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Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/25/coronavirus-covid-updates/

The United States edged closer to a single-day coronavirusinfection record with more than 74,000 new cases Friday, approaching the mark set just one week ago, as the pandemic that has burned through the country for months showed no sign of easing.

More than 1,000 Americans have died each day between Tuesday and Friday, the worst tally of human loss since late May.
Even as President Trump insists that children must return to school in a matter of weeks, the nation appears no closer to controlling this worst-in-a-century medical emergency than it was months ago.
The number of patients hospitalized with covid-19 has roughly doubled over the past month as the disease caused by the novel coronavirus tightened its grip on states such as California, Florida, Texas and Arizona. U.S. hospitals treated 59,670 people on Friday, just shy of the mid-April record of 59,940, according to the Covid Tracking Project.
 
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OverReactionGuy said:
So, doesn't mean I want to go to every damn site linked on a forum if it can be summarized on the forum.
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You're missing the point. It's a series of one-line summaries of (linked) news articles. The only real way to summarize it would be to just quote the damned thing.
 
Meanwhile in Vietnam, an excellent analogue to the continental US given their high population density and unpoliceable border with China of all places?

Everything under control, still no fatalities, and they just detected a new case and in response evacuated eighty thousand people.

Damn.
 
After months of wearing a basic bitch mask whenever I go out, I broke down and bought a stretchy black "fashion" mask. This is obviously going to be a long haul thing, so I might as well go with it I guess.
 
Konradleijon said:
I think all masks look bad. So that's my two cents.
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Fortunately, you don't wear them to look good. You wear them for safety reasons.

From a purely fashion perspective, reflective work jackets don't look good either. You're a goddamned dangerous idiot if you don't wear them when they're called for, however.
 
I think there's hentai masks out like that one infamous shirt someone has now if you want that.

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You know, the one with all the orgasm faces.
 
Rakdos92 said:
They noticed that only now?
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They noticed maybe once their family and friends, or themselves got on the firing line.

Dumb fucks like these love to trot out "It's not my problem" unless they are affected themselves. Then they go blaming everyone and anything but themselves for the problem.
 
Welp, Melbourne's introducing a curfew from 8pm to 5am, starting tonight. Lots of other restrictions too, but can't say I'm surprised. Why can people not stay the fuck home?
 
Dnile said:
Welp, Melbourne's introducing a curfew from 8pm to 5am, starting tonight. Lots of other restrictions too, but can't say I'm surprised. Why can people not stay the fuck home?
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Beats me. I find it easy myself. Best of luck in your efforts to teach them though.
 
My country got off lucky with Corona Virus, though saying that, there were still 22 deaths attributed to it. Still low all things considered.
 
bryanfran36 said:
Loking this new article, given how we now have proto-Nurglite cultists in our midst:

https://www.businessinsider.com/ant...-threatening-public-health-coronavirus-2020-7
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Lol, "uniquely American". I'm afraid that while they have a somewhat-disproportionate quantity of this flavour of moron, they're far from having a monopoly on it.

Also, (simple) masks do reduce your oxygen intake - but not by enough to matter for a normal person undertaking normal activities.
 
magic9mushroom said:
Also, (simple) masks do reduce your oxygen intake - but not by enough to matter for a normal person undertaking normal activities.
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Correction: Not enough to matter for an athlete working out. The only way you find evidence of any sort of issue with them is when someone with lung disease wears an N95 respirator or similar for prolonged periods of time.

See here for a bit of an overview.
 
Aleh said:
Correction: Not enough to matter for an athlete working out. The only way you find evidence of any sort of issue with them is when someone with lung disease wears an N95 respirator or similar for prolonged periods of time.

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There's a lot of "noticeably harder to breathe/feeling lethargic/air hunger" room between "normal" and "actually dangerous". In a smallish room with no ventilation I start feeling the lack of fresh air inside an hour, but ten hours of it still isn't enough to make me pass out.
 
Well, the ongoing cardiology saga has continued. I contacted a (different) cardiologist, got in, and finally saw him. The EKG was normal, so we at least know that I didn't have a heart attack.

Edit: On June 15. Just to remind you of how fucking long it took me to get said EKG following a possible heart attack.

The experience was... interesting. The office was taking what precautions it could, for obvious reasons, and nobody was allowed in without a mask. The staff and the doctor were wearing KN95 masks at all times, and most people had face shields. I felt absolutely terrible for the generally-elderly people who were being forced to wait in the halls, etc.

That leaves the echocardiogram and cardiac stress test for the follow-up... which is where COVID came back into play.

Apparently, they couldn't do a normal cardiac stress test because of COVID. People don't, "for some reason," like trying to run on a treadmill with a mask on. The doctors, meanwhile, don't like the idea of people spewing virus particles all over the area while breathing hard from, well, running on a treadmill.

They have more than enough reason to be worried about this: Apparently, a doctor brought COVID into the diagnostic center a while back, leading to several of the techs getting sick. Fortunately, none of them died.

Thus, they're only doing chemical stress tests now... which is not exactly a good thing. I can't really blame them, but still.
 
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