Coronavirus: COVID-19

**Janszoon** · 01-19-2021, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Anybody else getting the feeling that we're in for a LONG ass pandemic? Like 3-4 more years? I just don't see how numbers get down enough to start forming en masse again.

New Covid-19 cases declined 11% after hitting a peak last week

I looks like we're coming out of the holiday spike right now, and I think the combination of the vaccines and the weather getting warmer will mean the numbers will go down a lot more once we're well into spring. Not saying there might not be another spike in the fall, but I'm optimistic that it won't drag on as long as you're talking about.

**Exo** · 01-19-2021, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

New Covid-19 cases declined 11% after hitting a peak last week

I looks like we're coming out of the holiday spike right now, and I think the combination of the vaccines and the weather getting warmer will mean the numbers will go down a lot more once we're well into spring. Not saying there might not be another spike in the fall, but I'm optimistic that it won't drag on as long as you're talking about.

These variants are freaking me out.

OccultHawk · 01-19-2021, 08:58 PM

Ain’t nobody know the future.

ando here · 01-20-2021, 01:38 AM

Yeah, we do. Just don't think we can change it.

~~jwb~~ · 01-20-2021, 03:51 AM

It's been a good 100 years but we've seen this sorta thing before. It can't last forever.

tbh if we're still in the same spot a year from now i'll join the anti mask people and just say **** it let everybody get it and god sort out the winners and losers. so done with this ****.

The Batlord · 01-20-2021, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Be specific.

Starting noon can I profess a desire to shove an electric turkey carver into Donald Trump's eye socket and push through to his brain?

ando here · 01-21-2021, 02:49 AM

If this thing is really on the down-slope, beautiful. But I don't think we're anywhere near that yet.

Record U.K. COVID deaths for 2nd day in a row

ando here · 01-21-2021, 03:04 AM

U.S. numbers

Hospitalizations are down but deaths are up. Not sure about the correlation but I rememer that trend when COVID was on the wane in New York back in June.

OccultHawk · 01-21-2021, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by ando here

U.S. numbers

Hospitalizations are down but deaths are up. Not sure about the correlation but I rememer that trend when COVID was on the wane in New York back in June.

The county I live in had a record death day yesterday that was about three times the previous record.

In other news:

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resisted calls for an inquiry into his government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday as the country's death toll neared 100,000 and his chief scientist said hospitals were looking like war zones.

Johnson has been accused of reacting too slowly to the crisis, failing to supply sufficient protective equipment and bungling the testing system, although the United Kingdom has been swift to roll out a vaccine.

The official death toll is 93,290 - Europe's worst figure and the world's fifth worst, after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico. Deaths rose by another record daily number on Wednesday.

I know it’s bad form to just start throwing uninformed opinions around but let’s just say I’m concerned about the lethality of the new variants.

We get tons of tourism year round because of the beaches and Florida is just open for business like nothing’s happening so I’m sure all the new strains are right outside my door. If not inside, too.

OccultHawk · 01-21-2021, 09:09 PM

I just listened to the BBC World Service Podcast and they said a couple days ago the UK had more single day deaths than any other country on earth and that in a large hospital in London with 500 ICU beds 400 are full with just covid patients and with other patients every single bed is full. And on top of that the staff are burning out like crazy. They’re like we just can’t keep doing this ****.

This new strain ****... man

Goddamn

The **** is ripping through where I’m at like never before too.

Are y’all following the local hospitalization and death rates locally where you’re at?

01-19-2021, 08:58 PM	#3593 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Ain’t nobody know the future. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

01-21-2021, 09:09 PM	#3600 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	I just listened to the BBC World Service Podcast and they said a couple days ago the UK had more single day deaths than any other country on earth and that in a large hospital in London with 500 ICU beds 400 are full with just covid patients and with other patients every single bed is full. And on top of that the staff are burning out like crazy. They’re like we just can’t keep doing this **. This new strain ... man Goddamn The ** is ripping through where I’m at like never before too. Are y’all following the local hospitalization and death rates locally where you’re at? __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

01-20-2021, 01:38 AM	#3594 (permalink)
ando here Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: NY, NY Posts: 1,803	Yeah, we do. Just don't think we can change it.

01-20-2021, 03:51 AM	#3595 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	It's been a good 100 years but we've seen this sorta thing before. It can't last forever. tbh if we're still in the same spot a year from now i'll join the anti mask people and just say ** it let everybody get it and god sort out the winners and losers. so done with this **.

01-21-2021, 02:49 AM	#3597 (permalink)
ando here Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: NY, NY Posts: 1,803	If this thing is really on the down-slope, beautiful. But I don't think we're anywhere near that yet. Record U.K. COVID deaths for 2nd day in a row

01-21-2021, 03:04 AM	#3598 (permalink)
ando here Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: NY, NY Posts: 1,803	U.S. numbers Hospitalizations are down but deaths are up. Not sure about the correlation but I rememer that trend when COVID was on the wane in New York back in June.