The Coronavirus / COVID-19 Thread (Keep all related posts here)

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[snapsuch]

so if you are like me and order in food to avoid going out to the stores. have you considered if the food you have delivered is saf,
What if the people working at the restaurant you order from have this coronavirus, or the delivery guy?

[BrasSmonkey]

you fuckers are nuts!!!!!

[LuKenGas]

you fuckers are nuts!!!!!

which post triggered this comment?

[yobilinks]

Probably June 30ish things will be back to 80% normal

[gspotman]

What happened all of a sudden, there is a lot of rumble about opening up the country.

[chilli.domains]

If this stay at home continues much longer people are going to get used to it and not want to return to work and their normal way of life. It might be a kind of "Stockholm syndrome" for the Coronavrus.

[chilli.domains]

So I understand the concept of staying at home and not spreading the coronavirus in the population, at the same time are we causing more infections down the road by preventing "Natural herd immunity" with this stay at home plan.

[BrasSmonkey]

you fuckers are nuts!!!!!

which post triggered this comment?

go back and read all this nutty bullshit

[Nakedtruth]

Dumb fuck died from COVID-19, this virus has to be taken seriously, why millions of people are saying home, not getting up close to others. Other church's better learn form this dude. He was wrong and paid the ultimate price.

Gerald O. Glenn, a Virginia bishop who defied his state’s social distancing recommendations and boasted about his church’s packed pews amid the coronavirus pandemic, died over the weekend of complications from the virus, his church announced on Facebook on Sunday.

Glenn’s wife also tested positive for the illness, known as COVID-19. The couple’s daughter has since urged the public to “understand the severity and the seriousness” of the virus.

Glenn, 66, was the founder and pastor of New Deliverance Evangelical Church in Chesterfield, about 20 miles south of Richmond.

On March 22, in the last known in-person sermon he delivered at the church, Glenn boasted about being “controversial” and “in violation” of state social distancing recommendations, the New York Post reported.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/virginia ... 00626.html

[Sebs]

Going to packed places is not the right thing to do now

[born2bewild]

Another grim milestone has been passed, over 2 million people world wide are positive for the coronavirus.

[misty]

You have to sit down when reading this, it can be here until 2024

by: CNN Wire
Posted: Apr 15, 2020 / 04:06 AM PDT / Updated: Apr 15, 2020 / 04:06 AM PDT
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This may be the new normal for quite a while.

The US may have to endure social distancing measures — such as stay-at-home orders and school closures — until 2022, researchers projected on Tuesday. That is, unless, a vaccine becomes quickly available.

That’s according to researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who published their findings in the journal Science on Tuesday. Those findings directly contradict research being touted by the White House that suggests the pandemic may stop this summer.

The team at the Harvard School of Public Health used what’s known about Covid-19 and other coronaviruses to create possible scenarios of the current pandemic.

“Intermittent distancing may be required into 2022 unless critical care capacity is increased substantially or a treatment or vaccine becomes available,” they wrote in their report. “Even in the event of apparent elimination, SARS-CoV-2 surveillance should be maintained since a resurgence in contagion could be possible as late as 2024.”

The Harvard team’s projections also indicate that the virus would come roaring back fairly quickly once restrictions were lifted.

“If intermittent distancing is the approach that’s chosen, it may be necessary to do it for several years, which is obviously a very long time,” Dr. Marc Lipsitch, an author on the study and an epidemiology professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, told reporters.

Another important factor: Whether people become immune to the new coronavirus after they have been infected. That’s not yet known.

Potential challenges include finding a reliable test to determine who has antibodies for the coronavirus, establishing the level of immunity conferred by previous infection and how long it lasts, and the capacity of overstretched health systems to carry out reliable, widespread antibody tests in the general population.

There’s also the difficult social questions around immunity certificates, which have been floated as a possibility in the UK. Would they create a kind of two-tier society, where those who have them can return to a more normal life, while others remain locked down?

The study researchers say they are aware that such prolonged distancing, even if intermittent, would likely have “profoundly negative economic, social, and educational consequences.”

They hope their research will help identify likely trajectories of the epidemic under alternative approaches, identify complementary ways to fight it, and to spur further thinking about ways to get the pandemic under control.

Though coronavirus cases in the US have been soaring, social distancing appears to be effective.

Social distancing is “one of the most powerful weapons” against COVID-19, said Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“If we can just maximize that social distancing, we can limit this virus’s ability,” he said earlier this month.

States across the country have issued stay-at-home orders, allowing only for essential errands or tasks.

Penalties for breaking the order vary by state. In Maine, the penalty for breaking the order can be up to six months in jail and up to a $1,000 fine.

In Florida, a pastor was arrested last month for continuing to hold large services and is charged with unlawful assembly and violation of public health emergency rules, both second-degree misdemeanors.

This week, states on the East and West coasts announced they are forming their own regional pacts to work together on how to reopen after the stay-at-home orders.

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island and Massachusetts each plan to name a public health and economic official to a regional working group.

West Coast states of California, Washington and Oregon also announced they are joining forces in a plan to begin incremental release of stay-at-home orders.

https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/u-s-m ... s-predict/

[TheButcher]

That is an eye opening article you posted Misty. Well been sounding like a broken record on this , so why stop now. The stay at home, social distancing, washing hands all the time and face coverings have to continue. Any early reduction in those will lead to more cases and more death. This is not the time to go back to work or open schools.