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Sure, like I said, maybe it varies by locale. In my (admittedly limited) experience, right now it's split pretty clearly along political lines rather than socioeconomic, but I can only really speak to my circles and local social media feeds.
I recall that one, though it's brought up far less often than some other ones -- the Boston-conference super-spreader, the Guangzhou restaurant one with the fan/window AC (brought up earlier today in this thread), the church choir in Washington state, the apartment-building-plumbing case in Hong Kong (almost certainly misinterpreted, no corroboration), etc.
Why invoke them? Yes, people protesting in tight groups without face coverings weren't thinking of the health and safety of others. But what does have to do with anything? It's not some winning "gotcha!" to bring up "the protestors", "the protestors", "the protestors", over and over.
Yeah I've been watching the site that someone linked a few days ago. Florida ICU beds are currently at 1,659. Holding steady since I've started watching, which is good. But based on what we've seen from their numbers in the last week, I'd expect those numbers to change.
I was not a fan of what the protestors did either, from a health perspective. I posted that many times.
Yeah 7 day averages are a good stat to watch. AZ’s numbers are looking horrible because they didn’t dip significantly on Sunday/Monday.
While mask usage around here hasn't been what I would consider ideal (95+%) ... more often than not when you go shop somewhere local lately, at least 3/4 are wearing face coverings. So, when you walk into place bare-faced and see 75-80% face-covering compliance or better, what goes through your head as walk in? "Buncha stupid, scared sheep?" "I'm young and healthy, not going to affect me!" "I never heard about wearing masks?!?"
I suppose misinformed is a possibility. There definitely isn't a clear message on masks.
I looked into AZ since they seem to be brought up a lot. Using their site, it looks like cases have been in line with the amount of tests but hospitalizations and deaths have been dropping over the past 2 weeks especially in the last week. Currently at 82% capacity
Her family later revealed her name when they started a GoFundMe campaign to help defray uncovered medical costs (further reading courtesy of PBS channel WTTW in Chicago).
I consider myself fairly "on the fence" with all of this... mainly due to where I live and the anecdotal evidence I have collected over these past few months.... but there's no way I'd let my kid go to Florida for 4 days, especially with kids from "all over".
on the flip side, there are FL parents worried about their kid spending time with kids from NJ.
And China says the virus came from salmon. I have been eating salmon every single week this year.
Yeah if we alter we might drive.
After flattening and finally going down, hospitalizations have increased over the past few days at Miami's 2,000 bed public health system. Now up to 137 Covid-19 positive in-patients. It was flat around 100 patients for about a week; the increase started 3 days ago: 114, 120, 129, 137.
Number of cases and infection rate both going up....personally? I wouldn't do it. Of course, it's been this way from the beginning...we haven't hit a peak yet...still in the process of seeing what the size of wave 1 is going to be.
216 total positive cases, 8978 tested, 2.4% positive. Looks ok.
Florida is trending much worse than NJ now but NJ has huge lead in deaths/million and cases/million.
We don't....best we can tell, they stop you at the border, make you fill out a form of some sort and you then go on your way.
Well we are staying with family but yeah that's the problem. How can we go but quarantine when it's only for a week
Right....actions speak louder than words. Our local news has been trying to find anyone who the state has followed up with after passing a checkpoint. So far, they've found no one....none of the people they've tracked down have ever been contacted by our state officials again after that initial encounter.
I don’t think I’ve shaken someone’s hand since this app started. I do recall one fist bump.
I met up with a buddy and his co-worker who were in town from Seattle on Thursday. The initial "hey how you doin?" thing was awkward but they both felt comfortable shaking hands with me and I even got a little bro-hug from my buddy when we parted ways.
