How Is Covid-19 Impacting Life in Your City?

[10023]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

I wore a mask all the way on the walk to drop my kids off at school this morning.

Not to virtue signal, but because it was 4 fucking degrees with a wind-chill of -10.

Maybe this outdoor masking thing ain't such a stupid idea after all.

Just wear a Buff. Much more comfortable than a mask that hooks over your ears.

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Yeah, below 40F I find it pretty comfortable to walk around with it on. Especially cloth masks. In general, people around here seem to wear them outside more when it's colder. I haven't worn a scarf since pre-pandemic partly because the mask has eliminated the need for it.

Companies in the scarf business are getting screwed.

Maybe now is the time to pour money into the stock of companies that make scarves?

[lio45]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

I wore a mask all the way on the walk to drop my kids off at school this morning.

Not to virtue signal, but because it was 4 fucking degrees with a wind-chill of -10.

Maybe this outdoor masking thing ain't such a stupid idea after all.

You guys don't have this cylindrical scarf-replacement thingy that's super useful and that everyone (in Quebec at least) has as standard winter equipment?

Not sure how it's called in English. ("Neck-hider" in French.)

Lately, every time I've walked to a store, I keep my "hat" (that's the right word for a tuque?) and I just keep that cylindrical-scarf thing as a "mask", and so far all employees everywhere have accepted to consider it a mask.

(Too annoying to get the mask's handles behind the ears when you're already dressed with tuque and neck-hider over it!)

[lio45]

Originally Posted by 10023

Just wear a Buff. Much more comfortable than a mask that hooks over your ears.

We may be talking about the same thing

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by 10023

Just wear a Buff. Much more comfortable than a mask that hooks over your ears.

I'm the opposite. i hate things that go around my neck.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by lio45

You guys don't have this cylindrical scarf-replacement thingy that's super useful and that everyone (in Quebec at least) has as standard winter equipment?

Not sure how it's called in English. ("Neck-hider" in French.)

Lately, every time I've walked to a store, I keep my "hat" (that's the right word for a tuque?) and I just keep that cylindrical-scarf thing as a "mask", and so far all employees everywhere have accepted to consider it a mask.

(Too annoying to get the mask's handles behind the ears when you're already dressed with tuque and neck-hider over it!)

That would be accepted as a mask everywhere down here. I guess it doesn't get as cold down here, so the mask is useful for performing the function of a scarf or face/neck warmer.

[sopas ej]

My partner and I caught this on the local TV news last night. We were laughing, the guy obviously has issues.
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[the urban politician]

^ That guy is a belligerent moron.

However, people standing around outdoors with masks on (when its warm outside) are pretty much idiots as well.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

That would be accepted as a mask everywhere down here.

Same here so far, with the exception of hospitals, health clinics, etc. where they insist on giving you a brand new mask every time and you have to take theirs (surgical blue ones).

[10023]

Originally Posted by lio45

We may be talking about the same thing

These things:
https://www.buff.com/

They’re Spanish apparently, but I’ve got a couple from Austria where everyone wears them skiing. But the point is they’re good in hot and cold, as a neck warmer, headband, sun protection, etc.

[Matthew]

Originally Posted by lio45

You guys don't have this cylindrical scarf-replacement thingy that's super useful and that everyone (in Quebec at least) has as standard winter equipment?

Not sure how it's called in English. ("Neck-hider" in French.)

Lately, every time I've walked to a store, I keep my "hat" (that's the right word for a tuque?) and I just keep that cylindrical-scarf thing as a "mask", and so far all employees everywhere have accepted to consider it a mask.

(Too annoying to get the mask's handles behind the ears when you're already dressed with tuque and neck-hider over it!)

Originally Posted by 10023

These things:
https://www.buff.com/

They’re Spanish apparently, but I’ve got a couple from Austria where everyone wears them skiing. But the point is they’re good in hot and cold, as a neck warmer, headband, sun protection, etc.

In the Southeast United States, we call these gaiters. Some places won't accept them as meeting their masking requirements. It's not really an issue in most of the southeast, where masking isn't required or enforced, unless you enter a city. Here in suburban Atlanta, it's rare to need a mask, but you will need one if you go into the city of Atlanta.

[lrt's friend]

I guess there is no covid in suburban areas.

[10023]

Originally Posted by Matthew

In the Southeast United States, we call these gaiters. Some places won't accept them as meeting their masking requirements. It's not really an issue in most of the southeast, where masking isn't required or enforced, unless you enter a city. Here in suburban Atlanta, it's rare to need a mask, but you will need one if you go into the city of Atlanta.

I'm familiar with the name, but these are also a specific type that's really useful for this sort of thing because they're comfortable and not too warm. Totally different than the fleece ones you get at Patagonia or North Face or wherever.

It's what I used as a "mask" in Jackson Hole last winter (Teton County went crazy over Covid) and it was accepted.

[the urban politician]

wrong thread

[Steely Dan]

the covid death rate discussion has been moved to the covid thread in the CE toilet.

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=241619

[eschaton]

COVID numbers are falling here, as they are across the U.S. now. We're back to averages from about December 28, so we're a little behind some other parts of the Northeast. Still a little over twice the number of cases as prior to the Omicron wave, though I would expect within another three weeks or so the local wave will be over.

Looking at national numbers, it seems the first metros to have a full recovery are Cleveland and Baltimore, with DC not far behind. Cuyahoga County is down to only 35 cases per 100,000, and still dropping! The actual case total there is much, much lower than the rolling average because of how quickly the numbers are going down (only 91 cases across a county of 1.3 million yesterday!). Cleveland was an early metro for Omicron, with the spike before Christmas. I'm going to continue watching the area, because I'm interested to see how low post-Omicron case counts can get.

[sopas ej]

"Omicron 2: Electric Boogaloo."

I'm really sick of this movie franchise.

Watch, But Don't Worry Yet, About New Omicron Subvariant

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by eschaton

COVID numbers are falling here, as they are across the U.S. now. We're back to averages from about December 28, so we're a little behind some other parts of the Northeast. Still a little over twice the number of cases as prior to the Omicron wave, though I would expect within another three weeks or so the local wave will be over.

Looking at national numbers, it seems the first metros to have a full recovery are Cleveland and Baltimore, with DC not far behind. Cuyahoga County is down to only 35 cases per 100,000, and still dropping! The actual case total there is much, much lower than the rolling average because of how quickly the numbers are going down (only 91 cases across a county of 1.3 million yesterday!). Cleveland was an early metro for Omicron, with the spike before Christmas. I'm going to continue watching the area, because I'm interested to see how low post-Omicron case counts can get.

That's really interesting. Cuyahoga County peaked before NYC.

[kool maudit]

Denmark is lifting all restrictions on February 2.

[10023]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

Denmark is lifting all restrictions on February 2.

I thought they were pretty much open?

Or was it like the UK, where technically there were places where you were “required” to wear masks but if you just didn’t nobody said anything?