re: Alabama Board Coronavirus Thread

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 I mean, Jesus, we’ve politicized a pandemic and the case figures for it. Does that not speak to how broken and disgusting our society has become?

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I don't think "we" did but at risk of rustling others I'll leave it be.

Anyway, hopefully we see better numbers next week. I for one am nerve-racked due to having had multiple family members in the hospital with this mess (including my mother), and now a close friend's parent is on a ventilator at UAB.

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Even my favorite slackjawed redneck moron Brian Kemp admitted today that masks definitely work after filing a lawsuit against the city of Atlanta for requiring people to wear masks. He's so pathetic it makes me want to kick anyone who voted for him in the shins. I mean yeah Abrams was no peach herself, but goddamn he's one sorry, stupid motherfricker.

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And I have made my last trip behind Georgia lines because of it. The governors are really pushing common sense when their states are on fire.

Asking some of these governors to see something that simple and preventive and you would think these people's civil rights have been violated. Meanwhile, Governors in Georgia and in Florida are choosing to continue to try to beat out a forest fire with a hickory twig.

The governor in Oklahoma that recently showed his state how not to wear a mask at a recent presidential rally just got himself a case of COVID-19. Anyone who works that hard at something should be rewarded personally.

I want someone to explain to me how DeStupid attended Yale then Harvard Law.

CDC releases new report on mask usage outcomes.

Among 139 clients exposed to two symptomatic hair stylists with confirmed COVID-19 while both the stylists and the clients wore face masks, no symptomatic secondary cases were reported; among 67 clients tested for SARS-CoV-2, all test results were negative.

LINK

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I don't keep up with Georgia that much and know even less about Georgia law, but is it a sovereignty issue? You used the seatbelt law analogy - in Alabama the law says that a locality can't legislate an issue already covered in state code so a city can't go pass their own seat belt laws.

If there's some issue like that where Georgia law says 'thou shalt not do x' and these cities did it anyhow, he's got an obligation to challenge them

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He's arguing that it's a preemption issue, but that's just a really dubious position. The dispute is over an executive order, not a law, that doesn't even specifically mention masks. It says it supercedes all local measures though, so Kemp claims the mask ordinances are illegal because the cities didn't have the authority to enact them in the first place.

That sounds like shaky ground then and it makes me lean to political motives.

Issue an executive order one way or the other on masks, save the court’s time and the people’s money. Doesn’t seem that hard to me.

Younger people aged 10 to 19 years old are more likely than other age groups to spread the coronavirus in their household, according to a large contact tracing study in South Korea soon to be published by the Centers for Disease Control, a concerning sign as U.S. school districts weigh whether to reopen for in-person classes in the fall.

KEY FACTS

The study is an early release of a forthcoming article in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a peer-reviewed journal published by the CDC.

Researchers followed 5,706 coronavirus patients from January 20 to March 27—when schools in South Korea were closed—who were the first to report COVID-19 symptoms in their household and traced all of their contacts to determine how the virus spread.


The study found that young people, between the ages of 10 to 19, were not often the first in their household to show symptoms—but when they were, 18.6% of their contacts contracted the disease, which is more than any other age group.

By contrast, children 9 years old and younger were the least likely group to spread coronavirus in their household, with 5.3% of their contacts—which represents three people—testing positive.

The second-most likely age group to spread the coronavirus in their household are older adults 70-79, who had 18% of their household contacts become infected (60-69 year olds follow with 17%).

Outside the household, older people between the ages of 70 and 79 were the most likely to spread the disease, with 4.8% of their non-household contacts becoming infected.

The authors say the study has limitations, such as the fact that all asymptomatic cases may not have been identified, but Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told the New York Times that this is “one of the best studies we’ve had to date on this issue.”

CRUCIAL QUOTE

“We showed that household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was high if the index patient was 10–19 years of age,” the study says. “... The role of household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 amid reopening of schools and loosening of social distancing underscores the need for a time-sensitive epidemiologic study to guide public health policy.”

I agree with all of this

You’re exactly right. Or there will be an unreal markup on the price

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The story that rings most true is vaccines aren’t profit centers for pharmaceuticals. When a vaccine works it’s a single dose instead of recurring revenue. If you jack up the price you’re ostracized by the public and investigated by the government.

What pharmaceuticals are interested in is a treatment that requires monthly dosages.

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Hence how they created a vaccine for the flu so that every year you have to get an updated vaccine. That is what will happen for this virus as well.