Coronavirus:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Pennsylvania is 245 days into 15 days needed to flatten the curve. You will see flat out anarchy in the streets if they shutdown for 2 weeks or more. even as we climb to almost 5000 new cases a day.

Maybe when the anarchists and their families start dying they will change their minds.

[robert.]

Hard to change your mind when your dead. The local urgent care had a line of cars . Twice around their building and out onto rt 611. They had 3 police officers directing traffic along the road way. All this caused by drive up testing.
I would think by midweek Philadelphia is closed. Their mayor and health department have a 1:pm monday press conference.

[bob turner]

Robert might be right. The local Air and Space Museum is apparently going to defy a shutdown order. Churches have been doing that routinely.
Anarchy doesn't have to be synonymous with violence.
Martin is on the right track - we may have to copy the successful countries - if it is not already too late.

[robert.]

Philadelphia just ramped up their covid restrictions. "safer at home" starting November 20 lasting through Jan 1. high schools and colleges must move to online. No indoor dining at restaurants or other food businesses. Additional restrictions for outdoor dining. No arcades theaters , museums, live performances. no bowling alleys. No game spaces.(tennis courts ex) Libraries curbside only. No indoor dance class ,Gyms, Karate and other exercises indoor. They can workout, karate, dance , gyms and exercise outdoors. No youth sports 1 household group allowed for weddings, funerals and showers. Private gatherings are limited to one household. churches 5 people per 1000sgf. Anarchy soon to follow.

[gregj410]

Philadelphia just ramped up their covid restrictions. "safer at home" starting November 20 lasting through Jan 1. high schools and colleges must move to online. No indoor dining at restaurants or other food businesses. Additional restrictions for outdoor dining. No arcades theaters , museums, live performances. no bowling alleys. No game spaces.(tennis courts ex) Libraries curbside only. No indoor dance class ,Gyms, Karate and other exercises indoor. They can workout, karate, dance , gyms and exercise outdoors. No youth sports 1 household group allowed for weddings, funerals and showers. Private gatherings are limited to one household. churches 5 people per 1000sgf. Anarchy soon to follow.

Gotta get that vote recount done from a safe distance

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Robert might be right. The local Air and Space Museum is apparently going to defy a shutdown order. Churches have been doing that routinely.
Anarchy doesn't have to be synonymous with violence.
Martin is on the right track - we may have to copy the successful countries - if it is not already too late.

It's probably too late.

[Chris Webster]

Dolly Parton helped fund Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine research

An excerpt:

Music legend Dolly Parton has been lauded by fans as a key player in potentially curing COVID-19 after reports that she donated money toward the vaccine research for Moderna.

On Monday, the company behind the vaccine candidate said it appears it is 94.5% effective in protecting against the virus that has ravaged the U.S. and dozens of other countries, according to preliminary data from the company’s still ongoing study. Before its newfound success, Parton reportedly donated $1 milllion to Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s efforts to develop the vaccine trial and clinical research for the drug. She was subtly mentioned in the footnotes of the New England Journal of Medicine’s announcement, referring to her donation as the “Dolly Parton COVID-19 Research Fund.”

In April, she revealed that she donated the funds on behalf of her longtime friend Dr. Naji Abumrad, who has been researching at Vanderbilt for years.

“[Abumrad] informed me that they were making some exciting advancements towards research of the coronavirus for a cure,” she wrote in an Instagram post.

[HONDO74]

PA gov announces new COVID rules, including wearing a mask in your house
The state is reporting more than 5,000 new infections per day, up more than 115% in two weeks
https://www.foxnews.com/us/pa-gov-annou ... your-house

Pennsylvania is planning to take additional steps to address a sharp increase in coronavirus infections and hospitalizations, including requiring masks to be worn indoors with limited exceptions, officials said Tuesday.

In addition, starting Friday, anyone who enters Pennsylvania must be tested at least 72 hours before arrival, and if they can or do not get a test, they must quarantine for 14 days. The order does not apply to people who commute to neighboring states for work or health care, officials said, and will be largely self-enforced.

Pennsylvania already has a statewide mask mandate, limits on indoor and outdoor gatherings and occupancy restrictions at bars and restaurants.

But the new rules go even further. Masks are required outside where it isn’t possible to maintain at least a six-foot distance from others, according to the order, and inside where people from multiple households are gathering, even if they can maintain a social distance.

Like the rest of the nation, Pennsylvania has seen coronavirus infections explode in recent weeks. The state is reporting more than 5,000 new infections per day, up more than 115% in just two weeks, and hospitalizations and the percentage of tests coming back positive are up sharply. Deaths are on the rise, as well.

Governors and mayors around the country have been tightening restrictions in response to the worsening pandemic.

On Monday, Philadelphia said it would ban indoor gatherings and indoor dining and shutter casinos, gyms, museums and libraries.

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf imposed a state-at-home order and shuttered businesses deemed “non-life-sustaining” early in the pandemic. In September though, a judge ruled Wolf's pandemic restrictions unconstitutional.

[HONDO74]

How mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna work, why they're a breakthrough and why they need to be kept so cold
https://news.yahoo.com/mrna-vaccines-pf ... 52081.html

INTERESTING ?

As the weather cools, the number of infections of the COVID-19 pandemic are rising sharply. Hamstrung by pandemic fatigue, economic constraints and political discord, public health officials have struggled to control the surging pandemic. But now, a rush of interim analyses from pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech have spurred optimism that a novel type of vaccine made from messenger RNA, known as mRNA, can offer high levels of protection by preventing COVID-19 among people who are vaccinated.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I'm still curious about the chronic tox data..........

[healey36]

Travel from MD to PA is now prohibited without a negative Covid test (excluding commuters). Dammit - the Utz factory store is now out-of-bounds, and I’m half way through my five pound bucket of cheese-doodles!

[HONDO74]

I was at my local Walmart this afternoon Getting a few Items for diner and noticed the idiots have done it again.

ALL the TP and paper products are gone again. The isle was completely empty..

[robert.]

Travel from MD to PA is now prohibited without a negative Covid test (excluding commuters). Dammit - the Utz factory store is now out-of-bounds, and I’m half way through my five pound bucket of cheese-doodles!

2 things her i don't understand. are you more likely to get Covid in PA., As an out of state traveler ? I can't travel to MD as i'm more likely to get Covid there. why do you buy 5lbs of cheese doodles. They cost $4.99 a pound. If you buy 1lbs bags you pay 3.49 a pound. all kidding aside. Next time you go to the store. Look how much Doritos are a pound.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Travel from MD to PA is now prohibited without a negative Covid test (excluding commuters). Dammit - the Utz factory store is now out-of-bounds, and I’m half way through my five pound bucket of cheese-doodles!

Just how are they going to enforce that? Road blocks at every road connecting the 2?

I was at my local Walmart this afternoon Getting a few Items for diner and noticed the idiots have done it again.

ALL the TP and paper products are gone again. The isle was completely empty..

I was at the Safeway this morning - fully stocked. In fact, over stocked! Maybe what you experienced is a Walmart shopper phenomenon,

Look how much Doritos are a pound.

Crazy prices for stuff like that; stopped buying that sort of stuff years ago. Rather buy a big box of cereal at Costco for 1/3 the price. Chips and that stuff - used to be twice as much in a smaller bag, too. Bags now are puffed up to look bigger but the weight content is lower.

[healey36]

Maryland new cases hit 2910 yesterday, a more than five-fold increase from less than three weeks ago. Everywhere I go, people are masked and making their best effort at social-distancing, so what's driving the explosion in cases. Granted, I'm not hanging out in bars 'til 1AM and I haven't hosted a kid's slumber-party in twenty-five years. Is it what people are doing in their homes?