Octopus Overlords

YellowKing wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 12:11 pm So my wife ran into my son's dental hygienist the other day who told her that she tested positive for Covid on Christmas Day. 3 days after cleaning my son's teeth. What really angered me is that the dentist office never notified us, so we certainly weren't quarantining.

It's almost been 2 weeks so hopefully we're in the clear, but it just goes to show that you never know where the bastard is going to try to take you out.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:09 pm It's why this is never going to end. There's an entire population of people that is going to do everything and anything they can to undermine any effort to make things better. We're desperately trying to empty the sinking boat and they're bringing buckets of water back in. Speaking of which:

Gov. Ricketts (R-NE) says undocumented workers at meatpacking plants will not be eligible to receive the COVID vaccine.

That’s at least 14% of Nebraska’s meatpacking workers, according to @MigrationPolicy

So very concerned about jobs and the economy that we'll intentionally not vaccinate workers we previously identified as essential.

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:54 pm Eligible? Does that mean they won't get no-cost vaccine or they won't be allowed to get the vaccine? I can see the former, and I can see a way they can still be vaccinated but the latter seems impossible.

Meatpacking workers are slated to receive the vaccination in Phase 1B, after first responders, utility workers, and educators, among others. The state was in Phase 1A as of Monday morning, with more than 36,000 doses having been administered to frontline healthcare workers and residents and staff of long-term care facilities.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:09 pm It's why this is never going to end. There's an entire population of people that is going to do everything and anything they can to undermine any effort to make things better. We're desperately trying to empty the sinking boat and they're bringing buckets of water back in. Speaking of which:

Gov. Ricketts (R-NE) says undocumented workers at meatpacking plants will not be eligible to receive the COVID vaccine.

That’s at least 14% of Nebraska’s meatpacking workers, according to @MigrationPolicy

So very concerned about jobs and the economy that we'll intentionally not vaccinate workers we previously identified as essential.

raydude wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:08 pm

If I were a billionaire I'd pay each and every one of those workers to stay home until that policy were reversed.

raydude wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:08 pm

If I were a billionaire I'd pay each and every one of those workers to stay home until that policy were reversed.

Defiant wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 4:04 pm On the plus side, I would imagine most or all of the members that are vulnerable have probably already gotten one dose of the vaccine, so any spike will hopefully be lesser than it otherwise would have been.

But those GOP members are still assholes.

The Meal wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 4:39 pm

Defiant wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 4:04 pm On the plus side, I would imagine most or all of the members that are vulnerable have probably already gotten one dose of the vaccine, so any spike will hopefully be lesser than it otherwise would have been.

But those GOP members are still assholes.

14 days to vaccine's full efficacy. 14 days after the second administration, that is.

China has placed 11 million people in the northern city of Shijiazhuang under lockdown after more than 100 new Covid cases were confirmed there.

Residents are banned from leaving the city and schools have also been closed.

More than 5,000 testing sites have been set up so every resident can be tested.

The new figures are the highest China has seen in more than five months. The country has been able to contain such outbreaks by immediately taking tough action.

This has involved consistently using mass testing when new clusters of cases appear, even if they seem relatively small.

Hebei province, where Shijiazhuang is located, reported 120 new cases on Thursday and all but one of those infections was in the city. Elsewhere in the country, 22 new cases were confirmed.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 6:28 pm Did it come in on the choo-choo?

Breaking: Small number of Covid survivors develop severe psychotic symptoms.
One former patient became so delusional he insisted he won a national election despite the overwhelming evidence he had his ass handed to him.

The most recent White House COVID-19 Task Force report shows the Greenville area and Spartanburg are among the hardest hit by coronavirus in the country.

The report ranks Greenville and Spartanburg with metro areas like Provo, Utah, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, among the mid-sized areas with the most cases per 100,000 people, highest percent positive rates and worst case trends over the last eight weeks.

The Greenville area includes Anderson and Mauldin for these measures.

Per the report, the Greenville area had 787 cases per 100,000 people in the seven days from Dec. 31 to Jan. 6. It is higher than any figure for the metro areas with between 250,000 and 1 million people.

Only Provo, Utah, had a higher percent positive in that time than Greenville.

Spartanburg was fifth on the list for the most cases per 100,000 people in this group of cities.

Cases per 100,000 people for cities with between 250,000 and 1 million people, according to White House COVID-19 Task Force report for Dec. 31 to Jan. 6:
Greenville: 787
Provo, Utah: 778
Evansville, Indiana: 757
Chattanooga, Tennessee: 676
Spartanburg: 674
Pensacola, Florida: 638
Ogden, Utah: 611
Tulsa, Oklahoma: 596
Knoxville, Tennessee: 586
Augusta, Georgia: 580

Percent Positive for those cities during that time:
Provo: 32.7%
Greenville: 31.3%
Tulsa: 29%
Spartanburg: 28.9%
Augusta: 25.3%
Evansville: 24.9%
Knoxville: 24.8%
Ogden: 24.3%
Chattanooga: 23.3%
Pensacola: 19.3%

The report was published Thursday.

NEW: Speaker Pelosi implementing FINES for members who don't wear a mask on the House floor

$500 fine for first offense.

$2,500 for second office.

Fines will be deducted from Member pay (no use of campaign funds or MRA for fines).

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 11:38 pm Hmmm..the numbers I saw suggested we were just shy of 390K today. We'll hit 400K by the weekend.

Kraken wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:26 am We're about to roll 13,000 here, btw.

coopasonic wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 12:25 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:26 am We're about to roll 13,000 here, btw.

Rookies!

-An Annoyed Texan (whose 14yo is getting tested this afternoon)

edit: On closer analysis it seems you are way ahead on a deaths per capita basis.

Max Peck wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 12:44 am It depends on whose numbers you believe are most reliable. The Johns Hopkins tracker currently says 380,361. The WorldOMeters tracker currently says 389,599.

The Meal wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:18 pm My initial thoughts for more deaths for fewer cases would be due to demographics:
-more elderly,
-more susceptible race,
-more susceptible health condition (weight, immunocompromised, heart health, etc.), and/or
-fewer hospital openings

New Minnesota data release today. It's really bad.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:18 pm

Max Peck wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 12:44 am It depends on whose numbers you believe are most reliable. The Johns Hopkins tracker currently says 380,361. The WorldOMeters tracker currently says 389,599.

I'm pretty sure that some of the discrepancy is due to the fact that they run on different time zones. They each have a slightly different 24-hour period.