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There's nothing really new here.  Asymptomatic spread is already recognized and yes it's a problem due to lack of testing.

The serious news is that asymptomatic spread may be done by much smaller particles than previously realized.  This puts into question the ability of industrial air conditioning and air movement in buildings to filter out those particles without modifications.

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12 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

There's nothing really new here.  Asymptomatic spread is already recognized and yes it's a problem due to lack of testing.

The serious news is that asymptomatic spread may be done by much smaller particles than previously realized.  This puts into question the ability of industrial air conditioning and air movement in buildings to filter out those particles without modifications.

Mostly it was the dysfunction of our scientific and governmental community for the muffling of the early warning we could have had that caught my eye.  And it did erode some of my trust in the WHO, which was a little bit of a surprise. 

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7 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Mostly it was the dysfunction of our scientific and governmental community for the muffling of the early warning we could have had that caught my eye.  And it did erode some of my trust in the WHO, which was a little bit of a surprise. 

Correct.  They should have known everything that was knowable about the virus as much as two weeks before it ever happened.  What did they blow the money we spent on their time machines on?

At this moment there is an incredibly good show on the cruise ships and their role in the infection of the world playing on BBC News.  The shere amount of ignorance about the subject at the time caused a lot of bad decisions.

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12 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

There's nothing really new here.  Asymptomatic spread is already recognized and yes it's a problem due to lack of testing.

The serious news is that asymptomatic spread may be done by much smaller particles than previously realized.  This puts into question the ability of industrial air conditioning and air movement in buildings to filter out those particles without modifications.

And, keep in mind, the virus spreads the EXACT same way no matter where in the WORLD you are located.

We seem, as a country, to act like we are somehow unique in our fight against COVID, yet we only need to look around and see what countries are effective at fighting it and do something similar.

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1 minute ago, Razors Edge said:

And, keep in mind, the virus spreads the EXACT same way no matter where in the WORLD you are located.

We seem, as a country, to act like we are somehow unique in our fight against COVID, yet we only need to look around and see what countries are effective at fighting it and do something similar.

Maybe they are listening to the WHO instead of dumping it because of distrust.

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8 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

I just read an article aboot how well Iceland did. Of course an island is a heck of a lot easier. But they did seem to have their act together more than us. 

We have a natural set of countries to compare ourselves to. And we also have regional and ones similar in size or density.  No matter how you slice it, we're in the "bad" half of all rankings :(  Seems only the UK is kicking our butt at mismanagement.  And Brazil.  And then several dictatorships where reality is hard to judge.  When the US stops comparing itself to peers and starts needing to compare itself to the poor, mismanaged, and/or autocratic countries, we are in desperate need of a change in direction.

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5 hours ago, Dottles said:

Obviously they don't care or they are under tremendous pressure to open it up. 

This is mostly due to completely missing leadership and trying to ignore the problem because it was too much effort to take a long view.  Leadership said "masks are stupid" and the stupid people just went with it.  Leadership saying "it is a hoax" or "it is like the flu" or "the other guys are just politicizing it" and stupid or ignorant people went with it.

This is what happens when stupid and/or self-serving people are in charge and stupid people listen to them.  We have too much stupid and/or ignorant in our country.  The sad part is that, with the tsunami of evidence against "their guy/s", that they just double down on the stupid and ignorant ways.

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Just now, Randomguy said:

missing leadership and trying to ignore the problem because it was too much effort to take a long view. 

We were better off when the federal government told states “you’re on your own”. When they saw the containment battle was lost, the decision was made to make “reopening” the political battle with reelection hopes hinging on it.  

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3 hours ago, Randomguy said:

This is mostly due to completely missing leadership and trying to ignore the problem because it was too much effort to take a long view.  Leadership said "masks are stupid" and the stupid people just went with it.  Leadership saying "it is a hoax" or "it is like the flu" or "the other guys are just politicizing it" and stupid or ignorant people went with it.

This is what happens when stupid and/or self-serving people are in charge and stupid people listen to them.  We have too much stupid and/or ignorant in our country.  The sad part is that, with the tsunami of evidence against "their guy/s", that they just double down on the stupid and ignorant ways.

Again, it's very hard for me to disagree with this.

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22 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

I got a chuckle out of this from back in the "it's all a hoax" days.  Or, are we still in those days :scratchhead:  Damn measles is gonna get us all!

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I guess hospital beds filling up around the country is staged too? Damn those Dems have a big payroll. Either way we are still totally fucked.

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Walton County

Cases – 538 – That’s 11 more cases reported in the past 24 hours
Cases per 100,000 –561.5
Total deaths – 29 – that’s one more death reported in the past 24 hours
Hospitalized – 70 – that’s two more hospitalizations reported in the past 24 hours

Gwinnett County

Cases – 11,074 – that’s 333 new cases reported in the past 24 hours
Cases per 100,000 – 1140
Total deaths – 182 – that’s four more deaths reported in the past 24 hours
Hospitalized – 1,315 – That is 47 more hospitalizations reported in the last 24 hours

Georgia

Confirmed cases – 114,401 – that is 3,190 more cases reported in the past 24 hours
ICU admissions – 2,610 – that’s 45 more reported in the past 24 hours Hospitalizations – 13,205 – That’s 268 more hospitalizations reported in the past 24 hours
Total deaths – 2,996 – That is 31 more death reported in the past 24 hours

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Not good.

BREAKING: An 11-county region of Northeast Georgia including Walton is down to seven critical care beds out of a capacity of 70. Georgia saw 599 people hospitalized from COVID-19 in the past day.

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The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Walton County was 538 on Saturday afternoon, July 11 (+11 from Friday). There had been 29 deaths (+1) and 70 hospitalizations (+2).

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8 hours ago, Allen said:

Not good.

The deaths are coming. Florida, Georgia, Texas, Arizona ICUs are filled. While we’ve gotten better at the treatments, the medical system can’t keep up with this infection rate. And the PPEs are again in short supply. 6 months in and we still haven’t gotten anywhere close to being on top of this.

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On 7/11/2020 at 9:32 PM, Allen said:

Walton is down to seven critical care beds out of a capacity of 70

I'd love to hear from someone like @Prophet Zacharia if 70 "critical care" beds is a normal amount for a county of 95,000 people.  That seems pretty darn few, but my county is over 10x that size, so hard to compare.

Seems still having 10% capacity (of normal) during the height of the outbreak isn't awful (yet), so maybe you guys won't hit or exceed the 70 beds.

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