Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #36

[branmuffin]

Right. How long before these checks, get cut, go through the mail and reach us, hopefully on a day when your bank is open and 1000 of your neighbors are lined up to cash them?
If your bank has the cash on hand to dole out?
Tomorrow, go shopping for what you'll need for 45 days.
I am.
Do it.

Canadian here. Our Unemployment Benefits are a federal program like yours. Could it be possible for the IRS to dovetail with your UI benefits to submit payment by direct deposit? Do citizens receive tax refunds by direct deposit? It would certainly cut down on red tape and ensure that people wouldn't be trolling neighbourhoods stealing cheques from mailboxes. The money would go right into your chequing account.

 

[zecats]

"New York will be there for you and we hope you will be there for us."

Suggests "rolling deployment" of ventilators. Will send any ventilators that NY can procure to anyone/anywhere else who needs it when the peak here has passed. Will also send staff and any learning acquired throughout this ordeal.

Gov. Cuomo, MCSNC live presser.

 

[wishBones1962]

I want to thank whoever posted the link about the red eyes. A friend who lives in Florida has 2 sons who were thought to have the flu, sinus infections and conjunctivitis are being tested for the virus. She hadn't heard about the conjunctivitis connection and I messaged her. They're on their way for testing, they meet the criteria. I wouldn't have known to pass that information to her without you.

That was my post, about the red eyes....

Care home nurse tells of terrifying and sudden ways coronavirus struck her patients

 

[branmuffin]

And how much of that $2+ trillion is going to the cruise, airline and hotel industries that the government wants to help out.

Americans should come first!

I would hope NONE of it would go to the cruise companies. They don't pay corporate taxes to the Federal government. As one person on Cruise Critic so aptly put it: You can't privatize your profits but socialize your losses.

 

[momrids6]

Amazon warehouses are dealing with at least nine facilities hit so far with coronavirus cases, according to Amazon and local media reports Amazon warehouses are getting hit with coronavirus cases

CNN International on Twitter

I imagine most businesses still operating have cases- they either 1. aren't tested or 2. not reported.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

ATLANTA

MARTA to suspend bus fares starting Thursday MARTA to suspend bus fares starting Thursday
11Alive News on Twitter

ATLANTA — MARTA fares will be suspended starting Thursday.
A spokesperson said riders will be allowed to enter and exit through the rear doors of the bus only, except for those who require the accessibility ramp.
Additionally, some public restrooms are being closed at certain MARTA rail stations. The remaining open restrooms are at College Park, Doraville, Five Points, H.E. Holmes, Indian Creek, Lindbergh and North Springs.

According to the spokesperson, through Tuesday bus ridership is down 54 percent compared to the average weekday in February amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Rail ridership is down 68 percent.

Color me confused. Why are they encouraging with free ridership? I don't get it? How does this help as we have JUST learned from Cuomo that >50% in one area is associated with rail lines?

Anyone know what their thinking is?

Wuhan shut rail/trains/cars down immediately, and only allowed health care workers with ID to use trains and rail.

 

[Trudie]

This is revolting: I just returned from a gas/convenient store. I had to go in for my transaction (propane tank). A woman was at the self serve beverage counter with three ill behaved children. All three were touching the LEVERS on the soda machines, squirting soda put, licking their fingers, pressing the next one, and so forth. Mom was on her phone....of course. One kid also had in his hands in the condiment bins. Imo, everyone better forever avoid self service beverage/food counters. I always have, cuz of my paranoia. Once, in a restaurant, I watched a man refill his beverage several Xs, using his same cup. Can it be any nastier? Moo

 

[JerseyGirl]

Color me confused. Why are they encouraging with free ridership? I don't get it? How does this help as we have JUST learned from Cuomo that >50% in one area is associated with rail lines?

Anyone know what their thinking is?

Wuhan shut rail/trains/cars down immediately, and only allowed health care workers with ID to use trains and rail.

People still need to get around. I think they are doing this to deter transmitting the virus via cash.

New Jersey shut down their cash tolls on the Garden State Parkway and I-95 NJ Turnpike.

Even the subways in NYC are still running.

People need to learn social distancing, whether it be a bus or a playground.

 

[wishBones1962]

This is revolting: I just returned from a gas/convenient store. I had to go in for my transaction (propane tank). A woman was at the self serve beverage counter with three ill behaved children. All three were touching the LEVERS on the soda machines, squirting soda put, licking their fingers, pressing the next one, and so forth. Mom was on her phone....of course. One kid also had in his hands in the condiment bins. Imo, everyone better forever avoid self service beverage/food counters. I always have, cuz of my paranoia. Once, in a restaurant, I watched a man refill his beverage several Xs, using his same cup. Can it be any nastier? Moo

Unfortunately, for the rest of us...some members of our society are just nasty. I was thinking about that very thing this morning. As I was washing the breakfast dishes in hot, soapy water. On the members of my immediate family who are lacking in respect for cleaning in general. When I go to a sisters house, I will not touch ANYTHING. Barely going inside the house as it is.
I stepped in to be live in caregiver for my elderly father. He has sporadic cleaning/hygiene. Some things yes, some things...ick. This new situation doesn't help.

 

[JerseyGirl]

This is revolting: I just returned from a gas/convenient store. I had to go in for my transaction (propane tank). A woman was at the self serve beverage counter with three ill behaved children. All three were touching the LEVERS on the soda machines, squirting soda put, licking their fingers, pressing the next one, and so forth. Mom was on her phone....of course. One kid also had in his hands in the condiment bins. Imo, everyone better forever avoid self service beverage/food counters. I always have, cuz of my paranoia. Once, in a restaurant, I watched a man refill his beverage several Xs, using his same cup. Can it be any nastier? Moo

NJ shut down self serve coffee, icee and soda machines at convenience stores such as WaWa and 7-11, among others.

Your state needs to step it up.

 

[jjenny]

NJ shut down self serve coffee, icee and soda machines at convenience stores such as WaWa and 7-11, among others.

Your state needs to step it up.

And if the state doesn't, people should themselves stop buying these self serve products. This is not a good time to be using buffets and self-serve soda machines.

 

[Trudie]

I’m reporting it right now!
We do have some new directives beginning tomorrow.

NJ shut down self serve coffee, icee and soda machines at convenience stores such as WaWa and 7-11, among others.

Your state needs to step it up.

 

[Trudie]

Beshear adds to business closures, says one new Ky. case came from ‘coronavirus party’

The order comes after Beshear says Kentucky saw its highest one-day spike of cases with 36.

One of the new cases came from someone who had recently gone to a “coronavirus party,” the governor said heatedly. The party was made up of a group young adults in their twenties he said.

 

[JerseyGirl]

I would hope NONE of it would go to the cruise companies. They don't pay corporate taxes to the Federal government. As one person on Cruise Critic so aptly put it: You can't privatize your profits but socialize your losses.

Exactly, and cruise ships do not abide by US laws either. I am fuming at this package.

 

[momrids6]

"New York will be there for you and we hope you will be there for us."

Suggests "rolling deployment" of ventilators. Will send any ventilators that NY can procure to anyone/anywhere else who needs it when the peak here has passed. Will also send staff and any learning acquired throughout this ordeal.

Gov. Cuomo, MCSNC live presser.

They are really going to need the correct tubing and extreme sanitation of such; as bacterial pneumonia caused by ventilators is huge. Our neighbor picked up no less than 3 different bacterial infections from a vent after a car accident.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia in the ICU
A Risk Factor Analysis for MRSA Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia to Guide Empiric Therapy in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

 

[JerseyGirl]

And if the state doesn't, people should themselves stop buying these self serve products. This is not a good time to be using buffets and self-serve soda machines.

And touch screen displays in fast food restaurants and other places. That all needs to be shut down immediately.

 

[24Roses]

IDPH reports 21 new COVID-19 cases in Iowa 21 new test results came back positive today in Iowa. We have 145 total now.

 

[Trudie]

High stakes
For Kentuckians facing a pandemic, the stakes are higher than those in many other states. Kentucky routinely ranks among the worst for resident health outcomes, particularly in rates for smoking, cancer, black lung and cardiopulmonary disease. A Kaiser Family Foundation studysaid that up to 46% of Kentuckians would be considered high-risk if infected by COVID-19, making the state the sixth most vulnerable in the nation.

Kentucky has only barely recovered from a 2019 hepatitis A outbreakthat killed over 50 people and sickened more than 4,400. The state's vulnerability to HIV outbreaks has made it a subject of federal focus. And by the most recent tally, Kentucky was No. 1 in the nation for fentanyl abuse, a finding consistent with the state's regular high-ranking appearances in opioid abuse studies across the nation.
How Kentucky became a surprising leader in flattening the curve on COVID-19

 

[Gardenista]

DOJ Just Warned That Intentional Spread of COVID-19 Could Be Terrorism — What It Means

 

[Trudie]

Exactly. Even during normal times, too many kids are using touch screens & dispensers as toys.
Perhaps once this ends, restaurants will no longer provide tablets to children. Omg. A family might be forced to actually talk or look at each other during dinner. WTH?

And touch screen displays in fast food restaurants and other places. That all needs to be shut down immediately.