Coronavirus:

[HONDO74]

Coronavirus update: Los Angeles health officials aren't concerned about increased cases, here's why

Despite increasing coronavirus cases in Los Angeles, Calif., health officials there say the outbreak has actually stabilized, pointing instead to metrics like death data, hospitalizations and rate of positivity.

Los Angeles has seen more than 3,000 deaths and 80,000 positive cases for coronavirus, soaring past all other counties, according to the data from the California Department of Public Health. Riverside and San Diego trail behind Los Angeles for the highest positive cases at 13,021 and 10,486, respectively.

However, health officials say new cases aren’t the best measure of virus spread due to ramped-up testing.

“The most important data continues to be looking at our death data and our hospitalization data and our rate of positivity, and ... all of the indicators really point to the fact that we are fairly stable and that we in fact continue to slow the spread of COVID-19,” Barbara Ferrer, the county’s health director, said Friday, according to the LA Times.

[v8vega]

LA county has over 10 million people.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

LA county has over 10 million people.

So, you are implying that LA county can afford to let people die just on the basis of over population?

Fire up the Soylent Green plant!

[robert.]

La county did a better job the Pennsylvania state ,so far Pa gas over 12 million people. 82,000 cases and 6,509 deaths.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

La county did a better job the Pennsylvania state ,so far Pa gas over 12 million people. 82,000 cases and 6,509 deaths.

Just remember, it's not over, the 1st wave has not passed, and way too many states have managed to slide backwards w/o any effort made at all.

[Neil]

I think we can be certain that the surging cases in some locations are due in large part to people gathering in groups indoors, and in close proximity outdoors, all without masks. I've seen it here where mask wearing is considered socially desirable. Groups of teenagers, mostly. I can only imagine what a disaster is brewing where people are either too ignorant or too politically driven and literally avoiding wearing masks. Thank goodness we have two pharmacologic treatments that will rescue many of these fools and the people they will infect.

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The spread of Covid-19 is based on two things:

1. How dense the population is.

2. How dense the population is.

[up148]

Appropriate analogy:

"The curve is flattening so we can start lifting restrictions now" = "The parachute has slowed our rate of descent, so we can take it off now".

[up148]

People keep asking:

"Is Corona virus REALLY all that serious?" Listen y'all, the churches and casinos are closed. When heaven and hell agree on the same thing, it's probably pretty serious.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I think we can be certain that the surging cases in some locations are due in large part to people gathering in groups indoors, and in close proximity outdoors, all without masks. I've seen it here where mask wearing is considered socially desirable. ....

I just, now, returned from a small birthday celebration in honor of our former pastor, which was held on a sidewalk of a nearby restaurant which, today, has opened for the first time in months. I had intended only visiting the affair for a few moments, so I parked approx. 6 car-lengths down the street, and approached the group wearing my mask and surgical gloves, out of respect to the well-being of everybody who I anticipated would be in attendance. I had told the priest beforehand that I would only be stopping-by, just to give him his Birthday gift, and would not be staying, since I am still conducting myself with an abundance of caution, and, thus, not accepting immersion into any closely-knit groupings. Once arrived at their sidewalk table gathering, I was glad I had made up my mind to only pay a visit, and had told Father ahead of time, because every soul there had no gloves nor masks on, and all were sitting quite closely at a rather small sidewalk table, under umbrellas. I gave Father his card and got-the-heaven-out of there, even though I was invited by more than one person, to sit down and eat with them.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Appropriate analogy:

"The curve is flattening so we can start lifting restrictions now" = "The parachute has slowed our rate of descent, so we can take it off now".

wonderful

[MurphOnMillerAve]

People keep asking:

"Is Corona virus REALLY all that serious?" Listen y'all, the churches and casinos are closed. When heaven and hell agree on the same thing, it's probably pretty serious.

equally wonderful (!)

[Neil]

"1. How dense the population is.

2. How dense the population is."

It's really how dense and near the cloud of virus rich aerosol is. If you are not around the population of infected individuals by staying distant or indoors, you're probably not going to get a dose of virus, or if so, not a lethal dose. If you are wearing a mask, you are less likely to inhale an infectious dose, or at least not a lethal dose.

So avoiding infection is a product of not spending periods of time, particularly indoors, close to infected individuals. This is a respiratory virus. I wouldn't bother with gloves, just regular use of soap and water on hands, or hand sanitizer upon entering or leaving public places. No need to disinfect mail, packages, food, etc.

[E7]

LA county has over 10 million people.

So, you are implying that LA county can afford to let people die just on the basis of over population?

You're the one that's implying! Shame on you!

[Roy]

Murph, how are they doing communion these days? Do they fork over a paper cup of sacramental wine and a wafer, and transubstantiate it from afar?