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

[GooooMarquette]

Coronavirus Safety Runs Into a Stubborn Barrier: Masculinity

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/us/politics/trump-biden-masks-masculinity.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

The theme has been there since the beginning of the pandemic. Some experts who study masculinity and public health say the perception that wearing masks and following social distancing guidelines are unmanly has carried a destructive cost. The virus has infected more men than women and killed far more of them.

The experts say the best public health practices have collided with several of the social demands men in many cultures are pressured to follow to assert their masculinity: displaying strength instead of weakness, showing a willingness to take risks, hiding their fear, appearing to be in control.

Men's resistance to showing weakness — and their tendency to take risks — was demonstrated by scientists long before Covid-19. Studies have shown men are less likely than women to wear seatbelts and helmets, or to get flu shots. They're more likely to speed or drive drunk. They are less likely to seek out medical care.

Some initial research indicates a similar pattern is playing out with the coronavirus. Surveys have found that women are more likely than men to wear masks in the United States. And recent polls have found men give higher marks to President Trump than women on his handling of the pandemic.

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Evolutionary biology + social stereotypes + an insecure President = men making stupid decisions and getting sick

[pacearrow02]

https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1315279852048723968

[tower912]

Nowhere near done with this.

[Uncle Rico]

https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1315279852048723968

Should have shut their borders to American tourists

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

My mother-in-law and my wife's friend both of  whom my wife speaks with often tell my wife that Poland has been progressing worse the last 6 weeks and the main reason is their version of Trumpies who refuse to wear masks as well as ignoring gathering warnings.  Apparently all the universities have gone on line and they've quarantined and shut down whole towns.  Grammar and high schools have gone online too except K-3. 

[GooooMarquette]

Nowhere near done with this.

Yep. Plenty of articles out there about Europe experiencing 'Covid fatigue,' leading to decreased compliance, leading to a surge in cases. That, and their own 'right-wing' fringe that refuses to wear masks.

The only difference between Europe and the US is that they got levels low enough so they can legitimately call this  a 'second wave.' Here, people were so noncompliant that the first wave was never really suppressed. We have had a constant fire burning all through the summer, and it's now increasing again into the fall.

[jesmu84]

Lindsey graham refuses to get tested before his next debate.

Pretty obvious that any senate republican, but especially on the judiciary committee, will not get tested or admit to positive test before confirmation.

Graham's opponent did not relent on covid testing prior to debate. Graham continues to refuse testing. Debate cancelled.

Garbage

[shoothoops]

Graham's opponent did not relent on covid testing prior to debate. Graham continues to refuse testing. Debate cancelled.

Garbage

His opponent, Jaime Harrison, brought his own plexiglass for their first debate.

And Harrison just set a fund raising record of $57 million in the quarter. it is the highest amount raised by a U.S. Senate candidate in one quarter.

[MU82]

From AP, re an Associated Press/Frontline investigation into why there was a PPE shortage in the early months of the U.S. coronavirus crisis ...

The warnings of looming and potentially deadly supply shortages from the White House began confidentially in February when White House trade adviser Peter Navarro wrote to the COVID-19 task force, urging the administration to halt exports and ramp up production of N95 masks.

The U.S. "faces the real prospect of a severe mask shortage!" he wrote Feb. 9.

In addition to halting exports and prohibiting the sale of N95 factory equipment to China, Navarro pleaded that the U.S. government must provide "immediate purchase guarantees for all U.S. supplies at maximum production capacity."

President Donald Trump initially rebuffed calls from states, medical workers, Congressional Democrats and domestic manufacturers to invoke the Defense Production Act, which allows the federal government to boost manufacturing. He said it wasn't necessary, but then abruptly reversed course in the spring, giving a few U.S. factories support they needed to expand production of N95s and the raw materials used to make them. But even now, those manufacturers haven't received long-term purchase guarantees.

So, to recap, Trump's own adviser warned him in early February about the severity of the problem and urged Trump to act. But it wasn't until April that Trump actually did so. During those two lost months, governors were pleading for supplies and, in some cases, bidding against each other for PPE. Meanwhile, the virus spread exponentially, and we're still trying to contain it today.

[pacearrow02]

https://amp.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/coronavirus-who-backflips-on-virus-stance-by-condemning-lockdowns/news-story/f2188f2aebff1b7b291b297731c3da74?__twitter_impression=true

WHO just not coming to realize what most of us new from the tip.

[pacearrow02]

Now*

[reinko]

Now*

Broken link Jams

[GooooMarquette]

WHO comments were misconstrued.

https://9now.nine.com.au/today/coronavirus-who-insists-decision-to-advise-against-lockdowns-is-not-a-backflip/ba52ac1e-08c0-445c-930f-05999968a4aa

Don't do lockdowns as the primary means of controlling a pandemic. Instead the government should implement contact tracing, mask wearing and such, to prevent the virus from becoming widespread. Unfortunately, we never properly implemented the preferred steps (and in most cases, they are still inadequate), so the lockdowns became a necessary evil.

[tower912]

Knew.  Not 'new'.  You should take over from Jared.

[pacearrow02]

Knew.  Not 'new'.  You should take over from Jared.

You are the worst

[tower912]

   Shame on me.

[MU82]

   Shame on me.

That was just Pace misspelling "wurst," tower. And he loves bratwurst, so that means he thinks you're great!

[GooooMarquette]

That was just Pace misspelling "wurst," tower. And he loves bratwurst, so that means he thinks you're great!

I thought he was into blutwurst.

[Hards Alumni]

His opponent, Jaime Harrison, brought his own plexiglass for their first debate.

And Harrison just set a fund raising record of $57 million in the quarter. it is the highest amount raised by a U.S. Senate candidate in one quarter.

The remaining GOP senators are holding off on a test so they can be present for new SCOTUS votes.  That's what this is about.  Nothing else.

[GB Warrior]

   Shame on me.

President came here to make us all bleed, not to proofread

[Pakuni]

   Shame on me.

Pace is a teller, not a speller.

[Galway Eagle]

   Shame on me.

He always gets very personally offended when you point out his grammar errors.

[tower912]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/us-sees-20percent-more-deaths-than-expected-this-year-most-due-to-covid-19-research-finds/ar-BB19WXRw?li=BBnb7Kz


Deaths in the US up 20% this year compared to the same time frame last year.     Damn that bad flu.   

[MU82]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/us-sees-20percent-more-deaths-than-expected-this-year-most-due-to-covid-19-research-finds/ar-BB19WXRw?li=BBnb7Kz


Deaths in the US up 20% this year compared to the same time frame last year.     Damn that bad flu.

"You just breathe the air and that's how it's passed, and so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flu. This is deadly stuff."

[shoothoops]

"Teen gave COVID-19 to 11 relatives across 4 states."

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-cdc-report-family-gathering-local-20201012-7f7i6sosi5ep7dhoq3e2bpgavi-story.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true