Teacher I know took a teaching abroad program in Japan for 2 years rather than go back because she has a comorbidity.
I'm heading back to SC next week and the feeling of being panicked and overwhelmed is definitely coming back. It's made even worse by my distinct lack of hope that we can vote Trump, McConnell, and all of them out of office. Everything with the USPS and the Senate just washing their hands of attempting to figure something out then bailing on it to go campaign. It's all honestly so disheartening and depressing.
Reported daily tests trended downward for much of the last two weeks, essentially stalling the nation’s testing response. Some 733,000 people have been tested each day this month on average, down from nearly 750,000 in July, according to the COVID Tracking Project. The seven-day test average dropped to 709,000 on Monday, the lowest in nearly a month, before ticking upward again at week’s end. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/coronavirus-testing-decrease.html
SOURCE: TWITTER This "Do's and Don't's" List From the 1918 Pandemic Proves We've Learned Absolutely Nothing in 100 Years BY ROBIN ZLOTNICK UPDATED 3 DAYS AGO Almost exactly 100 years ago, the entire world faced a different pandemic: the Spanish Flu. The H1N1 virus spread throughout the world, and approximately 675,000 people in the U.S. died. Spoiler COVID-19 might be a different virus, but the spread of a deadly pandemic feels eerily similar for those who are aware of the Spanish Flu ordeal, which was thought to have reached American soil in 1918. Another positively uncanny fact is that people were having the same exact arguments way back then as they are now when it comes to wearing masks and social distancing. Just take a look at this list of "Do's and Don't's" for how to act during the pandemic of 1918. Number one: WEAR A MASK. Sure, some of them (like gargling) are a little strange, but the gist is the same then as it is now; Wear a mask, wash your hands, "respect the quarantine regulations," "avoid crowds," and one more reminder... "DO NOT NEGLECT YOUR MASK." But it's the highlighted section that really gets me and others. It's probably the reason this tweet has over 5,000 retweets and 10,000 likes. Even 100 years ago, we had to plead with each other to believe experts even if you don't understand the science, to heed the advice of scientists and other authorities on the matter, and to reject the idea that you are somehow "special" or exempt from these rules. American exceptionalism was seemingly as much an issue then as it is now. And that's so disheartening. We had 100 years to improve our behavior and learn our lesson; it's literally one of the reasons we all learn history in school — to prevent ourselves from repeating the same mistake. But alas, here we are: Begging people not to go to football stadiums or concerts while staring at pictures of people gathering in huge crowds back in 1918. Olga Jonas, a senior fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute, told The Harvard Gazette, "There have been many books and papers written about the 1918 flu pandemic, and one of the main themes is how quickly it was forgotten, how fast it disappeared from the political discourse. I guess the lesson is to never forget because forgetting doesn’t lead to positive public health outcomes." We can't let this pandemic go the way of the 1918 pandemic, which was largely unexamined in a lot of ways after it happened. Obviously, pandemics aren't so rare that we can't learn from the ones that have already happened. SOURCE: TWITTER There are a lot of similarities in the way the 1918 pandemic and COVID-19 have acted so far. But as Mari Webel and Megan Culler Freeman wrote for The Conversation, "COVID-19 has been hard to predict." Although we must learn from the 1918 pandemic, we can't assume that the trajectory of COVID-19 will follow the same trends. We have to remain vigilant even if it seems like things are getting better. We have to continue to wear masks and social distance and wash our hands because those things work. It's only when we become too lax about those safety measures that infection rates get out of control. Webel and Freeman write, "COVID-19 cases are unlikely to come with the predictability that discussions of influenza 'waves' in 1918-19 might suggest. Rather, as SARS-CoV-2 continues to circulate in nonimmune populations globally, physical distancing and mask-wearing will keep its spread in check and, ideally, keep infection and death rates steady." SOURCE: TWITTER We cannot control what the actual virus will do. But we can control how we react and how we treat each other. The actual pattern of the pandemic may differ from 100 years ago, but the things that we can do to mitigate the spread are the same. Wear a mask, wash your hands, social distance. And we seem to be making largely the same mistakes when it comes to how we, as individuals part of a larger society, responded. It's way past time to learn how to be a considerate and responsible citizen, how to live to protect others as much as yourself. We didn't do it 100 years ago, and we're not doing now. But we can still learn from our mistakes.
Just read that A 15-year-old boy in my county died of Coronavirus. There weren't a lot of details, but it said he didn't have any underlying health conditions.
This virus is so fuckin nuts. Meanwhile my 68yo dad with multiple comorbidities was barely sick, just like a basic cold for a couple days.
Honestly not trying to be thick or an asshole here but I thought it was pretty funny. Not making fun of the pandemic, but Making fun of the Russian vaccine, which I thought was pretty universally untrusted. Could someone explain to me why this is so awful? Again, not trying to be a smartass, just trying to understand what I'm missing.
Didn't even notice it was a Florida rep and honestly didn't even notice it was Rep, just read the tweet and thought it was pretty funny.
this a huge problem not just during Covid. I also read an article that stated ironically it lead a higher percentage of white people being addicted to pain medication.
he wasn’t trying to be funny. He is genuinely lying about that. He’s a qanon/covid truther working hard and suing multiple Florida counties to try and get mask bans revoked. Trying to become a Fox News/OAN personality.
UPDATE: OSU reports 23 positive COVID-19 cases from sorority Beau Simmons CNHI News Oklahoma Oklahoma State University is reporting 23 positive cases of COVID-19 among an OSU sorority. According to the university, officials learned Friday night of the cases at the Pi Beta Phi sorority house. Spoiler "Last night OSU officials learned of 23 positive COVID cases in an off-campus sorority house. The rapid antigen testing was performed at an off-campus health care facility. Due to the nature of this situation, the entire chapter house is in isolation or quarantine and will be prohibited from leaving the facility," a university press release reads. "One member of the sorority who lives elsewhere is among those who tested positive and will also remain in isolation. All involved are currently being monitored by OSU and Payne County Health Department and contact tracing is being conducted to further protect the campus community. The services of a third-party contractor have been enlisted to disinfect the facility and will do so again after the two-week isolation and quarantine period. The 23 new cases are unrelated to the 22 positive cases among the 3,049 test results from the on-campus intake reported Friday. OSU Vice President of Student Affairs Doug Hallenbeck told the News Press that all the Greek houses also had testing procedures during move-in, though the 23 new sorority cases came after the initial testing. “All the women that were going to be part of recruitment were tested prior, this was additional, unrelated to that,” he said. “They were all tested within seven days of moving in … They were in, somebody wasn’t feeling good, got tested and then everyone else got tested.” He said it will be important to remind the Greek houses to abide by their pandemic protocols. “Every house already has a plan in place. Protocols in place,” he said. “What this will do, is make sure we continue to emphasize the importance of being vigilant and continuing to work their plans and their protocols in place. Not sure what happened in this one, but it gives us that opportunity to say, you know, ‘wear your masks, social distance.’ In this case, I believe somebody got sick, went and got tested, so they did exactly what we wanted them to do. We were able to identify people that were positive and isolate them.” More test results could emerge in the coming days. Hallenback said as of Friday, 4,100 people had checked in to live on-campus and more are expected. They have around 5,100 total contracts for people to move in. It is also unclear when, if ever, these totals will be reflected in the case reports from the Oklahoma State Department of Health. Oklahoma State uses rapid antigen testing for the students. It has been reported by several outlets that the state does not include rapid antigen tests in its confirmed cases report unless that patient has also had a PCR test to confirm, which takes several days longer to get results. For now, the university is still planning on going about the business of beginning school next week, which can also include those sorority members who have tested positive, because they have an online option. To his knowledge the entire house is in quarantine. “We designed it so every class should have an online option for students,” he said. “In this case, those that are either sick or have been exposed and the Payne County Health Department says they need to quarantine, they’ll be able to start classes just like everybody else as long as they’re well enough. Right now, I don’t have reports that any of them are sick other than being positive, other than the one that wasn’t feeling well. They’ll still be able to go to class log in, and start the semester like everybody else.” Hallenback said the university expected to have students test positive, even groups of students. “We anticipated that we were going to have cases when folks come back. We anticipated that we would have groupings in some points, by the nature of the way students interact, really the way all of us interact, but we were prepared for it,” he said. "We had a plan in place, we’ve been working on it for five months and now it’s just working the plan. On the positive side, people were identified, now they’re being isolated so they can get well, get negative and resume. “All the actions that were taken were doing our best to protect our community and also to protect the Stillwater community.”
So I’m still in quarantine and won’t get my results til like 72 hours after the lab got them( got them about 3 hours ago) but local school is up to 3 cases in the admin/teachers. 24 teachers are quarantined and school is canceled all next week. So the reopening is going well here in central NE
All the local schools are requiring masks now. Very red part of Nebraska so I guess it’s kind of a positive?
college will be much worse than HS. The actual school part of HS is more concerning because you are in smaller spaces and have more interaction with people but the social aspects of college will be a massive breading ground for the virus. Sometimes I just can’t believe that we haven’t taken more steps to combat this before Opening schools and going back to normal in certain places. Then I remember who our leader is.
Wrong! College is a safe haven and it can’t spread between the students and certainly not to the athletes so we can have football.
Ducking idiots. https://www.nwahomepage.com/knwa/nwa-freedom-rally-protests-government-overreach-mask-mandates/
If you get it, you're contagious for ~10 days (CDC). So if you add up all of the cases x 10 days, we're missing the chance to identify 95% of those days (when we could have that person safely in isolation). We're not catching nearly as many infected ppl as we should, and those ppl are walking around infecting others. We're not testing enough.