D&D and the rising pandemic

The CDC recently changed how they show their recommendations. Here is the County map for the US (last updated the 25th, guessing another on Friday). COVID-19 ARCHIVED WEBPAGE

I'm still in an Orange one, but guessing that will go down to yellow this week (or next by the latest) if the trends continue. Glad a lot of my family is in the Green.

Cadence said:

The CDC recently changed how they show their recommendations. Here is the County map for the US (last updated the 25th, guessing another on Friday). COVID-19 ARCHIVED WEBPAGE

I'm still in an Orange one, but guessing that will go down to yellow this week (or next by the latest) if the trends continue. Glad a lot of my family is in the Green.

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Think we would be orange on that map. Most of the country anyway. And that's just the cases we're finding think the testings been overwhelmed.

Zardnaar said:

Think we would be orange on that map. Most of the country anyway. And that's just the cases we're finding think the testings been overwhelmed.

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Almost 15k new cases in the last 24 hours for you? :-(

Cadence said:

Almost 15k new cases in the last 24 hours for you? :-(

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Thought it was 19k.

1 in 5 tests locally were positive so there's probably more out there they're not finding.
Last week wife had to ring the student area and 10/19 places she rung were isolating due to Covid.

She's got a bit of a shock but kinda as "everyone she knows" has been doing the right thing.

Unfortunately everyone else isn't. Covid parties etc.

Can't really maintain alert levels for 2+ years. Once it got out everything kinda fell apart (scanning app, testing, support of mandates etc).

Kept it out 18 months, slowed it for 6. Border controls are being removed etc.

Now hospitality is complaining omicron bus worse than lockdowns. They're the ones who wanted to open things up turns out people go out less.

Think they're looking at population loss as well 20k a year as the isolation blew out house prices and people can't afford to stay here.

Just under 20k yesterday.

The Alaska and Hawai'i maps are not what I would expect.

Woohoo! I'm in the Green!

For now, anyway. The problem with this guisance is that it may change on short timescales. If you really want to follow it, you need to check every day or few to keep up with the numbers.

And, it is pretty clear that this guidance is not so much about personal safety, as it is overall public health, which is entirely appropriate for the CDC, but doesn't match how so many think about the issue.

Baron Opal II said:

The Alaska and Hawai'i maps are not what I would expect.

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Alaska got slammed but good at one point, so they're probably on the upswing, and at least so far we haven't hit a new widely-spread strain.

Setting stuff on fire.




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Umbran said:

Woohoo! I'm in the Green!

And, it is pretty clear that this guidance is not so much about personal safety, as it is overall public health, which is entirely appropriate for the CDC, but doesn't match how so many think about the issue.

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Am I remembering right that pretty early in the fight against COVID in the US the call was to stop the hospitals from being overburdened and protect the most vulnerable (or protect them until a vaccine came out?).

I wonder if a county by county graph like this one from the beginning would have had more people following it and less push back than the across the board restrictions.

Cadence said:

Am I remembering right that pretty early in the fight against COVID in the US the call was to stop the hospitals from being overburdened and protect the most vulnerable (or protect them until a vaccine came out?).

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Yes, but I don't know that the call was particularly effective. We have all those "rugged individualists" who aren't all that interested in helping their neighbors.

Cadence said:

I wonder if a county by county graph like this one from the beginning would have had more people following it and less push back than the across the board restrictions.

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I don't know that more data would really have been helpful to the typical citizen.