When will the coronavirus arrive in the US? (Disease: COVID-19; Virus: SARS-CoV-2)

May 25, 2020, 04:36 PM

My neck of the woods (Lake of the Ozarks, MO) made front page on most of the national media outlets. Numbers are still coming in but looks like about 300,000 people were here over the Holiday.
https://www.lakeexpo.com/boati...63-e7c1b21202e5.html

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May 25, 2020, 05:35 PM

sdy

This is a real article from Bloomberg news

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...s&utm_source=twitter

Quandary for High Flyers: How to Travel Safely to Your Yacht

It’s a modern quandary for the ultra-wealthy: a yacht awaits at harbor, but how to safely reach it without risking exposure to the germ-ridden masses?

Global aviation company VistaJet has a solution. Spurred by member demand, clients can reserve a freshly sanitized jet to fly them to a yacht moored in Malta (where, as it happens, VistaJet is based). Lest anyone be worried that the island nation itself is germ-ridden, a press release notes that “The World Health Organization singled out Malta as a role model for other countries in the fight against Covid-19.”

Malta is the only destination for this service, so if your yacht is moored in Antibes or Porto Cervo, you’re out of luck. But if you’re the type of person who’s serious about yachting during a pandemic, then Malta is probably a place you should check out.

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I mean come on people. Let's get some help for those people w yachts in Porto Cervo.

May 25, 2020, 05:35 PM

YooperSigs

I have to say that this Memorial Day has been very different for me. I cant help but wonder how those who fell to ensure American freedom would feel when they saw how we reacted in panic and fear to this virus.

May 25, 2020, 09:38 PM

parabellum

Forum traffic has been diminishing over the last week or so. People are starting to go back out into the world, plus I'm certain everyone is fully saturated with screen time. I'm glad to see it. Go outside and do something fun, like scaring the crap out of people by saying "hi" and approaching them.

May 25, 2020, 10:38 PM

parabellum

Jackass

Cuomo admits 'we all failed' at making coronavirus projections

"We"? Speak for yourself, asshole. I've lowballed this stupid shit from jump. "We"? Ain't no "we" about it, man. While I and others have been trying to get people to calm down, you and the rest of your stupid leftist buddies have been doing your absolute best to try to frighten and mislead the public. "We"? Sorry, no. I got it right, while you got it very, very wrong, you melodramatic nitwit.

May 26, 2020, 01:51 AM

2000Z-71

The Mayor of Anchorage continues to be a dipshit. Governor Dunleavy announced last week the loosening of restrictions effective today. Basically back to business with, "Social Distancing" guidelines. All last week the mayor said he would relax restrictions on Monday but wouldn't give specifics. Well he did today, "Guidelines mean nothing, there needs to be consequences." And oh yes, the mandatory 14 day quarantine for out of state travelers arriving in the state, expires June 2nd, the mayor decided to extend it indefinitely for the City of Anchorage.

He is becoming irrelevant very quickly. Last week he cancelled the Memorial Day ceremonies for Anchorage. Private citizens organized their own ceremony today in downtown Anchorage. The putz has left the lock on the gate in place for access to the local archery range in Kincaid Park, even though there has never been a regulation against parks and outdoor rec. Well, one of the local clubs cut the lock today.

I despise the man, but unfortunately he'll probably get re-elected, or worse elected governor.

May 26, 2020, 07:16 AM

YooperSigs

Here is more fun from the reign of the Evil Queen of MI:
I have posted in the past about Michigans PITA can / bottle return law / system. Which is now shut down because.... wait for it.... the can recycling machines are too close together. But... When you buy anything glass or aluminum you still get gouged for the deposit. And now the big recycling operations in the state are claiming that residents are sitting on 50 million dollars worth of recyclable cans and bottles. The recycling companies fear they will be overwhelmed when the recycling kicks back in.
The question I have is this: If the figure of fifty million dollars paid in deposits is accurate, who has the money?

May 26, 2020, 07:16 AM

tigereye313

Granted this is a single case of an asymptomatic carrier, but all 455 contacts they traced didn't go on to develop the 'rona...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...igAaewO_L1ecRVGqwDOU

quote:
A Study on Infectivity of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Carriers
Ming Gao et al. Respir Med. 2020.

Abstract
Background: An ongoing outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread around the world. It is debatable whether asymptomatic COVID-19 virus carriers are contagious. We report here a case of the asymptomatic patient and present clinical characteristics of 455 contacts, which aims to study the infectivity of asymptomatic carriers.

Material and methods: 455 contacts who were exposed to the asymptomatic COVID-19 virus carrier became the subjects of our research. They were divided into three groups: 35 patients, 196 family members and 224 hospital staffs. We extracted their epidemiological information, clinical records, auxiliary examination results and therapeutic schedules.

Results: The median contact time for patients was four days and that for family members was five days. Cardiovascular disease accounted for 25% among original diseases of patients. Apart from hospital staffs, both patients and family members were isolated medically. During the quarantine, seven patients plus one family member appeared new respiratory symptoms, where fever was the most common one. The blood counts in most contacts were within a normal range. All CT images showed no sign of COVID-19 infection. No severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections was detected in 455 contacts by nucleic acid test.

Conclusion: In summary, all the 455 contacts were excluded from SARS-CoV-2 infection and we conclude that the infectivity of some asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers might be weak.

Keywords: Asymptomatic carrier; Contacts; Infectivity; SARS-CoV-2.

Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

May 26, 2020, 07:45 AM

chellim1

quote:
My neck of the woods (Lake of the Ozarks, MO) made front page on most of the national media outlets. Numbers are still coming in but looks like about 300,000 people were here over the Holiday.

Memorial Day: Partygoers in Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks Shun Coronavirus Social Distancing

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"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor

May 26, 2020, 08:14 AM

lastmanstanding

Anyone who owned a lake place around here had it packed with vehicles and people this weekend. Campgrounds are still closed but it didn't matter unless you owned a campground and losing you're income.

We had thirteen people up at our place this weekend. Every neighbor had a average six or more vehicles and gatherings as big or bigger than ours. The Governor is fooling himself if he thinks he's got control of this. It officially ended for a lot of people this weekend. Not a mask to be seen and no social distancing going on that I seen. Boats on the lake had capacity passengers.

Everybody is so over this already and this is Minnesota!

May 26, 2020, 08:33 AM

RichardC

https://www.orlandosentinel.co...bh5wtem5q-story.html

Incompetent and/or dishonest, agenda-driven news reporting:

Headline:
"560 people rescued from Volusia County waters over holiday weekend" Joe Mario Pedersen
By JOE MARIO PEDERSEN
ORLANDO SENTINEL |
MAY 26, 2020 | 8:56 AM

The top photo is from Cocoa Beach in Brevard county, many miles away from the center of the news story.

The next image down is one of the actual crowds in Daytona Beach.

You might get a different impression of the demographics of the problem from the top photo.

May 26, 2020, 08:45 AM

braillediver

The photo is deceptive, angled to make it looked packed. You can't see the actual spacing- It's done on purpose.

Like the fishing photos to make the fish look huge.

May 26, 2020, 09:35 AM

Pyker

quote:
Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
Anyone who owned a lake place around here had it packed with vehicles and people this weekend. Campgrounds are still closed but it didn't matter unless you owned a campground and losing you're income.

We had thirteen people up at our place this weekend. Every neighbor had a average six or more vehicles and gatherings as big or bigger than ours. The Governor is fooling himself if he thinks he's got control of this. It officially ended for a lot of people this weekend. Not a mask to be seen and no social distancing going on that I seen. Boats on the lake had capacity passengers.

Everybody is so over this already and this is Minnesota!

I live on a lake with three campgrounds - all of which remain closed until next weekend. The neighbors had their twenty-one children and grandchildren over. The road in and out of our place was swamped with kids riding around on wheelers, golf carts, and minibikes. Cars parked all over the place.

Yeah, I'd say he's fooling himself if he thinks the rural areas of MN give two shits about his EOs.

May 26, 2020, 09:45 AM

Skins2881

What are the governors going to do three weeks from now when we don't have a giant explosion in new cases? Then what is the excuse for the lockdowns? This past weekend is the perfect experiment.

May 26, 2020, 09:56 AM

RHINOWSO

quote:
Originally posted by RichardC:
https://www.orlandosentinel.co...bh5wtem5q-story.html

I liked this part of the article as well....

"Another incident involving a man tossing cash from his vehicle attracted a large crowd, as well, according to VCSO.

The sheriff’s office released helicopter footage of a crowd of a “couple hundred people” surrounding the car on State Road A1A, near a Burger King.

“We’re going to identify him, and we’re going to charge him,” Chitwood said, without elaborating on possible charges."

May 26, 2020, 11:01 AM

PASig

On Sunday my wife and two children and I went to what is essentially the ONLY open-for-sitdown-service dining restaurant in the entire state of PA.

The Round The Clock Diner in York, PA recently reopened in defiance of Dicktator-Governor Tom Wolf’s March 19 order closing ALL restaurants to dine in service and have been making the national news. It was about a hour and a half drive away for us, we got there around 5:30 PM, the place was as busy as it could be with the spacing they had, every other table, the people could not be nicer and the food was great. It felt almost surreal to be able to sit down and be waited on and have a real meal out. The last time we ate out was just before St. Patrick’s Day.

They had a sign up about masks required to get in and to your table so I wore my Trump mask, as I am walking in and out I was getting complements right and left and all sorts of people asking me where I got it. (eBay)

Wolfs goons have been trying day and night to shut this place back down with fines and pulling of licenses and all sorts of other silliness, but so far they have resisted and have remained open.

May 26, 2020, 11:09 AM

parabellum

Sorry, no. I refuse to wear a mask under any circumstances unless I choose to do so. Since I am not expecting any sand storms or sub-zero arctic fronts moving through here, I won't be wearing a mask. Ever.

I'm just not going to do it, folks, and neither should you. Nothing but theater, with the script written by imbeciles, and I do mean imbeciles.

All the panic and hand-wringing and completely wrong speculation, and the trampling of our Constitutional rights. No. I want no part of any of this shameful behavior. People should be embarrassed for the way they have behaved and I hope that one day they come to realize how they've been manipulated into doing the stupidest shit and how they were made to cower in their homes over nothing. You heard me. I said 'nothing'.

Live long enough to be embarrassed. How ever many months, years or decades it takes for people to realize that all of this was for nothing, they should live at least that long, and I want to be around when people start waking up. I want to see their faces redden. I want to see them cast their eyes to the ground when confronted by their past behavior. Be embarrassed. It's damn well warranted.

May 26, 2020, 12:00 PM

maxxpower

We had another case of lock down hypocrisy here in Wisconsin this weekend.

The liberal supreme court justice that wrote the dissent in the court's decision to end the lock down was caught partying out on a boat with another family breaking the social distancing rules she voted to impose on all of us in Wisconsin.

Phony ass hypocrite, doubt it will get any main stream media coverage.

WI Liberal Supreme Court Justice Caught Partying on Boat

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May 26, 2020, 12:00 PM

David W

quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:

People should be embarrassed for the way they have behaved and I hope that one day they come to realize how they've been manipulated into doing the stupidest shit and how they were made to cower in their homes over nothing. You heard me. I said 'nothing'.

Live long enough to be embarrassed. How ever many months, years or decades it takes for people to realize that all of this was for nothing, they should live at least that long, and I want to be around when people start waking up. I want to see their faces redden. I want to see them cast their eyes to the ground when confronted by their past behavior. Be embarrassed. It's damn well warranted.

Well said.