Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #68

[Tate123]

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.

I've seen billboard PSAs in NY about wearing masks...I had to travel into Brooklyn the other day and there was a big traffic sign..
"Outside with no mask? Fuhgeddaboutit"

 

[CharlestonGal]

I've seen billboard PSAs in NY about wearing masks...I had to travel into Brooklyn the other day and there was a big traffic sign..
"Outside with no mask? Fuhgeddaboutit"

I love New Yorkers!

 

[mickey2942]

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.”

This is really true. Even in two parent households. It seems like the Father does his "work". The Mother does her "work", then helps the kids with their homeschooling, entertains the kids, manages the shopping, cooking, cleaning, taking care of elderly parents, including his...

That is what I have seen of my younger co-workers. They are frazzled. This isn't to downplay or argue that Fathers don't help out, but that is what it seems like, they "help out" rather than actually direct and manage what needs to get done.

Just my opinion, and observation of what I have seen lately.

 

[Bravo]

New York has had excellent leadership. Good job.

 

[Spider92]

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

120 Deaths was prior high.

The FL health website shows 93 and Worldometers shows 95. Why does FL have so much trouble counting?
Edit - I think CNN has pulled their 188 death count. Maybe somebody fat fingered it (hitting 94 twice) with their adding machine.

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[CharlestonGal]

List of stores at link.

Employees at 17 Publix stores in Polk County have tested positive for COVID-19 | WFLA

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – Publix says workers at 17 of its stores in Polk County have tested positive for COVID-19.

News Channel 8 obtained a list of stores Thursday.

Publix spokeswoman Maria Brous said associates working at the Southgate Shopping Center, 2515 Florida Ave South in Lakeland, and the Lake Gibson site on U.S. Highway 98 had previously tested positive for the virus, but not within the past 14 days.

Brous said 17 of the stores in Polk County have had employees test positive for the virus since the outbreak began. Publix has 19 stores in Polk County.

 

[Tillicum]

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.

Here's another thing I noticed today that I hadn't considered before. We get a lot of grocery pickup orders at Walmart. We put an opened cooler in the bed of our pickup, call the number, give them our name and they bring the order and put it in the cooler. Usually the worker pauses at the window and apologizes because they aren't allowed to touch the lid to close it. Today when I called the girl couldn't find my name or order. She spelled my name and asked if it was correct. Those letters couldn't possibly have spelled my short common name (not Tillicum). Another worker found the order and the first girl brought it out. Her mask was under her nose unlike all the others before. After she left, my husband got out to close the lid and the cooler was already closed.

Did she not care? Is she just irresponsible? No IMO she can't read. How many people aren't following the guidelines because they can't read the guidelines?

 

[SouthAussie]

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.

Many of us have the covid contact tracing app on our phones. It just sits quietly in the background.

Each time your phone screen locks and you have to unlock it by fingerprint or password, a popup says "COVIDSafe is active. Keep COVIDSafe active when you leave home or are in public places".
It also has put a little unobtrusive outline of Australia with a tick at the top of the screen.

We are constantly reminded.

 

[Reasonable & Just]

Not quite billboards, but looking good: Black mural artists are adding face masks to their street art in a grassroots PSA to fight the coronavirus - CNN

 

[CharlestonGal]

At least 16 sick after coronavirus exposure at DeWitt in-home day care: ‘Take this seriously ... stay home if sick at all'

DeWitt, N.Y. — At least 16 children and adults have come down with the coronavirus after it spread from contact at a DeWitt family in-home child care.

The cluster of the coronavirus cases has made people in four families sick, including six children at the child care, one sibling, seven parents and two grandmothers, according to Heidi Feathers, who operates the licensed in-home child care with two other parents.

The cases go back to a mom who didn’t quarantine as she waited to learn if she had the virus. For three days she brought her child to the child care, Feathers said. It turned out the child was asymptomatic and both the child and mom have since tested positive for the virus, she said.

“I’m so frustrated that she didn’t tell me, and she didn’t stay home,‘' said Feathers, who had a fever and was sick for eight days. “People need to take this seriously, and stay home if they are sick at all.”

 

[CharlestonGal]

List at link.

Clark County releases list of non complying businesses for mask mandate

 

[Reasonable & Just]

At least 16 sick after coronavirus exposure at DeWitt in-home day care: ‘Take this seriously ... stay home if sick at all'

DeWitt, N.Y. — At least 16 children and adults have come down with the coronavirus after it spread from contact at a DeWitt family in-home child care.

The cluster of the coronavirus cases has made people in four families sick, including six children at the child care, one sibling, seven parents and two grandmothers, according to Heidi Feathers, who operates the licensed in-home child care with two other parents.

The cases go back to a mom who didn’t quarantine as she waited to learn if she had the virus. For three days she brought her child to the child care, Feathers said. It turned out the child was asymptomatic and both the child and mom have since tested positive for the virus, she said.

“I’m so frustrated that she didn’t tell me, and she didn’t stay home,‘' said Feathers, who had a fever and was sick for eight days. “People need to take this seriously, and stay home if they are sick at all.”

Not only is this close to home, but in my desperate single-mom days, it could have been me making that poor decision...weighing out the risks of missing work while I waited out the tests. And the results take so long on top of it.

We have to have a better way as we muddle through this pandemic. People feel like they are up against the wall, which makes it easier to make a reckless & selfish decision that harms others.

 

[Footwarrior]

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.

My Grandfather lived near an Army base during the 1918 pandemic. Around 8 to 10 dead soldiers would be brought to the train station each evening and put on trains for hone early the next morning. Grandfather was in ROTC at that time. He spent many nights as an honor guard, standing watch all night long.

 

[Reasonable & Just]

Strict Rules Apply, But Visitors Will Be Allowed Back In New York Nursing Homes

The change comes after the state — one of those hardest-hit by the virus — has seen thousands of deaths in nursing homes and long-term care facilities.

According to the revised rules issued Friday by the New York State Department of Health, visitors will be allowed if a nursing home or adult-care facility hasn't had any coronavirus cases for 28 days.

However, even then, the rules are quite restrictive.

They dictate that only two visitors — at least one of whom must be at least 18 years old — are allowed per resident, and only 10% of residents may receive visitors at the same time. The visitors themselves must submit to temperature checks, wear a mask and remain socially distanced.

"With the knowledge we now have about how COVID-19 came into nursing homes – mainly through asymptomatic staff and visitors through no fault of their own – it is critical that as we resume visitations to these facilities we do it in a smart and cautious way to ensure the health and safety of residents and staff," State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker said in a statement.

 

[mickey2942]

List at link.

Clark County releases list of non complying businesses for mask mandate

What I don't like about this, is putting some kid who makes minimum wage, as the "mask police". We have already seen numerous articles about how enraged some people get by the simple request to wear a mask.

Sorry, but it was 113 yesterday in Las Vegas. Who could wear a mask perfectly for 8 hours working in retail stores?

 

[CharlestonGal]

Coronavirus deaths take a long-expected turn for the worse

NEW YORK (AP) — A long-expected upturn in U.S. coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West, according to data on the pandemic.

The number of deaths per day from the virus had been falling for months, and even remained down as states like Florida and Texas saw explosions in cases and hospitalizations — and reported daily U.S. infections broke records several times in recent days.

Scientists warned it wouldn’t last. A coronavirus death, when it occurs, typically comes several weeks after a person is first infected. And experts predicted states that saw increases in cases and hospitalizations would, at some point, see deaths rise too. Now that’s happening.

 

[CharlestonGal]

Japanese governor demands U.S. military meeting after coronavirus outbreak in Okinawa bases

TOKYO — A Japanese governor has demanded an explanation after dozens of U.S. Marines at two bases on the southern island of Okinawa were infected with the coronavirus.

"We find it extremely regrettable," Okinawa's Governor Denny Tamaki told a news conference Saturday. "We cannot help but hold strong concern towards anti-infection measures implemented by the U.S. military."

Governor Tamaki could only say that a "few dozen" virus cases had been found, because the U.S. military had not disclosed the exact figures, he said, before calling for an immediate phone conference with U.S. military officials to discuss the number of infections and what anti-prevention measures were being taken.

"We have also received reports that people linked to the U.S. military have ventured out into the downtown area or participated in beach parties before and after the July 4th celebrations," Tamaki added, urging those who had attended such gatherings to call a hotline number to be tracked and traced.

The coronavirus outbreaks occurred at Marine Corps. Air Station Futenma and Camp Hansen, Tamaki said.

 

[SouthAussie]

Japanese governor demands U.S. military meeting after coronavirus outbreak in Okinawa bases

TOKYO — A Japanese governor has demanded an explanation after dozens of U.S. Marines at two bases on the southern island of Okinawa were infected with the coronavirus.

"We find it extremely regrettable," Okinawa's Governor Denny Tamaki told a news conference Saturday. "We cannot help but hold strong concern towards anti-infection measures implemented by the U.S. military."

Governor Tamaki could only say that a "few dozen" virus cases had been found, because the U.S. military had not disclosed the exact figures, he said, before calling for an immediate phone conference with U.S. military officials to discuss the number of infections and what anti-prevention measures were being taken.

"We have also received reports that people linked to the U.S. military have ventured out into the downtown area or participated in beach parties before and after the July 4th celebrations," Tamaki added, urging those who had attended such gatherings to call a hotline number to be tracked and traced.

The coronavirus outbreaks occurred at Marine Corps. Air Station Futenma and Camp Hansen, Tamaki said.

The US Marine who was diagnosed as positive when he landed in Australia for a turnover of staff has been hospitalised now. The US commander wants to know how we are treating him.
Well, not with any of the remdesivir that the US bought up so no-one else could have any. (My words not anyone else's)


Remdesivir will not be available to Australians unless they are severely unwell, requiring oxygen or high level support to breathe, and in hospital care.
Australia's first COVID treatment approved

 

[Lilibet]

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.

Optimism is nice @gitana1, and yes, pandemics do end, but at this point I don’t really care about the history of pandemics. For a leader to say “one day it will disappear” and we’ll be in good shape in four weeks irresponsibly lulls people into thinking they can just go about their business and wait it out, doing nothing to keep themselves or others safe. And that, IMO, is a criminal abdication of responsibility. Refusing to admit that until coronavirus “just disappears” there need to be concerted and united and difficult actions to prevent more, as you say, and to mitigate the damage to human beings and yes, to the economy...is insane! Lives are being lost

ETA: Polio “disappeared“ because two vaccines were developed and widely distributed. I was in the generation of children that experienced both the fear of polio and the relief of getting the Salk vaccine injection and the Sabin vaccine delivered on a sugar cube.

 

[CharlestonGal]

COVID-19 lingers in the air for hours, UTMB researcher says

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- We're months into the pandemic now and our understanding of how the coronavirus behaves is still changing.

Doctors and our own immune systems have never seen this virus before this year. A new study is showing why it may be even more contagious than we thought.

"Aerosol droplets are so small that they can remain suspended in the air, especially in a stagnant indoor airspace for many hours," Dr. Scott Weaver with UTMB said.

Weaver is the Scientific Director of the Galveston National Lab and Director of the UTMB Institute for Human Infections & Immunity. He explained a new study that shows just how long the virus can stay in the air.

"(It) turns out the longest time point we measured -- 16 hours, the virus was still alive in aerosols created experimentally in a laboratory environment," Weaver said.

COVID-19 is understood to be a droplet-transmitted virus. A group of scientists not associated with this study are actually trying to get the virus re-classified as airborne transmitted.