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Post by cliffs on Nov 21, 2020 12:05:02 GMT
Donald Trump Jr. has the coronavirus, report both Bloomberg News and CNN.
The president’s son tested positive for the virus earlier this week, according to Bloomberg. He has been quarantining at a cabin since then, CNN reported. “He’s been completely asymptomatic so far” and is following medical guidelines, his spokesperson said in a statement.
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Post by LKeet6 on Nov 21, 2020 15:32:03 GMT
I live in Massachusetts and they just passed a quarantine guideline that states I have to quarantine for two weeks if I travel to any other high risk state. We shop right over the border in New Hampshire. We cannot do that now without quarantininfg when we get home. My bitch...what about the people who work in these others states but live in MA.? They come here and/or go there for 8 hours a day every day and move freely without quarantine. I shop for an hour once a week and must quarantine----HUH??? In the UK, we have this "tier" system now, to make it more regionalised. So if an area goes into tier 3 lockdown, it's similar to what you described, you can't cross into other regions. BUT, if you have a valid reason, eg work or caring for someone, you're able to cross. The whole situation is such a fucking mess. I will stick to my opinion: countries like the US and UK were fucked at the start. The delays and terrible leadership set the scene, and it was impossible to recover from that point. Because now, even "good" rules, like localising lockdowns, but allowing people to break rules for valid reasons, is not going to work, because people have no trust in the leadership. Worse than these issues, is the MASSIVE spread in conspiracy theories in countries that have handled it badly. Including from intelligent people with good politics; and the reason is obvious, terrible leadership and zero trust, means looking for other explanations than the science and experts who the govts are acting off. I do NOT think Sweden has handled this well. Their policy and decisions have lead to more deaths than any of their local, comparable, neighbour countries. BUT, the interesting thing with them is that, what could have been a disaster for them, only ended up with them being comparable (or even better) than some of the terrible countries, (who did lockdown!) because their citizens listen to what advice they're given, have trust in their leaders, and have a feeling of civic duty, completely lacking in countries like the US and UK. |
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Post by LKeet6 on Nov 22, 2020 11:55:11 GMT
Oh dear...
"Donald Trump appears to have admitted that coronavirus is “running wild” across the US, in contrast with his statements throughout the election campaign that the country was “rounding the turn” on the pandemic.
As new Covid infections in the US approached 200,000 a day, Trump took to Twitter on Saturday night to insist things were bad outside the United States as well: “The Fake News is not talking about the fact that ‘Covid’ is running wild all over the World, not just in the U.S.”
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Post by cliffs on Nov 22, 2020 13:58:58 GMT
Funny thing, all the news shows we watch are leading in with a worldwide pandemic.
Next, Donnie will blame Biden for this surge in the pandemic cases.
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Post by LKeet6 on Nov 22, 2020 14:05:19 GMT
Joe Rogan is dead to me.
He had Alex Jones on his podcast. Got 15 mill views in no time. Giving him a platform to spread his bollocks.
He pulled him up on some stuff, but said "you've been right about a lot of stuff." (Including covid.)
Wtf has been right about??
The conspiracy stuff over covid annoys the fuck out of me.
There's so much wrong with it. But the literally calling doctors and nurses liars is the one that gets me the most.
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Post by cliffs on Nov 25, 2020 11:43:41 GMT
The Texas native works the night shift as a charge nurse, a job that requires both treating patients and overseeing the other nurses in her shift. Last week, Kentucky recorded more than 20,000 cases of COVID-19, bringing its total to over 160,000. It’s one of many states where hospitals have exceeded 70 percent capacity. “Our volume has skyrocketed,” Molina says of the patients coming into her ER. “It’s just been really straining and draining on our staff.”
One of the more troubling things she has witnessed is that some individuals, even while battling the virus, still believe it’s a hoax. “We can only tell people it’s real so many times. We’ll have patients come up positive and they’ll say, ‘You're just trying to take our money’ or ‘You didn't do it correctly,” she says. “People have said, ‘No, I’m not going up to the COVID unit. I don't have it.’ How do you argue that? How much more real can it get?”
On top of patients who don’t believe in the virus, Molina has had to deal with an influx of “ER boarders” — individuals who have been admitted to the hospital but, because there are no available beds, must remain in the ER. “They’ve run out of rooms upstairs, so they’ve had to start double-bedding COVID-positive people. They call them bunk beds,” says Molina. “They're not actual bunk beds, they’re just two people in one room ... but the nurses who bring them up tell me some of them could hold hands if they wanted to.”
Thank you Donnie boy.
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Post by LKeet6 on Nov 25, 2020 18:43:53 GMT
Jesus...
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Post by cliffs on Nov 26, 2020 12:11:02 GMT
Separation of church and state?
WASHINGTON (AP) — As coronavirus cases surge again nationwide the Supreme Court late Wednesday barred New York from enforcing certain limits on attendance at churches and synagogues in areas designated as hard hit by the virus.
The justices split 5-4 with new Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the majority. It was the conservative’s first publicly discernible vote as a justice. The court’s three liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts dissented.
The move was a shift for the court. Earlier this year, when Barrett’s liberal predecessor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was still on the court, the justices divided 5-4 to leave in place pandemic-related capacity restrictions affecting churches in California and Nevada.
The court’s action Wednesday could push New York to reevaluate its restrictions on houses of worship in areas designated virus hot spots. But the impact of the court’s action is also muted because the Catholic and Orthodox Jewish groups that sued to challenge the restrictions are no longer subject to them.
The Diocese of Brooklyn and Agudath Israel of America have churches and synagogues in areas of Brooklyn and Queens previously designated red and orange zones. In those red and orange zones, the state had capped attendance at houses of worship at 10 and 25 people, respectively. But the those particular areas are now designated as yellow zones with less restrictive rules neither group challenged.
The justices acted on an emergency basis, temporarily barring New York from enforcing the restrictions against the groups while their lawsuits continue. In an unsigned opinion the court said the restrictions “single out houses of worship for especially harsh treatment.”
“Members of this Court are not public health experts, and we should respect the judgment of those with special expertise and responsibility in this area. But even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten. The restrictions at issue here, by effectively barring many from attending religious services, strike at the very heart of the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty,” the opinion said.
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Post by cliffs on Nov 26, 2020 12:16:02 GMT
What started as a Midwestern surge has grown into coast-to-coast disaster.
Over the past two months, rural counties and midsize cities in the Great Plains and Upper Midwest have been the main drivers of the dizzying growth in U.S. coronavirus cases.
But the virus appears to have entered a new phase in recent days: The reason the country is continuing to break case records has less to do with North Dakota and Wisconsin than it does with swift resurgences of the virus in cities like Baltimore, Los Angeles, Miami and Phoenix and with first-time spikes in smaller cities away from the nation’s middle, like Cumberland, Maryland.
“Our people are tired,” said Maggie Hansen, chief nursing executive at Memorial Healthcare System in south Florida. “They’re tired, and they don’t see an end in sight.”
Coronavirus cases are emerging in their highest numbers of the pandemic, with more than 175,000 a day, on average, in a country that has seen more cases and more deaths than anywhere else in the world. More than 1.2 million cases have been identified in the United States in the past week alone, and the country is on pace to reach 13 million known cases in the coming days. Deaths are also rising fast, with more than 2,200 announced nationwide Tuesday, the most on a single day since early May.
The spread of the virus rages on in the Great Plains and the Upper Midwest. Iowa and South Dakota continue to report new cases at some of the highest rates in the country, and deaths there have reached their highest levels on record. But the pace of the spread has slowed in those regions while rapidly increasing in other, more populous parts of the country, including in California, where more than 17,000 cases were announced Monday, and in Texas, where more than 20,000 cases were announced Tuesday, the two highest daily totals of any state during the pandemic.
Have to say I am not shocked that the virus surge started in the midwest... mostly republican when you look at the election results and the election was how long ago? Of course with travel occurring after the election, this was going to spread and now with Thanksgiving upon us...heaven help us all.
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Post by cliffs on Nov 27, 2020 16:01:08 GMT
The innocence of children....
Heard at our at Pre-eating Thanksgiving day dinner.
Had my daughter and the 3 g-kids over for turkey day.
Before the meal we all give thanks (separately) to whatever we want to be thankful for.
Most of us it was family and friends, etc.
But leave it to the 6 year old: It was her turn and she thanked the usual suspects (family and friends) and then added - how come when we have a virus spike in our town, they close the schools and we go remote learning? Of course the adults in the room jumped on this with all sorts of answers. She just looked at us like we were all idiots. Her mom then asked, well honey what is wrong with our answers? She replied with this one question:
If we have to close schools and have travel bans and lockdowns, how do we still allow Santa to go to everybody's house around the world?
I love my G-kids, they keep us young at heart.
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Post by cliffs on Nov 28, 2020 21:39:46 GMT
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is said to be angry about the coronavirus pandemic and its economic impact, South Korea's spy agency said on Friday.
According to the Associated Press, Kim has ordered the execution of at least two people, locked down the capital of Pyongyang, and implemented other measures to slow the spread of COVID-19.
One of the two people who were executed was a well-known money changer in Pyongyang, who was reportedly blamed for North Korea's falling exchange rate.
North Korea's economy has suffered in recent months as the country was forced to seal its border with its biggest trading partner, China, back in January.
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Post by LKeet6 on Nov 28, 2020 23:30:46 GMT
I have a feeling those execution claims may be bullshit.
South Korea's spy networks and North Korea's propaganda machine are basically the only two ways any information comes out about N Korea; and both are completely and utterly biased.
Many of the negatives about N Korea are obviously true, but nobody seems to take into account how biased their rivals, especially S Korea, are...
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Post by cliffs on Nov 30, 2020 11:30:43 GMT
Are you happy, NFL? Are you getting what you want?
We know the answer to this, of course. The NFL, which for our purposes means the billionaire team owners and their bank accounts, is still being paid by the league’s broadcast partners.
It doesn’t matter how many people — players, coaches, staff and their family, and community members — are being needlessly put at risk. As long as the club owners are getting their money, they’re getting what they want.
League-friendly media members are touting that the NFL has gotten to Week 12 without canceling a game. They revel in the novelty that a practice squad receiver will be the Denver Broncos’ starting quarterback because the team’s top three quarterbacks were too negligent to wear a piece of cloth over their face while in meetings with a fourth who had tested positive for COVID-19.
The rational among us are just gobsmacked by the complete disregard for doing the right thing and setting the right example.
Across the United States, COVID is raging. It hasn’t just “gone away” as we were insincerely told it would. It has gotten worse. There are about 90,000 people currently hospitalized and that number grows daily, straining medical systems that in some places were already inadequate. In some places, needed surgeries are being canceled, as nurses and doctors are pleading with us to do the right thing, and their calls are being ignored.
But we have NFL games, so it’s all good!
It is not
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Post by LKeet6 on Nov 30, 2020 14:00:42 GMT
270k now.
That would put the "the 'real' number is only half what they're telling us" figure at 135k.
Just keeping track.
Genuinely would like to know what the two on the other site are saying now...
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Post by cliffs on Dec 6, 2020 21:26:51 GMT
Seven Washington state nursing home residents with Covid-19 died after staff members attended a 300-person wedding that violated the governor's coronavirus restrictions.
The deaths were at three nursing home facilities in Grant County, health officials said Thursday. They were men in their 70s, 80s, and 90s who had underlying health conditions, according to a press release by the Grant County Health District.
Four additional deaths are pending death certificate reviews.
The health department said it is looking into whether the deaths are linked to a Nov. 7 wedding in Ritzville, about 59 miles southwest of Spokane, but an investigation found that some staff members at the facilities had tested positive after attending the event.
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