How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Lollapalooza 2021 looks like a success.

 

[Free]

Lollapalooza 2021 looks like a success.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Free]

Florida sets a record with 21,683 new COVID-19 cases reported Saturday, the CDC says

That’s a 12.1% jump over the previous record, Jan. 7’s 19,334 cases during the worst month of the pandemic. Daily case counts routinely surpassed 10,000 as the pandemic peaked a second time. In the succeeding months, daily case counts returned to 2,000 and 8,000.

The last half of July looks like the start of Florida’s third COVID-19 peak, as the case numbers reported Thursday (17,093), Friday (17,589) and Saturday mix in with Jan. 6-8 to comprise the top six individual case count days. The average over the last seven days is 15,817 cases.

Excellent work, Governor DeSantis. You're really winning that pandemic.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

And more thread.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Florida sets a record with 21,683 new COVID-19 cases reported Saturday, the CDC says



Excellent work, Governor DeSantis. You're really winning that pandemic.

The figures on which really to focus now, I think, are the hospitalisation and death rates.

At least in the UK, where 57% of the population is fully vaccinated and, because vaccination was targeted by age group, over 90% of people at the greatest risk of becoming symptomatic have been double vaccinated, we seem to have considerably weakened the link, if not entirely broken it, between infection and illness (or at least illness sufficiently severe to require hospitalisation.

So I'd keep an eye on the hospitalisation and death rates in Florida for the next month to six weeks before reaching any firm judgements.

It also occurs to me that, because of Florida's geography and demography, the figures for particular counties will probably provide more valuable insights than do those of the state taken as a whole.

(I'm not saying this as any sort of admirer of Florida's completely irresponsible reaction to Covid over the last 18 months but as someone who pays close attention to the figures for England, since I live here, and I'm trying to interpret the Florida figures as I've learned to interpret ours.)

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Florida's Covid death rate is now higher than at the peak of the first wave.

 

[Free]

The figures on which really to focus now, I think, are the hospitalisation and death rates.

 

[Romana]

Florida Accounts for 1 in 5 New COVID Cases as DeSantis Sells Anti-Fauci Shirts

Florida physicians have attributed the state’s COVID surge to the governor’s rush to end public health restrictions.

truthout.org

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Anti-Vaxxers Denied Opportunity To Find True Love Among The Equally Deluded

Anti-vaxx dating app Unjected kicked out of the Apple store.

www.wonkette.com

 

[Free]

These people are why we can't have nice stuff.

Graham Was at Party on Manchin's House Boat

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) entertained a small group of senators on his houseboat this weekend and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) -- who has now tested positive for Covid-19 -- was in attendance, CNN reports. Manchin's

politicalwire.com

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) entertained a small group of senators on his houseboat this weekend and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — who has now tested positive for Covid-19 — was in attendance, CNN reports.

Lindsey Graham Tests Positive

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced that he has tested positive for Covid-19. Said Graham: “I am very glad I was vaccinated because without vaccination I am certain I would not feel as well as I

politicalwire.com

Said Graham: “I am very glad I was vaccinated because without vaccination I am certain I would not feel as well as I do now. My symptoms would be far worse.”

Just keep thinking about yourself, oh careless Trumplicans.

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

I know some here like him, but...the genius that is Nate Silver.

 

[Kalel]

putting people before money...Good for them!

'Literally losing our workforce': Florida schools defy DeSantis' anti-mask order

School districts view the mask mandates as a matter of life or death.

www.politico.com

“Corcoran and his team — they will come after our money,” Leanetta McNealy, Alachua County's school board chair, said Tuesday. “I’d rather them come after our money than we're putting people in [funeral homes].”
In Alachua, school officials see it as a matter of life or death. Besides the two janitors who died, the school district is dealing with 15 positive Covid-19 cases, with classes days away from starting, Carlee Simon, the local school superintendent, said Tuesday.
Alachua’s school board, which represents some 28,000 students around the Gainseville area, is expected to reexamine its district-wide mask requirement on Aug. 17.
“We’re running into a situation where we are literally losing our workforce,” Simon said.

 

[Romana]

Texas GOP Official Mocked COVID Five Days Before He Died of Virus

H. Scott Apley’s Facebook page was filled with anti-mask, anti-vaccine content until he was suddenly hospitalized on Sunday.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[Free]

Also,

 

[Beebo Brink]

COVID Anti-Vaxxers Aren’t a MAGA Death Cult — It’s Worse Than That

Deathbed regrets from vaccine resisters speak volumes about the brokenness of conservatism

timjwise.medium.com

It was only killing the weak.

And they were strong — cowboy strong, to be precise, or at least Sturgis motorcycle ridin’ strong.

High on a delusional mix of rugged individualism, toxic masculine bravado, pseudoscientific faith in vitamin supplements, and a belief that God would pull them through, they were convinced they were safe.

Only others were at risk — the less good people.

Because they never wanted to die, they just didn’t care if other people did.

 

[bubblesort]

I've been super careful with masks and social distancing this whole time, and if I end up dying from corona anyway, from variants developed in antivaxxers, just load my corpse into a trebuchet and launch me at a Trump rally, like a mideval plague cow. Among antivaxxers, there are no more ignorant people to pity or explain things to at this point. They are just evil. I do hope they all get infected.

 

[Romana]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Cover your damn nose, Lindsay.