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Originally Posted by wittynickname
Pittsburgh and the surrounding region is full of people who vacation in Florida, Texas and the Carolinas. My county had done a remarkably good job through all of this, with our population of 1.2 mil our highest 1 day case increase was 75 back in mid-April. It had trickled to 15-20/day in the county by early June, when everything opened back up (with some restrictions for occupancy of bars/restaurants, salons, etc.).
Then all of these idiots went on vacation and came home, went to bars, went to restaurants (many of which weren't fully following the guidelines) and now we're having 100-240 cases daily, far worse than we ever were during the time we were shut down.
Both the county I live in and the county I work in are in far worse shape than during the "worst" of it, and yet I'm still going to work cutting hair, well closer than 6 feet away, every day now. It's...not the best feeling in the world.
It's incredibly hard to feel anything but dread in this country right now.
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Yep. Our county is one of the fastest growing as the virus really didn’t really hit here until a few weeks ago. Finally the major city in the area passed a mask ordinance last night (and has bought everyone a mask). The hospitals are filling. You just see a bunch of comments About how this is what happened to the Middle East! Face covers and look what happened there! I wish I weren’t serious.
Louisiana governor yesterday in a more politically correct way said the equivalent of “well done idiots. We went from beating this virus back to undoing all the work in the past three weeks that we are back at pandemic rates in every single county. Wear your damn mask and social distance.” GOP governors are starting from feel the heat and more and more are distancing from the federal admin. And Fauci, well Fauci is essentially waiting for Trump to say something and then correcting him.
Also Tulsa is now spiking again. Can’t pin it on the rally because their contact tracers are overwhelmed. And that’s the situation. Hospitals are filling. Contact tracing can no longer be done in the time it needs to be done in. Which means no isolations and exponential spread.
Oh and people have no understanding of math. Constantly hear the death rate is going down! Well there is a second number you need to know To understand impact...how many infections? That and it ignores the high hospitalization rate and long term Organ damage People might be experiencing.