot less complaining about masks on here than you used to before Florida got slammed. I'm guessing the people running these places decided that they wouldn't survive if they stayed closed or distanced for their busy season anyways, so they decided to risk it. The problem is that while there aren't huge amounts of permanent residents, it is a pretty populated area actually, and it is filled with a combo of residents and renters who will spread it all over the place if they get sick there and head home at the end of their week.

 

numbers from covid 19 tracking.in july averaged 744,000 tests a day, 61,526 daily positives for a 8.0% positive rate.so far in august averaging 720,000 daily tests with 51,866 daily positive results, a 7,20% rate. 24,000 less daily tests, but 10,000 less daily positives and a lowere positive rate, overall it looks good.

 

Update: Notre Dame closes in-person undergraduate instruction for 2 weeks to deal with ballooning number of cases. 16% of their on-going tests (after their initial tests) have now come back positive. This took just 2 weeks from initial tests.

Notre Dame temporarily shifts to remote classes to try to curb coronavirus outbreak, warns it may send students home

 

Weird that this didn’t work out.

 

You don’t live in Georgia, do you? I’m in sales and visit 12ish customer sites a day. No way 95% of the people I see on a daily basis are wearing masks.

 

In Seminole County it’s at least 95% mask usage in stores from what I have seen. I’ve seen maybe a total of 3 people without a mask on in a store over the past 2 weeks. Went to Publix 6 times and Home Depot twice.

 

makes those first numbers real suspect. if so few were infected to begin with where did the source come from?

 

from the article

A gaiter, on the other hand, was shown to disperse larger droplets into smaller ones, resulting in a higher droplet count than any other face covering and, indeed, than even foregoing a face mask altogether.

“We noticed that speaking through some masks (particularly the neck fleece) seemed to disperse the largest droplets into a multitude of smaller droplets, which explains the apparent increase in droplet count relative to no mask in that case,” wrote the researchers. “Considering that smaller particles are airborne longer than large droplets (larger droplets sink faster), the use of such a mask might be counterproductive.”

not sure how they rate it false based on that

 

Global Cases: 22,046,135
China Cases: 89,477

Global Population: 7,655,957,369
Population of China: 1,400,050,000

18% of the world population but only 0.004% of positive Covid cases?

Like Arsenio Hall used to say:

 

I was on a call today with the head of infectious disease for LRMC and he said that this virus is actually larger in size and that alone they don’t stay airborne as long as others so any effort to keep them from being airborne is good. He also said that with current testing that once you get a positive, isolate 10 days and no need for a negative test later because the tests return false positives based on the remnants of the virus that are unable to replicate.

 

I’ve been drinking, but your math looks wrong on the percentage of cases.

 

You’re right, missed a zero, fixed it. Thanks.

 

The latest in coronavirus impact on the culture: calling out your governor by name in your loved one's Covid obituary. Apparently, Texas governor Greg Abbott is viewed as a pinhead by many within his state for his (under-) reaction to Covid-19.

Stacey Nagy's obituary for her late husband, David, condemns Trump and people who don't wear masks: 'May karma find you all' - CNN

People are using honest obituaries to blame governors for coronavirus deaths and invite them to their loved ones' funerals - CNN

An organization is providing funding for people to trash the politicians in obituaries.

 

As you can see from the posting here, community spread is apparently OK because it is people who are over 55 who are at greatest risk to die. Nagy’s mother was 79. Apparently, her death doesn’t count in weighing the seriousness of the disease. She might have died of the flu, in a car accident, of a heart attack. Any number of diseases. Maybe you missed the posters attempting to educate us.

 

And yet the state republican party voted to censure him for his response to covid. Oddly enough, the lunatic who led the pub revolt against the Governor is a former Floridian along the lines of Gaetz.

Republican committees censure Texas governor over requiring face masks, closures

Texas GOP turns on Gov. Abbott now that he's finally trying to stop virus spike

Eight different local Republican Party chapters in Texas have censured Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for issuing a statewide order mandating face masks in public, as well as limiting other public gatherings, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Abbott finally issued a statewide mask order on July 2, following months of not only resistance to public health measures, but also a concerted effort to block localities across the state from making their own mask-wearing policies.

Abbott issued the mask order after cases of the coronavirus skyrocketed in the Lone Star State, threatening to overrun the state's hospital systems — which may not have enough ventilators, intensive care beds, or even staff to treat the sickest patients infected with the coronavirus.


But local Texas Republican chapters are up in arms over Abbott's late response to the virus.

The Montgomery County Republican Party in Texas unanimously voted 40-0 to censure Abbott for "creating law via executive order."

 

Winning here in GA.

White House says Georgia now leads nation in rate of new virus cases

 

Some Texas Republicans were up in arms over the statewide mandate from the Governor requiring masks. Not his purported “late” response to the pandemic.