Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #49

[tresir2012]

NEVADA

Wynn Resorts Chief Executive Officer Matt Maddox on Sunday called on the Nevada governor to begin to reopen the Las Vegas Strip in mid- to late May with extensive safety measures in place, assuming the state is in line with certain benchmarks around the spread of the coronavirus.
Wynn Resorts CEO calls for Las Vegas Strip to conditionally reopen in mid- to late May

Rx is 1.0
Positivity rate is 11.7....needs to be 5.0
Tests per 1000 people is 9.4....needs to 50.
Neither cases or deaths appear to be flattened.
IMO....this governor would be nuts to fill up casinos and hotels until testing is in place, which it's not yet.....but nuttier things have and will happen.

https://rt.live/
No plan in sight: Test troubles cloud Trump recovery effort
Coronavirus Testing Needs to Triple Before the U.S. Can Reopen, Experts Say
COVID-19/Coronavirus Real Time Updates With Credible Sources in US and Canada | 1Point3Acres

Nevada 3,725 cases, 155 deaths

Population 3 million

 

[RANCH]

I think with talk of 12-18 months before a vaccine and getting back to normal that the regular customers may have increased their orders. Probably many made suggestions to friends and family who wouldn't normally be ordering too. JMO

If the 12 to 18 month to normal picks up steam I have a feeling that hoarding will explode. JMO

 

[TMAN2014]

I am sure glad the USA had great corporate companies like Abbott, Quest Diagnostic, 3M, the car manufacturers, J & J, McKesson, Cardinal, and many others who can do the Research and Development much quicker than any government. Sure, people will find anything to complain about, but when it comes down to a catastrophe like this Pandemic, I want those guys on my side. All of the needed supplies were not sitting in some warehouse, yet these people have developed things like testing and ventilators on a large scale very quickly. I think there is a lot to be grateful about.

 

[Henry2326]

SOUTH CAROLINA - Isle of Palms, Sullivan’s Island, Folly Beach, and Edisto Beach say they will continue restricting beach access even if @henrymcmaster announces the reopening this week. Temple Ricke on Twitter

My comment....See attached announcement and post 202 about their acceleration data.

 

[RANCH]

I bought a Wahl home hair cutting kit and used it for the first time this afternoon. Not bad for the first try at cutting my own hair.

I planned on doing this when I retired to save money on hair cuts. That plan got green lighted early because of the current situation.

 

[ilovewings]

How horrible. 10ofRods's post #286 has explanation as to why those skin rashes occur.

Copy-pasted part of #286: "Another fascinating set of research papers ( peer reviewed ) are causing a re-think of how this particular CoVid is killing people. The research seems to show that it acts in a manner to damage blood vessels, in a complex manner that causes microthrombosis, usually in the lungs first. This explains the foot rashes that some have experienced and apparently the multi-organ damage. CoVid-19 may disable the walls of blood vessels from expanding and contracting to push blood through the body, leading to coagulation of the blood in the small vessels first (thrombosis). These studies are based on increased autopsy data, but also a lot of other study."

Just horrible.

To me this is the black death-- this virus is so evil, i almost think of it like some evil murdering person-- it operates in the body in a myriad of intricate and surprisng ways---to
do the most damage to our organ systems.

i really worry we are going to move too quickly to open up the country, but you cannot
keep people on lockdown much longer before a full throated rebellio ensues

 

[Tillicum]

If the 12 to 18 month to normal picks up steam I have a feeling that hoarding will explode. JMO

If there's anything left to hoard.

 

[tresir2012]

From our local hospital here working with plasma from recovered patients.

St. Joseph Mercy Hospital treats first COVID-19 patient with plasma from coronavirus survivor

Do we have any news whether this plasma donation is working?

 

[firebird]

If the 12 to 18 month to normal picks up steam I have a feeling that hoarding will explode. JMO

I'm already seeing that amongst people I know personally with the newest reports of a beef/meat shortage. This article is from the NYT yesterday, so I'm guessing it's about to get a lot worse.

The Food Chain’s Weakest Link: Slaughterhouses

 

[LadyL]

I understand, but the people who do bio-dynamic gardening have never that I know of JMHGO have ever hoarded like this. Just trying to figure out what’s happening.

yes I've seen lots of sold out items in my search

 

[Reasonable & Just]

To me this is the black death-- this virus is so evil, i almost think of it like some evil murdering person-- it operates in the body in a myriad of intricate and surprisng ways---to
do the most damage to our organ systems.

i really worry we are going to move too quickly to open up the country, but you cannot
keep people on lockdown much longer before a full throated rebellio ensues

There's a middle ground that other countries manage to find...Using tax dollars we have paid over the years to support testing and to support businesses and individuals in this time of crisis.

 

[Tony1902]

I think with talk of 12-18 months before a vaccine and getting back to normal that the regular customers may have increased their orders. Probably many made suggestions to friends and family who wouldn't normally be ordering too. JMO

Great idea!! Merci.. a Creole tomato won’t grow in Cleveland Heights, sha. Maybe that’s it. We do seed saving, know the preferred varieties per climate zone. I’ve just never seen Southern varieties sold out before. Aaarrrggghh what times are these?

 

[dixiegirl1035]

I’ve been reading a lot of old reports on SARS, and wow just wow total Dejavu. It is uncanny, it is almost like a complete duplicate in so many ways, but of course more widespread and fatal.

I feel there are many clues wrt to all that moo.

Yeah, and I think that is what many scientists also thought. And said to their leaders as perhaps was something like SARS or MERS.

That it was like SARS/MERS and took steps accordingly as was successful in the past and would not spread as it has (I think everyone on this thread knows the outcome of those two... died down and not international pandemic for long) ..

until it did... and then it was OH CHIT moment for the entire world.

Many had the prompting from science that it could be more than MERS or SARS... but no one knew... until it was... much more

.....Some got the "oh chit" moment before others.

Pull up bootstraps... and work together. And help those who are in need, especially those who are close to us... friends/neighbors etc.

Why Did The World Shut Down For COVID-19 But Not Ebola, SARS Or Swine Flu?

 

[Chelly]

I don’t know the exact specifics of the church service except from comments posted on here.

The church service was being live streamed on a huge screen that was set up so people could park in the church parking lot and listen on their radio. Is that correct?

Was the parking set up so no cars were in close proximity to each other? (1-2 spaces between each car) I don’t know the weather conditions so perhaps everyone had their windows rolled down and there were concerns people coughing or smoking or whatever would be carried by the breeze/wind/air if all cars were not widely spaced apart. Not parked typical where you have to maneuver to get out of your car.

No one allowed to get out of the car. That might be a tough one with kids especially the younger ones. Sitting in a car seat listening to a sermon for an extended period of time would be a tough task. Plus keeping them quiet if people had their windows down. Heck, it’s quite the challenge to get the grands to sit still in a big church pew for an hour much less in their car seats.

There was an issue with seeds at one of the stores here - there was just two displays and everyone was crowded trying to look at seeds. Touching, picking out, discarding various packets before making their choices.
So they moved them and let one person at a time go make their selection. And what you touch you buy. They had to move it out of the store into the garden center. My cousin said they had a hard time getting people to wait in line. But they made it work.

Just my thoughts.

God is everywhere, right? Or is He only near those particular collection plates?

 

[Reasonable & Just]

I am sure glad the USA had great corporate companies like Abbott, Quest Diagnostic, 3M, the car manufacturers, J & J, McKesson, Cardinal, and many others who can do the Research and Development much quicker than any government. Sure, people will find anything to complain about, but when it comes down to a catastrophe like this Pandemic, I want those guys on my side. All of the needed supplies were not sitting in some warehouse, yet these people have developed things like testing and ventilators on a large scale very quickly. I think there is a lot to be grateful about.

Totally agree, but let's not minimize the fact that these corporations receive plenty of support from our tax dollars in addition to our consumer dollars. We are the government, and with our dollars, we help them help us. They mostly do a great job.

 

[Henry2326]

Nevada 3,725 cases, 155 deaths

Population 3 million

42 million people visited Las Vegas last year. The problem isn't the folks that live there.....IMO
But the foundation data becomes even more unstable with millions of visitors.

 

[TMAN2014]

Totally agree, but let's not minimize the fact that these corporations receive plenty of support from our tax dollars in addition to our consumer dollars. We are the government, and with our dollars, we help them help us. They mostly do a great job.

It is also a great advantage to have all that technology. The government hast the power to use the iron fist approach, but they prefer not to, and I agree with that. I think most of these corps want to help out in a time of crisis. You always have a bad egg or so, but for the most part, these are successful people, and it's huge to have them to fall back on.

 

[Lavender Moon]

The fact is, the entire rest home situation in this country needs to be revamped. It was riddled with issues before this. Many are hell holes. This just makes it even worse - death traps.

I agree. I worked in nursing homes as a nursing assistant from sixteen to age twenty. Nursing and state hospitals hide our society 's dirty little secrets.

 

[Tillicum]

DeWine is asking the FDA to approve a substitution for the reagent needed for testing. Apparently he heard from them shortly after he made his request on NBC.

DeWine takes Ohio’s COVID-19 testing plea nationwide

Doctors from both OhioHealth and the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center said while testing has improved since the beginning of all this, there has been supply chain problems throughout.

At this point, they say they have the ability to be testing more, it’s just that the supply of those the reagents to do the testing is still a problem.

“What he’s asking of the FDA is to liberalize the use on these reagents or try to grease the wheels on getting the reagents to the hospitals within Ohio,” said Dr. Joseph Gastaldo, system medical director of infectious diseases for OhioHealth.

“A good example would be if you’re cooking something and the recipe requires butter, but you could use margarine instead,” said Dr. Peter Mohler, vice-dean of research for the Ohio State College of Medicine and the Wexner Medical Center. “It’s those sorts of things we’re thinking about, if the test works and could allow us to test more people, then we’d really like to have permission to be able to do those substitutions.”

After his appearance on Meet the Press, DeWine tweeted he had a very positive phone call from the FDA.

 

[musicaljoke]

Great idea!! Merci.. a Creole tomato won’t grow in Cleveland Heights, sha. Maybe that’s it. We do seed saving, know the preferred varieties per climate zone. I’ve just never seen Southern varieties sold out before. Aaarrrggghh what times are these?

Perhaps people are just earlier getting their orders in since they are sitting around home looking for things to do. So while seeds wouldn't have run out until May in a normal year, they are sold out 6 weeks earlier this year.

Or perhaps a big company like Costco or WM bought them all up for resale.