Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

The United States just set the record for the most ever new cases in a single day. We have passed the record set this past spring.

Meanwhile Trump said last night that doctors inflate the number of cases because they make more money when someone dies of COVID.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
The United States just set the record for the most ever new cases in a single day. We have passed the record set this past spring.

Meanwhile Trump said last night that doctors inflate the number of cases because they make more money when someone dies of COVID.
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So, no matter how you slice that the system is totally broken and his plan is...
 
RenegadeMonster said:
The United States just set the record for the most ever new cases in a single day. We have passed the record set this past spring.

Meanwhile Trump said last night that doctors inflate the number of cases because they make more money when someone dies of COVID.
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I'm not sure whether it's a bigger indictment of our president that he believes that doctors make more money when people die of Covid, or our system that is so screwed up that people believe this is plausible.
 
Individual states might have lockdowns and should but I think sadly we blew that possibility over the summer when everyone thought we had this thing won. We won't see any sort of national policy unless Trump is voted out. He simply does not care and if he loses, he'll have zero incentive to do anything.
 
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Trump suggests he might fire Fauci after election

President Donald Trump suggested to a Florida crowd he may fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after the election, escalating his feud with the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases and providing a window into a potential post-November 3 administration purge.
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Speaking after midnight following a full day of campaigning, the President was complaining about the news media coverage of Covid-19 when the crowd broke out into a "Fire Fauci" chant

"Don't tell anybody but let me wait until a little bit after the election," Trump said to cheers. "I appreciate the advice."
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Sadly, this would not surprise me if Trump fires Fauci.
 
My company attempted to implement a mask rule here at work. The problem is, they didn't tell everyone. In fact, they haven't told me yet, or had a meeting about it....and the people that were told are already not wearing them. The owners are mostly worried about a health department violation of 7500 bucks. Last I heard they decided to lock the front door, then scramble for masks if someone official-looking comes to the door.

Meanwhile, my wife's hospital is now starting to fill up again with Covid patients.
 
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Stay-at-home advisory: New curfew requires Mass. businesses close by 9:30 p.m. nightly

“We’re doing much better than many other states and many other countries, but hereto we’ve let down our guard,” he said.
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We just got a stay at home advisory issued in MA by our governor. The order includes a curfew closes businesses at 10:00pm. Restaurants must seat the last table by 9:30pm. No gatherings larger than 10 people.

Also, my first hearing about this new advisory was my father texting me that our governor is a Natzi.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
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Stay-at-home advisory: New curfew requires Mass. businesses close by 9:30 p.m. nightly

“We’re doing much better than many other states and many other countries, but hereto we’ve let down our guard,” he said.
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We just got a stay at home advisory issued in MA by our governor. The order includes a curfew closes businesses at 10:00pm. Restaurants must seat the last table by 9:30pm. No gatherings larger than 10 people.

Also, my first hearing about this new advisory was my father texting me that our governor is a Natzi.
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Honestly -- you need to change your number.
 
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I'm in quarantine for the next week.

A student was conspicuously absent last week, and has not been in the building for ten days. Because I am his specialist and that is considered "close contact," I have to stay home the rest of the week.

Good thing a big ol' box from Polyvinyl arrived today.
 
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A 13-year-old Missouri boy's last day of school was in late October. He died from Covid-19 days later

An eighth grade student from Missouri passed away from complications related to Covid-19, officials in his school district said.
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Meanwhile locally here in Boston, there is immense pressure being put on the school system, even by the Governor to open back up for in person classes. They say all the data shows it's safe. No super spreader events have been linked to schools reopening.

Okay, sure, there may not be super spreader events among the children, especially in grade school. But that's not to say they can't get it and that it can't be deadly like in the case of the 13 year old boy in the story above.

Also, who's to say that super spreader events linked to Churches such as in Fitchburg MA where more than 200 cases are now linked to a service didn't originate by a parent catching COVID from their kid who got it in school?
 
Updated info on my company's mask policy:
They aren't going to police it. They did their diligence by recommending that we wear one. Now it's your own choice as to whether you do or not. The caveat is that if OSHA comes to our place, the person not in compliance covers the $7500 fine. But, they have NEVER come to our building in the 30 years we've been here. So the one guy who is proudly walking around without one won't be told to wear it, or punished or anything. This is the same guy that posts racist bs and QANON theories while on the company Wi-Fi.

I can't even deal with this guy...I hope his orange hero loses hard tonight.
 
ranbalam said:
Updated info on my company's mask policy:
They aren't going to police it. They did their diligence by recommending that we wear one. Now it's your own choice as to whether you do or not. The caveat is that if OSHA comes to our place, the person not in compliance covers the $7500 fine. But, they have NEVER come to our building in the 30 years we've been here. So the one guy who is proudly walking around without one won't be told to wear it, or punished or anything. This is the same guy that posts racist bs and QANON theories while on the company Wi-Fi.

I can't even deal with this guy...I hope his orange hero loses hard tonight.
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A study done by Harvard University of more than 3000 counties in the United States shows that air pollution correlates to higher mortality rates from COVID-19.

Just 0.5% of increased air particles results in the mortality rate of COVID-19 increasing by 11%.
 
Public Transportation is taking a huge hit in MA. They do not expect offices in Boston to bring Employees back until at least June of 2021 now. They also expect companies to have rotating shifts and allow work from home days. With this, public transportation levels may not return to 2019 levels until 2024 at the earliest.

The following changes are going to happen if the board votes for them. If the cuts take place the MBTA will consider them permanent and they will be effective January 1st, 2021.

Bus routes are going be reduced to 65% of what currently exist. Some routes will be cut all together while others will be consolidated into other routes. Service to end at 9pm at night.

There will be no ferry service next year.

No weekend commuter rail service. No service after 9pm. And routes with the lowest ridership levels will see additional cuts to service.




All this means we could see a substantial cut to public transportation that could be permanent that we may never recover from. 2019 service levels of public transportation will likely not be possible for at least the next decade even if ridership returns. The money is just not there.
 
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