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YankeeTarheel wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:28 am Even though North Dakota is doing worse than South Dakota, at least the governor is finally taking steps ('way too late) to try to fix the problem, but in South Dakota, the lunatic gov is doing everything possible to make it worse!

Starting Friday, restaurants, breweries, bars, wineries and nonessential retail establishments must close from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Additionally, outdoor social gatherings — the only type allowed — will be limited to three households, with a maximum of 15 people. Businesses currently allowed to operate indoors — including retail, offices and personal-care establishments — will be limited to 25% capacity.

Restaurants, breweries and wineries operating outdoors will be limited to 50% capacity, as will card rooms and outdoor mini-golf, go-karts and batting cages. Personal-care establishments will be required to provide services by appointment only, and everyone will be required to wear a mask, meaning facials and shaves are banned. Food and drinks cannot be served to customers at these establishments.

More stringent requirements will be implemented if L.A. County’s numbers do not improve. If the five-day average of cases in the county becomes 4,500 or more, or there are more than 2,000 hospitalizations per day, the county will implement an order allowing only essential workers and those securing essential services to leave their homes. Additionally, a countywide curfew between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. would be mandated, with essential workers exempt.

featureless wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:43 am

YankeeTarheel wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:28 am Even though North Dakota is doing worse than South Dakota, at least the governor is finally taking steps ('way too late) to try to fix the problem, but in South Dakota, the lunatic gov is doing everything possible to make it worse!

North Dakota and South Dakota are apparently the 1st and 3rd place, respectively, world-wide record holders for positivity at the moment. It's looking good for Republican approaches to attaining 3rd world shit hole status.

Also, Chuck Grassley has the 'vid.

featureless wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 10:55 am Agreed, YT. Don't wish it on anyone, but I have zero sympathy for the Repug leaders popping hot. They shit the bed, so they might as well get comfortable in it. Perhaps their perspective will change if more of them suffocate on their own slime.

Wino wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:33 pm Requiem to a right winger :

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2020/11/18

So apt.

featureless wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:53 pm We pass the 250,000 death threshold today. Grim fucking milestone.

In less than 10 months, Covid-19 has killed more people than strokes, suicides and car crashes typically do in a full year -- combined.

More than 900 staff members across the Midwest Mayo Clinic system have been diagnosed with Covid-19 over the last 14 days, a spokesperson told CNN. That's about 30% of the total number who have tested positive since March. "Our staff are being infected mostly due to community spread (93% of staff infections), and this impacts our ability to care for patients," Kelley Luckstein wrote to CNN in a Wednesday email.

Across the Midwest, Mayo Clinic currently has about 1,500 staff members with work restrictions related to Covid-19 exposures or diagnosis, Luckstein said. The Midwest Mayo Clinic system consists of clinics, hospitals and other facilities that serve patients in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Parts of the health system have already been overwhelmed by the surge in patients, while other facilities are preparing for what's to come. In northwest Wisconsin, the Mayo Clinic Health System said last week that 100% of its hospital beds were full.

"The public urgently needs to treat COVID-19 as the health emergency it is to prevent the health care system from being overwhelmed," the health system said in last week's statement.

Meanwhile, Williams said in a media briefing this week that Mayo Clinic was boosting its ICU capacity in a Rochester, Minnesota, hospital to be able to handle a surge in Covid-19 patients. She added the system expects to see a jump in hospitalization rates over the next two to four weeks.

In the video update, Williams said they're also seeing more patients transferred from hospitals outside of the Mayo Clinic Health System. "Which just tells us hospitals elsewhere, in Minnesota, in Iowa, in the Dakotas, in surrounding states, are overwhelmed because of this surge."

Read article this morning re ex follower of Jim Jones saying Trumps mouthings sound just like Jones. Get the purple Kool-Aid ready. I wonder how many of the 74 million would actually drink it. I'd guess at least 10-15%.

Wino wrote: Thu Nov 19, 2020 10:59 am Hospitals in Texas doing same for El Paso, Tx. SATX took in 59 patients. Other cities helping with EP overflow, also.