Coronavirus Thread

[Phainein7]

There are those that in the midst of this who were throwing corona parties ,

How about Santa Ana’s annual “cruising” season?

Orange County Register: California

500 cars scatter from street takeover at Costa Mesa, Santa Ana border

An estimated 500 vehicles scattered from police who disrupted a street
takeover that blocked traffic near the Costa Mesa-Santa Ana border
Tuesday night, May 5.

Other drivers began reporting loudly revving motors, vehicles racing
up and down the street, and a large crowd of observers at Sunflower
Avenue and Sakioka Drive just before 8 p.m., Costa Mesa Police Lt.
Stephanie Selinske said.

Commuters were trapped in standstill traffic until authorities quickly
dispersed the gathering.

[bronco]

There are those that in the midst of this who were throwing corona parties ,

How about Santa Ana’s annual “cruising” season?

Orange County Register: California

500 cars scatter from street takeover at Costa Mesa, Santa Ana border

An estimated 500 vehicles scattered from police who disrupted a street
takeover that blocked traffic near the Costa Mesa-Santa Ana border
Tuesday night, May 5.

Other drivers began reporting loudly revving motors, vehicles racing
up and down the street, and a large crowd of observers at Sunflower
Avenue and Sakioka Drive just before 8 p.m., Costa Mesa Police Lt.
Stephanie Selinske said.

Commuters were trapped in standstill traffic until authorities quickly
dispersed the gathering.

In a supposedly free country you are going to get that. Its annoying but I'm ok with it.
We have been locked down for a month and I have seen some odd behavior myself. I had to go to Home Depot the other day. No one allowed in without a mask , limit to the number of customers inside , 6 foot marks on the floor etc.

Wait in line try to exit , 2 or 3 maskless employees standing chatting basically across the exit. Whats the operating theory behind this?

I was annoyed but after I thought they were probably just pissed off and being passive aggressive?

At a dollar store a masked cashier removed his mask to chat with customers ?


Maybe lets just all get it so we can move on is what some are probably thinking.

My cousin got tested Tuesday morning , he heard the test was miserable with a q-tip rubbing your frontal lobes but after he said it was no big deal. So far he hasn't heard the results. He has 2 teenage daughters that live with him, do they automatically get tested if he is positive? He has no clue no one has said anything to him at all. Its not like they can go live somewhere else , or if they could that it would be smart , they would just spread it to another household if they have it right? He will be a week into it when the results come in so if he has it they probably do too , or they gave it to him and might test negative by now anyway.

[volvolugnut]

More statistics on US states and COVID-19 growth rates. My raw information is from Worldometer. Any errors or misrepresentations are my own.

These tables show all available US states and territories and the COVID-19 data for the last 5 days. I have sorted the states alphabetically and added growth rates for last several days for all states with ranking of each day. Of course, this information changes daily. I have presented the table in two parts because of the screen shot, but it is actually one table in Excel.

Again, results change daily.

State growth rates for May 6, 2020. All information is based on reported information and actual results may be different.

For your information, the top 5 states or territories yesterday in growth rate (the worst containment) are: Minnesota (0.262) with 8579 cases, Wyoming (0.141) with 631 cases, Delaware (0.122) with 5778 cases, Arkansas (0.084) with 3611 cases, and North Dakota (0.084) with 1323 cases. States in Bold have reopened to various levels.

Worldometer https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... rus-cases/ has started to add state curve information to their website.

A new column added on the right shows the current growth rate divided by the 5 day moving average. Wyoming and Delaware yesterday were over 2.00.

My calculated growth rate for USA is 0.0278 for yesterday, down from previous day of 0.0291. This is not population or case number weighted.

We are in a critical time now as some states start to loosen restrictions. Continue to do your part to stay healthy and keep virus spread down.

Stay safe out there. Keep your family close and others at a distance.

volvolugnut

[Phainein7]

There are those that in the midst of this who were throwing corona parties...

Here may be the biggest corona party, a political corona party:
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US shelves detailed guide to reopening country

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) --- The Trump administration has shelved a
document created by the nation's top disease investigators with
step-by-step advice to local authorities on how and when to reopen
restaurants and other public places during the still-raging
coronavirus outbreak.

The 17-page report by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
team, titled "Guidance for Implementing the Opening Up America Again
Framework," was researched and written to help faith leaders, business
owners, educators and state and local officials as they begin to
reopen.

It was supposed to be published last Friday, but agency scientists
were told the guidance "would never see the light of day," according
to a CDC official. The official was not authorized to talk to
reporters and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of
anonymity.
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Disneyland resort hotels push back reservations until July

New reservations for the Disneyland Hotel, Disney's Grand Californian
Hotel and Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel are currently available for
travel dates on July 1 and later, according to the Disneyland website.
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Disney announced earlier this week that the Shanghai Disneyland theme
park would be reopening on Monday, May 11 after a 107-day closure due
to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Frontier Airlines is selling a social distancing upgrade for $39.
Democrats in Congress are appalled.

Democrats on Capitol Hill are blasting a plan by Frontier Airlines to
sell a social distancing upgrade to passengers concerned about the
novel coronavirus.
Washington Post

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Frontier Airlines is selling a social distancing upgrade for $39.
Democrats in Congress are appalled.

Democrats on Capitol Hill are blasting a plan by Frontier Airlines to
sell a social distancing upgrade to passengers concerned about the
novel coronavirus.
Washington Post

Sounds like something frontier could smooth over with a few targeted donations to politicians running for reelection in the fall. wave a one dollar bill under thier nose and they will sit up and beg

As far as the disney thing ,they lost me as a customer for good in the early 1980's . I know a lunatic who goes to the one in Florida every single year! He is a grown man , with no small kids , its quite creepy , and he is already worried it won't be open . Better bulldoze the place just to be safe is my view.

Give me cypress gardens or circus world any day .

[Phainein7]

White House Military Aide Tests Positive For Coronavirus

Later on Thursday, Trump said the administration was increasing the
frequency of testing at the White House from weekly to daily.
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Amtrak To Require Masks Starting Monday To Avoid Spread Of The Coronavirus
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Amtrak is the latest transportation provider to require all passengers
to wear facial coverings or masks to help prevent the spread of the
coronavirus, beginning Monday.
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OVERWHELMING MAJORITY MORE CONCERNED ABOUT CORONAVIRUS SPREADING FURTHER THAN ECONOMIC DAMAGE: POLL
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The poll suggested that Americans are concerned about rolling back
social distancing regardless of political affiliation, although the 61
percent of Republicans who said they were concerned was considerably
lower than the 79 percent of Democrats who agreed. A majority of
people expressed similar concerns regardless of factors like race,
age, gender and income.
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Public health experts have warned that opening the economy too soon
could result in a massive increase of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
Projections have become more dire in response to states moving to
reopen, with the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week
predicting that there could be 200,000 new cases and 3,000 deaths per
day by June 1.
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Shakespeare “focussed his attention ... on ... the plague of being governed by a mendacious, morally bankrupt, incompetent, blood-soaked, and ultimately self-destructive leader.”

What Shakespeare Actually Wrote About the Plague

Shakespeare lived his entire life in the shadow of bubonic plague. On April 26, 1564, in the parish register of Holy Trinity Church, in Stratford-upon-Avon, the vicar, John Bretchgirdle, recorded the baptism of one “Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere.” A few months later, in the same register, the vicar noted the death of Oliver Gunne, an apprentice weaver, and in the margins next to that entry scribbled the words “hic incipit pestis” (here begins the plague). On that occasion, the epidemic took the lives of around a fifth of the town’s population. By good fortune, it spared the life of the infant William Shakespeare and his family
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It was early recognized that the rate of infection was far higher in densely populated cities than in the country; those with the means to do so escaped to rural retreats, though they often brought infection with them. Civic officials, realizing that crowds heightened contagion, took measures to institute what we now call social distancing. Collecting data from parish registers, they carefully tracked weekly plague-related deaths. When those deaths surpassed thirty, they banned assemblies, feasts, archery contests, and other forms of mass gathering. Since it was believed that it was impossible to become infected during the act of worship, church services were not included in the ban, though the infected were not permitted to attend. But the public theatres in London, which routinely brought together two or three thousand people in an enclosed space, were ordered shut. It could take many months before the death rate came down sufficiently for the authorities to allow theatres to reopen.
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[abscate]

Since it was believed that it was impossible to become infected during the act of worship,

Sounds like some still have not updated their firmware of thinking

[abscate]

One of the challenges of Public Health In pandemics is factoring in poor choices by people which are inevitable ; anti-Vaxxers, lotto, buying guns to protect the home, gambling, smoking, Volvo’s without a stick shift

[bronco]

One of the challenges of Public Health In pandemics is factoring in poor choices by people which are inevitable ; anti-Vaxxers, lotto, buying guns to protect the home, gambling, smoking, Volvo’s without a stick shift

Its true , many would question how the same government that runs any form of lottery can say they are just looking out for the peoples best interest with a straight face.

I'm not against gambling mind you but I'd rather a sit in a poker game instead of playing a lottery where the house rakes in 50 cents on the dollar from every social security check cashed

[volvolugnut]

More statistics on US states and COVID-19 growth rates. My raw information is from Worldometer. Any errors or misrepresentations are my own.

These tables show all available US states and territories and the COVID-19 data for the last 5 days. I have sorted the states alphabetically and added growth rates for last several days for all states with ranking of each day. Of course, this information changes daily. I have presented the table in two parts because of the screen shot, but it is actually one table in Excel.

Again, results change daily.

State growth rates for May 7, 2020. All information is based on reported information and actual results may be different.

For your information, the top 5 states or territories yesterday in growth rate (the worst containment) are: Minnesota (0.254) with 9365 cases, Maine (0.178) with 1330 cases, South Dakota (0.163) with 2905 cases, Guam (0.154) with 151 cases, and Oklahoma (0.124) with 4330 cases. States in Bold have reopened to various levels.

Minnesota has 5 day moving average growth rate of 0.211. This is over 2.5 times the growth rate of any other state.

Worldometer https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... rus-cases/ has started to add state curve information to their website.

A new column added on the right shows the current growth rate divided by the 5 day moving average. Maine and South Dakota yesterday were over 2.00.

My calculated growth rate for USA is 0.0303 for yesterday, up from previous day of 0.0278. This is not population or case number weighted.

We are in a critical time now as some states start to loosen restrictions. Continue to do your part to stay healthy and keep virus spread down.

Stay safe out there. Keep your family close and others at a distance.

volvolugnut