Can you make it out? Should I have lightened it up some?
Just a few things y’all might want to comment upon:
- We’re Number Three! We’re Number Three! — Assuming y’all already saw that South Carolina is the third-worst place in the world for most new coronavirus cases per million. We were beaten by Arizona and Florida; Bahrain came in behind us.
- SC passes the 50,000-case mark — We’re just crowning ourselves with notoriety, aren’t we? Today’s total was 1,723, God help us. And did you see that “Fauci says states with major outbreaks should ‘seriously look at shutting down’ again.” Ya think?
- Supreme Court Rules Trump Cannot Block Release of Financial Records — Sorta kinda. And we won’t see them before the election. Kind of unbelievable, isn’t it, that the guy’s running for re-election, and we’ve never seen them?
- Trudeau: Canada handled coronavirus better than many countries, ‘including our neighbor’ — I hope he doesn’t think that’s some sort of accomplishment…
- Union County sheriff charged with sending obscene photo in lewd message — I just include this so I can ask, how can anyone be that stupid? Even if, say, you’d had a lot to drink or something? Wouldn’t you be prevented by the thought, This is probably not a good move for a sheriff? Or at least, wouldn’t you go, Hmmm, this is lewd enough. I guess I could leave out the picture…
From the WashPost. Note the chart at left.
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Thanks, Henry. Really great leadership. Really. Best idea ever to open things up. Gyms? Churches? Bars? Oh boy.
Yeah, glad I’ve stayed away from all three. And many other places. Amazing that there are still dolts who do not understand wearing a mask indoors in public places. What’s with that?
The Governor made a very honest (self) assessment when he said, “there’s a lot of stupid floating out there.”
SC sure has made Fauci look like a fool. It’s been less than 2 months since he said he would like to “clone” SC’s plans for re-opening. And now look at the state of the state. Is it just a matter of “personal irresponsibility”? No.
I have relatives in Texas, Florida, and North Carolina. Based on their reports, you really can’t just get a test most places like DHEC has put in place here with the pop up clinics that test people with no symptoms with no questions asked. I think Fauci was maybe talking about our testing plan, which I really do think is good and better than most. So what is really sad and pathetic is we perhaps have better data due to our testing but we squander it. Henry does not use our data to plan, react, or make better decisions for our state. We don’t have enough contact tracers to act on the data. The data is showing us things are out of control and Henry does not act.
Related to this, I have another concern that I’ve not heard mentioned alot – but I could have just missed it – I can only take so much news. I worry that because of the difference in who can get a test in different places – the percent positives are not apples to apples comparisons across states. Our sample of people tested is probably a truer representation of the population at large than states that only test people with active symptoms, and yet ours is as high as some of those places. This makes me worry the disease is actually more prevalent here than other places with same percent positive who are only testing people with symptoms.
But I don’t know – it’s just speculation without anybody keeping data on why people are going to the pop up sites – maybe many of them are having symptoms. I have been to an MUSC pop up testing site due to a potential exposure. (I am fine – I was negative and made it through my 14 days of isolation with no issues). But from that experience I can tell you, they did not collect any data about why people were choosing to get tested, at least not that day at that site.
I realize it would be potentially daunting to collect and analyze that data but it still seems like a missed opportunity. They texted me my results. They have my contact info. They could just text a link to a simple survey to find out if you were having symptoms, if you had a potential or known exposure, if you wanted to be cleared before visiting at risk people, etc. They could do something similar for contact tracing – text a survey / questionaire to positives. Obviously in person interviews would be better – but they don’t seem to be happening. My potential exposure was in my family – (they are also OK – asymptomatic positive) – But nobody contacted them ever.
So that is all concerning.
Sounds like the contract tracing and quarantining system here is a Potemkin facade rather than an effective tool to mitigate spread. But I’ve still seen zero reporting on the topic.
Curious: what was the lag time between the test and receipt of results?
It was 4 days. That was about 2 weeks ago.
Four days is really too long. Unless a person self-isolates during that period, they could go on to infect countless others before receiving the results. Should be within hours, a day at most, not days.
Watching MSNBC. They just had a story from Lexington Medical Center. They are getting swamped by COVID patients. The hospital staff are none too happy with Governor Slumlord.