Our governor had already made up his mind to extend masking. He loves to think he is pushing people around. It's a leftist democrat thing.Originally Posted by techman05
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Our governor had already made up his mind to extend masking. He loves to think he is pushing people around. It's a leftist democrat thing.
My wife has a 1st cousin who had to evacuate to Shreveport from NOLA due to Ida. She just tested positive for Covid.. She contracted Covid back in Feb.. got the vaccine in May/June and now contracted it again.. If she didn't have bad luck, she wouldn't have any...
Fixed it for you above.
Hopefully she won't get as sick as many who have not had the shots. This seems to be the case with most of those I know. BTW, lots of false positives again this go round.
As of this afternoon, very latest numbers. Across Louisiana 25% of regular hospital beds are available...empty, ready for a patient, and 18% of ICU beds are available. There was a brief time period, maybe 3 weeks to a month, when Louisiana was at 100%+ capacity for beds, but that passed and now for going on a month there have been, and are, beds available. This should be welcomed good news for everyone!
Fatality rate since the inception of the China virus pandemic in Louisiana is 1.87%. That's the official number. That's the percentage of those infected.
Seems low to me...not that I want it to be higher...but, with all the lockdowns and shutdowns and cancellations, wrecking the economy, looks like a major over-reaction to me. Especially given that the lion's share of the deaths had other circumstances connected to them, and those folks were living on borrowed time as it was.
Rate would have been higher if you pushed the hospitals over capacity. We saw that play out in other parts of the world.
A doctor friend of mine says the infection rate is MUCH higher. A lot of clinics don’t report their numbers properly or at all. Says beyond that, a lot of folks never get tested, they just tough it out.
Of course, that means the death rates (as a percentage) are much lower. The official death numbers will certainly be revised up over the next few years (as they are with the flu).
Does anyone get the flu anymore?
Yep! the REAL fatality rate is much lower. As you said, we will never know how many people actually have been infected, but in Louisiana, it is higher than the officially reported 734K. Some (many?) of the deaths attributed to the China virus had nothing to do with the virus itself, and we will probably never know that accurate number either. I don't agree the numbers will "certainly" be revised up. More likely they will go down.
Last week my wife felt "puny," had a little sore throat and then ran a low-grade fever, it spiked briefly at 100F, but dropped. She felt bad, coughed some, and then the next day, back to normal. She attributed it to allergies, and there are things in bloom in the fall. She did not dash out to get tested for China virus. She is fully vaxxed. But now some of our friends are saying she was infected, but because of being vaxxed and her general overall great health, it had little effect. We don't know...and frankly, don't care.
There is a hysteria which has attached to the pandemic causing otherwise rational people to say and do strange things.
More positive news this morning across the state. Trends remain encouraging, so much so, that they announced this would be the last Monday morning "emergency" teleconference unless things turn sour again. The crisis has passed re: hospital bed availability and staff workloads. Trends on new cases are also encouraging, as are the severity of the cases.
Everyone, regardless of your political leanings and your personal views on vax and mask mandates, pro or con, should welcome this good news.
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