Days someone is infectious but doesn’t know it. We need to cut those way down. The point I made in the other thread is that a cheap test allows you to test more often and sensitivity goes way up when you can do that. And given today we are missing so many cases, lowering barriers to testing is really really good even if sensitivity is still only 90%.
I was curious if Dahlonega had a mask ordinance and came across this article from July 4th. The mayor touches on the problem with Brian Kemp's approach, but this conversation with a random guy really stood out to me as the perfect example of what's wrong with some of these people. He step-by-step explains his philosophy of not giving a shit about the health of older/vulnerable people without a single bit of self-awareness about it. https://www.thedahloneganugget.com/news/community-grapples-mask-management
This thought process is shared by a lot of GA residents. Its not just the deniers it's "we all just need to get it, get over it, and move on". I honestly think the latter is the larger more dangerous group.
all the people who were "Pro-Life" are now becoming "Pro-Death" 1,000,000+ dead Americans does not sit well with me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There’s no doubt a large group of people are ignoring masks and other policies because the pandemic itself is hard to wrap their heads around so they deny its real as some sort of defense mechanism. Spoiler just kidding. They’re fucking morons
This is a convo I had with a MD I work with. We've had 3 MDs test +, be symptomatic, and miss work. Also countless employees.
You're not alone. I do not want this shit either. Doing everything I can to get by until shit gets better. I don't know if people just repeat what they hear other people say or what. It's obviously some kind of coping mechanism where you create a friendlier reality that you are emotionally capable of reconciling.
was the natural evolution for the folks who downplayed it throughout, first it was man its not serious I can't imagine 500 (or 5000, or the mid-term worst case scenario 60,000) dying now it's just theres nothing we can do just get it and keep it moving, its all working from a framework of they want normalcy and they'll craft any narrative for themselves around that
I read the immunity lasts for three months. Looks at calendar, great just in time for winter cold and flu season
I think with some there's also the added baked in idea that the government shouldn't be proactive or you're some piece of shit if you accept money from the government that completely hamstrings any other possible safer solutions like everyone staying home and the government passing out checks.
These same people would be screaming their guts out though if a Democrat was president and a few thousand people died.
“Pro-life” people have never been for lives. They have always been anti-women’s choice. It’s a cliche but look at how they treat people once they are out the womb. Their stance isn’t really shocking.
I know a couple of folks that tested positive for it with a temperature that never got out of the 99s
Had prolonged contact with someone who now has a 99.7 fever with some digestive issues and fatigue. Guess I'm getting tested tomorrow and calling out of work until I get results
I think I saw something like only 40% have a fever, but I'm not sure if that's 40% of all people who get covid-19 or 40% of those with symptoms.
Would be? They were screaming early on about how Obummer let 12,000 die from H1N1...back when Covid was going to magically disappear. Oops.
Every piece of science and epidemiology in the world and he chooses a drug addict and a heart surgeon.
^ Article says it's the same one that we've known about. It's now the majority strain in the US (and other places too). From July 2 https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/06/29/coronavirus-mutation-science/?arc404=true Spoiler When the first coronavirus cases in Chicago appeared in January, they bore the same genetic signatures as a germ that emerged in China weeks before. But as Egon Ozer, an infectious-disease specialist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, examined the genetic structure of virus samples from local patients, he noticed something different. A change in the virus was appearing again and again. This mutation, associated with outbreaks in Europe and New York, eventually took over the city. By May, it was found in 95 percent of all the genomes Ozer sequenced. At a glance, the mutation seemed trivial. About 1,300 amino acids serve as building blocks for a protein on the surface of the virus. In the mutant virus, the genetic instructions for just one of those amino acids — number 614 — switched in the new variant from a “D” (shorthand for aspartic acid) to a “G” (short for glycine). But the location was significant, because the switch occurred in the part of the genome that codes for the all-important “spike protein” — the protruding structure that gives the coronavirus its crownlike profile and allows it to enter human cells the way a burglar picks a lock. And its ubiquity is undeniable. Of the approximately 50,000 genomes of the new virus that researchers worldwide have uploaded to a shared database, about 70 percent carry the mutation, officially designated D614G but known more familiarly to scientists as “G.”
My sister in law had some weird symptoms on Wednesday-Friday, digestive and then also fainted. No fever or respiratory issues though. We suggested she get tested, which she hasn’t done. Now she is being bitchy with my wife about me because I told my wife I didn’t want our 1-month old around her for 2-weeks or until she gets tested.
Stand your ground on that shit or it will never end. She sounds like the kind of person that would hide a bite in a zombie movie.
Sounds like my daughter’s symptoms. She had it in April. Digestive issues for a week, fainted once (which she had never done), and then ran fever for 21+ days. She needs to get tested.