Pandemic 2020

LST-PRO said:

I have had COVID twice last year and I will not get the shot based on Facts.Think about it all..It's summertime and what happens during the summer since last year..Riots,telling people to mask up and stay in is only to avoid all violence"BY Staying In".I have served this Great Country 6 years Army & 14 years as a PMC until I was injured.We are living in a third world country and anyone that's a Vet or has served knows exactly what i'm talking about.People have gone Bat shit crazy! I'm in Chicago and out of 10 friends 6 have been car jacked.And the worst part is their teenagers acting like their playing video games..

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Like Pokemon Go?

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No question our kids are under a constant attack. The problem is getting people to realize that they are under that same attack.

https://www.rollitup.org/t/ap-cyborgs-trolls-and-bots-a-guide-to-online-misinformation.1005699/post-15310450

Any communication platform that you are on is just feeding the data that is then used to troll you and everyone else nonstop constantly nudging you into being radicalized against 'them'.

Best of luck!

They don't fuck about in the land of Oz with a low vax rate (so far) and delta on the loose.
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Australian Troops Will Help Enforce A Coronavirus Lockdown In Sydney

Australian soldiers are joining local police in New South Wales to enforce a coronavirus lockdown in and around Sydney as authorities try to tamp down the latest outbreak of cases linked to the more infectious delta variant.

Starting Monday, some 300 unarmed soldiers will begin patrols in Sydney — a city of 6 million people. They will be knocking on doors to ensure that residents are following strict stay-at-home measures, the Australian broadcaster ABC reported.

On Wednesday, Sydney extended a lockdown by a month — until Aug. 28 — as cases there continued to rise. Despite those measures, New South Wales, the state where Sydney is located, is reporting 170 additional cases traced to a man who caught the virus but failed to self-isolate, ABC said.

The military's help is needed to enforce the restrictions because a small minority of people thought "the rules didn't apply to them," New South Wales Police Minister David Elliott told Australia's Channel Nine.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has come in for heavy criticism in recent weeks over the slow pace of vaccinations in Australia, where about 14% have been fully dosed — one of the poorest records among any member country of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Defending his government's handling of the vaccination rollout, Morrison on Wednesday said, "No country has got their pandemic response 100%."

Hoping to quell public anger over the lockdowns and discourage vaccine resistance, Morrison said Friday that vaccinated Australians would be able to avoid some lockdowns once the rate of inoculation in the country hit 70%. He said once that rate hits 80%, broad lockdowns in major cities would no longer be necessary.

"If you get vaccinated, there will be special rules that apply to you. Why? Because if you're vaccinated, you present less of a public health risk. You are less likely to get the virus. You are less likely to transmit it," the prime minister told reporters, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

CDC study shows 74% of people infected in Massachusetts Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated

KEY POINTS

• About three-fourths of people infected in a Massachusetts Covid-19 outbreak were fully vaccinated, according to new data published Friday by the CDC.
• The new data, published in the U.S. agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, also found that fully vaccinated people who get infected carry as much of the virus in their nose as unvaccinated people.

About three-fourths of people infected in a Massachusetts Covid-19 outbreak were fully vaccinated against the coronavirus with four of them ending up in the hospital, according to new data published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The new data, published in the U.S. agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, also found that fully vaccinated people who get infected carry as much of the virus in their nose as unvaccinated people, and could spread it to other individuals.

“This finding is concerning and was a pivotal discovery leading to CDC’s updated mask recommendation,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a statement. “The masking recommendation was updated to ensure the vaccinated public would not unknowingly transmit virus to others, including their unvaccinated or immunocompromised loved ones.”

On Tuesday, the CDC reversed course on its prior guidance and recommended fully vaccinated Americans who live in areas with high Covid infection rates resume wearing face masks indoors. The guidelines cover about two-thirds of the U.S. population, according to a CNBC analysis.

While the delta variant continues to hit unvaccinated people the hardest, some vaccinated people could be carrying higher levels of the virus than previously understood and are potentially transmitting it to others, Walensky told reporters on a call Tuesday. She added the variant behaves “uniquely differently from past strains of the virus.”

A CDC document that was reviewed by CNBC warned that the delta variant sweeping across the country is as contagious as chickenpox, has a longer transmission window than the original Covid strain and may make older people sicker, even if they’ve been fully vaccinated.

Delta, now in at least 132 countries and already the dominant form of the disease in the United States, is more transmissible than the common cold, the 1918 Spanish flu, smallpox, Ebola, MERS and SARS, according to the document. Only measles appears to spread faster than the variant.

The data published Friday was based on 469 cases of Covid associated with multiple summer events and large public gatherings held in July in Barnstable County, Mass., which encompasses Cape Cod and is just outside Martha’s Vineyard. The events were held in Provincetown, according to NBC News. Approximately three quarters, or 74%, of the cases occurred in fully vaccinated people who had completed a two-dose course of the mRNA vaccines or received a single dose of Johnson & Johnson’s.

Overall, 274 vaccinated patients with a breakthrough infection were symptomatic, according to the CDC. The most common side effects were cough, headache, sore throat, muscle pain and fever. Among five Covid patients who were hospitalized, four were fully vaccinated, according to the agency. No deaths were reported.

Testing identified the delta variant in 90% of specimens from 133 patients.

The CDC the data has limitations. The agency noted that as population-level vaccination coverage increases, vaccinated persons are likely to represent a larger proportion of Covid cases. Additionally, asymptomatic breakthrough infections might be underrepresented because of detection bias, the agency said.

The CDC also said the report is “insufficient” to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the authorized vaccines against Covid, including the delta variant, during this outbreak.

LST-PRO said:

I have had COVID twice last year and I will not get the shot based on Facts.Think about it all..It's summertime and what happens during the summer since last year..Riots,telling people to mask up and stay in is only to avoid all violence"BY Staying In".I have served this Great Country 6 years Army & 14 years as a PMC until I was injured.We are living in a third world country and anyone that's a Vet or has served knows exactly what i'm talking about.People have gone Bat shit crazy! I'm in Chicago and out of 10 friends 6 have been car jacked.And the worst part is their teenagers acting like their playing video games..

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the uprisings against racial injustice were ok but the rioting in order to install trump as a dictator was not

Please be less dumb

PJ Diaz said:

Pretty interesting document from the CDC today:

Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, including COVID-19 ...

This report describes COVID-19 outbreaks associated with ...

www.cdc.gov

Looks like in an outbreak of 469 cases (90% of which were Delta), 74% of the cases were among the fully vaxxxed.

Of those 469 cases there were 5 hospitalizations (4 vaxxed, one unvaxxed), no one died.

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Cool, now add those n<500 cases to 100,000 or so nationwide and tell me what you come up with, jeep

captainmorgan said:

I actually keep my darker thoughts of what's going on to myself LOL.

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Yea right?
I'd go to either go to a jail or sanitarium if my true feelingswere known

LST-PRO said:

.I have served this Great Country 6 years Army & 14 years as a PMC until I was injured.We are living in a third world country

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Very cool
Thanks

vaxxxs still seem to be be working:

Arizona reports highest daily COVID-19 cases since March
Arizona on Friday reported its highest daily COVID-19 case count since March, as the contagious delta variant drives up numbers across the country.

The Arizona Department of Health reported 1,965 new coronavirus cases on Friday along with 24 deaths. Hospitalizations have also ticked up, with 1,072 coronavirus patients in hospital beds on Thursday.

That's the most hospitalizations due to known or suspected COVID-19 since early March, while Friday's case numbers were the highest daily figures since March 5, The Arizona Republic reported.

Arizona on Friday reported its highest daily COVID-19 case count since March, as the contagious delta variant drives up numbers across the country.
The Arizona Department of Health reported 1,965 new coronavirus cases on Friday along with 24 deaths. Hospitalizations have also ticked up, with 1,072 coronavirus patients in hospital beds on Thursday.
That's the most hospitalizations due to known or suspected COVID-19 since early March, while Friday's case numbers were the highest daily figures since March 5, The Arizona Republic reported.

Arizona has 47 percent of its population fully vaccinated from the virus during this surge in cases caused by the delta variant, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

“Arizona does not allow mask mandates, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports or discrimination in schools based on who is or isn’t vaccinated. We’ve passed all of this into law, and it will not change,”

DIY-HP-LED said:

Defending his government's handling of the vaccination rollout, Morrison on Wednesday said, "No country has got their pandemic response 100%."

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That is some lame excuse from Morrison. “Every country sucks at handling covid so it’s ok I suck too”. They may be among the first on new year’s eve, they are pretty much half a year behind with covid. They did well with lockdowns and contact tracing but that only delayed the inevitable. Now they got to play catch up vaccinating people while delta is dominant. Morrison has had plenty of time to see this coming, perhaps even prevent the current lockdowns. So far they based lockdowns on (small) daily infection numbers. Now they went straight to get vaccinated or remain locked down. In NL we got slowly massaged into that choice. It worked (high vax rates, no lockdowns) but they got a long way to go to that 80% and with spring starting in a month they’ll need a whole lot more than 300 soldiers to keep those ozzies from going to the bowlo. Morrison could have learned many lessons from other nations. Above all the lesson that teaches to learn lessons out of the experiences and results from others.

Delta is spreading in China, this should be interesting.

China virus success under threat as Delta variant spreads
A coronavirus cluster that emerged in the Chinese city of Nanjing has now reached five provinces and Beijing, forcing lockdowns on hundreds of thousands of people as authorities scramble to stamp out the worst outbreak in months.

China has previously boasted of its success in snuffing out the pandemic within its borders after imposing the world's first virus lockdown in early 2020 as Covid-19 seeped out of Wuhan in the centre of the country.

But an outbreak this month driven by the fast-spreading Delta variant has thrown that record into jeopardy since it broke out at Nanjing airport in eastern Jiangsu province.

Hundreds of thousands have been locked down in Jiangsu province, of which Nanjing is the capital, while the city has tested all 9.2 million residents twice.

In Beijing's Changping district, where two locally transmitted cases have been found, 41,000 people in nine housing communities were placed under lockdown Thursday, according to city officials.

The infections are the first local cases reported in the capital in six months.

The outbreak is geographically the largest in several months, challenging China's aggressive containment efforts which have relied on mass testing, lockdowns and swift contact tracing.

China's top disciplinary watchdog has blamed Nanjing airport officials for "poor supervision and unprofessional management" including not separating cleaning staff who worked on international flights from those on domestic flights.

Most of the early Nanjing patients had been vaccinated, a senior doctor in the city was quoted as saying by local media last week, leading online users to question the efficacy of domestic vaccines.

"If the goal is to slow down the spread and reduce the fatality rate, [Chinese vaccines] can afford a certain degree of protection," top Shanghai infectious disease expert Zhang Wenhong said in a social media post Thursday.

"But as for the goal of eradicating the virus, it may be something that the current vaccine cannot achieve."

Federal judge erupts at Capitol riot defendant who refused mask: 'You don't make the rules'
The confrontation took place during a hearing for defendant Daniel Goodwyn, according The Washington Post. He pleaded not guilty in April to five charges in connection with the riots.

According to court records, prosecutors were trying to revoke Goodwyn’s pretrial release over his behavior, including repeatedly flouting orders to wear a mask.

During Friday’s hearing, Goodwyn’s attorney, Daniel Hull, explained to Judge Reggie Walton that Goodwyn had autism, which makes it harder for him to wear masks, the Post reported.

But when asked why he wouldn’t wear one, Goodwyn simply said “it stresses me out,” adding “I believe I would not cause someone to die by not wearing a mask.”

Instead of locking him up, Walton decided to order Goodwyn to wear a mask whenever he meets with pretrial services or appears in court, according to the newspaper.

But Walton was clear: “If you can’t do that I’m going to have no alternative [but] to lock you up and keep you locked up until this case is resolved.”

“They don’t have to put their lives at risk, they don’t have to, and they will not,” Walton continued, referring to court staff.

Goodwyn replied: “I understand [but] I’m not going to do that, sir.” He added that Texas doesn’t require masks indoors.

“I don’t care what the law in Texas is,” Walton fired back. “You don’t make the rules. You will be arrested.”

When Goodwyn was arrested at his parent’s home in Texas, the FBI learned that at least one person in the home believed they had COVID-19.

When agents placed a mask on his face, Goodwyn “attempted to chew through the mask and spit the mask out,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.

Goodwyn was released to home confinement in February. But prosecutors said he repeatedly refuses to wear a mask, show up to meetings or report his location.

Since his arrest, Goodwyn has “flouted the conditions, making clear that he does not appreciate the privilege of pretrial release provided to him by the Court,” prosecutors said.

Florida coronavirus cases jump 50 percent in one week
The Florida Department of Health said there were more than 110,000 new cases recorded this week, a jump from the more than 73,000 reported last week. Case numbers have returned to the level seen in January, before widespread distribution of the vaccine.

Just over 50 percent of Florida's population is fully vaccinated, according to Johns Hopkins University, though vaccinations have increased recently.

The number of vaccine doses administered has increased more than 15 percent in a week, from 288,870 to 334,064, according to state health department data.

Federal health officials this week urged local governments to reinstitute indoor mask requirements, even for fully vaccinated individuals, in an effort to curb the spread of the contagious delta variant.

Florida is second nationally in new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, behind Louisiana and Nevada, respectively, according to a local NBC affiliate. The Sunshine State has made up about a fifth of new cases reported in the U.S. recently.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has urged Florida residents to get vaccinated, but has also criticized the CDC's masking guidance and signaled he won't go along with efforts to require indoor face coverings.

The governor on Friday announced he had signed an executive order directing state officials to push to "protect parents' freedom to choose whether their children wear masks" when school starts this fall.

“The federal government has no right to tell parents that in order for their kids to attend school in person, they must be forced to wear a mask all day, every day,” he said in a statement.

He added during a press conference that his own family would decline to wear masks.

“I have (three) young kids. My wife and I are not going to do the mask with the kids. We never have, we won’t. I want to see my kids smiling. I want them having fun," he said.

Jimdamick said:

Under Trump?

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Under Biden.

Jimdamick said:

Your a joke, and no, I am not hate-filled or a Communist, I'll give you Socialist.
Actually I'l take 1/2 of my statement back. I am hate filled towards the selfish citizens that think their own deluded/selfiish attitude outweighs the common good or the heatlh of their friends/family or neighbors

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You are most definitely a hate filled communist, woke, facist, slob, with no sense of self worth. You attack others, to ease the pain of your worthless existence.

Jimdamick said:

Let me ask you a question @Plutonium
Do you wear a mask now, or have you ever worn one?

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I don't wear one now, but we was all required to wear one and much more at the hospital in the beginning. That all changed after President Trumps announcement about hydroxychloroquine. Our in house (republican) virologist started doing massive research about hydroxychloroquine and multiple other therapies that other virologist from around the world were discussing. That's when everything changed. That's when hospitals in red states started saving peoples lives, while blue states continue to let people die. We saw 1st hand, how the numbers were WRONG, we saw 1st hand how being the biggest hospital in our county, our numbers reported, were being manipulated by powers beyond our control. That's when the administration staff opened their eyes, started listening to our in house experts and started blocking out the bullshit political narrative.

Jimdamick said:

Did you get a vaccination, or do you feel it's an infringement on your rights to be a contagion?
Let me know,please.
I'm very curious.

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I'm vaccinated as far as the official records are concerned. Everyone in the medical community, in our area, is vaccinated on paper. There's to many brainwashed people like you, for our hospital staff to not be vaccinated on paper. It's easier just to say yes and provide a CDC card, then it is to argue with brainwashed individuals, that we are trying to provide medical care to. In reality, I'm immune to Sars-COV-2 and have been since march 2020.

Jimdamick said:

One last question
Are the viruses in your community?

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Yes, they are. I see it everyday. EVERY SINGLE DAY, someone comes in with a positive test for Sars-COV-2. What people like you are refusing to believe and medical communities are chastised for saying is this. First course of action, ask if they have any allergies. If the answer is no, 18mg of Ivermectin is immediately given to them, then we ask them to wait in the lobby for a hour (unmasked) to make sure the don't have a cytokine storm. If they do have a cytokine storm, we give them 30mg of Doxycycline and admit them into the covid ward, where they have a rough couple hours but it subsides within a few hours. Once the cytokine storm passes, we give them 12.5mg of hydroxychloroquine, then observe over the next 36hrs, giving them hydroxychloroquine every 12hrs and they are usually sent home after that. If they don't have a cytokine storm, we give them 2 more, 18mg ivermectin tablets and send them home, with the instructions to take them every other day, with over the counter zinc and vitD and come back and see us in 6 days.

Jimdamick said:

They are in mine & have cost the lives of almost 100 people
I got it before the vaccine was developed & it put me on my back for 6 weeks
I was one of the lucky ones it seems.
So yea, I hate those motherfuckers that don't wear a mask or get vaccinated.
I'd spit on them if I could.

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Look, I'm really sorry, that you live in a oppressive state/community. I'm really sorry, that you was used as a political pawn, to overthrow the 2020 election. I'm really sorry, that you are brainwashed into believing that your government actually cares about you. I'm really sorry, that you had to endure the worst case possible, of Covid-19, when there was effective therapeutics available. Most of all, I'm really sorry, that having endured all of this and watching a country, that I assume you love, fall into chaos, has effected your mental stability so badly, that you choose to attack someone like me, that's only trying to open your eyes to what is happening.

Hunny, I actually have zero ill feelings toward you, or anyone else on this forum. The only feeling that I feel for you and a lot of other members on this forum, is sympathy. I could not fathom, being influenced so harshly by a evil group of elites, that it filled my heart with sheer hatred for another human being.

God Bless You, I will keep you in my prayers.

Plutonium said:

Under Biden.

You are most definitely a hate filled communist, woke, facist, slob, with no sense of self worth. You attack others, to ease the pain of your worthless existence.

I don't wear one now, but we was all required to wear one and much more at the hospital in the beginning. That all changed after President Trumps announcement about hydroxychloroquine. Our in house (republican) virologist started doing massive research about hydroxychloroquine and multiple other therapies that other virologist from around the world were discussing. That's when everything changed. That's when hospitals in red states started saving peoples lives, while blue states continue to let people die. We saw 1st hand, how the numbers were WRONG, we saw 1st hand how being the biggest hospital in our county, our numbers reported, were being manipulated by powers beyond our control. That's when the administration staff opened their eyes, started listening to our in house experts and started blocking out the bullshit political narrative.

I'm vaccinated as far as the official records are concerned. Everyone in the medical community, in our area, is vaccinated on paper. There's to many brainwashed people like you, for our hospital staff to not be vaccinated on paper. It's easier just to say yes and provide a CDC card, then it is to argue with brainwashed individuals, that we are trying to provide medical care to. In reality, I'm immune to Sars-COV-2 and have been since march 2020.

Yes, they are. I see it everyday. EVERY SINGLE DAY, someone comes in with a positive test for Sars-COV-2. What people like you are refusing to believe and medical communities are chastised for saying is this. First course of action, ask if they have any allergies. If the answer is no, 18mg of Ivermectin is immediately given to them, then we ask them to wait in the lobby for a hour (unmasked) to make sure the don't have a cytokine storm. If they do have a cytokine storm, we give them 30mg of Doxycycline and admit them into the covid ward, where they have a rough couple hours but it subsides within a few hours. Once the cytokine storm passes, we give them 12.5mg of hydroxychloroquine, then observe over the next 36hrs, giving them hydroxychloroquine every 12hrs and they are usually sent home after that. If they don't have a cytokine storm, we give them 2 more, 18mg ivermectin tablets and send them home, with the instructions to take them every other day, with over the counter zinc and vitD and come back and see us in 6 days.


Look, I'm really sorry that you live in a oppressive state/community. I'm really sorry, that you was used as a political pawn, to overthrow the 2020 election. I'm really sorry that you are brainwashed into believing that your government actually cares about you. I'm really sorry, that you had to endure the worst case possible, of Covid-19, when there was effective therapeutics available. Most of all, I'm really sorry that having endured all of this and watching a country, that I assume you love, fall into chaos, has effected your mental stability so badly, that you choose to attack someone like me, that's only trying to open your eyes to what is happening.

Hunny, I actually have zero ill feelings toward you, or anyone else on this forum. The only feeling that I feel for you and a lot of other members on this forum, is sympathy. I could not fathom, being influenced so harshly by a evil group of elites, that it filled my heart with sheer hatred for another human being.

God Bless You, I will keep you in my prayers.

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Troll's sure do love this particular troll..

Overwhelmed by those who believed bullshit and now regret it. This is what exponential growth looks like.
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New Orleans EMS can’t keep up with calls due to the Covid-19 surge as mayor restores a mask mandate

Emergency medical responders in New Orleans have been hit so hard by the resurgence in Covid-19 cases that the city doesn’t have the capacity to handle 911 calls, the mayor said Friday as she announced a new mask mandate and a contract to increase EMS resources.

“Thanks to the Delta variant, the Covid pandemic is once again raging out of control,” New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said at a news conference.

“We have been here before; we’ve seen the movie. … What was once unpreventable, today is preventable. And it’s through our people getting vaccinated.”

Over the past week, the city saw more than 1,000 new Covid-19 cases, Cantrell said. And the daily case average also spiked to 272, up from 104 last week, she said.

“This is a very dangerous number,” she said. “Our children are dying. From two weeks old to two years old to four years old. You cannot make it up. Our children are dying.”

The mayor’s mask mandate is effective immediately and applies to indoor settings and large outdoor crowds. The mayor is also requiring all city employees to get vaccinated.

More than 71% of New Orleans city employees are vaccinated, but that is not good enough, Cantrell said.

“You really need that mask on, period – whether you are vaccinated and, of course, if you are unvaccinated,” she said.

As for the EMS, Cantrell said, “We currently do not have the capacity to respond to 911 calls that come from our community right now.”

With only 36.8% of Louisiana’s population fully vaccinated, the state saw the country’s highest case rate per 100,000 people over the past week at 573.3 cases, federal health shows.

The state’s seven-day death rate per 100,000 people is 1.7, the third-highest in the nation, with Nevada being the highest and Arkansas in second, according to the federal data published Friday.

The rise in cases has pushed Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards to seriously consider a mask mandate.

“The Delta variant is a game-changer, and at this point, it’s not whether we vaccinate or mask, we have to do both,” Edwards said Friday at a news conference.

“Right now at least 83.7% of all the Covid cases in our region is a result of the Delta variant, and so anyone who is Covid positive in Louisiana should assume that it is from the Delta variant, and ultimately you have to take the same precautions, regardless,” he said.

The variant has been spreading throughout the country, alarming health officials. Safety restrictions and mask guidances are making a return as cases rose by at least 10% in nearly every US state in the last week, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

The variant spreads quicker and more easily than the first coronavirus strain and can infect fully vaccinated people whose symptoms are usually milder.

DIY-HP-LED said:

Overwhelmed by those who believed bullshit and now regret it. This is what exponential growth looks like.
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New Orleans EMS can't keep up with calls due to the Covid-19 surge as mayor restores a mask mandate | CNN

Emergency medical responders in New Orleans have been hit so hard by the resurgence in Covid-19 cases that the city doesn't have the capacity to handle 911 calls, the mayor said Friday as she announced a new mask mandate and a contract to increase EMS resources.

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New Orleans EMS can’t keep up with calls due to the Covid-19 surge as mayor restores a mask mandate

Emergency medical responders in New Orleans have been hit so hard by the resurgence in Covid-19 cases that the city doesn’t have the capacity to handle 911 calls, the mayor said Friday as she announced a new mask mandate and a contract to increase EMS resources.

“Thanks to the Delta variant, the Covid pandemic is once again raging out of control,” New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said at a news conference.

“We have been here before; we’ve seen the movie. … What was once unpreventable, today is preventable. And it’s through our people getting vaccinated.”

Over the past week, the city saw more than 1,000 new Covid-19 cases, Cantrell said. And the daily case average also spiked to 272, up from 104 last week, she said.

“This is a very dangerous number,” she said. “Our children are dying. From two weeks old to two years old to four years old. You cannot make it up. Our children are dying.”

The mayor’s mask mandate is effective immediately and applies to indoor settings and large outdoor crowds. The mayor is also requiring all city employees to get vaccinated.

More than 71% of New Orleans city employees are vaccinated, but that is not good enough, Cantrell said.

“You really need that mask on, period – whether you are vaccinated and, of course, if you are unvaccinated,” she said.

As for the EMS, Cantrell said, “We currently do not have the capacity to respond to 911 calls that come from our community right now.”

With only 36.8% of Louisiana’s population fully vaccinated, the state saw the country’s highest case rate per 100,000 people over the past week at 573.3 cases, federal health shows.

The state’s seven-day death rate per 100,000 people is 1.7, the third-highest in the nation, with Nevada being the highest and Arkansas in second, according to the federal data published Friday.

The rise in cases has pushed Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards to seriously consider a mask mandate.

“The Delta variant is a game-changer, and at this point, it’s not whether we vaccinate or mask, we have to do both,” Edwards said Friday at a news conference.

“Right now at least 83.7% of all the Covid cases in our region is a result of the Delta variant, and so anyone who is Covid positive in Louisiana should assume that it is from the Delta variant, and ultimately you have to take the same precautions, regardless,” he said.

The variant has been spreading throughout the country, alarming health officials. Safety restrictions and mask guidances are making a return as cases rose by at least 10% in nearly every US state in the last week, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

The variant spreads quicker and more easily than the first coronavirus strain and can infect fully vaccinated people whose symptoms are usually milder.

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This is all just propaganda, aimed at getting children between the ages of 6 months, to 12 years, jabbed with the poison. We have never had a child come into the hospital I work at, with Covid-19.

Plutonium said:

I don't wear one now, but we was all required to wear one and much more at the hospital in the beginning. That all changed after President Trumps announcement about hydroxychloroquine. Our in house (republican) virologist started doing massive research about hydroxychloroquine and multiple other therapies that other virologist from around the world were discussing. That's when everything changed. That's when hospitals in red states started saving peoples lives, while blue states continue to let people die. We saw 1st hand, how the numbers were WRONG, we saw 1st hand how being the biggest hospital in our county, our numbers reported, were being manipulated by powers beyond our control. That's when the administration staff opened their eyes, started listening to our in house experts and started blocking out the bullshit political narrative.

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