Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #53

[pocketaccent]

Coronavirus restrictions: California issues oddly specific list of allowable outdoor activities
...

• Athletics

• Badminton (singles)

• Throwing a baseball/softball

• BMX biking

• Canoeing (singles)

• Crabbing

• Cycling

• Exploring Rock Pools

• Gardening (not in groups)

• Golf (singles, walking - no cart)

• Hiking (trails/ paths allowing distancing)

• Horse Riding (singles)

• Jogging and running

• Kite Boarding and Kitesurfing

• Meditation

• Outdoor Photography

• Picnics (with your stay-home household members only)

• Quad Biking

• Rock Climbing

• Roller Skating and Roller Blading

• Rowing (singles)

• Scootering (not in groups)

• Skateboarding (not in groups)

• Soft Martial Arts - Tai Chi, Chi Kung (not in groups)

• Table Tennis (singles)

• Throwing a football, kicking a soccer ball (not in groups)

• Trail Running

• Trampolining

• Tree Climbing

• Volleyball (singles)

• Walk the dog

• Wash the car

• Watch the sunrise or sunset
• 
  
• Yoga

• ...

 

[10ofRods]

It'll be intereting to see if they remain unused like all the rest. I'm guessing they will. Silver lining -At least they didn't create hundreds or thousands of them.

I heard that it's southern Georgia (specifically the SE) that's so badly off. Of course, 85% of the dead are African-American and apparently it's rural African-Americans. We had a similar situation (though not rural) in Los Angeles (still have it) and in Riverside County with Hispanics. A month ago, Gov Newsom took those on as special projects and Riverside is now a stellar example of containing COVId, when it was once rife.

Los Angeles - well, the jury is still out. I'm not sure people know it, but with 10 million people, Los Angeles county only has about 1200 cases deaths - really pretty good. But not good enough for Newsom (or for many of the rest of us). And now, it's not the poorer areas, exactly - but two communities with very different demographics (Pasadena and Long Beach). Pasadena's figures are really poor right now. Since I have a lot of friends there, I'm concerned. They are supposed to be on Stay at Home orders, but I think they have a higher number of care homes as a ratio of population, and I think that's the reason.

Long Beach has lots of care homes, but also lots of people with underlying conditions.

 

[cody22]

Coronavirus restrictions: California issues oddly specific list of allowable outdoor activities
...

• Athletics

• Badminton (singles)

• Throwing a baseball/softball

• BMX biking

• Canoeing (singles)

• Crabbing

• Cycling

• Exploring Rock Pools

• Gardening (not in groups)

• Golf (singles, walking - no cart)

• Hiking (trails/ paths allowing distancing)

• Horse Riding (singles)

• Jogging and running

• Kite Boarding and Kitesurfing

• Meditation

• Outdoor Photography

• Picnics (with your stay-home household members only)

• Quad Biking

• Rock Climbing

• Roller Skating and Roller Blading

• Rowing (singles)

• Scootering (not in groups)

• Skateboarding (not in groups)

• Soft Martial Arts - Tai Chi, Chi Kung (not in groups)

• Table Tennis (singles)

• Throwing a football, kicking a soccer ball (not in groups)

• Trail Running

• Trampolining

• Tree Climbing

• Volleyball (singles)

• Walk the dog

• Wash the car

• Watch the sunrise or sunset
• 
  
• Yoga

• ...

Where is the fishing ?......moo

 

[pocketaccent]

Where is the fishing ?......moo

Can you do crabbing in your area?

 

[Sundog]

Too bad it doesn’t address leave for those afraid to go to work because of the work conditions related to Covid-19.

I have the same concern as you. Over the last two weeks, when Governor of Ohio Mike DeWine has been giving daily press briefings, several reporters continue to ask the question about 65+ Ohioans and the workplace. Governor DeWine is consistent in this response that these are individual decisions. He does say that he strongly encourages employers to work out arrangements with these employees so that they can work remotely. But there is no public policy or government intervention to make this mandatory. So in effect, each person has to work out their situation by themselves, with their employer. That is how it is working in Ohio. Not sure of other states.

 

[Lilibet]

It'll be intereting to see if they remain unused like all the rest. I'm guessing they will. Silver lining -At least they didn't create hundreds or thousands of them.

I’m quite pleased that the Governor of Oregon had the foresight to set up a 250 bed field hospital at the Oregon State Fairgrounds in mid-March, and smaller ones at two other locations. Thanks to her stay-home order, our numbers have not expanded too rapidly, so I don’t know if they got much use, but we were ready if they were needed. I haven’t heard Oregonians complaining that these field hospitals were a waste of time and money. But they certainly would have complained if the state wasn’t ready for what might happen...and might still happen. The ones who hate the governor are quite vocal.
JMO

Oregon Medical Station in place at state fairgrounds to care for up to 250 patients

 

[Bravo]

Officials say efforts by Canadians to flatten the curve of COVID 19 are working

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Officials say efforts by Canadians to flatten the curve of COVID 19 are working

Hurrah!!

 

[Lilibet]

Crabbing

I’ve been “crabbing” at home. Didn’t know I needed permission to be crabby. Of course, it may have been allowed already in Oregon. We’re often ahead of CA in some areas.

 

[10ofRods]

Coronavirus restrictions: California issues oddly specific list of allowable outdoor activities
...

• Athletics

• Badminton (singles)

• Throwing a baseball/softball

• BMX biking

• Canoeing (singles)

• Crabbing

• Cycling

• Exploring Rock Pools

• Gardening (not in groups)

• Golf (singles, walking - no cart)

• Hiking (trails/ paths allowing distancing)

• Horse Riding (singles)

• Jogging and running

• Kite Boarding and Kitesurfing

• Meditation

• Outdoor Photography

• Picnics (with your stay-home household members only)

• Quad Biking

• Rock Climbing

• Roller Skating and Roller Blading

• Rowing (singles)

• Scootering (not in groups)

• Skateboarding (not in groups)

• Soft Martial Arts - Tai Chi, Chi Kung (not in groups)

• Table Tennis (singles)

• Throwing a football, kicking a soccer ball (not in groups)

• Trail Running

• Trampolining

• Tree Climbing

• Volleyball (singles)

• Walk the dog

• Wash the car

• Watch the sunrise or sunset
• 
  
• Yoga

• ...

Are you from California? I looked at that list a bunch of times and I think I get why they are saying those things (solo to duo activities, less exhalation of breath/cryptic transmission).

But Wash the Car? I guess some people really do enjoy it (and see it as a reason to be in their bathing suits, working on their tan/vitamin D while doing something useful).

Tree climbing? Absurd, isn't it? Except my two granddaughters keep asking if they can do that - so yeah, we can, and I know just where.

I guess they're encouraging us to go outside and do the things people used to do before gyms were invented. We can do the football and soccer ball throwing here, as long as we are members of a household. Of course, no one ever sees families do things like that where I live (it's almost always AYSO), but maybe with so many parents home, they'll go kick a ball with their kids?

 

[Bravo]

Hurrah!!

Thanks so much sweets

 

[pocketaccent]

Are you from California? I looked at that list a bunch of times and I think I get why they are saying those things (solo to duo activities, less exhalation of breath/cryptic transmission).

But Wash the Car? I guess some people really do enjoy it (and see it as a reason to be in their bathing suits, working on their tan/vitamin D while doing something useful).

Tree climbing? Absurd, isn't it? Except my two granddaughters keep asking if they can do that - so yeah, we can, and I know just where.

I guess they're encouraging us to go outside and do the things people used to do before gyms were invented. We can do the football and soccer ball throwing here, as long as we are members of a household. Of course, no one ever sees families do things like that where I live (it's almost always AYSO), but maybe with so many parents home, they'll go kick a ball with their kids?

Yes, I'm in the South Bay. My family and a lot of my neighbors/friends are avid golfers and we are disappointed that no cart is allowed. One friend in particular can't walk the course without getting leg cramps. She is sad.

 

[10ofRods]

Too bad it doesn’t address leave for those afraid to go to work because of the work conditions related to Covid-19.

I know, right? I do think some policies will come about - in some states. But it will be very much state by state.

 

[tresir2012]

If you remember can you post a photo of a completed pod? That doesn't sound like the medical tents I'm used to seeing.

This is it on the back of a lorry.

The pod that was placed in Rome this morning can hold 20 hospital beds. The other locations will hold a combined total of 68 beds.



Governor Brian P. Kemp

✔@GovKemp
https://twitter.com/GovKemp/status/1256580928769490945

The first temporary medical pod arrived in Rome this morning and is scheduled to begin operations on May 5. These strategically placed pods will ensure that our medical system continues to have the resources it needs to care for our fellow Georgians who need it. #gapol



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[Trino]

While testing and medical supply shortages persist across much of the United States, the president, vice president and anyone who meets with them get rapid-response coronavirus tests not available to most Americans.
But the House speaker and Senate majority leader on Saturday “respectfully” declined the Trump administration’s offer to deploy the same rapid testing capabilities on Capitol Hill. In a rare joint statement, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Congress “wants to keep directing resources to the front-line facilities where they can do the most good the most quickly.”

 

[Henry2326]

Interesting. So Georgia gets some extra resources to support its dislike of shutting down. Atlanta is an interesting choice for a pod (not enough beds there? Are people from the counties coming to Atlanta for care?)

Ironic that the day after the stay at home order expires, mobile bed units are setup.

Actually Albany wasn't ready to open. Last week, Mayor said they had 40 on ventilators. There are not enough resources there and they have been sending people to other hospitals in other counties. They put temporary beds in a building down the street from the hospital but the state didn't send any critical care workers last I heard.

The World Congress Center in Atlanta has beds.

"Kemp said in a news release that 20-bed mobile medical units will be deployed to Albany and Rome, and a 24-bed unit will be located in Atlanta. A second unit with 24 beds is on standby."

State spends $72 million for extra hospital beds, staff around Ga.

 

[cody22]

Can you do crabbing in your area?

Nope... I live in the West Texas desert..... When I go to the Texas Gulf Coast I trap and use blue crabs for bait. Piggy perch(spotted croaker) and mullet also............moo

 

[firebird]

I’m quite pleased that the Governor of Oregon had the foresight to set up a 250 bed field hospital at the Oregon State Fairgrounds in mid-March, and smaller ones at two other locations. Thanks to her stay-home order, our numbers have not expanded too rapidly, so I don’t know if they got much use, but we were ready if they were needed. I haven’t heard Oregonians complaining that these field hospitals were a waste of time and money. But they certainly would have complained if the state wasn’t ready for what might happen...and might still happen. The ones who hate the governor are quite vocal.
JMO

Oregon Medical Station in place at state fairgrounds to care for up to 250 patients

Do you know whether Oregon paid for them?

 

[Bravo]

Yes, I'm in the South Bay. My family and a lot of my neighbors/friends are avid golfers and we are disappointed that no cart is allowed. One friend in particular can't walk the course without getting leg cramps. She is sad.

We are golfers too. I decided not to join my Ladies League this season. Husband and I can get a round in on our own if and when we feel comfortable enough. Guess we will have to sanitize every time we pull the flag stick.

 

[10ofRods]

Yes, I'm in the South Bay. My family and a llikot of my neighbors/friends are avid golfers and we are disappointed that no cart is allowed. One friend in particular can't walk the course without getting leg cramps. She is sad.

Seems really odd to ban carts - as long as people are already a group.

We're not going to be able to stop people from seeing other people indefinitely. It's also really odd that they won't permit one person per cart.

While I'm the type that likes to show up at City Council/Board of Supes meetings, I can't risk it right now - so people who are younger need to go and mention this.

Of course, we can all write to Gavin - but I do believe that with today's news on how many communities are "defying" and adding things to this list, he's gonna have to either back down or admit there's no enforcement.

We still have the very serious problem of how to get to the next square in this game.