We are turning the corner... Just not the things are getting better corner.
We are turning the corner... Just not the things are getting better corner.
Down on the corner
Out in the street
Willie and the Poor Boys are playin’
Bring a nickel, tap your feet.
Three close adviser to the Vice President, including his chief of staff, have tested positive for the coronavirus: https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...1be_story.html
Church congregation in North Carolina ordered to stop meeting after an outbreak infected at least 121 people and killed three.
Word is that they had no regard for distancing guidelines. The article didn't say whether they wore masks or not. I'm guessing that if they didn't followlthe distancing rules they probably also disregarded the mask suggestions, but I don't know for sure.
Thanks, mph and many others who expressed concern about my mother. I'm beyond thrilled and thankful that even as of today, 5 days later, she remains symptom free. I continue to pray for her, and the heroes taking care of her. Realizing how very fortunate I am to have had a mom who has lived thru 41% of our country's history. As I believe Sage wisely said, I am truly blessed.
The US hit a high for new cases on oct. 26 with a seven-day average of 70,100. This compares with the previous high of 68,800 on July 25. Data are from Worldometers.
New deaths are also inching upwards, at a seven-day average of 825. It's the highest since Sep. 16 but well below the peak of 1,133 on August 5. The US high was 2,208 on April 5, during the Northeastern infections.
I hope this trend begins to reverse and that patient deaths don't mirror new cases. Hoping, but also worrying.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
France says that it's lost control of the virus..over 50k cases per day, and in a nation of 66 million, that would equate (math?) to something like 250k cases per day in the U.S...
Things are not going well in Italy either.
Italy protests: Violence erupts in Milan and Turin over new Covid restrictions
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1353481.html
Utah hospitals are so overloaded they are preparing to ration care: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/10/...zS5zYc-pKR49VY
Here's some data: seven-day average new cases now vs. peak in spring for three countries:
USA (332m) 70K in new cases this week vs. 32.7 in April (69K in July)
France (65) 36K now, 5K in March
Spain (47) 16K now, 9K in March
Italy (60) 17K now, 6K in March
France stands out in number of new cases -- equivalent to 350K in the US. I'll check on mortality later when I have some time. Of course, in all these countries, cases in the spring may have been greatly under-reported given the chaotic situations and the large number of deaths from COVID-19.
https://www.worldometers.info/corona...ountry/france/
https://www.worldometers.info/corona...country/spain/
https://www.worldometers.info/corona...country/italy/
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust
I'm just gonna keep using this pic as my standard response for things like this.
You may be tired of of coronavirus. You may think it's a hoax. You may just want to get on with your life.
Coronavirus-dont-care.JPG
So, at what point do you have to start closing other stuff because the hospitals are overflowing?
Webster Groves (MO) School District, ludicrously, is reopening for face-to-face grades 3-5 tomorrow (my kid) and grades 6-8 (my wife) on Veterans' Day. This contradicts everything they previously said about the relationship of reopening to COVID numbers in the region, which are exploding.
Can you open something as large as a middle school with 1200 kids, 50 teachers, and I'm not sure how many support staff, when emergency medical care basically becomes unavailable? Since the administration aren't willing to be adults here, my remaining hope lies with that bastard god, Liability.