COVID-19 Megathread (Please limit all COVID discussion to this thread)

[FossilFndr]

Slow burn continues

 

[Legionnaire11]

Just saw on the news where Metro is talking about their huge budget shortfall, one of the stated reasons for this is the Predators not playing due to the pandemic. I don't intend to make light of the situation, but anyone who was around in 2007 surely snickered a little bit hearing that line.

 

[NoNecksCurse]

Just saw on the news where Metro is talking about their huge budget shortfall, one of the stated reasons for this is the Predators not playing due to the pandemic. I don't intend to make light of the situation, but anyone who was around in 2007 surely snickered a little bit hearing that line.

i don't feel bad for them.

Nashville has been booming for a decade and locals have been getting killed by tourist spot prices.

This goes back to the debate of when should we open 100% back up.

 

[drwpreds]

This goes back to the debate of when should we open 100% back up.

Now

 

[Armourboy]

Now

Agreed. If the Mayor is going to encourage large gatherings then there is zero reason to keep business limited.

 

[NoNecksCurse]

Agreed. If the Mayor is going to encourage large gatherings then there is zero reason to keep business limited.

i think enough data is in to show we waited long enough to keep the curve down. probably too long.

i don't want to hear a damn thing about coronavirus from cooper.

 

[FossilFndr]

821 new cases reported, second highest one day new cases reported in Tennessee so far.

 

[Armourboy]

View attachment 348591 821 new cases reported, second highest one day new cases reported in Tennessee so far.

Makes me wonder if it's due to the holiday so you had more tests kind of stack up. Guess we will know in a few days.

 

[FossilFndr]

Of course I don't know, but the holiday was a week ago.

 

[hockey diva]

There has been state wide mass testing of institutionalized people, jails, nursing homes etc which might account for some of the spike.

 

[FossilFndr]

I wondered if it was like the prison that revealed the 1156 daily uptick a few weeks ago. Of course I don't know, you have better insight than I do.

 

[Armourboy]

Of course I don't know, but the holiday was a week ago.

Right but I'm sure they were shut down for the weekend which has me wondering if that caused a back log. The testing in prisons, etc. sounds more plausible though.

 

[drwpreds]

Still don't get why so many, particularly in the media, see an increase in cases and automatically frame that as horrible news. For me, number of cases means very little as far as how we should be reacting to this whole thing.

Only thing that matters is deaths and hospitalizations. If we see a ton of new cases but the deaths/hospitalization numbers remain low, it is good news and just more evidence that for the vast majority of Americans, this thing is far, far less dangerous than everyone thought.

I've said this before, but i firmly believe that if we could magically flip a button and learn the true number of Americans who have had the virus in the past 4 months, that number would be MUCH higher than anyone would believe. Wouldn't be surprised if it was several million at least.

 

[PredsV82]

Agree that at this point increased cases is at least in part due to increased testing and hospitalization and ICU cases is the most important number to watch. All the protests are almost certainly going to increase the number of cases everywhere but if the hospitalization numbers dont spike then that's a pretty good (although unscientific) study of what mass gatherings, outdoors, in warm weather does to COVID.

 

[FossilFndr]

Right but I'm sure they were shut down for the weekend which has me wondering if that caused a back log. The testing in prisons, etc. sounds more plausible though.

Since the holiday was May 25th there was all last week to catch up the data, the blip (hopefully) was 8 days later. And the data is released every day, including Saturdays and Sundays so there isn't really a weekend. Data was released even the holiday Monday.

 

[Armourboy]

Since the holiday was May 25th there was all last week to catch up the data, the blip (hopefully) was 8 days later. And the data is released every day, including Saturdays and Sundays so there isn't really a weekend. Data was released even the holiday Monday.

Didn't know that. When it first started they said the numbers would spike on certain days due to certain labs not reporting on the weekend and rolling them all together.

 

[FossilFndr]

checking

 

[Adz]

Didn't know that. When it first started they said the numbers would spike on certain days due to certain labs not reporting on the weekend and rolling them all together.

I vaguely remember that, too.
This all started about 5 years ago, right?

 

[hockey diva]

Novel Coronavirus

Current data. About 400 new cases, 37 hospitalized in the last 24 hours.

 

[bdub24]

Ba duh duh duh another narrative bites the dust....
And another one gone and another one gone
Another narrative bites the dust!
Hey! Logic will get to you another narrative bites the dust-ah!

WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 5 June 2020

 

[FossilFndr]

If we can get MLB to open up maybe we can get COVID-19 to die from boredom.

 

[hockey diva]

Watching the Indy car race on nbc

 

[101st_fan]

So, about not opening up given the size of both protests and riots (different things) over the past two weeks.

 

[PredsV82]

So, about not opening up given the size of both protests and riots (different things) over the past two weeks.

When did anyone say we should "not open up"? Everyone has already been opening up the last month already. The demonstrations will, as I said above, provide an instructive albeit unscientific look at what happens via a vis COVID with large outdoor gatherings in warm weather

 

[Adz]

Well, @101st_fan , I guess we'll see the effects of that in a week or two. Two separate issues crossed paths. Overall, I think people are reaching the end of their patience and are starting to question contradictions, but mostly we're just tired of living this way. For the mayor to thank protesters for a peaceful march but to also delay phase 3 because the numbers are going up a little does send a mixed message--both were probably appropriate actions in a vacuum, but they conflict logically. I don't want others to get sick so I'll wear the mask in closed in spaces and continue to wash my hands frequently, but I am ready to test the waters a little bit. How can you know Phase 2 is working if you're not doing anything different? I didn't wear a mask to lunch and the bar yesterday -- no one else was wearing one, either (except the waiters). I will visit with my family now. Would I go to a full arena to watch a hockey game? Probably not quite to that comfort level, but if the sick numbers don't go up significantly after this past week...maybe I would. Was all this appropriate? Yes, with reservations.

I think we could have shutdown for a much shorter time earlier than we did and nipped it in the bud. I do think the death rate would have been higher if this had been allowed to spread unchecked but I also think some of the shutdown measures put into place were too extreme--but this is all with hindsight. We could have had percentages like Italy, too. But to maim whole industries like we have was a tragic tradeoff.