OT: All Things Coronavirus Covid-19 - Part XI - MOD ADVISORY POST 1

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[Aussie Bruin]

This is what I remembered and said, more birds died by glass panels than by windmills. Maybe its different for Australia but in the US and pretty much around the world this are the stats.

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Yeah I just said that it was an issue. 234,000 deaths in the US alone is still a lot. So it's relevant as to how and where farms are built in the same way that in recent years architects and construction companies have begun to look at ways of making skyscrapers that will have less birds flying into them.

 

[Bocephus86]

I really like her too. VP maybe ??

I think she'd be perfect for Sec. of Treasury as we try to crawl back from the economic impact of Covid-19.

 

[talkinaway]

Saw the town by town cases and deaths they published for MA yesterday. My wife was freaking out because we live in a podunk town in the middle of the state and our cases jumped dramatically for some reason. The number of cases was really high compared to other towns around us and even bigger towns near us, so she was a mess. Turns out, it's because we have a large elder care facility in town, and the shit is running rampant through that place. My heart breaks for all the older people who can't seem to fight this off. It's a really shitty way to spend your senior years in a facility like that already, and you end up getting this virus on top of it? It's just not fair.

Similar thing happened in my town this week - they've been posting daily COVID totals, and they've got up fairly steadily throughout the month - still linear, not exponential. Then, all of the sudden, a huge leap of 10x the number of new cases the past two days - but it was because of surveillance testing at two long-term care facilities, one of which is within hiking distance of where I live.

I'm glad my grandparents got to live nice, long lives (89 and 96!), and I'm glad I can keep an eye on my parents without assisted living at this point in their lives. It would petrify me to have a loved one in any kind of communal living in this environment - most of the facilities are absolutely doing the best they can, but it's a task that's next to impossible when you consider the logistics of taking care of people who require daily care and have mobility needs that require breaking the 6-foot rule.

This also emphasizes the need for expanded testing. I'm glad they're doing the testing the long-term care facilities near me, and it's paramount to get those out as fast as possible. In fact, it should have been done a month ago. Once you get the results, you can at least start to separate the people who test positive, and attempt to curb the spread.

One random thought that popped into my head - everyone's saying COVID is less deadly thanks to all these asymptomatic carriers. The same number of people are dying - it's just the percentage that has changed. So, maybe the apparent mortality rate of COVID has halved - that just means it's also infected twice as many people, and there are twice as many people out there who can infect others.

 

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[McGarnagle]

In the greatest COVID-19 tragedy of all, the Gathering of the Juggalos has been cancelled

 

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[Gee Wally]

whiney little bitch

 

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