Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[Positive Touch]

vaccines will only be distributed to those who pledge their undying loyalty to herr trump

[Madrun Badrun]

https://coloradosun.com/2020/06/02/colorado-police-accountability-bill/

edit wrong thread, but separate threads other than the One Thread of Life is fake news

[team filler]

reopening the country going well so far 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Man, remember when Corona was still a thing? Wild times.

Remember the protests in front of federal buildings with ARs and were deal with swiftly and forcefully?

[Madrun Badrun]

I still can't find info on Canada's excessive deaths.  Quebec is finally going down.  Ontario cases are plateauing but hospitalization seems to be going down.  The martimes, which had contained it, keep getting imported cases. 

[shosta]

https://twitter.com/GermHunterMD/status/1268223634805452800

wat

[Madrun Badrun]

WHO acts in SOLIDARITY with TRUMP in bid to get money BACK after internal REVIEW of finances

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Without capitalizations this would be a Nintex post.

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[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/jc_bradbury/status/1268267437843234818

[toku]

https://twitter.com/CrypticNoOne/status/1268203052802113538

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/stephaniemlee/status/1268269861676781568

https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1268080646833860608

Reading more and more takes that the riots and protests are going to cause a 2nd wave.
No one seems to really focus on social distancing during these gatherings anymore, people hugging etc. .
Then there's the teargas which makes people cough and run into each other.
Plus the national guard and other troops moved over large distances.

This could spiral out of control   

[thisismyusername]

We're reopening to the public at the capacity that restaurants did/phase 1 on Friday.

We had a meeting today and essentially everyone agrees we really aren't built to be socially distant in the building designs. And "we can't enforce people to use masks if grocery stores don't." I'm not thrilled about this and feel like I should walk.

[Akala]

The lengths Vegas went to are fkn wild.

https://lasvegassun.com/photos/galleries/2020/jun/02/bellagio-safety-media-preview/#/0

[shosta]

I thought there was going to be one? Wait till the BLS releases its monthly report on the 5th and everyone's stomach drops out of their ass.

[team filler]

I want more bux 

[curly]

shit might really get crazy if they don't extend additional unemployment at end of july

[Madrun Badrun]

I wouldn't be surprised if congress is just quietly trying to figure out the timing to best suit the election and there will be another one but they are waiting to see how current events go. 

[Great Rumbler]

Safe to say there's not going to be a second stimulus, right?

brrrrr

[ToxicAdam]

Remember during the Arab Spring when the Saudis cut every citizen a big fat check and it quelled any dissent and we all mocked them for it?
 

[Positive Touch]

it still blows my mind that the assholes won and we're all supposed to go back to work just because

like i have chronic severe depression and even i value my life more than that jfc

[Tripon]

Mexico seems like a bad scene right now.

[shosta]

[Tripon]

WASHINGTON — Americans returning from China landed at U.S. airports by the thousands in early February, potential carriers of a deadly virus who had been diverted to a handful of cities for screening by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Their arrival prompted a frantic scramble by local and state officials to press the travelers to self-quarantine and to monitor whether anyone fell ill. It was one of the earliest tests of whether the public health system in the United States could contain the contagion.

But the effort was frustrated as the CDC’s decades-old notification system delivered information collected at the airports that was riddled with duplicative records, bad phone numbers and incomplete addresses. For weeks, officials tried to track passengers using lists sent by the CDC, scouring information about each flight in separate spreadsheets.

“It was insane,” said Dr. Sharon Balter, a director at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. When the system went offline in mid-February, briefly halting the flow of passenger data, local officials listened in disbelief on a conference call as the CDC responded to the possibility that infected travelers might slip away.

“Just let them go,” two of the health officials recall being told.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cdc-waited-entire-existence-moment-122722665.html

[thisismyusername]

I thought there was going to be one? Wait till the BLS releases its monthly report on the 5th and everyone's stomach drops out of their ass.

AFAIK, that's still the plan. But since then, they found out that most folks used it on TV's, clothes, etc. and now the GOP is like "why will we give them free money if they aren't using it on bills, essentials?" So who knows.

[Madrun Badrun]

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Mexico seems like a bad scene right now.

Where did you get that pic?

the highest daily death Mexico has is 501  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/mexico/

[Tripon]

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Mexico seems like a bad scene right now.

Where did you get that pic?

the highest daily death Mexico has is 501  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/mexico/

Says daily death for June 4th is 1000+

[Madrun Badrun]

lol I looked at yesterdays because I am not used to large numbers for north america at 10 am - im dumb - however with that being more than double the next highest day - isn't it more than likely its an admin catch up number

edit:  even still mexico's trajectory and new cases is bad. 

[CatsCatsCats]

Yeahhhh and ol bitch Mitch has gone on record saying he’s gonna fight extending the extra unemployment, too, which is gonna suck for yo boi

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1268570212191928320

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1268534139378184198

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-arizona-oregon-report-significant-coronavirus-spikes-after-reopening-economy-1508683

[Coffee Dog]

We keep breaking our covid records over here and all everyone wants to talk about is the riots.

[CatsCatsCats]

Including Oregon in that scared me a sec, and I still think I should be being cautious, but like the article says, we really comparatively don’t have as many cases


Posted from an Oregon bar where the bartender isn’t wearing a mask

[CatsCatsCats]

It’s okay, I’m sitting outside and drinking hard liquor

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/alexis_egeland/status/1268444816540459014
https://twitter.com/ejkomenda/status/1268449117228814336

[Positive Touch]

this country is going to be in a very bad place for a very long time 

[Madrun Badrun]

Ya, it will be normalized that grandma dies at 60 and young adults can end up in the hospital for a few weeks, and be bankrupted for it.   Pretty sure the last part is already normal. 

[CatsCatsCats]

Tasty: Oh good! It’s open! Borecon!

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/chicken__puppet/status/1268713460935692288

[Joe Molotov]

Tasty: Oh good! It’s open! Borecon!

Looks like bug chasing is back on the menu. 

[thisismyusername]

People being bored is ok. Going back to normal isn't. Everyone gets bored. The issue is that a lot of people can't seem to figure out ways to entertain themselves WITHOUT going to public places that are packed to the gills.

Humans are social creatures, yeah. But there's many different ways of keeping "business as usual" going without doing something like those Craps tables.

The issue is (like the meeting at work I had) enforcing building capacity limits and masks is damn near impossible.

[shosta]

Ngl I sat in the grocery store Starbucks for like an hour yesterday because it was someplace other than my house

[team filler]

main problem is a large part of the population doesn't care at all about wearing a mask even if they get sick. I still see people wearing masks, but most people aren't. mostly it's people working who are wearing masks, so they're just doing what the boss tells them to do and probably don't wear it at all after spending 8+ hours at work forced to wear it

[thisismyusername]

That's true. I hate wearing the masks because they really make it hard to breathe at times. But I still wear them when I head to the store/etc. It's dumb not to.

[thisismyusername]

BUT THINK OF THE ECONOMY THOUGH, TOILET!!!!!!!!!!

Healthcare Plz.

[Coffee Dog]

I drive to and from work and the only masks I've seen in about two weeks are lone mask wearers when there's a cluster of 5+ other maskless people waiting at the bus stop. Places like gas stations are entirely maskless. People look at me like I'm wearing a foil hat when I wear mine, even though we're one of the problematic areas.

[ToxicAdam]

I think the real issue is that no one is talking about contact tracing anymore. It’s like we’ve collectively, immediately decided that it is a bridge too far. When in reality it’s the probably the most important tool we need to implement if we have to ‘live with covid’.  A vaccine isn’t a sure thing.

[thisismyusername]

I think the real issue is that no one is talking about contact tracing anymore. It’s like we’ve collectively, immediately decided that it is a bridge too far. When in reality it’s the probably the most important tool we need to implement if we have to ‘live with covid’.  A vaccine isn’t a sure thing.

...It sort of is a bridge too far if you consider privacy invasion/etc. Snowden's talked about this, if you're interested in the complications with it and your privacy. Though that was back in the early parts of the outbreak.

I drive to and from work and the only masks I've seen in about two weeks are lone mask wearers when there's a cluster of 5+ other maskless people waiting at the bus stop. Places like gas stations are entirely maskless. People look at me like I'm wearing a foil hat when I wear mine, even though we're one of the problematic areas.

It's about 50% for around here. But I'd probably lean 40/60 masks/no-masks. I feel it's partially because it's IMPOSSIBLE to get any sort of mask (unless you make one yourself which may/may not be as effective) and "fuck the gubment, they can't tell me what to do  "stupidity.

I've seen parents with no masks going to/from stores with their kids in tow with no masks either and I'm like

But then there are others that fully mask up, so it's a total toss-up.

I would love to move out, but the government is doing nothing in regards to owed pay as it is, I can't imagine still living on my own...

At least you'd be able to move out, eventually. I can't even imagine that with my current job (ugh) or finding a new one (double ugh).

[brawndolicious]

Here in San Jose, I always see masks at stores because almost all of them have signs saying you can't enter without one.

The exception is parks, I went to a park once and I saw almost no one with a mask. Originally, the city flipped over all the picnic tables and put signs and caution tape on them saying that they are not to be used because of social distancing but I saw about half of them flipped over and occupied by white people. I'm not trying to be racist, but it's what you would expect...

I have no idea where people got masks from, I know some stores started giving them out to shoppers who didn't have one but I don't know if you needed to buy it or if it was free. Personally, I've had an N95 from a year ago during the wildfires that my work gave out and that's all I've been using for almost 4 months. I have a bunch of extras I got from my brother who works in a hospital though. How often are you supposed to switch them out or "bake" them?

[team filler]

I bought a pack of 50, but I've only gone through 3 so far. I keep the current mask on the dash and my car sits in the sun all day, figure that's good enough 

[thisismyusername]

at stores all of them have signs saying you can't enter without one.

The same around here, thing is: People go in with no masks anyway and what can the store do besides call the police to kick them out forcefully? They can't really do anything beyond "uh... could you not?"

[Coax]

Personally, I've had an N95 from a year ago during the wildfires that my work gave out and that's all I've been using for almost 4 months. I have a bunch of extras I got from my brother who works in a hospital though. How often are you supposed to switch them out or "bake" them?

Ordinarily in hospitals a clean disposable respirator would be donned between close contact with patients but there it has been determined who has the virus obviously, unlike in public where it's ambiguous so I suppose it'd be up to the user to decide. The study completed for the FDA on the effectiveness of UV-C decontamination found the process had no adverse effect on filtering performance after 20 cycles across well-known brands (ironically it was the straps that saw more degradation) but beyond that haven't read about max number of decontamination cycles, however for reusable respirator filters from 3M they've said one can last an entire pandemic wave (the filter is within the cartridge rather than exposed directly so the outer plastic surface can be decontaminated independently).

I've seen various DIY projects for disposable respirator UV-C decontamination. This box chamber using off-the-shelf hardware components seemed decent and addresses the issue of accidental light exposure.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/06/04/aquasha-moore-18-dies-of-covid-19-a-week-before-high-school-graduation/

[ToxicAdam]

The riots were your second stimulus. You're missing out.

[Cryo]

Here in San Jose, I always see masks at stores because almost all of them have signs saying you can't enter without one.

The exception is parks, I went to a park once and I saw almost no one with a mask. Originally, the city flipped over all the picnic tables and put signs and caution tape on them saying that they are not to be used because of social distancing but I saw about half of them flipped over and occupied by white people. I'm not trying to be racist, but it's what you would expect...

I have no idea where people got masks from, I know some stores started giving them out to shoppers who didn't have one but I don't know if you needed to buy it or if it was free. Personally, I've had an N95 from a year ago during the wildfires that my work gave out and that's all I've been using for almost 4 months. I have a bunch of extras I got from my brother who works in a hospital though. How often are you supposed to switch them out or "bake" them?

please let me know if you need masks, my friend who lives in SJ has been sewing them for friends&family. I currently have 3 that I hand wash between uses and alternate each day of the week I go out.

[Ghoul]

The riots were your second stimulus. You're missing out.

I’m almost 80. I can’t be out in the streets stealing shit. My knees can’t take it.

Care to explain this.

[Raist]

Biden can move mountains when there's little girls around.

[Ghoul]

ahh the hilldog routine. Classic.

[Tripon]

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[BisMarckie]

We've been on this mask thing for the better part of 3 months now and every time I go out, at least 50% of people still are wearing them wrong. So many people with their noses not cover, so many people that have the mask on but not even covering their mouth, wearing it on their foreheads or under their chins.

I started to call people out who are not wearing their mask right and/or are getting way too close to me.

Why the fuck do people want to stand so fucking close at the checkout anyway? It’s not going to be faster, that irked me before the Rona as well.


I became a Karen

[Pissy F Benny]

always seems to be old people who do it too