RyanDe680

I really feel for the health care workers... ugh

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/06/dr-scott-gottlieb-daily-us-covid-cases-are-at-least-half-a-million.html

Not the Fauci flip flop talk again. Seemingly a failed administration only has that left to hold on to when they’ve failed us all miserably in terms of organization and leadership.

Pretty bleak outlook of what's to come....

I am talking with clients that over the next few weeks into Thanksgiving are traveling as if business as usual

My math tells me that’s 5%, not 50%

I am thinking that IL will hit 10k per day by the end of the week - a sad accomplishment

Can't wait to get back to the days of going weenie over November snows.

https://www.covidexitstrategy.org/ a serious train wreck

Lol.

+1. I’m partial to the triangles on the cold fronts.

When people involved in government continue to publicly declare this over or that ‘it’s no big deal’ or that there were “only” 1,000 deaths, 100k infections a day is the start of the path to 200k per day in the not too distant future. It’s really sad.

Of course, aren’t there always????

Yeah but to a few that’s just fat people right? Forget that their lives matter, along with all the lives of those caring for them.

I think we all need some comic relief

Agreed. When the football team goes on a bad losing streak, who gets fired?

So here’s a reality check. One of the students in my sons class tested positive over the weekend. My son developed sniffles, cough, sore throat but no fever. A neighbor down the street had the same symptoms. She tested positive on Sunday. I took my son to get tested today - the place was packed and we had a reservation. I was fortunate to get this as I have a supplemental physical to my primary that helped me find an appointment. At least 40 people/cars in line - this is where his pediatrician suggested we go for rapid testing and then come to them for a parking lot strep test just in case to rule out most overly contagious things. The pediatrics office had 12 cars in line for kid testing of covid. To register for a backup test, you have to get up at midnight and register for your spot. I did this at midnight - they filled in 40 seconds for the day. All facilities (18 of them) for this particular testing place filled by 12:02am. there still aren’t enough tests for people and the rates are as high as they are. There’s no efforts to control any of this. After experiencing just this (my son tested negative, thankfully) I really feel for healthcare workers dealing with this. They are only going to be under more pressure over the next few weeks/months after having done so much and put themselves in situations beyond their control. to then see a mass rally on tv with maybe 50% masks is simply infuriating.

The fact that, once again, research and science (which I know people hate to hear) shows that these measures help prevent the spread of this has been defied, and practically ignored. No one is expecting either administration to pull a miracle out at this point, which won't happen no matter who is in that chair, but at least acknowledgement is better than blatant ignorance.

I wouldn’t compare numbers no, but I would compare the response, especially given equivalent larger city populations.

So Australia and New Zealand are complete outliers? Wake up bro. This administration screwed this up from day 0. Im sure you regard Mike Pence as an essential worker right?

Dude stores in IL won’t even close despite a government mandate. Local stores do whatever they want. What hole are you living in?

That’s bs. A draconian measure is national mask wearing? So seatbelts are draconian??? the objective should have been to control it with the least best outcome of slowing it down. Hard to did that when you don’t believe it’s an issue though.

I do agree that I’d like more transparency as to why the sudden increase in infections and where they are attributed to. I’ve seen conflicting reports on gyms, restaurants and the like.

I’m not saying a change at the top would make this go away - we’re too far in at this point. But perhaps a more unified approach from either party. it doesn’t help when the person in charge tells everyone to not let this run their lives and defy what has been proven to work.

Facebook groups have popped up for places defying the shutdown orders. if everyone wants to defy the orders then what’s their solution?