I'm starting this thread as a side discussion of all things Corona Virus related. I understand that this is going to be discussed in almost all other topic threads but we could collect news and other items here. 

 

At work, many conferences have been cancelled.

NBA - Suspended.

NHL - About to be suspended. 

NCAA March Madness - Playing - no crowd. 

 

Political Rallies have been cancelled. 

Travel bans. 

 

Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks tested positive. They're in Australia where testing is available. If they were in the US, they wouldn't have been tested. 

14 hours ago, Mark H. said:

 

Where's the Restart message though? How will we know that they're better than everyone else and need to get the economy started in a free-for-all consumerism orgy?  

Edited November 17, 20205 yr by JCon

Trump’s COVID advisor urges Americans to visit elderly for Thanksgiving because it may be their ‘final’ oneTrump’s COVID advisor urges Americans to visit elderly for Thanksgiving because it may be their ‘final’ one

 David Badash and The New Civil Rights Movement November 17, 2020
   
President Donald Trump's highly controversial COVID-19 advisor,Dr. Scott Atlas, is urging Americans to visit their elderly family members for Thanksgiving because it may be their final one. Atlas warns against isolation despite the coronavirus pandemic's near-exponential explosion.

"This kind of isolation is one of the unspoken tragedies of the elderly who are now being told don't see your family at Thanksgiving," Atlas, a radiologist, not an epidemiologist, told Fox News Monday evening, as Media Matters reported.

"For many people this is their final Thanksgiving, believe it or not. What are we doing here? I think we have to have a policy, which I have been advocating, which is a whole person, whole health policy. It's not about just stopping cases of COVID. We have to talk about the damage of the policy itself."

SIGN AT A BAGEL SHOP IN CHICAGO:

 

Edited November 17, 20205 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

https://www.chrisd.ca/2020/11/17/manitoba-covid-19-health-orders-private-security/

 

Edited November 17, 20205 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

 

John Oliver nailed 2020.

NSFW

Spoiler

 

 

The provinces first under 40 to pass away 

NEW Last updated: November 17, 2020

Public health officials advise seven additional deaths due to COVID-19 have been reported today that include:

• A female in her 30’s from the Interlake-Eastern region;
• A female in her 70’s from the Winnipeg region;
• A Male in his 70’s from the Winipeg region and linked to the outbreak at Victoria General Hospital;
• A male in his 80’s from the Southern Health-Sante Sud region;
• a male in his 80’s from the Southern Health-Sante Sud region;
• A female in her 90’s from the Winnipeg region and linked to the outbreak at the Saul & Claribel Simkin Centre; and
• A female in her 90’s from the Winnipeg region and linked to the outbreak at the Saul & Claribel Simkin Centre;

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 13.6 per cent provincially and 13.3 per cent in Winnipeg, and 270 new cases of the virus have been identified as of 9:30 a.m. However, one case was removed due to being from out-of-province. This brings the net new cases to 269 and the total lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 11,608.

Today’s data shows:

• 21 cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
• 16 cases in the Northern health region;
• 8 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
• 106 cases in the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region; and
• 119 cases in the Winnipeg health region.

The data also shows:

• 7,105 active cases and 4,324 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19;
• there are 240 people in hospital with 41 people in intensive care; and
• the number of deaths due to COVID-19 is 179.

Laboratory testing numbers show 3,126 tests were completed yesterday, bringing the total number of lab tests completed since early February to 315,412. Case investigations continue and if a public health risk is identified, the public will be notified.

4 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.chrisd.ca/2020/11/17/manitoba-covid-19-health-orders-private-security/

 

It's about time!

so does this mean they'll bring back those Listerine ads where the listerine bottle is a super hero? (hey why not Kraft brought the Philly Angel back)

Edited November 22, 20205 yr by iHeart

 

                                           

Pro-Trump coronavirus truthers try to invade Utah hospital overrun with COVID-19 patients: report

   
When President Donald Trump was voted out of office in the 2020 election, one of the top reasons why millions of U.S. residents voted to replace him with former Vice President Joe Biden was his woefully inadequate response to the coronavirus pandemic. Regardless, so-called "coronavirus truthers" on the far right continue to insist that the pandemic is merely a hoax that President-elect Biden and other Democrats used to harm Trump's presidency. And at a Utah hospital that is being overrun with COVID-19 patients, the Daily Beast reports, health care workers are having to cope with extremists who don't even believe that the patients are sick.

"Conspiracy theorists," journalist Michael Daly reports in the Beast, have made "repeated visits" to Utah Valley Hospital in recent weeks. According to Daly, Utah's coronavirus truthers "decided that the small number of cars outside the Provo facility was evidence that the pandemic is a hoax" and "entered the hospital with video cameras seeking to film what they believed would be an equally empty ICU."

 

I think a few ideas like these could work.

Thinking outside the classroom.

 

Edited November 19, 20205 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

2 hours ago, Mr Dee said:

I think a few ideas like these could work.

Thinking outside the classroom.

 

Great idea except who will be teaching those classes?

3 minutes ago, Mr Dee said:

 

It's near the top of the page

 

2 hours ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

Great idea except who will be teaching those classes?

Not practical at all, how are they going to transport these kids, who is going to pay the insurance, who is paying to retrofit, are the teachers going to be completely cut off from being online or connected to the office. 

What if my kid gets hurt how am I going to know? Who is going to pay for the extra admin support required?

 

 

NSFW

Spoiler

 

 

36 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

It's near the top of the page

 

Oops.. hey Tracker, my mistake.

Thanks Frosty!

Edited November 18, 20205 yr by Mr Dee

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/coronavirus/manitobas-youngest-covid-victim-had-zest-for-life-573111961.html

😥

 

Edited November 18, 20205 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

3 hours ago, Mr Dee said:

Oops.. hey Tracker, my mistake.

Thanks Frosty!

I am deeply aggrieved and considering legal action.

14 minutes ago, Tracker said:

I am deeply aggrieved and considering legal action.

I know a good lawyer, but he’s tied up in litigation, and he’s very expensive..but he makes sure he’s neatly dressed.

1 minute ago, Mr Dee said:

I know a good lawyer, but he’s tied up in litigation, and he’s very expensive..but he makes sure he’s neatly dressed.

Don't care if he's into bondage.

3 hours ago, Tracker said:

I am deeply aggrieved and considering legal action.

Tracker...Morning Big Blue...hmmm

Edited November 19, 20205 yr by FrostyWinnipeg