Starting on the 20th, all Walmart stores will be requiring all customers to wear masks. A good thing (several months too late, maybe), but it should also make for some great social media theater.
Itâs all fun and games until our well-regulated militia decide they donât need no mask in the Walmart
Oh, thatâs inevitable. We just had that guy that stabbed the 70+ year old because he had the audacity to tell him he should be wearing a mask.
And that dirtbag later tried to attack a cop with the knife and got lit up. Sean Ruis was his name, if you twitter search you will see all the gruesome details/videos.
Yeah, I saw it. He brought a knife to a gunfight.
Meanwhile, back at the plague:
The Piper is at the door and the son of a bitch wants to get paid. Daily cases again over 70,000 and daily fatalities are just shy of 1,000. Reopening without getting the numbers low enough, or putting the proper testing and tracking in place has been catastrophic.
Texas had a shit-eating day and is now down to the last four counties without a confirmed case. My money is on Loving County to be the last county standing. My friends and family in Texas are in Houston, S.A. and Austin and Iâm very worried.
California had a bad day also and is not yet bringing to curve down. Even N.Y. had an uptick in cases.
I hate this fucking bug.
The high case numbers are going to translate into high death numbers. From The Atlantic:
A Second Coronavirus Death Surge Is Coming
There was always a logical explanation for why cases rose through the end of June while deaths did not
There is no mystery in the number of Americans dying from COVID-19.
Despite political leaders trivializing the pandemic, deaths are rising again: The seven-day average for deaths per day has now jumped by more than 200 since July 6, according to data compiled by the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic . By our count, states reported 855 deaths today, in line with the recent elevated numbers in mid-July.
The deaths are not happening in unpredictable places. Rather, people are dying at higher rates where there are lots of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations: in Florida, Arizona, Texas, and California, as well as a host of smaller southern states that all rushed to open up.
The deaths are also not happening in an unpredictable amount of time after the new outbreaks emerged. Simply look at the curves yourself. Cases began to rise on June 16; a week later, hospitalizations began to rise. Two weeks after thatâ21 days after cases roseâstates began to report more deaths. Thatâs the exact number of days that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated from the onset of symptoms to the reporting of a death.
The article goes on to do some math to suggest that the death toll can reach unthinkable numbers. Itâs conclusion is sobering:
The point in laying out these scenarios is not that weâll reach 300,000 or 800,000 American COVID-19 deaths. That still seems unlikely. But anyone who thinks we can just ride out the storm has perhaps not engaged with the reality of the problem. As the former CDC director Tom Frieden has said, âCOVID is not going to stop on its own. The virus will continue to spread until we stop it.â
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Texasâ record fatalities today of 154 was sowed around June 23rd which had reported cases in the mid 5,000s. Deaths sowed today with over 12,000 cases will appear around August 7th and will probably be around 500 per day.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
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Well, the Houston deaths announced yesterday, were actually deaths from as far back as may.
https://twitter.com/houstonhealth/status/1283512231142055938?s=21
A single daily death count is tough to read into, in terms whatâs going on, because they lag so far behind. Hospitalization seems to be the truest indicator. Judging by that, we are in for a bad bad stretch. Hearing another stay at home for Houston is imminent.
Apparently Texas only tracks verified deaths as well, so probable deaths arenât included in the totals (as they are in, say, New York). It probably means the Texas death counts are understated.
Hidalgo has wanted to do something along these lines for a while. Sheâs taken to any TV network that will have her on to plead with Abbott to do something, or remove the handcuffs and let her do something.
Hereâs one recent appearance:
Here we go folks. There is no pandemic if canât count the cases.
U.S. coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC to HHS
Previously public data has already disappeared from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionâs website after the Trump administration quietly shifted control of the information to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Since the pandemic began, the CDC has regularly published data on availability of hospital beds and intensive care units across the country. But when Ryan Panchadsaram, who helps run a data-tracking site called Covid Exit Strategy, said he tried to collect the data from the CDC on Tuesday, it disappeared.
âWe were surprised because the modules that we normally go to were empty. The data wasnât available and not there,â he said. âThere was no warning.â
Well, at the very least, TEA has done some backpedaling. Texas ISDs can go 100% virtual for the entire fall semester without sacrificing state funding as long as a local health authority has ordered it. Still not as lenient as it should be, but a step in the right direction.
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Stand your ground!
Georgiaâs Governor Brian Kemp pulled an Abbott by issuing an order overriding local city and county mask-mandates. Mayor Keisha Bottoms of Atlanta - who along with her husband and son has tested positive for COVID-19 - is refusing to withdraw the mask-mandate she put in place for her city.
Kemp spoke to the press this morning saying that masks help, but he doesnât think mandates are necessary because Georgians will âdo the right thingâ. At the same time, his state government is suing Mayor Bottoms and the city council members personally, over the dispute. What a dick.
Heâs a republican. calling him a dick is redundant. (thanks Col for the correction)
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ITYM redundant.
Crap, yes I did, thanks. Brain hasnât engaged yet I suppose. Dumbassery overload from too much news I think.
What do you expect from a governor that took until early April to realize asymptomatic people with COVID-19 can infect others, too? Heâs an uneducated dick when it comes to COVID-19, just like his dear leader in the White House.