Coronavirus - the new pandemic

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

3 McDonald's workers hurt after customer attack over coronavirus limits, Oklahoma police say

Three workers at an Oklahoma City McDonald's were injured Wednesday by gunfire and a scuffle that appeared to have started because the restaurant's dining area was closed for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, police said.

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The victims, two females and a male — two of them 17 — were hospitalized and in non-life-threatening condition, she said. Two customers, a man and a woman, were in custody.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-mcdonald-s-workers-hurt-after-customer-attack-over-coronavirus-n1201681

America! Fuck Yeah!

well they DO want to return America to normal so... =/

[Darth Wedgius]

Might mean we've reached peak intensity, and there could be drop-off in the months to come.

I think it's more about thinking that the worst might not be as bad as feared. I think the number of active cases is still going up, but a bit more slowly, and fewer people seem to be ready to barricade the doors and break out the chainsaws.

The new cases per day in the US has been mostly going sideways, maybe a little bit down, but the number of people being tested is going up too, and I don't know if that means that the number of actual new cases isn't changing much or if the actual infection rate is going down more but we're better at finding the cases there are. I'm pretty confident at, as a whole, the US isn't getting rapidly worse, and that's better than where we were.

New York is looking a lot better as far as new cases per day goes. California's new cases per day is growing, meaning it's getting worse faster and faster, but the state government isn't shy about locking down and is still loosening up some instead, so I think they're not too concerned. It was never as bad as New York, and it isn't getting worse faster at the same rate New York was at its worst.

A lot of the more rural states have just not been hit that badly. Some states didn't even lock down and did OK. Alaska hasn't had a day of over 25 new cases AFAIK.

We'll probably have it at some level for a long time. People are still getting H1N1, the bug behind the 2009 epidemic.

World-wide... Europe is doing better. Asia seems to have done OK, though how bad it really hit China is anyone's guess.

A lot (far from all) of the southern hemisphere is poorly equipped to deal with a pandemic like this. Some of the countries will probably do OK, but it may be worse than what the US and Europe went through. With food production in the US being hit, though to an uncertain degree, US food exports may well be hit, and alarm bells are already ringing about famines down there. I'd say all they need is a plague of locusts to complete the set, but Africa is actually having a literal plague of locusts.

[Captain Crimson]

Might mean we've reached peak intensity, and there could be drop-off in the months to come.

I think it's more about thinking that the worst might not be as bad as feared. I think the number of active cases is still going up, but a bit more slowly, and fewer people seem to be ready to barricade the doors and break out the chainsaws.

The new cases per day in the US has been mostly going sideways, maybe a little bit down, but the number of people being tested is going up too, and I don't know if that means that the number of actual new cases isn't changing much or if the actual infection rate is going down more but we're better at finding the cases there are. I'm pretty confident at, as a whole, the US isn't getting rapidly worse, and that's better than where we were.

New York is looking a lot better as far as new cases per day goes. California's new cases per day is growing, meaning it's getting worse faster and faster, but the state government isn't shy about locking down and is still loosening up some instead, so I think they're not too concerned. It was never as bad as New York, and it isn't getting worse faster at the same rate New York was at its worst.

A lot of the more rural states have just not been hit that badly. Some states didn't even lock down and did OK. Alaska hasn't had a day of over 25 new cases AFAIK.

We'll probably have it at some level for a long time. People are still getting H1N1, the bug behind the 2009 epidemic.

World-wide... Europe is doing better. Asia seems to have done OK, though how bad it really hit China is anyone's guess.

A lot (far from all) of the southern hemisphere is poorly equipped to deal with a pandemic like this. Some of the countries will probably do OK, but it may be worse than what the US and Europe went through. With food production in the US being hit, though to an uncertain degree, US food exports may well be hit, and alarm bells are already ringing about famines down there. I'd say all they need is a plague of locusts to complete the set, but Africa is actually having a literal plague of locusts.

Either way, I am taking no chances. I'm maintaining a self-imposed quarantine on me, my mother, and my younger siblings for about a year. I think a second wave is coming. It did in WWI, though a lot of scholars speculate that was due to troop movements. Who's to say how bad it might be this time? I don't know. Wanna be prepared.

[Darth Wedgius]

Either way, I am taking no chances. I'm maintaining a self-imposed quarantine on me, my mother, and my younger siblings for about a year. I think a second wave is coming. It did in WWI, though a lot of scholars speculate that was due to troop movements. Who's to say how bad it might be this time? I don't know. Wanna be prepared.

That's probably a really good idea for everyone, or at least anyone who doesn't know they've already had it. And maybe a really good idea for them, too; the experts think that not having resistance to it after overcoming it is really unlikely, but there are hints otherwise. In any case, this bug spreads a lot more easily than the flu does, and the flu normally kills tens of thousands of Americans every year.

I'll be washing my hands and wearing gloves and limiting my contact with my parents (both a bit older than 70) for some time, and I won't be going to see a movie or going to a theme park any time soon unless they pay me.

[Captain Crimson]

Either way, I am taking no chances. I'm maintaining a self-imposed quarantine on me, my mother, and my younger siblings for about a year. I think a second wave is coming. It did in WWI, though a lot of scholars speculate that was due to troop movements. Who's to say how bad it might be this time? I don't know. Wanna be prepared.

That's probably a really good idea for everyone, or at least anyone who doesn't know they've already had it. And maybe a really good idea for them, too; the experts think that not having resistance to it after overcoming it is really unlikely, but there are hints otherwise. In any case, this bug spreads a lot more easily than the flu does, and the flu normally kills tens of thousands of Americans every year.

I'll be washing my hands and wearing gloves and limiting my contact with my parents (both a bit older than 70) for some time, and I won't be going to see a movie or going to a theme park any time soon unless they pay me.

It is sadly confining, and it does mean... I'm never gonna get a chance to hit the beaches this year. But hey, there's always next year, right? Wish those beach hogs had thought the same.

[Darth Wedgius]

There may be a role in vitamin D deficiency and Covid 19 mortality.

[url] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200507121353.htm [/url]
[url] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20058578v3 [/url]

This doesn't appear to be peer-reviewed yet, and this isn't the first study that's come out relating to Covid 19 that hasn't been fully evaluated yet. I made an earlier post about Ibuprofen and Covid 19 that doesn't appear to have been borne out.

And care should be taken in using vitamin D supplements as it is possible to overdose on vitamin D. In fact, there's a rat poison out there that uses vitamin D as its toxin.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

South Dakota governor THREATENS to sue Sioux tribe over road blocks that he says are ILLEGAL.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/11/us/legislators-south-dakota-governor-checkpoints/index.html

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Given how hard the Native American communities have been hit, and how the systemic disenfranchisement denies them a lot in the way of access to healthcare and clean running water, I can't say I blame them.

[GreyICE]

South Dakota governor THREATENS to sue Sioux tribe over road blocks that he says are ILLEGAL.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/11/us/legislators-south-dakota-governor-checkpoints/index.html

Armed intruders in the state capital and disrupting access to hospitals - look at these protesters exercising their rights.

Checkpoints for Native Americans, set up on Native American land to protect their communities - HOW DARE YOU

Do you think this country at some point started power popping stupid pills?

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

CEO Rodney McMullen is paid $12 million per year

Sales at his stores are booming

Multiple Kroger workers have died of COVID-19

But, as the pandemic rages, McMullen plans to rescind its $2/hour "hero bonus" for hourly employees in six days

https://popular.info/p/anti-hero