Coronavirus ~ COVID-19

[Gemme]

Our Governor is contemplating rolling back to Phase 2 again, which would close entertainment businesses and reduce the percentages of customers that the open businesses can maintain. People have to STOP being selfish and stupid! All those grown ass people need an old fashioned whoopin'. I used to have to go pick my own switch. Maybe a fly swatter or paddle with COVID etched into it. Maybe that would leave a lasting reminder for them then.

[homoe]

Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, urged the Trump administration in an internal memo to take “much more aggressive action” to tackle COVID-19, The Washington Post reported.

“We are entering the most concerning and most deadly phase of this pandemic … leading to increasing mortality,” Birx wrote Monday in a report for top White House officials, according to the Post. “This is not about lockdowns — It hasn’t been about lockdowns since March or April. It’s about an aggressive balanced approach that is not being implemented.”

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has continued to downplay the threat of the virus. He has held rallies with hundreds of attendees, many of whom don’t wear masks, and has falsely claimed the ballooning number of COVID-19 cases across the country is due to increased testing. In the lead-up to Election Day, Trump has been campaigning by fearmongering about a “Biden lockdown,” saying there will be “no weddings, no Thanksgiving, no Christmas” if his rival wins.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

[homoe]

President Trump’s repeated assertions the United States is “rounding the turn” on the novel coronavirus have increasingly alarmed the government's top health experts, who say the country is heading into a long and potentially deadly winter with an unprepared government unwilling to make tough choices.

“We’re in for a whole lot of hurt. It’s not a good situation,” Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s leading infectious-disease expert, said in a wide-ranging interview late Friday. “All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly.”

[theoddz]

I'm just shaking my head now.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/polit...rus/index.html

Ben Carson.....should I say DOCTOR Ben Carson, a Trump supporter, political appointee of the Trump Administration's Housing and Urban Development Secretary, has tested positive for Coronavirus this morning.

For pity's sake, DR. Ben Carson is a medical doctor and a retired neurosurgeon (aka "brain surgeon"). He, of all people, should have really known better than to be sportin' around at Trump rallies, or any other public event without a mask.

See?? It is possible to be well educated and still be an utter dumbass.

I wish him luck.

~Theo~

[Vincent]

The virus can be maybe not 100% eliminated but with lockdown and govt support working with the community it can be controlled.

Melbourne had 700 case a day and 60 deaths a day in july,it went into hard lockdown for 15 weeks,its now had zero cases 12 straight days and Aust now is living covid free.

It has taken a strong leader in the Premier,to stay the course,follow the medical advice,this is not about pop or being an island,it's putting lives before the stock market,an economy is not a society and letting the scientist guide us to a covid free living until we het a proven vaccine.

If we can spend trillions on wars killing people,ceratainly our demand should be funding people while we are in lockdown to save lives

NZ econmic growth has been strongest growth during this year,becoz she went hard early.

[JDeere]

I do not have any answers to covid...but all i see is more people losing their minds, more and more everyday.

Houston has had 6 murders in 24 hours, over 300 murders in 2020 alone... as well as domestic violence...over 400 strangulations since the start of the pandemic lockdown.

Loss of jobs, major stress and lack of adequate mental health help... things are gonna get worse.

[nhplowboi]

Why does "book smart and commonsense foolish" come to mind.

Originally Posted by theoddz

I'm just shaking my head now.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/polit...rus/index.html

Ben Carson.....should I say DOCTOR Ben Carson, a Trump supporter, political appointee of the Trump Administration's Housing and Urban Development Secretary, has tested positive for Coronavirus this morning.

For pity's sake, DR. Ben Carson is a medical doctor and a retired neurosurgeon (aka "brain surgeon"). He, of all people, should have really known better than to be sportin' around at Trump rallies, or any other public event without a mask.

See?? It is possible to be well educated and still be an utter dumbass.

I wish him luck.

~Theo~

[Kätzchen]

Dolly Parton donated 1M to Vanderbuilt Research Dept, which developed the Moderna Vaccine for covid-19.

Way to go, Dolly!!!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/enter...rnd/index.html

[~ocean]

my grandson's best friend ~ his whole family all have covid ~ the mom is in the ICU on a ventilator . we don't know the condition of the rest of the family ~ they just moved to Texas last spring ~ the mom is an ER nurse ~ that's where she got it . 3 x's already my daughter had to give Jonathan bad news ~1 death his grandfather his dads father . his aunt uncle and 2 kids ~ survived but they have complications ~ now his friend ~ covid related . ((((( Jonathan ))))) I wish you didn't have to face this deadly pandemic ~