Coronavirus

I know they were taking about shutting down the state borders around New York at one point, but it didn't go anywhere. I'm kind of surprised that it didn't become something that was talked about more, especially in states that didn't have cases for a long time. Or maybe they were given information that their states already had cases and shutting down to borders wouldn't help.

 

If you look at the way China and Australia responded, stopping people from moving into different areas is one of the best ways to stop the virus from infecting other areas. I had a friend that was in between Wuhan and Tibet in China in January and she was trying to get to Tibet, but all of the roads were closed. Even the back country roads were blocked off like a dystopian apocalypse scene with whatever they had available to block the roads.

It might have been harsh, but Tibet has only had 1 reported case the entire time. Although the area around it had a few more, Florida has had more new cases in just 1 day for example. Even the NYC region had more cases yesterday than the entire Tibetan region did this whole time.

 

sounds like us here in ga

 

Our "wonderful" governor has stated the job of enforcing capacity limits falls to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Which is a total bad joke because the TABC is one of the most undermanned agencies in Texas government, and that's under normal circumstances.

And he blames irresponsible behavior by the under 35 crowd for the rising numbers. While downplaying/denying the correlation with reopenings.

Texas still ranks 47th in testing. We've held that position so long it almost makes me think our leaders--political and business--don't want to see any accurate numbers.

The Covid-19 catchphrase should be "The buck doesn't stop here."

 

I'm watching our local news. We now have a mandatory mask order customers and employees in Harris County, which includes Houston.

It seems it took a few days for the data from increased testing to be analyzed. Our numbers have jumped dramatically.

 

One thing in particular in the article & interview jumped out at me: The darkest days are ahead of us.

Another point is we have to find a balance between taking precautionary actions because Covid-19 is not going away on its own, and letting our economy collapse.

 

realistically....... does a mask help??

 

the N-95 masks, are they actually better?
i know that the cheap ones are better than nothing.

 

i had herd that it was 100% affective but you know how the news is. i Just didnt know.
i have a few. i have a friend who makes them and i have some uga (bulldogs) ones, and some camo ones. she made my wife and daughter some horsey ones. my work gave us some but i have a big ass head and they are kinda on the small side so when i wear the ones that work gave us it looks like i have a huge camel toe on my face. lol. but i guess i need to be happy that they are trying to prevent it.

i had herd rumor that some places were getting fined for their employees not wearing masks when interacting with the public. but like i said that is a rumor that i herd. i can not confirm that. Can anyone confirm that?

 

There are P100 masks that are 99.97% effective at stopping virus particles. However OSHA/CDC/3M haven't done any tests that I could find to figure out if that 0.03% of dried virus particle might be infectious, but it is doubtful.

It is the type of full face mask I wear indoors in public or at mass gatherings.

I had it from some industrial work I did last year, but it works for viruses. It also works against tear gas, but the police didn't give up their stockpile to help prevent the spread of the virus in March for some reason.

 

Even though I somewhat prepped for a biological plague to affect modern society, I never expected there to be a real pandemic that impacted the USA this much. I was paranoid of getting sick from all of the kids who came to my door for trick or treating 3 weeks before a big race I was in, so I had a biohazard suit from my Halloween costume.... But I didn't think I would have to wear it out in public.

I finally got around to reading that article, and it is realistic. Except I'm not sure the herd immunity thing at 60%-70% is the solution. Nor do I think that most people agreed to this solution. I know there will be the anti-vaccine people when they claim one of the vaccine candidates work, but I think we are going to have to stop it at some point. The article does mention that there needs to be better leadership, but I wonder if we would be able to do a very hard shutdown for 5 weeks if people were able to prepare for it. And basically shutdown until there are no new cases for over a week. People will need to stay 20 feet away from other people, indoor public spaces would be closed. Any grocery store, restaurant, or home improvement store would need to go to a drive-thru only setup. If this was December/January, I could see this working a lot better than now. You would then randomly test people and if the region has had 0 new cases, it can open up a little, but still restrict people from neighboring counties if they have new cases. What they did in March/April should have had a bigger effect, but the grocery store, gas stations, and meat packing places and too many other places were exempted. Plus hospitals didn't wear the right PPE. They should be wearing the masks I posted above.

The biggest problem in stopping it in Ohio is that this virus is almost always hitting the big cities and sometimes in the suburbs. Most rural counties have had 0 new cases for weeks. And I don't see them wanting to get to 60-70% for herd immunity when they might have had 0-10 cases total the past 3 months.

Especially with all of the horror stories about the recovery from this virus that I have heard about. Let alone the duration of it.

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