I’m not sure where exactly but I recall people asking about increases in mental health concerns during the health crisis and lockdown. I’m not sure these figures reflect fear from the disease, the news or the isolation. But FYI as I recall people asking about data.
“According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, its Disaster Distress Helpline experienced a 338 percent increase in call volume in March of this year compared to February, and an 891 percent increase compared to March 2019.”
Also in a great news and really surprising to me type category. Someone was released from the hospital yesterday after 8 weeks on a ventilator. That’s remarkable to me. Good for them!!
My daughter lives in Copenhagen and told us tonight her company is calling her back to the office next week, after having worked from home since the beginning of March. Half of her team will report next week, the other half the week after that. No mention of what will happen the third week. Employees are being encouraged not to use the train, but since many Danes ride bike, it’s not a problem.
Denmark had opened schools for young children a few weeks ago, and their R number went from 0.6 to 0.9. It will be interesting to see what transpires over the next few weeks.
In our HI state, when they’ve tested for COVID-19 using pretty strict criteria (healthcare worker or close contact with known positive case + symptoms) they’ve had about a 2.5% positive rate and they’ve done over 25,000 tests, I believe. So far, haven’t heard of any antibody testing in our state and believe our low confirmed prevalence rates would make our state unattractive for such testing at this time.
Believe they have used plasma from known recovered COVID-19 patients to treat some of the sickest patients in our state but don’t know details.
@emilybee They will open up as soon as their regions reach the benchmarks. So far none of them have.
How can any of us reach benchmarks such as a certain amount of testing per population when very limited testing is available? How do municipals have the funds and resources to set up contact tracing?
If you make the benchmarks tall and small hoops, you don’t have to open. There are serious problems now by remaining closed. I don’t need to list them.
Yes, there are and will be outbreaks in rural areas as well as suburban and urban. This virus isn’t going away. Those who want and are able can continue to shelter in place. Others will have to or want to continue living while taking calculated risks and I’m sure there are those who throw caution to the wind. But there is no need to punish the rest of NYS for the epidemic in NYC any longer.
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No reason to do away with any of it, even though it might not look as wise as I’ve heard for my entire life it was. We’re still free to make choices in the US and the choice to live in a high-density environment should always remain on the menu, along with bearing the occasional negative outcome.
I’ve traveled I-59 to Slidell on the way to NO more times than I can remember. More often, since we bought a fishing camp a few years ago about 30 miles south of New Orleans on Hwy 23.
New York license plates are a regular sight on I-59 and even more so around Mardi Gras.
The decisions to live in high-density urban areas and to use mass transit often are made for financial reasons. Also, members of traditionally discriminated against racial, ethnic, and religious groups sometimes to choose to live in high-density urban areas because they’re more likely to find social communities in which they feel comfortable. Owning a car and living in a low-density area are not possibilities for everyone.
The worse risk is not urban living, but overcrowded living, whether urban or not. It’s a contagion risk to squeeze lots of people into the same dwelling. Posh skyscrapers don’t seem to pose the same risk as overcrowded housing.
White people living in San Francisco’s Mission District have a very low rate of covid; they tested 55% of a Mission census district and couldn’t find any white people who were positive. Latino people living in the very same census district had something like a 4% rate of positives. They all live in the same area with the same density.
Didn’t that same survey indicate that 90% of Mission residents werent getting paid if they did not work, but those who were paid were the white yuppies there? I suppose People with no money need to go out to foid banks, soup kitchens or looking for odd jobs more often
@HImom waiting for your state to maybe be able to test people upon arrival at airport and then maybe X days later , to lessen the 14 day quarantine. Once they do I will happily give $ to your economy, but cant afford 2 weeks of SIP to visit. We had planned a trip in late Aug before Covid happened.
The sample included people who lived there and people who worked there. People who lived outside of the census tract but worked there were more likely to have tested positive.
One of the results was that 90% of the positive tests were among people whose jobs could not be done from home.
It didn’t say that or anything close to that, and in fact it said the opposite. It said 53% of the people who tested negative “reported no impact on their work or financial stability.” But that’s 53% of almost everyone tested, because only 2.1% tested positive.
Of the people who tested positive, 90% said they couldn’t work from home. The people who tested positive also lived in crowded conditions and had low incomes. But recall, the people who tested positive were a small small percentage of the total.
Why would a jurisdiction ban drive thru graduation parades? It makes no sense. And this type of silly power grabbing BS is why people are rebelling against reasonable restrictions.
Even law enforcement personal are struggling with the reasoning and are beginning to refuse to enforce legalized stupidity.
While some States are going forward to fast with re-opening, mine keeps doubling down on restrictions. The rumblings among the common man (cis- or otherwise) are leaning towards civil unrest.
@sdl0625 — we are all looking forward to more guidance on how to minimize quarantine while still keep uninfected residents as safe as possible.
It is definitely something in urgent discussions and study worldwide. It’s great having low infection rates but the balancing act of how to welcome visitors too is challenging.
We still haven’t opened our restaurants for dining in; our state is using a very cautious phased approach and has had very low infection rates.
Only my opinion but absent the official response to this illness, I’d bet better than 70% of restaurants would survive.
What is going to kill your favorite one isn’t fear of the illness… it’s inconsequential for enough diners that most could continue operations… but the shutting of them for the sake of older people that would - by now - avoid them anyway. That and the fact disposable income, the kind that restaurants live off of, is evaporating daily.