Coronavirus (Bakersfield: neighborhood, wedding, live in)

[goodheathen]

If you want to harass me with bad-faith points, leave. I do like eating in restaurants. The stats indicate it's not safe. Gyms have a better track record than restaurants and can't do the harm to communities that infections per travel can.

[CA4Now]

California seems to be doing better than other states at this point.

Another bummer coronavirus summer for California? Cases keep rising along with concerns:
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...-there-is-hope

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

California seems to be doing better than other states at this point.

Another bummer coronavirus summer for California? Cases keep rising along with concerns:
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...-there-is-hope

I read the first half of the article. No where is there a mention of the severity of the cases.

[CA4Now]

"The San Francisco Bay Area is currently home to California’s worst coronavirus case rate. The region is likely being hit hard with new infections now because of the “latest supercharged transmissible variant,” whose contagiousness is approaching that of measles, one of the most readily transmitted diseases for humans, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a UC San Francisco infectious-disease expert, in a briefing he gave to campus staff Friday.

San Francisco had the highest case rate this past week of any California county: 460 for every 100,000 residents. The Bay Area overall is reporting 369 cases per 100,000.

The rate in the greater Sacramento area was 213; the San Joaquin Valley, 140; and rural Northern California, 139.

The overall rate for Southern California was 201, with Los Angeles County’s rate at 224; San Diego County, 214; Ventura County, 201; Orange County, 171; Riverside County, 163; and San Bernardino County, 147.

Los Angeles County’s week-over-week case count was up 16%; San Diego County’s was up by 33%.

Officials and experts in California cannot say with certainty why the state’s increasing coronavirus case rates have not translated into larger numbers of hospitalizations, leaving the state in a much better spot than the East Coast.

One possibility is that California is simply behind the East Coast, as has been the case at earlier points in the pandemic.

But it’s also possible that a combination of booster shot rates among seniors and masking practices might be playing a role and that California could reasonably hold out hope for a less severe spring and summer wave than New York."

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...fmc_id=1367503

[goodheathen]

The previously misunderstood problem with masks is poor closures.
https://www.hse.gov.uk/safetybulleti...espirators.htm

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by Carpenter858

You finally found out about this? This has been known for a long time along with cloth masks not doing much of anything. Only way masks work are by using and wearing the N95 masks perfectly, which is not going to happen.

Go work for NPR, you can rat out all the people you want there just like your private gatherings post, and you'll be rewarded.

https://nypost.com/2022/05/19/nprs-s...-on-violators/

Yup

They are also supposed to be constantly changed out not worn for months over and over again. This makes the mask by the average wearer absolutely useless. Most of us have already known and mentioned that. It became a virtue signaling drama quest for the few.

[sav858]

Originally Posted by Racer46

He was sitting behind them and was sick, coughing, etc. Not long after they got tested when they felt bad after arriving; Positive test. No issues before getting on board the plane.

So they caught COVID on the plane and developed symptoms shortly after arriving? Like the same day?

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by Carpenter858

I hope you're right, but you're lucky to be in SD. Up here in the Berkeley area, so many still wear masks on the sidewalk, even when walking alone or with their kids. Went into El Cerrito Plaza's Trader Joes' last Friday, and only 2-3 of us out of 30-40 in the store didn't have masks. This place won't let it go. Go to even Oakland and Richmond and it's much better about no masks, but nowhere near what SD was the 3-4 times I've been there in the last 2 years.

I almost got T-boned about 30 min ago by some dude driving a Prius. They had a mask on ALONE with glasses on and blew a 4 way stop. I'm guessing they couldn't see because of the fog.


Sorry you have to still deal with the crazies up there. It's like a religion up there. The only time anyone was "masking" was when Newsom strictly targeted us. We will fight it tooth and nail down here.

[Carpenter858]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

I almost got T-boned about 30 min ago by some dude driving a Prius. They had a mask on ALONE with glasses on and blew a 4 way stop. I'm guessing they couldn't see because of the fog.


Sorry you have to still deal with the crazies up there. It's like a religion up there. The only time anyone was "masking" was when Newsom strictly targeted us. We will fight it tooth and nail down here.

Happens all the time up here while I'm running in the neighborhood streets where people driving in masks have no clue how to drive. I've yelled take your mask off so you can see. Idiots everywhere in this area. Keep up the fight for all these clowns. Thank goodness there are other states to visit and even SD where people are not bat crap crazy.

[goodheathen]

The reckoning is coming for the world's decades of being too casual about viruses.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-peopl...130046317.html