emilybee my food service contact is not wrong. My close friend does this for a living day in and day out. She was just told on Thursday, for the first time in her career, she will be continuing her program over the summer.
In fact, I’ve noticed several of the “facts” you have shared on this thread to be incorrect but I have let it go. Perhaps you need to get out more.
I know this is supposed to be the “free for all” thread but that is rude.
No one, including me, is disputing the continuing of the program over the summer. The Governor announced it at one of this press conference this week. Your school district lunch program during the school year is not paid for by your district either. It’s a federally funded program.
Funding for this extension is still not coming out of local school budgets.
If you think information I give is wrong, post a cite with the correct information.
I don’t need to get out. I can walk into my basement and ask my husband about what is going on with everything CV-19 related in NYS.
Testing is easily available in LA County. I had it done last week. But then it took a week to get the test results. Too slow IMO. I was able to go one business day after signing up. Dodger Stadium is going to be a new testing site for 6,000 tests per day.
There are plenty of tests, perhaps not enough testing labs for speedy result.
Most of the people posting here have been here for a long time. I started in 2008.
Roll Tide!
“The situation in Alabama has become worse over the past 14 days, according to an AP analysis of testing data from The COVID Tracking Project. New daily cases have risen to 307 from 268, and the rate of daily tests coming back positive has increased from 6.7% to 7.5%. The AP used seven-day rolling averages to account for daily variability in the testing data. Data includes counts through Thursday.
In Jefferson County, the state’s most populous area with nearly 660,000 residents, officials cited increasing cases and hospitalizations Friday in announcing more stringent rules than those enacted by Ivey.”
It is rather unseemly to be gleeful about more corona cases anywhere in the world. In any event, Alabama is currently 25th in Corona deaths per capita among states (source: statista.com)
Roll Tide? Really?
Tick tock.
“There’s evidence that the U.S. is not under control, as an entire country,” said Samir Bhatt, a senior lecturer in geostatistics at Imperial College.
The model shows potentially ominous scenarios if people move around as they did previously and do so without taking precautions. In California and Florida, the death rate could spike to roughly 1,000 a day by July without efforts to mitigate the spread, according to the report.
“Other models released in recent days captured a similarly mixed picture. The PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used county-level forecasts that found much of the country was in decent shape for reopening, but worrisome areas remain, including Houston, Dallas, South Florida and Alabama.”
“The Imperial College researchers estimated the virus’s reproduction number, known as R0, or R naught. This is the average number of infections generated by each infected person in a vulnerable population. The researchers found the reproduction number has dropped below 1 in the District and 26 states. In those places, as of May 17, the epidemic was waning.
In 24 states, however, the model shows a reproduction number over 1. Texas tops the list, followed by Arizona, Illinois, Colorado, Ohio, Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa, Alabama and Wisconsin.”
Reminds me of how many posters a few months ago would talk with evident glee about the impending disaster that was about to overtake Florida. Plenty of thinly veiled comments about how Floridians would regret living in a “low tax low infrastructure state” that was not led by an “enlightened” governor.
No regrets here so far, I still cannot believe what an absolute mess the Northeast turned out to be.
Wasn’t the Imperial College the one that released one of the original (doomsday) models? The one that has been debunked. So, they are doubling down on the effort?
I got an email that a favorite local nursery will not be opening this year.
Simply the best place for a wide selection of annuals & perennials & vegetables & herbs.
I was hoping they would find a way to make it work this year — by time slot or x number of people at a time — but I also realize how daunting it would be to pull it off in that space.
The email said they will have their eye on 2021 instead.
To be fair, though, we don’t upend our lives for the flu because we have flu vaccinations that are pretty effective each year. And that man that in the article you cited did not get vaccinated for the flu that year, so his condition was preventable. We don’t have the same protections for this virus.
Working while symptomatic. During a deadly pandemic.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/23/us/missouri-hairstylist-coronavirus-trnd/index.html
It’s not my fault Alabama decided to widely reopen too early
It’s not my fault that people are blatantly disregarding mask wearing and social distancing.
No one should be surprised, in the least, at increasing numbers of cases and hospitalization in Alabama.
And no one should be surprised when the second wave hits even worse.
Our country is so dumb - we are reopening even when the first wave is still ongoing and encouraging people to act like they did before the pandemic.
97k deaths and counting.
Keep up the good work. /sarcasm
Not really worried here in Texas, either. Currently 39th in per capita deaths, the rate would need to more than double before we move up to the median per capita death rate for the US states. 200 deaths in Houston, the 4th largest city in the US. You may be waiting quite a while, @emilybee, for the carnage you so clearly hope for.
I don’t hope for. I expect it.
I’m voting for folks to pick their side and quit condemning the other - this goes both ways.
It should be obvious to all that the country is reopening. No one is going to change that.
Natural selection means the strongest (genetically), smartest, and luckiest will do well. Others will have problems. Some won’t make it.
Figure out which group you fit in with and we’ll all watch to see what happens. There will be a world on the other side. Some folks won’t be there (not meaning anyone on this board - just fact about some deaths will still happen). Most will.
For myself, I have no confidence in being in the strongest or luckiest groups due to other issues I’ve experienced and my son having had issues if he had it. We’re going to stay in our own little world. I’m quite content here, so it isn’t a mental problem in the least.
YMMV
I’d still like to hear about what’s going on in different places and with individuals - just without the condemnations.
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Ok, but the article you cite underscores the importance of flu vaccinations. The study found the flu shot to reduce already rare pediatric deaths by 65% in children with no known underlying conditions and 51% in children with underlying health risks. Right now, we have no covid19 vaccine to similarly protect the population against any fatalities or long lasting damage, let alone even potentially rare fatalities.
SMH
Also, in response to “Pandemic victims do not “deserve” to get sick in any circumstances.”
Gleeful that not only could people you disagree with get the virus, but no sympathy for the loved ones that had nothing to do with decisions you disagree with?