Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

I think the photo of the guy in Michigan, who felt it was prudent to wear a mask while carrying his Confederate flag to protest against powers of the state to convince them to lift the quarantine orders is a perfect illustration of how little thought went into these protests.

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Makes perfect sense with the type of people protesting.

Check out this Tweet from Trump today.




He's getting his base fired up over these stay at home orders are infringing on your second amendment rights and is all but practically inciting violence.
 
Texas will start steps to reopen the state starting with Parks opening next week. Most of the state to be fully open my May 1st.

Only the high population centers may remain closed longer.

This doesn't even meet Trumps guidance of at least 14 days of a downward trend of new cases. Texas is still on the upward trend.
 
Texas will start steps to reopen the state starting with Parks opening next week. Most of the state to be fully open my May 1st.

Only the high population centers may remain closed longer.

This doesn't even meet Trumps guidance of at least 14 days of a downward trend of new cases. Texas is still on the upward trend.
That's surprising, because they announced all schools will be closed until the end of the school year today.
 
That's surprising, because they announced all schools will be closed until the end of the school year today.


Yeah, it is strange. And I did read that note about schools and thought it was odd.

I think by fully open back up they are reffering to the economy and getting people back to work.
 
Texas will start steps to reopen the state starting with Parks opening next week. Most of the state to be fully open my May 1st.

Only the high population centers may remain closed longer.

This doesn't even meet Trumps guidance of at least 14 days of a downward trend of new cases. Texas is still on the upward trend.
I'm not terribly surprised, but I will say that to an extent, stay-at-home orders in this state only really matter or are being followed in the more populated areas. enforcing it across the state is just not Texas' MO and unfortunately very difficult- in a way, people in the west have been doing social distancing all their lives. outside of concentrated areas like El Paso or Lubbock, not sure if there's a need to enforce when there's less than 15% of the state roughly to the left of the purple line.
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I don't see the orders being lifted in San Antonio, Dallas, or elsewhere before the experts recommend. the SA mayor has discussed opening up some spaces after the current April 30th date, but at the same 25% occupancy rate being used in grocery stores.

I'll start worrying when the Governor starts interfering with the mayor and county judge mandates.
 

It will be interesting to follow this. They seem to think most of these "re-infection" cases are relapses a few weeks later. A lot are positive for virus but have no symptoms or mild symptoms. For some, they couldn't get virus to infect cells in culture although they detected it.
 
It will be interesting to follow this. They seem to think most of these "re-infection" cases are relapses a few weeks later. A lot are positive for virus but have no symptoms or mild symptoms. For some, they couldn't get virus to infect cells in culture although they detected it.

Would they be considered contagious during a relapse or would the viral levels be too low?
 
Would they be considered contagious during a relapse or would the viral levels be too low?
I believe that article said that they *should* be contagious if they are showing symptoms, which some are, but there hasn't been any confirmed transmission from a relapsed/reinfected patient.
 
On CNN they just reported that China is saying 14 days of quarantine is not enough.

China says the first case of Covid-19 in Beijing was from a Chinese college student who came back from Florida. This student was in mandatory quarantine for 14 days and during that 14 days tested negative 3 times for Covid-19. After 14 days he was released and allowed to return home to his family where he apparently infected his family with Covid-19 making his family members the first to test positive.

The student never tested positive nor ever showed any symptoms.

Speaking of China. I work for Ikea, and they've shut down most of the stores worldwide (including all of the ones here in the U.S. at the moment). What's crazy is that they just re-opened the final store in China today (in Wuhan). They had all been closed there for 45 days. It was posted on our employee website as a way to say "Things are getting back to normal in China, soon it will be this way everywhere" in the world.
 

I thought this would never get picked up by the media, I had some friends asking me a couple weeks ago if we were doing anything like this, to which I responded no due to privacy concerns, then I saw Google and Apple team up to do something similar and kinda laughed because I trust governments more than I trust corporations. Anyways wanted to share because I absolutely love this idea but understand how some people could find it 'scary'.
Honestly, I do think this is scary, but also, I don't think there's a much better way to do this if we do decide to soft open things based on risk factors. If we start needing to bring antibody testing results in order to go places or do certain things, I could definitely see this being done state by state via some sort of official app. BUT, I see this as problematic because it does violate HIPAA privacy rules. I'm not really sure how we are going to handle this in the west because we are so much more concerned with personal privacy and personal freedoms than anyone in China.
 
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