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Brazil registered 474 deaths today, a new daily record, and it's already the third country in number of daily cases, behind the US and Britain only.
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Police in some of the beach towns here are following cars with out-of-state license plates to see where non-residents are going. It may well be an infringement of civil liberties, but they are hounding non-residents to make sure they are not going anywhere outside of their properties. |
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Los Angeles Tops 1,000 Coronavirus Deaths Amid Signs Of Hope The number of new cases may be leveling off, and there are currently no plans to extend the shutdown order set to expire May 15. By Paige Austin, Patch Staff Apr 28, 2020 4:03 pm PT LOS ANGELES, CA — Even as the rate of new coronavirus cases appears to be leveling off in Los Angeles, the county reached a grim milestone surpassing 1,000 deaths due to COVID-19. Another 52 people died from the disease, the county Department of Public Health reported Tuesday, bringing the total to 1,002 fatalities. Another 597 contracted the coronavirus. Though dozens are still dying daily, there are hopeful signs that the coronavirus is leveling off, and the region can begin preparing for shutdown orders to be lifted in upcoming weeks. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday hinted as much, telling reporters it could be "weeks, not months" until some of the stay-at-home orders are relaxed, possibly allowing some lower-risk businesses to reopen. LA County's Safer At Home order is set to expire May 15, and there are no current plans to extend the order, County public health director Barbara Ferrer said. Health officials are in agreement with the governor that a gradual reopening is on the horizon, she said. As the May 15 date approaches, officials will re-evaluate the need for extending the orders. "I think we're all with the governor on this," Ferrer said. "We know that we're headed into recovery. We're hoping that happens sometime in the middle of May, that's our best guess right now. "But I do share the governor's optimism. I think I owe a huge debt of gratitude to all of the people in L.A. County who are staying home, who are doing their very best to protect themselves and their loved ones who are trying really hard to make sure they don't spread the infection. And because of that, I feel optimistic, come the middle of May, we too will be looking at the ability to relax some of the directives in the current health officer order." That said, many factors have to line up before Los Angeles can begin returning to normal. The decision to ease social-distancing and business-closure requirements will depend on multiple factors such as hospital capacity, the expansion of testing and ensuring the ability to continue protecting the health of people more susceptible to the virus, Ferrer said. "We all have to work together. We have to partner with all of our businesses, with all of our residents to make sure as we start relaxing, we do so in a way that maximizes our ability to still do a lot of physical distancing," added Ferrer. Outbreaks in Los Angeles continue to be deadliest to nursing home residents. The county instituted a number of measures to curb the outbreaks this week including increased testing and a ban on visitors. Of the people who have died, 462 were residents of institutional settings, the vast majority of them in nursing homes -- representing 46% of all COVID-19 deaths in the county. Of the 11 health care workers who have died in the county during the pandemic, eight worked at nursing homes, Ferrer said. There have been a total of 4,488 cases among residents and staff in institutional settings, including nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, shelters, jails and prisons, according to the county. Coronavirus testing has been ramped up at nursing homes throughout the county, with tests being provided for all residents and staff regardless of whether they are showing any symptoms. Ferrer publicly apologized Monday for not offering such widespread testing from the outset of the pandemic, before it was known that people could transmit the virus to others without showing any symptoms of the illness. The fatalities also continued to have a disproportionate impact on the black community. According to the county, of the 918 people who died for whom information was available, 37% were Latinx, 29% were white, 18% were Asian, 14% were black and 1% were Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. Black residents make up roughly 9% of the county's overall population. More than 133,000 Los Angeles County residents have been tested for COVID-19. City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report. Link: https://patch.com/california/hollywo...mid-signs-hope |
Tomorrow, my partner will be starting his 7th week of working from home. Since he's been working from home, he's noticed that the young-ish heterosexual couple upstairs have been fighting more and more---a change from the first week, when he said they would have really loud sex. Now they have really loud arguments. They've been living in our building for close to a year now.
The chalk art/chalk drawings on the sidewalks in our neighborhood seem to have died down; maybe kids are getting sick of it. Since the start of the stay-at-home order, I noticed more and more noisy kids; I still hear more noisy kids on the weekend, but this past weekend I feel like the sound has died down, I'm thinking it's because we've been running our A/C since the weather here has heated up. The A/C can make for nice white noise. One of the restaurants in our immediate neighborhood seems to be doing more and more business for takeout. We haven't left Los Angeles County since the beginning of March. In the past 7 weeks, I've visited my parents twice. |
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Every year the local HIV/AIDS advocacy organization, the Western North Carolina AIDS Project, holds an event called Dining Out For Life. You go eat at a participating restaurant, and that restaurant donates part of the proceeds to WNCAP. Dining Out For Life is today, and has been re-christened Dining In For Life. You can get takeout or delivery from participating restaurants, and they'll still donate part of their take to WNCAP today. Another Dining Out For Life has been scheduled for December in the hopes that some semblance of normalcy will have returned by then. It touched my heart to see so many restaurants, even in the face of this economic hellscape, still willing to help out. It also touched my heart to see that Asheville's only Ethiopian restaurant is participating and is open for takeout and delivery. I have a soft spot for them after they struggled some after opening, and put out an ad a few years ago that laid it out bluntly for the community: You wanted Ethiopian food, we provide it, and if you don't pony up we're going under. The community rallied around them, and it honestly makes me a little misty-eyed to see that they're surviving this, and not only that, but they're willing to take part in this fundraiser.
Asheville is a foodie town, and reading all the local news about how all the restaurants are trying so hard and having to be so creative really just makes me tear up sometimes. I've always had a lot of respect for our local chefs and restaurant staffs, but never as much as I do now. These people are working hard right now. |
hellooo cleeeveland :cheers:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWUbbIyW...pg&name=medium https://twitter.com/PatrickShepherd/...033277441?s=20 |
We can go outside now!
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Aren't most of these already allowed, and/or obvious?
Also, my friend in San Jose said he is going golfing this weekend and they have a group with a time reserved. So I am wondering how this stuff is going to go. |
I went for a walk the other day, I honestly couldn't get the smile off my face. I noticed others looked happy too. It was a nice day and a decent amount of people were out enjoying it. This one lady was cracking up on the phone, a dog was running away from it's owner...while the owner was laughing at the situation. A kid had a gnarly wreck on his scooter but landed in some grass/side of a bush so he was good.
It was a weird walk, like I was watching a movie or something. Anyways, It reminded me that going outside is amazing and being out with people is so important for our health. The nice summer weather will naturally get even the most scared people out of their houses. It boosted me up for a couple of days. |
Exploring rock pools? :shrug: :cheers:
Georgia, which sort of never shut down, is sort of opening back up again. I don't really think most of metro Atlanta is, and metro Atlanta is about 60% of the state population and more than 2/3rds of the state economy. |
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Photos by me, taken back in 2014. This is off Point Fermin, San Pedro, Los Angeles. https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...92&oe=5ED1AD05 https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...9f&oe=5ED1A5E6 https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...cd&oe=5ED3BC03 https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...09&oe=5ED1D0D3 https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...fa&oe=5ED231D7 https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...3e&oe=5ED010FE https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...76&oe=5ED09609 https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...a5&oe=5ED0575D https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...16&oe=5ED03863 |
Thank you! People exploring rock pools!!
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The nice thing about tide pools is you can forage for an entire meal there too. Don't even need to go grocery shopping!
Here's a list of things you can find: Kelp Rock fish Octopus Eel Mussel Limpets Abalone Sea Snails Crabs Sea urchin (uni) https://live.staticflickr.com/7883/3...ca8730eb_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/7821/3...4125c74b_b.jpg |
A new mural with a message about the coronavirus appeared overnight in downtown Asheville:
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just a reminder here folks,
because questions surrounding the necessity/efficacy of the stay at home orders have become so stupidly fucking politicized (like everything else in our ass-hat society), they will be summarily deleted from this thread. take that shit to the CE toilet. |
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