Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[PDH]

Hopefully it won't get to the point of having refrigerator trucks out outside of hospitals to store the bodies, like we had in NYC.  I imagine you'd need a lot of fuel to keep these trucks cool in Georgia during the summer.

Nothing is too good for our expendable elderly!

[Razgovory]

The Tyrannical Republican Governor Greg ABBOT has mandated face mask usage in Great state of Texas. This Tyranny wont be forgotten!!!11

I have this weird belief that most politicians, Democrat or Republican, actually care about the welfare of the people they are representing.  Hell, I bet some even care about people they aren't representing.

[Valmy]

The Tyrannical Republican Governor Greg ABBOT has mandated face mask usage in Great state of Texas. This Tyranny wont be forgotten!!!11

He is desperate to keep the economy going so he knows this is necessary to prevent a huge disaster. Fortunately for him he was just re-elected two years ago so maybe people will have forgotten what a TYRANT he is in a couple years

[jimmy olsen]

10,000 new cases in Florida today. Case rate is doubling every 7 days. A patchwork of mitigation efforts by municipalities centered around mask wearing and appeals to social distance. Bars closed. These numbers are quite alarming and I'm wondering how DeSantis is feeling about his victory speech back at the begining of May where he blamed the media for starting a panic and prattled on about freedoms and rights.

There's a potential for lots of dead Floridians by the end of the summer. I sincerely hope hes right, that it's all young people and they wont get very sick and the mortality rate will be low in comparison to previous outbreaks elsewhere.

It is young people now, but those young people all interact with older people.

[Syt]

Because this timeline is weird:



https://nypost.com/2020/07/02/ex-wwe-wrestler-kane-knox-county-mayor-glenn-jacobs-now-anti-mask/

WWE star Kane, known for mask, votes against mask mandate as mayor

Glenn Jacobs rose to fame as WWE star Kane, the horrifying brother of the Undertaker who wore a mask for much of his career. Now, as the mayor of Knox County in Tennessee, Jacobs doesn't seem as keen on masks.

Jacobs, 53, was the only member of the Knox County Board of Health to vote against a mask mandate for most people inside public buildings, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel. The board, which voted 7-1, features Jacobs, six medical professionals and a representative for Knox County Schools.

The mandate takes effect Friday and will lasts until the board rescinds it, per the report, which says new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have increased in recent days.

One of the board of health members, who has spent 15 years at the University of Tennessee Medical Center working as a pulmonary and critical care physician, says the mask mandate can help limit hospitalizations.

"Masks impact transmissions, so in three weeks cases have not spiked, so in six weeks hospitalizations have not been affected," Dr. James Shamiyeh told the paper. "There's a natural lag in any conversation that you have around COVID."

Jacobs first appeared as Kane in WWE (then known as the WWF) on Oct. 5, 1997. He still occasionally performs for the company.

(in case you wonder where he stands politically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_(wrestler)#Political_career )

[DGuller]

Speaking of incompetent, I've refreshed my numbers again, and even the good states are now looking poised to not be good.  New York and New Jersey both officially flattened out, much sooner than I thought they would, and poised to re-enter the growth area.  That means that infections right now are a steady trickle, and probably would be ramping up soon.  Pretty much all of the Midwestern already crossed the neutral line, and are now back into exponential growth. 

It used to be a couple of weeks ago that the southern states were bad but the northern states were on an improving trajectory, but now the bad states have become dire and the improving states have or are about to retrench.  This is pretty grim. 

Looks like somebody else did the same analysis I did: https://www.pix11.com/news/coronavirus/researches-say-nj-ny-no-longer-on-track-to-contain-virus.  I always like having my analyses validated, but this time I'd rather be wrong.

[Sheilbh]

It is young people now, but those young people all interact with older people.

Yeah - and it doesn't mean anything on its own. More positive tests for younger people could reflect higher testing (so it isn't just higher risk communities in hospitals/care homes etc), or maybe young people are being more careless, or maybe old people are taking more care. Or, most likely, all three together.

[alfred russel]

Don't worry. It's all media panic anyways.

Zoupa, sorry bud, but we are at an all time high in hospitalizations. That is reality.

[Eddie Teach]

Who could have seen that coming?

[Monoriu]

This is not working. 

[mongers]

Feels like the calm before the storm here, as we await the Johnson/Cummings freedom weekend and the probably carnage from a select group of English 'tourists'*.


* the ones we usually foist on Southern European counties this time of year.

[The Minsky Moment]

This is not working.

We have the best numbers.
They go with our best words.

[fromtia]

Dr.Osterholm has a youtube channel with frequent updates. It's rather dry, but super good quality information.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg

[Legbiter]

We've quarantined about 500 people here since we reopened and started screening all incoming travelers. Unfortunately some test negative on arrival, get sick a week later and in the meantime attend graduation parties and other gatherings requiring a considerable containment effort. General transmission does not seem to be happening though. We're going to require Icelandic residents to self-quarantine for a week at least and then retest them because it's amazing how an average social life quickly mounts to hundreds of people for just a handful of initial infections. The restrictions on mass gatherings and opening hours were supposed to be relaxed even more but they'll remain in place.

[Admiral Yi]

Night time curfew in effect in Dade County (Miami).