COVID-19

happy jack wrote:

Scorpion wrote:

happy jack wrote:

First, worthless Leftist scumfucks sow panic, lock people down, and refuse to allow them to support themselves and feed their families.
Then, when it seems that these people are finally on the verge of being able to re-open their businesses, resume their livelihoods, and once again have the ability to feed their families, their businesses are burned down or otherwise destroyed, and curfews are put in place.
I don't believe in coincidences.

Yeah... It's all part of a far left conspiracy!

No, not a grand conspiracy - just standard operating procedure by the Left in an election year.
They cannot win based upon their ideas, and they cannot lose gracefully.
This is merely the preemptive whining and stomping of feet in the event that they don't get their way in November.

Sorry... I'm not buying this ham-handed explanation of your post.

 Try again!

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/coronavirus-george-floyd-protests-social-distancing-rules/

What Happened to Social Distancing?

It’s still mandatory — unless you’re looting, rioting, and starting fires.

Cardenas Ortiz-Sandoval’s mother, Guadalupe, died last month. Cardenas, 22, helped to plan her funeral. She was told by mortuary officials that the state of California would not allow more than ten people to attend her mother’s graveside service. Some family members were forced to stay home. Lifelong friends could not bury a woman they had known for decades. “So many public spaces are open,” Ortiz-Sandoval told CNN, “but a cemetery, which is open-air, is limited to ten per funeral.”
The family of Guadalupe Ortiz-Sandoval did not burn Los Angeles to the ground. They did not start riots. They, and millions like them, did not attend their loved one’s funeral service because the public-health authorities told them not to.
They did not start riots. They, and millions like them, did not attend their loved one’s funeral service because the public-health authorities told them not to.
As I write this piece, a policeman is scouring the streets in my ruralish Connecticut suburb, patrolling the neighborhood for congregants and other insubordinates of the social-distancing regime. It is nice outside. Many are sick of sitting indoors, or pacing the streets in solitude. Most have dutifully followed the orders of the public-health officials, epidemiologists, and chart-makers whom the media have coronated as our de facto shepherds through this pandemic.

………

Nurses in New York stood outside a hospital and cheered as protesters, some of whom were unmasked, packed together like sardines and marched through the streets to protest police brutality. The chair of the New York City Council’s health committee, Mark Levine, says that “if there is a spike in coronavirus cases in the next two weeks,” we ought not to “blame the protesters. Blame racism.”

……...

Words fail me.

A Randomized Trial of Hydroxychloroquine as Postexposure Prophylaxis for Covid-19

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RESULTS
We enrolled 821 asymptomatic participants. Overall, 87.6% of the participants (719 of 821) reported a high-risk exposure to a confirmed Covid-19 contact. The incidence of new illness compatible with Covid-19 did not differ significantly between participants receiving hydroxychloroquine (49 of 414 [11.8%]) and those receiving placebo (58 of 407 [14.3%]); the absolute difference was −2.4 percentage points (95% confidence interval, −7.0 to 2.2; P=0.35). Side effects were more common with hydroxychloroquine than with placebo (40.1% vs. 16.8%), but no serious adverse reactions were reported.

CONCLUSIONS
After high-risk or moderate-risk exposure to Covid-19, hydroxychloroquine did not prevent illness compatible with Covid-19 or confirmed infection when used as postexposure prophylaxis within 4 days after exposure.

Finally, some good news in the fight against COVID-19:
The simple acts of throwing bricks and destroying the businesses and lives of others have been shown to create immunity to the virus.



https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/06/09/abc-nbc-blame-reopening-covid-spikes-not-protests-and-riots

ABC, NBC Blame Reopening for COVID Spikes, Not Protests and Riots

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 9th, 2020 8:52 PM

As the country entered its third week of widespread mass protests for the death of George Floyd, the liberal media were trying to gaslight the American people on what was to blame for spikes in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. Tuesday saw ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News insist that states reopening their economies were to blame, and not the protests attracting thousands upon thousands of people.
“Troubling new signs tonight about coronavirus in some areas that reopened early. Hospitalizations are way up. A more serious indicator than the number of cases,” declared NBC anchor Lester Holt. He was echoed by correspondent Gadi Schwartz at the top of the report. “Tonight, a dramatic rise in coronavirus hospitalizations in some states among the first to reopen,” Schwartz said.
Schwartz went on to huff that “Texas [was] seeing a record-breaking number of hospitalizations, even as the governor moves to open bars, restaurants, and amusement parks to 50 percent capacity.” He then admitted that Georgia, the first state to reopen was not seeing any spike.
His intellectually dishonest suggestion came after Today co-anchor Hoda Kotb had pointed out the double standard of who was having social distancing regulations forced upon them. “For two weeks, protesters have hit the streets to fight for racial equality. But at the same time, some businesses, beaches, and churches have remained closed,” she said as an on-screen headline read: “Protesters Flood Streets as Businesses Remain Shut Down."
But that didn’t stop Schwartz from dubiously asserting: “But none of those latest numbers take into consideration what effect large crowds and protests around the country are going to have on the spread of the virus.”
What made his statement dubious was the fact that we knew coronavirus patients started showing symptoms as early as a few days after transmission, with nearly all showing symptoms in 10 days. The George Floyd protests were into their third week.
Over on ABC, Matt Gutman reported that “21 states” were “registering a rise in COVID...And 14 states, including Arizona, have seen their highest seven-day average growth since the pandemic began.” He blamed it on “The governor here lifting that stay at home order on May 15th. People gathering in large groups again at bars and restaurants.”
This was a continuation of Gutman’s line of complaint from Tuesday’s Good Morning America, where he chided President Trump for planning to hold a rally. After the network heaped praise on the protests for a large portion of the show, Gutman told chief anchor George Stephanopoulos: “And the cases are spiking because of a near-complete reopening.”
Both Gutman and Schwartz included soundbites of indignant doctors decrying efforts to return people to normal lives. “We probably knew what would happen by reopening too early on May 15 …  This may not be a spike; this may be a new normal until we get a vaccine,” one doctor told Schwartz.
And yet, many health care professionals were cheering on the protests, and claiming the benefit outweighed the risk. Apparently, families making enough to feed their kids wasn’t a significant enough benefit to re-open.

happy jack wrote:

This is what you write when someone even considers allowing barbers to resume cutting hair in order to get back to making a living ....

Heretic wrote:

The price of not kissing the Emperor's ring. Don't worry, though.  The people this kills aren't fetuses, so Republicans can still pretend to be prolife.

This will kill people, plain and simple.

A small comfort for the dead and dying.

There's the Deep State not letting the President kill their agents.

Back to work, fuckers! Enjoy your new pre-existing conditions.

This will kill people.

It'll be interesting to see how big of a viral cluster this created and how many die.

And now that orange muppet is trying to incite riots to force states to reopen, all of which is just going to kill a fucking ton of people since we're still not prepared, and pro-lifers like happy are just gleeful about it...  I knew conservatives were completely full of shit, but this is beyond the pale.

This is just starting and it's going to be really, really terrible.

.... let's have an honest conversation about what's currently happening and how bad it will be if that muppet and his protesters get their way and reopen long before the science says its safe.

This Japanese Island Lifted Its Coronavirus Lockdown Too Soon and Became a Warning to the World
Coming soon to the US.

Or just reopen the schools and hope nobody else dies.

So this'll increase the spread and kill even more people from rural counties that already lack the resources for such a pandemic.

The ever increasing pile of bodies will only get harder and harder to ignore and the lies will get harder and harder to tell.

Keep Lockdown, because YOU ARE SAVING LIVES

A lot of people are going to die. I cannot figure out why the WH is so intent on killing red state voters.

So that reopening is working out great, as predicted.

#AllLivesMatter, but only if politically convenient.

It's gonna get so much worse.

It will kill people, and they know it.

At least the GOP's proving they're the unsympathetic monsters we all knew them to be.  They're absolutely ecstatic that they don't have to hide it anymore.

It's obviously not safe enough, so the only way to restart the economy is to fool people into thinking it is and hope they spend enough before they die.

Again, there is no data to suggest that there's enough stupid people willing to risk death in numbers large enough to power the economy.  It's a fantasy; a very grim one.

You reap what you sow.

Turns out the GOP's "shut up and die, grandma" message isn't going over very well with... grandma.

Will you tell them how #prolife you are as they're dying?

New York barber cutting hair 'illicitly' during lockdown tests positive for coronavirus
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A barber who continued to cut hair at a shop in New York over the past few weeks in violation of the state's stay-at-home order has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, according to the Ulster County Department of Health and Mental Health.

In a statement Wednesday, the county health commissioner advised anyone who received a haircut in the past three weeks at a barbershop on Broadway in the city of Kingston, about 20 miles north of Poughkeepsie, to seek testing for the coronavirus.

Expect much more of this.

We wouldn't need such shelter in place rules had there had been an adequate response at the beginning.

We are so fucked. This rush to reopen with little to no safeguards in place is going to kill a lot more people.

The MAGA Hats are going to kill and hurt a lot of fucking people.

So now we have ten thousand evacuees during a national pandemic that lacks adequate contact tracing and testing on a good day. A situation that will be made even worse if anything happens to that chemical plant.

The most fascinating part about this pandemic is watching happy and conservatives like him rally around these ill advised reopenings, reopenings not backed by either economists or scientists, while at the same time ignoring actual economic warnings from economists or scientists when related to climate change.

Remember, the situation is so dire that the insurance industry is warning that large parts of the world will be virtually uninsurable due to the increased frequency of 500/100 yr storms and the subsequent flooding. There's report after report, from Wall Street, JP Morgan, insurance companies, banks, credit agencies, etc... yet Republicans can still barely acknowledge it even exists.  Happy's even admitted he just doesn't care.

But now during COVID...?  "The economy!!"  Please.   There's no honest concern for life or the economy. There never has been.  Kill a hundred thousand Americans with an avoidable plague, reopen without any safeguards in place and kill more, and burn the future of the planet.  There's no pile of dead Americans too big and no economy too devastated for conservatives so long as it "owns the libs."

Again, this shit will kill people.  And the only response from the conservatives is either silence or protests in support.  

Stay home. If COVID needs to kill people for a functioning economy, let it be willing Republicans.

Broke three records in one day, a day that's a COVID incubation period after Republicans on the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the stay-at-home order.

Just a coincidence. The two are totally unrelated.

Like... holy fuck....  there's one hundred thousand dead Americans and counting and he's acting like we should never have shut down in the first place. What the actual fuck?

.... and this is what you write when thousands, shoulder to shoulder, take to destroying the streets

Heretic wrote:

.........

Your Cricket Symphony in B Minor is deafening.

And we have discovered yet one more thing guaranteed to keep Heretic hiding under his bed.
My God - will it never end?
The only thing that would scare him more is if someone were to flush a toilet after coming home from his or her freshly-reopened workplace while cleaning up to attend services at his or her freshly-reopened house of worship, planning to afterward join friends and family at a freshly-reopened restaurant.
(Remember - mass gatherings of protestors and rioters have been found to not be a factor in spreading the virus, and to even suggest as much is an exercise in blatant racism - so no worries there!)

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-06-16/close-the-lid-flushing-toilets-spreads-coronavirus-study

Close the Lid! Flushing Toilets Spreads Coronavirus: Study

June 16, 2020, at 12:00 p.m.

TUESDAY, June 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A large cloud of virus-laden droplets can be released high into the air when you flush a toilet -- and it can hang around long enough to be inhaled by others, a new study says.
The new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can be found in the feces of infected people, and this finding suggests it could be transmitted through the use of toilets, according to the authors. The study was published June 16 in the journal Physics of Fluids.
"One can foresee that the velocity [of upward-flowing aerosol particles] will be even higher when a toilet is used frequently, such as in the case of a family toilet during a busy time or a public toilet serving a densely populated area," study co-author Ji-Xiang Wang, of Yangzhou University in China, said in a journal news release.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/06/23/county-officials-say-face-masks-are-exempt-for-some-as-long-as-theyre-not-white-n2571189

Who Would Have Thought? Masks Are Being Required But Only for Specific Races in One County.

Beth Baumann


Posted: Jun 23, 2020 7:50

The health director in Lincoln County, Oregon last week mandated that all people wear face coverings when out in public and continue with social distancing. There was, however, an exemption made for minorities to keep from being racially profiled.

From the directive (emphasis mine):
The following individuals do not need to comply with this Directive:
Persons with health/medical conditions that preclude or are exacerbated by wearing a face covering.
Children under the age of 12. Children over the age of 2 but under the age of 12 are encouraged to wear face covering but not required to do so.
Persons with disabilities that prevents them from using the face covering as described in this Directive. These persons must be reasonably accommodated allow them access to goods and services.
People of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face covering in public.
The decision comes after Oregon Gov. said beginning June 24th all Oregonians would be required to wear face masks in public. Lincoln County, however, decided to start earlier than the rest of the state, KATU-TV reported.


ReNika Moore, director of the ACLU's Racial Justice Program, told CNN back in April that minorities struggle to decide whether or not to wear a mask in public because of fear of being profiled.
"For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandana in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way," Moore explained. "Not wearing a protective bandana goes against CDC recommendations and increases the risk of contracting Covid-19, but wearing one could mean putting their lives at risk of getting shot or killed because of racially-biased targeting."


Shut the fuck up, please.