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Thinking about my wifes case at work and how we need to handle these things. It would be prudent to test all staff and residents and the staffs families to cast as wide a net as possible to stop any secondary infections.
 
The Trump administration has ordered the hospitals to stop reporting data to the CDC and instead to a central database in DC.
 
Heelyes said:
I believe the plan is to have less kids per class to reduce exposure. I think you're right, it should be all or nothing. If it's too dangerous for everyone to go together, schools should be closed.
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As with everything else I think it is far more complicated then a blanket "schools should be closed" approach. As someone who manages employees in the Public Safety field, I can tell you, it becomes a logistical nightmare maintaining operations when schools are closed. I know safety is paramount, but consider there are many individuals that work LEO, EMS, Fire, hospitals, highway construction, utilities, food delivery, etc all vital to the safety and well being of all of us, that have elementary school aged children. Now shutdown schools and these individuals have to plan accordingly, often times, having to take off work to stay home with their children, and loss work days in those fields create additional potentially dangerous situations due to staff shortages.... it's a complicated ripple effect. I'm really not advocating one way or the other but providing an additional vantage point if you will.
 
Best Buy is now requiring customers to wear a mask.https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/business/best-buy-mask-requirement/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_source=twcnnbrk&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2020-07-14T18%3A23%3A06
 
Hopefully local news still report what they have if they've been reporting. At last look Corona involved hospitalizations were up but from my knowledge it still looked manageable. Just looked again and as of 2 days ago it's about the same at best but it's still manageable, the hospital close to Columbia County might be starting to get iffy though as it's not as big as MCG or combining two different hospitals that are downtown/uptown (for now I'm going to assume one group is two hospitals as there's two by the same name in the county).

Honestly surprised it's not quite a bit more yet because I'd assume that this area is a bit of a center for surrounding rural areas.

Edit: I might have lied. I only have true information on the amount of inpatients. Not anything more.
 
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GaWx said:
I got this excellent link from @pcbjr regarding a model from Ga Tech that estimates the risk levels of someone with Covid being at an event based on county and # of people at said event:


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That's just the chance that someone in the group has the Wuhan virus. That doesn't establish the risk of catching the Wuhan illness from the gathering.
 
Snowfan said:
Best Buy is now requiring customers to wear a mask.https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/business/best-buy-mask-requirement/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_source=twcnnbrk&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2020-07-14T18%3A23%3A06
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Order online at somewhere else but Best Buy...Best Buy can go bankrupt.
 
Shaggy said:
Thinking about my wifes case at work and how we need to handle these things. It would be prudent to test all staff and residents and the staffs families to cast as wide a net as possible to stop any secondary infections.
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Why do we want to stop infections? Vulnerable people should take precautions, the healthy need to get the virus, stat! The sooner they do, the sooner this thing extinguishes itself, right?
 
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Why do we want to stop infections? Vulnerable people should take precautions, the healthy need to get the virus, stat! The sooner they do, the sooner this thing extinguishes itself, right?
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Not if you believe the studies out of Spain and UK that shows immunity collapses after a couple months and is weaker in cases of minor infections.

Herd immunity is looking more and more doubtful.
 
Shaggy said:
Not if you believe the studies out of Spain and UK that shows immunity collapses after a couple months and is weaker in cases of minor infections.

Herd immunity is looking more and more doubtful.
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But the virus is also becoming less lethal. Look at Georgia's deaths by all causes. the numbers for June are below 2019's average by 300 to 700 people. Even with spiking cases, we have below average "all cause" deaths. Why is that? I hypothesize it's because the weak and vulnerable were taken during the above average time frames from late November through May. They weren't above average by much, by the way, about 5% above average for 2019. It's a bad flu season and not a raging pandemic of some kind of crazy killer virus. We way over-reacted. Now the economic pain is going to kill and crush the world's poor and even erode the middle class fiercely.

I blame Trump for this over-reaction, by the way. He was not wise enough to consider all information and chose the political advantage over the good of the world. He should have taken the political sacrifice and stood strong for the global good! He was in a catch-22, but because he is so narcissistic, he thought he chose the best thing for himself. For a brief moment, he was aligned with the left and that's when I knew he made a terrible mistake.
 
Shaggy said:
Not if you believe the studies out of Spain and UK that shows immunity collapses after a couple months and is weaker in cases of minor infections.

Herd immunity is looking more and more doubtful.
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If Herd immunity goes out the window, then we shall see Spain, Italy, Uk on the rise again soon enough, along with New York, New Jersey, and the rest of the NorthEast.
 
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