Coronavirus good Uplifting and hopeful news only
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Anonymous
Fine. Said it didn’t even hurt. Her neighbor who is 80 also got one and also said it was fine. |
Anonymous
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Why is there not a lot of good news being printed at the national level RE: Covid. Hospitalizations are WAY down (almost 22,000 less hospitalizations over the last 3 weeks), case trend is going down as well.
https://covidtracking.com/data/national https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 Seems like news is still gloom and doom but the numbers have been turning positive for a little while now, right? |
Anonymous
Yep, things have started to trend in the right direction nationally. I think some people (at least I am) are internally hedging what this means against the backdrop of the various variants. My "glass is half full" hope is that so many people have been infected (and magnitudes more asymptomatically infected) that the virus is starting to run out of low hanging fruit to hit. |
Anonymous
I've noticed this as well. Is it just that we're over our Christmas spike or dare I hope that vaccinations are having an effect? I know not that many people have been vaccinated yet, but the ones who have in the first round were the most exposed (healthcare workers) and the most vulnerable (nursing home residents, elderly). Can we keep going down? |
Anonymous
Thanks for sharing! I am not quite sure why the media isn't celebrating this more... But apparently it isn't going unnoticed by our leaders. A few states are loosening restrictions (I am specifically thinking of Chicago and LA which are opening limited capacity restaurant dining now) |
Anonymous
The media LOVES the doom and gloom for the most part. If it bleeds, it leads. |
Anonymous
Hold your horses. Fairfax County had 705 new cases today and over 6,000 new cases in VA today. |
Anonymous
I literally just saw this on CNN (the reduction in cases and hospitalizations). It has nothing to do with "the media" loving doom and gloom. "The media" are people, many of whom have lost loved ones or colleagues to Covid. |
Anonymous
Look at the 7 day average. The weekends are usually low and those numbers are reported on Monday. B The nation is trending down. Fairfax is trending down too. |
Anonymous
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Biden now hopes for 1.5 million vaccinations a day, a big jump from earlier comments
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-vaccine-coronavirus/2021/01/25/f1ce56dc-5f2e-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html |
Anonymous
Is it possible we are reaching herd immunity or the virus is weaker? I can’t believe how many people I know who have recently had very mild cases of covid. Almost everyone I know has had it whereas early on in the pandemic I didn’t know anyone. I also posted on another thread that my parent is at a nursing home and covid rapidly spread through the nursing home. Very few patients got seriously ill and most had asymptomatic cases. This has raised my eyebrows. |
Anonymous
Mind posting the CNN link? I'd love to see it! Also I don't understand your last line or what it has to with what PP said. It's a simple fact that fear/panic gets more clicks. |
Anonymous
Now that you mention it, I am noticing the same thing. |
Anonymous
It should raised your eyebrows, pp. I think when the truth gets out about how this virus was used to manipulate the public, it’s going to be ugly. |
Anonymous
My epidemiologist friend told me back in, what, late June(?), that the virus was much weaker but more transmissible, which is a normal, GOOD trend for coronavirus. He was afraid that this virus was not going to take that path and is relieved it did. He has VAST experience working with some of the most dangerous viral infections in the world. FWIW he has taken normal precautions and has not lived his life hiding in fear over the past year. |