I have no idea. I even tried to make reports to local authorities for businesses that were in violation, but you end up in a website/email/voicemail loop with no end. Even when compliance is in evidence, it's to the absolute bare minimum. For example, employees in public spaces wearing masks but not covering their noses. I give up.
In my county, the cases are rising and many people in my county are still choosing not to wear masks. Recently, I saw a group of college students without masks, there was a church having nightly services with little to no mask wearing, and a neighbor of mine just refuses to wear a mask and complains about it all the time (They think the virus is a hoax or just a flu. Depends on their mood).
Just like Laura, I have given up too on others, but I refuse to give up on myself. I will continue to protect myself and I don't care who thinks I look crazy while wearing my mask.
I'm in Pennsylvania. Thankfully we have a reasonable Governor who acted quickly. Our Dr. Rachel Levine on our Pa. Coronavirus task force has taken a lot of abuse for being transgendered. While she may not be a pretty woman she has a very beautiful and pure soul that shines. She stood up for transgendered youth brilliantly. She gives clear direction and is doing a wonderful job. I support her and those youth.
I am someone who always wears the mask. In fact I wear two, one on top of the other. People here will only wear them in the stores and they immediately come off before they reach their cars, thus making me less safe. Tired of it. I will wear a mask until I am vaccinated and probably after. It has become my security blanket and a way to fend off Anxiety. I can't control anyone else but I can wear my mask and stay home mostly. It is a sacrifice I am making to be home so much and bored often, but safe. I wish people would be more mindful and less selfish.
@ghandigirl, I think that is the way to go. Besides, home can be a fun place too. Even if it feels forced now. I just think of Diana Ross singing 'Home' from The Whiz. ❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_VrPc2ocOA
We just have to find the fun at home again;-) I know a lot has already been said about people discovering gardening and all kinds of other things, but I recently started on projects I wanted to do for years and never took the time to actually engage in. There are people who always wanted to write their life story, or put all those pictures in an album or re-do a room etc. and are now doing it! I know sensible people will get through;)
A few days ago there was an article in the newspaper here about a 101 year old woman who still lives on her own in an apartment in the city. She has gone through WWII, the depression, the north-sea flood of 1953 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1953 was a big tragedy) and so on. She never had any children, only 1 nephew left and yet she is content being alone.
She's fine staying at home. She said: this is nothing, WWII, now that was bad. ;-) That said, the lady and I do not live in the horror the US now finds itself. The darkness and negativity surrounding America is frighting, but it won't defeat you. Stay strong. The majority of Americans must be able to see right from wrong. Bless. ❤️
I am someone who always wears the mask. In fact I wear two, one on top of the other. People here will only wear them in the stores and they immediately come off before they reach their cars, thus making me less safe. Tired of it. I will wear a mask until I am vaccinated and probably after. It has become my security blanket and a way to fend off Anxiety. I can't control anyone else but I can wear my mask and stay home mostly. It is a sacrifice I am making to be home so much and bored often, but safe. I wish people would be more mindful and less selfish.
There should be more people like you. This for me is simply a matter of basic civic duty.
I wear the mask because I may very well be asymptomatic but infected and not realize it. By wearing the mask I dramatically reduce the risk that anyone may potentially get infected because of me. Any other citizen should extend the same courtesy to me.
The fundamental problem with much of our Western culture is that we are an individualistic society, so many people think just about themselves.
In Japan, long before Covid-19, you could see a few people wearing masks. Most of them did so out of respect towards others because they simply had a cold or the flu.
That's the kind of respect towards others I'd like to see around.
And just like that, ASU student cases of Covid-19 have now hit 775.
Holy crap.
Trump's new pandemic advisor, who doesn't have a background in infectious diseases or epidemiology, pushes the infamous "herd immunity" argument that society should just let people get sick until 65% have been infected. Without a vaccine, herd immunity will kill an estimated 2.13 million Americans. Never in my lifetime has a president caused the death of 2.3 million Americans. Herd immunity is considered okay when it is achieved with a vaccine, but not without a vaccine. Here's a WAPO story about it.
Given that it's being pushed by Trump and the wealthy elite, it looks like class warfare. Trump has everyone who gets near him tested first. For Trump and his Republican enablers, herd immunity is for the masses.
This is true moral bankruptcy. My Republican friends are also touting herd immunity but I don't think they understand how many people it will kill, not to mention that a surge in cases that will result from it could inundate the hospitals.
Trump's coronavirus advisor, Scott Atlas, is a radiologist and from the conservative Hoover Institute. In the photograph of him in the article I attached, he looks like the devil.
In in Sweden, where they tried this, it's a failed experiment. Unlike the rest of Europe they didn't lock down, but the casualties were much higher. Their 'expert' tries to defend the decision by saying that they have herd immunity now, which isn't true. Especially now there are signs you can get it again after a couple of months.
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200813/swedens-no-lockdown-policy-didnt-achieve-herd-immunity
@lovendures Iowa is currently surging with covid, thanks in part to University of Iowa and Iowa State returning to school. Iowa has done nothing to mitigate covid. My son's best friend and a number of other friends are at ISU ... one is now positive, as are three of his roommates. Another was just told by his parents to come home, as he has underlying health issues.
My husband's business partner's daughter tested positive at her school in Wisconsin, her three roommates got mad that she had it so they went home ... and now all three of them are also sick, as are family members. My son's college town went from less than three cases a day to 70 positive cases on Friday, two weeks after school started. I'm very concerned about fall.
Honestly, I am right there with you.
It has been discussed here in AZ that if students are sent home, they will infect their family members as you mentioned happening in Iowa. . This is not ok.
I am pretty upset with ASU. They were not being transparent and what they are doing is because they are being pushed by the community. They stated their positivity rate is 1.04% but it was more like 1.98%. They were calculating the entire student body, not the amount of people tested. Huge difference.
The University has entered mode three regarding housing, which allows the University to "de-densify higher risk living configurations" on-campus, increase security, restrict external visitors and only allow "one guest per room from within the same residence hall at any given time."
Repeat offenders of violations will be subject to housing removal.
Housing mode four would be the next potential phase if and when needed. It would only allow students with no other living options to request an exemption to live in residence halls.
Housing mode five would close residence halls completely. Thresholds for mode changes were not published with the update.
Apparently, as ASU began to de-densify their on-campus situation last night, they told some students with little notice they needed to re-locate. Sometimes nearly a mile away and with no help to get to their new location.
TA's are being required to be there to assist for in-person classes unless under quarantine while the professor works remotely. TA's and students are not being told if they have been exposed to another student who has tested positive. I don't mean the person is identified, just that there was an exposure to someone. So lab partners will not know they have been exposed unless the Covid positive student lets them know themselves.
Few students must go to an only in-person class. The majority are held online with some classes having the option of showing up in person if desired but still held online as well, hence the TA needing to be available for the in-person few that show up. If things get worse. they will move to mostly online, the last option is only online for every class on campus. .
My daughter must use the music practice rooms in-person, so she needs to be on campus often, but all her actual classes are held online. She still doesn't know how her ensembles will play out this semester only that they are not in person for now.
I know someone from CA who dropped their freshmen off at the dorms, helped him get settled and got a call the next day to pick him up because their child was terrified about conditions and all his classes were switched to online. This was before the parents had even arrived back home and this recent chaos happened.
Llama nanoantibody engineered to block coronavirus
“Animals produce antibodies much like those made by the human immune system. But some animals, such as llamas, also produce another type of antibody that’s only about a quarter of the size of a typical human antibody. Such “single-domain” antibodies, or nanobodies, have several features that make them of interest as potential therapeutics.“
- “Nanobodies are very stable, so they could potentially be stored for a long time after production. They can also be delivered by an inhaler directly to the lungs, which makes them particularly promising for respiratory infections such as COVID-19.“
- Based on antibodies isolated from llamas, researchers engineered an antibody that prevented SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from entering cells in laboratory experiments.
- Follow-up work is being planned to test the antibody in animal models of the disease.”
Link to NIH paper: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/llama-antibody-engineered-block-coronavirus
Right after reports were coming out about serious concerns of the politicalization of the CDC and calls that it needs an overhaul or removal, the CDC tells states to prepare for a vaccine by early November. Just in time for the election, and pushed by Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/health/covid-19-vaccine-cdc-plans.html
*IF* such a vaccine were to be made available (and that's a big IF, because if the Orange One said it, it's a lie and it ain't gonna happen), i wouldn't trust it to protect the worms in my garden.
I agree. I’m a health care worker and I’ll probably lose my job because I’m not taking that vaccine. I don’t trust it; due diligence hasn’t been done.
There is now a $@^#% Covid Tracker now on my phone!!
Seriously!
Better check you phones. Looks like it may have arrived in stealth like fashion during recent updates.
@lovendures, we have an app like that in Europe, but it is our choice if we want to download it. They cannot just put it on our phones. Is it legal in the US to do that?
A friend said her husband noticed it in the fine print of the latest update. Does anyone read the whole terms for each update? I can barely make out the fine print.
It isn't active yet.
I realize people are being tracked for many things...but wow. I don't think many people knew it was there. Not every phone has it either. My husband had it too.