COVID-19 Megathread 6: Return of the Omicron

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1329792061105729541

[Illiniwek]

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1329792061105729541

Well gosh golly jee wilickers isn’t that a dadgum bad turn of events.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1329792061105729541

Well gosh golly jee wilickers isn’t that a dadgum bad turn of events.

A possible development to watch: Scott was here (Forsyth County GA) last week campaigning in person with David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

[Calthrina950]

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1329792061105729541

Well gosh golly jee wilickers isn’t that a dadgum bad turn of events.

A possible development to watch: Scott was here (Forsyth County GA) last week campaigning in person with David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

I just noted this elsewhere. I wouldn't be surprised if those two contract the virus at this point. At the rate it's spreading, half of Congress will have it before the year is out.

[It’s so Joever]

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1329792061105729541

Well gosh golly jee wilickers isn’t that a dadgum bad turn of events.

A possible development to watch: Scott was here (Forsyth County GA) last week campaigning in person with David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

I just noted this elsewhere. I wouldn't be surprised if those two contract the virus at this point. At the rate it's spreading, half of Congress will have it before the year is out.

One can hope.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1329814772875997185

[pbrower2a]

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/11/18/state-sanctioned-segregation-californias-school-closure-debate-boils-over-1336593
‘State-sanctioned segregation’: California’s school closure debate boils over

Pandemic politics have reached a boiling point in California’s school reopening debate.

A hands-off approach by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and public pressure from powerful labor unions has led the state’s biggest city districts to keep schools shuttered, leaving most of California’s 6 million public schoolchildren learning at home. Even San Francisco, which has had one of the lowest infection rates for any U.S. city, hasn’t attempted in-person teaching.

As the pandemic wears on, more Democrats are sounding the alarm after staying silent earlier this fall. They are increasingly distressed that California's approach has widened the gap between low-income communities of color and wealthier white families.

Frustrations hit a new level in October, when Newsom said his own children had returned to private school in Sacramento — while public school students in the surrounding neighborhoods remained home. Now leaders in the governor's own party are turning on him, saying the status quo has left the state with crisis-level inequity.

California's system amounts to "state-sanctioned segregation," Patrick O'Donnell (D-Long Beach), the chair of the state Assembly Education Committee, said in an interview — a frank declaration for a Democrat consistently supported by the California Teachers Association.

“Some kids get to go and some don’t. That's not what California stands for," he said. “I think we need to move faster but remain thoughtful.”

Well, if he said it before the election, I'd respect him. As I were saying for weeks now, White Wealthy Libs has been screwing poor/minority kids to screw Trump. Gee, most people of this forum didn't give a  either, though. The few people that shared my concerns were from Europe...

A lost generation of millions of kids.

The debate is complicated in the nation's most populous state, where the divide between rich and poor remains stark. For all of the wealth concentrated in the Silicon Valley and Hollywood, nearly 60 percent of California public schoolchildren live in low-income households that qualify for subsidized meals. Districts are reporting sharp increases in students failing, especially in lower-income neighborhoods.

Gee, Hollywood.

The most bluest (populous) states CA and NY are the ones who screwing poor kids most. Would be ironic and fun, if i wasn't so god damn terrible.

When schools are closed (which includes summer vacations) kids are effectively home-schooled... at best. Ideally someone tells the kids to turn off the idiot screen and use the computer for educational purposes instead of for playing video games. Middle-class parents are likely to make field trips out of vacations, so if the vacation is a trip from Ohio to southern California there might be a side trip (well, not much of a detour, really) to Petrified Forest National Park. You get kids reading maps and asking questions like "how far is it to Effingham, Illinois?" or "why is I-44 in Missouri so much curvier than I-70 in Illinois".  Oh, they have never been through the Ozarks? Nice geography lesson there!

One of the ironies of urban life is that kids so close to the cultural attractions that the middle class (and in America the middle class typically has college degrees) takes for granted as obvious destinations don't go there -- not to the art, science, technology, and history museums in which they might learn something. Such experiences may be one inexpensive bus ride away, but if one has no idea that such exist, then those might as well be on the dark side of the Moon.

That kids read matters greatly. That they practice music on instruments matters greatly. All in all, until one gets to the highly-specific professional schools, the habit of learning matters far more than what one learns (ruling out pseudoscience such as 'scientific creationism' and junk history such as Holocaust denial).   

COVID-19 has ensured that some children will have to take another year to get through school. This will be one of the long-term hidden costs of the Plague of Donald Trump.

[Vaccinated Russian Bear]

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-year-20-21/return-to-school-2020/health-and-safety/covid-19-testing/covid-testing-results




https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/private-schools-chart-own-path-as-de-blasio-shuts-public-system
Private Schools Chart Own Path as De Blasio Shuts NYC System

Multiple New York private schools are staying open, at least for now, while Mayor Bill de Blasio closes all public schools as Covid-19 cases rise across the city.

Browning, Nightingale-Bamford, Collegiate, Spence and Trinity are among the independent schools in Manhattan that said they will hold in-person classes Thursday. Allen-Stevenson, Chapin and Columbia Grammar & Preparatory also will remain open heading into the Thanksgiving recess, according to parents of students at those schools.

The contrasting fates of school children shows how the wealthiest New Yorkers have been more insulated from the pandemic than most everyone else. Annual tuition at private schools can be more than $55,000. Many private schools opened for classes weeks before the public school buildings opened. The schools have had the resources to spend on mitigation such as renting additional space.

"State-sanctioned segregation"

[Hnv1]

Which county in the US has the highest death rate per capita?

[Vaccinated Russian Bear]

Which county in the US has the highest death rate per capita?

[jamestroll]

Tomorrow night I am going to work out in gym! And not only that.. I will work out in the middle of the night just to spite the anti-lockdown people!

[Ferguson97]

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1329820227643772929

[jamestroll]

https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1329876132745900033

[Dr. Arch]

It's pretty much a guarantee that we're hitting over 200,000 new cases today, probably around the realm of 205k or so, just based on extrapolation from relative week to week increases and the overall trend of this week.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/tylerpager/status/1329921685924040704

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Which county in the US has the highest death rate per capita?

Probably best to measure my congressional district since that actually has a far more consistent denominator than counties, which are skewed by small population numbers. 19 of the top 20 congressional districts for deaths per capita are still in New York/New Jersey with NY-15 at the top of the list. TX-34 (RGV) is the lone CD outside NYC metro in the top 20.

https://geographicinsights.iq.harvard.edu/coviduscongress

[Dr. Arch]

The updated numbers for COVID-19 in the U.S. are in for 11/20 per: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

I'm keeping track of these updates daily and updating at the end of the day, whenever all states finish reporting for that day.

ΔW Change: Comparisons of Weekly Day-to-day Growth or Decline of COVID-19 Spread/Deaths.

• IE: Comparing the numbers to the same day of last week, are we flattening the curve enough?

Σ Increase: A day's contribution to overall percentage growth of COVID-19 cases/deaths.

• IE: What's the overall change in the total?

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11/8: <Sunday>

• Cases: 10,288,480 (+105,662 | ΔW Change: ↑48.15% | Σ Increase: ↑1.04%)
• Deaths: 243,768 (+511 | ΔW Change: ↑28.07% | Σ Increase: ↑0.21%)

11/9: <M>

• Cases: 10,421,956 (+133,476 | ΔW Change: ↑43.22% | Σ Increase: ↑1.30%)
• Deaths: 244,448 (+680 | ΔW Change: ↑32.81% | Σ Increase: ↑0.28%)

11/10: <T>

• Cases: 10,559,184 (+137,228 | ΔW Change: ↑8.46% | Σ Increase: ↑1.32%)
• Deaths: 245,799 (+1,351 | ΔW Change: ↓19.25% | Σ Increase: ↑0.55%)

11/11: <W>

• Cases: 10,708,728 (+149,544 | ΔW Change: ↑38.82% | Σ Increase: ↑1.42%)
• Deaths: 247,398 (+1,599 | ΔW Change: ↑36.32% | Σ Increase: ↑0.65%)

11/12: <Þ>

• Cases: 10,873,936 (+165,208 | ΔW Change: ↑39.81% | Σ Increase: ↑1.54%)
• Deaths: 248,585 (+1,187 | ΔW Change: ↑5.60% | Σ Increase: ↑0.48%)

11/13: <F>

• Cases: 11,064,364 (+190,428 | ΔW Change: ↑36.94% | Σ Increase: ↑1.75%)
• Deaths: 249,975 (+1,390 | ΔW Change: ↑8.85% | Σ Increase: ↑0.56%)

11/14: <S>

• Cases: 11,226,038 (+161,674 | ΔW Change: ↑30.14% | Σ Increase: ↑1.46%)
• Deaths: 251,256 (+1,281 | ΔW Change: ↑24.73% | Σ Increase: ↑0.51%)

11/15: <Sunday>

• Cases: 11,366,379 (+140,341 | ΔW Change: ↑32.82% | Σ Increase: ↑1.25%)
• Deaths: 251,832 (+576 | ΔW Change: ↑12.72% | Σ Increase: ↑0.23%)

11/16: <M>

• Cases: 11,538,057 (+171,678 | ΔW Change: ↑28.62% | Σ Increase: ↑1.51%)
• Deaths: 252,651 (+819 | ΔW Change: ↑20.44% | Σ Increase: ↑0.33%)

11/17: <T>

• Cases: 11,695,550 (+157,493 | ΔW Change: ↑14.77% | Σ Increase: ↑1.36%)
• Deaths: 254,253 (+1,602 | ΔW Change: ↑18.58% | Σ Increase: ↑0.63%)

11/18: <W>

• Cases: 11,873,727 (+178,177 | ΔW Change: ↑19.15% | Σ Increase: ↑1.52%)
• Deaths: 256,254 (+2,001 | ΔW Change: ↑25.14% | Σ Increase: ↑0.79%)

11/19 (Yesterday): <Þ>

• Cases: 12,068,003 (+194,276 | ΔW Change: ↑17.59% | Σ Increase: ↑1.64%)
• Deaths: 258,302 (+2,048 | ΔW Change: ↑72.54% | Σ Increase: ↑0.80%)

11/20 (Today): <F>

• Cases: 12,274,726 (+206,723 | ΔW Change: ↑8.56% | Σ Increase: ↑1.71%)
• Deaths: 260,283 (+1,981 | ΔW Change: ↑42.52% | Σ Increase: ↑0.77%)

[Dr. Arch]

It's pretty much a guarantee that we're hitting over 200,000 new cases today, probably around the realm of 205k or so, just based on extrapolation from relative week to week increases and the overall trend of this week.

And here we are...

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

A 9/11 every day and a half.  Horrifying.

[Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist]

This thing is going to be reaching its peak almost exactly at Thanksgiving, and then it's going to start going right back up in like two or three weeks as the infections from that start showing up in the data.

Really, really bad timing.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1329796911583404032

[It’s so Joever]

I'm coming to the conclusion that people won't feel unified and that there won't be any homages to people who have died of Coronavirus. People have been isolated from the pain and suffering that the virus has caused. The Vaccine won't fix the apparent disconnect that people feel right now. There won't be any monuments for this tragedy.

Perhaps not but a lot of people will wake up when s**t hits the fan in December.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1330193020109647872

[GP270watch]

https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1330193020109647872

He has to squeeze every last buck from The Secret Service.

[Inmate Trump]

https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1330193020109647872

Worst president ever.