Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I go along with the sentiment, of course, and I've followed the prescribed precautions. But I actually think the problem is still the opposite: Despite all the recorded cases and deaths, I still don't know anybody who has been diagnosed with it. And I doubt I'm the only one who can say that.

 

Joel Embiid was not wrong to put on that hazmat suit before arriving at Disney World, although I sure wonder where a 7-footer finds a hazmat suit.

 

Alabama: 7 day new cases - 1140. 7 day % positive - 14.69

 

I am once removed from knowing someone, but I'm preparing to have that changed when school resumes if current plans hold.

 

So consider yourself lucky?

 

And you're absolutely right. Too many people still think of this as an abstraction, particularly where we live. We can see the numbers going crazy, and yet people aren't doing the things necessary to get control of this because they can't (or won't) comprehend the consequences. Our little tourist trap town is a hot spot just waiting to happen, and we're trying desperately to avoid having to leave the cabin on weekends. But now that it's summer, any trip to the grocery could be that one bad decision that we've tried so hard not to make so far.

 

That's good, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is less than you think, but still an issue. I may be in the vast minority but I am friends with two, one who was hospitalized. Then if you go with friends of family members it goes up to six. Finally, I am friends with people who know two others who have died, both under 45. One was the husband of a teacher at my oldest's high school.

I will say, I don't know of anyone who has had it since April. So I guess that is good. All were in Colorado, too, which probably shows things are decent here. But it could be something similar to ignoring it now and again because even if you knew people it could have been months ago so now things are OK now.

 

I do. So what?

Whether someone has been personally touched by the disease, or their family or circle of friends has - or no one they know has - the ICUs in Florida and Texas are still full of people who have, and there are many more yet to come and no ICU beds to put them in.

I didn't know anyone who was killed on 9/11. Did you? Am I supposed to pretend that it didn't happen?

If we wait until everyone in the country knows someone who was hospitalized or died of Covid before we do what is needed to break the pandemic untold numbers of people's lives will be damaged.

 

I looked at his Facebook page yesterday just like tons of people obviously did. I don't know what I was expecting, but it made me sad. It also made me sad how many assholes felt the need to comment on his posts. He may not have had the smartest of posts but he also didn't ask to die and his family surely didn't want anything bad for him. It's amazing how heartless people are. I felt a lot the same that this poster did.

 

As of yesterday, 21 states have statewide mask requirements in public; of them, 18 have Democratic governors.
In all, 18 of the 24 Democratic governors (75%) have imposed these measures.
Of the 26 Trumpist governors, three (11.5%) have done so. Two of those three are Maryland and Massachusetts, which are reliably blue states. The other -- and this is wacky -- is West Virginia, where the governor is insane and the disease has had a surprisingly low impact.
It's too soon to tell what the impact of these directives have been or what they will be.

 

Probably the worst of the Trumpist Governors is DeSantis in Florida.


Florida’s COVID-19 cases top 250,000 with 10,360 new cases and 95 new deaths reported

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article244146797.html