Texas governor to residents: "The safest place for you is at your home" due Covid-19 spike

[NRSKarenRN]

Heard on broadcast news + CNN:

6/23/20 -Texas Reports All-Time Daily High: 5,489 New COVID-19 Cases. Houston hospital ICU's full.. Texas Chrildrens hospital will now admit adults. Change in tone from Governor Abbott --who's high risk for catching virus himself

Texas governor to residents: "The safest place for you is at your home"

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As Texas sees its highest numbers of positive tests and hospitalizations, Gov. Greg Abbott advised residents of the state to stay at home.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-06-23-20-intl/index.html

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"The hospitalization rate is at an all-time high," he said. "The coronavirus is serious. It's spreading in Brazos County, across the entire state of Texas."

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/23/882504575/5-489-new-covid-19-cases-texas-reports-new-all-time-daily-high

Hope my Texas colleagues have enough PPE!

[DotardsToupe]

22 hours ago, damiorifice said:

21 hours ago, Undercat said:

Don't know who didn't know that China is our enemy. Many people weren't happy when Nixon decided that it was worth giving our economy away just so we could sell them Coca-cola.

if Republican politicians truly believed China was an enemy they would have been calling for business deinvestment and passing disincentive legislation which they could easily pass as the majority party in control of both Legislatures for 80% of the time 1995 forward. They've certainly had no trouble passing tax cuts for the uber wealthy and handing out your social security funds to Kaylei McEmeny's parents nor appointing hard righties to gut and dissolve middle class benefits, labor rights and laws, environmental laws, etc etc. after all.

As with everything else, they're winking and nodding to their 450,000$ dinner plate donors and throwing red meat rhetoric to their little foot solidiers hoping they won't notice the dinner parties.

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

28 minutes ago, DotardsToupe said:

Obviously irrelevant given the population variance, density variance and the reality that there weren't three major international airports receiving planeloads of travelers from West Europe every day. But somehow I doubt these realities will sway you of the obsolete and tired talking point that Sweden was some kind of success, which it was not

Regarding Sweden's death rate:

https://allnurses.com/texas-governor-residents-the-safest-t721750/?do=findComment&comment=7654927

[DotardsToupe]

On 7/8/2020 at 6:11 PM, BostonFNP said:

Where did you see federal law enforcement being deployed to enforce masks?

If you walk down the street naked I bet the local PD will be showing up relatively quickly.

it is amazing to me that people are still arguing about wearing masks.

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

7/9/2020: Texas death rate

[A Hit With The Ladies, BSN, RN]

Oh no! 105 deaths out of a population of 39 million!! This is Armageddon in the making!!

We're going the herd immunity route now. If anyone doesn't like it they can quarantine in their bunkers for the rest of their lives, or fly to New York and quarantine there. If you can't wrap your head around the concept of people making their own life choices, then Texas is not for you.

[Guest1142305]

US population estimate 2020: 331,002,651

US Covid-19 mortalities: 135,822

Percentage of population dead due to COVID-19:

0.04%, 4/100ths of 1% of the US population.

[BostonFNP, APRN]

5 hours ago, damiorifice said:

US population estimate 2020: 331,002,651

US Covid-19 mortalities: 135,822

Percentage of population dead due to COVID-19:

0.04%, 4/100ths of 1% of the US population.

Or it’s 22x the number of people that died in 911 and Pearl Harbor together.

Or it’s the entire capacity of Fenway Park plus Yankee Stadium plus LA Coliseum.

Or it’s the entire number of ED visits to the Mass General Hospital for an entire year.

Or it’s the entire census of the top 10 hospitals in the country.

Everything is relative.

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

We do not measure deaths from lung cancer or COPD or HIV or tuberculosis or any other disease in relation to the population as a whole to measure the actual death rate, so why are we doing it here?

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

6 hours ago, Nurse SMS said:

We do not measure deaths from lung cancer or COPD or HIV or tuberculosis or any other disease in relation to the population as a whole to measure the actual death rate, so why are we doing it here?

US DOES measure deaths of these disease per 100,000 standard population.

Mortality in the United States, 2018

https://www.CDC.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db355.htm

Figure 2. Age-adjusted death rates for all causes and the 10 leading causes of death in 2018: United States, 2017 and 2018

[Guest1142305]

yikes, heart disease is really up there.

[JennyBear]

On 7/8/2020 at 6:05 PM, A Hit With The Ladies said:

What was Sweden's fatality rate vs. New York and/or California?

What does that have to do with the price of eggs in Egypt?

[JennyBear]

On 7/8/2020 at 3:45 PM, A Hit With The Ladies said:

But it's at the business owner's private discretion what the policy is, right? It's not imposed by government officials sending law enforcement authorities out in the public space to mandate what people must wear, eh?

Wrong again. US History clearly shows the corporate charter was issued by the states with a limited period and with a mandate to furfil a service needed by the public. It wasn't until the Republican Party and their Plutocrats on the SCOTUS ruled in Santa Clara County vs. Pacific Railroad that this nonsense yoru ilk spouts about corporations being citizens was formulated .. naturally with none of the responsibility of citizens ...

Ihttps://www.history.com/news/14th-amendment-corporate-personhood-made-corporations-into-people

The point is, business has no inherent right to do anything and to do things harmful to the citizenry is very much against the founding father's intent.