Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #46

[KALI]

Hoping judge gives him max penalty possible.

Cannot seem to find a pic of this guy, it would be interesting if see if he gets sick and is recognized by the very people whose tires he slashed, imo.
N.Y. nurses lauded for coronavirus efforts find their tires slashed
''Some nurses at a New York hospital who had just been lauded for their work during the coronavirus pandemic ended their stress-filled overnight shifts to find their tires had been slashed while they worked.

New York state police reported that the tires of 22 vehicles were found slashed Friday morning outside New York-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital in Cortlandt.''

''Daniel R. Hall, 29, was arrested on charges including criminal mischief and possession of a controlled substance.''

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

So a week in hospital now. Another week there perhaps?

Do they mean he is back on a non Covid ward now? I guess he is no longer infectious as he has had it for 17 days? Anyone know?

I took it to mean he's on a ward with other people recovering from CV, same recovery stage but that's JMO.

 

[tresir2012]

Louisiana church expecting 2,000 at Easter service despite coronavirus: 'Satan and a virus will not stop us'

In the current situation, it seems to me that these folks could easily celebrate a home, and watch services on tv, like so many other people in the world will be doing on Easter Sunday.

They obviously want to catch the virus and beat it to defy Satan. Will they wear masks and practice social distancing? Will they be arrested or is it allowed?

 

[tresir2012]

I took it to mean he's on a ward with other people recovering from CV, same recovery stage but that's JMO.

Yep, that would make sense.

 

[cass523]

FORCIBLY REMOVED: Eyewitness video shows a man being physically pulled off a Philadelphia bus by police after he was reportedly asked off for not wearing a mask amid the coronavirus outbreak, with city transit officials now rescinding that mask policy.

video
World News Tonight on Twitter

 

[Arkay]

I am sure coronavirus hurt too, but the Post Office is no cash cow.

Postal Service Doubles Annual Losses to $8.8 Billion

Postal Service Doubles Annual Losses to $8.8 Billion
USPS is no longer seeing accelerating growth from its shipping and package business.

"
he U.S. Postal Service lost $8.8 billion in fiscal 2019, more than doubling its losses from the previous year.

The results marked the 13th consecutive year the mailing agency lost money, although USPS did post a slight uptick in revenue to $71.3 billion. A precipitous decrease in mail usage continued to wreak havoc on the Postal Service’s finances, with overall volume dropping by 3.8 billion pieces. "

I've ordered an awful lot of things online this last month, to further eliminate any need to go out. Although most of the packages are coming from Amazon, some have come from the USPS, so I thought they'd maybe see an increase in customers now. The Post Office is certainly one of those seemingly indestructible industries that have been decimated by the Internet.
On a separate note, and I think I saw someone post this some threads ago, I have now transitioned to Informed Delivery Service. Getting the mail from the lobby mailroom has always been such a mindless daily routine, but seems so fraught with peril now. Now I have to think about traversing my hallway, then the elevator, then the lobby, then the mailroom itself. Repeat to go back up to my apartment. I didn't know this service existed until last week when my friend mentioned it, and although I'll still have to get the mail eventually, at least it lets me know if the mail I've received so far can wait or not.

 

[cass523]

Walt Disney World plans to stop paying wages to 43,000 workers in about a week while allowing them to keep their benefits for up to a year as they stay home during the coronavirus pandemic.

World News Tonight on Twitter

 

[10ofRods]

It completely depends on the quality of the other person 's mask, and tbeir behavior. Did they wash it after coughing in it? Did they take it off between stops at the gas station and grocery store and tie it on backwards? Did they wash their own hands before using the bandanna? The only guideline I've seen from the government was the surg general showing how to make a bandanna mask with 2 rubber bands. Have we seen anything from the government re acceptable filters? (I haven't). It's every person for themself.

Watching the news here in the Los Angeles area. All these people are pushing their masks down when they talk to someone. The news people are using long boom mics. I'm horrified every time I see it. People just can't resist wanting to have their whole face on camera. I'm sure it happens in other situations.

When people go back to work, a lot won't wear their masks. Can you imagine trying to sell someone a car while wearing a mask? Here, car sales right now must be only online - and so places that are already set up to do that well can move right into that market. But the days of going to a lot and being pressured to buy may be over - that will have its own economic consequences (and human sales people will be out of a job).

 

[Curious Me]

The size of the crowd was huge, and left many wondering why so many Londoners would converge on a single, albeit large, shopping venue. But the apparently crowded nature of the line also shocked the eye, with hundreds seemingly mere inches from the person before them.

When we went to look ourselves, we saw something quite different.

This photo of a Costco lineup sparked viral frustration in London. Did it show the full story?

MOO, cover your hair if possible, and even your eyes if possible. In that bottom pic, it looks like people are standing so close to one another, and some don't have masks on. Lines, long lines.

What has happened to me that I now see pony tails as virus collectors?

 

[otto]

The link is finally up - Canadian province of Alberta donating supplies to other provinces:

"He said Alberta had an excess capacity of equipment because planning that began early during the pandemic.

"Part of that preparedness was the excellent work done by Alberta Health Services procurement division," he said.

Ontario will receive:

• 250,000 N95 masks
• 5 million procedural masks
• 15 million gloves
• 87,000 goggles
• 50 ventilators

Quebec will recieve:

• 250,000 N95 masks
• 2 million procedural masks
• 15 million gloves

While British Columbia will receive:

• 250,000 N95 masks.

"This is the right thing to do," Health Minister Tyler Shandro said at the press conference, adding that their first priority is Albertans."
​

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmo...r-provinces-in-need-during-pandemic-1.5529989

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/coronavirus-covid19-april11-canada-world-1.5529719

 

[Reasonable & Just]

The link is finally up - Canadian province of Alberta donating supplies to other provinces:

"He said Alberta had an excess capacity of equipment because planning that began early during the pandemic.

"Part of that preparedness was the excellent work done by Alberta Health Services procurement division," he said.

Ontario will receive:

• 250,000 N95 masks
• 5 million procedural masks
• 15 million gloves
• 87,000 goggles
• 50 ventilators

Quebec will recieve:

• 250,000 N95 masks
• 2 million procedural masks
• 15 million gloves

While British Columbia will receive:

• 250,000 N95 masks.

"This is the right thing to do," Health Minister Tyler Shandro said at the press conference, adding that their first priority is Albertans."
​

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmo...r-provinces-in-need-during-pandemic-1.5529989

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/coronavirus-covid19-april11-canada-world-1.5529719

Fantastic leadership! <modsnip: Removed political commentary>

 

[MsArk]

Does anyone know if there is a White House press briefing today?

 

[mickey2942]

They obviously want to catch the virus and beat it to defy Satan. Will they wear masks and practice social distancing? Will they be arrested or is it allowed?

It is an interesting constitutional issue. Freedom of Religion, Right to Assemble...which, apparently in a situation of National Emergency can be suspended for public safety interests.

I have an interesting theory on this virus, what if there are asymptomatic people in society who are always going to carry the virus and infect others? A modern equivalent of "Typhoid Mary". What if we found one? What would society do with a person like that?

Mary Mallon - Wikipedia
It's Estimated 1 in 4 Coronavirus Carriers Could Be Asymptomatic. Here's What We Know

 

[10ofRods]

MOO, cover your hair if possible, and even your eyes if possible. In that bottom pic, it looks like people are standing so close to one another, and some don't have masks on. Lines, long lines.

What has happened to me that I now see pony tails as virus collectors?

And beards/mustaches. Every time I see someone who is vlogging about their severe CoVid19 experience and they have a full beard or a big mustache, I cringe.

I am going to wear lab coats into the classroom (I do teach a lab, but also lecture), a mask and tie my hair back just as if it were a medical lab. It'll be weird at first. I've always been super rigid about students sneezing or coughing in the classroom - and never had issues until the week before the school shut down, when one girl who was coughing would not leave. Fortunately, we didn't even have patient 1 yet in the city where this happened. I got my mask cover in the mail and need another one. I'm really favoring an Alice in Wonderland theme (mostly black of course).

It'll be cool, right? Either that or I retire for real. As it stands, I think California is going to make it so that my employer (the State of California) has to let me continue to teach remotely. Which will be very strange. I don't really want to do that.

 

[10ofRods]

MOO, cover your hair if possible, and even your eyes if possible. In that bottom pic, it looks like people are standing so close to one another, and some don't have masks on. Lines, long lines.

What has happened to me that I now see pony tails as virus collectors?

Shield sunglasses are cheap on eBay and would be very effective. Everyone should have them for going to the store when we start to go back. Regular sunglasses would help, but wraparound or shield style would be better.

I have a pair of goggles somewhere, but if I think there's that much virus someplace, I'm just not going. My DH says he has a snorkel mask if I would prefer that.

Nope.

 

[Curious Me]

Shield sunglasses are cheap on eBay and would be very effective. Everyone should have them for going to the store when we start to go back. Regular sunglasses would help, but wraparound or shield style would be better.

I have a pair of goggles somewhere, but if I think there's that much virus someplace, I'm just not going. My DH says he has a snorkel mask if I would prefer that.

Nope.

I wore a mask and a pair of glasses to pick up my prescription last week. I didn't realize how much glasses will fog up!

The maintenance man was wearing a splash guard I liked. Looked online, but if available I'd have to buy 24. Is just a splash guard type mask considered protection without a breathing mask on as well?

 

[tresir2012]

Watching the news here in the Los Angeles area. All these people are pushing their masks down when they talk to someone. The news people are using long boom mics. I'm horrified every time I see it. People just can't resist wanting to have their whole face on camera. I'm sure it happens in other situations.

When people go back to work, a lot won't wear their masks. Can you imagine trying to sell someone a car while wearing a mask? Here, car sales right now must be only online - and so places that are already set up to do that well can move right into that market. But the days of going to a lot and being pressured to buy may be over - that will have its own economic consequences (and human sales people will be out of a job).

This is why I think the visors are good. Like the ones the babies had on in the maternity ward that someone posted yesterday.

 

[Curious Me]

This is the saying my city is using to urge people to wear face masks when out in public.

"If you leave your place, cover your face."

San Diego County on 4/11/2020

1761 confirmed cases
45 deaths​

 

[musicaljoke]

One million one time use masks? That doesn't seen like enough to give everyone who needs them. JMO

It might be if they are just giving them to people who use the trains. I hate reading about one time use masks. It's such an environmental waste, and who knows where they end up. Would it be too much to provide reusable masks and tell people how to sterilize them daily? People are being asked to do many things that raise the bar on human behaviour. How difficult could it be?

 

[cass523]

I imagine Publix will still have produce etc stocked. Worse comes to worse we can drive out to Myakka or Arcadia there are some farmers who sell their harvest directly to the public.

Adding here. Farmers struggling, wages cut There is a lot going on here

New White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to see how to reduce wage rates for foreign guest workers on American farms, in order to help U.S. farmers struggling during the coronavirus, according to U.S. officials and sources familiar with the plans.

Opponents of the plan argue it will hurt vulnerable workers and depress domestic wages.

The measure is the latest effort being pushed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help U.S farmers who say they are struggling amid disruptions in the agricultural supply chain compounded by the outbreak; the industry was already hurting because of President Trump's tariff war with China.

"The administration is considering all policy options during this unprecedented crisis to ensure our great farmers are protected, and President Trump has done and will do everything he can to support their vital mission," a White House official told NPR.

The nation's roughly 2.5 million agricultural laborers have been officially declared "essential workers" as the administration seeks to ensure that Americans have food to eat and that U.S. grocery stores remain stocked. Workers on the H-2A seasonal guest-worker program are about 10 percent of all farmworkers.

U.S. farmers say they have had to cut back on production because of the high number of restaurant and hotel closures. Cory Lunde, a spokesman for the Western Growers Association, said U.S. farmers are fighting to keep "our farms afloat in the face of the near-total collapse of the food-service sector" and more recent slowdown in the retail market.armers are having problems

Lee Wicker, deputy director of the North Carolina Growers Association, said Trump administration officials are trying to look at ways to help because "they understand that we're in trouble and they want to secure the food supply for the American people."

"When a farmer goes out of business, you know, he doesn't come back," Wicker said. "Food supply is a national security issue and, as bad as this COVID-19 crisis is, perhaps it can be a catalyst to start a conversation about our agriculture policy and having sustainable agriculture and diversity."

White House Seeks To Lower Farmworker Pay To Help Agriculture Industry