Russia is actually not considered part of the West. The West is the Americas + Europe or the OECD countries, give or take a few.
Our county is averaging 40-50 new cases a day and they are reopening schools on a hybrid basis to grades PreK-2 starting Monday. With a week and a half til Christmas break. Then in January they'll start bringing back more grades every couple weeks. I and many others think it is the dumbest idea in the world. I get that they have to figure out how the mandatory testing of students and staff is going to work out, but I get the feeling they're hurrying for some reason.
They say school will go back to in-person mid-January. I don't think they will, because nothing between now and then is going to make numbers better, it has a real chance of getting much, much worse as people get fatigued with being careful and doing what is right and say fuck it I'm going to see my family. I'm fucking busy, I don't have time to be a teacher. I don't blame schools for the closure, we were already considering taking him out after seeing what happened with the Thanksgiving holiday with my own family. Even if they do go back to in-person, I think we will likely keep him out and base his return on our own consideration of the risks.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...which-hospitals-are-dangerously-full-is-yours This is game changing in terms of data and visibility. Use this tool. Keep in mind, it takes a sizeable chunk of folks 28 days to go from exposure to sick to hospitalization to discharged/dead. So the folks hospitalized now will be there for 10-14 days and the folks getting exposed now will show up in 3-6.... This is the nightmare we are facing: you are sick and there is no bed or staff to provide you care. Yall saw how people acted when there wasn't toilet paper....imagine how bad it gets when you can't get a doctor....
That is eye-opening. While our county has relatively low Covid numbers, 86% of the beds are filled with 20% of those being Covid patients. Now isn't the time to relax our precautions, cause if we get it, there very well may not be anywhere to go for treatment. That bed space is going to continue to fill up with people that weren't careful, didn't take all available precautions, traveled needlessly for the holidays, leaving people that tried to avoid infection as best as possible with no bed to lay in. That's the sad thing, and something I was saying back in the beginning.
Hospitalization for Covid is up 230% here in the past month. Positivity rate over the past 2 weeks is 21.2%. The scariest part is this: "Dr. Madison adds that the state has not yet seen the impact of those who traveled for the Thanksgiving holiday."
No Drinking Alcohol For Two Months After Sputnik V COVID-19 Vaccine Shot They would probably have better luck telling fish to stop swimming.
There's a lot of numbers floating around about percentages, bed availability, etc. But here's what people aren't talking about, at least locally: Staffing shortages means a percentage of those beds are not even available to be used, especially in an ICU setting. Our two hospital systems here are scrambling to find the necessary staffing for what could be a tsunami of new patients.
Because maybe Sputnik was the first satellite ever(I think) and maybe their “vaccine” was also the first one. I’m just spitballing though.
I'm from the UK so don't pay too much attention to the US figures but look at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ every now and then. Those figures are just depressing.
We are working this issue. And the solutions are not great. Most of this assumes the medical staff themselves don't get sick. 80% of hospitals do not project a staffing shortage, and 20% do. That number scares me. All other arguments aside, we need a better centralized Healthcare system because of the shit show we are experiencing with 6600 different systems operating under voluntary reporting requirements.
We had an Ebola Czar, I assume that was someone able to coordinate and implement measures at the national level? Sounds like something the CDC should have the authority to do, it's in their name after all.
....the ass in assume in this circumstance only has about 40 days left.... The question is what measures? What sort of power do we have to produce nurses/doctors? There's a bit of a logjam at the top to do some of this stuff, but the core issue is what can we do that an individual states or hospitals aren't already doing?
It's been a week since I've potentially been exposed and I don't feel the best today but I'm pretty sure it's because I'm hungover. I'll see how I feel this afternoon. Hopefully get my test results back soon. Edit - Feeling much better now so it was the wine/hazy IPA combo that did me in
This is not a trivial issue. I’m so frequently hungover that is difficult to tell why I’m feeling shitty on a given day. Am I dying in the short term, or in the slightly longer term? I’ve had to consciously ramp down the drinking a few days a week, for purposes of accurately evaluating my health re COVID.