Governor Mike DeWine @GovMikeDeWine I am asking you, wherever you live, to wear a mask when in public. Some may question the wisdom of masks, but as we said when I was a prosecutor: “The jury is back. The verdict is in.” There is broad consensus in medical, health, & business communities that masks are critical.
Governor Mike DeWine @GovMikeDeWine Wearing masks is our best way to protect Ohio jobs. A recent @GoldmanSachs report shows that wearing face masks can be viewed as an alternative to lockdowns.
Governor Mike DeWine @GovMikeDeWine They found that, in most cases, within a couple of weeks of people consistently wearing facemasks, there was a slowdown in the spread of the virus.
Governor Mike DeWine @GovMikeDeWine Further, the study suggests that to curb spread as successfully as wearing face masks does, we’d have to consider a lockdown that essentially would subtract five percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product.
Governor Mike DeWine @GovMikeDeWine Our state’s life is now in danger - and our own strength lies in our unity of purpose.
Governor Mike DeWine @GovMikeDeWine Early in this pandemic, Ohioans came together. You showed extraordinary kindness, care, compassion for your families, friends, neighbors, and strangers, alike.
You rose to the occasion. You answered the call. I am calling on all Ohioans to once again unite.
I thought she was very good, but didn't she step down? I don't live there anymore, haven't for 45 years or more, so I don't know all the details.
If she stepped down, it's hard to bring her back unless she wants to come back. Ohio has some quality hospitals. I am sure they have a Dr. as qualified.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
Plummeting back to yellow phase here in PA is likely
"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Jeudy is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Tillman is flanked out wide to the right. Judkins and Ford are split in the backfield as Flacco takes the snap ... Here we go."
She stepped down because she was constantly harassed because she wanted the restrictions and because she is Jewish. I think there was actually a mob outside her home. I could be wrong about that, though.
I'm tired of the Anti-Semantic crap that goes on and is almost always ignored or excused away.
Plummeting back to yellow phase here in PA is likely
Fwiw, my wife just told me when she came home from work that the Cleveland Clinic, not counting their hospitals in Florida and Abu Dhabi, have the most "hospitalized covid patients" since the very begining when Covid first hit/it all started. 165 hospitalized.
Then again, a week ago, give or take, when I ran up to Home Depot and then Walmart, 60-65% of the shoppers weren't wearing masks and gloves.
I see new 2 lawmakers want a "Amy Acton Day" on Feb 26. Does everyone have to wear masks that day? I really do not Understand the fawning and worship over Dr.Acton. It was bad enough they made a bobblehead Of her. She did a job. She had support and opposition But to have a day cause of her and to call her A hero is nauseating. She put alot of businesses in financial crisis and put helped escalate the state unemployment rate.
She over reacted back in March and went to drastic measures. Dewine is requiring everyone to don masks which is fine and good But Dewine isn't shutting down businesses like what happened in March. They could have done that action back in March Without destroying businesses
She over reacted back in March and went to drastic measures. Dewine is requiring everyone to don masks which is fine and good But Dewine isn't shutting down businesses like what happened in March. They could have done that action back in March Without destroying businesses
It’s almost like less was known about the virus when it was first running rampant in March.
She stepped down because she was constantly harassed because she wanted the restrictions and because she is Jewish. I think there was actually a mob outside her home. I could be wrong about that, though.
I'm tired of the Anti-Semantic crap that goes on and is almost always ignored or excused away.
That mob was outside of her home all the time. It was not a one time thing. Some people took their hatred of her way, way, way, to far.
Also part of the difficulty with side effects is that you can truly link the cause of the side effect to the injection (except maybe pain at injection site). There could be other reasons someone gets an upset stomach, fever, fatigue, etc but it has to be reported as a side effect of the drug because you can't prove if it defiantly did or did not come from the drug
This is the same article posted by 3rd and 20...I'm posting the text of the article because I had some trouble getting the link to work...probably something I'm doing wrong. Posting the text solves the issue...
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine induced adverse reactions in 'more than half' of trial participants
One-fifth of participants in one test group reported 'one or more severe adverse events.'
By Daniel Payne Last Updated: July 15, 2020 - 12:24pm link
A highly anticipated clinical trial for a potential COVID-19 vaccine managed in part by the American drug company Moderna has resulted is some adverse effects in more than half of the trial's participants, with one test group reporting "severe" symptoms.
The trial, which is also being sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, administered the vaccine "as a 0.5-ml injection in the deltoid muscle" in two shots spaced about one month apart. Two separate groups received 25-microgram and 100-microgram doses, respectively. A third group with a 250-microgram dose was subsequently added.
The vaccine "induced anti–SARS-CoV-2 immune responses in all participants," the research team reported Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers said that "no trial-limiting safety concerns were identified." Yet a majority of participants still reported at least one side effect.
"Solicited adverse events that occurred in more than half the participants included fatigue, chills, headache, myalgia, and pain at the injection site," the report states. Fever, joint pain and nausea were also reported.
Side effects grew more common with more (and larger) injections, the scientists write: "Systemic adverse events were more common after the second vaccination, particularly with the highest dose, and three participants (21%) in the 250-μg dose group reported one or more severe adverse events."
Notably, every participant in the two larger-dose groups reported adverse reactions after their second injections. One study participant in the smallest-dose group, meanwhile, was removed due to having developed hives after the first round of injections.
The scientists said that due to the ongoing status of the project, they are not yet "able to assess the durability of the immune responses" generated by the vaccine, but that they intend to follow participants "for 1 year after the second vaccination" and examine regular blood samples to monitor the vaccine's effects.
A large trial "expected to evaluate a 100-μg dose" is "anticipated to begin during the summer of 2020," the report states.
Got a question for all you “wear a mask or your a moron” crowd .... and i wear my mask everywhere so save it ...
If masks are so important and imperative .... why has there been no major spikes in places like Minni & Seattle back when they were protesting by the thousands for many many days in a row with plenty of non mask wearers ....
Why has NYC and Portland not spiked ... NYC has had thousands of protesters daily with many not wearing masks ... same with Portland ...
Not being a jerk here ... its a legite question and one I’d love answered ...
The legitimate answer, if you had watched the protests, is that almost all of them were actually wearing masks. That still does not however mean I think any mass gatherings are smart. However, if they are conducted outside and while wearing masks, the risks of infection are greatly reduced.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
I shared this story as part of a lengthily post in a Political thread, but it fits better here.
My wife came home from work yesterday and shared some stories w/me. She first mentioned that one of the surgeons she works with has the virus. Then, she talked about a nurse who also has it. My wife is as tough as a person I have ever met, but I heard the concern in her voice as she went on.
Next, she told me about how entire wings/floors of her hospital were not dedicated to Covid patients.
She then said that the National Guard was outside her hospital setting up tents for Covid patients. This is in a rural town, folks.
I'll add to Pit's post with this: current data suggests that being outdoors reduces the efficacy of transmission.
And like Pit, you'd never catch me near one of those mass gatherings. No way those folks were maintaining a 6ft buffer zone.
Here's how it was explained to me by my bro in the medical field: This stuff can float in the air in a calm room. It's attached to the water droplets we all send out from our faces. A simple barrier traps most of those droplets, and the ones that do escape do so with much less velocity. So the masks aren't being used to filter incoming viruses, they are used to reduce the number of droplets in the air, and slow the velocity so they head toward the ground sooner.
Now, if you take his explanation and couple that with the fact that these events were held outdoors, it's reasonable to conclude that those elements kept the SARS-CoV2 from runing rampant.
Additionally, we know this virus is vulnerable to UV. Sunlight kills/weakens it.
These could be the reasons why.
Dawg- it's still speculation to a degree, because this thing is so new the experts are still learning how to deal with it. The entire mask thing just smacked of common sense to me the minute Mark told me what I just told you. Here's how he finished his little ed talk:
"B- you want that surgeon wearing a mask. Unless you're OK with him sneezing into your surgical site..." That did it for me.
Got a question for all you “wear a mask or your a moron” crowd .... and i wear my mask everywhere so save it ...
If masks are so important and imperative .... why has there been no major spikes in places like Minni & Seattle back when they were protesting by the thousands for many many days in a row with plenty of non mask wearers ....
Why has NYC and Portland not spiked ... NYC has had thousands of protesters daily with many not wearing masks ... same with Portland ...
Not being a jerk here ... its a legite question and one I’d love answered ...
As for me I don't think those folks are morons. I think they are ignorant, self centered, selfish, little male members. As far as WHY???? Pit and Clem explained it better than I would have. I am not smart enough to have all the answers remember I'm just a dumb old redneck
Why is it some lifetime smokers never get lung cancer while somebody who never smoked does? Why do some spouses live with chain smokers for 60 years and never get sick from the second hand smoke and some others do?
Thanks for the reply .. u too Gm ... Pit has become someone who has 24 posts just belittling and attacking and not posting any relevant info so I quit reading him awhile ago ... and that’s a shame as he knows his football and that’s becoming extinct around here ...
I understand what your saying and it makes sense ... It just doesn’t seem with the #’s we’re seeing in a handful of states can’t simply be from folks not wearing masks indoors ... and I’m not sure why there closing beaches if that’s what the science says ...
I guess the major spikes could be from gyms and bars in the states spiking now ... its not from hair salons or restaurants as there’s plenty of states not spiking with those entities open ...
I wear mine and think folks that don’t are selfish ... but if they help so much why aren’t places like where I am right now not spiking ... if 50% of the people are wearing them in grocery stores, restaurants or bars that’s a lot ... yet we’re in fine shape Numbers wise ...
I know 7 people that caught it and 6 of them followed all the rules and wore masks everywhere ..
Thanks again for the replies ... It seems I’m looking for answers we don’t yet have ...
New research provides preliminary evidence that working memory is associated with engaging in social distancing in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. The new study has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
On March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2 to be a global pandemic. Governments around the world urged people to follow preventive health measures such as frequent hand washing and physical distancing. But not everyone abided by the safety guidelines.
“At the moment, successful containment of the COVID-19 outbreak critically relies on people’s voluntary compliance with social distancing guidelines. However, there is widespread non-compliance in our society, especially during the early stage of this pandemic (and more recently after reopening),” said study author Weizhen Xie (Zane), a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
The researcher noted that there have been numerous media reports about Americans failing to physically distance themselves from one another in public spaces.
“As a researcher in cognitive psychology, I feel that it is our duty to figure out why some people follow the developing norm of social distancing while others ignore it. Addressing this issue may help mitigate the current public health crisis due to the COVID-19,” Xie said.
In two studies, the researchers surveyed 850 U.S. residents between March 13 and March 25, 2020 — the first two weeks following the U.S. presidential declaration of a national emergency about the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to collecting demographic information and assessing social distancing compliance, the surveys included assessments of working memory, personality, mood, and fluid intelligence.
Xie and his colleagues found that those with better working memory capacity were more likely to indicate that they had followed social distancing guidelines, such as not shaking hands and avoiding social gatherings.
“Our findings reveal a novel cognitive root of social distancing compliance during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said co-author Weiwei Zhang.
The researchers also found that higher levels of fluid intelligence and agreeableness had a weak association with greater social distancing compliance. But the link between working memory and social distancing held even after controlling for these factors and others.
Those with better working memory capacity also tended to view social distancing as having more benefits than costs and were more likely to have a preference for fairness during an Ultimatum Game, which partially explained the association.
“The decision of whether or not to follow social distancing guidelines is a difficult one, especially when there is a conflict between the societal benefits (e.g., prevent straining public health resources) and personal costs (e.g., loss in social connection and financial challenges). This decision critically relies on our mental capacity in retaining multiple pieces of potentially conflicting information in our head, which is referred to as working memory capacity,” Xie told PsyPost.
“Realizing this cognitive bottleneck, the bottom line is that we should not rely on people’s habitual following of a norm because social distancing is not yet adequately established in U.S. society. Policy makers should develop strategies to aid people’s decision by making information or debriefing materials succinct, concise, and brief.”
As with all research, the study comes with a few caveats. Zhang noted in a blog post that working memory is just one factor among many. The researchers also found evidence that age, gender, and depressed mood played a role.
“There is no doubt that many factors we did not include in this study may also contribute to social-distancing compliance, perhaps with even stronger relationships. It is, therefore, inappropriate to attribute individual differences in social distancing behaviors entirely to one’s cognitive abilities such as working memory capacity and fluid intelligence,” Zhang wrote.
The link between working memory and social distancing compliance could also change over time.
“We expect that the contribution of working memory will decline as new social norms, such as wearing a mask or socially distancing, are acquired by the U.S. society over time,” Xie explained.
“Our observations are correlational in nature. It remains to be established whether or not certain strategies to break the cognitive bottleneck, such as working memory training and translational brain stimulation, could reduce social distancing non-compliance and subsequently mitigate a public health crisis.”
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir
Are you in SC or NY right now? I ask because we are setting record highs here in SC.
I don't know if we are setting any records. I know my phone says it's 96. Getting cloudy. Hear some thunder. Some rain wouldn't hurt. It hasn't rained in a while.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
Are you in SC or NY right now? I ask because we are setting record highs here in SC.
I’m back in NY ... my mother decided she wanted to open the house back up to my brother and his kids ... she basically kicked me out of my house ... *L* ...
He has 4 boys between the ages of 12 - 20 and 3 of them have jobs ... I’m not happy with her decision as its extremely risky ... but what am I going to do ... i also understand her wanting to see her grandchildren ... she’s 86 ...
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