Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #67

[Tadpole12]

COVID-19 Map

Global infection number
approaching 12 million

11,922,399

5/6 day turnover per million, now.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Ivy League rules out playing all sports this fall

The Ivy League has ruled out playing all sports this fall, executive director Robin Harris told ESPN on Wednesday, marking the first Division I conference to say it will not hold sports this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic.

No decision has been made about winter or spring sports or whether fall sports could be played in the spring of 2021.

This affects football as well as men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, and women’s field hockey and volleyball.

The league will have no winter sports before Jan. 1, which would include men's and women's basketball and hockey.

It is worth remembering that in March the Ivy League’s decision to cancel its basketball tournaments proved prescient. Other leagues soon followed suit with the NCAA tournament eventually being canceled.

Ivy League will not play football this fall or other sports

 

[CharlestonGal]

Beshear: New mandatory requirements coming Thursday after rise in cases

FRANKFORT, Ky. —

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday that new regulations will be laid out Thursday following a sharp rise in coronavirus cases.

The governor said as of Wednesday afternoon there were at least 17,919 coronavirus cases in Kentucky, 402 of which were newly reported Wednesday.


“The rising case numbers are cause for concern, so tomorrow we’re going to announce some new requirements that are going to be mandatory,” Beshear said. “Given what we are seeing across the country with exploding numbers in certain places, my commitment is to make sure that doesn’t happen here, but I can’t do it alone.”

 

[Chelly]

This disease is terrifying. What is even more terrifying is the loosening of precautions I see around my neighborhood. Don't understand what people are thinking.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Philadelphia, like New Jersey and New York, adds Delaware to 14-day quarantine list

Philadelphia, but not the State of Pennsylvania.

 

[Bravo]

Twitter is going to implode.

Off to have a looky loo

 

[CharlestonGal]

This disease is terrifying. What is even more terrifying is the loosening of precautions I see around my neighborhood. Don't understand what people are thinking.

What I find perplexing is that we shut down the country when we had 6-7,000 cases nationwide. We now have 1,628,681 active cases, but we're all going to Disney World.

 

[MrX]

This disease is terrifying. What is even more terrifying is the loosening of precautions I see around my neighborhood. Don't understand what people are thinking.

I can't speak for your neighborhood, but people I talk to feel like nothing has improved since March. There is no vaccine, no cure and now we see things like airborne transmission and mutations. Every place that has done things "right" has ended up back at square one (see Australia.) In my corner of the world, we started out thinking all of this was overblown. We still think that, but we've also stopped caring - we see it as a choice between being confined to our homes for the rest of our lives, or taking our chances while trying to live with some semblance of normalcy.

 

[SouthAussie]

What I find perplexing is that we shut down the country when we had 6-7,000 cases nationwide. We now have 1,628,681 active cases, but we're all going to Disney World.

Covid exhaustion, mixed messages, inability to stay with the program for very long .... many reasons for it, I would guess.

I spoke with a US friend last night .... "Many people don't want to hear about covid any more, we are sick of it". Obviously my friend is one of those 'many'.

 

[SouthAussie]

I can't speak for your neighborhood, but people I talk to feel like nothing has improved since March. There is no vaccine, no cure and now we see things like airborne transmission and mutations. Every place that has done things "right" has ended up back at square one (see Australia.) In my corner of the world, we started out thinking all of this was overblown. We still think that, but we've also stopped caring - we see it as a choice between being confined to our homes for the rest of our lives, or taking our chances while trying to live with some semblance of normalcy.

Unfortunately, intimate relations between security at a quarantine hotel and infected quarantiner is one of the reasons for Victoria's re-infection. Their premier cites it officially as "poor training" but there is at least one very credible link out there about it.

The rest of our country is still doing okay because we locked down the infected city of Melbourne quickly, and then quarantined that whole state (even though it is not infected) from the rest of us, just to be sure. We are keeping our fingers crossed now. This virus is one hellacious spreader.

I feel that some cite these breakouts as a reason to do nothing - or very little - in their own area.

 

[mickey2942]

This disease is terrifying. What is even more terrifying is the loosening of precautions I see around my neighborhood. Don't understand what people are thinking.

That is interesting, because I live in Montana. No mandatory mask wearing, but every single person I saw today, was wearing a mask. Albertsons, hospital (mandatory), courthouse, three other places. Everyone was wearing a mask.

I must admit that I was surprised, and impressed. People here are taking precautions very seriously.

 

[musicaljoke]

Unfortunately, intimate relations between security at a quarantine hotel and infected quarantiner is one of the reasons for Victoria's re-infection. Their premier cites it officially as "poor training" but there is at least one very credible link out there about it.

The rest of our country is still doing okay because we locked down the infected city of Melbourne, and then locked down that whole state (even though it is not infected) just to be sure. We are keeping our fingers crossed now. This virus is one hellacious spreader.

Prince Edward Island has been able to keep CoVid free for the last two months, until ...

... a man in his 20s who had travelled to Nova Scotia and appears to have contracted COVID-19 from someone there who had recently been in the U.S.

The person who had been to the U.S. was travelling on a student visa and was on his way to P.E.I., Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil said in a news briefing Monday afternoon. However, he said the man was denied entry at the Confederation Bridge because he did not have the required pre-screening approval.

McNeil said the man flew from the United States to Toronto, then transferred to a flight to Halifax. Under the circumstances, he was supposed to self-isolate but did not.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prin...id-19-morrison-briefing-monday-0706-1.5638870

 

[Lilibet]

Twitter is going to implode.

My exact thoughts!

 

[MrX]

Unfortunately, intimate relations between security at a quarantine hotel and infected quarantiner is one of the reasons for Victoria's re-infection. Their premier cites it officially as "poor training" but there is at least one very credible link out there about it.

The rest of our country is still doing okay because we locked down the infected city of Melbourne quickly, and then locked down that whole state (even though it is not infected) just to be sure. We are keeping our fingers crossed now. This virus is one hellacious spreader.

I feel that some cite these breakouts as a reason to do nothing - or very little - in their own area.

What many find difficult, here, is that essentially everyone in a city of five million people will now be confined to their homes for the next six weeks, with checkpoints and enforcement (per BBC story, I linked to earlier.)

I certainly am doing my part to share this story as an example of what the alternative to doing nothing looks like. I've long wished that U.S. officials were much more open about our options - instead of closing down a few businesses for a couple weeks.

 

[10ofRods]

Me either. I guess the mentality is if we open they will come.

The mentality is something like "I'm alive, I'm good, I don't care if YOU die."

There's a strong bit of "let the weak go ahead and die" in what's happening in America. I can't say a lot more, but let's just say that some people (in this case, some of my students) really think there are good arguments to be made for doing absolutely nothing regarding CoVid. I also know some people in my community who are parents of those students, and they believe the same.

They don't, however, factor in how hospitals are going to triage and frankly, it seems to me that they assume hospitals will put them first (which is often true).

It's shaken me a bit, as I thought I lived in a different kind of culture. It makes me wonder whether there's a domino effect here - once I stop caring - do others stop caring too?

I've also noticed the panic and terror of people who, thinking that it couldn't hit "their kid," reach out for information for their kid - but too late. Avoiding CoVid is way better than trying to figure out whether your kid has an underlying condition that you didn't know about.

Essential workers - for example, the people who pick/process food for our nation - are sick and dying at a higher rate. Like that will have no effect.

United Airline is furloughing/firing thousands of people and that's just one example.

I'm finding it very hard to understand this other mindset of "freedom." I mean, I do get what the other political goals of this group is - but we'll see if this viewpoint can survive another 2 years of death and destruction of the economy.

Maybe only 18 months.

Chaos in the meantime. Millions of lives disrupted. All because we can't jointly follow medical and scientific advice.

We've gone from 1 in 400 people in SoCal having Covid to 1 in 140 - in two weeks. The prediction is that it will be 1 in 50 in another two weeks. Linear but not yet exponential.

If nothing happens to change human behavior, it will be 1 in 25 in 6 weeks. Or worse.

 

[musicaljoke]

I’m Canadian and I’m frightened enough of this virus. My heart just breaks for my American friends on this site. It must be absolutely terrifying for you.
I also don’t much like like the self praise. Especially since he had to be almost dragged back from swanning around the world when Covid first broke out. I don’t think it’s over with in Canada either. I think if we aren’t super careful a huge wave could hit late summer or fall.

Yes, we have to continue to be super careful.

"While the COVID-19 epidemic in Canada remains "largely under control," Dr. Howard Njoo, deputy chief public health officer, one of Canada's top public health officials is warning that the potential for a significant spike in new cases "is not just hypothetical, as this is exactly what we are already seeing in some other parts of the world." "

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-modelling-july8-1.5642161

 

[JerseyGirl]

Arizona Is #1, Bahrain Is #4

There is no country in the world where confirmed coronavirus cases are growing as rapidly as they are in Arizona, Florida or South Carolina. The Sun Belt has become the global virus capital.

This chart ranks the countries with the most confirmed new cases over the past week, adjusted for population size, and treats each U.S. state as if it were a country. (Many states are larger in both landmass and population than some countries.)

 

[Bravo]

This disease is terrifying. What is even more terrifying is the loosening of precautions I see around my neighborhood. Don't understand what people are thinking.

Good to see you my friend. You have been missed. Stay safe.

 

[SouthAussie]

That is interesting, because I live in Montana. No mandatory mask wearing, but every single person I saw today, was wearing a mask. Albertsons, hospital (mandatory), courthouse, three other places. Everyone was wearing a mask.

I must admit that I was surprised, and impressed. People here are taking precautions very seriously.

Perhaps Toner's words (the pandemic expert in the article another member linked earlier) are now ringing true, in some places?

As for those who refuse to wear a mask, Toner doesn't mince his words. "They will get over it," he says. "It's just a question of how many people get sick and die before they get over it."
'We'll be living with masks for years': COVID-19 through the eyes of a pandemic expert

 

[SouthAussie]

What many find difficult, here, is that essentially everyone in a city of five million people will now be confined to their homes for the next six weeks, with checkpoints and enforcement (per BBC story, I linked to earlier.)

I certainly am doing my part to share this story as an example of what the alternative to doing nothing looks like. I've long wished that U.S. officials were much more open about our options - instead of closing down a few businesses for a couple weeks.

Yes, many Melburnians are not happy. But many are absolutely fine with it - but you are not seeing all those Melburnians who are okay with it - we are.
As their premier says, and other states and our Prime Minister agree, draconian measures are necessary to stop this spread. Six weeks is not long if it will save lives.

Fortunately, the authorities are listening to the medical experts who are best placed to inform on how to (try to) stop the spread of any great contagian.


Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the federal government’s medical advice agreed with the Victorian government that the move was necessary.
Asia Today: Australian PM defends Melbourne lockdown