Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #68

[CharlestonGal]

Virginia sees 851 new coronavirus cases, now reporting 69,782 statewide

As of Satuday, the Virginia Dept. of Health reports there have been 866,257 total testing encounters.

The term “testing encounters” includes individuals who have been tested more than once due to their profession, high-risk status or need for a negative result to return to work. The health department started using this metric on May 1. To learn more, click here.

I think the wheels are about to come off Virginia. jmo

 

[Tillicum]

Herman Cain is still in the hospital as well. Must be going on about 10 days now? I hope he's doing better.

According to his twitter 19 hours ago he is improving and breathing better. Not sure if I can link the twitter account though.

 

[musicaljoke]

There's a nice image of kids socially distancing at a school for children of essential service workers in West Vancouver.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/coronavirus-canada-spread-risk-covid-1.5572505

(trying to figure out how to attach it)

 

[Victoria Chambers]

Of course all pandemics end But human behaviour will either help or hinder the process. As long as people disobey or ignore the health guidelines then this virus has its host. Seriously, people need to get their acts together. X

 

[SoCalDavidS]

Per CNN: Highest totals for FL just released. 10K+ New Cases - 188 Deaths

120 Deaths was prior high.

 

[CharlestonGal]

Exactly, it is not going to end anytime in the foreseeable future when people can't even take the measures that finally ended the 1918/1919/1920 pandemic.

They wore masks, they closed theatres and schools and borders. Public spaces were disinfected. It had a second wave, and a third wave.

It is not going to just 'end' all by itself.

What lessons can we learn from the end of the Spanish flu pandemic?

I let documentaries run all day long on YouTube as kind of background noise. I awoke in the middle of the night and the 1918 pandemic was on. There were pictures of the US Navy tossing hundreds of corpses overboard on the sea voyage to Europe. Pictures of huge pits where civilians were shuttling the bodies into mass graves. But those navy ships.....man. The bodies were lined up on deck like so much cord wood.

 

[SoCalDavidS]

FL: 7,257 Hospitalized currently for Covid-19

 

[CharlestonGal]

Per CNN: Highest totals for FL just released. 10K+ New Cases - 188 Deaths

120 Deaths was prior high.

Maybe they are going for herd immunity at this point? I can't make sense of their strategy any other way. jmo

 

[MimosaMornings]

This Isn’t Sustainable for Working Parents — The Atlantic

“The pandemic has already taken a toll on the careers of those with young children—particularly mothers.

Child care is the immovable object around which so much else in family life orbits, and when the usual child-care options disappear, something else has to give. During the pandemic, with schools and day-care centers closed or operating at reduced capacity, many parents’ careers—particularly mothers’ careers—are getting deprioritized.”

 

[Tillicum]

Of course all pandemics end But human behaviour will either help or hinder the process. As long as people disobey or ignore the health guidelines then this virus has its host. Seriously, people need to get their acts together. X

Some of them still don't understand the guidelines or purposes behind them. In Ohio masks are mandatory for all employees but in our county, the public isn't required to wear them. Where my husband works most customers don't wear masks. They try to go beyond petitioned off areas, bend their heads around the plexiglass and walk up less than 6 feet from my husband. Yesterday a nice considerate man stayed beyond the 6 feet, in front of the plexiglass and stayed within the proper area. He told my husband that he wears a mask 8 hours a day at work to protect himself but if he has to go out after work, he'll take his chances on getting it, which he thinks are slim.

Hub says he can't count how many times he's said your mask protects me, my mask protects you. If people don't follow the news they really don't understand why we're being asked to wear masks. Not only that but they have a false security that their thin mask will protect them from those who may have covid but aren't wearing masks. I think we need billboards everywhere with a short simple explanation on why you should wear a mask.

 

[Woodland]

Again, pandemics don’t last forever. He was grabbing onto that sentiment. “One day it will just disappear.”

Well again, that’s actually true. We had waves of polio. They were terrible and then they just disappeared. Same with yellow fever. H1N1 took a hundred years to come back with any kind of vigor. And it still wasn’t close to as deadly as in 1918.

Pandemics do end. And I can’t wait for that.

But, yes. I disagree with him that we’ve done a good job. It’s been abysmal. We can’t undo the damage the terrible response has created but we can try to prevent more.

And I hope we do until this is over.

With all due respect, no one can be sure what exactly the sentiment was meant to be.

19 times Trump said the coronavirus would go away

https://www.washingtonpost.com/vide...593312-9593-4ec2-aff7-72c1438fca0e_video.html

 

[CharlestonGal]

FL: 7,257 Hospitalized currently for Covid-19

FL has been refusing to release that number for months. I figured it would be bad, but that's really bad.

 

[SouthAussie]

Some of them still don't understand the guidelines or purposes behind them. In Ohio masks are mandatory for all employees but in our county, the public isn't required to wear them. Where my husband works most customers don't wear masks. They try to go beyond petitioned off areas, bend their heads around the plexiglass and walk up less than 6 feet from my husband. Yesterday a nice considerate man stayed beyond the 6 feet, in front of the plexiglass and stayed within the proper area. He told my husband that he wears a mask 8 hours a day at work to protect himself but if he has to go out after work, he'll take his chances on getting it, which he thinks are slim.

Hub says he can't count how many times he's said your mask protects me, my mask protects you. If people don't follow the news they really don't understand why we're being asked to wear masks. Not only that but they have a false security that their thin mask will protect them from those who may have covid but aren't wearing masks. I think we need billboards everywhere with a short simple explanation on why you should wear a mask.

Are public service announcements happening on US TV?

Ones that say things like social distance, wear a mask, stay home except for necessities.

I think your idea of billboards is a good one.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Are public service announcements happening on US TV?

Ones that say things like social distance, wear a mask, stay home except for necessities.

I think your idea of billboards is a good one.

BAH! Found this PSA for NYC:

Linked from here: ‘Friday the 13th’ killer encourages NY to properly wear face masks in new PSA

 

[Lavender Moon]

Some of them still don't understand the guidelines or purposes behind them. In Ohio masks are mandatory for all employees but in our county, the public isn't required to wear them. Where my husband works most customers don't wear masks. They try to go beyond petitioned off areas, bend their heads around the plexiglass and walk up less than 6 feet from my husband. Yesterday a nice considerate man stayed beyond the 6 feet, in front of the plexiglass and stayed within the proper area. He told my husband that he wears a mask 8 hours a day at work to protect himself but if he has to go out after work, he'll take his chances on getting it, which he thinks are slim.

Hub says he can't count how many times he's said your mask protects me, my mask protects you. If people don't follow the news they really don't understand why we're being asked to wear masks. Not only that but they have a false security that their thin mask will protect them from those who may have covid but aren't wearing masks. I think we need billboards everywhere with a short simple explanation on why you should wear a mask.

I agree there should be billboards. There should be public service messages on tv promoting mask wearing. I'd also like to see popup messages on our computers and phones encouraging the wearing of masks.

 

[Tillicum]

Are public service announcements happening on US TV?

Ones that say things like social distance, wear a mask, stay home except for necessities.

I think your idea of billboards is a good one.

A lot of people don't watch TV. I mean it's all over the TV and internet but not everyone uses those services. I realize that's hard to believe but it's true.

 

[Lavender Moon]

Some of them still don't understand the guidelines or purposes behind them. In Ohio masks are mandatory for all employees but in our county, the public isn't required to wear them. Where my husband works most customers don't wear masks. They try to go beyond petitioned off areas, bend their heads around the plexiglass and walk up less than 6 feet from my husband. Yesterday a nice considerate man stayed beyond the 6 feet, in front of the plexiglass and stayed within the proper area. He told my husband that he wears a mask 8 hours a day at work to protect himself but if he has to go out after work, he'll take his chances on getting it, which he thinks are slim.

Hub says he can't count how many times he's said your mask protects me, my mask protects you. If people don't follow the news they really don't understand why we're being asked to wear masks. Not only that but they have a false security that their thin mask will protect them from those who may have covid but aren't wearing masks. I think we need billboards everywhere with a short simple explanation on why you should wear a mask.

I agree there should be billboards. There should be more public service messages on tv promoting mask wearing. I'd also like to see popup messages on our computers and phones encouraging the wearing of masks.

 

[CeeCeeCat]

An I.C.U. Nurse’s Coronavirus Diary

Thank you so much!

 

[Lavender Moon]

A lot of people don't watch TV. I mean it's all over the TV and internet but not everyone uses those services. I realize that's hard to believe but it's true.

I agree with you that not everyone has internet and not everyone watches TV.
Among the majority that do use those services, I am sure there are a number of people who ignore public service messages. That's where billboards come in.

 

[Bravo]

Yeah like spread the word and not the virus