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

[shoothoops]

Small wedding in Maine...

177 infected with COVID-19, 7 people dead.

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-11-12/covid-19-spread-at-thanksgiving-holiday-gatherings-could-be-like-maine-wedding?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true

[shoothoops]

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito telling anyone and everyone who will listen tonight, to not listen to scientists, and that restrictions are too severe for COVID-19. (you can skip over the other parts where he persecute s gay people etc...)

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1327055797176692737?s=19

[Hards Alumni]

Small wedding in Maine...

177 infected with COVID-19, 7 people dead.

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-11-12/covid-19-spread-at-thanksgiving-holiday-gatherings-could-be-like-maine-wedding?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true

I think you should have gone with this important part:

Only 55 people attended the Aug. 7 reception at the Big Moose Inn in Millinocket. But one of those guests arrived with a coronavirus infection. Over the next 38 days, the virus spread to 176 other people. Seven of them died.

[pbiflyer]

need rapid at home tests to get approval.  This would decrease the burden on testing sites and keep people from passing it on.  Well that is if sick people stay home

This. I am not sure why there hasn't been more focus on this.
Lots of frequent, fast testing would make things safer.

[Hards Alumni]

This. I am not sure why there hasn't been more focus on this.
Lots of frequent, fast testing would make things safer.

I agree, but i haven't seen anything that is the golden three.

1. Cheap
2. Fast
3. Effective

Usually, we only get two of the three.

[shoothoops]

130 Secret Service Officers COVID-19 positive or in quarantine, due to Trump campaign travel.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-coronavirus-outbreak/2020/11/13/610eebcc-2539-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html#click=https://t.co/r1edchtGH2

[Uncle Rico]

130 Secret Service Officers COVID-19 positive or in quarantine, due to Trump campaign travel.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-coronavirus-outbreak/2020/11/13/610eebcc-2539-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html#click=https://t.co/r1edchtGH2

No way Biden could have done better

[injuryBug]

This. I am not sure why there hasn't been more focus on this.
Lots of frequent, fast testing would make things safer.

I have seen plenty of chatter about it lately but nothing tells the cost.  That would be the key is to keep the cost down. 

[MU82]

No way Biden could have done better

Rico, you have to take into account how difficult it is to defend the indefensible.

It's pretty much impossible to defend Trump's response to the coronavirus. I mean, even if you don't want to admit that the U.S. response was a disaster and among the worst of any first-world nation, there's this: He personally, actively contributed to people getting infected and even dying by insisting upon holding super-spreader events - sometimes several per day.

Just in that one measure, Biden did "better" because he went out of his way to avoid hosting super-spreader events.

But when you worship the emperor, admitting that he was willingly infecting his own supporters, that he didn't give a rat's arse about anybody but himself and anything but his own political and personal fortunes ... that's difficult to ask of the blindly loyal.

So give 'em a break.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Rico, you have to take into account how difficult it is to defend the indefensible.

It's pretty much impossible to defend Trump's response to the coronavirus. I mean, even if you don't want to admit that the U.S. response was a disaster and among the worst of any first-world nation, there's this: He personally, actively contributed to people getting infected and even dying by insisting upon holding super-spreader events - sometimes several per day.

Just in that one measure, Biden did "better" because he went out of his way to avoid hosting super-spreader events.

But when you worship the emperor, admitting that he was willingly infecting his own supporters, that he didn't give a rat's arse about anybody but himself and anything but his own political and personal fortunes ... that's difficult to ask of the blindly loyal.

So give 'em a break.

MU82 - I believe Rico meant to use teal.

[GooooMarquette]

MU82 - I believe Rico meant to use teal.

Given Rico's posting history, that was my assumption as well.

[MU82]

MU82 - I believe Rico meant to use teal.

Which I knew; Rico and I often are kindred spirits. I simply enjoyed the set-up.

[pbiflyer]

I agree, but i haven't seen anything that is the golden three.

1. Cheap
2. Fast
3. Effective

Usually, we only get two of the three.

I guess that is what I was thinking. Put money and effort in developing this.
Or instead of spending trillions on stimulus, spend billions on testing to open up the economy.

[GooooMarquette]

Over 177,000 cases today. 

[Warriors4ever]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/parents-tried-cover-superspreader-dance-230835336.html

We're never getting past this.
Talk about parents not being parents.....

[Marquette Fan]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/parents-tried-cover-superspreader-dance-230835336.html

We're never getting past this.
Talk about parents not being parents.....

Wow - the irresponsible things parents are willing to do really scares me...

[GooooMarquette]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/parents-tried-cover-superspreader-dance-230835336.html

We're never getting past this.
Talk about parents not being parents.....

Endangering the whole community, and creating an example for kids who will grow up believing that's OK. Nice.

[wadesworld]

At least they're prepared for any pushback with their firearms. 

[TSmith34, Inc.]

This is what Trumpism has wrought:

Replying to @MalloryMcMorrow
A friend of mine works as a contact tracer and her husband is an ICU doctor. She told me he saw a patient who had #COVID19, and badly. After she came off of a ventilator, he asked her how she thought she got the virus.

"I don't have COVID," she said, "It doesn't exist."

[MU82]

Understatement of the Day: Things aren't going well ...

More than 1,000 Americans are dying of the coronavirus every day on average, a 50% increase in the past month. Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico, Tennessee and Wisconsin have recorded more deaths over the past seven days than in any other week of the pandemic. Twice this past week, there have been more than 1,400 deaths reported in a single day.

"It's getting bad, and it's potentially going to get a lot worse," said Jennifer Nuzzo, a public health researcher and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. "The months ahead are looking quite horrifying."

[tower912]

This is what Trumpism has wrought:

Replying to @MalloryMcMorrow
A friend of mine works as a contact tracer and her husband is an ICU doctor. She told me he saw a patient who had #COVID19, and badly. After she came off of a ventilator, he asked her how she thought she got the virus.

"I don't have COVID," she said, "It doesn't exist."

So many Monty Python references come to mind.   The Black Knight.   The dead parrot.

[pbiflyer]

This is what Trumpism has wrought:

Replying to @MalloryMcMorrow
A friend of mine works as a contact tracer and her husband is an ICU doctor. She told me he saw a patient who had #COVID19, and badly. After she came off of a ventilator, he asked her how she thought she got the virus.

"I don't have COVID," she said, "It doesn't exist."

From a SD ICU nurse:

I have a night off from the hospital. As I'm on my couch with my dog I can't help but think of the Covid patients the last few days. The ones that stick out are those who still don't believe the virus is real. The ones who scream at you for a magic medicine and that Joe Biden is Going to ruin the USA. All while gasping for breath on 100% Vapotherm. They tell you there must be another reason they are sick. They call you names and ask why you have to wear all that "stuff" because they don't have COViD because it's not real. Yes. This really happens. And I can't stop thinking about it. These people really think this isn't going to happen to them. And then they stop yelling at you when they get intubated. It's like a ....ing horror movie that never ends. There's no credits that roll. You just go back and do it all over again.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JodiDoering/status/1327771329555292162?s=20

[tower912]

Cult.

[Warriors4ever]

All I can say is, OMG.

[GooooMarquette]

From a SD ICU nurse:

I have a night off from the hospital. As I'm on my couch with my dog I can't help but think of the Covid patients the last few days. The ones that stick out are those who still don't believe the virus is real. The ones who scream at you for a magic medicine and that Joe Biden is Going to ruin the USA. All while gasping for breath on 100% Vapotherm. They tell you there must be another reason they are sick. They call you names and ask why you have to wear all that "stuff" because they don't have COViD because it's not real. Yes. This really happens. And I can't stop thinking about it. These people really think this isn't going to happen to them. And then they stop yelling at you when they get intubated. It's like a ....ing horror movie that never ends. There's no credits that roll. You just go back and do it all over again.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JodiDoering/status/1327771329555292162?s=20

Stories like that make me sad for the kids and grandkids that lose family members to stupidity and arrogance. And I worry that those kids grow up just to be like their deceased family members, because they think it is 'smart' or 'tough.'

And really sad for the healthcare workers that put their lives on the line, only to be berated by the very patients they are trying desperately to save.