Coronavirus (NO POLITICAL OR SOCIAL COMMENTARY PLEASE)

[MrHT]

Hard to believe that NY has one of the lowest positivity rates in the country, averaging around 3%, yet we are looking at another shutdown of businesses. This is bad because many businesses can't afford to shutdown again, especially since indoor dining literally just started a couple of months ago in NYC. No way can restaurant owners be able to survive another shutdown.

[Waboman]

Originally Posted by Kaiju

How To Be More Obedient - YouTube

Classic.😆

[LordoftheRings]

Black Friday is going to be a dynamite day this year for Amazon...e-commerce.
Not a bad day for Wall Street either. Gilead Sciences ^

[Pondosinatra]

Ah....in a shitty mood.

After weeks of warning people to stop being stupid as case #'s kept rising our Premier just announced more restrictions - mandatory mask rule, school's out the rest of the year, no more gatherings inside - of any number - period. Weddings, funerals etc. restricted to 10 people. No more sports activities. Restaurants now at 25% capacity. And so on.

He went to great pains to illustrate the choice he's forced to make between the public health and locking everything down and ruining people's livelihoods. And while I'm no fan of his (due to his years as a federal politician) I get so ****ing tired of the non-stop bashing by sad, petty, keyboard warriors - never offering any solutions, but just seemingly exist to shit on him and the government all day long.

And on top of that, after a couple weeks of positive vaccine news, now we find out Canada is likely last in line for vaccinations as we pissed away our manufacturing capacity years ago. So this shit will be the norm for us at least well into 2022.

[Pondosinatra]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Black Friday is going to be a dynamite day this year for Amazon...e-commerce.
Not a bad day for Wall Street either. Gilead Sciences ^

Great, we can all eat at Subway and shop at Amazon or Costco. Good times.

The greatest wealth transfer in the history of mankind continues unabated...more and more money being consolidated into even fewer and fewer hands.

[LordoftheRings]

US Coronavirus: US sets record for Covid-19 hospitalizations amid fall surge

[deckard82]

Originally Posted by Kaiju

How To Be More Obedient - YouTube

It'lll probably be funnier to respond to that in a few months once winter is over. It's probably gonna be hilarious.

[Penton-Man]

The path sometimes seems very complicated or frightening until someone shows us the way and frees us from our doubts -

Graceful Doggy Follows in Kitty's Footsteps || ViralHog - YouTube

Cedars leads the way – https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l...orage/2469469/

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Waboman

Classic.😆
When life gives you limes… make margaritas

https://twitter.com/i/status/1330639368860655626

[Chaotic]

I’m sick of these hypocritical politicians. The Denver mayor flew to see family while he tweeted morning “don’t travel and avoid gatherings”.

[ctujackbauer]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

I’m sick of these hypocritical politicians. The Denver mayor flew to see family while he tweeted morning “don’t travel and avoid gatherings”.

Lockdowns for thee, but not for me.

[Chaotic]

And they wonder why people aren’t following the guidelines.

[Penton-Man]

local SoCal hospital converting beds in the stepdown unit of the OR (operating room) to care for COVID-19 patients as med-surg ward is full

[Penton-Man]

^ what’s very challenging (my wife informs) is to keep them all staffed with qualified (experienced in managing COVID-19) docs, nurses and RTs

[MrHT]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

US Coronavirus: US sets record for Covid-19 hospitalizations amid fall surge

And this is only the beginning. Most of my co-workers said they are ignoring CDC recommendations and will travel and visit family over Thanksgiving. So, expect cases to get significantly worse.

And just watch... when cases surge even further after Thanksgiving, people will be like, "Whaaa? How did this happen?"

[LordoftheRings]

December 12, Pfizer vaccine...6.4 million doses. And more following after that...January.

Very busy in town today...food. Some shelves are empty...some items.
Many cars and trucks on the roads.
Masks are mandatory, everywhere...car dealers included.
We see more families and mothers with their kids @ the grocery stores, and parents putting masks on their young ones. Seeing the eyes of the kids is like they see it like it's Halloween.

It doesn't feel like Black Friday week; items are not on sale (mostly), and people aren't buying much.
In Canada it's not like in the US, we don't see much on sale. I want a new iPad, no luck.
I was looking for a 3D 4K OLED, no luck. I think I'm going to invest in some vaccines stocks and more Amazon shares, sit tight for the next five years, then go out and buy a new Porshe. ...If I survive of course. Life is short, wear a mask.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Very busy in town today...

Good patient (and actor) news out of Vancouver - https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/...b66bb88c6204ee
“After responding positively to steroids and anti-viral drug remdesivir, Schiff was released from hospital on Nov. 19.”

As a follow-up to the reply to your post – https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...r#post18340753
Elaborating more, she believes that if a patient is hospitalized within about 10 days of onset of symptoms and not in the ICU, nor on high flow oxygen or a vent and whose kidney and liver function are acceptable (GFR and LFTs) and they come in already carrying a couple inherent risk factors to a poor outcome that giving Remdesivir has shown (in her experience) some (not great) value.

[LordoftheRings]

• https://apnews.com/article/traveling...7eca21956292d4

"The U.S. has recorded more than 12.7 million coronavirus infections and over 262,000 deaths. The country is still missing about eight infections for every one counted, according to a new government report Wednesday. Many people don’t get tests, especially if they don’t have symptoms."

Do the math ^ 8x*
* In the world, according to WHO, it's 19x

Those are not numbers I picked myself @ random; they are scientific mathematical data from expert scientists.

88,000 hospitalized in the US yesterday, a record high.
12,000 deaths worldwide, in one single day; over 2,000 in the US alone.

The Americas are not prepared for this type of virus pandemic, like some other countries are. I have zero clue how long this wave will last, and how many other waves after.
I have zero clue about the three vaccines they're talking about recently on the lasting period time and to their real-life level of anti-transmission. I go with the flow, in my own safe bubble and watching the news on real facts.

Some news I've read earlier ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — "As coronavirus cases surge again nationwide the Supreme Court late Wednesday temporarily barred New York from enforcing certain attendance limits at houses of worship in areas designated as hard hit by the virus."

I figure it is very important, very much so. It also depends of the zone's color (Red, Orange, Yellow). And it's not written on stone tablets for infinity.
For the full article Google is quite efficient...95.5%

Hope for the best with them vaccines ...

[ctujackbauer]

Some rare good news on the covid front among school children in Orange County. Nearly half a million students, very few cases per week with no real outbreaks.

Check out the dashboard on the OC Register article: New COVID-19 dashboard shows few cases at Orange County schools

I think this kind of flies in the face of the oft-repeated line by the President that "oh hey all the school children need to get it first and then we'll have herd immunity" (paraphrasing).

I was watching Jay Leno's garage on youtube about the Tesla Model Y and he said something I initially thought absurd: that coronavirus/covid has kind of becoming a way of life now these days. Hopefully with the vaccine those days will end soon, but for now if you want to live in the world you have to protect yourself and others and that's just the way it is.

[dublinbluray108]

My country of Ireland is not really doing too well so far in trying to curb the Covid case numbers during level 5 restrictions. There is talk going around that Ireland will ease restrictions from tomorrow but a lot of the restrictions being eased is on condition of having 50 to 100 cases per day heading into Christmas. We're not seeing that at all yet.

The covid case numbers in Ireland are still quite high even though the 14 day incidence rate has dropped at a number near 100 per 100k as of this evening. The positivity rate for Covid has also dropped to somewhere to just over 2% but it still isn't enough in dropping the case numbers. We had 335 new cases in the Rep. of Ireland with 3 new deaths recorded today. The case numbers have been hovering around the 200 to 400 case mark everyday for the past while.

I would say that Christmas will be very tough for everyone in Ireland this year. It's not going to be the same as we normally do for Christmas with seeing family members coming home for the holidays. If you're thinking of travelling into here for Christmas; you still have to quarantine for 10 days except when coming from a country that is not on a green list otherwise it's 14 days quarantine.

I heard on the news this evening that 6 hospitals in Dublin have quite a lot of staff out sick due to Covid. There 535 staff out sick to Covid-19 at the moment in these hospitals at the moment which has placed some pressure on maintaining appointments for other services that are trying to run services during the pandemic. There was news of one Covid outbreak recently reported at a hospital located on a 20 minute drive from me in South Dublin. It happened in St. Columcille's Hospital in Loughlinstown. 31 patients were tested positive for Covid after they caught the virus in a medical assessment unit during last weekend. The medical assessment unit is there for facilitating outpatients appointments throughout the day. The patients who turn up for these appointments don't stay in the hospital for the entire day. The hospital does not an official Accident & Emergency department open 24/7 throughout the week. It's really a part time hospital offering some specialist health facilities on the public health system to patients that live in South Dublin & North Wicklow.

I also heard on the news this evening that a school in Cork had an outbreak of Covid-19 among a large number of it's primary school students & staff. The name of the school is called GaelScoil Ui Driscoll based in Glanmire. It's a school that exclusively centres on teaching subjects in the Irish Language. It's only made the news now because the outbreak had occurred from a student over 10 days ago. The school management & staff did not send any critical information on positive Covid tests results very quickly from anyone among their community to health authorities at the time because they had some apparently had some stupid concerns over maintaining their privacy. They were open throughout the time of the outbreak even though they say they complied with protocols on Covid-19. 435 pupils now have to stay at home for 2 weeks & get tested for Covid-19 with immediate effect with a mass Covid testing programme being carried out by the HSE which has begun today. Just think of that news for a second; 435 pupils have to stay at home because of a blatant delayed outbreak announcement by the school management to the Irish health authorities.

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/...hool-covid-19/

The school management sound like complete idiots to do this to their own pupils. It sounds really shocking that this information was not released at a much faster pace between the school & the authorities sooner. Has anyone else here gone through that scenario before with the possibility of Covid hanging over your kids heads while they attend school? It sounds bloody scary to anyone who wants to see clear immediate action on getting rid of it as soon as possible.