Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[RAFUH]

My home state of Arkansas had its single highest one day increase in hospitalizations and surpassed the highest ICU bed occupancy.

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and now, all ICU beds in the state are full.
I should note they have actual rooms/beds…the limiting factor is nurses.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Yep - being totally honest, I was expecting to have seen a big spike by now. No idea why it's going so well (so far...)

Its not Christmas being one idea. If you are struggling, look at the seasons as in weather oddly there is pattern but it's a secret.

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Yeh, face masks being that information not so long ago.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

We’ve banned single-use plastic bags in most countries, why not do the same with face masks? It’s not too much to ask of people to buy a fabric face mask and remember to wear/carry it around, surely.

Are all face coverings equal in not acquiring or transmitting COVID virus?

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

giving people a grand off their student loan debts would help - and as the people who are in favour of that system on here repeatedly say, it isn't like they are going to be paying them back anyway

Me myself and I tends to get in their way of this logic. In other words " what about me"...

 

[Mrk]

Its not Christmas being one idea. If you are struggling, look at the seasons as in weather oddly there is pattern but it's a secret.

...what? lol Sounds like a 17th century drunken sailors riddle this.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Not that we had any idea the national Conservative government is basically useless and incompetent.

Lack of government Covid plan for English schools ‘unforgivable’, says report

Senior figures refused to consider likelihood of exam cancellations before second lockdown

www.theguardian.com

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

...what? lol Sounds like a 17th century drunken sailors riddle this.

My bad should have inserted Latin would have made it all the more comprehensible. Incidentally I'm going to have a good today, i dreamt of inventing a round thing with a stick running through the middle to another round thing, I call it " the wheels".

 

[Prevenger17]

Was in Galway at the weekend, felt almost normal. Walked by Eyre Square at one point in the evening and it was jammed with folk, like a festival. It was lovely tbh

 

[Mrk]

My bad should have inserted Latin would have made it all the more comprehensible. Incidentally I'm going to have a good today, i dreamt of inventing a round thing with a stick running through the middle to another round thing, I call it " the wheels".

I think you've accidentally put gin on your cornflakes again mate. Be well.

 

[Tipp blue]

Was in Galway at the weekend, felt almost normal. Walked by Eyre Square at one point in the evening and it was jammed with folk, like a festival. It was lovely tbh

I'm in Cliften at the moment.. I've been coming here regularly for the best part of 20 years and I've never seen it so busy.. the weather has been kind so far.

 

[WA Toffee]

A fabric mask should be washed at 90 degrees after every use. The vast majority of people aren't doing this. I wear disposable masks because its difficult to remember to wash fabric masks after every use.

Not sure that's true. Soap will destroy the lipid layer of the virus, killing it without the need for heat

 

[grandjoeblue]

Not sure that's true. Soap will destroy the lipid layer of the virus, killing it without the need for heat

The guidance I read was a while ago and I can't remember the sourcr but it definitely said wash the masks at the highest temperature.

Easier to just buy disposable masks and swap them every 4 hours. Then you know you're wearing a clean and effective mask.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

A fabric mask should be washed at 90 degrees after every use. The vast majority of people aren't doing this. I wear disposable masks because its difficult to remember to wash fabric masks after every use.

Same. It's tiring.

Using them destroys the planet, indeed, but the fabric one is terrible for my skin. We either stop wearing them (I'd like it so much) or people like you or me will continue wearing disposable ones. I don't throw them into the ocean, obvs.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Looks like the gamble on nations health younger people is looking like another bad decision.

COVID-19: Annabel is fighting virus symptoms months after testing negative for the disease

Annabel's symptoms include debilitating fatigue and daily headaches but her mother is more worried about the affect COVID had had on her daughter's brain and and her nervous system.

news.sky.com

 

[dublinbluenose]

I read some very depressing anecdotal reports from parents whos children are suffering awful side effects from suspected long covid. I'm glad we're moving jab 12-15 year olds before Schools return so hopefully the knock on will bring the risk of infection to younger siblings way down.

Thankfully our two eldest will be going back in September into a brand new build school with good ventilation and co2 monitoring.