COVID-19 Coronavirus UPDATES, BANS, CLOSURES, ADVISORY, etc.

[Red Leg]

As in America, some areas are worse than others. We are doing pretty well in some regards.

Military support into some remote areas to help.
Police road blocks in some areas out east to stop people heading to the cottage and spreading the virus to areas with fewer resources.

Pretty good job here. We have every level of government working together.
No BS back political back stabbing. (although there are some games being played by shuffling costs onto other levels budgets) I'm sure that will come later.
Government programs to support people, businesses are not perfect, never fast enough but it beats people starving.

We have 704 ICU beds in Alberta and around 600 Ventilators.
(who knows about new orders etc.)
We are testing like crazy. 62,000
Could do more.
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Some concern about PPE.
Mostly due to hoarding elsewhere, ie. NY case..
Local industry is jumping on the issue. Masks, face shields, etc, etc. About to authorize a new Mask that "is one step up from n95" (It was a politician making the claim)

Guesstimates, if we "stay the course" are expecting 250 ICU beds to be used at the peak.

Although they are doing planning for "worst case scenarios", including tents in parking lots.

Todays stats in Alberta.

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Sadly, we have now got positive cases inside extended care facilities. (Old age care facilities) That has jumped the death toll locally.

I was listening to an otherwise intelligent commentator last night, frantically demanding "everyone" be tested. Her thesis was that those exposed could get back to work and get the economy going. US statistics look very much like yours. Actual exposure numbers, as a percentage of total population, are miniscule. Hospitalizations of those exposed are running about 20-25% of what the "modeling" says they should be (in spite of Coumou demanding "more please" in the way of everything.) If we wait around for enough of the work force to be exposed to make a difference, we will have reverted to the 19th - maybe 14th century.

Secondly, each of those tests is just a snapshot in time. All those in the blue bar can be infected minutes after the test was taken. The only thing it is telling us is that a lot of folks don't have it. Someone will eventually raise their hand and suggest we all get back to work and simply practice social distancing in those conditions. Entertainment venues will likely be an outlier for a time, but this can not continue.

 

[Royal27]

Nothing really new in this video, but a good explanation and examples of flattening the curve.

Good video!

Only problem is, tose that really need to watch it are staying purposely ignorant with full blown cognitive dissonance.

The Spanish Flu example between Philly and Saint Louis that's shown around the 7 minute mark is great.

 

[spike.t]

Well at least Greta seems to have shut the fk up.....sure I will be proved wrong.....

 

[BRICKBURN]

I was listening to an otherwise intelligent commentator last night, frantically demanding "everyone" be tested. Her thesis was that those exposed could get back to work and get the economy going. US statistics look very much like yours. Actual exposure numbers, as a percentage of total population, are miniscule. Hospitalizations of those exposed are running about 20-25% of what the "modeling" says they should be (in spite of Coumou demanding "more please" in the way of everything.) If we wait around for enough of the work force to be exposed to make a difference, we will have reverted to the 19th - maybe 14th century.

Secondly, each of those tests is just a snapshot in time. All those in the blue bar can be infected minutes after the test was taken. The only thing it is telling us is that a lot of folks don't have it. Someone will eventually raise their hand and suggest we all get back to work and simply practice social distancing in those conditions. Entertainment venues will likely be an outlier for a time, but this can not continue.

All testing is certainly a point in time measurement.
It is the way the current public health model is evaluating what is going on here.
We are social distancing pretty well.
Because of some many different jurisdictional strategies (modelling, testing, treatment), it is like watching a host of lab experiments. I'll let you know how successful our little petri dish is coming along.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Well at least Greta seems to have shut the fk up.....sure I will be proved wrong.....

I was thinking the same thing the other day. I don't really think she has though. The media has a more entertaining story at the moment.
I'll bet this is an intermission on that little show.

 

[spike.t]

I was thinking the same thing the other day. I don't really think she has though. The media has a more entertaining story at the moment.
I'll bet this is an intermission on that little show.

Unfortunately you are correct.....

 

[spike.t]

The governors of Nevada and Michigan were truly pathetic in overriding doctors regarding chloroquine. The Chinese were using chloroquine against the virus in January with great success. (It was mentioned in this thread) A French study of apx. 60 patients showed complete success as well. This was all previous to the governors stopping the use of chloroquine. Obviously this was politically motivated and the medical community and patients were the ones that suffered.

Senegal is using it and reporting good results.... They basically told the WHO to get stuffed and they would use it if they wanted....

 

[Royal27]

"Coronavirus patients delivered to hospital ship Comfort in New York by mistake: US officials"

Oops....

Good thing, hopefully, that the Comfort has protocols in place for such an occcurence.

It's also a little surprising to me that the Pentagon is reevaluating actually putting CV patients on board the hospital ships....

https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-patients-delivered-comfort-ship-new-york-mistake

 

[BRICKBURN]

Sh*t...

 

[Red Leg]

"Coronavirus patients delivered to hospital ship Comfort in New York by mistake: US officials"

Oops....

Good thing, hopefully, that the Comfort has protocols in place for such an occcurence.

It's also a little surprising to me that the Pentagon is reevaluating actually putting CV patients on board the hospital ships....

https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-patients-delivered-comfort-ship-new-york-mistake

Negative publicity is a powerful thing.

 

[Royal27]

Holy crap. It's mutated again !

 

[BRICKBURN]

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Holy crap. It's mutated again !

Likely with every news cast.
Soon to be: Carotid.

 

[spike.t]

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Holy crap. It's mutated again !

Wonder what happens when it gets to covid 69...........

 

[lwaters]

Here Trump does it again. Late for the update so he can run his dribble through my local news. Thank goodness the local news cuts him off. I don't take any responsibility were doing great and I talked to my good friend Cheeeeee.

 

[spike.t]

Here Trump does it again. Late for the update so he can run his dribble through my local news. Thank goodness the local news cuts him off. I don't take any responsibility were doing great and I talked to my good friend Cheeeeee.

Just observing from a bit of a distance.... But what the fk would Clinton or the other dithering fk pieces have done?...... All I can say is I am happy the left wing arseholes aren't in power in UK or USA....... ....that is if you drink!?.....

 

[baxterb]

"Coronavirus patients delivered to hospital ship Comfort in New York by mistake: US officials"

Oops....

Good thing, hopefully, that the Comfort has protocols in place for such an occcurence.

It's also a little surprising to me that the Pentagon is reevaluating actually putting CV patients on board the hospital ships....

https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-patients-delivered-comfort-ship-new-york-mistake

Seattle is outfitting qwest field for NON-CV pts. Keeping the Cv contained in the hospitals.

 

[baxterb]

Just observing from a bit of a distance.... But what the fk would Clinton or the other dithering fk pieces have done?...... All I can say is I am happy the left wing arseholes aren't in power in UK or USA....... ....that is if you drink!?.....

They wouldn’t have done much different. The difference would have been how they were portrayed by a complicit media.

 

[spike.t]

They wouldn’t have done much different. The difference would have been how they were portrayed by a complicit media.

Doubt it.... As my late father.. Who was one of the old school hard arsed business men of the " hands on" school... would say " they couldn't organize a piss up in a brewery "....

 

[lwaters]

Just observing from a bit of a distance.... But what the fk would Clinton or the other dithering fk pieces have done?...... All I can say is I am happy the left wing arseholes aren't in power in UK or USA....... ....that is if you drink!?.....

They would do exactly the same thing. Like Trump they would have passed a big socialist bill and give away a bunch of money. Lost all respect for him when he didn't veto that crap. A lot of people are making more now than when they were working. It's ridiculous. I actually like this. There's no traffic on the interstate. Nobody bugging me about hunting Turkey's on my farm. I think I'll go brew a batch of beer.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

"Coronavirus patients delivered to hospital ship Comfort in New York by mistake: US officials"

Oops....

Good thing, hopefully, that the Comfort has protocols in place for such an occcurence.

It's also a little surprising to me that the Pentagon is reevaluating actually putting CV patients on board the hospital ships....

https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-patients-delivered-comfort-ship-new-york-mistake

I wonder if the Navy will blame the skipper of the Comfort and fire him?