Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #73

[Tillicum]

I'm sorry. I can't find a thread for this.

Date night ideas?

We do highly exciting things like:

McDonald's drive thru and eat at the park.
Food truck purchase and eat on the square.
Drive around like teenagers.

*le sigh*

I'm not comfortable at all eating in restaurants. I haven't been in one since March.

You should start a thread IMO. I don't know about everyone else but I'm drawing a blank for new ideas.

 

[CSIDreamer]

Is there a drive in move theater nearby?

Maybe. I'll look!

 

[roche.analisa]

I'm sorry. I can't find a thread for this.

Date night ideas?

We do highly exciting things like:

McDonald's drive thru and eat at the park.
Food truck purchase and eat on the square.
Drive around like teenagers.

*le sigh*

I'm not comfortable at all eating in restaurants. I haven't been in one since March.

We went out to a restaurant with a patio, distancing, and blowing fans. Masks when not at table. It was very well done, and I really appreciated going out for the first time in months!

 

[MimosaMornings]

Charlotte Motor Speedway hosts weekly drive-in movie series

 

[10ofRods]

So...a lot of those summer camp kids were 6-10. Tested positive (likely by nasal swab, which is the standard protocol). This was the largest group of children within the camper group.

But were they symptomatic? (I bet 75% were not). Can they transmit to others in amounts sufficient to infect? Are these kids infectious in the traditional sense of the word?

One study says they should be - but doesn't use empirical data to establish that.

Several other studies say apparently not, but they are small sample size.

Gah!

 

[MimosaMornings]

We went out to a restaurant with a patio, distancing, and blowing fans. Masks when not at table. It was very well done, and I really appreciated going out for the first time in months!

I am tired of cooking. And I’m not a great cook lol

 

[weepingangel]

In effect today Ma Travel Order
COVID-19 Travel Order


All visitors entering Massachusetts, including returning residents, who do not meet an exemption, are required to:

• Complete the Massachusetts Travel Form prior to arrival, unless you are visiting from a lower-risk state designated by the Department of Public Health.
• Quarantine for 14 days or produce a negative COVID-19 test result that has been administered up to 72-hours prior to your arrival in Massachusetts.

If your COVID-19 test result has not been received prior to arrival, visitors, and residents must quarantine until they receive a negative test result.

Failure to comply may result in a $500 fine per day.

 

[Clair Louise]

SA is supposed to have the best healthcare system in the continent. So what I'm wondering is if the reason they are seen as the worst as far as infection is that they have the greatest capability to be testing for the virus.

I remember reading an article about Timbuktu at least a month ago. It was already there in that incredibly remote area. The article drove home however how there was ONE testing facility in the entire country of Mali. If it starts spreading like wildfire in countries like that how can they even test with one lab capable of processing tests?

How many poor countries just have people dropping from pneumonia and heart attacks and strokes but no real testing?

South Africa rates 49th out of 89 countries in the world for health care.

 

[SoCalDavidS]

300-500 Floridians Expected To Die This Weekend From Hurricane/Tropical Storm
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Sorry, don't be alarmed!!! That's not the correct headline. Should be:
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300-500 Floridians Expected to Die This Weekend From Coronavirus

No need to worry, go about your weekend.

 

[beatrixpotter]

South Africa rates 49th out of 89 countries in the world for health care.

Yeah, I didn't say that though. I definitely wasn't talking about the world, I was talking about best in the continent of Africa. If it's the best healthcare system in Africa then it seems the most likely to be doing the best job at testing it's citizens.

"
These are the countries with the most improved health care system in Africa in 2020.
1. South Africa:

South Africa boasts the highest standard of healthcare in Africa. There are over 200 private hospitals across the country which offer services that match Europe, Asia, and America.

Funding for public healthcare in South Africa currently comes from government spending through taxation and point-of-care spending from those using services.

There are plans to implement a National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme to provide more free services for all and improve the quality of public healthcare."
Top 10 Countries with Improved Healthcare System in Africa 2020 | The African Exponent.

 

[weepingangel]

MLB
Red Sox starter Eduardo Rodriguez out for season with heart ailment
More at link

Red Sox left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez will not return this season due to a heart ailment caused by COVID-19, chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom announced Saturday.

Rodriguez, who was slated to enter the season as Boston’s No. 1 starter, is dealing with myocarditis, which is inflammation of the heart. The lefty recently had a follow-up appointment and was told his condition had not improved, leading to the team’s decision to shut him down.


Previous story more details
July 26
Eduardo Rodriguez has myocarditis: Boston Red Sox starter says, ‘(The heart) is the most important part of your body ... I was kind of scared’

 

[beatrixpotter]

300-500 Floridians Expected To Die This Weekend From Hurricane/Tropical Storm
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Sorry, don't be alarmed!!! That's not the correct headline. Should be:
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300-500 Floridians Expected to Die This Weekend From Coronavirus

No need to worry, go about your weekend.

Well, that sure hits home doesn't it! I was immediately struck by that number. But all those people were old with preexisting conditions and probably going to die anyway...

 

[Trino]

More on Itaska rodeo, which could have infected more than a thousand since a person in attendance tested positive and came down with the virus a day after attending for two days.

There is a Go Fund Me to pay for an attorney/fines for Cimaron Pitzen, the organizer of the rodeo. There is, of course, nothing that a Go Fund Me can do if he gets jail time, a possibility.

There was no social distancing, no masks, no limits on attendance, no screening, allowed walk-ins, no plastic partitions, no monitors, hung up on call re: attorney general's staff. Somehow the idea is individual freedom is being limited. There has been a suggestion to get Trump involved. Several FB comments have attempted to somehow equate this scheduled event with protests where there were no safeguards. What?
https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2020/docs/NorthStarRanch_Complaint.pdf

 

[MimosaMornings]

Rep. Raúl Grijalva tests positive for COVID-19 — The Hill

“Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has tested positive for COVID-19 after being in Washington, D.C., this week, becoming the latest member of Congress to be diagnosed with the disease.

"While I cannot blame anyone directly for this, this week has shown that there are some Members of Congress who fail to take this crisis seriously," Grijalva said in a statement to the Arizona Republic.”

“Grijalva, who is the chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, had been self-quarantining at his D.C., residence this week after chairing a hearing attended by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), who tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday.

Gohmert tested positive during a screening at the White House before he was supposed to accompany President Trump on a trip to Texas. The lawmaker is one of the House members who has been seen without a mask in recent weeks.”

 

[SoCalDavidS]

Some Countries where there is Exponential Spread, and accelerating Deaths/Million:

Mexico, Brazil, U.S., Peru, Chile, U.K., Ecuador, South Africa, Bolivia, Armenia, Iran.

In terms of Deaths/Million Population, without significant mitigation measures by those 11 listed countries, it's likely most of them will be in the Top 15 overall worldwide, by the end of September. 6 of them, (U.K., U.S., Peru, Chile, Brazil, Mexico) are already in the Top 13, and still rising.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

I’ve been watching Uzbekistan after spending time there late last year, sadly it doesn’t look like they’re doing very well, with their healthcare system not coping. I was injured while in Khiva (very remote city) but didn’t have a whole lot of confidence in the healthcare system so I waited until I got back to Korea to see a doctor. Their tourism industry was really just starting to boom too as they opened up to the world and they were working so hard on it, so it’s just really sad.

Uzbekistan's Coronavirus 'Success Story' Rapidly Falls Apart

Turkmenistan is an interesting one to watch too. If you think North Korea, it’s somewhat similar, a very closed off society ruled with an iron fist. They have no official cases of Covid, but reports from the article you posted suggest hospitals there are overwhelmed with pneumonia patients and people are being told to bury their loved ones in flat graves not visible to satellites...

Such valuable information. Very enlightening. Thank you.

 

[MimosaMornings]

Wrestling tournament draws hundreds to Myrtle Beach despite COVID-19 pandemic

 

[Trino]

Unreal.
As President Donald Trump continues to demand a return to in-person classes for schools around the country despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the school attended by his youngest son has received an order prohibiting on-campus learning for the start of the school year.
Private school attended by Barron Trump prohibited from in-person learning until October as President pushes openings - CNNPolitics

 

[beatrixpotter]

A troubling pandemic thought: Are THESE the good old days?

A troubling pandemic thought: Are THESE the good old days?

"Depressing as that might seem after the coronavirus pandemic has claimed well over 630,000 lives worldwide, cost tens of millions their jobs and inflicted untold misery across the planet, it’s entirely possible — increasingly likely, some say — that things will get worse before they get better.

Americans in particular have been optimists by nature for the better part of four centuries. But even here, a bleak dystopian vision is emerging in some corners. It’s not pretty.


It imagines a not-too-distant future where we’ll all look back with nostalgia at 2020 as a time when most of us had plenty of food and wine, could get many of the goods and services we needed, and could work from home at jobs that still paid us.

“This could be as good as it gets, so let’s take pleasure in what we have now,” Katherine Tallman, the CEO of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, an indie cinema in Brookline, Massachusetts, told a recent Zoom roundtable."

I'm already outed as a pessimist. But I'm not sure how so many industries can fail and it not cause huge repercussions everywhere. This morning I read an article about the demise of the airline industry. I think we hit peak oil last year....

 

[Trino]

Wrestling tournament draws hundreds to Myrtle Beach despite COVID-19 pandemic

Especially liked (NOT. NOT. NOT) the dad who stated, "We traveled from Texas, we went to Oklahoma, then a week in a half later we went to another tournament in Alabama and then we went straight from Alabama to here." Best wishes for health. Waiting for results, and I don't mean wrestling results.