COVID-19 (f/k/a "the Coronavirus")

[pbiflyer]

This is a shot of a line outside a bar to get in in Alexandria VA. He said there were several other bars with similar lines and barely any masks.

Oh and on a typically slow reporting day, Florida had more cases in a single day than anywhere else in the country.

[injuryBug]

This is a shot of a line outside a bar to get in in Alexandria VA. He said there were several other bars with similar lines and barely any masks.

Oh and on a typically slow reporting day, Florida had more cases in a single day than anywhere else in the country.

makes no sense why people would want to enter a bar

[BM1090]

I'm thrilled that a ton of countries have reined in the virus and seem to have it under control. I'm thrilled to have sports and society back in some areas of the world. Pretty pissed that we're going to be one of the last countries to get back to "normal". Predictable, though.

[shoothoops]

CDC chart, cases per 10,000 by race:

https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1282412608667234306?s=19

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

This is a shot of a line outside a bar to get in in Alexandria VA. He said there were several other bars with similar lines and barely any masks.

Oh and on a typically slow reporting day, Florida had more cases in a single day than anywhere else in the country.

King Street

[GooooMarquette]

I'm thrilled that a ton of countries have reigned the virus in and seem to have it under control. I'm thrilled to have sports and society back in some areas of the world. Pretty pissed that we're going to be one of the last countries to get back to "normal". Predictable, though.

Agreed. When I see other countries inching towards normal, I know it's possible with discipline. The fact that we aren't one of those countries is infuriating, but not surprising.

The CDC has messed up many things...but if POTUS and every governor had supported and strictly followed CDC's three-phase reopening guidelines, we would be much better off today.

[shoothoops]

Florida:

May 20 vs July 12th

https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1282344989419278336

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

This is all so sad to see happening again.  By the way we are all worse off now as labs prioritize hot spots—we lose visibility and ability to contain outbreaks everywhere else. 

[pbiflyer]

This is all so sad to see happening again.  By the way we are all worse off now as labs prioritize hot spots—we lose visibility and ability to contain outbreaks everywhere else.

On the bright side, we weren't doing anything about containment before, so no big loss.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

On the bright side, we weren't doing anything about containment before, so no big loss.

My state was

[TSmith34, Inc.]

My state was

Yup. And a patchwork response was always doomed to fail. I would say "absolute void of leadership" at the top, but no leadership would have been better than one that consistently chose the worst possible course of action.

[GooooMarquette]

And now the White House is going into overdrive to discredit Fauci....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/us/politics/fauci-trump-coronavirus.html

Administration officials moved to treat the nation's top infectious disease expert as if he were a warring political rival, releasing a list of what they said were questionable statements he had made.

President Trump's advisers undercut the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, over the weekend, anonymously providing details to various news outlets about statements he had made early in the coronavirus outbreak that they said were inaccurate.

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Lovely. 'Opposition research' on the nation's top infectious disease expert in the midst of a pandemic.

This will help....

[GooooMarquette]

Meanwhile in Arizona...where cases, hospitalizations and ICU occupancy rates  have surged...

It takes weeks to get COVID-19 test results in Arizona. That makes it harder to control the spread

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/07/06/slow-covid-19-test-results-have-cascade-effect-public-health/5386582002/

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Waits of 8-12 hours in line to get a test, and then a couple of weeks more to get the result. If this is the testing situation in one of the new epicenters of the pandemic, we are screwed.

[Jockey]

And now the White House is going into overdrive to discredit Fauci....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/us/politics/fauci-trump-coronavirus.html

Administration officials moved to treat the nation's top infectious disease expert as if he were a warring political rival, releasing a list of what they said were questionable statements he had made.

President Trump's advisers undercut the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, over the weekend, anonymously providing details to various news outlets about statements he had made early in the coronavirus outbreak that they said were inaccurate.

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Lovely. 'Opposition research' on the nation's top infectious disease expert in the midst of a pandemic.

This will help....

C'mon, Goo 

Who knows more about a pandemic - a guy who sold buildings or a guy who has studied this for 40+ years? Obviously, it's the guy who sold buildings.

And that is the crux of everything. republicans have been so anti-science just to contradict Libs that they now believe the garbage they've been spewing.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

I felt this way when we were in epidemic.  Prioritize testing in areas where you have control (or are trying to gain control).  Hot spots have no little chance to make a dent. 

[Jockey]

Meanwhile in Arizona...where cases, hospitalizations and ICU occupancy rates  have surged...

It takes weeks to get COVID-19 test results in Arizona. That makes it harder to control the spread

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/07/06/slow-covid-19-test-results-have-cascade-effect-public-health/5386582002/

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Waits of 8-12 hours in line to get a test, and then a couple of weeks more to get the result. If this is the testing situation in one of the new epicenters of the pandemic, we are screwed.

Criminal!! Hope all these people are held accountable- preferably before they reach the gates of h@ll.

[The Sultan]

And now the White House is going into overdrive to discredit Fauci....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/us/politics/fauci-trump-coronavirus.html

Administration officials moved to treat the nation's top infectious disease expert as if he were a warring political rival, releasing a list of what they said were questionable statements he had made.

President Trump's advisers undercut the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, over the weekend, anonymously providing details to various news outlets about statements he had made early in the coronavirus outbreak that they said were inaccurate.

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Lovely. 'Opposition research' on the nation's top infectious disease expert in the midst of a pandemic.

This will help....

Some of which have already been mimicked here.

[GooooMarquette]

Criminal!! Hope all these people are held accountable- preferably before they reach the gates of h@ll.

I just saw an interview with the mayor of Phoenix. She requested federal assistance several weeks ago to develop surge testing capability, and has gotten no response. Horrifying.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Lovely. 'Opposition research' on the nation's top infectious disease expert in the midst of a pandemic.

This will help....

As I said, "consistently chose the worst possible course of action".

[rocky_warrior]

This is all so sad to see happening again.  By the way we are all worse off now as labs prioritize hot spots—we lose visibility and ability to contain outbreaks everywhere else.

Agreed.  I was incredibly disturbed the more i dug into data this weekend.  So sad to see.  Literally sad.  Of course it comes after we've all had a few weeks to "relax" and see the numbers trending in the right direction.   Guess I should plan on hunkering down for another year...

[shoothoops]

Johns Hopkins Data Chart U.S. and European Union:

https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1282442536305426432?s=19

[The Sultan]

We were so close.

[tower912]

Florida with more new cases in one day than South Korea had in totality.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

We were so close.

May 18th:
President Trump on Monday gave an emphatic "Yes!" to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar saying in an interview that reopening the economy is not dependent on having a vaccine for the coronavirus and that keeping businesses shuttered creates its own health crisis.

The president issued a one-word tweet — "Yes!" — linking to Azar's Sunday interview on CNN and followed it up with two more messages: "REOPEN OUR COUNTRY!" and "TRANSITION TO GREATNESS."

https://nypost.com/2020/05/18/trump-tweets-support-of-hhs-secretarys-call-to-reopen-economy/

[The Sultan]

May 18th:
President Trump on Monday gave an emphatic "Yes!" to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar saying in an interview that reopening the economy is not dependent on having a vaccine for the coronavirus and that keeping businesses shuttered creates its own health crisis.

The president issued a one-word tweet — "Yes!" — linking to Azar's Sunday interview on CNN and followed it up with two more messages: "REOPEN OUR COUNTRY!" and "TRANSITION TO GREATNESS."

https://nypost.com/2020/05/18/trump-tweets-support-of-hhs-secretarys-call-to-reopen-economy/

In retrospect, while we were clearly ill-prepared to handle the initial surge for various reasons already discussed, what has happened since mid-May has been an even larger abdication of responsibility.  We got a late start, but were doing the right things.

Then we decided that was too hard, and apparently now are just hoping and praying for a vaccine with no clear plan.