Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

50 percent Democrats, the other 20 percent employees forced to wear them at work.

 

We are! @BTExpress is getting a haircut.

 

In my family we have even been getting our groceries delivered. I think it is a little bit more expensive, but our thinking is that we are saving in other ways right now, such as not going to restaurants or NHL games. We have been going on family walks and bike rides, however.

 

PRO TIP for anti-maskers: If your mask is causing a pain in your ass, you’re wearing your mask wrong.

 

Won't believe it until I actually have an appointment. Place in the neighboring state is still four days from opening. Wife loves the longer hair, though. So there's that.

 

I think you can. These are our numbers WITH social distancing, wearing masks and more than ever hand washing. This is more contagious than the ordinary flu. We don't use all of these preventions for the flu and the death numbers for flu and covid are very different.
I agree we should be opening more, I had tons of stuff planned this summer, selling property moving out of state, bath renovations--I am going through with after delays--and exploring frickin swimming holes in Vermont. That and more just like everyone else. I can't even think of all the bad things that are happening across the country because of this. It actually, physically hurts.
So we need to focus and aim all of this to the mf'er in charge. No one is to blame more than the malignant narcissist. We need to , as a county, focus on his responsibilities. We have done a pretty good job with ours and he needs to do his job. Be a national leader during a national crisis. For once.

 

Yes. But for the most part masks and hand washing are not mandated. They're part of people deciding for themselves to be careful and/or courteous, just as people are when they cover their noses when they sneeze.

It's the "government-mandated" measures (closings of parks, Joe's Shoe Repair, etc.) that are impossible to quantify as to whether they did more harm than good.

 

With what tests?

 

They don’t see themselves as making a statement. They think you are the one making a statement by wearing one.

 

we closed things and are up to 80,something. I don't understand why that is not clear. Look at all the measures taken and the results. I don't care who took them or what is mandated, the fact is we did 3 major things and we have 80,something people die in a very short time.
and if by harm you mean financially, again, you need to take that up with the guy in charge. I agree that lots of harm is being done. In so many ways to so many people.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...a0ccd4-945f-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html

This is huge if the sensitivity and specificity of the test are good and the test is reliable.


"Andrew Brooks, a Rutgers University molecular neuroscientist, remembers clearly having a long nasopharyngeal swab stuck up his nose in search of evidence of a virus. “It was terrible,” he recalls. “It felt like someone was poking the front of my brain.”

Now Brooks, who is also the chief operating officer and director of technology development at a firm called RUCDR Infinite Biologics, has come up with a coronavirus test that relies on nothing more than spitting into a cup.

His firm has won emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for saliva tests that people can perform at home. It’s a breakthrough in a nation that has struggled to expand coronavirus testing to the degree experts say is needed to safely return the country to some degree of normalcy.

Unlike tests conducted with nasal swabs, the saliva test does not require travel to a testing center. There are no perilous face-to-face encounters with technicians wearing masks that have been hard to come by. And there’s no need for the swabs that have also been in short supply. It’s just spit and mail to the Rutgers clinical genomics laboratory, with results within 48 hours."