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

[GooooMarquette]

I donno.  I've been on multiple flights (with middle seat open, and mask worn the entire time), lots of shopping, plenty of dining out (outdoors), a few road trips (including some crazy un-masked rest stops - or I was masked, but others weren't) and have not been infected yet (knock on wood).  But I have several friends that think sitting in an restaurant (indoors) without a mask on is OK because it's allowed.  That's crazy to me.  I would not do that.  Sure, you're' still following 6+ ft masked/unmasked rules but lots of folks seem to think it's OK.

I don't doubt that people have no idea where they get this thing, but they probably also assume that indoors without masks is fine as long as you're 6+ ft away from someone.

That goes back to your elected officials thing...this thing is airborne.  Lets just accept that and not do things that would allow you to catch/transmit it indoors.

That's the thing with illnesses and risk factors: you can never get your risk level down to 0% even if you do all the 'right things,' and likewise, you may never get the illness even if you do all the 'wrong things.'

People chain-smoke for decades and never get lung cancer, but there are people who never smoked a cigarette in their life and have no known exposure to radon, but die of it.

So yeah, it is frustrating. But that's just how medicine works. Still, it's no reason to stop doing the 'right things,' because you CAN minimize your risk.

[pbiflyer]

An interesting chart of cases by state over time.
https://dangoodspeed.com/covid/total-cases-since-june

[Pakuni]

COVID truthers keep trying to break into a Utah hospital to prove the pandemic is a hoax.
WTF is wrong with people?

https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/utah-valley-hospital-dealing-with-ill-fated-attempts-of-conspiracy-theorists/article_d08ba93d-e25b-558e-a00e-c9891ac9970f.html

[wadesworld]

COVID truthers keep trying to break into a Utah hospital to prove the pandemic is a hoax.
WTF is wrong with people?

https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/utah-valley-hospital-dealing-with-ill-fated-attempts-of-conspiracy-theorists/article_d08ba93d-e25b-558e-a00e-c9891ac9970f.html

With stories as crazy as this coming out seemingly every day, I am now realizing how 70M+ people in this country actually felt Donald Trump was fit to run a country.

[Jockey]

With stories as crazy as this coming out seemingly every day, I am now realizing how 70M+ people in this country actually felt Donald Trump was fit to run a country.

Q is gonna be comin' after you if you keep making comments like this.

[tower912]

F Q.   I am not on the mood for COVID deniers at the moment.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

COVID truthers keep trying to break into a Utah hospital to prove the pandemic is a hoax.
WTF is wrong with people?

You know the answer to that

[GooooMarquette]

You know the answer to that

Yep. True Believers just listening to the Dear Leader.

[Jockey]

F Q.   I am not on the mood for COVID deniers at the moment.

I have felt that way since March. The worst deniers are either in the White House or work for the White House.

To think that people here got upset when I called trump a killer. That was 100,000 deaths ago.

[Hards Alumni]

COVID truthers keep trying to break into a Utah hospital to prove the pandemic is a hoax.
WTF is wrong with people?

https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/utah-valley-hospital-dealing-with-ill-fated-attempts-of-conspiracy-theorists/article_d08ba93d-e25b-558e-a00e-c9891ac9970f.html

Show them the morgue first and ask them if they want to go to the Covid wing.  Have them sign away their right to a bed at the hospital.  Then show them the suffering people in the Covid wing.

There is no way to otherwise convince these folks.

In case it isn't clear, I am not being serious about the field trip to the hospital.

[jesmu84]

Show them the morgue first and ask them if they want to go to the Covid wing.  Have them sign away their right to a bed at the hospital.  Then show them the suffering people in the Covid wing.

There is no way to otherwise convince these folks.

In case it isn't clear, I am not being serious about the field trip to the hospital.

Won't those people just say those people aren't suffering from covid because it doesn't really exist?

[GooooMarquette]

Show them the morgue first and ask them if they want to go to the Covid wing.  Have them sign away their right to a bed at the hospital.  Then show them the suffering people in the Covid wing.

There is no way to otherwise convince these folks.

In case it isn't clear, I am not being serious about the field trip to the hospital.

I doubt even that would work. They would simply say the people died (or were dying) of something else. Like the woman in South Dakota who used her last breaths to tell her nurse that Covid didn't exist.

[Hards Alumni]

I doubt even that would work. They would simply say the people died (or were dying) of something else. Like the woman in South Dakota who used her last breaths to tell her nurse that Covid didn't exist.

All you can tell people like that is to Rest In Piss.

Nope, not a typo.

[Pakuni]

83 people attended a wedding in Ohio last month. Most didn't wear masks.
32 of them got COVID, including the bride and groom (Xavier grads, d'oh) and three grandparents. Two hospitalized in serious condition, but fortunately no deaths so far.

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-ohio-wedding-superspreader-bride-groom-emotional-toll-20201118-3qr4jzoeave4heoxth33vwfmqy-story.html

[Galway Eagle]

83 people attended a wedding in Ohio last month. Most didn't wear masks.
32 of them got COVID, including the bride and groom (Xavier grads, d'oh) and three grandparents. Two hospitalized in serious condition, but fortunately no deaths so far.

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-ohio-wedding-superspreader-bride-groom-emotional-toll-20201118-3qr4jzoeave4heoxth33vwfmqy-story.html

Well that was smart of them to cut down from 200 to 83, everyone knows the virus only shows up in number 84.

[shoothoops]

"Tyson Foods ordered employees to report for work while supervisors privately wagered money on the number of workers who would be sickened by the deadly virus."

https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2020/11/18/lawsuit-tyson-managers-bet-money-on-how-many-workers-would-contract-covid-19/

[Marquette Fan]

Well that was smart of them to cut down from 200 to 83, everyone knows the virus only shows up in number 84.

Yeah what makes anyone think that having 83 guests together like that right now is a good idea?  And to have Grandparents there too?  Wow...

[🏀]

Eighty three.

[MU82]

One quarter of a million dead Americans ... and counting.

Are we sick and tired of winning yet?

"It affects virtually nobody."

[shoothoops]

Ben Carson update:

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/526670-ben-carson-says-he-used-unproven-covid-19-treatment-recommended-by-mypillow-ceo?amp&__twitter_impression=true

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Ben Carson update:

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/526670-ben-carson-says-he-used-unproven-covid-19-treatment-recommended-by-mypillow-ceo?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Maybe Ben should go explore that "grain silo" in the pyramids.

[GooooMarquette]

Ben Carson update:

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/526670-ben-carson-says-he-used-unproven-covid-19-treatment-recommended-by-mypillow-ceo?amp&__twitter_impression=true

A neurosurgeon taking medical advice from a pillow salesman?

You can't make this stuff up....

[pbiflyer]

Show them the morgue first and ask them if they want to go to the Covid wing.  Have them sign away their right to a bed at the hospital.  Then show them the suffering people in the Covid wing.

There is no way to otherwise convince these folks.

In case it isn't clear, I am not being serious about the field trip to the hospital.

From a doctor friend in Ohio.

I got two emails from my employer today. The first congratulated me for 20 years of service! The second told me that I might get pulled off service as a radiologist and have to work outside of my speciality caring for Covid patients (which I haven't done in 20 yrs)

Yikes. Locally we have a friend who is an Obgyn. He is terrified he is going to be enlisted into the front lines here.

[Galway Eagle]

From a doctor friend in Ohio.

I got two emails from my employer today. The first congratulated me for 20 years of service! The second told me that I might get pulled off service as a radiologist and have to work outside of my speciality caring for Covid patients (which I haven't done in 20 yrs)

Yikes. Locally we have a friend who is an Obgyn. He is terrified he is going to be enlisted into the front lines here.

Well apparently the White House believes Radiologists are most qualified for fighting this so it's makes sense to have him on the front lines

[shoothoops]

"When they stormed Normandy, they knew there were going to be casualties, there was gonna be risk. Two percent of the people that go to the emergency room go for COVID-19. But young people, they think it's like cancer. They think they're gonna die."
-Lou Holtz in August

"I don't have a lot of energy right now." -COVID-19 positive Lou Holtz November.

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/6347615002?__twitter_impression=true