Pandemic update, 8/27/2020.

 

Risky endeavors.

^        This applies almost everywhere in the country now. The comments are from the Stone County Health Department.

 “At this time the majority of our new cases are coming from family gatherings, church services and other indoor gatherings of people. When you gather a large number of people in an indoor space the risk of transmission of Covid-19 becomes very high.”

    Stone county, Missouri had seen a 29% increase and had 234 cases when they made that announcement. We’re on an upward trend as is Missouri as a whole. The data is a couple of days behind. I also track a regional hospital site that sends out notifications via email.

What that doesn’t mean?

    You can still catch COVID-19 in other places so precautions are always in order. Public places are riskier.

    When we eat with our cousin we eat out on the porch. We use hand sanitizer. We hold hands and pray. We stay masked until we eat and drink. We maintain physical distancing. The COVID-19 spread at family gatherings and reunions can be particularly sad. Just use these words to search and you’ll see what I mean. < covid-19 family gathering deaths > (I use Duck Duck Go to search because they don’t track you online.) Quite often it is local news sources doing the reporting.

    What you will also note in the cases that pop up is the resultant community spread that takes place. So in addition to taking out members of their own family they also endanger innocent bystanders.

Good job Sturgis Bikers! Good job!

    That of course brings up Sturgis. Sturgis Bikers went to Sturgis then returned home. Home turned out to involve 61% of the counties in the United States. Cases are now popping up in other states with links to the Sturgis motorcycle rally. Eight states so far. South Dakota is also seeing a surge but their Republican Governor is just basically saying S### was happening anyway. Republican Leadership in general with a couple of notable exceptions is doing their level best to skew data and downplay deaths.

    DENIAL continues to be their main response which of course is why the United States has been hit so hard and will have tens of thousands more needless deaths along with a worsening economic situation.

Testing decline

“Anybody that needs a test gets a test.” -- President Trump, Mar 6, 2020. The link is to the video of President Trump saying this. He’s wearing his mark of the beast hat too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_XwC9IQKBc

^        In the video Trump also says that testing is important. This was before he decided that testing made him look bad.

^        Yes, testing is in decline. Testing is a key metric for containing the virus, ANY virus. The President thinks it makes him look bad and he’s all about appearances. So the Federal government stopped providing support for testing.

Trump solution

^        The Trump solution to control the Trump Virus is to stop reporting the cases. Simple. The White House is now in control of the data as well. Deaths will start dropping as well. (Not actual deaths, mind you.) Just the reporting.

Republican, Churches and Sturgis Biker death squads.

^        CDC guidelines now say that asymptomatic people don’t need to be tested even if they have been close to a person exposed to COVID-19. The President of the United States who said that everybody that wants one can get one now says, ‘nah don’t need to.’ And the CDC has been directed to reflect that position.

^        Stopping testing doesn’t stop the spread of COVID-19; it increases it. Stopping testing doesn’t stop people from getting COVID-19. Stopping testing doesn’t stop hospitalizations. Stopping testing doesn’t stop people from dying from COVID-19; it will cause more people to DIE. So now Sturgis Bikers have killed people across the country just because they wanted to drink, party and don’t believe the PANDEMIC is serious. Sturgis Bikers have also made contact tracing next to impossible thanks to their irresponsibility.

^        185,000 dead with 300,000 projected to die by December 1^st. (BTW, this projection just keeps going up. Every time the Trump Administration does something incredibly stupid more people start dying so the estimate totals have to be readjusted.) By October, millions of people will know someone that has either died or been hospitalized by COVID-19. Also there’s a good chance that we’ll hit 300,000 by the end of October if things don’t start getting a whole lot better.

^        Who would have guessed that the death squads would turn out to be Republican along with churches and Sturgis Bikers?

 Here’s what works

^        This is what the ignorant refuse to do that makes the Pandemic worse every day.

Ω  Wear a mask in public.

Ω  Keep your distance in public.

Ω  Avoid crowds, ESPECIALLY indoors! Outdoor gatherings should be avoided as well if physical distancing isn’t possible and people aren’t wearing masks.

Ω  Avoid eating inside restaurants. Take out can be safely done.

Ω  Avoid family gatherings. Birthdays, reunions and weddings have been notable COVID-19 hotspots since the beginning of the pandemic. Entire families get hit hard.

^        The above bullet points about masking and gathering applies to churches and ANY religion that has gatherings both large and small. There was a small congregation Presbyterian Church that got hit with COVID-19 because they became lax in implementing safety guidelines.

^        And yes, it is possible to get COVID-19 even if you do everything right. It’s a pandemic. Do the best you can for yourself and those around you.

Unless you’re rich or a Sturgis Biker.

^        The rich are having people tested for COVID-19 so they can still have get-togethers, drink and party. So it isn’t just President Trump that takes COVID-19 testing seriously in regards to personal safety. Pretty cool. The rich can afford for a concierge doctor to provide rapid testing for parties and get-togethers.

^        So the President, the rich and Sturgis Bikers have something in common.

 Just not the testing.