COVID-19: Chapter 4 - OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Actually probably telling the truth here

Massachusetts was one of the earliest and hardest hit states that has subsequently managed to bring the outbreak under control and significantly reduce new infections. Taking those hard-learned lessons into account and seeing the outcome for states that have taken a different path, we have decided to OPEN for BUSINESS starting Monday.

:ballot_box_with_check: Gyms

:ballot_box_with_check: Casinos

:ballot_box_with_check: Movie theaters

…and my favorite

:ballot_box_with_check: Museums

Snow birds in FL, AZ, and other parts South, need a break? Come on up! Our tourists attractions and cultural amenities are waiting for you!

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@superuberbob ?

Ohio testing tr: I got tested this morning. It was drive up. There was one other car, and I was there ~2 minutes total. Results in ~72 hours. And whoever says 'it’s not really painful, just uncomfortable", bullshit. That shit’s painful and there’s no way I could swab myself.

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I think museums with masks could be ok. You’re moving around a lot. Rarely that crowded (which could be controlled).

I still wonder about gyms if the follow good social distancing and masks.

Casinos and theaters lol.

It’s gonna be hilarious when it comes out that a simple throat swab would have been just as good all along.

First relative that I know of to test positive is my cousin’s daughter in Florida. Not sure of her age exactly, probably early 20s. Wasn’t taking any precautions before she got it, although now she is quarantined away from the rest of her family. Hope she hasn’t exposed her grandmother (my aunt) who is on chemo.

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My neighbors went out to a bar together last night where they took vines sharing drinks with each other.

I love my neighbors but I just can’t right now. So irresponsible

Some Trumpkins on my feed posting this and JAQing if the press will apologize to Don…

Not a random selection. Not a clinically controlled trial.

Most restrictions on gatherings and mask-wearing ended on July 1st for nearly the entire country. Exceptions for the entire country include hospitals, nursing and retirement homes. For Prague, additional mask restrictions include the metro and indoor public gatherings of 100 or more people. For Moravia-Silesia, it’s far more restrictive since there’s a regional outbreak going on there.

This sounds extreme given the uptick in cases, but nearly all of the new cases are from the eastern border of the Czech Republic. On the other hand, Prague has averaged just 9 new cases a day for the last week.

That said, some people are still wearing masks from time to time. Most employees definitely are. It’s just less common now.

F CNN headline

“As the Henry Ford Health System became more experienced in treating patients with COVID-19, survival may have improved, regardless of the use of specific therapies,” Dr. Todd Lee of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Canada, and colleagues wrote in a commentary in the same journal.

“Finally, concomitant steroid use in patients receiving hydroxychloroquine was more than double the non-treated group. This is relevant considering the recent RECOVERY trial that showed a mortality benefit with dexamethasone.” The steroid dexamethasone can reduce inflammation in seriously ill patients.

But patients in that New York study, published in May in the Journal of the American Medical Association, started taking hydroxychloroquine on average one day after being hospitalized.

“Maybe there’s a little bit of a difference, but it’s not like patients in New York were being started on day seven. That’s not what happened,” said Eli Rosenberg, lead author of the New York study and an associate professor of epidemiology at the University at Albany School of Public Health.

Rosenberg also pointed out that the Detroit paper excluded 267 patients – nearly 10% of the study population – who had not yet been discharged from the hospital.

He said this might have skewed the results to make hydroxychloroquine look better than it really was. Those patients might have still been in the hospital because they were very sick, and if they died, excluding them from the study made hydroxychloroquine look like more of a lifesaver than it really was.

“There’s a little bit of loosey-goosiness here in all this,” he told CNN.

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I have a college friend, I’m not close at all with her anymore, but she has covid in Houston, and is sharing videos of her experience. She basically can’t get seen by a health professional. According to her, hospitals won’t take you unless you are basically on your death bed, you can’t even get through to urgent cares or get any appointments online, and Dr’s offices won’t see you with covid symptoms.

https://twitter.com/agearan/status/1278852334244823040?s=20

The US decided we’re just going to let people die vs. building field hospitals.

How would building field hospitals help any shareholders?

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If we create more hospitals more people will get hospitalized. That’s just logic!

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https://twitter.com/BillyCorben/status/1278813452124016640?s=20

Not suspicions at all that a cops salary pays for a mansion and fleet of lambos

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Do you even Bad Boys?

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One cop + one retired cop who’s probably pulling in $250k a year and dabbling in porn and how knows what else.

https://twitter.com/mbeckett/status/1278750652160634880?s=20

Decent thread.

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