OT: Coronavirus (COVID-19): Part VI (NO RIOT/PROTEST DISCUSSION)

[Leonardo87]

different strain of the virus???? NYC certainly has more or equal the amount of people protesting and close together.

I do know that Florida had increased testing a lot, so can explain more cases showing up.

 

[NYSPORTS]

I do know that Florida had increased testing a lot, so can explain more cases showing up.

but their hospital beds are filling up now. So these people are being admitted

strange

 

[Tawnos]

but their hospital beds are filling up now. So these people are being admitted

strange

It's not strange. Two things are happening. First, more people are being tested because more people need to be tested, whether because of actual symptoms needing hospitalization or contact tracing showing that more people have been exposed. Second, the percentage of positive tests dipped in Florida before Memorial Day, and they've nearly doubled since then. While that percentage number is still fairly low, doubling it is going to lead to a pretty inevitable increase in the total number.

 

[NYSPORTS]

It's not strange. Two things are happening. First, more people are being tested because more people need to be tested, whether because of actual symptoms needing hospitalization or contact tracing showing that more people have been exposed. Second, the percentage of positive tests dipped in Florida before Memorial Day, and they've nearly doubled since then. While that percentage number is still fairly low, doubling it is going to lead to a pretty inevitable increase in the total number.

scroll up. I know what’s happening. Could the strain be different? It is possible

 

[Irishguy42]

Blue Jays, Phillies, and Lightning all just had players/trainers/etc. test positive at their training facilities and they have shut down. All in Florida, in the Tampa Bay area. The Bucs assisstant coach tested positive too just yesterday.

 

[SkinneeJ]

Surprised California hasn't done it already.

Face coverings have been mandatory in LA County for a few months now. I believe that’s also been the case in other more populated counties.

The governors statewide mandate is most likely in response to what’s happening just south of LA in Orange County. People there have revolted against wearing them anywhere. The top health official quit after receiving death threats.

 

[Tawnos]

scroll up. I know what’s happening. Could the strain be different? It is possible

Sure, it's possible, but the numbers are easily explained without the virus having changed at all and there's really nothing strange about this.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Face coverings have been mandatory in LA County for a few months now. I believe that’s also been the case in other more populated counties.

The governors statewide mandate is most likely in response to what’s happening just south of LA in Orange County. People there have revolted against wearing them anywhere. The top health official quit after receiving death threats.

Crazy, I didn't expect something like that from Orange County which I always thought of as a sane county.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

Crazy, I didn't expect something like that from Orange County which I always thought of as a sane county.

There's a hilarious video I saw floating around of people in LA complaining to their local government about having to wear a mask. I literally had to stop the video every 10 seconds I was laughing so hard.

It's absurd how much some people believe they are inconvenienced by having to wear a piece a cloth over their face when they go out to the grocery store for half an hour.

Without context, listening to them you'd think these people are having a constitutional amendment ripped away from them.

Edit: Here's the video

 

[NYSPORTS]

Sure, it's possible, but the numbers are easily explained without the virus having changed at all and there's really nothing strange about this.

please focus the message besides the word strange. People here get so hung up on one word or sentence without recognizing the whole message. The NYC numbers are low and we protesting everyday with people living in close proximity while numbers in Fla, including and especially at hospitals, are rising.

 

[Tawnos]

please focus the message besides the word strange. People here get so hung up on one word or sentence without recognizing the whole message. The NYC numbers are low and we protesting everyday with people living in close proximity while number in Fla, including and especially at hospitals rising.

Or you could address what I'm saying instead of focusing on my response to your words.

You're not saying anything that isn't explainable by the way places are handling things differently. Florida didn't wait until they were on the other side of the curve to start opening back up. NYC did. That makes a big difference. Because of that, there's both a much larger part of the population with possible immunity and fewer possible carriers than there is in Florida at this point. We're not supposed to get into it about the protests, but suffice it to say that there are perfectly rational reasons why they might not be affecting the spread as much as the first worries thought they might.

Is it possible it's a different strain of the virus? Sure. But it doesn't need to be for us to be seeing what we've been seeing.

 

[Off Sides]

There's a hilarious video I saw floating around of people in LA complaining to their local government about having to wear a mask. I literally had to stop the video every 10 seconds I was laughing so hard.

It's absurd how much some people believe they are inconvenienced by having to wear a piece a cloth over their face when they go out to the grocery store for half an hour.

Without context, listening to them you'd think these people are having a constitutional amendment ripped away from them.

Edit: Here's the video

As you can see Taylor's got a soccer uniform on and we're still not playing soccer.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

As you can see Taylor has a soccer uniform on and we're still not playing soccer.

I kinda want to feel bad for these people because they got aired out publicly with this being released and they look like loons here

And then I remember one of those guys dragged their 90 year old war veteran father who has no idea what is going on to that meeting to tell the officials "my father fought in the war so he didn't have to wear a mask"

And I stop feeling bad

 

[NYSPORTS]

next thing you know some people will stand in line to buy melted ice from the floor of the Nassau Coliseum. Oh wait NY Islanders quickly sell out of melted Nassau Coliseum ice

 

[Off Sides]

I kinda want to feel bad for these people because they got aired out publicly with this being released and they look like loons here

And then I remember one of those guys dragged their 90 year old war veteran father who has no idea what is going on to that meeting to tell the officials "my father fought in the war so he didn't have to wear a mask"

And I stop feeling bad

It's just strange to me, I get people being upset about this whole situation, I have days where I question my own and my families sanity, however to me it just seems like common sense that mask use in enclosed public places will help in some way, somehow, even beyond perhaps containing most of a sneeze or cough, but even if it just reminds people that there is a novel virus around and they act a little more careful.

I am not sure I have much pity for those people, it's not like mask wearing during pandemics is a new or outlandish thing, even a tiny bit of internet browsing shows even a hundred years ago with the Spanish flu mask wearing was a thing.

 

[eco's bones]

A lot of the forecasts were projections that didn't take human interventions like the stay-at-home orders into consideration. In some ways, I think overshooting hospitalizations was a good thing because it forced New Yorkers to realize the severity of the situation.

Now you look at some other states who reopened too early and thought the pandemic would not hit them like it did in NY, and their cases and hospitalizations are rising. It's clear these states did not take coronavirus take seriously and should have looked at NY as a learning lesson instead of thinking "oh well, sucks for NY, but that can't happen where I live."

I think this is pretty accurate. Other states should have looked and learned something from what happened in New York and prepared themselves better. Politics and the pressures created by politics intruded. This should never have been a state by state response. This should have been a national response with all the states pretty much on the same page. That some states banded together helped quite a lot to bring things back under some kind of control in certain regions of the country. Southern states should have done the same too. Florida with almost 4000 new cases today. That's horrific.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I think this is pretty accurate. Other states should have looked and learned something from what happened in New York and prepared themselves better. Politics and the pressures created by politics intruded. This should never have been a state by state response. This should have been a national response with all the states pretty much on the same page. That some states banded together helped quite a lot to bring things back under some kind of control in certain regions of the country. Southern states should have done the same too. Florida with almost 4000 new cases today. That's horrific.

I'm glad my dipshit uncle decided he couldn't help himself and went to Florida on vacation and my dad works with him.

 

[eco's bones]

I'm glad my dipshit uncle decided he couldn't help himself and went to Florida on vacation and my dad works with him.

When we see cases expanding in the thousands day by day that's when you're going up a mountain and not a hill. That's looming disaster. People start dying because the system is swamped and there is not enough of almost everything. This is what happened in New York. This is why the message has to get across that people have to wear masks and socially distance--why tracking and tracing is so important and why things need to be shutdown when hospitals are overwhelmed.

If we had had a national response IMO this would not have hit our country as hard and as a nation we would probably be ahead of the game because strategies would be in place and states would be cooperating more with each other.

 

[Chaels Arms]

Good friend of mine (who I have been around frequently) just tested positive for the antibodies test. No symptoms really except a lessened sense of taste/smell for a couple of days a few months ago.

Going to try to get the antibodies test done myself in the next few days.

 

[HFsNumber1Heel]

I was very sick in December until early Feb and there was that whole rumor or theory that it was covid related. I just found out it wasn't. I don't know if that helps anyone or not just interesting info to share in case anyone else had similar situations (I was very fatigued, fever, and my lungs were shot. But in fairness, I was able to get back to my running of several miles a day by end of December).

 

[SnowblindNYR]

There's a hilarious video I saw floating around of people in LA complaining to their local government about having to wear a mask. I literally had to stop the video every 10 seconds I was laughing so hard.

It's absurd how much some people believe they are inconvenienced by having to wear a piece a cloth over their face when they go out to the grocery store for half an hour.

Without context, listening to them you'd think these people are having a constitutional amendment ripped away from them.

Edit: Here's the video

Was totally not expecting them to be 90% women.

 

[sbjnyc]

Trump Claims He Instructed His Team To ‘Slow Down’ Coronavirus Testing

 

[Irishguy42]

Trump Claims He Instructed His Team To ‘Slow Down’ Coronavirus Testing

 

[EdJovanovski]

Good & Bad news on my health scare, I got my CT Angiogram done and these were my results:

So I’ve now done a CT Angiogram (CT Scan where they inject contrast dye into your vein so they get a clear picture of any abnormalities), regular CT scan, ear exam, nose exam, tested for Covid (lol), ECG, blood work, and a Chest X-Ray. And every single thing has came back absolutely normal. So the good news is, it doesn’t look like I have some sort of life-threatening health problem. Bad news is, I still have no idea what is causing this annoying whooshing sound of turbulent bloodflow in my ears & chronic headaches.

Many people with Pulsatile Tinnitus have been told their scans were clear and then sent to a specialist for second opinions, where they found life-threatening vascular abnormalities causing it. On top of that I have very little faith in Canadian health care, especially in regards to finding sources of rare symptoms like this. There are a few other things that could cause these symptoms such as IIH (Idiopathic intracranial hypertension), I will get an eye exam where they just shine a light in your eye to see if your optic nerve is swollen, which is a good Indication of IIH. If that’s the case I should be able to treat this with lumbar punctures & meds. If the eye exam doesn’t turn up anything, I will try pushing harder for MRA/MRV’s as it is VERY difficult to obtain anything done with an MRI machine in Canada. Once I get those I will send them to the specialist in New York for a second opinion.

Again I would greatly appreciate any prayers

 

[NYSPORTS]

Trump Claims He Instructed His Team To ‘Slow Down’ Coronavirus Testing

he’s not serious.

The fickle, bias media frauds, who present as if they are experts in everything, keep whining about few tests and the spread of corona. POTUS points out we have conducted more tests than any nation and b/c of more tests we discover more cases. Cuts back on tests so the media can’t whine about more cases and they whine about that too. The media want it all ways and i believe that silent majority sees through all this nonsense.