My county just confirmed 26 new cases. This is starting to worry me as we’ve gone from relatively low numbers of new cases to jumping up by double digits for the last 3 days.
Restaurants are supposed to takeout/curbside only but a few have been found that were still allowing people to sit inside.
Ponyfan
Over 1000 cases in Arizona and 20 deaths. Nearly 700 of the cases are in my county, which makes sense since it’s by far the most populated county here.
Our governor has issued a stay at home order that goes into effect at 5pm tonight. Except it doesn’t really do anything at all. Some of the “essential” businesses on the list that will remain open are beauty salons and golf courses. :pout: Golf is not an essential business right now. Also there will be no enforcement of it. You don’t need to provide any reason for going out. I appreciate that I can still go for walks around the neighborhood, but we really need to do more. I’m extremely disappointed in this order because if it was a proper stay at home order we might have been able to flatten the curve. With this I fear people will continue to go and not practice social distancing. I’ve stopped going to the parks around here because everyone is packing into them and definitely not practicing being apart. :(
My county just confirmed 26 new cases. This is starting to worry me as we’ve gone from relatively low numbers of new cases to jumping up by double digits for the last 3 days.
Restaurants are supposed to takeout/curbside only but a few have been found that were still allowing people to sit inside.
Ponyfan
Rule of thumb is that it roughly doubles every 3-5 days, I believe. Whatever they have numberwise is not a good representation, because they aren't testing a lot of people.
Try not to worry a lot. Just don't go out unless you need to, and treat everyone like they have it as they could be asymptomatic. At best, we only can do our part... you know.
Do you have any orders in place for your city or state? If so, are there any penalties for those who eat inside of restaurants. Police? Health Dept? If you do, I'd take a picture and tell someone.
Our county now enforces social distancing with penalties of $1000 fine or jail time. The county police are going to stores & parks and announcing it over megaphone in parking lots.
And yet, I still see people out in groups and people shopping with their partners. So, I suspect there will be tickets given and lots of angry citizens.
I do wonder how they'll practice social distancing in jail.
Edit:
I do agree with the new policy. Our county hospitals are not big enough to deal with a large number of sick people and the neighboring counties have their own to deal with. Some people just don't understand how dangerous a situation they could be in if they need hospital care.
Our county now enforces social distancing with penalties of $1000 fine or jail time. The county police are going to stores & parks and announcing it over megaphone in parking lots.
And yet, I still see people out in groups and people shopping with their partners. So, I suspect there will be tickets given and lots of angry citizens.
I do wonder how they'll practice social distancing in jail.
Edit:
I do agree with the new policy. Our county hospitals are not big enough to deal with a large number of sick people and the neighboring counties have their own to deal with. Some people just don't understand how dangerous a situation they could be in if they need hospital care.
People who live together are still allowed to go out together. If I see a group of less than 5 I usually assume they must live together. It's bigger groups that are obviously not living together that need to be stopped.
Someone has rewritten "Go to the Distance" from Disney's Hercules as "I Will Social Distance"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQDZqNmcaqc
Ponyfan
Even worse are my parents who should know better. They are in their late 60s and my dad has 2 "underlying health conditions" that could impact his mortality rate. And when I call, my mom says they are being good and staying isolated- but then they just texted me how they got bored and went to Costco and they are remarking on the long lines????
JUST this last weekend my dad went out on a motorcycle-riding trip with his buddies. My Mom and dad say "oh it's great because they are not socializing just riding around." But what about when they talk ? I know my dad and the friends he is hanging out with and I promise you they are NOT staying 6' apart from each other.
>_< It drives me bonkers.
Gov. DeSantis finally issued a stay-at-home order but only for SE Florida (Miami and area). Meanwhile, those counties that didn't have any cases that he used as an excuse to not lockdown the state are slowly getting infected. Great foresight and all that -_-
There are two quarantined cruise ships docked somewhere on the east coast.
Case numbers as of this morning are 9,585 and 163 deaths. Over 1200 people hospitalized. I can't find recovery info anywhere, just test results. There've been 82,000 negative tests. They are only testing people with symptoms, so that's a whole lotta people with regular flu or something else not Covid-19 though.
My dad, sister and niece continue to ignore staying at home. None of them are sick but I feel it's only a matter of time.
The University of Washington has produced a data model that predicts the expected peak of the coronavirus by state:
http://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
Obviously this isn't set in stone, it's a model, etc, but it's based on the data that has been gathered state by state, and the measures each state has taken, up to this point in time.
Here are Florida's numbers:
March 1st - 2 cases
March 10th - 28 cases
March 20th - 563 cases
March 30th - 5,704 cases
April 3rd - 10,268 cases
That is some WILD exponential growth.
If nothing else it has helped IMMENSELY with my allergies! I might just be one of those people that wears a face mask all the time. :lol:I was actually curious to see if mask wearing would become much more widespread once this is all over?
I do see the point if you are a carrier but then again if you are keeping yourself away from other people, you aren't at risk of spreading it to anyone.Yeah, this is the reasoning behind why we're being urged to wear them. The thought is that asymptomatic carriers might be too lenient with going out and being around others, and the masks will prevent saliva spread through talking and stuff.
Thanks for the UK updates Taffeta. I'd much rather read this than listen to the news right now. I hope you're not glued to it constantly though and keeping wellX
I also heard rumors about the US stealing supplies from Canada? -_-The news story doing the rounds here is masks meant for Germany...
This pandemic crisis is really showing the company's true colors.. They are now cutting all the part timer's (everyone who is not a manager) hours to almost none - not laying us off, so that we could collect unemployment benefits, but essentially forcing us to take an "optional" 8 week unpaid leave (during which they could call us back at any time, or alternatively refuse to take us back at the end -
Here's the latest where I live. 151 cases, 4 deaths, 21 people recovered.
Our golf courses are still open but I don't expect them to be for much longer because people are posting pics on social media of groups of people playing golf and not social distancing.This pandemic crisis is really showing the company's true colors.. They are now cutting all the part timer's (everyone who is not a manager) hours to almost none - not laying us off, so that we could collect unemployment benefits, but essentially forcing us to take an "optional" 8 week unpaid leave (during which they could call us back at any time, or alternatively refuse to take us back at the end -
This is the same situation I am in. My work is on hiatus right now due to the virus. I am not getting paid as long as they are "closed" (Although full time staff is still getting paid and they are in session.) yet I am still technically employed by them so I don't think I can file unemployment. My boss sent out an email saying that we should try to find other methods of income but how are we supposed to do that when everything is closed?
The paint store where I work(ed) may actually stay open through this whole thing, as they sell products that could conceivably be used in health care construction projects. This pandemic crisis is really showing the company's true colors.. They are now cutting all the part timer's (everyone who is not a manager) hours to almost none - not laying us off, so that we could collect unemployment benefits, but essentially forcing us to take an "optional" 8 week unpaid leave (during which they could call us back at any time, or alternatively refuse to take us back at the end - I've heard through the grapevine that it's being used to "cull the unloyal"). I have genuine fears that I will end up not being eligible for unemployment or the emergency benefit because of the way my employer is handling this, and also doubting whether I'll have a job at the end of the pandemic. Time to hone my entreprenurial skills and start growing my own food.
14,504 cases in Florida. 283 deaths.
The governor is basically in "oh [bleep]" mode after hemming and hawing for so long to do something. Just about everything is shut down now except essential services, and unfortunately one of those is churches who of course are having large numbers of people gather.
It's a bad scene in FL right now!