I've purposefully stayed away from COVID ...

[johnson86-1]

stuff here for a while, as much as possible. I have no desire to bring up the past. Here is where I see us at the moment. It's about to get bad, really bad. That was absolutely expected. What was unexpected was a vaccine that looks to be 90% effective. I know it's getting old, and we are all, me included, are sick of this stuff. The vaccine news , though, makes it even more imperative that we hang on. By doing so, given the vaccine news, we are literally saving lives. If you don't have to go out in public, don't. If you do, wear a mask. The recent news from the CDC was several months behind the actual data. There is nothing political about this. There never has been as far as the science is concerned. Come on folks, we are close, don't let vulnerable people die that don't have to at this stage.

IF this was absolutely expected, then it is even more mindboggling that *** holes like you were lockdown shaming people when our ICUs and hospitals were empty and hemorrhaging money. Why the 17 were people trying to delay dealing with what is largely a respiratory virus until cold and flu season when we normally utilize basically all of our ICU capacity without dealing with a novel virus?

ETA: We're also not really close to having a vaccine distributed to anybody beyond front line workers and the most vulnerable. So we can't just "hold on" for another 6 months. We're going to ahve to put our big boy and girl pants on and deal with the pandemic like we have every respiratory viral pandemic before this, except that we'll have much better care and survival rates of around 99.5%.

 

[johnson86-1]

You do know that 24 hrs after your fever goes away is the standard for everyone that has it right? 14 days is the time you have to isolate after you have been exposed. After you get it that's out the window. In some states providers that are stillsick are being drafted into working COVID wards. They are running out of nurses especially.

That's not what is being published as the standard. Not saying that's not the right approach, but if it is, it's absolute dumb 17ery to have people that are asymptomatic stuck isolating for ten days after a positive test but people with symptoms no longer isolating 24 hours after their fever breaks.

 

[johnson86-1]

Start buying toilet paper and paper towels. Get ahead of the game.

If you don't still have a few dozen rolls of toile paper from the first lockdown, you didn't properly prepare then.**

 

[johnson86-1]

Well yeah all kinds of people can get it, but the responsible middle age people (probably 80% on this board) aren't spreading it after they get, due to being responsible adults.

How do you not get this simple concept? That is why people don't listen to you. You can't even understand the basics. You think we all are idiots. We're apparently ahead of you.

Is this right? I thought we were all out trying to spread it so we'd have something to talk about that gives us a break from MSU football? Were we not all on the same page there?

 

[L4Dawg]

is is right? According to Harvard Medical? The science?

So hospital standard procedure is apparently wrong.... hospitals where patients who are sick come and go all day.... putting people with co-morbidities at risk... and the crusade is here on these boards?

Ok, you win. Follow the Harvard rules.

 

[Lee.sixpack]

That's not what is being done anywhere.

That’s not accurate. For example, my employer requires 10 days after symptoms or positive test before allowing an employee to return to the office.

 

[dalmuti]

L4, let me sum up the problem for you. I would venture to guess that 80% of this board understands perfectly how to protect themselves and others. We don't need a lecture from you or anyone else. The issue is that you don't blame who is TRULY spreading this thing, either due to virtue signaling or ignorance or else. It is young people and poors - PERIOD. They don't give a damn if you haven't noticed. The other outbreaks are accidental.

Vulnerable people need to stay home, also. You people talking about lockdowns are ABSOLUTELY GOING to be shredded by the public. It's not a real option anymore.

That said, I deal in reality, not idealism. I recognize the people in power will probably lock us down. Nothing I can do about that, but no one wants to hear the ******** from people like you.

Get it?

sir, this is a wedndy's drive thru. please order a sandwich or get out of the line

 

[DawgNsuds]

As of yesterday there were 792 ICU beds in use in Ms and 588 of those were for non-covid patients.....sounds like a lot of people have already had heart attacks.

Correct, it's not unusual for Hospital ICU's or ED's, especially in the Metro area, to run at or near capacity. Quick math is that approx 25% of the patients have COVID (having Covid may or may not be the reason they are in ICU). If you have a heart attack, they will still treat you, just may not have a bed for you afterwards. It is certainly appears that delayed treatments and therapies have led to a surge in general of many ailments. I think it's obvious you always want to avoid a trip to the hospital, but certainly more so now. You guys stay safe out there!

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

Ok, you win. Follow the Harvard rules.

So “follow the science”? Something now you evidently are not so keen on doing?

Too late for me. Already had it. Thanks to the top hospital admins that get on local news and talk their big game. Lots of wife’s coworkers did too.

 

[Bulldawg77]

I don't know why y'all keep posting or replying to L4. He is lab something on 247 claims he is a virologist (which he is not) and loves the Swede . On the other board he is Liverpool dawg and loves USC and state. Here all he does is bring up Covid and how we should all shelter in place. Just stop replying and feeding to his ego...

 

[Shadow34]

Down goes Tupelo today......... forced to forfeit to Warren Central in the first round due to covid outbreak. Lot of schools going virtual again (I'm sure this has been discussed) but yea it seems to be getting bad. Brandon, Germantown, Tupelo, Lafayette County, Brookhaven, McComb, Neshoba, Sumral, among others. I am doubting they will finish the high school football playoffs now.

 

[patdog]

Natchez virtual too. Agree that I doubt the playoffs get finished. Even if they do, it'll be more about which team stayed virus-free than a true champion.