Covid-19 in Canada July 2, 2020

Number of people tested: 2,848,244

Total cases:104,772

Recovered: 68,345

Deaths: 8,642


not sure how that plays out in a population of 36 million or so but it does seem hopeful.
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Washington businesses will be required to turn away customers who aren't wearing a face mask starting July 7, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Thursday. The new statewide order is in response to a surge in coronavirus cases.

The proclamation comes almost a week after Inslee's statewide mandate took effect requiring people to wear face masks while in public, both indoors and outdoors where six feet of social distancing is not possible.

If you travel to Washington State bring your mask!

Wear the damn mask...

I was soooo careful to wash my hands over and over, I started taking a ton of vitamins and herbal supplements, got plenty of rest, stayed hydrated, etc etc. I started wearing masks before they were even required at work. I thought I would be just fine. And then one day I woke up sick and bammm! I tested positive for COVID-19 and I spent over a month isolated in the spare room, sicker than I’ve ever been in my life. Even now, I’m still having some issues with tiredness but not the horrible exhaustion I had, and I have terrible memory loss. My smell and taste came back after two months but not all the way. This has been so draining and stressful.

So nice to see you back on the board posting Gayandgray, but so very sorry to hear about your encounter with Covid-19!

Florida reports over 11,000 new COVID-19 cases, breaking its single-day record twice in one week...
 

Florida reported a record number of single-day coronavirus cases Saturday morning, with 11,445 people testing positive on Friday. Thursday was the last time Florida set a new record for single-day COVID-19 cases at 10,109.

Well there Governor DeSantis!

Instead of having your nose shoved up Trump's ass trying to curry favor, perhaps you should of kept a more watchful eye on the shenanigans such as the spring breakers, sand bars, etc etc that all helped to spread the spread from the get-go!

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(((( clay )))) stay safe

For fans of Dr. Anthony Fauci:

He has done a new interview on a podcast I have mentioned before, Science Vs (versus) by Gimlet Media. Wendy Zuckerman, the host, takes him on a somewhat fluffy but interesting interview of about 20 minutes. Did you know Dr. Fauci is 79 years old? I had no idea. In any case, the episode "Fauci! He's Back!" was recorded on 6/23/2020. Available wherever you find your podcasts.

just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water taaa daaa ~move over covid - 19 ~ bubonic plague is back in Mongolia ~

Tell me you're kidding! I need to look that up.

Seems the bubonic plague in Mongolia is spread through eating local squirrels, marmots.

Seems the best thing we can do is wear a mask, stop eating marmots, and put those peanuts away and stop feeding those cute little squirrels.

It's all part of One.
Climate Change Deniers are Dangerous Idiots.


"Land degradation, wildlife exploitation, intensive farming and climate change are driving the rise in diseases that, like the coronavirus, are passed from animals to humans, United Nations experts said on Monday.

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) jointly identified seven trends responsible for such diseases, known as zoonotic, calling on governments to take steps to stop future pandemics.

These are: rising demand for animal protein, extraction of natural resources and urbanization, intensive and unsustainable farming, exploitation of wildlife, increased travel and transportation, food supply changes and climate change, it said.

“The science is clear that if we keep exploiting wildlife and destroying our ecosystems, then we can expect to see a steady stream of these diseases jumping from animals to humans in the years ahead,” said UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen.

Why is this so difficult to understand?

Presidential Climate Change deniers and their ilk should be criminally charged, potentially for Mass Murder of everything on this earth.

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Collette I say the same things to myself about climate change ~ how stupid and careless can the human being be ? we know ~ and yet nothing ~ we claim freedom but yet we stay suppressed by a evil psychopath . 2020 Money Talks and Ethics Walk This country can't wait till November to address climate change .

I'm watching the maps where COVID is rising again, which now is just about everywhere. I'm in NY so you know we were hit HARD. Now we are holding steady and a couple of small states near us are too but we are surrounded by red on the maps and I think it's just a matter of time before it comes to us again.

I am preparing for, but not looking forward to, being back to one of the few essential workers left in my building for the foreseeable future. Those months were scary and huge anxiety went with it. I couldn't keep myself protected because police kept dropping off severely mentally ill and intoxicated people for me to deal with and they can't socially distance and keep a mask on. I dreamed every night of different things, zombies, etc, attacking the building and me there trying to keep all of our residents safe.

I don't understand why all of these states haven't shut back down yet. It's obvious it was helping. It's obvious that re-opening is killing people.

Masks You've Just Got To See To Believe
 

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/05...g?v=1590046083


https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/05...g?v=1589692201

(((Clay)))

I absolutely can not believe they are opening Disney. My hopes are that so few people put themselves at risk like that that, and don't go to Disney, they can't afford to stay open and have to shut down again. However, based on how everyone is acting I'm thinking that won't be the case.

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Touche' Touche' Touche' O~Lay :) we are surrounded by idiots.

Yesterday we were still on the list of states not seeing a rise in cases. Today we were no longer on that list. (NY)

Yesterday we were driving through back country areas and saw tons of outside parties, big parties, for graduations and birthdays. Not good.

I was able to find paper towels today and I'm so glad our garden is going absolutely nuts so we will have vegetables for quite some time. I have jars for canning. The apple tree has baby apples starting.

I can not imagine schools opening in August or September. I absolutely can not imagine it.

My mom has a persistent cough, but no other symptoms. She ran a temp one day last week, but not since then. I'm not sure if I should try to convince her to get tested.

Hope and pray everything's okay.

And HE still denies this is serious. A "blip"...WTF?!
 

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has called the state's rise in cases "a blip" and told residents not to be alarmed.

Florida recorded more than 500 deaths this past week, compared with over 300 the prior week. It is one of about two dozen states where deaths have risen in the last seven days compared with the prior seven days, according to a Reuters analysis.

Florida's Disney World welcomed the public on Saturday for the first time since March with guests required to wear masks, undergo temperature checks and keep physically apart.

The number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Florida is quickly rising, with over 500 new patients in the past 24 hours raising to 8,000 the number in hospitals, according to a state agency. Across Florida, 47 hospitals reported their intensive care units (ICUs) were completely full, including eight hospitals in the Miami-Dade County hot spot.

So Tuesday's numbers may very well be the last true picture we get of what's going on with the virus in the US. I often hear how you can't trust information coming from China or Korea or wherever and how they don't tell their citizens what's really going on and they hide information from the media and the rest of the world etc... Well, the US, under the guidance and thumb of fascist leader Donald Trump, is about to join the ranks of countries who engage in massive cover-ups that are to the detriment of it's citizens for political ends. Never thought I'd see the day. Maga hat wearers you can't still believe...can you? Trump has stripped the CDC of control of Coronavirus data.

"Hospital data on coronavirus patients will now be rerouted to the Trump administration instead of first being sent to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to CNN."

"The administration's new directive came in the form of a document (pdf) quietly posted online last week by HHS, an agency headed by former pharmaceutical executive and Trump appointee Alex Azar.

"As of July 15, 2020, hospitals should no longer report the Covid-19 information in this document to the National Healthcare Safety Network site," the directive states, referring to the CDC's data-gathering system.

Dr. Nicole Lurie, who served in former President Barack Obama's HHS, told the Times that "centralizing control of all data under the umbrella of an inherently political apparatus is dangerous and breeds distrust."

"It appears to cut off the ability of agencies like CDC to do its basic job," said Lurie."

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/20...newday-vpx.cnn

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/u...ronavirus.html

https://delauro.house.gov/media-cent...bypass-cdc-and

So a couple of months ago we were getting horrific scenes and numbers out of NYC and I was so grateful that where I am in Southern California was not so nearly ravaged, in fact, while taking lots of precautions the whole thing seemed sort of unreal and like it was mostly something on TV. At the time lock down in California was pretty complete and just about to start opening.

Fast forward a couple of months and now it is Southern California’s turn in the bucket along with some other hotspots in the southern half of the United States. Well we have closed back up a little bit, it’s not at all like it was, people are mostly going about their daily lives while just staying away from bars, restaurants and gym’s. This time is surreal in a different way, I have to keep reminding myself how bad things are here because when lockdown was tight there wasn’t as much actual danger, now that the danger is real and present folks are just having to shift for themselves without any extra rule and it doesn’t seem to be working out so well.

We know more now than we did and I, like most other folks figured out what I will use as boundaries for myself to stay safe. It just seems weird that everybody is freelancing this and there is no real guard rail. I think this might be the source of some of the wildly differing behaviors that we see, the messages have been confusing for a while, so people are interpreting for themselves. I think this next stretch of road is going to be pretty bumpy. :thinking:

I happen to agree with you wholeheartedly, Gemme.

Just yesterday, while driving to a spot on the river to watch boats go by and jet-skiers alike, there were waves and waves of people, standing on the side of both sides of the road, some by themselves, some with their entire members of family. No one was wearing masks. No one was standing six feet apart. All of them were waving GOP-type flags and under the premise that Blue Lives Matter (referencing Police). I hate that people will not abide by life saving mandates (wearing a mask, standing six feet apart, etc).

Most likely, COVID-19 will escalate by numbers due to people who just think it's a hoax and that this virus is not killing anybody.

My sister-in-law and a close friend just got back from Idaho. What did they see? No body wearing a mask, except at major retail chain stores (Freddy's, Target, Wal-Mart). They never saw anybody standing six feet apart. In fact, public swimming pools were open, and it would seem that certain small business owners have adopted the idea that COVID-19 is a hoax because people can shop in their stores without wearing a mask and the store owners do not limit the amount of people who can visit their business.

Meanwhile, my s-i-l wore her mask. She's very ill and if she were exposed to an active case, she'd be 6-feet *UNDER* in a matter of days.

Toxic White Privilege and the tenets of The Toxic political party (The GOP) seem to reside in sinister ways across the country. Especially in my home state of Idaho. And it's creeping into the fabric of the inner-metro area where I live, which has been thought of as The Pale Blue Dot (referencing Carl Sagan), the stronghold of Democratic Politics.

It's the number one reason, second only to my toxic family, of why I left years ago.

Here in the metro area, we have digital bill-boards which gives drivers specific directions on how to conduct themselves in traffic and in other social settings. Big warning statements about COVID still on the rise and that people need to give space in traffic, and in other social settings, and to wear masks.

What do people do though? They tail gate, break the speed limit, they don't wear their masks while driving, etc.

I feel that Covid-19 has not only exposed how fragile our medical system is, but it also exposes toxic levels of deep seated entitlement and gross levels of perceived privilege by people who don't care for others by trying to force their own magical thinking at the expense of not only their own lives, but at the expense of the lives of others.

It's is super concerning and deeply worrying, what I see here at home (in everyday life).

I don't think it's going to happen but if it does and people aren't going to face eviction for non-payment of rent, then what about landlords? Though some people I know with rentals own their buildings outright many more don't. So if they're living elsewhere and no longer generating income from their rental/rentals then what?

this virus is a double edged sword.

freakin covidiots....