Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #71

[Clair Louise]

Opinion | I Spoke to Anthony Fauci. He Says His Inbox Isn’t Pretty.

An interview with Dr. Fauci- who gets nasty messages---

I have seen some really, really awful posts about the Dr on social media. Really way out there accusations and false stories about him.

 

[Sundog]

Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban slammed for using celeb 'privilege' to skip Australia's mandatory quarantine

 

[ArianeEmory]

Family remembers Caldwell nurse practitioner who died from coronavirus: 'There is a large void in our family'

 

[10ofRods]

We, too, had an issue during this outbreak in Victoria. People getting to the testing stations. So they parked covid testing vans at the end of many streets so people had to walk no further than 100 metres to a testing station.

In the US, this only happens in the movies. Closest testing (and most crowded) is 6 miles from me, and there's one at my work (17 miles - which is considered "close" by many people).

I wonder if it would work here, though. Let's say a mobile testing unit crawled around neighborhoods every day - would people come out to get tested? I don't know.

 

[10ofRods]

I'm hearing one word over and over again when reading articles like this: Regret. How do we transform that from a postscript to a preface that might help on the front end of this thing? How?

I wish it worked that way. There is a little ripple of fear if people actually know that someone in their circle has CoVid. If it's a close family member, of course there's regret, but that doesn't mean that everyone up and down the street - or in that town - will learn about it. Or feel the same, if they do hear about it.

People are in denial that it can happen to them. Denial is real, and it's deep.

I don't know how we get the word out.

 

[ArianeEmory]

Hillcrest releases statement after nurse reportedly dies from coronavirus (Tulsa OK)

 

[10ofRods]

Together, Brazil and the US accounted for nearly half of the world's CoVid deaths on July 21.

www.worldometer.com

The two nations are about 7% of the world's population. They have similar approaches to CoVid.

 

[MsArk]

Hillcrest releases statement after nurse reportedly dies from coronavirus (Tulsa OK)

Oh my! She fought this for 3 months! My prayers are with her husband and young son tonight.

 

[Clair Louise]

Oh my! She fought this for 3 months! My prayers are with her husband and young son tonight.

I have heard of people dying within a week of it and some last months. I find that really frightening.
This has pushed me to making a living will. I do not want to be ventilated, but would appreciate palliative care.
Edited to add. I am a not a young person. I would fight if I were young.

 

[MsArk]

I have heard of people dying within a week of it and some last months. I find that really frightening.
This has pushed me to making a living will. I do not want to be ventilated, but would appreciate palliative care.
Edited to add. I am a not a young person. I would fight if I were young.

That is typically what I hear also. Doing better then BAM...things go down hill very quickly to death. It looks like from the link I read within the article that she was placed on a vent some time ago (maybe in May IIRC) and just was never able to shake it off.

I just don’t want to be vented...and my children know it.

 

[MimosaMornings]

Texas Kids Got COVID-19 at Summer Camp. Is School Next? — Texas Monthly

“On Saturday, June 28, Kosub dropped her fourteen-year-old daughter off for a two-week session at Timbers, Pine Cove’s overnight camp for eighth- and ninth-graders in Tyler.

When Pine Cove called her just days after drop-off to share that a camper in Emerson’s cabin had a fever, Kosub wasn’t concerned: at least one kid is bound to get sick at camp every year—pandemic or not.

Kosub keeps looking at pictures and videos from camp, agonizing over mask slipups, the worship nights with singing and dancing in close proximity, and games of dodgeball with kids throwing balls that they’d touched at each other’s faces. “What I realize now is that there was no way to keep those kids safe the way the camp is set up,” she said.

Kosub regrets not following her brother’s plans and receiving a full refund. With school starting in a few weeks, she knows she won’t be able to keep her socially active daughter at home but is already bracing for the first football player or dancer to test positive and shut everything down again.”
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An two week overnight camp with a cabinful of 10-14 year olds in TEXAS.
What could go wrong?

(She knows she won’t be able to keep her socially active daughter at home? Guess nothing learned from that experience).

 

[Clair Louise]

Texas Kids Got COVID-19 at Summer Camp. Is School Next? — Texas Monthly

“On Saturday, June 28, Kosub dropped her fourteen-year-old daughter off for a two-week session at Timbers, Pine Cove’s overnight camp for eighth- and ninth-graders in Tyler.

When Pine Cove called her just days after drop-off to share that a camper in Emerson’s cabin had a fever, Kosub wasn’t concerned: at least one kid is bound to get sick at camp every year—pandemic or not.

Kosub keeps looking at pictures and videos from camp, agonizing over mask slipups, the worship nights with singing and dancing in close proximity, and games of dodgeball with kids throwing balls that they’d touched at each other’s faces. “What I realize now is that there was no way to keep those kids safe the way the camp is set up,” she said.

Kosub regrets not following her brother’s plans and receiving a full refund. With school starting in a few weeks, she knows she won’t be able to keep her socially active daughter at home but is already bracing for the first football player or dancer to test positive and shut everything down again.”
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An two week overnight camp with a cabinful of 10-14 year olds in TEXAS.
What could go wrong?

(She knows she won’t be able to keep her socially active daughter at home? Guess nothing learned from that experience).

I would be doubting my parenting abilities if I could not keep my 14 year old daughter at home in a pandemic.

 

[Lilibet]

I'm sure this has been posted but I'm just seeing it today.

Fauci: Little is known about COVID-19, except it spreads easily, kills many, might cause permanent disabilities, and can be prevented

I really like this article, but it was misattributed to Dr Fauci.

Did Fauci Compare Research About COVID-19 to That of Chickenpox?

 

[margarita25]

“”Our early warning system has begun to blink red in a few areas,” said Jill Hunsaker Ryan, the executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

Last week, Ryan sent letters to leaders in Denver, Arapahoe, Adams, Larimer, Douglas, Broomfield, Garfield, Custer, Chaffee, El Paso, Eagle, Pitkin, Grand, Mineral and Prowers counties to alert them of their increasing COVID-19 cases and to request mitigation plans from each county.

Counties have two weeks to reverse their disease trend or they could lose the state variances that allowed them to follow fewer restrictions than the state health order for occupancy at gyms, places of worship, restaurants and other businesses.

“If they are not able to reverse the trend, the variance will be revoked and the county will follow the state’s Safer at Home order,” Ryan said.”

COLORADO CORONAVIRUS: State warns counties of possible tighter COVID-19 restrictions; Denver to enhance night enforcement

 

[Sillybilly]

Opinion | I Spoke to Anthony Fauci. He Says His Inbox Isn’t Pretty.

An interview with Dr. Fauci- who gets nasty messages---

We do not normally allow "opinion pieces" but we are going to let this one stand. It is an actual Q&A with Dr. Anthony Fauci and it is strictly the interview, nothing more, no opinion stated by the columnist.

 

[margarita25]

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[SouthAussie]

Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban slammed for using celeb 'privilege' to skip Australia's mandatory quarantine

So now I will explain what is really happening ....

Nicole is reviving the Aussie film industry by bringing the $100 million blockbuster production to Australia. Bringing about 1,550 jobs to the Australian people.
She and her family and select crew members are in strict quarantine at a special, isolated production hub. They are being police supervised. And they are paying all costs for this.

The rest of the crew are in isolation at a hotel, again under strict quarantine conditions.

Not so unusual ... my son in law (a non-celebrity) was given the same permission when he returned to Australia from New Zealand. The police check up on them at sporadic intervals, and they are heavily fined if they breach conditions.
The explanation for this was given in a tweet near the end of your linked article "Anyone can apply for the exemption from hotel quarantine if they can provide evidence of being able to self isolate".

If you click on this twitter link, it will take you to a realistic article.

https://twitter.com/dailytelegraph/status/1285477353469014018

This was all on our TV news last night. We are not unhappy.

 

[gngr~snap]

I wish it worked that way. There is a little ripple of fear if people actually know that someone in their circle has CoVid. If it's a close family member, of course there's regret, but that doesn't mean that everyone up and down the street - or in that town - will learn about it. Or feel the same, if they do hear about it.

People are in denial that it can happen to them. Denial is real, and it's deep.

I don't know how we get the word out.

I am starting to believe denial is more contagious than COVID.
If I had to guess 45% of my friends, who I've known for decades, are still saying every death is called covid. Even from years ago, when a story comes out about a cold case, wait until November, it'll be gone, they have all been to Florida, most of them to the panhandle. Not gonna live in fear, not gonna wear a mask.
I'm shocked at the level of stupidity!!!
Just goes to show, you never really know anyone.
Somehow, every one of them has avoided the virus as have their immediate family.
I know one who got it, but she won't admit to having it and still acts like a fool.
Moo

 

[SouthAussie]

I wonder if life insurance companies are re-writing life insurance policies with covid clauses that exempt any payout for covid deaths?

We know that travel insurance companies are not covering covid related expenses.

 

[tresir2012]

Campaigning can continue in the same way that businesses, churches/synagogues/mosques, government agencies, families, etc all over the US have adapted and continued during this pandemic. Why not?

Because they are such large affairs. Isn't there limits to numbers with gatherings in a lot of states now?