S/O WEST Virginia issues stay-in-place order
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Anonymous
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Good for them!
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Anonymous
| That was fast! Only recently, they started testing. |
Anonymous
| They have what, one case? |
Anonymous
My mom is a doctor in the northern panhandle. She says the hospital is already getting overwhelmed with possible cases. A health provider in the hospital thought she may have COVID a couple of weeks ago and could not get tested. If you can't get tested you have to go to work. How many people had this situation across the country, how many were positive, and how many spread the disease in hospitals? |
Anonymous
Ugh. I thought they were saying anyone sick should stay home, with or without a test? |
Anonymous
Not in WV where they thought none of this was a big deal up until a week or two ago! |
Anonymous
| This is what happens when the state minimizes the risk and then can't or won't test. |
Anonymous
Here in Montgomery County this is happening as of the week of 3/20. My colleague is asymptomatic but this colleague's husband and children ALL have ALL the tell-tale symptoms. Of course, no one was tested right away and were told to go home and monitor. Colleague informed our hospital that her entire family is under quarantine, though she is asymptomatic, and the liaison said quite clearly that colleague was expected to come in that same week. |
Anonymous
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This is also happening in Northern VA.
My DC is under quarantine yet will not be tested due to young age and milder symptoms aka not having trouble breathing. DC had direct contact so therefore thought likely to have it based on symptoms. Doctor spouse must still report to work and is told not to wear a mask when not in direct care with a patient that is positive for COVID 19. And they will not test him since he has no symptoms. |
Anonymous
| ^ and this is why we are in for a shit show. |
Anonymous
And yet we are a federal republic "A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government.[1] At its core, the literal meaning of the word republic when used to reference a form of government means: "a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president) rather than by a king or queen". In a federal republic, there is a division of powers between the federal government, and the government of the individual subdivisions. While each federal republic manages this division of powers differently, common matters relating to security and defense, and monetary policy are usually handled at the federal level, while matters such as infrastructure maintenance and education policy are usually handled at the regional or local level. However, views differ on what issues should be a federal competence, and subdivisions usually have sovereignty in some matters where the federal government does not have jurisdiction. A federal republic is thus best defined in contrast to a unitary republic, whereby the central government has complete sovereignty over all aspects of political life. This more decentralized structure helps to explain the tendency for more populous countries to operate as federal republics.[2] Most federal republics codify the division of powers between orders of government in a written constitutional document. The political differences between a federal republic and other federal states, especially federal monarchies under a parliamentary system of government, are largely a matter of legal form rather than political substance, as most federal states are democratic in structure if not practice with checks and balances. However, some federal monarchies, such as the United Arab Emirates are based upon principles other than democracy." - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_republic |
Anonymous
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Ha ha good luck making that order stick is a state that is saturated by Fox’s denialism.
I have friends in WV who tell me there are little to no changes in daily life. |
Anonymous
It’s a mild flu/you’re deranged/don’t politicize this/economy is more important/Obama’s fault/best economy ever/blue states are the only bad ones/wait till it hits Hispanics and black people/stock up on guns/there’s going to be rioting/Bowser sucks/stop there are plenty of tests/doctors are overreacting/are you ready to give up on city life yet!?!?!? Did I hit all the stereotyped bad faith responses? (Ps I really hope your family is ok. Thoughts with you.) |
Anonymous
| A lot of WV is already very isolated to begin with, so there’s little incentive for people to change their daily activities because their daily activities are pretty insular to begin with. |
Anonymous
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Because West Virginia royally f-ed up their first two cases (a married couple). Their story of trying to get tested, how the state's 800 number was "do do do, the number you have reached is no longer in service", no one would test them, no hospital would take them, when the husband was finally tested the state health department LOST the test and denied it for days, and it wasn't until a Senator got involved that the health department looked for the missing test, found it, surprise it's positive, and then they didn't know how to do a press conference.
Read this, WVA is just unbelievable. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/21/us/west-virginia-coronavirus-patient-one-test/index.html |