That’s some Wessonality.
It’s crazy for people to be pushing this virus on to school age kids assuming they’ll not suffer any significant effects. Even asymptomatic patients can have troubling effects from the virus. It’s called a “novel” virus for a reason.
PSU football doctor: 30-35 percent of COVID-19-positive Big Ten athletes had myocarditis
https://www.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article245448050.html
“When we looked at our COVID-positive athletes, whether they were symptomatic or not, 30 to roughly 35 percent of their heart muscles (are) inflamed,” Sebastianelli said.
“You could have a very high-level athlete who’s got a very superior VO2 max and cardiac output who gets infected with COVID and can drop his or her VO2 max and cardiac output just by 10 percent, and that could make them go from elite status to average status,” Sebastianelli said. “We don’t know that. We don’t know how long that’s going to last. What we have seen is when people have been studied with cardiac MRI scans — symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID infections — is a level of inflammation in cardiac muscle that just is alarming.”
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There’s been a sizable and contact-traced uptick in cases directly linked to HS football strength and conditioning programs.
Also, the UIL is sending a “strongly worded message” to all the schools after they saw videos of fans at HS games ignoring safety standards.
Yeah, I noticed that in the game they had on the tube here. Also, it was the same at the college game I watched. Nothing anybody does will get that subgroup to take it seriously. American society as a whole is unwilling to control this virus.
My mother has developed some indeterminate heart issues, possibly inflammation. She has tested negative a couple of times, but extreme fatigue and intermittent blood pressure issues. I wonder if myocarditis is the culprit.
If we have another day today like we did yesterday, Texas will take over the #1 spot for the state with the most deaths.
Actually NY and NJ have the #1 and #2 spots, so Texas is vying for #3. NJ, with the worst fatality rate is at 16,091 and NY is at 33,073. Hopefully no state will challenge NY.
Ho-lee shit. A study has been done on the Sturgis motorcycle rally and its effects on COVID spread in the US. The study uses anonymous cellphone data to determine where people came from and then compares that data to the increase - and the timing of the increase - of COVID cases in those counties.
Long story short: for a rally that had an estimated 460,000 attendees, it is responsible for about 266,000 COVID cases (19% of the country’s total number of cases from 8/2 to 9/2) and a public health financial impact of $12.2 billion. It would have been cheaper - and, statistically, would have saved about 8,000 lives at the current 3% mortality rate in the US - to pay each Sturgis attendee $20k to simply stay home.
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Yeah, but there wouldn’t have been fireworks at Mt. Rushmore…so…
I think the South Dakota Governor is a leading candidate to be Pence’s VP candidate in four years.
Things that make you go “hmmmm”:
Woodward sat on this information since Feb/March, while nearly 200,000 Americans died.
It’s still all on Trump, but how do you not put this out earlier? Like in March.
Gotta sell that book.
The Republican “prevent panic” spin is under way intensely, and Fauci disputes the book’s account.
Fuck Woodward’s book. Trump is on tape in February, knowing that COVID was airborne and deadly, and in March saying that it can hit young people too. He spent the next 6 months doing nothing about it and, worse, promoting behaviors that would actively spread the virus. He was admonishing a reporter for wearing a mask just last week!
I agree 100%. But that seems pretty clear to be the reason. I can’t think of anything else.
He got his 18th and final interview with Trump in July, I imagine he didn’t want to get his access cut off.
And of course it had to do with his book.
This is the correct framing of the question:
Bob Woodward should be ashamed of himself. He was integral in exposing the Watergate scandal as a young reporter with the Washington Post in the early 1970s. Nearly 50 years later, he sells out to increase book sales.
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I dunno. These are the same people who get stirred up into a panic about tan suits and letters of the alphabet.
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Here’s a good overview of the federal government’s utter failure to deal with the pandemic resulted in needless mass death, affliction, and economic calamity. Just in case anyone needs to be reminded of the forest for the trees.
For now, it is important to remember that many of the deaths and much of the economic hardship could have been avoided had President Trump acted on the intelligence and public health information he received before the coronavirus crisis began. His repeated abdication of responsibility has led to the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, and his continued refusal to lead is only lengthening and deepening the economic damage he has caused. The COVID-19 pandemic was the first real exogenous test President Trump has faced in his role, and it has become clearer than ever that he has failed. Unfortunately, things will likely get much worse before they get better.