Heppenheimer
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And we haven't even fully committed to the first step yet.
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However, those people already died 2 weeks ago, because FL takes forever to report deaths. The way things are going FL is going to be the safest place to be in the country in a month (with respect to Covid) due to the high immunity.
GoofGoof
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Is the first step admitting there is a problem? Yep, some haven’t even gotten there yet.
Heppenheimer
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Oh God, then we're even further back than I thought!
For some people, the only problem is that their simply awesome, fantastic life is being inconvenienced.
aliceismad
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Yeah. I know enough essential military contractors to feel it will be just fine.
Chip Chipperson
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Exactly! There have been supply chain disruptions in various sectors for the past 18 months. There are people waiting 7-9 months for a new couch. There have been meat shortages because COVID outbreaks forced companies to shut their plants until it was safe enough to reopen and they had enough healthy employees to operate. Every time I go to the grocery store, there are signs up in different aisles alerting shoppers to supply shortages for various products. The assertion that it's more likely to have a mass walkout of employees over an OSHA mandate than it is for those same employees to experience a COVID outbreak in their workplace is a serious stretch at best and outright dishonest at worst.
DisneyDebRob
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Now we have a story of a couple being kicked out of a restaurant for wearing a mask to protect their child. This is incredible.
www.google.com
Couple was kicked out of Texas restaurant for wearing masks to protect at-risk son
Natalie Wester and her husband wore masks inside a Texas restaurant to protect their newborn son who has cystic fibrosis — so the owner kicked them out.
www.google.com
danlb_2000
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Now we have a story of a couple being kicked out of a restaurant for wearing a mask to protect their child. This is incredible.
Couple was kicked out of Texas restaurant for wearing masks to protect at-risk son
Natalie Wester and her husband wore masks inside a Texas restaurant to protect their newborn son who has cystic fibrosis — so the owner kicked them out.
I think (hope) places like this are in the minority and may be doing it just to get free publicity.
DisneyDebRob
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I don’t disagree but it’s a disgrace whatever the reason.
Ayla
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Exactly. You don't make (or lose) any money until you sell.
U.S. Coronavirus Data: Frequently Asked Questions
What is the source of this data?
Since late January 2020, The Times has tracked coronavirus cases and deaths as they are announced using data released by countries, states and local health officials. Times staff work around the clock to create, verify and maintain this data.
And that's why the NYT death totals are more up to date than the state, which has an admitted two week lag. E.g., from the FL dashboard... at least it did since I can't find an official FL dashboard any more. From their weekly .pdf...
ABQ
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I agree, though I wonder just how well the husband's mask is functioning with that beard of his.
Never mind that the mom's mask is hardly properly fitting either.
correcaminos
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0-4 with moderna should be soon. Same with Pfizer. Well 6 mo plus.
Indeed, there were supply shortages for months and months and months before any sort of mandates.
Businesses that have reported walk-outs and quitting due to mandates have said that it is a very small minority of their employees that leave. After all, it's unlikely to be more than the 25% of the population currently 'vaccine hesitant.' One of the airlines just reported that after their employee mandate, they are at 97% compliance. WDW just had employees stage a protest over mandatory vaccines, and there were just 25 that showed up.
The idea that mandates will wreck the economy due to people quitting is never going to be the case. Especially since, at this time, exemptions and recourse to weekly testing is still in the mix.
I hope people stop going there, and he goes out of business.
GoofGoof
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In TX? The place probably has a 2 hour wait for a table now
Heppenheimer
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I'll stop yelling at the kids on my lawn in a minute, but allow me this one rant. I lived overseas for most of the period of 2008-2014, and I was sent to Afghanistan twice during that period. So, imagine my shock when I returned to the US in 2014 to find that the Taliban-style beard had become a popular fashion choice in the US (it wasn't in Europe at the time, at least when I lived there). This would be like WWII veterans returning home to find that German army uniforms were in style.
I thought, well, at least this look will probably die out soon... and yet here we are in 2021.
All right kids, I'm going back inside to watch Lawrence Welk on the television machine. You stay off my lawn!
Sorry, they’ve ignored the truth for 19 months. You think they’ll start paying attention? Ha.
Problem is that the men who caught onto a fashionable trimmed beard or stubble in the past two decades got lazy during the pandemic and grew unkempt, long 'pandemic beards.'
Hopefully, going back to work in person or getting back into the dating seen will change that.
I don't know how those who have partners aren't hounded by them daily to get back to normal grooming.
"Florida on Thursday reported 1,213 more deaths and 4,215 additional COVID-19 cases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
All but 131 of the newly reported deaths — about 89% — occurred since Aug. 26, according to the Herald analysis. About 56% of the newly reported died in the past two weeks, the analysis showed. The majority of deaths happened during Florida’s latest surge in COVID-19 cases, fueled by the delta variant."
"In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 328 deaths and 8,227 cases to the daily cumulative total, according to Herald calculations of CDC data."
"There were 7,928 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Thursday report. This data is reported from 260 Florida hospitals. That is 259 fewer patients than Wednesday’s report, but also from 24 more reporting hospitals than the previous 236.
COVID-19 patients occupy 13.57% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared with 14.99% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 2,041 people were in intensive care unit beds, a decrease of 87. That represents about 31.24% of the state’s ICU hospital beds compared with 32.84% the previous day."
All but 131 of the newly reported deaths — about 89% — occurred since Aug. 26, according to the Herald analysis. About 56% of the newly reported died in the past two weeks, the analysis showed. The majority of deaths happened during Florida’s latest surge in COVID-19 cases, fueled by the delta variant."
"In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 328 deaths and 8,227 cases to the daily cumulative total, according to Herald calculations of CDC data."
"There were 7,928 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Thursday report. This data is reported from 260 Florida hospitals. That is 259 fewer patients than Wednesday’s report, but also from 24 more reporting hospitals than the previous 236.
COVID-19 patients occupy 13.57% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared with 14.99% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 2,041 people were in intensive care unit beds, a decrease of 87. That represents about 31.24% of the state’s ICU hospital beds compared with 32.84% the previous day."
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