Kolek planning to go pro
Checking in on Florida:https://twitter.com/MikeVorkunov/status/1272924457393442818?s=19
Florida health care worker, 15 friends contract COVID-19 at bar https://nypost.com/2020/06/16/florida-healthcare-worker-15-friends-catch-covid-19-at-bar/A Mayo Clinic worker who stayed indoors for months in Florida to avoid getting the coronavirus says she finally broke quarantine to go to a bar with pals earlier this month — leaving her and 15 of her friends with the contagion.“The first night we go out — Murphy’s Law, I guess,” Erika Crisp, a 40-year-old health care worker from Jacksonville.Lynch's hasn't been cleaned since it opened 2+ decades ago.
Either China is way over-reacting to the Beijing outbreak or it is much larger and more extensive than being written (i think the latter). As an example I just saw a datapoint that Beijing airline departures were down 40% yesterday.
Rex Chapman🏇🏼 @RexChapmanCome for the crazy. Stay for the butchering of “God Bless America”...pic.twitter.com/X0etGOt7QB
Texas Governor:https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/16/878924556/as-texas-coronavirus-cases-reach-new-high-gov-abbott-plays-down-the-numbers?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews
I'm concerned by the continued underreporting of cases, hospitalizations, and even deaths, particularly amongst elderly individuals in care facilities. In some locales, they will not include these in local numbers, that ultimately get reported to the states, because they are not residents of the location where their case, hospitalization/death occurred. Essentially no-one wants to include these people in their numbers, and since there is no formal enforcement of including them, they essentially never get counted.
I share your concern, but the only state I had heard of where this was documented to be occurring was Florida. Are you aware of other states where this is happening?
I see a common theme in all the states with issues. The curve was never flattened. Maybe Washington was but their cases seemed to go up and down weekly
The city council’s response to the situation in Montgomery is completely irresponsible, but it seems to reflect the general attitude in the state. As the Governor was dragging her feet before issuing a stay at home order, she said “we are not California.“Indeed.Alabama currently has higher per capita infection and death rates than California, despite the fact that the population density in CA is 2.5x that in AL. Oof!
This is why national leadership matters (Sorry if Wags and Sultan are offended).https://crooksandliars.com/2020/06/montgomery-city-council-kills-face-maskMontgomery, Alabama is probably the worst-hit area in the deep south, so the relatively benign call for a face mask ordinance and then a rejection of it left some doctors appalled at a city council meeting last night. Several walked out in disgust.Montgomery hospitals are at near capacity right now, with the coronavirus pandemic hitting African-Americans especially hard. The vote was along racial lines, the black council members in support, the white council members against. The city is about 60% African-American.Jackson Hospital pulmonologist William Saliski cleared his throat as he started describing the dire situation created by the coronavirus pandemic in Montgomery to its City Council before they voted on a mandatory mask ordinance. "It's been a long day, I apologize," he said."The units are full with critically-ill COVID patients," Saliski said. About 90% of them are Black. He said hospitals are able to manage for now, but it's not sustainable. "This mask slows that down, 95% protection from something as easy as cloth. ... If this continues the way it's going, we will be overrun."More doctors followed him to the microphone, describing the dead being carried out within 30 minutes of each other, and doctors being disturbed when people on the street ask them if the media is lying about the pandemic as part of a political ploy.After they spoke, and before the council voted on a proposal by Councilman C.C. Calhoun to mandate mask-wearing in public in Montgomery, Councilman Brantley Lyons questioned whether masks and six-foot distancing really helps. They do, the doctors replied. Lyons was unmoved. "At the end of the day, if an illness or a pandemic comes through we do not throw our constitutional rights out the window," Lyons said.From the crowd, doctors called for him to visit the hospital sometime.Instead, the council killed the ordinance after it failed to pass in a 4-4 tie, mostly along racial lines, with Councilman Tracy Larkin absent. Councilman Clay McInnis voted with three Black council members — Calhoun, Oronde Mitchell and Audrey Graham — in favor of the ordinance. Lyons, Charles Jinright, Richard Bollinger and Glen Pruitt voted against it.A trio of doctors, who had waited hours to speak, got up and left the chamber in disgust. "Unbelievable," Saliski said.One of the council members said he'd lost six family members to COVID-19. William Boyd, one of several people who spoke in favor of the ordinance, said he's lost six family members to COVID-19. "The question on the table is whether Black lives matter," Boyd said before the vote.
So in these "masks rob us of freedom" states, do they go barefoot and topless into restaurants?"Eff y'all if you think we be payin' attention to 'No shoes, no shirt, no service' signs!"
Honestly the people who don't want to wear masks simply don't want to wear masks. And instead of saying "I'm selfish and don't care about you," are using freedom and rights language instead.