Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #71

[musicaljoke]

So you don't need the state to mandate the wearing of a mask first? You can just decide on behalf of your own organisation that you wish to do that?

That's correct. We don't need to wait for the province to mandate masks first.

 

[ArianeEmory]

Texas Surpasses 5,000 Coronavirus Deaths

 

[Tigerlily75]

Biggest daily increase for Victoria today, sadly.

July 27:
532 new cases, six deaths.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/...onavirus-six-more-deaths-20200727-p55fqa.html

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I've seen them at Aldi too, I think they were $69 for 50.
Was awhile ago now and I did think of getting them but decided against it as no one was saying we needed them.

Here in Melbourne both Coles and Woolies sell them behind the counter, with a limit of 1 box. I think they are both $40 for a box of 50.

 

[Tigerlily75]

I've seen them at Aldi too, I think they were $69 for 50.
Was awhile ago now and I did think of getting them but decided against it as no one ws saying we needed them.

Costco also has them, if you’re a member. Since the mandate came in, I have fortunately not found them hard to come by. My sister is making us reusable ones, but I’ll still keep a box of disposables with me, in case I didn’t get a chance to wash it or something.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I notice that Cotton On have reusuable ones too

 

[MimosaMornings]

These are some of the 91,000 people who've died since the U.S. reopened — CNN

“Ninety-one thousand lives snatched by an unrelenting pandemic since the first state in the US reopened on April 24.

Ninety-one thousand whose dreams were cut short, plans ended prematurely.

Each one a son or daughter. Someone's uncle. A best friend. A person who left others to grieve, cry and try to carry on.”

 

[ilovewings]

These are some of the 91,000 people who've died since the U.S. reopened — CNN

“Ninety-one thousand lives snatched by an unrelenting pandemic since the first state in the US reopened on April 24.

Ninety-one thousand whose dreams were cut short, plans ended prematurely.

Each one a son or daughter. Someone's uncle. A best friend. A person who left others to grieve, cry and try to carry on.”

All of those poor souls would still be on this earth if ot for this evil virus

 

[Trino]

Face mask ignorance. Marshall, MN. A man and woman wore a face mask with a swastika on the front. It got them banned from nation-wide Walmart for a year.
Minnesota couple wears swastika face coverings at Walmart

 

[Tigerlily75]

The future of international travel (Australia)

Scott Morrison issues grim warning for future of international travel

I’m a big traveller, it’s pretty much my hobby, I take off at every opportunity. I have leave from work booked in Oct/Nov, January, February and March. No idea if I’ll be able to go anywhere though, even within Australia or my own state at this point. Not that I’m complaining, not with everything people are going through, just something I’m watching with interest.

 

[Tigerlily75]

Face mask ignorance. Marshall, MN. A man and woman wore a face mask with a swastika on the front. It got them banned from nation-wide Walmart for a year.
Minnesota couple wears swastika face coverings at Walmart

Ugh, I just saw this on our news too. People are awful.

 

[Trino]

I'm not laughing. I'm worried.
I spoke with several family members today. They weren't laughing either.

Maybe they're laughing at our lack of a national leadership.

 

[Yvettea]

Texas Surpasses 5,000 Coronavirus Deaths

I’m very sorry to see this but at least their number of new cases may be dropping from the peak a week ago. Coronavirus - Google Search

Any increase is too much.

 

[tmar]

For months, my friends kept stating, 'how lucky we are in Australia', now this....

Australian state records daily virus record, warns of lockdown extension

Australian state records daily virus record, warns of lockdown extension

By Byron Kaye and Renju Jose

35 mins ago
...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Victoria state on Monday reported the country's highest daily increase in coronavirus infections, prompting the authorities to warn a six-week lockdown may last longer if people continue to go to work while feeling unwell.
The second-most populous state reported 532 new cases of the virus which causes COVID-19, the most new cases in a day since the pandemic arrived in Australia, and six more deaths, taking the state toll to 77, almost half the national death toll.

Five of the latest deaths were people in aged care facilities, the authorities said.

Until recently Australia had avoided the high COVID-19 casualty rates of other countries, but a wave of community transmission in Victoria has prompted a lockdown in Melbourne, the only Australian city to make it mandatory to wear a facemask in public.

"If you've got a sniffle, a scratchy throat, a headache, fever, then you can't go to work," said Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews in a televised news conference.

"This is what is driving these numbers up, and the lockdown will not end until people stop going to work with symptoms and instead go and get tested because they have symptoms."

Melbourne, home to a fifth of Australia's 25 million population, is halfway though a six-week ban on movement other than for work, buying food, giving or receiving healthcare, or daily exercise. Andrews added that he may announce additional measures later this week.

 

[Yvettea]

Face mask ignorance. Marshall, MN. A man and woman wore a face mask with a swastika on the front. It got them banned from nation-wide Walmart for a year.
Minnesota couple wears swastika face coverings at Walmart

Caused a lot of distress for shoppers. Pity!

 

[realanastasia]

Heartbreaking—but I suspect many anti-maskers feel that this family’s suffering is outweighed by the importance of “defending” their (anti-maskers’) “freedom”: ‘You Do the Right Things, and Still You Get It’

 

[Trino]

Ugh, I just saw this on our news too. People are awful.

I'm from Minnesota - embarrassed to say after this. However, this mask swastike incident happened in Marshall, a small town in south western, MN. Marshall is changing/has changed, but some individuals are still living in the past. This couple are ages 64 and 59. Probably a left-over from their own past.
Couple banned by Walmart after wearing Nazi flag face mask at Marshall, Minnesota store

 

[10ofRods]

I'm from Minnesota - embarrassed to say after this. However, this mask swastike incident happened in Marshall, a small town in south western, MN. Marshall is changing/has changed, but some individuals are still living in the past. This couple are ages 64 and 59. Probably a left-over from their own past.
Couple banned by Walmart after wearing Nazi flag face mask at Marshall, Minnesota store

What in their past, I wonder? They were born in 56 and 61. I’m older than that. I would have insulted my elders with that. It was tabu when we/they were growing up. How did they get this in their past, I wonder??

 

[10ofRods]

The future of international travel (Australia)

Scott Morrison issues grim warning for future of international travel

I’m a big traveller, it’s pretty much my hobby, I take off at every opportunity. I have leave from work booked in Oct/Nov, January, February and March. No idea if I’ll be able to go anywhere though, even within Australia or my own state at this point. Not that I’m complaining, not with everything people are going through, just something I’m watching with interest.

Me too. Travel is pretty much our hobby. Researching what we think are small, relatively unknown towns in the west - everything is SO expensive. Is that the case in Australia too?

Even allowing for not having to buy airfare, it looks like there’s very little room at any remotely touristic destination here in California. This is ordinary for summer, I guess but it looks like people are willing to do non-essential travel AND to pay a lot for it (more than last year, when there were more tourists).

 

[10ofRods]

Here's the thing though, anyone filing a suit alleging they contracted Covid at
Golden Corral, or any restaurant that serves a buffet, would have to prove
they got it there as opposed at any other place-- now if bunch of people
got Covid who ate there on a particular day, they might have more of a chance
to be successful, but let's say somebody files a lawsuit against Golden Corral, but that person also went to a crowded bar or restaurant or spent the day at a crowded
beach-- well they are less likely to have a successful law suit IMO

A good lawyer would depose the owner and managers, under oath, and ask whether any employee had had CoVid. Then a judge would have to rule on whether medical records could be subpoenaed. I have no clue how that would go down.

There could also be contact tracing evidence to support a case. New territory for lawyers, for sure.