Turning mask-wearing into a new front on the culture was a mind-bendingly stupid thing for anyone to try to do, but it's even stupider if your primary objective is helping Trump. https://t.co/CI2gypJ9pY
— David Watkins (@djw172) June 21, 2020
Two words: Donald Trump. https://t.co/VsoI3GkJuB
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) June 22, 2020
Despite growing availability of #SARSCoV2 tests & thus ⬆️ testing of less ill people, the confirmed case fatality rate remains >5% both in the US & globally: 1 out of every 20 ppl who has tested positive for the #coronavirus has died of #COVID19. Very sobering. #epitwitter pic.twitter.com/HPDTv4pfDr
— Tatiana Prowell, MD (@tmprowell) June 22, 2020
It took more than three months for the world to record one million COVID-19 infections – but the last million cases came in just eight days, the @WHO says. https://t.co/FZMauxDmIk
— The Age (@theage) June 22, 2020
Despite clear progress in containing the coronavirus in some regions — especially those that saw early outbreaks — globally, the number of new cases has soared in recent days. Hospitals are scrambling to cope in Brazil, Iraq, India and the United States. https://t.co/yUYpFThTRe
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 22, 2020
The @WHO DG @DrTedros this morning:
"It seems that almost every day we reach a new & grim record. Yesterday, >183,000 new cases of #COVID19 were reported – easily the most in a single day. More than 8.8 M cases have now been reported & >465,000 people have lost their lives." pic.twitter.com/CLoyE5xvBv— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 22, 2020
Saudi Arabia to hold ‘very limited’ Hajj amid coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/9qvaU2lHWv
— The Independent (@Independent) June 22, 2020
China reports 22 new coronavirus cases, 13 in Beijing https://t.co/l260PRQeK6 pic.twitter.com/94iEtLNVlW
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 23, 2020
How Asia's biggest slum contained the coronavirus https://t.co/TYNWoeUd4k
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 22, 2020
"People are still not taking it seriously": Many Pakistanis dismiss the danger of the pandemic and appeals to wear face masks even as virus cases surge and authorities insist they have to lift restrictions to prevent an economic collapse. By @kathygannon. https://t.co/h068vtMi2I
— AP Middle East (@APMiddleEast) June 22, 2020
Are Australia's coronavirus numbers at risk of increasing? https://t.co/s310gVQaIN
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 22, 2020
South Sudan was never going to be ready for COVID-19. Five years of civil war and corruption have stripped away much of its health system. As the number of cases grow, one doctor says the situation could spin "out of control at any time.” https://t.co/Wwu9KTbrdG
— AP Africa (@AP_Africa) June 22, 2020
Mexico's confirms 4,577 new coronavirus infections and 759 deaths https://t.co/bHAtLbeu8P pic.twitter.com/I3Wf4lSvBM
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 23, 2020
Tracking the pandemic: Some states have falling #coronavirus rates as others have begun to skyrocket. The contrast here between NY & AZ https://t.co/jlPLrmmNwK
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 23, 2020
The major thrust of new coronavirus cases in the US is in the South and West, where officials say more young people are ignoring social distancing and testing positive.
They're more likely to have milder outcomes, but can infect those at higher risk. https://t.co/cwqaBOAU4u
— CNN International (@cnni) June 22, 2020
Texas –
Texas Gov. Abbott warns COVID spreading at "an unacceptable rate" in sober press conference flanked by scary charts.
He says shutting Texas down is a last resort.
Hopes people & businesses will better comply with state guidelines and wear masks to help "keep Texas open."
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 22, 2020
That’s the precise dude, screwing over blue cities smart enough to know masks worked months ago by saying we couldn’t mandate them ??
— Brandy (@votecumby) June 22, 2020
If trends persist, Houston 'would become the worst affected city in the US,' expert says https://t.co/SL4hEqlH5j
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) June 22, 2020
Florida –
well it’s not like the state economy is built on tourism and old people I’m sure it’s fine https://t.co/c21NVKQZGe
— kilgore trout, a ramp with no steps (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 22, 2020
Average age for newly diagnosed covid cases in Florida is 37.
In March, it was 65.— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) June 22, 2020
Chernobyl-19 https://t.co/PXpcISUWwC
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) June 22, 2020
Alabama –
“If they don’t know it’s real, they can come and walk with me to the cemetery.” Alabama has seen a recent spike in coronavirus cases and public health officials say their efforts are complicated by people who don't practice social distancing or wear masks. https://t.co/ShTLJnbsMj
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 21, 2020
Space Rona. We had to tempt fate, didn't we? https://t.co/7uZMbTw2aU
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) June 22, 2020
The number of early US #COVID19 cases may have been >80 times greater & doubled nearly twice as fast as originally thought, Penn State researchers report. They say cases were probably undercounted due to testing issues & a failure to identify early cases https://t.co/QFol6XbwCE pic.twitter.com/uEEWLiajYQ
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 22, 2020
Scary:
New study: 60% of those with the asymptomatic virus have radiological evidence of lung damage.
— K. Sennholz MD (@MtnMD) June 18, 2020
— K. Sennholz MD (@MtnMD) June 18, 2020
How accurate are #coronavirus tests used in the US?
Months into the outbreak, no one really knows how well many of the screening tests work https://t.co/hsA6gq9p7N— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 22, 2020
Bravo to @carlzimmer & colleagues @nytimes for a very clear, constantly updated run-down on the leading contenders in the #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 vaccine effort, noting which are the "Warp Speed" leaders favored by the @WhiteHouse .https://t.co/TUKhM2WXIo
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 22, 2020
In the U.S. response to #Covid19, major public health voices in government have been mostly silenced. During a pandemic that is disproportionately affecting people of color, it's notable that among them are minority health experts. https://t.co/7OANsRuYAE
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) June 22, 2020
I don't think Schools of Public Health teach students how to survive this:
“Someone posted on social media that we had violated their civil liberties [&] named me by name,” Jones recalled. “They said, ‘Let’s post her address . . . Let’s start shooting.’ ”https://t.co/aI461WaDuk— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 23, 2020
Did Pence come up with this https://t.co/mF8dOmlw1m
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) June 22, 2020
Pretty clear this isn't some kind of off joke, but actually what he thinks and instructed. Which: WTF. The U.S. shut down the economy *for the sole purpose* of giving time to ramp up testing. Shutting the economy and then slow-rolling testing is INSANE https://t.co/MrrDA8NYj0
— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) June 22, 2020
mrmoshpotato
How is more than 1/4 of this number in the richest country in the world?! (Yes, I know.)
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily numbers. Three new cases, the lowest daily number since 28 February: one Malaysian and rwo non-Malaysians from local infection, no imported infections. Cumulative total 8,590 cases. But today’s Health Ministry tweet says, “Don’t get complacent about our responsibilities. Maintain social distancing.”
Nine more patients recovered and were discharged, total 8,186 recovered or 95.3% of all cases. There are 283 active cases left, all being isolated/treated in hospital. Three patients are in ICU and no one is on a ventilator. No new deaths for the ninth day in a row, total remains 121 deaths. Infection fatality rate is 1.41%, case fatality rate is 1.46%.
Amir Khalid
How many total personnel does US
Mighty Morphin’ Power RangersSpace Force have right now??BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: Soviet Shitpile Monster.
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: On your phone, eh?
Soviet shitpile mobster conman (“mobster manbaby” is also allowed)
Amir Khalid
Someone needs to ask him: “Mr President, do you actually believe that testing for Covid-19 causes cases?”
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: I count…..ummmm…… a massive waste of taxpayer money.
NotMax
Disturbing upward trends in South Africa. Total reported cases now over 100,000, ~4% of those reported just in the past 24 hours.
Also, FYI, a tiny study but noted.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: Sarah Cooper would have a field day with that answer! Ugh.
Amir Khalid
Eek! Durians in Germany!
opiejeanne
@mrmoshpotato: There are monsters who walk among us.
There’s a fabulous nursery with parklike grounds in Maltby Washington, and they have stayed open as an essential business. We have visited them several times in the last two months but noticed that despite all of their social distancing rules, the employees had all stopped wearing masks. An article printed in a local rag claims that two employees who quit recently said that in early June the owner had issued a memo that staff were no longer allowed to wear masks while working. The reasons cited were spurious, including the risk of spreading the virus if the mask is not handled correctly, and that wearing one for 8 hours increased the risk of this. He did have plexiglass installed around the checkout counters. The employees reporting on this quit because of this policy.
We were there yesterday and had a tough time avoiding people who were unmasked, and we paid and left after finding only half of what we went for. Cases in the state of Washington are rising again and most people were masked, but the unmasked ones do not keep their distance, and now this one escape from our cloistered life is becoming as traumatic as a trip to the grocery store.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: Stinky fruit in Pigfurt! Hoocoodanode!
mrmoshpotato
@opiejeanne: I could expand it to Soviet shitpile mobster monster conman.
ETA – Yes, such monstrous jerks because “Waaahhhh a face mask restricts my freedumb!”
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
Wikipedia says the current number is 16,000. It seems their main mission is managing military satellites. I thought USAF was doing that just fine.
NotMax
Took landlady to Kaiser for a quickly arranged semi-emergency doctor appointment (nothing life threatening, but testing required now and physical therapy follow-ups to come). Card table set up outside the front door for temperature checks and fast interrogations about pertinent virus/symptom questions.
Ran a couple of errands after dropping her off, got back there before she was done and while sitting inside in the A/C twiddling my thumbs, noticed a handful of employees going maskless.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: The kid visited here for Father’s Day and visited her sister and family down in the OC. She said the nobody was wear masks down there.
mrmoshpotato
USAF is doing that just fine as far as I know.
And, Gidney and Cloyd can be invisible and sneak up on you with their scrooch gun. (Not that they would, they were pretty nice to Moose and Squirrel. Ok. Cloyd wanted to scrooch them.)
opiejeanne
@NotMax: Oh, FFS! I’ve recently seen people reporting this at clinics and even some hospitals and I just don’t understand it. I mean, these are people who are supposed to understand the danger of going massless.
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: The Orange County? Is that like The Ohio State University?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: I’m planning on going to see Moose and Squirrel on Wednesday.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: No, more like the 5 to get to the OC.
mrmoshpotato
Heathens! Church every Sunday (over Zoom!)
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Ummm….what?
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Well, here in The Maui….
:)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Miami of Maui?
“Woo hoo! Miami!” “No. Miami of Ohio.” “:(“
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
If you go massless, you’re going at the speed of light. Y’know, like a photon.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: Ahhhhh, yes. That too!
ETA – Wait, infecting others at the speed of light? No no no, Do. Not. Want.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I miss my house and garden in Anaheim, but if we were still there I think we’d have gone nuts by now. The yard was bigger than most because it was the house at the end of a cut de sac, but not really big enough to keep us busy the way this place has. We really don’t go out, except for curbside pickup at Home Depot, and Costco to pick up prescriptions, but I usually use Instacart.
David has been reinforcing the greenhouse so it doesn’t fly apart in every windstorm, and I’ve sourced all sorts of things online that I never would have thought of buying that way before. We’re getting a new toaster sometime today.
Our older daughter has been bringing her puppy over and mowing our lawn with the riding mower once a week, and it’s been a great help to us both in the much-appreciated labor but also the distance visiting. Not to mention that the puppy is sooo stinking cute, and I’m not a dog person.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
“Long lines at the Vietnamese food booth at the county fair a good sign they’re selling a photon.”
:)
Uncle Cosmo
@NotMax: One of the factors that will keep us from establishing whether a vaccine is effective is how long its protection lasts. No one is going to be happy with something that requires half a dozen (or more) booster shots a year.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: They’re at Sunset and Crescent Heights.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: It was the first time we’d seen the kid since January. She sent us a text saying she hadn’t had any COVID patients for two weeks so she thought it was safe. It was nice to see her.
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I see. Make sure to wave to the UPS store (just because).
otmar
FWIW: masking requirements have been relaxed a lot here in Austria.
I only need them on public transport.
WereBear
The reports of lung damage in the asymptomatic cases is really chilling.
mrmoshpotato
@otmar: What about in stores?
Sab
@?BillinGlendaleCA: We wave at our 6 year old granddaughter over the fence next door. We’d like to be closer but her mother can be counted on to make bad choices, and if we die they are screwed financially.
Reading old stuff and historical fiction, our sense of safety is actually a historic aberration. ( I want to say “an historic” but in deference to the excitable Steve from WTF I won’t.)
I am an introvert, so mostly relieved to stay home. But I still have these little bursts of panic where I miss family contact. Grandchildren living in a bubble just doesn’t seem optimal.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Our youngest is finally being allowed to work from home, or on an empty floor of her company when she has to come in. She is an essential worker, shipping food and other supplies to Alaska and Hawaii, and right now bringing fish back from Alaska, but she thinks these changes will allow her to come and visit us in a couple of weeks.
NotMax
@opiejeanne
Tell her Hawaii sends her a hearty “Mahalo!”
Sab
@WereBear: “Recovered” coronus19 doesn’t meet my definition of recovered. They think “not dead”. I think “same as used to be.” Not much of that.
I quit my job because they were so casual about the pandemic. Twelve years with lovely people, but they can’t accept where we are. Makes me seem like a turd, but I am not willing to risk my family well-being because they watch too much Fox.
This has actually been quite wrenching. I like these guys.
opiejeanne
@Sab: I know those little bursts of panic. Despite the satisfaction I’ve found in playing in the dirt, I had a medium sized one on Monday about never being able to go out safely again. Living out our lives here on this one acre lot. A huge moment of doubt that we might not be able to elect Biden.
opiejeanne
@NotMax: I will.
I loved Maui, the one time we visited.
Amir Khalid
@Sab:
Besides, you only get to say “an historic [something]” if you customarily say it ” ‘istoric”, and no real person doea that.
Sab
@Amir Khalid: Steve’s eyes might cross from that. You polyglots are interesting people.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Not necessarily. It alights irritably on my ears to hear “It was a historic occasion.”
YMMV.
Sab
q
@NotMax: You are officially an Old Fart. The yout don’t do that anymore.
NotMax
@Sab
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the callowness of youth.
:)
Sab
@opiejeanne: Yeah. I have spent my last fifteen years worrying about juggling elderly parents with job. Free from job, and now lockdown. It sucks. I have no intention of arguing with science, but my last 10 years are not going as I planned. Of course, other peoples luves suck so much worse so I should stop whining.
Just don’t want to be counted in the happy camper column. I am grateful fo where my family is, but we are all still in edge. Lucky so far.
YY_Sima Qian
Beijing reported 13 new domestic confirmed, 2 suspect and 1 asymptomatic cases yesterday. The PepsiCo potato chip factory cluster added 4 cases. Another case is a food delivery man working for one of the two major online order platforms. Needless to say, this case has cause a bit of panic among some people, but previous cases involving delivery man has not been linked to superspreading events. Most interactions are too brief, and couriers are masked and gloves. All delivery man in Beijing are being tested. The cases with direct connections to Xinfadi exchange are dropping, but there are increasing number of new cases from small clusters seeded by the Xinfadi outbreak.
The good news is that only Beijing reported cases yesterday. There has not been significant clusters caused by cases exported from Beijing. Most of the urban area of the city remain open, even the neighborhoods deemed Medium Risk. Relatively few residential compounds and businesses are under actual lock down. Testing remains massive. In fact, most cities around China are now following Beijing’s lead in mass screening all personnel with high levels of human interactions: medical workers, service staff, vendors at markets, delivery persons, teachers, etc., trying to head off new potential outbreaks.
opiejeanne
@Sab: I understand and agree. We have it good compared to most other people: retired with a decent pension, and two adult daughters not far away who will drop everything to help us if need be (we have not abused that, and we are paying the one mowing the lawn because we appreciate the help so much). We see the terrible situation so many find themselves in without being sick and know we are damned lucky.
Still, the depression and panic of possibly 30* more years of this does set in despite our efforts to keep busy and not succumb. I woke up in the wee hours because I was clawing at the back of my right hand with my left, fixed that, and couldn’t sleep.
*I’m 70, he’s 73, both pretty healthy and from very long-lived families.
Soprano2
I’d been wondering when this was going to happen – MO reported a huge uptick in cases because of two poultry plants in McDonald County. They reported 434 new cases this weekend! https://www.ky3.com/content/news/McDonald-County-COVID-19-cases-nearly-double-health-dept-reports-196-new-cases-Sunday-571408861.html Now I hear the Joplin city council is going to decide to either roll back some of their reopening or require mask wearing. The news story I heard acknowledged that even if the outbreak starts in the poultry processing plant, it doesn’t stay there. We used to have a huge Tyson turkey processing plant in the downtown area here in Springfield, but it closed up over 10 years ago, so as far as I know there is no plant like that close to here.
terben
From the Australian Dept of Health:
‘As at 3:00pm on 23 June 2020, a total of 7,492 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 102 deaths and 6,915 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.
There was a net increase of 18 new cases today (+20/-2), The outbreak in Victoria continues. On the bright side, the last death is Australia was 32 days ago.
In my state, restrictions will be eased to allow more patrons in restaurants and sporting venues.
rikyrah
@WereBear:
it really is. There is no good news with this disease.
rikyrah
The age has lowered for those in Florida…
BECAUSE THE SENIORS ARE INSIDE??
sherparick
@mrmoshpotato: United States, Brazil, India, and Iraq at the top of the charts!. Russia probably should be there but Putin is busy throwing people out of windows who will release the real statistics. All currently with Governments headed by male douche bags, Iraq excepted. I expect Iraq is on this list in part because of the consequence of the 17 years of war, foreign and civil, that is monument to the Bush/Cheney Administration.
I really, really hate Trump, Republicans, and the Republican Donor Class who make them possible.
Calouste
@sherparick: Don’t forget to include the UK in the list of countries headed by male douchebags with high coronavirus infection rates.
Calouste
Novak Djokovic, top tennis player and dimwit, organized a 5 event tennis competition on the Balkans. It got called off during the second event because 4 out of the 8 players involved have so far tested positive for coronavirus, as well as some of their wives or partners, and heck knows how many other people.
WaterGirl
@WereBear: I agree. It would be nice to know if what they are calling lung damage will repair itself over time or whether it is permanent damage.
So much bad information out there, and information that only tells part of the story. It would be nice if they would clarify things like that, even if it’s only to say (worst case) that we don’t know yet whether the damage is permanent or more temporary.
WaterGirl
@Sab:
No, it does not.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah:
That is exactly what I think every time I see the median age going down.
WaterGirl
@Calouste: The phrase used to be “payback is a bitch”. Turns out, reality is a bitch, also.
Plus, more stubborn than any human!
J R in WV
@opiejeanne:
Sometimes in my sleep I get my head cocked to one side or the other, and that can cause my hand(s) to throb with a painful numbness.
So then the other night I dreamed my hand was sliced open by a welding/cutting laser beam on a really strange SF factory floor, weird blood was NOT red.
So relieved when I woke up and it was same old same old numb throbbing hand~!!~
Stress is bad for all of us, and we all have too much stress right now!
joel hanes
@Amir Khalid:
if you customarily say it ” ‘istoric”, and no real person does that.
Fascinated to discover that I must be a virtual person.
I had no idea.