COVID-19

[Shyster]

From Popehat: If you're going to ask a federal judge to let you serve a prison sentence at home rather than in jail on the basis that you'd be vulnerable to Covid-19, you probably should avoid posting on Facebook that Covid-19 is a "complete hoax," that you attended a no-masks "White Trash Bash," and that you refuse to wear masks in restaurants.

[Freddy Rumsen]

Interesting read

[grunthy]

Probably at herd immunity or close to it.

[grunthy]

[grunthy]

Flu IFR by age is

0-18 is .01%
18-49 is .02%
50-64 is .06%
65+ is .83%

Covid per CDC is 3 times less dangerous for children, the same for 20-49 year olds, about 9 times more deadly for 50-65 year olds, and about 6 to 7 times more deadly for over 65.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

huh, that’s interesting. I wonder why, biologically, it doesn’t have the same fatality rate for children but a much higher rate for seniors

[offsides]

Thanks for the info nobody. I'm to old and lazy to look that stuff up or even know how to find it.

[faftorial]

Thanks for the info nobody. I'm to old and lazy to look that stuff up or even know how to find it.

[count2infinity]

The infection ability is the astounding part to me. I was under the assumption it was largely attributed to truly asymptotic people walking around, spreading it. If it’s just like many other diseases where you spread it just before showing symptoms, I’m sort of gob smacked as to how we haven’t been able to contain it.

[NTP66]

Source of the post I’m sort of gob smacked as to how we haven’t been able to contain it.

...are you, though?

[Freddy Rumsen]

Basically no changes

[grunthy]

There are about the same amount of people in the hospital as our low point in June. We have less people in the ICU than in June. A majority of deaths now are death certificate matching.

[King Colby]

We can all agree thats its not as bad today as it was in July. And it wasn't as bad in July as it was in April. Progress.

[CBear3]

Missouri hospitalizations just hit their highest point of the pandemic. Again, we've got multiple waves moving through because of the shear size of the country. Some places are already back down to an ebb, while others are high on the wave.

[nocera]

We can all agree thats its not as bad today as it was in July. And it wasn't as bad in July as it was in April. Progress.

Agree. The doom and gloom coming from medical professionals about the fall/winter is making me anxious but I'm hoping for the best.

[eddy]

We can all agree thats its not as bad today as it was in July. And it wasn't as bad in July as it was in April. Progress.

Agree. The doom and gloom coming from medical professionals about the fall/winter is making me anxious but I'm hoping for the best.

Worst it's been in my county since it started and that's mainly due to college. Sucks for me too, because every day I hear one of the students that I've been around has tested positive.

[CBear3]

We can all agree thats its not as bad today as it was in July. And it wasn't as bad in July as it was in April. Progress.

Agree. The doom and gloom coming from medical professionals about the fall/winter is making me anxious but I'm hoping for the best.

Worst it's been in my county since it started and that's mainly due to college. Sucks for me too, because every day I hear one of the students that I've been around has tested positive.

Sounds like walking through a mine field.

[pens9192]

We can all agree thats its not as bad today as it was in July. And it wasn't as bad in July as it was in April. Progress.

Agree. The doom and gloom coming from medical professionals about the fall/winter is making me anxious but I'm hoping for the best.

Agreed but when I read quotes from epidemiologists all mentioning "apocalyptic fall/winter" and "twindemic" and that's when I closed the articles and took a break from reading the news. Just too much for me.

[offsides]

We can all agree thats its not as bad today as it was in July. And it wasn't as bad in July as it was in April. Progress.

Agree. The doom and gloom coming from medical professionals about the fall/winter is making me anxious but I'm hoping for the best.

Worst it's been in my county since it started and that's mainly due to college. Sucks for me too, because every day I hear one of the students that I've been around has tested positive.

College students must have in person school so they can have in person sex.

[nocera]

We can all agree thats its not as bad today as it was in July. And it wasn't as bad in July as it was in April. Progress.

Agree. The doom and gloom coming from medical professionals about the fall/winter is making me anxious but I'm hoping for the best.

Worst it's been in my county since it started and that's mainly due to college. Sucks for me too, because every day I hear one of the students that I've been around has tested positive.

College students must have in person school so they can have in person sex.

This is sound logic and I refuse to argue with it.

[Morkle]

Cold season is here and our daycare is just auto declining kids if they're sick. My son was one of them. Started snotting throughout the day and they had us pick him up mid-afternoon.

Kind of lame, but I get it.

[grunthy]

Missouri hospitalizations just hit their highest point of the pandemic. Again, we've got multiple waves moving through because of the shear size of the country. Some places are already back down to an ebb, while others are high on the wave.

It is just making its way through. Hit NE, then Southeast/South/West, now it is Midwest. I assume it will be like everywhere else and start to fall. Sweden should be rising again, but they aren’t yet.

[King Colby]

We can all agree thats its not as bad today as it was in July. And it wasn't as bad in July as it was in April. Progress.

Agree. The doom and gloom coming from medical professionals about the fall/winter is making me anxious but I'm hoping for the best.

Worst it's been in my county since it started and that's mainly due to college. Sucks for me too, because every day I hear one of the students that I've been around has tested positive.

College students must have in person school so they can have in person sex.

This is sound logic and I refuse to argue with it.

Shutting down 2 months early last semester did a number on some people's frat stats

[DigitalGypsy66]

My school stopped posting our COVID stats on the COVID-19 page. You have to click to another page to get that info...and they removed the number of quarantining/isolating students from that page.

We had 35 isolating late last week...out of 700ish residential students.

Hell, my wife's school already has three students and one teacher in quarantine and yesterday was their first day of face to face instruction.

Essentially, we're doomed. I'm surprised I haven't died to this point from having two kids in public schools, an elementary school teacher wife, and I work with filthy college students.

[NTP66]

Nah, because according to one of my neighbors, all kids will be just fine if they get it, "look it up".