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b_b  ·  1249 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Woke up this morning to zero new COVID cases in Victoria

The good part about the data in the link is that you're nowhere near capacity for hospital covid admissions.

The morons around me have pushed my county's counts from like 38 in the summer to 127 in the most recent 14 day span, although that's pretty good by MI standards, because it looks like some rural counties are pushing 1,000. And I can assure you that those counties do not have hospital capacity.





ButterflyEffect  ·  1249 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Our idiot neighbor voted to rescind their mask mandate in two counties and may have to start using our excess hospital capacity.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/kootenai-health-nearing-capacity-covid19/293-e0a4aad1-469a-4971-9475-c099dfb180bb

b_b  ·  1249 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Brilliant that they're just planning to use Seattle hospitals. I thought the Republicans were supposed to be the ants to the Libs' grasshoppers. At least, that's how they've always seem themselves.

kleinbl00  ·  1249 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah on a grading-on-the-curve, we're-still-American-after-all level we aren't doing terribly up here. I can point to three restaurants that will never open again not because everyone is bankrupt but because their owners died of COVID but considering how many bloody senior living apartments they've put up in the past two years this place should be a goddamn bloodbath. What's appalling is when you look at our county heatmaps all the cases are coming from the unincorporated I-5 corridor, where mask laws are enforced by the sheriff we're recalling.

"we aren't Utah" is... better than "we're Utah" I guess.

am_Unition  ·  1249 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Except for Utah, the state-level hot spots (per capita positive tests) currently look like a heatmap of "Americans guess which state hosts Sturgisfest". Texas is slowly starting to creep up, but it's mostly driven by El Paso, I would guess, they're transporting patients to elsewhere in the state.

Trump is probably going into superfuckyou mode after the election, regardless of how or when the electoral college is tallied. Any coronavirus testing legislation will be vetoed, so I'd guess our only hope is a GOP Senate override. Hahahhaha. If Trump hasn't conceded to a massively-expanded testing and tracing program by now, he's never gonna. And Trump actually is pretty much the Senate, at least until he loses the election and probably takes the Senate with him. Still, that's not until the end of the year.

His anti-testing tendencies, along with promoting/demonstrating a disregard for masks, reckless super-spreading events, and the politicization of his own covid contraction, are unacceptable. To pretend that scientifically sound policies and economic stability are diametrically opposed is the one of the most damaging "false choice" logical fallacies in... well, at least maybe a year or two.

Counterpoint: If Trump is resoundingly defeated, he could just get out of the way? But I sincerely doubt it. I dunno, it'd be interesting if the election was squarely called for Biden by 1 or 2 AM EST. I expect it to take days. :(

Almost typed EDT, looking forward to gettin' the hour back, yeeeee.