President Putin went ahead with a massive WWII-style military parade on Wednesday, completely disregarding a pandemic still raging in his country. Earlier, Russia’s Defense Ministry said the 14,000 soldiers taking part were being monitored, were immune, or hadn’t shown any symptoms of the coronavirus.
Despite these precautions, there were few masks and no social distancing among onlookers crowded along the barricades on central Moscow streets. This year’s annual parade of troops and tanks across Red Square was celebrating 75 years since the USSR’s defeat of Nazi Germany. The parade was originally scheduled for May 9, but postponed until June 24, which also happens to be the day before an “all people’s vote” on constitutional changes passed by parliament this spring.
If the vote passes, it paves a way for Putin to remain in power for another two decades. Russia has the third highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world after the US and Brazil. 7,176 new infections were announced Wednesday, bringing the Communist country’s total to over 600,000. At least 8,513 have died, a number widely believed to be underreported. (Politico)
Our town was going to have fireworks but since neighboring towns canceled their fireworks we got canceled too–the fear was too many people would come here.
My observation is that once masks became required in indoor public spaces in this area and no longer unusual (although not universally used) outdoors, black people wore masks at similar rates as other people. Probably the frequency of mask wearing by everyone eliminated the tendency of masks increasing the likelihood of being seen as a (potential) criminal.
Left unstated in the articles about Lincoln County in Oregon was whether mask wearing (or compliance with any existing mask rules) was generally common there.
Just got back from my weekly Walmart Neighborhood Market trip. Our county passed a mask ordinance that went into effect at 5:00 pm yesterday. 100% of people in masks. It really makes me feel so much more comfortable being out. I am going to continue going around 8:00 a.m. People were fairly mask compliant during that time frame to begin with. It always previously annoyed me, however, that Walmart associates were all in masks but vendors weren’t. Today they were.
I bought a 25 pack of paper masks for around $17. Seemed like a good thing to have on hand. They had a ton of boxes of them.
How many cloth masks do you all have? If those paper masks are more available, will you use those instead? These are three layer, and I think they have the nose pincher thing, though I haven’t opened the box yet.
Having lived through and experiencing most of the seat belt history, that part was quite the reminiscing read! I recall my dad being livid in the early 70s that he had to get seat belts in a new van he was custom ordering for work. I recall having to use them in Canada - NY later being the first state to require them - lots of backlash, etc.
D has been wanting to follow the guideline of getting tested regularly after protesting, but this morning she was told that today’s test will be her last test and that they will refuse further testing unless she meets more than two symptoms of covid. This was her second test. She has had a sore throat and on/off low-grade fever, but they don’t want her back unless she significantly sicker. They’re advice is to stop protesting so she won’t need more tests. So that’s where we are for mid-June, northern Virginia.
It probably makes sense to spread the tests around to a get a more diversified input rather than testing the same subset over and over again.
If people are going to continue to participate in what may be risky activities should they be using up the majority of the testing? Not saying they shouldn’t be tested but I can understand the desire to spread the tests around.
@emilybee she was doing that, but her test was negative, luckily. @MarylandJOE our part of the state has said again and again that they have tests and want people to take them. Testing the same person repeatedly only doesn’t make sense if that person has been at home with no risk of exposure. She is protesting, back to her sport, and back to work, so to me it makes sense to test regularly. She spoke to another place when we got home who said they will test her, so it was just this one place I guess. She is also willing to pay for the testing if it’s simply a money issue, at least as long as she can afford it.
Some people should get regular tests: grocery store workers, health aides at nursing homes, many others. It makes no sense to deny someone a test because they’ve been responsible and gotten tests before. We need enough tests so everyone can be tested when they need it.
so the person who hosted the party had a cough, but thought it was just a normal thing.
Meanwhile in my Atlanta suburb, the cases went up by 30 in two days. There is no way to tell if this is through a party or other event , or if its from those who participated in protests, but now it has the ability probably spread like wildfire. I was going to do trivia tonight sitting on an outside table with family but second guessing. When the cases in my area were not that much (maybe 10-15 a week) i was willing to go out and do more.
I am concerned for my DD whose started her daycamp job next Monday. She has been hanging out with the same people, but I dont know if these young people are going other places. She has had 2 covid tests so far last one a bit over a week ago. so far everyone negative. If she was not working at a camp, I would be less concerned.
Also read an article about a family that has been dealing with it for 2 months, the husband got it first, thought he was done in a few day, went to be back with the family once he he was fever free for 7 days , and then 2 weeks later from the start got very sick. after he had left quaratine for a few days. Both kids got it and have been sick on and off, but not serious and then the wife got it, who is a nurse. She luckily has a pulse-ox. She tried to get home oxygen and was having difficulty with insurance over that, and her husband, 2 months later has good and bad days. So they lived but still continue to struggle.
So now I am back to being scared. I personally know someone who had it and recovered fine after a few days with no lasting issues. then I read the article above and wonder if that could be my family. I wear a mask when I go out.
Good morning, all. I see you left an assignment for me while I was asleep.
New York’s rule is that residents of a state that has a positivity rate of 10%, or that is having more than 10 per 100,000 testing positive as a seven day average, has to quarantine.
California’s positivity is at ~5%, so we’re safe there, but we’re averaging ~12 per 100,000 testing positive over the last week… Seems to me we California residents would have to quarantine.