Quote: @purplefaithful said:
@ MaroonBells said:
How is your state doing? Pretty interesting...most states now show a definitive curve that has flattened. But look at Texas, Florida, MIssissippi and Arizona.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/new-cases-50-states
We had to re-open the economy, but some of those states really dialed it back too much at the wrong time - when key metrics were still going the wrong way.
They're paying the price now.
600 people a day are dying from Covid-19 in the US. Down from the peak of 2200 a day, but that's a daunting #, a sad one.
Headlines here are 4 bars in Mpls and in Mankato are responsible for some major spreads. Kids going out getting drunk and carefree. Probably getting laid too - god bless em.
Personally I think local govt's need to carry a big stick against these establishments for blatantly breaking the rules.
The insidious thing about Covid is you're not putting just yourself at risk being young and dumb, but everyone around you could be in trouble.
Yes, there seems to be a recipe for disaster when it comes to this...
One part personal freedom on a contentious level, one part mistrust of science, medicine and media, one part inability to empathize and one part invincibility of youth.
I expect SD to start trending upward again soon, I spent the last week working in the black hills, it was full of tourists and based on an unofficial tally California was by far the most followed by texas, Michigan, and Wisconsin....and not a lot of masks, what's funny is the youth are getting the blame, but most of the mask wearers I saw were the 20 somethings....i think it's a designer fashion thing that is emerging with that age group. Lots of 40+ walking around with their bare face sticking out.
Quote: @JimmyinSD said:
I expect SD to start trending upward again soon, I spent the last week working in the black hills, it was full of tourists and based on an unofficial tally California was by far the most followed by texas, Michigan, and Wisconsin....and not a lot of masks, what's funny is the youth are getting the blame, but most of the mask wearers I saw were the 20 somethings....i think it's a designer fashion thing that is emerging with that age group. Lots of 40+ walking around with their bare face sticking out.
It's another way to keep people divided. Blame the young people is easy for some. Everywhere I go I see young people wearing masks. There have been so many mixed messages on information about preventing the spread. It didn't have to be that way.
Quote: @BigAl99 said:
What a numbnuts. Says how 'capricious' the virus is, lol...yeah, no shit! Its a virus, its spread very easily! Who'd have thunk?!? Why didn't someone warn him! Say maybe wear a mask or something?? LMAO.
Quote: @StickyBun said:
@ BigAl99 said:
What a numbnuts. Says how 'capricious' the virus is, lol...yeah, no shit! Its a virus, its spread very easily! Who'd have thunk?!? Why didn't someone warn him! Say maybe wear a mask or something?? LMAO.
"Funny how capricious this thing is." Yeah, funny, dude. It's almost like it floats in the air, at the will of the the wind.
Here's (imo) a fantastic perspective on Covid-19; the challenges it represents for grieving, how it manifests itself in our national psyche...
Lack of collective mourning shows way pandemic has altered griefImagine for a moment that 1,000 domestic passenger planes crashed in a few months’ time and that the country was being jolted by a new wreck every few hours, day after day, for weeks.
That represents the massive loss of life — more than 125,000 people — that COVID-19 has inflicted on the country, said David Kessler, a Los Angeles-based author and grief expert.
But because so many of the virus’ victims have died in quarantine, and their funerals have been delayed or downsized, there have been few visuals to illustrate the loss. Without photos and stories of the dead to stir our emotions, the pandemic has yet to spur the prominent collective displays of remembrance that typically mark national tragedy.
There has been no day of mourning, like the one to commemorate victims of Hurricane Katrina. Nor much in the way of the candlelight vigils that often recognize those killed in mass shootings. Or memorial sites, piled with flowers and photos, such as those that emerged at ground zero in the wake of 9/11.
Though the United States’ pandemic casualties are now greater than those of World War I, the country has not acknowledged its millions of mourners with so much as a, “ ‘So sorry for your loss,’ ” Kessler said. Instead, “we’re all discussing trying to reopen: ‘Do you think we really need to wear a mask?’ ‘What about the bars, are they opening?’ ‘Can we go to the gym now?’ ”
This lack of recognition can make working through a loss more difficult. Even before the pandemic, Kessler noticed a concerning correlation between people who were really struggling through their grief and those who had delayed holding a ritual.
“One of my biggest fears is that we are going to have this wave of people with complicated grief, because we’re a society now that’s allowing these grievers to be forgotten.”
The lack of collective mourning for COVID-19 victims is rooted in the way the pandemic has altered how we grieve
https://www.startribune.com/lack-of-coll...571524112/
The ongoing, elusive, and widespread nature of the threat has also contributed to the lack of collective response. Past pandemics — most notably the 1918 flu, which killed 675,000 Americans — have rarely been memorialized.
In many traumatic experiences, the events unfold in a matter of minutes or days, and then grief can follow. But there’s no one traumatic moment in a pandemic. And there’s no end in sight.
The virus’ continued spread has kept our brains in survival mode, which Ruggles described as “a place where we are stressed and preoccupied rather than reflective and present to emotional experiences like grief.”
Another pandemic anomaly: With a typical loss, the unaffected help the affected, but in this case, everyone has been affected — at the very least, by the fear of being infected — making it difficult to turn one’s attention to the grieving. “Everyone is self-consumed with their own survival,” Kessler said.
There are also circumstances unique to the United States that have led to our absence of national mourning. President Donald Trump has shied away from his role as consoler in chief, shifting focus away from the dead to deflect criticism of his leadership during the crisis.
But a president who fails to project empathy isn’t the only one to blame, said University of Connecticut history Prof. Micki McElya, who has written extensively on the politics of mourning.
“There’s been a failure among the American people,” she said. “Sure, the administration sets the tone, but it speaks to deeper divisions, and also to structural inequalities in this country,” she said.
Marginalized groups are overrepresented among the severely ill and deceased, particularly people of color, whose more limited access to good health care has led to chronic conditions that make them more vulnerable to the coronavirus.
In some ways, McElya said, the COVID-19 dead are being recognized in the uprisings around George Floyd’s death and the country’s racial disparities — among them the brutal effects of the pandemic on the black community.
“I actually think we are getting organic responses, and they are a part of this wider national reckoning with inequality and violence,” she said. “It’s the failure of the state to protect the citizens and to protect all citizens equally.”
While some American coronavirus victims have been honored in the media, there haven’t been events with the broad traction of a national moment of silence, like those recently observed in China, Italy and the U.K.
With the populace so siloed, and those most affected going largely unseen, it’s difficult for many of us to feel we have anything in common with those who have died of the virus.
https://www.startribune.com/lack-of-coll...571524112/
Quote: @Vikergirl said:
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/12765...33568?s=19
You can't make this stuff up. When others were advising that it was too early to open they were called names and oh "we have to reopen the economy".
I am waiting for our all knowing president to tell us what party the governors of these states are from.
The stupidity and lies of this administration knows no bounds.
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