There never was a statewide mask mandate. It was being regulated at the county level. This overules counties (e.g. Orange) that have rescinded (or never instituted) mask mandates.
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Oregon is opening up playgrounds starting today. We live a couple blocks away from one of the bigger playgrounds so it'd be trivial to get my daughter in there early in the morning, but contact infections are still a risk. Are there any actual studies that tracked infections through playgrounds and such? All I can find are "expert opinions" which generally err on the cautious side, and the city website just says "practice social distancing!" At this point I think it's best to err on the side of caution and not go there at all, but that's only going to work for so long if she sees kids playing there.
Since I'm part of the safety committee at work I've been able to pitch in my concerns. I've basically told them that 1) wife is high risk group (autoimmune disease) and 2) we have 2 kids with no childcare now, and they said accommodations will be made -- I'm certainly not the only one in this situation, either.
Since I'm part of the safety committee at work I've been able to pitch in my concerns. I've basically told them that 1) wife is high risk group (autoimmune disease) and 2) we have 2 kids with no childcare now, and they said accommodations will be made -- I'm certainly not the only one in this situation, either.
Starting next week my wife has one week in office, two weeks at home, as a start of easing back into the office. They're rotating people in and out so it will be very few people who are actually in the office at one time. I don't think they've lost any productivity with most everyone at home up to this point, but we'll see how this goes.
So one of the Sherrifs here in AZ had a rally last week. A rally that had virtually no masks.
...He tested positive for Coronavirus this week.
www.azfamily.com
And who knows how many other people may have been infected at the same rally. Given that we know large public events without masks can act as super spreader events - How much of a shitshow are we expecting next week following Trump's campaign rally this weekend?
...He tested positive for Coronavirus this week.
Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb tests positive for coronavirus
The sheriff for Arizona's third-most populous county said he believes he came into contact with an infected person on Saturday at a campaign event.
And who knows how many other people may have been infected at the same rally. Given that we know large public events without masks can act as super spreader events - How much of a shitshow are we expecting next week following Trump's campaign rally this weekend?
In Finland there was technical trouble getting today's numbers so new infections could be either 14, or 2.
They don't know yet which one.
Hopefully it's 2 because for the last two days there's been only 4 infections per day.
R0 is 0.40 - 0.80 right now, so if the same trend continues there should be almost no new infections reported soon at all.
They don't know yet which one.
Hopefully it's 2 because for the last two days there's been only 4 infections per day.
R0 is 0.40 - 0.80 right now, so if the same trend continues there should be almost no new infections reported soon at all.
Coronavirus hospitalizations
NY, NJ, CT, PA, MI
5/1: 25,683
Today: 4,881
All Other States:
5/1: 26,687
Today: 23,304
NY, NJ, CT, PA, MI
5/1: 25,683
Today: 4,881
All Other States:
5/1: 26,687
Today: 23,304
That's because they are on a different parts of the curve.
Ridiculous, I still remember the initial reports. Went as expected...Rank incompetence. $7.3 million down thetubesoda bottle.
The Trump Administration Paid Millions for Test Tubes — and Got Unusable Mini Soda Bottles
The plastic tubes supplied for coronavirus testing by Fillakit, a first-time federal contractor with a sketchy owner, don’t even fit the racks used to analyze samples. And they may be contaminated anyway.www.propublica.org
4 fucking days into our return to the office and some one that was there today tested positive tonight. We kept telling people that if you don't feel good to stay home, you could just WFH if you felt able enough or take PTO. But fucking no, they came in all week. I didn't have close contact with this person luckily and wore a mask and kept sanitizing every time after i got up, but that doesn't mean I didn't get anything and this person sat near a lot of people. Now we are back WFH for at least the next 2 weeks, and they already told us and masks and tempersture checks are mandatory whenever it does open again. I'm angry, scared I might have gotten something, and just shocked.
I talked to someone that sits near this person tonight and apparently they could all tell that they were sick today at least and this person had close no mask contact with them all week so they are scared shitless now.
Why didn't people say anything? Before Illinois closed down, another employee and I flipped out and left, telling our boss we weren't coming back until they figure shit out because there were two sick employees at work. That was when there were like no known widespread cases of it. I can't fathom tolerating sick people at work now that this thing is everywhere.
Belgium: Seems like a bad day compared to the previous, although weekly trend is still down everywhere. 12 new deaths, 10 from hospitals and 2 from retirement homes. 20 new hospitalisations, which is up, but only 27 discharges which is down. It does mean only 340 beds are used anymore, which is still a drop. Drop on intensive care as well, down 5 to 55. Considering the number of hospital deaths, this drop has a sad and easy explanation. R0 seems to remain 0,87 like the last week, but again a busy day, 128 new infections, out of 15.430 tests.
This is why it makes no sense for offices where people CAN WFH should try and go back the first day it's possible. It's only a matter of time before this exact situation happens, and will happen again and again. Employers who force people back are just putting everyone at unnecessary risk
These dumbass employers are just like the rest of these "leaders" in America...putting money before the health and safety of their employees.
Any job that can be done from home should be done from home until at least the end of the year. Employers that rush their talent into the offices are indisputably dumbasses
We've got no known active cases and no new positives in three weeks.
The president of my company is still urging those of us who can work from home effectively to continue doing so. I am hoping this remains the case well into the "new normal" should my province continue controlling the spread.
I have to go into the office from time to time and would prefer the less people there the better. But some people are eager to isolate in their tiny office for some reason.
The president of my company is still urging those of us who can work from home effectively to continue doing so. I am hoping this remains the case well into the "new normal" should my province continue controlling the spread.
I have to go into the office from time to time and would prefer the less people there the better. But some people are eager to isolate in their tiny office for some reason.
People gave huge pushback and the Executives were so upset when people didn't want to come back to the office. One of them told me "that says a lot about someone's character ". I nearly lost it on my boss when he told me that. At this point it was mandatory for people to go back at least twice a week and I guess this person was there all week and visibly sick yesterday. With people not taking masks seriously here this was bound to happen eventually, but i can't believe it did immediately. This entire situation was completely avoidable but our greedy ass corporate overlords got angry when only like 10% of our staff came in when the office first opened back up "voluntarily ". Almost everyone in the company can WFH, this whole thing was needless and now potentially dozens of people are sick.
It's not even that, If your employees can work from home that should save any company some money. It's most likely the (middle) management being control freaks more than anything.
I was on a team meeting yesterday and the lead told us there are no plans to reopen our office. Management has all but confirmed they will downsize the physical office space so they can save some money. My direct manager polled our team about WFH permanently. The management seems pretty happy with our productivity so there is no rush to have people back in.
So, uh, it appears Spain has messed up.
https://www.abc.es/sociedad/abci-sa...ndo-morian-68-media-202006182143_noticia.html
The news is behind a paywall, but the gist of it was the official government numbers were super low in terms of deaths per day - many of those being 0 deaths apparently- since late May, while in reality, an average of 68 people died every single day.
So... uh yeah... things seem a bit messy over there. We're talking about at least 1.437 deaths that were missing since late May.
https://www.abc.es/sociedad/abci-sa...ndo-morian-68-media-202006182143_noticia.html
The news is behind a paywall, but the gist of it was the official government numbers were super low in terms of deaths per day - many of those being 0 deaths apparently- since late May, while in reality, an average of 68 people died every single day.
So... uh yeah... things seem a bit messy over there. We're talking about at least 1.437 deaths that were missing since late May.
I'm on the other side of the spectrum. While I like my coworkers I would love to permanently work from home. My quality of life has increased substantially.
I am going to wait until there's more info from another newspaper, ABC I don't exactly like, but I can't think any way this could be real. The change in reporting was suspect as fuck, but going from 0 to 68? No way it wouldn't have been noticed.
I like working in a office as it is a clear separation between my work and personal life. I can focus just on work and when the work day is over, it truly is over. So, I'd be fine going back to normal. But my job has always had the potential for WFH. If the weather called for snow, we brought our laptops home and it was a WFH day. Most of the management only appeared in the office once or twice a week and we've increasingly becomiea company with workers in multiple states across the US. It seems like the office (well 2 actually as we opened one in another state 2 years ago (?)) would be available to those that need it, and for when we have meetings, but otherwise the expectation will be WFH. I enjoy working with my co-workers and having lunch with them, so it's a bummer in that regard. My commute was never that bad either. Still, I've enjoyed seeing my wife and dogs more. So I've kind of accepted this new situation. I think I might go in once a week when the office reopens. Hope that fulfills that socialization aspect a little.
Yep, it has been here for a looooong time. I've got no idea why it took so long to surface however. It might have traveled inside China for months before that.
Ideally it's fake, yeah.
No idea about ABC's reputation though. Landed there from reading the news on Portuguese media first (they all mentioned ABC).
They went from 50-100 a day to 0 everyday in may. The numbers were obviously wrong :(.
It is the newspaper most aligned with VOX, the far-right party, so it is suspect they are the only ones saying this (for now).
Ah roger that. Had no idea. I can remove the link and replace it with one in Portuguese if need be, just figured posting the actual source would make more sense.
Don't worry, it is the same info, but yeah, the source is not the best.
Just read what happened, it seems it wasn't really a coverup, but there were some issues in the data so they stopped releasing data until today.
28313 deaths is the new number. 180 deaths in the past two weeks.
So shitty, but not what ABC said.
Gotcha. Still all of this could have been a non-issue if they hadn't changed the reporting method out of the blue. Weird move in the end.
My downstairs neighbor tested positive, though I haven't interacted with them in a week or so. My doctor said to get tested anyway even though I don't have any symptoms or anything. I guess it's a good thing I'm able to? Not looking forward to the whole swab shoved all the way down my nose but oh well.
If you've ever had a test for strep, the nasal swap is less worse.
They go down the nose right? I always gag with the strep test to the back of the throat so I'm hoping that I don't with this.
Strep swab is down your throat still right?
I had strep as a kid. The prescription pills they gave me were the largest pills I've ever seen and that's when my throat has hurt the worst I'm my entire life. Doctors can be dumb sometimes.
Yeah strep is down the throat, covid the nose.
The gagging with the strep test is bad. And yeah it also left my throat pretty raw. But there's not a similar mechanism for the nose. It doesn't feel pleasant but also not terrible. And didn't leave my nose feeling raw (this is also just my experience so maybe I got lucky).
I still remember the swab being covered with green mucous when they took it out of my throat and that was like 28 years ago or something.
Cool. Well, here's hoping it's easy and painless, and also obviously that I don't have it, haha.
Yeah, King moving to phase 2 already seems crazy. However people in Seattle seem to be good about wearing masks, let's hope they can keep it up.
Chile update June 19th
+ 6.290 new positives, 231.393 total
+ 252 new deaths, 4.093 total
+ 20.347 reported tests, 923.513 total
1.645 connected to a ventilator, 395 in critical condition, 322 ventilators avaliable
Death toll it still isn't updated, it should be more than 6.000 by now.
Daily positivity at 27,6%, total positive rate is 25,1%
Chile's capital is now the fourth city/state with the highest current cases.
+ 6.290 new positives, 231.393 total
+ 252 new deaths, 4.093 total
+ 20.347 reported tests, 923.513 total
1.645 connected to a ventilator, 395 in critical condition, 322 ventilators avaliable
Death toll it still isn't updated, it should be more than 6.000 by now.
Daily positivity at 27,6%, total positive rate is 25,1%
Chile's capital is now the fourth city/state with the highest current cases.
So, that one meat plant in germany? 730 new cases as of 7 hours ago. 7000 people working there and I think not even half have been tested yet. Many of the people working there are actually from eastern europe and drove back home over the long weekend we had last week.
Seems like that was a really bad idea.
Here is a english news from yesterday:
edition.cnn.com
Seems like that was a really bad idea.
Here is a english news from yesterday:
Germany reports 650 new coronavirus cases in a meat processing plant | CNN
Germany is racing to stop a new coronavirus outbreak after 650 workers at a slaughterhouse in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia tested positive for Covid-19.
edition.cnn.com
It's been a while:
South Africa is by far the worst effected country at the moment with 83,890 cases as of June 18th. Egypt now holds the highest number of deaths with 1,938 as of June 18th despite having far fewer cases with 50,437.
Algeria and the other North African countries seem to be doing the best right now.
As for Nigeria... well it just recorded its highest number of cases yesterday with 745 new cases as of June 18th for a total of 18,480 total cases. That makes it the third highest number of cases for African countries. Lagos and KanovState as well as the FCT (Abuja) all have more than 1,000 cases, but nearly 2/3 of states have over 100 cases now and none of them are showing signs of slowing down.
South Africa is by far the worst effected country at the moment with 83,890 cases as of June 18th. Egypt now holds the highest number of deaths with 1,938 as of June 18th despite having far fewer cases with 50,437.
Algeria and the other North African countries seem to be doing the best right now.
As for Nigeria... well it just recorded its highest number of cases yesterday with 745 new cases as of June 18th for a total of 18,480 total cases. That makes it the third highest number of cases for African countries. Lagos and KanovState as well as the FCT (Abuja) all have more than 1,000 cases, but nearly 2/3 of states have over 100 cases now and none of them are showing signs of slowing down.
