The Covid-19 Thread: News, Preparation Tips, Etc

yamilee21

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...FB got me in here spreading false news about these Jews. I still heard that they’re congregating and not obeying. ...
There are still some wild stories coming out of a few neighborhoods, such as Lakewood, NJ, where a 99 year old man was part of a group arrested at an engagement party this week. And in Bnei Brak in Israel, police officers went undercover to shut down renegade prayer groups still meeting. But the reality does seem to be sinking in, particularly because quite a few rabbis have died from COVID-19 around the world.

Meanwhile in France, some racist professors were discussing doing COVID-19 testing on Africans, rightfully prompting outcry from France’s professional football players of African origin.

In Haiti, where there is only one lab, 18 positive tests and about 200 more pending so far, some NGOs handed out buckets with soap/detergent so people can wash their hands. There was a protest today where the said buckets were thrown into the street and set on fire... but at least a lot of the protesters were wearing bandannas over their noses and mouths.

(Sorry I am too distracted to post links to these stories... there is so much COVID-19 craziness right now... I want to take a break from the news, but I can’t.)
 

Chromia

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This is so sad. This whole thing is so surreal. I have such a hard time watching people on video..living and breathing knowing now they are dead. its messing with me.
Detroit bus driver who complained about a coughing passenger dies of coronavirus days later
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Detroit bus driver who shared coronavirus warning dies after contracting COVID-19


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Jason Hargrove could not hide his outrage at the passenger whom he said openly coughed on his bus in the middle of a pandemic.

In between shifts last month, Hargrove, a city bus driver with the Detroit Department of Transportation, recounted in an obscenity-laden Facebook video how a woman onboard had just coughed in front of him and other passengers, even as the novel coronavirus continued to spread across the United States.



“We out here as public workers, doing our job, trying to make an honest living to take care of our families,” he said on March 21, “but for you to get on the bus and stand on the bus and cough several times without covering up your mouth, and you know we’re in the middle of a pandemic, that let’s me know that some folks don’t care.”

The 50-year-old bus driver added, “This is real … For us to get through this and get over this, man, y’all need to take this s--- serious. There’s folks dying out here.”



Detroit News that Hargrove started to feel ill on March 25, four days after the incident with the coughing passenger. A week later, he was dead.

While there’s no way of knowing whether Hargrove transmitted the illness from the passenger referenced in his video or if he was infected in another way, the bus driver’s death and his foreboding words have rocked Detroit, one of the nation’s covid-19 hot spots.

“I don’t know how you can watch [the video] and not tear up,” Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan (D) said at a Thursday news conference. “He knew his life was being put in jeopardy … by someone who didn’t take this seriously and now he’s gone.”

His death comes at a time when bus drivers in Detroit have expressed concern over whether the city and state are doing enough to protect public transportation workers from infection. On March 17, a few days before Hargrove’s plea, bus drivers shut down public transportation by calling in sick in fear of an outbreak, the Detroit Free Press reported. The city restarted the service on March 18 only after agreeing to keep the first row of seats empty, to have passengers enter and exit from the rear of the bus, and urging riders to stay 10 feet away from drivers.


But fears among drivers worried about getting infected have intensified with the news of Hargrove’s death, Tolbert told the Detroit News. He told WXYZ that some drivers have suggested a work stoppage.

“They’re obviously scared,” Tolbert, who has also tested positive for the coronavirus, said to the News. “They’re up in arms. It’s the fear of the unknown.”

In the days leading up to the incident, it was apparent that Hargrove understood the severity of the coronavirus, posting to his social media accounts about its effect on Detroit and the rest of the country. On his Facebook page, Hargrove, who was also a love DJ, posted photos of him wearing a mask inside his bus, as well as images of signs on the first row saying, “Please leave vacant.”

Then, on a Saturday afternoon, Hargrove said a passenger openly coughed five times around eight or nine riders on the bus.

“I’m steaming right now,” he said in a Facebook comment.

He’d exit the bus and hop on Facebook Live to vent in an 8½-minute video.

“I’m trying to be the professional,” Hargrove said. “They want me to be and I kept my mouth closed, but it’s at some point in time where you got to draw the line and say enough is enough. I feel violated. I feel violated for the folks that were on the bus when this happened.”

Despite his frustration with the city and its protection of public transit workers, Hargrove insisted that his anger could only be directed at the people not taking the proper precautions to help curb the spread of the virus.

“I ain’t blaming nobody — nobody. Not the city, not the mayor, not the department, not the state of Michigan, not the government, nobody, not the president,” Hargrove said. “It’s her fault. It’s people like her who don’t take [the coronavirus] for real while this still exists and is still

On March 23, two days after the incident, he wrote about how he was self-quarantined for two weeks due to exposure to covid-19. He fell ill shortly afterward.

Duggan announced on Thursday that the city is the first in the nation to test first responders, bus drivers and health-care workers with a new rapid testing kit that gets results in 15 minutes or less, The Washington Post reported.

The mayor, however, still had his mind on Hargrove. At one point, Duggan said “everybody in America” should watch the bus driver’s video.

“It’s something I’m going to think about for a long time,” Duggan said.

Toward the end of the video, Hargrove returned to the bus and said it was time to get back to work. He was concerned, but still had time to mix in some smiles and laughs for friends chatting with him during the live video. He pleaded to his friends to cover up their face and wear gloves if they had to go out.

“If you see somebody coughing and they don’t cover up, bust them in the back of their head,” he said with a hopeful grin. “I’m out of here, y’all. I love, y’all.”
It sounds like they're just asking passengers to keep away from drivers but they're not physically blocking them.

Bus drivers are stuck in that small space with nowhere to move away if someone gets too close.

They need to rope off the front of the bus. The bus drivers in my area are protected like this:
 

Black Ambrosia

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DoorDash Starts Delivering Toilet Paper and Other Groceries
April 1, 2020, 1:35 PM EDT

DoorDash Inc., the biggest food delivery app in the U.S., will start delivering goods from 7-Eleven, Wawa and other convenience stores to Americans who are mostly stuck at home for the foreseeable future.

The San Francisco-based startup said it began testing the sale of paper towels and other packaged goods this year and decided to accelerate the rollout due to the coronavirus pandemic. DoorDash has more than 1,800 convenience stores around the U.S. available on the app, the company said.

The new offering competes to some extent with Amazon.com Inc.’s grocery delivery service and Instacart Inc. Both companies have struggled to meet demand since the outbreak and have said they’re adding a combined 400,000 workers. This week, some workers at both companies went on strike over accusations of unfair pay and labor policies.

Uber Technologies Inc. is also looking to expand its food delivery app with groceries. It owns a majority stake in Latin America’s Cornershop and intends to bring the grocery service to other countries. “That business is absolutely exploding in the right way,” Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s chief executive officer, said in a Bloomberg TV interview last month. “We have a global brand, and we can essentially take Cornershop and make it a global brand.”
 

chocolat79

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What’s the purpose of that? Is this for retweets & internet fame? It’s stupid and you’re Wasting food. I hope he gets arrested.
In case he missed it, people are being charged with making terrorist threats or domestic terrorism for coughing intentionally on people and these are YT's, so you know his Negroid self is going down. AND he should. He hasn't seen quarantine until his tail is in jail where he has NO barrier to the infection and his risk of getting coronavirus will increase exponentially. Can't fix stupid. Trust, the prisons will need more people (slaves), so he'll replace someone just fine.
 

Black Ambrosia

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Ankle monitors ordered for Louisville, Kentucky residents exposed to Covid-19 who refuse to stay home


(CNN) — Kentucky is taking severe measures to ensure residents exposed to the coronavirus stay at home. Louisville residents who have been in contact with coronavirus patients but refuse to isolate themselves are being made to wear ankle bracelets.

A judge has ordered one resident to stay at home after refusing to self-quarantine. CNN affiliate WDRB reports that the person, identified as D.L. in the court order, is living with "someone who has tested positive for the illness and another person who is a presumptive case," according to an affidavit from Dr. Sarah Moyer, director of the health department.

Having been exposed to the highly contagious disease, D.L. was ordered to stay at home last week. But according to family members, D.L. "leaves the house often."

When D.L. didn't respond to the health department's messages, Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Angela Bisig ordered the Department of Corrections to fit D.L. with a global positioning device for the next 14 days. If D.L. leaves the house again, he or she could be criminally charged, WDRB reports.

D.L. is not the only Louisville resident ordered to wear ankle monitors to contain the spread of the coronavirus. According to WDRB, there are three other known cases so far. Two other people who live in the same home — one who has tested positive, and the other who has not — were ordered to remain in their home last week after both refused to stay isolated.

And another man was put under house arrest after he went out shopping despite having tested positive for the coronavirus, according to WDRB.

WDRB says Jefferson County courts has set up an on-call judge for these types of cases.


A playground in Louisville, Kentucky remains closed due to the coronavirus.

Under Kentucky's current guidelines aimed at curbing the spread of the virus, only life-sustaining businesses can remain open.

Organizations that provide charitable and social services can also remain open. These include food banks and places that provide food, shelter and social services to those who are economically disadvantaged or people with disabilities. But even these organizations must implement social distancing while carrying out their work.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear provides an update on the novel coronavirus on March 29, 2020.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has recommended all schools remain closed through May 1st and has expanded travel restrictions. Out-of-staters who aren't passing through have to quarantine for 14 days, wherever they are coming from.

The state will also be releasing at least 186 prisoners convicted of not-so-serious crimes on commuted sentences. However, the prisoners must identify a residence where they can stay and where they will be required to quarantine for a period of 14 days, according to Michael Brown, the secretary of the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet.

Governor Beshear has announced a COVID-19 reporting hotline (833-KY SAFER, or 833-597-2337) for complaints about non-compliance with coronavirus mandates. Labor Cabinet personnel will monitor the hotline from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET.

Residents can also visit the website kysafer.ky.gov to make online complaints.
 

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Joining the Covid-19 fight: Oprah Winfrey donates $10 million for coronavirus relief
Part of the money will go towards America's Food Fund.
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Last Updated: Apr 03, 2020, 12.04 PM IST






LOS ANGELES: Oprah Winfrey said on Thursday she was donating $10 million to coronavirus relief efforts, including a new venture to help get food to vulnerable Americans during the coronavirus epidemic.

Winfrey, one of America's richest and most influential women, made the announcement on her social media platforms.
 
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brg240

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I basically do whatever I see the Chinese doing. They eyes, mouth and hands are shield. If I go out I even cover my ears with a hat. None of us really know what is for certain so I say just cover your basis.
I was trying to look up the korean CDC guidelines earlier but i couldn't find it.

I'm so bothered. we're supposed to be able to work from home if were uncomfortable. And yet my boss isn't letting me more than twice a week :(


 

Ganjababy

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Every time I speak to a friend or family member in the UK we discuss how inept and horrible trump is lol. People around the world are flabbergasted. Canada should be the USAs biggest Ally and he is trying to severe those ties.

when he won the election in 2016 I remember I was an inpatient in the hospital. Some of the patients silently cried. This other patient (Canadian) started wailing and bawling loudly. They had to sedate her. I wondered if she was overreacting. Time would tell I thought to myself. She was right.
 
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Ganjababy

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What might a desperate Donald Trump do to win after ghastly COVID-19 death toll and its aftermath?


Sat Apr 04 05:00:00 EDT 2020

This month — April 2020 — is certain to have its own dark chapter dedicated to it in modern American history.

It may very well be remembered in the same painful way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the disastrous Vietnam War and the al-Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001, are remembered — both by the number of Americans killed and their devastating impact on America’s fragile psyche.

With the peak of deaths beginning in a matter of days, between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans are expected to die from the current coronavirus pandemic, according to official U.S. government estimates this week — and that is only if “we do things almost perfectly.”

Since nothing about this crisis has been done “almost perfectly,” the actual number could be much more.

That would be far more than the number of Americans killed in Pearl Harbor, in Vietnam, on 9/11 and in the Korean War — combined.

Americans are only beginning to absorb this astonishing prospect. Many of them are still scarred by the 2,977 people killed on Sept. 11, but more than twice that number have already died from COVID-19.

In ways that we can now only imagine, this will be a dangerous time bomb ticking deeply inside the heart of the U.S. political system. Americans don’t grieve silently, and they don’t forget. No one will be untouched when this bomb explodes.

Donald Trump — above all — will know that his political survival is imperiled.

So, given this, it is time to ask this once unthinkable question:

Faced with what will likely look like certain defeat in November, what could President Trump do to steal the presidential election?

Let me count the ways — but before that, there are three related questions that should be asked:



First, what happens when negligence leads to unimaginable death?



There will likely be a 9/11-style independent commission to examine why the United States, more than other countries, was so ill-prepared to handle the pandemic, but it is already clear that its indictment of Trump and his administration will be withering. Not only did Trump consistently downplay the threat, he ignored countless warnings in January and February that only aggressive testing nationwide could prevent the enormous catastrophe to come.



Second, what happens when this death leads to overpowering grief?



There is potential for a quarter of a million Americans dead in the next few months, many of them needlessly and each of them with an individual story and a family. Americans don’t yet know what is about to hit them. There has been media chatter in the U.S. about how much airtime Trump is getting each day to repeat his lies and distortions about his performance. But Trump’s viewing figures are actually far less than the enormous ratings the U.S. nightly newscasts are now getting. And it’s on these news programs each evening that Americans are seeing their exhausted doctors and nurses, in tears and at the breaking point, as they comfort grandparents and parents who are dying without their relatives able to be there. Imagine having to watch your loved one die, on FaceTime. You would never forget this.



And third, what happens when this grief leads to explosive anger?



The cumulative effect of this grief, night after night, will be raw and enduring. No one who is thought to be responsible, least of all Trump, will escape this rage. But it may take some weeks to emerge. Americans traditionally support their president in times of crisis, and Trump’s approval ratings have increased slightly in some polls. But there are already signs in the most recent polling this week that this Trump ‘bounce’ has fizzled as more Americans, now alert to the scale of the crisis, express anger at how it has been handled.

So, if confronted with the virtual certainty that he would lose November’s presidential election, what might Trump do to remain in power?

I would suggest that Americans would be fools if they didn’t believe that he would try — and certainly if there were signs of social collapse as a result of the (Trump-created) health and economic crisis.

It is noteworthy that one of Trump’s closest friends and allies in Europe is Hungary’s president, Viktor Orban — who, Trump once said, “has done a tremendous job in so many ways.” Last Monday, Hungary’s parliament passed an emergency bill that granted Orban sweeping emergency powers that called off future elections.

A U.S. president could not, according to the constitution, outright cancel a presidential election — but he could manipulate it. With the support of a majority of Republican-controlled states, the way a president is elected could be altered to favour Trump.

If the November election is held with the COVID-19 pandemic still a factor, voting rules could be changed to favour Republicans at the expense of Democrats.

As recently as this week, Trump admitted on Fox News that making it easier to vote hurts the Republicans. He said he opposed a Democratic-led push for reforms such as vote-by-mail and early voting: “The things they had in there were crazy … If you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican election in this country again.”

In whatever way this crisis will unfold, it will cause unprecedented pressure on America’s democracy. But it is a democracy that has survived many crises, and that is consoling.

But never before has its health-care system — or its economy, or its political structures — been under such strain. And certainly, never before at the same time.

Since Trump was elected, the world has stumbled through an ugly and inept presidency, but it has survived.

However, there have been many warnings that this day might one day come.

Well, it has.

Tony Burman, formerly head of CBC News and Al Jazeera English, is a freelance contributing foreign affairs columnist for the Star. He is based in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter: @TonyBurman
 

discodumpling

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I want to disconnect from the news...but the last time I went on a news fast...The Rona bubbled up on the scene. Clearly we cant depend on governmental leadership to provide us with accurate and timely information. Everytime I see the orange Hitler on tv I am physically ill. I knew he was gonna mess up this country before he was illegally installed as president...I just had no idea how bad it was going to get!! It gets worse everyday people...we are living in the disaster zone in real time...this is not a drill!!!
I had chat with my cousin in Antigua where they have just started to shelter in place and she says this reminds her of the beginnings of the AIDS & HIV epidemic. NO...this is BIBLICAL. This is flood level, GOD wants a do over level. He BEEN trying to tell us to get our acts together and we kept on going, kept on messing up the Earth..now look at us.
 

Layluh

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I was trying to look up the korean CDC guidelines earlier but i couldn't find it.

I'm so bothered. we're supposed to be able to work from home if were uncomfortable. And yet my boss isn't letting me more than twice a week :(


see I don't think we should release data yet because if its seen as more of a black illness then we know what white people and others will do. When they released data stating old people were dying from it more, Younger people were like ok, I'm taking a 5$ trip to Paris and going to Mardi gras.

We should wait until all this is over to study that. Just my opinion.
 

tigereyes83

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My husband found a box of N95 masks in the attic!! He does Carpentry on the side and said he bought them on sale last year. I have to give some to my family since they are still not listening about not going out! My ex’s mom died last night from this. But she had stage 4 cancer. I think it’s weird of them saying she died from covid though. Most times people who die from cancer just say cancer.. Not she had xyz and oh yea cancer too..
 

Reinventing21

Spreading my wings
I have been thinking that with the release of this quoted below info plus videos of Blacks (even tho all races have done it) intentionally coughing on food plus the fact it started in China and their refusal to shut down wet markets inciting more vitriol against Asians, plus the racist disparity of care of minorities who will eventually be like %&€ this, 'we're gonna spread it for real now, plus all the rednecks, neo nazis, and other white idiot believers of imaginary supremacy who have been stockpiling guns, assault rifles etc., will equal a total global disaster.

Leaders all around will need to be more than careful about adding race into the mix...

see I don't think we should release data yet because if its seen as more of a black illness then we know what white people and others will do. When they released data stating old people were dying from it more, Younger people were like ok, I'm taking a 5$ trip to Paris and going to Mardi gras.

We should wait until all this is over to study that. Just my opinion.
 

Ganjababy

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It Probably hastened her death so I don’t blame them for saying that. Some people (especially older) are dying from it but the family prefer to state the illness they had before COVId, the diseases that made them more susceptible. While others prefer to state that it’s covid.
My husband found a box of N95 masks in the attic!! He does Carpentry on the side and said he bought them on sale last year. I have to give some to my family since they are still not listening about not going out! My ex’s mom died last night from this. But she had stage 4 cancer. I think it’s weird of them saying she died from covid though. Most times people who die from cancer just say cancer.. Not she had xyz and oh yea cancer too..
 
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