COVID-19 in America

[elbows]

More horrible but unsurprising revelations.

22m ago 01:16

In September, months into a deadly pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 people, the Trump administration blocked a CDC mandate that would have required masks on all public transportation.

The coronavirus task force, which is required to sign off on all coronavirus-related policies, refused to pass the CDC recommendation, the New York Times reported. Under the ruling, masks would have been required on airplanes, buses, trains, and subways across the United States as well as in transit hubs like bus stops and train stations.

 

[Cid]

Cases seem to be rising again too... though that is just off absolute positive tests.

 

[Streathamite]

Also, love that even the election is "the greatest in history". Because that's a thing people do, rank elections.

On a more serious note, it's certainly one of the most important

 

[petee]

Thousands of mink dead from COVID-19 outbreaks in Utah and Wisconsin

At least 12,000 mink have recently died from coronavirus outbreaks in the two largest fur-producing states.

www.cbsnews.com

"The research done in Utah still supports that the disease has spread from humans to mink and that the risk of the opposite transmission is very low," the UDAF spokesperson told CBS News. "We still recommend PPE for all mink workers as a safeguard to themselves and the mink."

(((mink workers))) (((minkies)))

 

[cupid_stunt]

Catching up with Europe, this report is from July.

A million mink culled in Netherlands and Spain amid Covid-19 fur farming havoc

Agriculture minister says origins of outbreak unclear after seven farm workers – and 87% of the mink – test positive

www.theguardian.com

 

[frogwoman]

Nooooo

 

[spring-peeper]

Justin Trudeau: Canada-US border will stay closed until America gets COVID-19 under control

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www.usatoday.com

Don't bet on the U.S.-Canadian border reopening after the current closure agreement expires on Oct. 21.
In an interview Wednesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his country is committed to keeping the border closed until the U.S. gets control of COVID-19.

"The U.S. is not in a place where we would feel comfortable reopening those borders," he told the hosts of "Smart Start," which airs on Canada's Global Television Network. “We will continue to make sure that Canadian safety is top of mind when we move forward. We see the cases in the United States and elsewhere around the world, and we need to continue to keep these border controls in place."

 

[Yossarian]

Weird part is that Canadians are still free to fly to the US for leisure travel, though Americans can't come north.

 

[frogwoman]

These Scientists Have A Controversial Plan For “Herd Immunity” — And The White House Is Listening

For months, a small group of scientists has pushed policies that mainstream health experts say would cause many more COVID-19 deaths. They just got their biggest audience yet.

www.buzzfeednews.com

Worrying article about Gupta and co meeting with Trump.

 

[elbows]

These Scientists Have A Controversial Plan For “Herd Immunity” — And The White House Is Listening

For months, a small group of scientists has pushed policies that mainstream health experts say would cause many more COVID-19 deaths. They just got their biggest audience yet.

www.buzzfeednews.com

Worrying article about Gupta and co meeting with Trump.

A perfect match made in hell. At least the USA is already used to the dynamic of the white house doing far too little in the pandemic, whilst some of the worst state leadership already demonstrated that they dont even feel the need to find any kind of crap bad scientific justification for reopening things etc.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I hadn't looked for a while, but it seems to have started to take off across the pond again, using the 7-day rolling average, new cases dropped from almost 70k a day in mid-July, to just over 35k in mid-Sept, and now are back up to almost 56k,

For the first time since late July, the tally of newly reported coronavirus cases in the United States surpassed 64,000 on Thursday. In 44 states and the District of Columbia, caseloads are higher than they were one month ago, and many of the new infections are being reported in rural areas with limited hospital capacity.

More than 7,944,000 cases have been reported nationwide since February, and at least 216,000 people in the United States have died of covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/16/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

 

[a_chap]

I hadn't looked for a while, but it seems to have started to take off across the pond again, using the 7-day rolling average, new cases dropped from almost 70k a day in mid-July, to just over 35k in mid-Sept, and now are back up to almost 56k,

Wave number three...

 

[Cid]

Hospitalisations rising too.

 

[elbows]

Wave number three...

Even when it resembles a third wave when viewed nationally, its probably wave 1 or 2 as far as many individual states are concerned.

 

[spring-peeper]

Twitter is at it again.
This time they took Trump's advisor's tweet down.

Twitter removes tweet from Trump's COVID adviser claiming masks do not work

Atlas posted a tweet Saturday that said, "Masks work? NO."

www.axios.com

 

[spring-peeper]

A couple got married at the US-Canada border so guests from both countries could attend despite coronavirus restrictions

A Canadian couple got married on the US-Canada border so family and friends from both countries could attend despite travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

www.cnn.com

Lindsay Clowes and Alex Leckie, both 29, exchanged vows on October 10 on a pier along the St. Croix River in New Brunswick surrounded by loved ones.

But guests at St. Stephen Wharf weren't the only ones to witness the couple's nuptials. Across the river in Calais, Maine, stood aunts, uncles, cousins and friends who also watched them tie the knot. In the middle of the river separating the two countries floated a boat where the Clowes' grandparents witnessed the special day from a safe distance.

"It couldn't have gone any better. I wouldn't change anything about it," Clowes told CNN. "It turned out to be a lot more special than anything else we could have done."

 

[spring-peeper]

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

nanananananananananana

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

A couple got married at the US-Canada border so guests from both countries could attend despite coronavirus restrictions

A Canadian couple got married on the US-Canada border so family and friends from both countries could attend despite travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

www.cnn.com

worst of both worlds and all that

 

[spring-peeper]

worst of both worlds and all that

There is no negative.

Making the best of our world would have been a more positive sentiment.

 

[scifisam]

worst of both worlds and all that

Really? It sounds lovely.

 

[petee]

these idiots

 

[Badgers]

A couple got married at the US-Canada border so guests from both countries could attend despite coronavirus restrictions

A Canadian couple got married on the US-Canada border so family and friends from both countries could attend despite travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

www.cnn.com

How self obsessed of them

 

[spring-peeper]

How self obsessed of them

meh - they will always have interesting stories of their wedding day

 

[scifisam]

How self obsessed of them

How self-obsessed of them to have a wedding that everyone could attend safely?

 

[Badgers]

How self-obsessed of them to have a wedding that everyone could attend safely?

Waiting a year would have been to hard for them? Their love could not have stood the wait?

 

[scifisam]

Waiting a year would have been to hard for them? Their love could not have stood the wait?

Who knows if it'll be safe in a year's time? And this way they did something that made them happy and made their relatives happy at a time when that's hard to come by.

 

[Badgers]

Who knows if it'll be safe in a year's time? And this way they did something that made them happy and made their relatives happy at a time when that's hard to come by.

I might get married in Barnard Castle soon

 

[LDC]

Just watched the Dispatches documentary on Trump and the pandemic.

Knew most of it, but fucking hell. FUCKING HELL. Absolutely shocking.

 

[Yossarian]

Waiting a year would have been to hard for them? Their love could not have stood the wait?

Looks like they followed all the regulations, and New Brunswick isn't exactly a COVID hotspot - there's been a total of 313 cases and 3 deaths. In South Dakota, the US state with the same size population, the figures are 100 times higher.