Yet the numbers still are spiking. Hmmmmm???

I just social distance. Masks cover up my buzzard breath.

I will be talking with one of the county health dept worker who handles contact tracing Thursday I will let you know where they think it is coming from now.


earlier this month the big spike here was Graduated spring 2020 football player had a 200+ person birthday party the Saturday before school started and the who's who of area highschool football players and other football adjacent juniors , seniors and recently graduated were there.

I think they decided the final number was around 40 cases at the high school directly related to that party or more than 10% of the students.

so they went for 3 7/8 days of in person school before the outbreak really hit and the closed school early the Friday before labor day then 2 weeks of online from home school now they are going to 2 days in person alternating.

since I know the mother of the co-worker of the young man who held the party also caught it from her son , I assume many of the active cases are secondary from the 40 some sick kids.

seeing as the next weekend was labor day and there were crowds all over that probably is part of it also

hopefully as we get into the cold and wet rainy days of October things will slow down.

so much of the outbreak around her has been linked to parties of people who just didn't want to not party any more so they rolled the dice then some of them who were known carriers had to be given warning they were on quarantine and could not go out to local restaurants and go in and eat.

2 of the waitresses at the restaurant my son was working at also got covid from that party owner handled it real well (not) it was the straw that broke the camels back 2 managers left and my son and 3 others who worked the kitchen left also. they were all getting sick of the list of food they didn't have being longer than what they did and the owner owed every food vendor but went out and bough a brand new Jeep to go with the 2019 truck she was driving.

Since the students at the local colleges returned La Crosse County has had spikes of over 100 in a day. I had a need to drive into La Crosse the other day. Octoberfest, our local beer and debauchery festival was cancelled for this year. Students are partying on their own and I was driving by a lot of large groups of them and did not see a single mask nor any sort of distancing. Geez, how can the spikes be happening?

Moosetrot

I do the social distancing thing. I stay out of stores and public places as much as possible. The most important thing is hygiene. I wash my hands before I handle food and eat. I do not wear a mask.

Your told to wear a mask, but do you?

How about your kids, neighbors, coworkers, people at the grocery store?

If no one wears a mask, why do you think your numbers are up!

How many of them died?

deaths in the county are up to 3 now total cases 535

we had very very little for covid until late august

it really isn't hard to keep distance from people here. pre covid talking to neighbors in the yard 6 feet was already a normal minimum distance

Do you inhale your food thru your nose or eyes?

Numbers game played by press and polititians. Almost all people I see out have masks where and when they are told too yet the numbers game keeps going. The only numbers you should be looking at are HOSPITALIZATIONS and DEATHS. According to the so called experts if YOU stay 6 feet away from me I shouldn't need a mask anyway

Exactly Right!

The numbers would quit rising so fast if the cdc quit lying. But not to worry if biden gets in covid will disappear Im willing to bet on it

I find it interesting that we were told to shut down everything for two weeks to "flatten the curve" so we wouldn't overwhelm the healthcare system. We were told, you can't stop a virus and, sooner or later, everyone would be exposed. Six months later, we are being controlled by a bunch of politicians that can only think about how much they want to get rid of our current president. If you are under the typical life expectancy age, your odds of dying from this are less than dying from complications of a knee surgery. Man, people are stupid. My 80 year old dad has it now. I'm willing to bet, a couple weeks from now, he will be just fine. My 6' tall, 350#, 53 year old brother had it a couple of weeks ago. He is fine now. Case counts now mean about as much as counting all of the common cold cases.

I wear a mask when I go into a store. Other than that I keep my distance and more consciously wash more hands and face and try not to tough my face.


A town not too far from here had a bar that was anti mask. Nearly all there servers and bartenders got covid and had to shut down over labor day...... They're stubbornness cost the thousands.

14 of the frat & ceroeroty houses in Madison were under quarantine

then several dorms

my oldest is a UW Milwaukee student but decided with 3/5 of her classes online to change her schedule up and save 3K on a dorm she would have very likely been quarantined to after a couple weeks.
she is doing more gen ed credits from home with all her classes online.

I was just thinking the other day that I wish someone would start another mask thread since I was beginning to forget who was pro mask and who is anti mask.

Thank you sir!

Creepy Joe says in one of his commercials that he will implement a national mask mandate if elected. What a d-bag.

Well he has to come up with something different than Trump. He claims Trump mishandled covid but everything he suggests to do Trump has already done.

the smartest thing for them colledge kids to have done was for everybody to have been confined to campus until thanks giving and had a big month long covid party . get it over with and not take it home to the old folks or family members with compromised immune system .

unfortunately campus and the city are so intertwined almost impossible to tell where one stops and the other begins , and with all the off campus housing 3/4 of the students live off campus in apartments and such.

they go to jobs off campus , take the busses to campus and party off campus

if only we could toss up a few thousand yards of chain link and put a couple guards at the and be done.

it turns into putting a dorm into quarantine other than laundry and bathrooms students are confined to their rooms

The latest from the CDC is that the probability of death for those under 80 is less than 0.5%. The sooner this runs it's course through the general population the better.

Makes no sense.

School openings, colleges opening, relaxing business restrictions, and Labor Day gatherings are what I think is causing the current outbreaks. I went out today to several businesses. I and everyone else had masks on but I am getting more careless about distancing and hand washing. Supermarket lines are a problem in some stores more than others. I need to avoid ALDI. Too crowded.

Heard today that in a 12 month period we have about 700,000 coronary related deaths. Not much the average person can do to instantly lower that figure. Same for cancer. I am a two time survivor (colon and kidney). If I keep my distance and my head straight about health and safety, I can lower my changc of getting the virus. That's my game plan. Stick to my game plan.

I agree 100%. I have been trapping all over the south From south Alabama to south Texas. Never worn a mask. Never will.

I don't believe the daily Iowa news reports. Average of 19 deaths a day usally, an upper 600 to upper 900 cases a day, I don't believe it, every day, alot unknown of covid. Not know anyone got it, I wear mask in stores or bigger town close anywhere u got to, I wear a lil at 1 job until not hardly none there. I couldn't stand wear in factory. I have had sinus problems for years with upper airways ittated or post nasal. Drip an went docter June. Not reslly sick but notice when breathe for months at nite or day a wheezing noises that had check docter. Go give 2 more weeks as was cold wet lately. An could be lil cold. What is good for sinuses. Or post nasal drip other Zyrtec. ? I heard some over counter stuff, cant think is. U breathe, Nestle something but this docter stuff get be expensive e quick if specialist involved.

Wonder where Walleyed is at with his New York death watch. How did it go from filling refer trucks with dead bodies to like zero deaths?

There are parents that send knowingly positive kids to school here in WI. Many don't trust the government, but we can't even trust our neighbors, that is not a good way to have to live until this passes over.
With 9% of the US estimated to have had Covid that is roughly 25 million, we only have 150 million to go to get to the percentage either vaccinated or recovered or dead from the disease. With mask requirements not getting much compliance I wish the CDC would announce their best strategy for herd immunity because that is where we are rapidly heading. I am sitting on most of my loan I got. Was planning to buy several items. Holding off as many are in short supply but with no 2nd or 3rd relief plan and many wanting to spend money for Christmas, early next year looks like a good time to find some of the items I want to get.

Bryce

Actually there are things you can do to lower your risk of heart disease and diabetes. The problem is they require more effort and commitment. Not as easy as that good feeling you get by putting on a mask.

Maybe someone can clear my mind on this. Who is getting tested? Not sure how you guys feel, but unless I was pretty sick I would never even be near a health clinic. Are people constantly just rolling in and testing themselves? Healthy people?

I had to put one on for about 10 seconds to get into a ballgame during this whole ordeal. I’m glad I live where I do. Everyone has an opinion on them and around here they aren’t popular. I’ll leave it at that

people who want to go back to work.

have contact with a covid + person , you get a 14 day time out while they only get 10 days for being positive.

if you have contact on a the 1st the day they feel ill and go home from work and get tested they can return to work on the 11th and you can not return till the 15th

unless you wait 5 days and get a test , then you could be negative and back to work on the 8th a week sooner than

some of the reasons for keeping half your labor separate in separate teams that way you are not down everyone at once.

my wife , son and daughter have all had positive co-workers or co-workers who were exposed to a positive family member or another positive employee. luckily they were not working with any of them at the time , they were on different shifts.

my daughter has been picking up shifts for the girl who works the opposite weekend because first she was exposed at school and then her uncle who she lives with got it. she will be gone for a month by the time she can return.

No one I know personally has been tested, or any of my customers have said about being tested.

I guess just sick people around here get tested??

We had a good bit here in East Tenn lately, my uncle73) my 2nd cousin(72) and great aunt(94) all had it. My uncle is a smoker of 45 year and had lung collapsed twice and he was in bed for a few days and smothered bad for two days but did just fine , said it was no worse on him than the flu. Surprisingly my great aunt is doing good now but her being 94 and not very good health I thought it'd be a death sentence for her. Nobody where's a mask in my small town but we've been fortunate not to have many cases. What I don't understand is my uncle slept in the same bed with his wife and she never got it

ICU units were all the rage for a while, that's all they talked about. They never told us how many ICU units there are in the country. There's approximately 100,000 ICU beds in the US. Toss some people in there recovering from a triple bypass, motorcycle, chainsaw or car accident and it wouldn't take much to overwhelm the system and make it sound really, really bad.

People aren't dropping like flies and most people around here are weary of hearing of it. I think it's been completely overblown.

Heck a teacher or coach (can't remember) tested positive and still went to school.

I see this more than anything. Weird. Anyother flu seems to go through a whole household eventually. Most of the people I know that have gotten it no one else in the family got except for 1. In that case his 8 year old son had it, he then got it but his 4 other kids and wife never got it.

Seems there are variables that make a difference such as blood type and maybe how your body processes vit D and minerals such as zinc. Even some meds you may be taking such as Famotidine for acid was talked about earlier making recovery quicker. The way the covid replicates in some people just seems to be different, possibly just some subtle difference in ones habits or body makeup. And of course pre existing conditions. All just a guess.
My best friend that died had type A blood.

I haven't had the virus yet. I wear a mask. Can't hurt. Why not. I'm listening. Freedom to not wear a mask offers zero protection to our health. Surely the mask offers some help.

I suspended my daily reporting of the NYS Department of health figures
on May 15th.

If you remember, I never gave my personal opinion
on what those numbers meant while reporting them
each day.

I left that up to you expert epidemiologists and pandemic soothsayers.

I would say that the New York City area finally achieved herd Immunity
and people started to take hand washing, social distancing, and
situational awareness seriously while making smart choices on
which public venues to avoid.

That, and Governor Andrew Cuomo finally ran out of his
pool of nursing home residents to kill off with his disastrous
decision to send Covid positive patients to senior care facilities.

Infection rate has been under 1% for a month.

walleyed

You got that right!

So in the past did you regularly mask up during flu season?

Why not wear a helmet then? Can't hurt. Not wearing a helmet offers zero protection for a potentially fatal head injury.

I think it's to late for the helmet in this case. Lol

The setup was to good, I couldn't resist

U can't get a test unless have symptoms I was told.

Come into Alaska from the the outside and you will either be tested or placed in quarantine for two weeks or until you pass away. Whichever comes first.

It will disappear anyway to focus on Impeachment Round 2.