As Texas sets 3 more single-day records on coronavirus, Gov. Greg Abbott predicts next week will ‘look worse’

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/07/09/as-texas-sets-3-more-single-day-records-on-coronavirus-gov-greg-abbott-predicts-next-week-will-look-worse/

[TBoneTX 45,292]

As I just posted in another thread, Abbott is threatening lockdown unless everyone wears face-diapers.

As I commented, "With Abbott, who needs Cuomo?"

Really burns me that no one realizes, "More testing conducted, more cases found."   

Similarly, "More tests, more cases found, fatality rate continues to plunge."

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

8 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

As I just posted in another thread, Abbott is threatening lockdown unless everyone wears face-diapers.

As I commented, "With Abbott, who needs Cuomo?"

Really burns me that no one realizes, "More testing conducted, more cases found."   

Similarly, "More tests, more cases found, fatality rate continues to plunge."

You should compare the stats of covid to H1N1.

 

Haven't had a chance to verify yet, but a friend told me last night that the CDC knew about SARS-covid at least two years ago.

[TBoneTX 45,292]

Repeat:  with our wimp governor, who needs Cuomo?

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Republicans Sue, Censure Gov. Abbott Over Ongoing Restrictive Executive Orders

Bethany Blankley  |  Posted: Jul 11, 2020 12:01 AM

 

[...]  With a successful recovery rate and significantly low death rate of one tenth of one percent, critics argue there is no reason for the governor to not reopen the state to get people fully back to work.  Instead, the governor just extended his emergency order for another 30 days as of July 10.  [...]

 

Continues here: https://townhall.com/columnists/bethanyblankley/2020/07/11/republicans-sue-censure-gov-abbott-over-ongoing-restrictive-executive-orders-n2572297  

 

Edited July 12, 2020 by TBoneTX

[NikLR 13,227]

Maybe if people stop calling them face diapers and rather say virus spreading blockers, then people would be more likely to wear them? Just a thought.  Ya know since the countries that had the least amount of whingeing by their citizens seem to be doing the best? 

[Crazy Cat 41,858]

On 7/10/2020 at 7:45 PM, TBoneTX said:

As I just posted in another thread, Abbott is threatening lockdown unless everyone wears face-diapers.

As I commented, "With Abbott, who needs Cuomo?"

Really burns me that no one realizes, "More testing conducted, more cases found."   

Similarly, "More tests, more cases found, fatality rate continues to plunge."

To me, the important numbers are serious Covid hospitalizations and deaths.  Higher case numbers, themselves, are not necessarily a negative.  

Question: Is a positive antibody case considered a positive case?

Edited July 12, 2020 by Lucky Cat

[Lemonslice 4,841]

130k + deaths. Can't wait until we can celebrate 150k and 200k. Bigger, faster. The bestest.

 

Let's crash a couple of airliners everyday, for months, yeah, don't worry, pilots and planes are kinda safe, working on it. Only a few thousands deaths a week, less than the Corona could be our slogan. Fly my airline, special discount for retirees going to Florida.

 

Don't worry, schools will reopen, and the expected death rate is only 0.02% says Madame DeVos.  Who cares about 14,000 student lives?  They must have been sick, or fragile, anyway. Too bad it was your kid.

 

/s

[Lemonslice 4,841]

1 hour ago, NikLR said:

Maybe if people stop calling them face diapers and rather say virus spreading blockers, then people would be more likely to wear them? Just a thought.  Ya know since the countries that had the least amount of whingeing by their citizens seem to be doing the best? 

I think some people are simply enjoying being contrarians to be contrarians.

Historian brother sent me this meme

 

 

 

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

Hysteria is always amusing, no one cared when there were flea/rat derived typhus outbreaks in urban homeless populations (and this included the homeless in urban Texas regions). One natural disaster could've easily resulted in a plague outbreak, as it had all the right vectors in place transmitting disease to one another. Crickets.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/02/07/typhus-outbreak-los-angeles-flea-borne-disease-city-hall/2799275002/#:~:text=Government officials in Los Angeles,opossums%2C according to health officials.

 

Thankfully, some of us with kids got to see the wonderful effects of lockdown culture with our kids having to finish school last school year at home. The result of isolating our children from one another with lockdowns was serious depression, serious anxiety, a far greater risk than the kung flu. When they go back to school (and ours are going back), their annual flu (influenza) exposure from back to school time will be much more a threat, something people deal with every year anyways without the 2020 hysteria. 

 

Oh, and it's not just "Madame DeVos":

 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200710100934.htm

 

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In the new Pediatrics study, Klara M. Posfay-Barbe, M.D., a faculty member at University of Geneva's medical school, and her colleagues studied the households of 39 Swiss children infected with Covid-19. Contact tracing revealed that in only three (8%) was a child the suspected index case, with symptom onset preceding illness in adult household contacts.

In a recent study in China, contact tracing demonstrated that, of the 68 children with Covid-19 admitted to Qingdao Women's and Children's Hospital from January 20 to February 27, 2020, 96% were household contacts of previously infected adults. In another study of Chinese children, nine of 10 children admitted to several provincial hospitals outside Wuhan contracted Covid-19 from an adult, with only one possible child-to-child transmission, based on the timing of disease onset.

In a French study, a boy with Covid-19 exposed over 80 classmates at three schools to the disease. None contracted it. Transmission of other respiratory diseases, including influenza transmission, was common at the schools.

In a study in New South Wales, nine infected students and nine staff across 15 schools exposed a total of 735 students and 128 staff to Covid-19. Only two secondary infections resulted, one transmitted by an adult to a child.

"The data are striking," said Dr. Raszka. "The key takeaway is that children are not driving the pandemic. After six months, we have a wealth of accumulating data showing that children are less likely to become infected and seem less infectious; it is congregating adults who aren't following safety protocols who are responsible for driving the upward curve."

 

 

Meanwhile, trashy politics looms over education, trying to hold other people's children hostage to whims no one should give an inch on:

L.A. teachers union says schools can't reopen unless charter schools get shut down, police defunded

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/la-teachers-union-says-schools-cant-reopen-unless-charter-schools-get

 

The children are going back, decent parents will ensure their children are going to a school that fits the values of logic over political lunacy. My daughter's school for example emailed us a survey about the fall reopening asking if they think we should make the children social distance and wear masks. Overwhelming no. Excited for the fall. 

Edited July 12, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Was talking to a neighbor lady yesterday who works in a hair salon.  Just yesterday alone, she had three customers who came in for their "do's" (would the plural be "does"?).  All three had recileived phone calls telling them that their covid tests came back positive... and none of them has ever been tested.  This isn't the first person who has related such a tale, but three in one day seemed like a lot to me.

 

Multiply that by the local populations, and it might account for at least part of the upticks.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

4 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

Was talking to a neighbor lady yesterday who works in a hair salon.  Just yesterday alone, she had three customers who came in for their "do's" (would the plural be "does"?).  All three had recileived phone calls telling them that their covid tests came back positive... and none of them has ever been tested.  This isn't the first person who has related such a tale, but three in one day seemed like a lot to me.

 

Multiply that by the local populations, and it might account for at least part of the upticks.

What she forgot to say was. I had 3 customers yesterday who said they had read on Facebook.

[yuna628 9,676]

1 minute ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

What she forgot to say was. I had 3 customers yesterday who said they had read on Facebook.

And it's amazing how no one has also heard that there are scam phone calls from the 'health department' that tell the person they are 'infected' and then troll for information.

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

9 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

Was talking to a neighbor lady yesterday who works in a hair salon.  Just yesterday alone, she had three customers who came in for their "do's" (would the plural be "does"?).  All three had recileived phone calls telling them that their covid tests came back positive... and none of them has ever been tested.  This isn't the first person who has related such a tale, but three in one day seemed like a lot to me.

 

Multiply that by the local populations, and it might account for at least part of the upticks.

Shouldn't be an apostrophe. Singular is hairdo or do, plural is hairdos or dos. Thankfully it's easier to discern the difference (in words/meaning) when talking. Spelling can definitely complicate it especially since for uncommon spelled words in plural, we have an affinity for throwing an apostrophe. I'm guilty of it too. 

Edited July 12, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[Crazy Cat 41,858]

During my infrequent trips to local businesses, I see almost no one without a mask now.

Edited July 12, 2020 by Lucky Cat

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

29 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Shouldn't be an apostrophe. Singular is hairdo or do, plural is hairdos or dos. Thankfully it's easier to discern the difference (in words/meaning) when talking. Spelling can definitely complicate it especially since for uncommon spelled words in plural, we have an affinity for throwing an apostrophe. I'm guilty of it too. 

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