Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #73

[Tillicum]

Ugh. This can't be good, either. God knows what kind of harm this can cause. Guess we'll find out down the road when there are lawsuits regarding the negative effects of being sprayed with disinfectant.

Think how great it would be if it didn't cause any harm though.

 

[anneg]

I don't know about you guys but for this stage of the pandemic I decided to eat my body weight in homemade chocolate chip cookies today. Tomorrow I'll try and roll myself out of bed and accomplish something more useful than doom scrolling and stuffing my face.

The last few days have been hard. I've had a friend completely second guess and question us wearing masks to meet up. So we won't be meeting up I guess. But the total lack of leadership and directives are exactly why I have to deal with this level of stupidity. Just mandate masks already BEFORE you start making your refrigerated morgue truck requests.

Note to self: Do NOT make chocolate chip cookies. DH would eat a few and I'd eat the rest. I have the ingredients, but I hope I can forget about this by tomorrow morning...

 

[MrX]

A policewoman has allegedly been attacked by a woman who refused to wear a mask at a Frankston shopping centre in Melbourne’s southeast.

 

[SouthAussie]

A policewoman has allegedly been attacked by a woman who refused to wear a mask at a Frankston shopping centre in Melbourne’s southeast.

“In the last week, we’ve seen a trend, an emergence if you like, of small groups of people, but nonetheless concerning groups, who classify themselves as sovereign citizens,” he said.
“We’ve seen them at checkpoints baiting police and not providing a name and address, people who don’t think the law applies to them.”

Mr Patton said police would not hesitate to issue infringements, arrest and detail people because Melburnians needed to understand there were consequences for not doing the right thing.
Policewoman allegedly assaulted by anti-masker


The sovereign citizen movement is a loose grouping of American litigants, commentators, tax protesters, and financial-scheme promoters. Self-described "sovereign citizens" see themselves as answerable only to their particular interpretations of the common law and as not subject to any government statutes or proceedings.
Sovereign citizen movement - Wikipedia

 

[SouthAussie]

A young woman in the United States whose lungs were ravaged by COVID-19 is alive and able to talk to her family thanks to a double lung transplant, surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago announced on Thursday.
The surgery was performed on Friday last week and the patient is now recovering.

"The patient is in stable condition and improving every day. While she still has a long road ahead of her, I'm extremely hopeful that she's going to make a full recovery"

The patient, a Hispanic woman in her 20s, spent six weeks on a ventilator and an ECMO machine while in the hospital's intensive care unit as her body fought the coronavirus infection.

"For many days, she was the sickest person in the COVID-19 ICU -- and possibly the entire hospital"

It was early June when the patient's lungs showed signs of irreversible damage due to COVID-19, according to the hospital.

"A lung transplant was the only option," Dr Bharat said.

Surgeons perform first double lung transplant on COVID-19 survivor

 

[10ofRods]

Grocery store stores were deemed essential in New Zealand when we had our level for lockdown. Very strict protocols were put in place. Plexiglass shields for the checkout people. Masks were mandatory, stickers on the floor to mark 6 feet distances. Only single shoppers were allowed in, very limited number allowed in the store at one time. Hand sanitiser (and sometimes free disposable masks) was handed out to all customers at the door by security guards, all trolleys were wiped down for every use.

And luckily our big supermarket chains gave their workers 'hazard pay' bonuses to compensate them for being on the front lines.

Thank you for those details. Here, in California, it's been recommended that stores do this and where I live, many of them do. Some of them, it's kind of "not really" even though there are rules. Not strict. The word "strict" cannot be applied to the situation here in California.

My daughters only go to the reliable store that does all this (Trader Joe's). Then, there are the other (all-night) stores. The all-night stores and their staffs have had more CoVid in my city than most groups. Plexiglass is still going up - not sure if it's state policy though - I think it's up to the individual corporation.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Our Target here in Australia doesn't sell groceries. They sell clothing, manchester, cosmetics, homeware, tech stuff etc.

I started that rumor. It's in a newspaper. Targets are closing in Australia, and possibly related to Covid, but I misread and thought it was a policy thing. It's a Target thing. Target is a grocery store (from the legal point of view here - that's why it was allowed to stay open).

 

[TootsieFootsie]

One thing on a list of what is closing in Victoria that I was surprised at is locksmiths.
I would have called them an essential service.

 

[tmar]

Stage four will choke virus reproduction, deputy CMO claims

Stage four will choke virus reproduction, deputy CMO claims

Mark Saunokonoko

4 hrs ago
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Victoria's stage four restrictions and the Melbourne curfew will bring coronavirus case numbers down, Australia's deputy chief medical officer has said.

Dr Nick Coatsworth said the "hugely significant" measures would cut the reproductive number of the virus.

"What we know is with the movement restrictions that will happen," he told Today.
The reproductive number of the coronavirus should ideally be under 1, meaning one person is infecting no more than one other person. If greater, the virus begins to spread very rapidly.

"What we need to do now is over the next one to two weeks get some runs on the board for Victorians."

 

[tmar]

Victorians face $4957 on-the-spot fine for breaching isolation orders

Victorians face $4957 on-the-spot fine for breaching isolation orders

Sky News Australia

1 hour ago
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Any Victorian who breaches isolation orders now faces a $4957 on-the-spot fine.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said the fine - which is the largest on-the-spot fine to be announced - would come into effect immediately.

Premier Andrews also announced anyone self-isolating could no longer leave their house for exercise.

“From now on there’ll be no exercise. If you’re supposed to be isolating at home, you will be isolating. If you want fresh air you can go to the front door or open a window,” he said.
The Premier announced another 500 ADF personnel would be called in to conduct random door knocks after more than 800 people out of 3,000 on isolation orders could not be found at home.

“This is completely unacceptable,” he said.

“Every single positive case will now be doorknocked multiple times and they will be random in nature.

“Now the exercise provision is gone, stay at home means stay at home.”

 

[Deleted member 158085]

Think how great it would be if it didn't cause any harm though.

Oh, I'd carry it with me in a super-soaker and nail my coworkers every now and then throughout the day.

 

[mickey2942]

Does COVID-19 affect male fertility?

I think that this is interesting, how does this novel virus affect people after recovery? This is something that merits more attention.

 

[tmar]

Trump criticizes Covid lockdowns and falsely claims US 'doing very well'

Trump criticizes Covid lockdowns and falsely claims US 'doing very well'

Ed Pilkington in New York

3 hrs ago
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Donald Trump used his White House coronavirus press conference on Monday to repeat his opposition to lockdowns as a means of bringing the contagion under control, claiming falsely that under his leadership the US has done “as well as any nation”.

On a day that the US had surpassed 4.7m confirmed cases of infection – more than a quarter of the global total – Trump tried to deflect criticism of his administration’s handling of the pandemic on to other countries.

He cited Spain, Germany, France, Australia and Japan as countries experiencing “significant flare ups” as the virus surges again. In fact, while Australia and Japan are experiencing renewed surges, their total incidence of disease remains a fraction of the catastrophe now sweeping across the US.

In Germany, the total number of confirmed cases stands at 212,000, with fewer than 1,000 new cases per day. By comparison, new cases in the US are beginning to plateau but at an extremely high level of about 60,000 a day.
Focus is now switching to states in the heartlands of the country such as Tennessee, Oklahoma and Missouri, where the virus is spreading fast. Trump tried to assuage fears for those areas, saying: “I think you’ll find they are soon going to be very much under control.”

There is concern that the virus is also extending its tentacles out of major urban and suburban population centers into the rural parts of America. On Monday, Trump signed a new executive order aimed at providing a lifeline to struggling hospitals and health centers in rural areas, while also extending telehealth services across the country, after virtual visits soared during the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump, who is counting on votes from backers in rural areas in the 2020 presidential election, said the new order would ensure that telehealth services expanded during the pandemic remained in place even after the public health emergency ended.

The death rate in the US, which stands at almost 156,000, is still rising in 30 states, according to data compiled by the New York Times.
Despite these alarming figures, Trump claimed that under his leadership the US was “doing very well”. He dismissed mounting criticism that the federal government has consistently failed to tackle the virus, insisting that lockdowns did not work.

“It’s important for all Americans to recognize that a permanent lockdown is not a viable path forward and would ultimately inflict more harm than it would prevent. Lockdowns do not prevent infection in the future,” he said.

The statement was misleading. Lockdowns can prevent future infection if, once they have contained the virus, a system of aggressive testing and contact tracing is put in place to detect any local flare-ups – something that the US government has also notably failed to do.

 

[Deleted member 158085]

Does COVID-19 affect male fertility?

I think that this is interesting, how does this novel virus affect people after recovery? This is something that merits more attention.

I hope so. Most of the guys I know who are loudly proclaiming their free-dumb from masks would probably change their minds if their cajones were on the line.

 

[tmar]

Victorians who work while they have COVID-19 will be fined $20,000

Victorians who work while they have COVID-19 will be fined $20,000

Zoe Zaczek and Brittany Chain For Daily Mail Australia

2 hrs ago
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Victorians who breach coronavirus quarantine will be hit with a $4,957 infringement, while repeat offenders could face a $20,000 fine.

Premier Daniel Andrews announced the harsh penalties as the state recorded 439 new COVID-19 infections and 11 deaths on Tuesday.

Mr Andrews said the $4,957 infringement is the 'largest on-the-spot fine on the statute books in Victoria'.

He was forced to bring in the extreme penalty because a number of Victorians were failing to self-isolate when required.
'Ultimately a $5,000 on-the-spot fine and that will be particularly for those who breach their isolation orders,' Mr Andrews said.

'If you are supposed to be at home and you are not, then you face the prospect of a fine of up to $5,000.'

Mr Andrews said Victorians who continue to break the rules could be taken to court and fined up to $20,000.

'If there were repeat breaches, if there were particularly selfish behaviour like, for instance, going to work when you had the virus, then there is the alternative pathway and that is, of course, taking you to the Magistrates Court,' he said.

'The maximum penalty that can be applied to you is $20,000.

'We don't want it to come to that. We want people to be where they are supposed to be.'

 

[10ofRods]

I hope so. Most of the guys I know who are loudly proclaiming their free-dumb from masks would probably change their minds if their cajones were on the line.

CoVid may affect testicles. And of course, like other viruses (mumps, for example) cause sterility.

And...yep, there are cases in the clinical literature.

 

[Midgie2]

Florida coronavirus: Two teens die of complications - CNN

 

[10ofRods]

Coronavirus causes micro-structural changes in several parts of the brain, via a neurological path.

In 55% of the patients in the above (Lancet) study.

 

[Midgie2]

9 minors dead now in Florida from Covid. How can anyone say that it’s safe to return to school?

 

[10ofRods]

Victorians who work while they have COVID-19 will be fined $20,000

Victorians who work while they have COVID-19 will be fined $20,000

Zoe Zaczek and Brittany Chain For Daily Mail Australia

2 hrs ago
...
Victorians who breach coronavirus quarantine will be hit with a $4,957 infringement, while repeat offenders could face a $20,000 fine.

Premier Daniel Andrews announced the harsh penalties as the state recorded 439 new COVID-19 infections and 11 deaths on Tuesday.

Mr Andrews said the $4,957 infringement is the 'largest on-the-spot fine on the statute books in Victoria'.

He was forced to bring in the extreme penalty because a number of Victorians were failing to self-isolate when required.
'Ultimately a $5,000 on-the-spot fine and that will be particularly for those who breach their isolation orders,' Mr Andrews said.

'If you are supposed to be at home and you are not, then you face the prospect of a fine of up to $5,000.'

Mr Andrews said Victorians who continue to break the rules could be taken to court and fined up to $20,000.

'If there were repeat breaches, if there were particularly selfish behaviour like, for instance, going to work when you had the virus, then there is the alternative pathway and that is, of course, taking you to the Magistrates Court,' he said.

'The maximum penalty that can be applied to you is $20,000.

'We don't want it to come to that. We want people to be where they are supposed to be.'

Victorians are hardcore.