Senate Pandemics in the Age of Globalization: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion: See OP Warning

dum de dum… just the good news fairy returning for another sprinkling of it.

 

My kid just had his routine check up this morning. The doctor - wearing mask, and plastic face guard - spoke about the new surge and how basically everyone is in PTSD mode at this point. He wasn't worried about our 2.5 year old, especially since we live in a highly vaxed areas, but really wanted the vaccines ready for the 5-12 year olds out. I mentioned how crazy it is out there, and he gave a wry smile and looks flabbergasted.

 

Look, 72,000 kids getting sick is just the price we have to pay for freedom!!! What's the big deal??!?!?

 

Is DeSantis going to flinch?

Looks like he’s running the 2020 Trump Playbook on COVID. Plan things get better on their own. Reject data showing the crisis getting worse. Keep doubling down until your political future and ego won’t let you call the crisis a crisis or change course. Get voted out of office.

DeSantis isn’t facing re-election in three months - so maybe he weathers this. If he’s going to flinch or change course now’s the time. Maybe DeSantis listens to approval ratings.

 

No I don't think he will. That's the point. So have the school board or whatever vote and do it anyway. Call his bluff. Make him do it.

Then he either doesn't, or he moves to defund them, and what....does he think he wins that scenario? Over a bunch of school teachers and community voters ignoring him because 70,000 kids are now getting sick?

And so far MAGA have easily ignored the pandemic because it hasn't affected kids. It has allowed adults to remain selfish. It allows them to ignore the pandemic because they innocent kids aren't affected by their selfishness. But once kids start getting sick, it's a whole different game. So by election time, what's he going to run on? I defunded schools that implemented masks, and lots of kids got sick.

Once kids get sick, you're gonna get angry people.

 

Once school starts up, expect those numbers to jump exponentially within 2 weeks. It will be bad everywhere at first, but blue states will enact mitigation measures and hopefully prevent the worst from happening.

The Deep South, however, will see large numbers of dead kids. Maybe—just maybe—that will get the fever to break (so to speak).

CNN reported today that according to those close to Biden, he enacted the new CDC moratorium even knowing the Supreme Court would likely strike it down. His instincts are to do more; I’m hoping he continues to follow them.

Democrats need to seize the moment and message effectively here. Unfortunately, those are the two things they’re worse at.

 

Been waiting for MAGA fever to break, as well as the cold sweat of shame and guilt that follows, for 4 years now.

I don't think it'll happen. Even with dead kids. That'll only wake up the rest of us.

 

The problem is that he claimed it's "illegal" when it's not. The Court did not prohibit an extension by the President in its last ruling.

They don't seem to be good at anything except fighting like hell against moderate leftists.

 

@Vaderize03 - Is there any info on the Delta variant and children from May’s COVID surge in India? Data to give us an idea what numbers could look like when school restarts.

 

It already has started up in some places, like here. That's how we get stories like this:

Just the beginning, of course.

 

Cue Deathsantis: Students will only be allowed one extra sick day due to covid. Any student who doesn't report to school, or uses up more than their 7 allowed sick days risks in-class detention, in-class suspension, expulsion, or will be forced to repeat their grade year.

 

All fine until it happens to the children of affluent non-Trumpy parents. Then the lawsuits happen.

 

Gov. DeathSatnis (R-FL): I'm sick of the judgmental shut-ins talking about masks.
Gov. DeathSantis (R-FL): Our hospitals are open for busine$$ so stop the fearmongering about people going there.
Gov. DeathSantis (R-FL): I'm blowing my white supremacist Border bullhorn today - immigrants and COVID19 are the same thing and I don't care about the latter and the former is all Biden's fault.

No redeeming value to be found.


NY Times - Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count

 

In his, and every MAGA mind, every single case of covid can be traced back to an individual crossing the mexican border. Someone should tell him Florida borders GA, MS, AL.

His 'I don't wanna hear a blip from you until you fix the border' got applause, but was shockingly hollow, considering where his state is right now.

 

I don't know how you've missed the boatloads of Covid-positive immigrants coming into Florida, @DarkGingerJedi. They're everywhere.

 

The sad thing is, a lot of kids may die in the meantime. And of course, DeSantis will blame the Democrats, which a lot of his base will agree with.

I haven’t found any randomized data, but kids are both more likely to be hospitalized and more likely to become long haulers. We’re not sure why yet.

 

My university (in Ohio) just sent the email that mask mandates are being reinstated indoors in all university buildings effective tomorrow.

Of course, there is Senate Bill 209, which is waiting for a committee right now. If it gets voted on, it will get passed (Republicans hold veto-proof supermajorities in both chambers) and will shut down all school and university mask mandates.

On one hand, Delta is becoming a bigger concern. On the other hand, I'm ****ing sick of being forced to inconvenience myself because of anti-vaxxers. I have reached the final point where I no longer give a single **** what happens to anti-vaxxers, including whether they die of COVID regardless of how they catch it.

I kinda want Senate Bill 209 to be passed to get rid of the masks because I hate wearing them and just let the Delta variant deal with the anti-vaxxers as it sees fit while I laugh at their stupidity. How bad of a person does that make me?

 

Much like that coroner in Missouri excluding COVID19 as a cause of death, if you pretend it doesn't exist it doesn't mean it can't kill you.

 

He uh…fell out of a weather balloon. So sad.

 

A sad but educational story.

Fitness nut. Lots of sports. Climbing mountains. Thought he didn't need the Covid vaccine. Gets Covid and is dead four weeks later.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-southport-who-rejected-vaccine-dies-of-covid

 

It might have been those sea lions

 

high altitude sea lions are a real problem. I wish Biden would do something about this.

 

Tots and pears

 

Kudos to his family going public with this cautionary tale.