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Heelyes said:
I don't know why they "hope you don't know" the flu causes it also but I do know it's much less frequent than 35 percent of the time, like what's happening with covid-19. Unfortunately like most things about this virus, it's too soon to say anything for certain about it's long term effects, because nobody has had it long term yet.
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The point is that this information is known so it’s not something new but it isn’t talked about with other viruses. I’ve also heard from multiple doctors on tv and on the radio that don’t seem too worried but then again we live in the SE. It’s political I think.
 
I will note the Big 10 is probably going to start football in October even with this information so I guess they aren’t worried about it anymore or as much. At the end of the day it’s politics and money.
 
Pitt county saw some big positive jumps about 10 days ago. A lot had to do with the college starting back. We added 100 cases a day for a few days. However at the same time the number of hospitalized patients at Vidant health had dropped to 81 which was the lowest in weeks.

Of course as these new infections have matured the hospital is now reporting 111 patients which I believe is a new high.
 
IMO, if this time next year we're still dealing with this, and things haven't improved, opened back up, etc, then I think we're stuck living in these conditions from now on.
 
EmersonGA said:
I think UGA's numbers are single handedly driving Georgia's numbers up. That outbreak is pretty bad.
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IF this is true, there might well be a lot of undiagnosed cases as well and the frats/sororities doing this is the only reason why they haven't sent everyone back home except for the athletes lol...

 
GeorgiaGirl said:
IF this is true, there might well be a lot of undiagnosed cases as well and the frats/sororities doing this is the only reason why they haven't sent everyone back home except for the athletes lol...

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That's expected actually maybe that person should have taken the semester off to be safer
 
Bham 99 said:
That's expected actually maybe that person should have taken the semester off to be safer
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Honestly if they have an outbreak on campus they need to stay on campus otherwise u risk spreading it to their home communities. I’d also say that Georgia College in Milledgeville has it worse that Georgia with 10% of their student body having tested positive.
 
Round Oak Weather- Zeb said:
Honestly if they have an outbreak on campus they need to stay on campus otherwise u risk spreading it to their home communities. I’d also say that Georgia College in Milledgeville has it worse that Georgia with 10% of their student body having tested positive.
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I like Georgia college. I almost went there.
 
NoSnowATL said:
Seeing all the college students testing positive but don’t see or hear the number of students t that need hospitalization or deaths. My guess it’s near zero.
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I just love how they actually thought "Lets cancel in person classes out of Caution of Covid-19, but we'll bring all these thousands of Kids from all over the US to live in our Communal living dorms."

Now that they are sending all these kids back home in like the 3rd week of Classes, are they refunding these families all that dorm money?
 
smast16 said:
I just love how they actually thought "Lets cancel in person classes out of Caution of Covid-19, but we'll bring all these thousands of Kids from all over the US to live in our Communal living dorms."

Now that they are sending all these kids back home in like the 3rd week of Classes, are they refunding these families all that dorm money?
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Also do they have the virus and are they going back to homes with family members who are at a high risk. As a guy in college I wouldn’t feel comfortable going back home if I was on any of these campus with a high percentage of cases because my dads high risk. Thankfully my school is below 1%.
 
Over 10k new cases reported in Spain today with 184 deaths. Nearly 9k in France. Seems like it really might be ramping up in Western Europe again in a big way.

Population-adjusted, 10k cases in Spain is about equivalent to the 70k+ cases we were recording in the US daily a couple months ago at the "second wave's" worst, so that's pretty damn high.
 
superjames1992 said:
Over 10k new cases reported in Spain today with 184 deaths. Nearly 9k in France. Seems like it really might be ramping up in Western Europe again in a big way.

Population-adjusted, 10k cases in Spain is about equivalent to the 70k+ cases we were recording in the US daily a couple months ago at the "second wave's" worst, so that's pretty damn high.
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But Europe handled this so much better than the US did... isn't that the narrative? I believe many of us called this a couple months ago. You can have the strictest lock down on the planet, but the virus isn't going anywhere. When communities start loosening restrictions, infection rates are going to pick back up. Herd immunity or an effective vaccine are the only two viable long-term "solutions".
 
Question for you guys. How far of a radius do you quarantine? Meaning, my wife works in the office of our church, a guy that has disclosed he has tested positive was in the office 5 minutes tops, my wife followed him out of the office chatting. Is that long enough exposure for her to need to quarantine and if so, does that mean our whole family needs to quarantine? How far reaching is someone at risk, if in that short period of time say my wife is at risk, comes home to family we exposed, do we then put people we go around at possible risk?
 
Snow_chaser said:
Question for you guys. How far of a radius do you quarantine? Meaning, my wife works in the office of our church, a guy that has disclosed he has tested positive was in the office 5 minutes tops, my wife followed him out of the office chatting. Is that long enough exposure for her to need to quarantine and if so, does that mean our whole family needs to quarantine? How far reaching is someone at risk, if in that short period of time say my wife is at risk, comes home to family we exposed, do we then put people we go around at possible risk?
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I think they say within 6ft for 15 mins. I might be wrong.
 
Snow_chaser said:
Question for you guys. How far of a radius do you quarantine? Meaning, my wife works in the office of our church, a guy that has disclosed he has tested positive was in the office 5 minutes tops, my wife followed him out of the office chatting. Is that long enough exposure for her to need to quarantine and if so, does that mean our whole family needs to quarantine? How far reaching is someone at risk, if in that short period of time say my wife is at risk, comes home to family we exposed, do we then put people we go around at possible risk?
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Like No Snow said.. the rule of thumb is 6 ft for 15 min but he could have been putting out a concentrated viral load as he talked and that might make a difference. Was she and/or he wearing a mask while they were close to each other? Was there any coughing or laughing that would project droplets further and in larger volume? I would suggest her loading up on Vit C, D, Bs, and zinc asap. I know she's your wife but you and your kids might not want to get too close to each other for a few days. She might want to get tested 3-4 days after her exposure. I am one err on the cautious side.
 
Uncwmark said:
But Europe handled this so much better than the US did... isn't that the narrative? I believe many of us called this a couple months ago. You can have the strictest lock down on the planet, but the virus isn't going anywhere. When communities start loosening restrictions, infection rates are going to pick back up. Herd immunity or an effective vaccine are the only two viable long-term "solutions".
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There's one more way here, and it's hammering down a couple treatments.

But yeah, until we have herd immunity, at the most we're going to be putting COVID on the backburner probably at some point, with it not being talked about like it is.
 
Outside of luck, there is simply no way to avoid this virus over the long haul unless a very effective vaccine is developed or herd immunity takes hold. Apparently, we don't know if either of those things can or will happen. If they don't, then you stay locked down forever, or you loosen it up and risk resurgence. Unfortunately, that's pretty much the way this particular cookie crumbles.
 
Europe skyrocketing? I was told that only happens in the US, particularly the south! As said above, this virus isn’t going anywhere no matter how strict we make things. Just have to hope a vaccine will be here sooner than later.
 
This is my hometown stadium tonight. This was out first varsity game to attend this year as freshman have not been allowed to travel away or attend home games. As you can imagine parents had a fit so here were were tonight. It wasn't as packed as usual but pretty full with most not wearing masks. A neighboring school announced today that their entire football team and coaching staff are in quarantine. I'm really not sure people will comply with masks mandates even to have college football
 

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Arcc said:
Almost 2000 have tested positive at UA with no apparent hospitalizations. Really shows the full probable extent of how many cases are missed. That or we have a massive false positive rate.
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Personally--and this is just a pure guess--I think there's something to the number of asymptomatic/relatively mild cases and prior exposure to Coronaviruses.
 
Poimen said:
Personally--and this is just a pure guess--I think there's something to the number of asymptomatic/relatively mild cases and prior exposure to Coronaviruses.
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Just about has to be or something like it. My brother in law had pretty good symptoms yet my sister in law and their kids finished their 14 days without a symptom and she would be pretty high risk for developing severe problems. However as I said before they get small colds and the like often and she dealt with a whopper of a coronavirus or flu back in March along with her kids, my mother in law and eventually us. Who knows that may have been Covid.
 
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