Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #72

[Tony1902]

Just want to be sure I read that correctly @10ofRods: “having sex with demons..” are we now listening to snake handling rollers or the Spanish Inquisition? No don’t do it Toostie!!

 

[10ofRods]

After all the planning and expense, they can't get baseball together, how are they going to deal with kids in school?


4 more Marlins test positive; total at 17

Four more members of the Miami Marlins have tested positive for the coronavirus after the latest round of testing.

The Marlins have now had 17 people test positive in the past five days. On Monday, the total of confirmed cases stood at 11 players and two coaches.

The Marlins' outbreak continued to disrupt MLB's schedule Tuesday, the sixth day of the pandemic-delayed season, with the Marlins' home game against Baltimore postponed.

Monday's game between the Marlins and Orioles was also called off, as were the New York Yankees' games Monday and Tuesday at Philadelphia, where New York would have been in the same clubhouse Miami used over the weekend.

But but but! I thought baseball was so much safer!

Of course, as we keep discussing here - locker rooms are perfect for transmitting CoVid. Maybe the players should show up already in uniform (with masks) and wait on the perimeter of the field (no dugouts). But that would be too radical a change, I suspect.

Who knew that Americans were so stubborn and slow to pivot?

Just want to be sure I read that correctly @10ofRods: “having sex with demons..” are we now listening to snake handling rollers or the Spanish Inquisition? No don’t do it Toostie!!

Sex with demons while in a dream state. Also, she believes that aliens have come to Earth and contributed to our DNA. And now she has an official, White House-authorized national platform.

The ride just got bumpier, I think.

 

[Tony1902]

I need bigger & stronger seatbelts & a tank or another culture...;/

 

[tresir2012]

Well now you've gone and done it.
I'm wistfully thinking about trifle and spotted dick.

Halloween's a bust
and have been thinking about starting Christmas shopping.
IDK was thinking flat ornaments, easy to post.
LCBO Ships. Lol.

Something to look forward to.

ETA Tourtiere ...

And we can just scoff it all early and buy more to help the economy if the vaccine comes early. Win-win.

 

[beatrixpotter]

I am not sure that you can blame China. If American companies chose to take their manufacturing to China for more profits, is it China's fault?

I thought a lot of that had to do with the US government's basically giving companies incentives to move. I can't exactly blame China or the Chinese people. I mean they want to make a living just like us. And those people working for slave wages over there are just trying to survive. We can all make choices ourselves to buy more that's made in America. Though at this point it's incredibly hard to do with many things.

All that to say I do get the sentiment of what you are saying and can understand. I just hate to see the mostly innocent people of China blamed for wanting to get ahead.

 

[musicaljoke]

I think the cumulative deaths by population are a good measure. The states currently suffering from increases should end up by benefitting from the lessons learned from NY treatments so I expect the death rate per million population to be less. If not then it would indicate something wrong IMO.

Yes, the southern states certainly have the advantage of having a lead time. Back when NYC first started seeing cases, the medical community was struggling to find PPE, diagnostic testing was still a problem, contact tracing was in its early days, doctors didn't have a lot of information about treatment options, there weren't enough ventilators, LTC homes didn't have protocols in place, people hadn't been encouraged to wear masks, social distancing was still a new concept, etc.

In spite of the lead time advantage, there may be some other issues in the southern states where we are seeing uncontrolled community spread that may lead to a crisis of equal proportion. It is my feeling, that the southern states have poorer leadership, have more people w/o health insurance, and have more members of susceptible populations, and are less likely to comply with Public Health recommendations.

This virus is a wiley devil.

 

[tresir2012]

But but but! I thought baseball was so much safer!

Of course, as we keep discussing here - locker rooms are perfect for transmitting CoVid. Maybe the players should show up already in uniform (with masks) and wait on the perimeter of the field (no dugouts). But that would be too radical a change, I suspect.

Who knew that Americans were so stubborn and slow to pivot?



Sex with demons while in a dream state. Also, she believes that aliens have come to Earth and contributed to our DNA. And now she has an official, White House-authorized national platform.

The ride just got bumpier, I think.

So it is ok for football and cricket players to share a locker room but our swimming pool changing rooms cannot be used even though the pools are reopening. It's no wonder the public cannot follow these Covid rules.

Makes no sense.

 

[beatrixpotter]

Future losses causing deep concerns among NBA team owners

I hope that these teams do not get one dime of any government program. They already get tons of concessions and benefits from tax dollars.

My personal opinion is that it is time for people who make $25 million a year playing basketball to take a pay cut. Welcome to the new "Covid" reality.

I agree. Like I'm supposed to feel sorry for a bunch of multimillionaires who already get massive tax benefits. And the rest of the poor schlubs out there get $1,200 an adult and only $500 for "some" of their kids? If they can't survive and never learned to live within their means what about all the waitstaff who never made enough to afford to even rent and buy food on one salary?

It's ridiculous. But the last set of Trump bucks that went through benefited a lot of wealthy people instead of actual small businesses out there.

 

[Simply Southern]

Dr. Birx in Richmond today. But she is NOt appearing at the 2pm PC. Why Richmond, when Hampton Roads is our hot spot?

ETA...governor says it was a confidential meeting...WTHeck????

Scratching my head....

White House COVID-19 adviser visits Richmond, makes recommendations to mitigate virus spread

Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the White House's top coronavirus advisers, made a stop in Richmond Tuesday to meet with Governor Ralph Northam and participate in a roundtable with community and state health officials.


The stop in Virginia was her last in a five state tour of areas where they are concerned about rising percent positivity of COVID-19.

Brix offered recommendations to prevent Virginia from becoming the next COVID-19 hot spot, specifically mentioning the Portsmouth and Chesapeake region, along with Richmond.

Brix says she showed state leaders what other hotspot states like Texas and Arizona have done to get their big outbreaks under control.

She is also recommended that Virginia implement these changes now.

 

[tresir2012]

Yes, the southern states certainly have the advantage of having a lead time. Back when NYC first started seeing cases, the medical community was struggling to find PPE, diagnostic testing was still a problem, contact tracing was in its early days, doctors didn't have a lot of information about treatment options, there weren't enough ventilators, LTC homes didn't have protocols in place, people hadn't been encouraged to wear masks, social distancing was still a new concept, etc.

In spite of the lead time advantage, there may be some other issues in the southern states where we are seeing uncontrolled community spread that may lead to a crisis of equal proportion. It is my feeling, that the southern states have poorer leadership, have more people w/o health insurance, and have more members of susceptible populations, and are less likely to comply with Public Health recommendations.

This virus is a wiley devil.

Yes that is probably true but there is now no shortage of ventilators and it is younger people getting it now so not so fatal hopefully and possibly a weaker strain IMO.

 

[tresir2012]

Dr. Birx in Richmond today. But she is NOt appearing at the 2pm PC. Why Richmond, when Hampton Roads is our hot spot?

ETA...governor says it was a confidential meeting...WTHeck????

Scratching my head....

White House COVID-19 adviser visits Richmond, makes recommendations to mitigate virus spread

Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the White House's top coronavirus advisers, made a stop in Richmond Tuesday to meet with Governor Ralph Northam and participate in a roundtable with community and state health officials.


The stop in Virginia was her last in a five state tour of areas where they are concerned about rising percent positivity of COVID-19.

Brix offered recommendations to prevent Virginia from becoming the next COVID-19 hot spot, specifically mentioning the Portsmouth and Chesapeake region, along with Richmond.

Brix says she showed state leaders what other hotspot states like Texas and Arizona have done to get their big outbreaks under control.

She is also recommended that Virginia implement these changes now.

That's good to hear Texas and Arizona have it under control. So her next stop is probably California?

 

[CharlestonGal]

You just want a new shed, right?

Anyway, posting this Fox article about a video being deleted. Still cannot follow why media are censoring tweets.

Twitter deletes video promoted by Trump on hydroxychloroquine use for coronavirus

I don't know what the rest of the world is doing, but the US social media sites have banned/censored covid propaganda and misinformation. Even if it comes from the WH.

 

[Tillicum]

You just want a new shed, right?

Anyway, posting this Fox article about a video being deleted. Still cannot follow why media are censoring tweets.

Twitter deletes video promoted by Trump on hydroxychloroquine use for coronavirus

We're definitely getting a shed but we've had several outdoor visits with my sister, MIL and FIL and kids and grandkids. Safe visits. I don't want them to stop because it's too cold.

 

[musicaljoke]

Yes that is probably true but there is now no shortage of ventilators and it is younger people getting it now so not so fatal hopefully and possibly a weaker strain IMO.

I hope you are right. I am a tad less optimistic. The youngun's will take it home, on the bus, to school, church, etc. And, we don't know for sure if it really is a weaker strain.

But, I certainly hope you are right.

 

[tresir2012]

We're definitely getting a shed but we've had several outdoor visits with my sister, MIL and FIL and kids and grandkids. Safe visits. I don't want them to stop because it's too cold.

What are December temperatures like for you though?

 

[CharlestonGal]

<modsnip: quoted post was removed>

Social media has always had that right. You must post within their policies. It's the same as Tricia having the right to decide what is or isn't posted here on WS.

 

[beatrixpotter]

Ugh, well this article just broke my heart and leaves me in tears. It leaves me feeling ashamed of my abundance and wishing I knew what I could do to help. I can't stand the thought of these starving children.

“Before the disease we didn’t have anything,” said Aminata Mande, her mother. “Now with the disease we don’t have anything also.”.....

“I don’t have the basics I need to survive,” said Zakaria Yehia Abdullah, 67, a farmer in the Krinding camp in West Darfur, who hasn’t worked the fields since authorities imposed a partial lockdown in April and local militias escalated attacks. “That means the 10 people counting on me can’t survive either.”



Before the pandemic and lockdown, his family ate three meals a day, sometimes with bread, or they’d add butter to porridge. Now they are down to just one meal, in the morning, of “millet porridge” — water mixed with grain. He said the hunger is showing “in my children’s faces.”"

"Fatma Nasser, a 34-year-old mother of seven, is among three million displaced people in Yemen who don’t have enough money to feed themselves or their children. She lives on one meal a day. Ibrahim Nasser, the father, lost his only source of income, fishing, after roads to the sea were closed because of the coronavirus.

The mother’s milk dried up, and the baby lived on formula. But doctors say families tend to use less milk powder to save money, and babies don’t usually get enough nutrition.

“It’s God’s will,” the mother said. “We can say nothing.”

Virus-linked hunger tied to 10,000 child deaths each month

 

[CSIDreamer]

You just want a new shed, right?

Anyway, posting this Fox article about a video being deleted. Still cannot follow why media are censoring tweets.

Twitter deletes video promoted by Trump on hydroxychloroquine use for coronavirus

I think that's a great way to get a new shed. I'd try that but we're in the demolition/planning process anyway.

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Big day for me. First hair cut since Feb! A hairdresser my mum has been with for 20+ years came to my house in my working-from-home lunch break today. She had a mask and sterilised kit. Snip snip snip and my shoulder length straggles were gone. I think I'm now kind of channeling Tyne Daly but I quite like it, feels fresh. Mr HKP says it's given me a big lift, mood wise. He thinks its because it's good to start feeling less restricted by Covid. He could be right.

 

[CSIDreamer]

I agree. Like I'm supposed to feel sorry for a bunch of multimillionaires who already get massive tax benefits. And the rest of the poor schlubs out there get $1,200 an adult and only $500 for "some" of their kids? If they can't survive and never learned to live within their means what about all the waitstaff who never made enough to afford to even rent and buy food on one salary?

It's ridiculous. But the last set of Trump bucks that went through benefited a lot of wealthy people instead of actual small businesses out there.

I thought "Trump bucks" was passed by Congress with bipartisan support. Are you talking about the CARES act or a different plan? Jmo