SouthBuffaloSteve

Hey now! I’d put the cleanliness of my store up against any similar retailer! We’re disinfecting carts in between every shopper. Have a clerk on daily who does nothing but disinfect high touch points surfaces. We do a full clean down of the registers every 2 hours. Wegmans tried the register cleaning in between every shopper but it was a nightmare for them. It just caused a cluster **** line to the back of the store. They did away with that practice. It’s not feasible. Spread in a full sized grocery store or Target, Walmart is minimal to none. If it was we would be dropping like flies. I’ve had 2 workers test positive so far in wave 2. Contact tracing found both were infected in settings outside of work. Our health screening protocol is very strict. Anyone who has had contact with another positive person or claims 2 or more of the noted symptoms is sent home with pay. If corona was coming home on your loaf of bread from the store we would have all been infected by now.

It’s like a never ending dream... Dont be a turkey... Wear a mask...

Damn. He’s already up to $9k raised in less than 3 hours! Did you catch the owner doing the live interview on Fox News at 7pm? He told his story, held up his $15k fine from Erie County then tore it up on live TV. Poloncarz won’t be none to happy about this guy!

0.63%... on 152,000 tests... Wish they would break out more groups like this to see if there is a more common denominator where all these positive cases are coming from. Just a thought here, but data of just nursing homes would be a great place to start.

China don’t play. Still don’t know if you can believe those numbers they report being so low... but I mean they did literally lock people in their homes when the first wave hit.

Last day Erie County was under 4.0% was 11/2. Under Cuomo plan Red Zone is suppose to trigger when rolling 7 day average is above 4.0%. We should have went straight to red around the 10/11/12th time frame. Plus these zone restrictions are crazy in some ways. Movie theaters and malls can stay open but not gyms or hair salons? To much talk, blah blah blah, let’s just shut it down, red zone us for 2 weeks and let us out of timeout from Christmas!

I want some answers on what the state of our contact tracing program is! Buffalo News article on people waiting 7 days to get their positive results back. https://buffalonews.com/news/local/shortage-of-contact-tracers-means-some-wait-days-to-learn-they-are-positive-for-covid/article_9855fd6a-2a83-11eb-96c2-2ff2b10561f9.html One of the initial NY Forward metrics was for the region to have an established contact tracing team. 30 tracers per 100,000 population. That would be 338 tracers just for Erie County and 521 total for WNY. 300 tracers at 600 total positives a day... the tracers daily workload would be 2 cases. Can’t see how you get backed up 7 days at that pace.

This is interesting... So Erie County includes the POSITIVE tests from UB in their daily numbers, but does not include any of the NEGATIVES? Ehhh... UB can’t be testing that many students and faculty right?

Big protest planning to target Poloncarz home tomorrow morning...

Orchard Park, NY – 100+ local business owners had enough. Erie County Sheriff’s Office escorted the Erie County Health Department into Athlete’s Unleashed, a local fitness center in an attempt to breakup a meeting. Gym owner Robby Dinero, organized a meeting of local business owners to discuss how to survive the increased New York State lockdown restrictions. About 20 minutes into the meeting, the Health Department showed up demanding to shutdown the meeting. Business owners weren’t having it and stood their ground. Business owners immediately rebuttled and notified them they walked into the windowless closed and private business, without permission and ordered them to provide a warrant, or leave. After about 3 minutes of heated discussion and refusing to leave, owners united and stood their ground. Then proceeded to tell them they were trespassing and to leave immediately to avoid legal action. Owners then began chanting “Get Out” and directed them to the door. “We are struggling. Our livelihoods have been taken. Our income has been controlled. Our freedoms have been taken away and many of us are about to lose everything we’ve worked for and they want us to sit there and not stand up?” said one business owner who wanted to remain anonymous. Once outside, the officials were notified they were on private property and ordered to leave the entire premises. New York State Governor Cuomo, recently named Erie County a micro-cluster orange zone, which forced gym owners, salons and high risk non-essential business to shut down and restaurants to cease indoor dining. Libertarian Candidate Duane Whitmer, spoke to Erie County Sheriff Howard immediately after, who stated he had no knowledge his deputies were showing up and had not instructed them to. Howard recently told media, he had no plans to have his Sheriffs enforce Cuomo’s ban on gatherings. The meeting was combined of business owners from all political parties, races and industries. Dinero, is a former US Marine, who made news when he defied shutdown orders back in March.

Dang... Million Dollar Idea right there! Print stickers at $2 a pop cost... check! Sell them at $10 a pop... check! Go viral... Cha Ching!

The guy did communicate a lot during the first wave which is good for the public to hear, but he is just such a prick. Hate Trump for the way he talks to people, but obey me when I talk to you in that manner. A leader isn’t going to gain a following the way he acts. You need to motivate the people not put them down. This is why 4 years ago we put a guy like Trump in office. The state, county, and city governments here are such corrupt jokes. If not for family ties I would have left this state years ago.

No he’s just always been a prick to upstate NY, especially Buffalo. I’ll never forget Snovember when he came to town, held a presser where he yelled at us and blamed the slow recovery on citizens not staying off the roads... “when I say the roads are closed... the roads are closed” yeah and then he followed that presser by having his convoy take him up onto the 90 so he could shake hands with the stranded truck drivers and hug the kids stuck in buses. Same then as it is now. The rules apply to YOU but not to ME!

People loved him because of how vocal he was against Trumps response to the outbreak in his state. Just my opinion but his comments yesterday are going to cause more people to ignore protocols and cause additional spread over the holiday. Talking down like he did to a stressed out population isn’t going to suddenly make them follow you, it’s going to cause them to do everything you tell them not to do.

Is this a joke? The man said just yesterday that we’re not living in enough fear to stay alive.

Actually saw a drop off in positives today!

I don’t hear much talk anymore about the anti body testing rates. The county hasn’t posted an updated chart in the past month, but this is interesting... It’s hard to draw a full conclusion on these rates depending on just how random this testing is. Does it include people who at one point had a positive COVID test and then got tested for antibodies after? Or is it more people who think they had it, or had possible exposure, but never got a COVID test? Going out on a limb to say that the first few weeks of these tests may have been the most random sample. Those first weeks would average out to a roughly 7.5% positive rate for antibodies. Compare that to our current daily positivity rate for COVID testing which is between 7 and 8% and I would say it’s fair to believe current case rates could be similar to case rates we couldn’t measure back in the Feb-April time frame. Thoughts on this?

But how out of control was the first wave? If you go by the “positivity rate” that Cuomo uses as one of his main metrics then we still have not eclipsed the severity of the first wave. The weekly rate in April was running 20-30% which is mind boggling now as a 4% rolling average technically triggers a red zone. We have no idea how many people actually had COVID back in the Feb-May time frame due to the lack of testing. It very well could be similar to where we are now. For the entire month of April less than 15,000 total tests were done. Last week alone total testing was over 42,000. It’s a valid point that If you increase your testing 10 fold your going to see a similar increase in the number of total tests coming back positive. I’m not doubting we are surging into the expected second wave now, but we just don’t have the data to compare it against the first wave. These are Erie County numbers I am referencing, so maybe we are just an anomaly here. I mean Cuomo did say we weren’t impacted by COVID here during the first wave so...

I saw this for Rochester schools doing the 20% weekly testing to opt staying open. Out of 3500 tests at random only 5 positives.

For you literally one town over. Village of Hamburg they are closed... Go 5 minutes down the road to village of Boston and open.

BOOM!

Let the shit flinging at the Rath Building begin! That little munchkin is one of my favorite local politicians. He should throw his hat in for the governor race!

Cuomo’s little pet... Hope more local media picks up on this story. Kudos to Artvoice for reporting real news! PLEASE SHARE: The nephew of Poloncarz tested positive for COVID after attending a Halloween party for the Parks Department. They very department he was hired for in the middle of a hiring freeze. The best part? Employees were advised they could get tested "if they want" and were sent back to work. WAKE UP NEW YORK. We need to take action and open up - petition coming soon. https://artvoice.com/2020/11/16/erie-county-exec-and-health-department-put-residents-in-danger-of-deadly-disease/?fbclid=IwAR0BRz5lcxhN9T18QdG0a7HElW91m4qnkLmCLx9SPLkLTepqszgVxqkXdfg

Oh just wait. The fact that Cuomo has been mum the past two days about Erie County’s numbers spiraling out of control makes me nervous on just how hard he’s gonna drop the hammer tomorrow.