If it was the right kind of flu, hopefully it did.

Edit: (Apparently there's 4 corinaviruses that commonly infect humans).

Unfortunately, Influenza is not a Coronavirus. Different colors (because that's how it works)


SI

Even viruses are racist now.

Well, actually...

SI

16 days. My wife finally got the results of her COVID test after sixteen days.

Negative, btw.

I was reading an article about 3 weeks ago talking about Sweden and how no one was mentioning them. The point of the article was things were not good for a bit, but things plateaued and were tailing off and things were not nearly as bad as people were predicting when Sweden first came out with their approach to the virus.

Because Swedes kind of took it upon themselves to social distance and wear masks?

Here in the Netherlands, things looked nearly over, but we're rapidly growing to the to be expected second wave. Apparently previous "plan" (expectations with a 'normal' flu wave) was to have that start mid-October and be prepared for a peak in December, but at this pace the second wave will start early September.

Ugh. Just found out my 85 year old mother has been exposed to COVID through her physical therapist. We're waiting on test results and so far there are no symptoms. Say a prayer if that's something you do.

It's dropped off in most of Europe, not just Sweden.

Deaths yesterday:

UK 20
Spain 0
Italy 10
France 17
Germany 8
Sweden 0
Netherlands 2

Even Canada only had 15.

United States 1,386

What's odd is that I read something weeks ago about Sweden where the architect of their plan was openly questioning whether they did it right.

Man. Glad the wife is ok, but tough blow to hear about your mom right after.

oof, thinking good thoughts

"Sweden has about 8200 confirmed cases per million people as of 12 August, compared with 1780 in Norway and 2560 in Denmark. (For the UK it is 4600 and the US 15,400.)

Sweden has had 57 deaths per 100,000, compared with five in Norway and 11 in Denmark. (For the UK it is 70 and the US 50.)"

From: http://www.newscientist.com/article/...success-story/

I wouldn't say that things went well for Sweden.

It appears the failure in Sweden of dealing with care homes drove most of their deaths. That appears to be the case here early on, as well.

The reason FL/AZ/CA/TX don't have the number of deaths that NY and other NE states had despite the increased number of cases was knowing how to handle care homes and the knowledge/advances gained in the several months since NY was at its worst.

Bigoted :)

Great pics. Are those "real" colors or did they photoshop to bring out the differences?

For a nation that did nothing to prevent the spread, they did well. They came out ahead of the UK and several other EU nations, and are within spitting distance of the US as we muddle through. That is pretty dang good for a nation that did nothing.

They didn't quite "do nothing". They just weren't as extreme as some other countries. For example they shut down colleges but not grade schools.

I'm assuming those are enhanced images. Stuff that small always is (just like telescopes too). From what I understand - and real scientists, please correct the stupid parts here - when you look into SEM microscopes like that, it's computer generated - you're looking at the reaction of electrons bombarded off of the objects - you're not actually seeing what something actually /looks/ like. And then they add color because color sells.

SI

They had almost the same economic dropoff as the countries around them, and had way more deaths. You think that's doing well?

As if 2020 wasn't bad enough already:

Dr Pepper is the latest pandemic shortage

I remember when Diet Dr. Pepper was the only drinkable diet soda (e.g yuck TAB). Haven't had one in a while.

It's interesting to see people's reaction to the aluminum shortage. Most are fine with it. The small minority that aren't fine with it though, are really not fine with it, if you catch my drift.

Say what?!

Well, I'm sure Coca-Cola will have their access interrupted last, right? RIGHT?

This has been an issue for several months here, for Coke. The odd thing is, at least around here, it only seems to affect Coke Zero products, Fresca, etc. We can barely get Coke Zero cans and we haven't seen Zero Cherry, Orange Vanilla or Cherry Vanilla (or Fresca) for at least 3 months. I don't know why regular Coke is still plentiful if it's just an aluminum shortage.

Haven't run into Dr. Pepper shortages except for diet Cream Soda. Yet.

Hmm, just did a Kroger pickup today and no issue with Coke Zero (2 12 packs). Granted, I live inside the perimeter in the Atlanta metro.

Starting back in June I have been doing surveys of all Lexington-area stores - Kroger, Meijer, WalMart and Target. Nothing. Plain Coke Zero appears to be rationed - if I get to our local Kroger at the right time, they'll have maybe 8-10 12 packs out, and when those are gone it's a few days before another stash shows up. The other flavors have been MIA for months. And Fresca has disappeared. Most shelves at all of those stores just have regular Coke/Pepsi taking up all of the space where the other flavors should be.

Can't Mitch just get on the phone with Rusal to get things on track?

I don't know. Is he or Trump a Coke drinker? I would assume Trump only drinks the regular stuff, so that would explain why it's always in stock, I guess. I'm sure wearing a mask and drinking Coke Zero makes me less manly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-that-healthy/

Pansy

confirmed addict here (DDP) and it's been harder to come by of late...imma be okay, imma be okay... tryna get by on my Xevia but come on

I picked a good time for my next attempt to get back off sodas I guess(a month so far, was off of them for ~7 years then had 1 during my last move for the sugar & caffeine boost and I've been fucked ever since).

I am still on a 1-2 Diet Mt Dew per day kick at home. Once I go back to work it'll be Diet Coke in the same quantities. But I'll never get off the stuff. It's my only source of caffeine.

I noticed months ago that the DG near us had almost no soda variety. I have only seen Mt Dew Zero like once in the past several months at wal mart. You can’t find regular diet dew too often either.

Saliva-based coronavirus test funded by NBA, NBPA gets emergency authorization from FDA

These guys should really just stick to sports...

Been about 3 weeks since I've been to Kroger. Tonight they had a sign that said masks were required. The intercom repeated that periodically.

Right thing to do. So simple for a grocery store. What took them so long.

They say it here too, but they don't enforce it at all.

Our school district. The video is actually not half-bad. Kudos to them for doing something fun and yet a public service.

Forsyth County School turns ‘Ice, Ice Baby’ into COVID-19 song

Now we have this to worry about:

Pepperoni shortage 2020: The new COVID-19 shortage item is meaty

Happy First Day Of School, North Carolina!

Canvas is down in DeKalb County, GA. Maybe it's a nation wide outage, which, good job, Canvas

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In fairness, how could they anticipate heavy usage this month? :rolleyes:

The first couple weeks of virtual for us in March we had similar issues with whatever the platform was. Wold work fine until 11:30 then all the west coast schools came online and it would crash every day.

I wanted to use Big Blue Button last Spring as it is integrated into our learning management system, but in all the times I tried, I could never access it without crashing. So now I know how to use Zoom.

Our Dekalb day 1 was pretty much a disaster. My son is in 2nd grade with one of the better teachers in the school, but is old and had no idea how to work anything. She was logged in 3x, couldn't share her screen, and told the kids about halfway through that this was her worst nightmare.

My daughter in 6th grade say 2 teachers argued for half their session on the volume. Happy times.

Thank for being a beta tester. Our kids start next week on Canvas.

I thank them as well though next week is mostly about COVID-19 safety/work the bugs out for us.

UNC-Chapel Hill pivots to remote teaching after coronavirus spreads among students during first week of class
By Nick Anderson

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...1c4_story.html


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Out of curiosity, how many of us have been tested and if you have how many times?

I had been tested three times prior the beginning of the month but I have been some volunteer work that requires that I get tested at least twice a week.

I've been tested, a week ago today in fact only time

none here

I did the antibody test which came back negative. We were in Disney in Feb and hoped we had been exposed.

Nice article in the Times today with good news about possible lower thresholds for herd immunity in certain pockets of the world.

Tested once, early June, negative.

Was tested once prior to a May surgery. Negative.

Tested twice. Negative.

Haven't been tested. No symptoms in the family so far.

But this topic has made me think about doing it. Apparently I can setup an appt with local CVS for drive through testing.

Y’know, if you wanted to say “college kids will stay in their college bubble, not get too sick, (and somehow not spread the virus to their vulnerable professors and other staff,) so this is ok” that’d be one thing.
But how does *anyone* think that putting thousands of 18-22-year-olds in close proximity to one another would result in anything but parties, hangouts, hookups, and significant spread of the virus??? It’s completely unreasonable to think in that situation that the students would practice social distancing, wear masks, etc.
And this isn’t any sort of “kids these days” rant. It is the nature of that age—ESPECIALLY when they know that’s it’s highly unlikely that they’ll personally be impacted significantly if they catch it. I wouldn’t have taken precautions. Boomers wouldn't have, Gen X wouldn't have, Millennials wouldn't have. Gen Z isn't.
If the expectation was “they’ll spread it and we’ll deal with it,” at least there would be internal logical consistency.
But I’m completely lost how anyone could have thought, as they apparently did, “let’s go through all the trouble bring the kids on campus--25% or more of whom are living away from home for the first time, and the vast majority of whom are from a state that has had them far more heavily restricted than any other neighboring state--and hope that somehow it magically doesn’t spread all over the place. If it does, even without a lot of symptoms, we’ll shut down.”


Seriously, what were they thinking??? Was it just a brazen money grab? What the heck?

Not tested. Haven't shown any symptoms and have been living pretty hermit-like since early Spring.

I don't know how things played out in NC, but in a number of states public colleges are under severe pressure from donors and politicians to return to normal. Private schools, especially smaller private schools, often literally need the money to survive.

But, yes, it's mostly based on magical thinking. An institution I know well has no testing requirements, no testing on campus, no notification system for positive tests, no requirement for professors to provide simultaneous on-line and F2F instruction for those out, no metrics for changing instruction/living plans, etc. The whole thing is built on the idea that maybe nothing will happen.

Clap louder and Tinkerbell won't die.

I've heard about the UNC protocols from my co-worker with a kid there. They have protocols in place that basically make it impossible to enjoy college in any normal way. But it's the enforcement that's the issue, apparently. For on-campus students, they have them in 4-person pods and attempting to keep small groups to themselves. But you can't lock them in their rooms.

And of course, the frat/sorority houses are treated as their own pods, so on campus, they have restrictions but for those houses, 35 people are allowed to be in close contact without further segregation.

I think this scenario is going to play out across the US on campuses. I fully expect my daughter to either get it or have to quarantine a couple of times from being in contact with people who test positive, Friday night, a couple of her teammates were seen on someone else's instragram in the background of a party - hours after a meeting with the coach about being responsible and limiting interactions.

You'd hope they know better and would be responsible, but how can we expect 18-20 year olds to be more responsible than the adults who have screwed up a potential recovery for the past 3-4 months? We want college kids to sit in their dorms, but adults can rush to the bar without masks the minute they open?

I get your point, but we can make our children better. Control what we can control. Just because everyone else is doing it is not a good enough reason for me, never has been as a parent.

I feel like I am the minority when it comes to parenting.

I certainly expect better from my kids. I'm just talking about the whole concept of sending kids to school and expecting them to act any better, collectively, than the general public.

I haven't been tested at all.

This pandemic is the worst thing that could happen to a country that doesn't like to follow rules. We're seeing it.

I assume you were referring to the Wuhan water park party?


"The city hasn't reported any new cases since mid-May."

Most parents I feel are like this but you can't change how kids that age are wired. It is like any other stage of childhood. Their brains literally aren't developed to where they can think and act like we feel they should in that spot. Parenting skills have little to do with it.

No test here but I work from home and have been careful. Mask at the store and limiting contact with people. Even if this isn't deadly to someone like me, I absolutely hate being sick.

That doesn't apply to just one country, it applies to many disobedient societies.

How can it be a "kids these days" rant? We can't fucking get adults to do it and we're expecting kids to have more "personal responsibility" bullshit than their parents and grandparents?

And the adults who are doing the hand wringing and pearl clutching about how "kids these days" aren't responsible is lunacy when they can't be bothered to stay away from an Olive Garden for 6 months or wear a goddamn mask.

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Father in law has tested positive.

He's had a fever, lots of coughing and chest congestion since Saturday afternoon. My mother in law is freaking out. Her results came back negative.

78 years old. Hits the Legion every day. Hits the casino twice a month. He is going to lose his mind having to be cooped up, being sick during this time of the year.

Sorry to hear that Spleen. :(

Wish him the best.

We're still waiting on a test for my Mom. They went from weekly testing at her facility to bi-weekly.

Well this isn't good

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...heir-lockdowns


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Best wishes to him and MIL.

Good news for those worried about immunity to Covid-19 not lasting very long.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/o...-immunity.html

5 test positive for coronavirus after attending youth event in Brownwood

It was literally called Unmasked Camp 2020?

....it was literally called Unmasked Camp 2020!

What did you think was going to happen?!

KHSAA (KY high school athletic assoc) voted to move forward with fall sports, but the governor has to approve. Given that he's recommended schools stay online until at least September 28th, I'll be surprised if he approves. Pending approval, practices can begin on Monday and fall competition can start on September 7th. Districts are free to opt out even if approved.

What in the name of liability insurance IS this?

Dola...speaking of liability, they still have posts up about it on their FB page...




https://www.facebook.com/search/top/...%20camp%202020

I think they thought they were going to own the libs.

I'm sure they were going to pray it all away

Don’t live in fear guys.

Georgia State QB announces he has a heart condition from COVID 19 and won’t play this year https://t.co/aH4CawZdsi

— trey wingo (@wingoz) August 20, 2020

This potato seems really hot! Better pass it on to someone else!

Exactly. He's already got the bullseye on his back as a Dem governor trying to do the responsible thing in a red state.

Blessed are the unmasked,

For they shall own the libs.

And if they die, they go to Heaven. Win/win.

It amazes me there are a large number of Americans who don’t understand why or refuse to believe we are a global embarrassment

COME SEE A TASTE!

Soaking in.

Coworker tested positive for Covid today. So I was tested and sent home to quarantine for 2 weeks. I'm supposed to get test results back in 24-72 hours.

Ugh. Hope your test comes back negative.

Was it the stick a swab up-up-up your nose? How did it feel because I'm thinking about going to CVS to get a test soon.

I got the brain probe and it sucked. It's not painful, but not something I'd voluntarily do again. Results in 24-72 hours.

My wife went to get a quick test done and is at the clinic now.