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Non-Political Coronavirus Thread

It’s crazy that they shutdown the college b-ball season when this was barely getting started and here we are about to start a new season with cases exploding. Same deal with The Masters.
 
BarcaDeac said:
It’s crazy that they shutdown the college b-ball season when this was barely getting started and here we are about to start a new season with cases exploding. Same deal with The Masters.
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Have you heard of a lot of cases coming out of the play and production of The Masters ?
 
are there tons of journalists keeping track of everyone involved with producing the Master to see if there's a pattern?
 
ImTheCaptain said:
are there tons of journalists keeping track of everyone involved with producing the Master to see if there's a pattern?
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If there were a story to be told about a notable number of people contracting COVID-19 due to the playing (and televising) of the Masters, you can be sure we'd hear about it.

You know, they've been playing golf tourneys for months now and it hasn't been an issue.

Hell, DJ had fucking COVID-19 a month ago and he won the damn tournament.
 
it's just the general attitude from back in the spring of shut it all down when case numbers were quite low. now we're setting records day after day and you have people trying to move on as if nothing happened. hell, the NBA, which as we all know had great success with the bubble, is looking at bringing back fans.
 
Yeah. As others have stated, the US has failed the marshmallow test.
 
I think it's as easy as better understanding what we are dealing with.

In March it was an abundance of caution (and a certain amount of freaking out). We've had 8 months of experience since then.
 
DeacsATS said:
I think it's as easy as better understanding what we are dealing with.

In March it was an abundance of caution (and a certain amount of freaking out). We've had 8 months of experience since then.
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But that 8 months of experience has led to 250,000 deaths.
 
One of the main issues I see with masks is that people are not using them properly at the crucial times. For example, they wear them properly while in a store, but then pull them down or out to have a conversation with a friend they bump into. Or, they wear them 90% of the time, but then take them off to dine inside, when they are eating and talking to others. Trevor Lawrence was wearing an N95 on the sideline, but then pulled it down to yell to teammates. The masks aren't being used properly during the most critical interactions.
 
PhDeac said:
But that 8 months of experience has led to 250,000 deaths.
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OK.

That 8 months has also led to a number of promising vaccines and much better treatment options for those that get the virus.

Clearly, it is WAY too early to try to go back to "normal"... No argument from me on that.
 
Our previous high point for currently hospitalized patients was a little under 200. We crossed 200 on November 3rd, and by November 17th we crossed 450 (!), and more than 750 of our caregivers are currently out with known or suspected COVID. We had an emergency meeting Monday night to discuss hospital re-deployment. I think people are not fully grasping how terrible this is right now.
 
tiltdeac said:
Our previous high point for currently hospitalized patients was a little under 200. We crossed 200 on November 3rd, and by November 17th we crossed 450 (!), and more than 750 of our caregivers are currently out with known or suspected COVID. We had an emergency meeting Monday night to discuss hospital re-deployment. I think people are not fully grasping how terrible this is right now.
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Yep. We are going to run out of nurses, physicians, and hospital beds if this continues for much longer. Our current leaders are not even close to getting it done, so everyone needs to take it upon themselves to socially distance as much as possible.
 
tiltdeac said:
Our previous high point for currently hospitalized patients was a little under 200. We crossed 200 on November 3rd, and by November 17th we crossed 450 (!), and more than 750 of our caregivers are currently out with known or suspected COVID. We had an emergency meeting Monday night to discuss hospital re-deployment. I think people are not fully grasping how terrible this is right now.
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I don’t think they care. Many people will take any information they hear and twist it into a narrative that this is no big deal. And that assumes they care about other people to begin with.
 
So what do you say to people that say 'well everyone should just make their own assessment of their personal risk- if you are vulnerable stay at home, if you want to get out in the world things should be open- you should have the choice"? I hear that a lot.
 
tiltdeac said:
...I think people are not fully grasping how terrible this is right now.
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I think you are 100 percent correct about this.


Seems it's a combination of genuine Covid "fatigue" and disinformation disseminated from pretty high levels and social media.


It's going to be a very difficult winter, I'm afraid.
 
HoosierDeac said:
So what do you say to people that say 'well everyone should just make their own assessment of their personal risk- if you are vulnerable stay at home, if you want to get out in the world things should be open- you should have the choice"? I hear that a lot.
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We are all vulnerable. Some people are just more vulnerable. ND and SD have the highest COVID mortality rates in the world (#1 and #3) despite having a sparse heavily white rural population.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/north-dakota-covid-death-rate-cases-b1727143.html

And if “vulnerable” people exclude themselves from the public space, restaurants aren’t going to be able to operate at 100% and will still be losing money.
 
WFFaithful said:
And 5,000,000 that have chronic symptoms including permanent heart and lung damage.
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This is my concern. I got through the rona relatively easily compared to a lot of folk, but I'm worried about just randomly shuffling off this mortal coil in 6 months to a year from some latent physical repercussions I'm currently unaware of.
 
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