Much like in Texas the lolabama Lt Governor is undermining the Governor which is I guess how it’s supposed to be?
Our highest ranking nominee so far?
Governor>Senator (at least if said Senator is Rand Paul).
Florida health officials have identified a troubling trend; approximately 31 percent, or one-third, of children in Florida tested for COVID-19 yield positive results, according to the Sun Sentinel.
State data indicates that out of 54,022 Florida children tested, 31.1 percent have returned positive results on average. This is higher than the statewide positivity rate, which reads in at about 11 percent.
Aside from the staggering figure indicating the transmission of the virus, health experts fear it can cause potential lifelong damage in children. Alina Alonso, the health department director of Palm Beach County, reportedly told county commissioners on Tuesday that the long-term consequences of coronavirus in children are unknown.
Alonso described X-rays that reveal damage caused to human lungs by the coronavirus, even for people without severe symptoms.“They are seeing there is damage to the lungs in these asymptomatic children. … We don’t know how that is going to manifest a year from now or two years from now,” Alonso told reporters. “Is that child going to have chronic pulmonary problems or not?”
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I’m part of a parent group that’s supposed to be helping the school district determine how to proceed with the upcoming academic year. (Yes, it’s likely this is all for show in order to appease parents.) What is the quickest, most effective retort to an uninformed parent who says, “But people die of the flu every year. Are we going to start shutting down for the flu now?”
Note that I am trying to come up with an effective response for both this doofus and the larger pool of parents that could potentially be affected by this doofus.
The governor was wearing a mask with an Auburn logo on it when she made the announcement, so of course they have a mask mandate now because Auburn 
I was thinking about the before time NC law banning masks to fight the KKK. In the US, anyone wearing a mask was either skiing, performing surgery or up to no good. There was a deep cultural aversion to masks that they decided that there is no reason to allow them, so we’ll ban them. This wasn’t partisan.
Doesn’t have to grow for the test. PCR machine amplifies the RNA to generate enough to make a signal. As long as the RNA is intact it will be detected even if the virus is not competent to grow.
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I’m sure the county commission, where we heard the information from, will be facing pressure from the state level to not reopen. So it remains to be seen what actually happens.
Is that ‘good’ news? Does that change the viability length of the tests?
I think so. I would expect they are able to amplify the RNA for several weeks.
I could be way wrong on this I don’t have time to dig right now.
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“Shut the fuck up” should work.
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I am not rooting for Kevin Stitt to die of COVID-19, but it would save a lot of lives if he did.
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Which countries can a US citizen just leave any do the above in?
Travel - check
Live - Rut Roh
Work - Double Rut Roh
Where could a US citizen just up sticks and move abroad? (Other than South America, Africa, etc) assuming you don’t have $1m+ in the bank and aren’t due a death in the next 10 yrs? Pre-covid.
Super rough guesstimate. But assuming CFR of 5% - Florida, Arizona and Texas all come eyeball-test close to a one month lag from cases to deaths.
Extrapolating that to a month from now we get FL: 1000 deaths/day, Texas maybe 900/day, AZ 500/day.
I expect the pool to get older and more at-risk (IE the people registering as new cases now vs. a month ago). So you’d think those numbers should actually get worse by some degree.
Has anyone done a more rigorous estimate along these lines? It doesn’t really matter what you peg the CFR at, but you do need to caveat that it doesn’t stay constant. But what I like is that CFR very likely not getting better for this wave as it evolves. So you can say the analysis is conservative for # of deaths/day in one month from now.
I don’t think the analysis is as valid for the US since we have regions going in completely opposite directions atm.
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And this is WITH mitigation.
There is no vaccine, there is no proven, reliable treatment. It’s basically just up to our bodies to deal with it and if we get crazy sick, good luck, here’s a ventilator. When people get the flu, they feel sick as shit, they look sick as shit, so they know to stay home (hopefully). Lots of people end up asymptomatic with COVID-19, so it’s a ton harder to stop the spread.
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Lots of places. You could at least Google it. And lol at immediately excluding South America and Africa. Yes, if you leave the US you might have to interact with brown people.
I’ve known a lot of people who illegally live and work in the US successfully and it’s practically a police state here. How hard can it be in the ROW?