While I think you travel a lonelier path, I, for one, really appreciate how you articulate your thoughts about your virus protocols and risk management. Sure, I break with you on various aspects, but that’s simply because your framing allows me to calculate the risk vis a vis your initial position. Without you, and others on this thread, I would be in the wilderness trying to manage the risk associated with COVID. So while, I don’t think you are looking for thanks, I want to say thank you, anyway.
Every group needs a crazy overreacting lunatic. It keeps the boot licking toady majority in check.
Covid making a bit of a comeback in the CR. Not a huge one yet but it’s there.
Yesterday, the government ran the fewest number of tests since March 18th (a week after schools closed down). The percentage positive (3.39%) was the highest since April 11th. I mean they always run way fewer tests on weekends than weekdays but this was a bit excessive.
I guess the lone positive is that we have only 117 people hospitalized with covid19 which is the lowest number since March 23rd. Nine are in serious/critical condition which is the lowest since March 19th. That’s the lowest percentage of serious/critical condition patients since March 15th and that’s only because there weren’t any patients with severe covid19 in any hospital in the country until March 16th.
Right now the majority of new patients are still being found on the Czechia-Poland border which is the poorest region in the country. They’re dealing with a regional outbreak and they’re still finding 20+ carriers a day associated with that outbreak.
Called my local hookup (2nd hand sporting goods with about 50% new stuff) to inquire about a new pair of dumbells, as I’m hoping to move up 10 lbs on some exercises. They said they’ve been expecting a shipment and that I should call daily, as they’ll go quick after they arrive. The store is physically open as of today. They have a decent number of kettlebells in stock and their FB post says they’ve sold 25 $499 weight racks/cages in the last 2 weeks.
I’m sensing a push from the people running things to just fucking go full speed ahead for herd immunity. If people take no precautions we can get there real quick and throw the dead into some mass graves and be done with it.
That’s way better for the people running the show than having to address racial inequality, income inequality, etc for all these pesky protesters who want to tear down the system.
Plus if they unleash everything now they can blame BLM for allll of it.
Not exactly what I said. I’m pretty sure the powers that be in the western world want this shit over with. The BLM stuff matters most here, but the threat of unrest goes up everywhere in a depression fueled by a pandemic. Gotta get the worker bees back at it, if they die they’re replaceable, but the queen needs her honey.
No asymptomatic/presymptomatic spread is as lolworthy as masks don’t work, and it’s going to be significantly more damaging.
I mean, the studies are available to look at, right?
If WHO says it, I think it can reasonably be trusted.
I know we all want this to be as bad as we initially thought and prepped for but if it isn’t, I’m not really one for throwing away good news, and this seems like good news.
I told you guys this was going to happen. We shouldn’t have ever closed if this was in our range. The response to COVID-19, I’m pretty convinced, is the single biggest display of incompetence by an American administration in American history, and I actually understand what I’m saying.
Right now my wife and I are waiting on a COVID result that takes 3-5 days to get to us. She’s a nurse at an assisted living place. At this point we’re waiting on the result but kind of figure it’s probably negative because the exposure it was testing for would have happened 5/30. Since then she’s been exposed again ldo.
