Coronavirus Thread

PatrThom

PatrThom

More and more I feel like their “plan” is really just some perversion of the rip-the-Band-Aid-off/burn-all-the-underbrush mentality where they are actively trying to “secretly” force a situation that somehow “accidentally” causes as many people as possible to be exposed and infected just so they can skip to the end and get back to “normal.” And I’m not even talking about the “Coronavirus is a Divine Scourge” people, I am more referring to the “ain’t got time for that” ones with so little patience that they would tl:dr a fortune cookie.

—Patrick
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

WasabiPoptart said:
Hurricane went north. I didn't need to volunteer or be volun-told to assist at a shelter. COVID cases still in the 50s-60s for the past few days. Just listened to Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz (an infectious disease specialist) of SAMHSA talk about how schools need to reopen and that it's safe to do so. Why? Not many kids die from it. Immediately afterward I see an article in the news about how kids being hospitalized due to COVID has increased by 23% in Florida. I'm not encouraged by the expert.
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I am worried about schools opening here and we officially have no active cases. All that means is that no one sick enough to get tested tested positive. With asymptomatic transmission being as widespread as it is, I have reservations about in classroom school. In Florida?! I’m shocked that it’s being considered.
 
Dave

Dave

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Just found out that the October 17 wedding I will be DJ'ing is still going on. Not sure yet how I'm going to handle things. Definitely going to be keeping a personal mic and letting the guests/wedding party use whatever other one they want (my system has 8 wireless mics). We have been hoping that it might have cleared up by October but that was wishful thinking. So very much wishful thinking.
 
MindDetective

MindDetective

I received approval to teach remotely while my university took its sweet time figuring out their plan for the fall. Though the union and administration has STILL not come to any agreement, the president of the university sent out an email to the effect of, "We are probably going to be remote after all." We have also heard there is a chance the hybrid plan for the public schools will be scrapped and school will be remote for the kids too. So we are gladly holing up in mostly-open Queensland for the next 5-6 months. We are apply for an apartment on the 50th floor (!) of a highrise in Brisbane and hopefully moving in by the end of the week.
 
Dei

Dei

Google has extended work from home for the next year.

My husband's job extended to January, and will reevaluate then.
 
evilmike

evilmike

Dave said:
Just found out that the October 17 wedding I will be DJ'ing is still going on. Not sure yet how I'm going to handle things. Definitely going to be keeping a personal mic and letting the guests/wedding party use whatever other one they want (my system has 8 wireless mics). We have been hoping that it might have cleared up by October but that was wishful thinking. So very much wishful thinking.
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Change your stage name to "MC Mysterio" and wear a fishbowl?
 
MindDetective

MindDetective

figmentPez said:


I'm betting the deaths are still being undercounted.
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Florida has passed New York in total cases and has 20% the death toll. Some of this may be due to improves treatments and better practices in senior care facilities than earlier in the pandemic, but we won't know until we have deaths-over-expected data, unfortunately.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

My mother's school district (as well as Columbus's) is going full online for at least this semester, if not longer. Thank god, I was really worried about her catching this.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Nothing official has come down the pike, but I honestly don't suspect we're going to be going back to even partial in-person learning until maybe late September.
 
Dei

Dei

Anyways, my son had graduation last weekend, and it was outdoors and very spaced out and done well in that regard. However, I wonder if we're going to see a spike in cases now though, because of idiots across the district (and it's a big district with a lot of high schools that all had their own graduations) just flat out ignoring gathering rules and throwing parties after.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

As an essential worker that, before being infected myself, had to fight with idiot customers and explain to them why they have to wear a mask for the health of everyone that shops and works at my store, I really wish people would wear a goddamn mask and follow social distancing orders.
 
ScytheRexx

ScytheRexx

Turns out the new conspiracy theory going around is that all the COVID tests "automatically" test positive. People are claiming they "know" a "nurse" who sent in "unopened" tests (aka unused) to check to see what the labs would do, who then got the report back saying each of the tests came back positive. Other people chimed in that they "knew" a person that went in to get tested, signed the paperwork, got bored of waiting before even getting swabbed and thus left, only to get a positive test in the mail a week later.

Of course, when absolutely anyone pressures them on the name of the hospital or testing lab which is marking these supposed false positives to get their license number and, you know, actually investigate, it's always "It's only what I heard from someone else that spoke with credible professionals. I don't have the info."

Because of course.
 
Frank

Frank

Sure, my best friend just tested negative after getting very Covid like symptoms but yeah, they all test positive.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

The problem is that because the tests are still not 100% accurate (hell, last I saw they were barely 65% accurate), they're still quarantining you for 10 days to make sure you don't have symptoms. And, of course, those with little brains think this means that they assume all tests are "assumed positive."
 
BErt

BErt

reminder from earlier in the thread that Herman Cain attended Trump’s Tulsa rally without a mask and contracted the virus.
 
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