The River Church in Tampa was packed to the gills with worshipers who clearly were looking for hope. Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, who presides over the megachurch and has been reportedly defiant over social distancing, has claimed he'll cure coronavirus just the way he did with Zika. He has vowed he will never close his church ... despite every doctor and scientist saying social distancing is the only thing that will prevent the disease from spreading even more. The Pastor boasted his place was white-glove clean, saying, “We brought in 13 machines that basically kill every virus in the place, and uh, if somebody walks through the door it’s like, it kills everything on them. If they sneeze, it shoots it down at like 100 mph. It'll neutralize it in split seconds. We have the most sterile building in, I don’t know, all of America.”
Trumper coworker and I went and picked up lunch the other day. He had the local "conservative" talk radio station on, and one of the commercials was for a company who, "guaranteed to clean your air ducts and used a formula that killed even the Coronavirus"
This is 20 min from my house. I pass this cult on my way to work. I really hope the mayor and county leadership get shamed. That’s the only way they respond.
Think that's a large reason it's so bad in Detroit too. Governor specifically excluded churches from her ban on large groups, I'm sure that is part of its spread
if you want to leave a good review on Yelp or Google or something right now, that's a great idea. But fuck people who are leaving bad reviews for places that are being forced to operate in totally new manners with many simply trying to stay afloat and feed people during a global pandemic
What the magachurch preacher says: "Come to church so the devil doesn't win." What the magachurch preacher means: "Come to church so the offering plates will be filled." What the magachurch preacher truly means: "Come to church so the devil gets a new Bentley."
this link from Friday had some good quotes from UCSF folks and an expert from Harvard (as if Harvard has non-experts on staff, lol) talking about how the steps the Bay Area and SF in particular took seem to really be helping keep the hospital system from being overwhelmed. Also has some stats on positive cases and # of intensive care cases in particular hospitals really sucks states and cities were left to fend for themselves and as a result people were left to hope they just had competent local leadership in place https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/san...t-yet-overwhelmed-with-coronavirus-cases.html
When I worked for the FDA China was notorious for this practice. They had built entire cities that had very little population yet. Brand spanking new factories were in them. To get approval to ship certain products to the USA foreign manufacturers had to first pass an inspection. Many Chinese manufacturers would take the inspector to one of the new factories. The factory would be approved and the company would be allowed to export. After the inspector left they would close the new factory and manufacture the product in a shit hole that would never pass inspection.
https://www.covid19-archive.com/?repost Interesting conglomerate of articles on corona by date to go back and see what people were saying when
this is different in the states. Cardinal health didn’t get the SICR from the company that actually manufactures them. Since this was a breach in their procedure, they can’t use the gowns until the SICR is approved and the Quality teams on both sides go through the process to test (whether it’s for sterility, material, etc) for the updated factory’s goods.
very likely. Our death totals are still likely lower than reality because of lack of testing in certain areas. We also don’t have enough people actually distancing.
My step mom works for the EPA, but she has a masters in public health. They have made her an essential employee & she is spending 95% of her time working with FEMA & with state health dept scrounging for PPE's/masks. She said she is working 7 days a week which sucks bc she is a salaried employee, but she is the only one working from the office. She also said she feels like she is doing more good now bc Trump dgaf about environmental protections. lol
Well good news is this weekend it has been absolutely dead here in the store and the pharmacy so people are actually staying home. Tomorrow will be absolute hell though.
A friend of mine has a 103.7 temperature and difficulty breathing and he says the hospital won't give him a test unless he hits 104 as they are over capacity.