Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

It is a real shame in my opinion too. The man was, by all accounts since I do not know him, really brilliant in his field. He also said some things that were not politically motivated or blatant lies and had some common sense to them. Unfortunately, like everyone who hitched their 15 minutes to President Trump, they seemed to abandon their common sense, morals and ethics and turn into a raving idiot...parroting the President, who I am also convinced is mentally deficient at this point.

 

I am currently living in rural MN. We have had a statewide mask mandate up here for any indoor building since July 25th.

I would agree with those posters who said rural communities have almost no compliance, when I did go visit my sister and nephews in early September who live in the Twin Cities I was shocked at how compliance was closer to 90-95%.

Up here in rural MN, when I do briefly go into stores (Ace Hardware, Walmart, grocery stores) in the nearest "town" -I live 20 min outside of the nearest town which is roughly 12k people- I would say its incredibly spotty about wearing masks but of those who actually do have one on a good half if not more are wearing them incorrectly. I've seen first hand many people wear a mask into Walmart (its required, there is a security guard posted outside to make sure everyone has one one before they enter) and then as soon as they get their cart and step foot into the store their mask becomes a chin strap. Too many workers also do this.

Now going into any small town gas stations and restaurants closer to my house in the middle of rural MN, there is zero mask wearing. I have been in fact the only one (other than an occasional worker) wearing a mask on several occasions. Bars, don't even think about it. Not only was there no mask wearing but there also wasn't any compliance with the being limited to 50% indoor capacity and having to space tables 6 feet apart.

On top of that my mom is a VP in a small town hospital up here and she says what they have been fighting is that at work mask compliance is 100% but once these nurses get done with their shifts they were the ones going into the community mask-less. There definitely was and is mask fatigue among small town health care workers.

All of these have created the perfect storm in rural MN. About two weeks ago the county I live in and the neighboring county were 2 and 3 for spread rate per population in the entire nation. The entire nation. Little rural MN counties. And yet last week when I stopped to fill my car up with fuel I was still the only one wearing a mask.

At this point those who think wearing a mask is harmful, doesn't help, whatever excuse they have aren't ever going to change their opinion. Even when their county shoots up to 2nd in the nation for spread.

You have to wear a shirt and shoes to get service. Wearing a mask shouldn't be all that different.

 

The 7-11 was near DT Fort Myers. In the North Fort Myers Walmart last night I'd guess about 40% were not wearing masks.

 

Since everyone feels the need to tell anecdotal stories of mask wearing, here in north of Orlando it’s at 95-100% compliance

 

2611 deaths today.
Won’t be long until we pass our previous daily high of 2744 from April if the trend continues.
275k overall in basically 8 months.

 

This just sucks.

 

Are you in SW Minnesota? I recall seeing a county down there with huge per capita numbers.

 

Any chance these are catch-up stats from the holiday?

 

Dunno, but I do think this data is going to take a week to smooth out enough to see trends.

 

could be, but the trend isn’t good.

 

yes!

 

Highest reported Daily New Deaths (Top 25 days)
1. April 21st - 2744
2. April 15th - 2695
3. April 14th - 2633
4. December 1st -2614
5. April 17th - 2601
6. May 6th - 2582
7. April 28th - 2541
8. April 29th - 2459
9. April 22nd - 2420
10. April 23rd - 2413
10. May 5th - 2413
12. November 11th - 2332
13. April 10th - 2283
14. April 30th - 2280
15. April 7th - 2278
16. April 16th - 2255
17. April 8th - 2212
18. November 24th - 2210
19. May 7th - 2177
20. April 9th - 2151
21. April 25th - 2114
22. April 11th - 2070
23. November 19th - 2067
24. November 20th -1996
25. April 24th - 1995

 

I can see that in that part of town. I think if you go south ft myers it will be different

 

Wish GC could get the image problem fixed

 

Not a shock to most people. Drug overdoses killing young people at a much higher rate than Covid. Lockdowns do more damage than doing nothing. When will our leaders learn this.

Central Florida drug OD deaths up 70% during COVID, report shows


"The data reveal the first statewide view of the impact on Florida, but the news also follows a report from the American Medical Association this summer that the nation had already suffered a “dramatic” increase in fatalities from opioids, methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine before the pandemic began. The AMA warned then that the problem was expected to worsen this year.

By year’s end, the Project Opioid analysis found, drug overdoses of all forms are projected to have killed 55 Floridians a day in 2020 — up from 33 a day two years ago and 35 a day last year."

 

And the average age of those dying "with" Covid is higher than the average age of deaths in a normal year.

 

And who cares about druggies oding? Personal choice that harms themselves. Covid is not like this at all. Jeesh.

 

That bit of wisdom has been dropped on him a dozen times, he ain’t picking it up.

 

Oh, I see, lets forget about people with mental illness or a drug addiction. Got it. Let them FRY! Good job. I guess if people want to kill themselves we shouldn't get in the way either? Good thought process...