Appreciate it. We all know the vent is the last thing you want to hear but he's responded well to it so far.

This is small town Oregon. The nurses and dr's have been amazing with communication and taking the time to talk to us kids multiple times a day but now they're getting quite busy with lots of cases walking in the door.
5-7 days after Thanksgiving. Surely just a coincidence.... The only silver lining I guess is dad got it before so his bed is secured.

usa is 11th in deaths per capita, but if you add up all the deaths in the top 10, usa has more than all the top 10 combined lol

and eu is getting rocked almost as bad as usa like you said. but eu is the second worse spot in the world. and idk how much of a coincidence it is that usa and eu are the leaders of capitalism.

but yeah, italy and spain have 961 and 985 deaths per million. while usa has 854. but also remember that italy and spain got hit with it before usa. usa had plenty of warning and time to react, but didn't.

uk has 891 and also had time to react, and didn't. so uk ****ed it up awfully too.

but we are talking about the countries doing the worst here. usa is ldo on the list of countries doing the worst, if it's not on the very top of the list.

i mean the white house is throwing indoor holiday parties right now! president was saying how it was going to go away by easter, and don't test people. cdc said not to wear masks, etc

Date	New Cases	Hospitalizations	Deaths	7 Day
Nov 01	73,832	47,531	395	815
Nov 02	82,024	48,557	491	828
Nov 03	86,632	50,426	1064	849
Nov 04	103,252	52,086	1117	859
Nov 05	116,389	53,375	1146	875
Nov 06	125,715	54,851	1173	907
Nov 07	128,392	55,902	1112	928
Nov 08	109,668	56,811	495	943
Nov 09	119,409	59,301	577	955
Nov 10	131,114	62,062	1360	997
Nov 11	144,477	65,458	1560	1060
Nov 12	153,129	67,097	1086	1052
Nov 13	170,288	68,500	1298	1070
Nov 14	163,428	69,498	1331	1101
Nov 15	144,388	70,111	687	1128
Nov 16	148,749	73,253	619	1134
Nov 17	155,963	76,965	1553	1162
Nov 18	163,896	79,410	1864	1205
Nov 19	182,663	80,698	1967	1331
Nov 20	192,646	82,178	1884	1415
Nov 21	178,207	83,227	1506	1440
Nov 22	150,015	83,870	895	1470
Nov 23	150,890	85,870	955	1518
Nov 24	166,929	88,080	2066	1591
Nov 25	182,437	89,954	2288	1652
Nov 26	125,068	90,481	1329	1560
Nov 27	194,804	89,834	1379	1488
Nov 28	153,134	91,665	1232	1449
Nov 29	135,172	93,265	803	1436
Nov 30	147,004	96,039	1136	1462
Dec 01	176,616	98,691	2473	1520
Dec 02	195,695	100,226	2733	1584
Dec 03	210,161	100,667	2706	1708

Deaths should start to go down at some point as we should start to run out of good death candidates.

My 94 yo grandma was reasonably healthy until she got Covid, then died 3 weeks later. On her death certificate, her cause of death was listed as "failure to thrive" and secondarily as "dementia".

That sort of handywork should keep Covid deaths down too.

I'm sorry about your grandma.

It is an interesting anecdote to see as all I've ever heard was the opposite.

I'm pretty sure there are still a non-insignificant number of people today that believe all these covid deaths are from motorcycle accidents and it's a deep state conspiracy.

The human mind is amazing.

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In the UK, there's the 'furlough' scheme, under which the government covers most of the wages of laid-off workers. I suppose a proportion of Americans would consider that 'evil and socialist' or something.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/g...ployed-support

my uncle passed on a vent with covid after ~2 weeks in the hospital. kids and grand kids weren't even allowed to go up and say goodbye. labeled as pneumonia.

Death certificates, at any time not just now, are incredibly subjective.

Had to get a belt today. Literally tossed my last one and have been beltless for a week.

Went to Homegoods with the intent of walking in, grabbing a belt, and walking out. Got to store and lot was literally 95% full with well over 100 cars. Walk in and it is FULL of soccer moms and old people just strolling around christmas shopping with carts full of ****. Checkout line 25 deep stretching for miles. Ten feet inside door, I assess and immediately leave.

I guess I really didn't need a belt today. Getting extremely salty.

My MiL, ladies and germs. Significant drama on the week before T-Day. I made the mistake of asking her why the hospital inflating 'covid related deaths' makes them money?

"The Deep State" was actually more coherent then her explanation, which included a lot of sputters and 'Trump said'.

Pay some local leather worker 50 bucks or so for a belt. Goin on 15 years with my everyday belt from some guy in rural Georgia.

Wisconsin?

Eat more.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=belts&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

You can't possibly so oblivious to the optimal way to purchase a belt that this actually happened.

Thought for sure this was going to end with a trip to the bar for a boilermaker. Disappointed.

Also, go to goodwill or something like that.

Today I disinfected a few stores/eateries in a mall outside of DC and people were looking at me in my full PPE (think Outbreak) like I was the crazy one walking around that place.

Please tell me you randomly started chasing a few of them while waving a rag, or spray bottle, in their direction..

Villian, I didn't realize you're in the DC area.

Do you happen to know who disinfected (I assume they bothered, anyway) after the WH outbreak?

I assume there has to be high security clearance, is it maybe an internal function?

Villian are you traveling around doing this or are you based in DC?

Actually I've been wondering about this somewhat. Supposedly the real infection numbers in the US are up to 8x the confirmed numbers. That would mean fully a third of Americans have already been infected. I'm just not buying that. Very few people I know have gotten it, and I live in NJ/NY Metro area which was hit harder than most back in the spring. Of course some could have been asymptomatic I suppose, but my guess is that the true number is more like 3x the reported case numbers, or about 45million in the US that have been infected. That would work out to about 14% of Americans, which seems about right to me. So I do think there are a lot of vulnerable people still out there. The recent spikes in deaths, in spite of better hospital treatments, bears that out.

There's plenty of more dying to do.

I am based in Delaware. My service area is all of Delaware, southeastern PA (I stay away from Philly), most of MD (I try not to go west of Frederick but have), and parts of VA (I go to Accomack a lot).

Basically, I have a large client that I will do pretty much anything for, so if they tell me to jump, I ask how high. They are a massive pest company that probably none of you have heard of but their client list is pretty impressive. I am basically a subcontractor for them. I do have my own jobs but most of my disinfection jobs come from them.

One of my techs decided to take a week off so I've been scrambling trying to cover for him. This one worked out because I had a normal microbial consulting job at Camden Yards today so I was in the area anyway.

De captain - I did not, but I hope some of the people that saw me think about why I was there taking such precautions.

Golddog - I do not know who did the White House disinfection. I do know that I would never hire that company to do a disinfection.

This is a photo taken of them electrostaticly disinfecting the WH and there are a few major issues with how they are doing it.



First off, you are doing the friggin White House, please splurge on a brand name Tyvek suit. I understand at that time Tyvek suits were in high demand but that is no excuse. If I can get them, they should be able to get them.

Second off, he is not wearing a full respirator. He is using what looks like a regular N95 mask and goggles. We use 3M full face respirators with 3M P100 filters. Sloppy and dangerous.

Thirdly, he is wearing one pair of latex gloves (you can actually see the guy's skin being exposed). He should be wearing one pair of latex gloves underneath a secondary pair of flock lined gloves. This is to prevent any exposure if the flock lined gloves get pierced or torn. That is really bad.

Fourthly, you can't see this in the current picture (maybe they removed it?) but the guy is actually wearing a pair of adidas with no booties. All of my techs wear tyvek suits with built in booties. If they are not possible to find (they are) then you should be using separate booties to put over the shoes. Having your shoes exposed is just begging for cross contamination and flat out dangerous. Steel toe boots and booties ftw.

The only thing they got right was the sprayer. They are in fact using the correct sprayer.

These guys obviously have no been using electrostatic disinfection long because when spray positively charged disinfectant into the air it is going to get into every nook and cranny, including your eyeballs.

Edit...perhaps that is not his skin showing? If it is tape, then that is good but he still needs two pairs of gloves on each hand. Not sure why he has two different types of gloves for each hand. Makes no sense