Coronavirus

jason10mm wrote: So it seems obvious to me that we can allow the workforce to work and focus our efforts on protecting the most at risk. Set up specific early times for them to interact with commercial business, send them home from work while younger staff keep going, fund food deliveries, insulate and protect their caregivers. But to say COVID has the same risk to everyone is just denial of the current data.

southernman wrote: As an outsider looking in (on the US) and from comments of other US and US resident people I see on social media I think your biggest problem is the US is all about the rights of the individual (from your enshrined constitution) while so many other democratic countries have a culture of the community first. This is why countries like New Zealand and Australia, the UK and western Europe, and even many Asian countries follow lockdown/quarantine with relatively high compliance - they know they are looking after their community as well as the people in their health systems.
Yes, there are many people in the US that think that way as well, but they are not in a large majority.

Gary Sax wrote: For some of you who live in other states, there's a sense that the current wave is ebbing. Here in AZ, where government has done relatively little, we are back officially "opened up" and most people are just blatantly non compliant on any good practices. We reached our highest new case figure today (~800). Our graph of new cases per day is just a long positive slope. It's hard to stare this thing down knowing it's still getting worse. Next week might be rough. Memorial day was just a free for all and it takes time to start registering cases.

We remain 51st in the country in testing so there are undoubtedly tons of people just coincidentally dying of pneumonia. My work is bringing us back into classrooms in early August and has no concrete plan for how to protect anyone. We just fired 100+ faculty and morale is basically 0. They are demanding that we reprep all classes to be online and in person interchangeably. Presumably we are supposed to do that while we are not getting paid (professors usually have "off contract" periods during summer).

This along with everything else has me in maybe my darkest, most pessimistic place I've ever been about the future in a general sense.

jason10mm wrote: In America at least coronavirus reporting has taken a distant back seat to far more pressing matters. You dont hear about how dangerous large groups of people are anymore either. So I wonder how a few weeks (if this goes on that long) of lessened corona coverage affects people's perceptions.