Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

I dug the wife a separate hole. I snore.

 

You are too nice. My wife wants a safe place to hide, she can dig her own damn hole.
She’s younger than me, all sorts of energy.

 

Again, too vague a poll. Public spaces mean a lot of things, but retail is booming.

Valid point about curbside, but that isn't really important. Revenue is revenue, and revenue is up year to year comps for retail. That includes dept stores that do not offer curbside. Curbside actually ads jobs for many of these businesses too, as they still have to stock shelves for in store, but have staff dedicated exclusively to curbside as well.

I am not as basement as you may be , but we still proceed with much more caution than in normal times.

 

That it does. Just saying that while retail sales seem to be up, there are still a lot of people not going back to their normal routines.

 

No question.

 

I had to look it up. Not familiar with that Bee Gees song. Looks to be during their early days. Anyway - nice job. I like the reference.

 

Melanie let’s coronavirus dominate her. Why doesn’t she listen to the President?

 

Leaked Reports Show White House Knew Of COVID-19 Spike As Trump Downplayed Crisis | HuffPost

 

What the hell?! COVID might have already killed 400,000 Americans?

 

And it may have only killed 100,000 if everyone who had it was listed as dying from it, not underlying conditions.

 

I’ve been saying this for awhile. That all the “excess death” studies hinted we were drastically undercounting the true number of COVID deaths, especially from the early months. But that is a far larger number than I’ve seen. I already would have guessed we were pushing 300k. This CDC study suggests we are still undercounting? I actually would have assumed we would have been better at attributing them properly today than at the start, but perhaps not.

 

I've been following this dashboard thru the fall. Stunning to see weekly excess deaths exceeding 20%.

Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19

 

Can we stop with this nonsense, please? There is a good reason why there is more than one line on every Death Certificate for Cause of Death. If we listened the line of reasoning that underlying conditions don't cause death, then nobody would die because of Alzheimer's Disease. Why? Because Alzheimer's itself doesn't kill, but it does cause renal failure and/or stroke, which is often listed as the cause of death, with Alzheimer's being the underlying condition. But nobody disagrees on how deadly and nasty a disease Alzheimer's is, even though, if we use the logic above to the extreme, Alzheimer's never killed a single person!

 

Rather than invite a prolonged re-hashing of this subject, here's a list of 130+ posts from this thread's history discussing it.

https://www.gatorcountry.com/swampgas/search/101912870/?q=underlying&t=post&o=date&c[thread]=467374

You're so very welcome.

 

8 misunderstandings about Covid and refutations.

Eight Persistent COVID-19 Myths and Why People Believe Them

 

no. excess deaths are at 300k and they attribute 200k +/- to covid.

5700 + covid deaths in 25 - 44 age range

 

for all those that continue to parrot the mantra that old people should jsut isolate, here is a study that documented how the rise in cases among college students was followed by a rise in deaths in nursing homes in same area.

the more virus there is in the community, the greater the odds that the virus will find at risk population

COVID-19 Cases In Wisconsin Nursing Homes Increase With Community Spread

 

mid 20's physically fit, spent a week with mild symptoms and months later found out about long term issues

She’s in her 20s, fit ... and facing serious COVID-19 complications months after she got sick
Then the symptoms disappeared. East, an avid hiker and skier, felt “totally fine” and got back to normal life. It did take six weeks for her COVID-19 tests to turn negative. Then she returned to work.

By September, there was an ache around her shoulder blades, but she didn’t think much of it. By early October, she couldn’t ignore her new symptoms.

One Sunday night, East’s breathing felt wrong. Her heart rate rose to 120, elevated for such a fit person whose pulse usually hovers in the 70s. Two days later, at work, East’s heart started pounding and she felt light-headed. Her heart rate rose to 200 beats a minute. East ended up at the Providence Alaska Medical Center emergency room where a doctor ordered a CT scan.

“That’s where they found I had a bunch of pulmonary emboli in both my lungs,” she said in mid-October. “The doctor said he thought it’s probably because of having COVID, that they’re seeing that pretty commonly.”
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It’s not unusual for patients recovering from severe illness of any kind to suffer long-term effects. But with COVID-19 patients, researchers are seeing long-term health problems even in those who never got sick enough to be hospitalized.

 

More good news: According to an infectious disease expert, it's going to get darker before the dawn.

Infectious Disease Expert: The 'Darkest Of The Entire Pandemic' Has Yet To Come

(That last line seems like a shot across the bow at our Clown-in-Chief president.)

 

Yellowstone Park reports most-ever September visitors