Corona Thread |OT| Please scream inside your heart

[Oblivion]

okay, in addition to reading the passage shosta quoted, i went and read The Plague itself, and i don't see how exactly it applies to the current situation (minus the fact that both deal with a pandemic).

[shosta]

okay, in addition to reading the passage shosta quoted, i went and read The Plague itself, and i don't see how exactly it applies to the current situation (minus the fact that both deal with a pandemic).

You read 320 pages in two hours?

I was mostly just quoting something I thought other people might appreciate since this is also a thread for musing about life under 'rona.

[Oblivion]

okay, in addition to reading the passage shosta quoted, i went and read The Plague itself, and i don't see how exactly it applies to the current situation (minus the fact that both deal with a pandemic).

You read 320 pages in two hours?

no, i read the wiki page, OF COURSE 

[Nintex]

I can't read french

sacre bleu!

[Oblivion]

two more of my cousins got covid (one of them is a doctor) 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Both kids tested negative yay

Time to go on some small trip and salvage the summer

[BIONIC]

Caa caa poo poo

[bork]

My wife got a long text message from her boss asking her to come into the office and work because "some people think it's unfair that she is the only one who gets to work at home."  So he's getting shit from a couple of people who are jealous that a pregnant woman, in her third trimester, is working from home.  The CDC has put pregnant women on the high-risk list, so my response when this was brought up was, as it has been for months now, "FUCK 'EM."  If they won't let her work from home any longer, they can fire her.  She's not going in, period.  I don't see her returning back to work in general after we have this kid anyway, because fuck day care during this crisis.

Your wife isn't on maternity leave yet?

Should start sometime in the middle to end of next month.

Her boss responded that she can work until the end of next week, then she'll get some kind of leave, if not the start of the maternity leave, early.  Good.

Beyond being human garbage asking a pregnant woman to come in he is also a loser that hides behind his worker opinions on this matter, or at least pretends to which is also weak. Can't even act like a boss, zero authority.

I'm not going to give him any shit-  he has been letting her work at home despite his bosses saying nobody is allowed to do this.  It's an open secret of sorts there that this is going on.  Others were also working remotely before, but now it's just my wife.  So the guy actually could get into trouble if someone were to report him. 

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/CBSLA/status/1282882046738812928


and here i thought OC learned its lesson after the midterms

[Clockwork5]

https://mobile.twitter.com/tomaskenn/status/1282789040996130816

DeSantis getting a little dose of the truth.

[T-Short]

https://twitter.com/CBSLA/status/1282882046738812928


and here i thought OC learned its lesson after the midterms

This line made me go 'wow'

https://twitter.com/johnmyers/status/1282896862421192705

[Nintex]

As of today we have 3 patients in the ICU,
94 patients hospitalized (but not in the ICU)

534 new cases this week, about 100 more than last week.

[T-Short]

175 new cases reported here today, just bringing us over 76k total.
9 deaths reported, bringing the total to 5545.
79 ICU patients, still trending downwards, albeit more slowly now.

[Great Rumbler]

Three teachers in Arizona were sharing a classroom for two hours a day teaching online classes during the pandemic.

Despite following protocols -- social distancing, wearing masks and gloves, and using hand sanitizer -- they were all sickened by the coronavirus.

Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd, 61, died June 26, less than two weeks after she was hospitalized. She had worked for the Hayden Winkelman School District for 38 years.

But it's totally fine to open schools with no safety measures.

[VomKriege]

Three teachers in Arizona were sharing a classroom for two hours a day teaching online classes during the pandemic.

Despite following protocols -- social distancing, wearing masks and gloves, and using hand sanitizer -- they were all sickened by the coronavirus.

Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd, 61, died June 26, less than two weeks after she was hospitalized. She had worked for the Hayden Winkelman School District for 38 years.

But it's totally fine to open schools with no safety measures.

Courage and persistence role models.

[Flannel Boy]

"We have to open up schools! Other countries have opened up schools!"

"Other countries don't have 1.2% of the population currently infected."

"We have top open up schools!"

[Flannel Boy]

Florida: 9,194 new COVID-19 cases and a record 132 deaths (which I assume is not the real number).

[Joe Molotov]

Three teachers in Arizona were sharing a classroom for two hours a day teaching online classes during the pandemic.

Despite following protocols -- social distancing, wearing masks and gloves, and using hand sanitizer -- they were all sickened by the coronavirus.

Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd, 61, died June 26, less than two weeks after she was hospitalized. She had worked for the Hayden Winkelman School District for 38 years.

But it's totally fine to open schools with no safety measures.

Have to wonder how strict these people actually were.  No offense to them, but claiming they followed protocols is not something I just believe outright.   And I don't mean like, purposefully ignored them, but part of the problem with returning to work is for ~8 hours in a day it's really incredibly easy to slip up.

They were probably banging.

[tiesto]

Been having some chest pains, a bit flemmy, and some very slight shortness of breath... mostly when I'm laying down. While we're no longer a hotspot and people are all taking precautions, I am a bit of a hypochondriac so I made an appointment to get tested tonight.

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/tmprowell/status/1283055557461540867

[Great Rumbler]

Three teachers in Arizona were sharing a classroom for two hours a day teaching online classes during the pandemic.

Despite following protocols -- social distancing, wearing masks and gloves, and using hand sanitizer -- they were all sickened by the coronavirus.

Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd, 61, died June 26, less than two weeks after she was hospitalized. She had worked for the Hayden Winkelman School District for 38 years.

But it's totally fine to open schools with no safety measures.

Have to wonder how strict these people actually were.  No offense to them, but claiming they followed protocols is not something I just believe outright.   And I don't mean like, purposefully ignored them, but part of the problem with returning to work is for ~8 hours in a day it's really incredibly easy to slip up.

I mean, sure, there probably were some unconscious lapses, but that just shows how hard it is to follow safety measures when there actually are safety measures in place and with people willing to follow them.

[Positive Touch]

and correct me if i'm wrong but i thought it's been stressed that being indoors is particularly dangerous because poor ventilation and air conditioning do a lot to spread the virus around

[VomKriege]

France is moving towards mandatory masks in enclosed public spaces. That was, on average, the norm but it's always a toss up (some supermarkets are pretty lax with it...).

[team filler]

Can you expand on this?

These vague notions that we're losing our humanity is getting boring.

Not trying to resurrect this fight again but I finally have a good answer for you. From Camus' The Plague:


Did our fellow-citizens, at least those who suffered the most from this separation, ever get used to the situation? It would not be quite correct to say that they did. Rather, they suffered a kind of spiritual and physical emaciation. At the start of the plague they remembered the person whom they had lost very well and they were sorry to be without them. But though they could clearly recall the face and the laugh of the loved one, and this or that day when, after the event, they realized they had been happy, they found it very hard to imagine what the other person might be doing at the moment when they recalled her or him, in places which were now so far away. In short, at that time they had memory but not enough imagination. At the second stage of the plague the memory also went. Not that they had forgotten the face, but (which comes to the same thing) it had lost its flesh and they could only see it inside themselves. And while in the early weeks they tended to complain at only having shadows to deal with where their loves were concerned, they realized later that these shadows could become still more fleshless, losing even the details of colour that memory kept of them. After this long period of separation, they could no longer imagine the intimacy that they had shared nor how a being had lived beside them, on whom at any moment they could place their hands.

From this point of view, they had entered into the very system of the plague which was all the more efficient for being mediocre. No one among us experienced any great feelings any more, but everyone had banal feelings. 'It's time it ended,' they said, because, in a period of pestilence, it is normal to wish for the end of collective suffering and because they really did want it to end. But the words were spoken without the anger or bitterness of the early days, and only with the few arguments that still remained clear to us, which were feeble ones. The great, fierce surge of feeling of the first weeks had given way to a dejection that it would be wrong to confuse with resignation, but which was despite that a kind of provisional assent.

The townspeople had adapted, they had come to heel, as people say, because that was all they could do. Naturally, they still had an attitude of misfortune and suffering, but they did not feel its sting. Dr Rieux, for one, considered that the misfortune lay precisely in this, and that the habit of despair was worse than despair itself. Previously, those separated had not really been unhappy, their suffering had a brightness that had just gone out. Now one could see them on the corner of the street, in cafes or with their friends, placid, their minds wandering and their eyes so bored that, thanks to them, the whole town seemed like a waiting-room. Those who had jobs did them at the pace of the plague, meticulously and prosaically. Everyone was simple and unpretentious. For the first time, those separated did not mind speaking about their absent ones, adopting the language of all and studying their separation just as they would study the statistics of the epidemic. While up to this point they had fiercely subtracted their suffering from the sum of collective misfortune, now they accepted it as part of the whole. Without memory and without hope, they settled into the present. In truth, everything became present for them. The truth must be told: the plague had taken away from all of them the power of love or even of friendship, for love demands some future, and for us there was only the here and now.

[Stro]

Three teachers in Arizona were sharing a classroom for two hours a day teaching online classes during the pandemic.

Despite following protocols -- social distancing, wearing masks and gloves, and using hand sanitizer -- they were all sickened by the coronavirus.

Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd, 61, died June 26, less than two weeks after she was hospitalized. She had worked for the Hayden Winkelman School District for 38 years.

But it's totally fine to open schools with no safety measures.

This specific example actually got brought up to Trump and he literally hand waved it and continued to go on about schools having to reopen.

[Madrun Badrun]

Email from uni

Now that our divisions have posted their course offerings for the fall, we have a clearer idea of ‘what September will look like’. While the situation will, of necessity, vary from one division or campus to another, and may continue to evolve, the aggregate picture is consistent with our earlier commitment to offer a rich mix of learning opportunities and formats, combining online and in-person modes of delivery.

More than 90 per cent of our undergraduate course offerings will feature online (synchronous or asynchronous) delivery. At the same time, many of these same courses will offer a significant in-person element – either through ‘dual delivery’ mode (in which students have the option of enrolling online or in-person), or through in-person courses, labs, tutorials or experiential learning placements. At this stage we can report that, overall, at least one-third of our undergraduate courses will have an in-person component. In some divisions, more than half of course offerings will include an in-person option.

We anticipate that a higher proportion of our graduate courses will be offered in person, owing to their generally smaller size, but aggregate information on this activity is still being collected.

Seems pretty good.

[bork]

Someone at my wife's job just got sent home for having COVID-like symptoms.  Not confirmed if they have it, but it's just funny that this happens the day after that stuff with her boss trying to get her to come in.

[BisMarckie]

How much did you pay that guy to allow your wife to continue slacking off? 

[BIONIC]

How much did you pay that guy to allow your wife to continue slacking off? 

About a dozen little girl anime figures.

[Madrun Badrun]

[Flannel Boy]

Oklahoma record 993 new cases
Nevada record 1,104 new cases

[james]

My lease ends August 31 and I dont know what to do.

Anyone looked into the Barbados thing?

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/anyaparampil/status/1282035662154334208




 

[Raist]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53407715

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCn800cFIbe/?utm_source=ig_embed

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/CBSLA/status/1283123703656509440

Santa Ana Unified as recently as of last week was talking about doing a hybrid model (1 day on, 1 day off, or 2 days on, 2 days off, etc.)

[Dickie Dee]

https://twitter.com/DrDenaGrayson/status/1283139454178385929

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1283102954766180352

 

[Joe Molotov]

What does that mean?

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1283147688763166721

The first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday -- as the shots are poised to begin key final testing.

“No matter how you slice this, this is good news,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, told The Associated Press.

The experimental vaccine, developed by Fauci’s colleagues at the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., will start its most important step around July 27: A 30,000-person study to prove if the shots really are strong enough to protect against the coronavirus.

But Tuesday, researchers reported anxiously awaited findings from the first 45 volunteers who rolled up their sleeves back in March. Sure enough, the vaccine provided a hoped-for immune boost.

Those early volunteers developed what are called neutralizing antibodies in their bloodstream -- molecules key to blocking infection -- at levels comparable to those found in people who survived COVID-19, the research team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

“This is an essential building block that is needed to move forward with the trials that could actually determine whether the vaccine does protect against infection,” said Dr. Lisa Jackson of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle, who led the study.

There’s no guarantee but the government hopes to have results around the end of the year -- record-setting speed for developing a vaccine.

The vaccine requires two doses, a month apart.

There were no serious side effects. But more than half the study participants reported flu-like reactions to the shots that aren’t uncommon with other vaccines -- fatigue, headache, chills, fever and pain at the injection site. For three participants given the highest dose, those reactions were more severe; that dose isn’t being pursued.

Some of those reactions are similar to coronavirus symptoms but they’re temporary, lasting about a day and occur right after vaccination, researchers noted.

“Small price to pay for protection against COVID,” said Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a vaccine expert who wasn’t involved with the study.

He called the early results “a good first step,” and is optimistic that final testing could deliver answers about whether it’s really safe and effective by the beginning of next year.

Hopefully, this shit actually works.

[OnlyRegret]

What does that mean?

time to put rufus on ignore and hope for the best

[james]

Wow a boosted immune system, what a wonderful discovery.

Almost as good as drinking a cup of orange juice you fucking imbeciles

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/LACovid19Bot/status/1283170739194146818

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https://twitter.com/LauraMNewberry/status/1283075419260907521

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/sarahnferris/status/1283083908062621697

[G The Resurrected]

Not DDP!!!

[CatsCatsCats]

One of my work’s facilities in Ohio is closed for two weeks after an employee tested positive. Our facility in California has an employee who is quarantined because of contact tracing. Ughhhhhhhh

[Tripon]

Work at a charter school. Just got the email we're following LAUSD going full online and resasses after the school year starts.

[Stro]

[shosta]

 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/chadgoesdeep/status/1283093315441750021
https://twitter.com/chadgoesdeep/status/1283094171553677312
https://twitter.com/chadgoesdeep/status/1283094605508997120

[G The Resurrected]

or you can watch the whole thing

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/chadgoesdeep/status/1283093315441750021
https://twitter.com/chadgoesdeep/status/1283094171553677312
https://twitter.com/chadgoesdeep/status/1283094605508997120

haha, these guys rule

[Oblivion]

are you fucking kidding me? this is a little too on the nose:

https://twitter.com/yoruguaenusa/status/1283139200208994307

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/KenJennings/status/1282796754983772161

[Tripon]

https://www.kvue.com/mobile/article/news/education/schools/texas-schools-fall-2020-online-learning-extended-abbott/269-4ce4c479-a43b-45ee-a016-61b140f4ef0e

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Texas will give school districts more flexibility to keep their school buildings closed to in-person instruction this fall as coronavirus cases continue to rise, Gov. Greg Abbott told a Houston television station Tuesday.

Public health guidance released last week indicated that school districts had to stay virtual for up to three weeks after their start dates, so they could get their safety protocols ironed out before bringing more students to campus. If they stayed closed longer than that, they would lose state funding.

Abbott on Tuesday said that time would be extended. His comment comes on the heels of a tumultuous week, after state education officials released guidance last Tuesday requiring districts to offer in-person instruction for five days a week to all parents who want it.

Reality says it isn't safe to open schools with explosive community spread. Looks like Florida will be our test case to what happens when you open school everyday.

[BIONIC]

FACT CHECK:
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1283140827427090434

Big vibes from that thumbnail (and video).

[T-Short]

Interesting graph from the FT stats page:



 

[Stro]

Shout out to Israel having negative deaths

[BIONIC]

Shout out to Israel having negative deaths

[T-Short]

Here's a graph of some countries that are trending upwards again after initial mitigation:

Covid Trends: Australia, Greece, Israel, Portugal, Romania, Ukraine

I didn't include the US because it makes the other lines invisible if I do, but feel free to scroll down on the right and add it if you want 

[ToxicAdam]

Shout out to Israel having negative deaths

They built a religion around the last guy from that area that returned from the dead.