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Texas Cases Jump Two Weeks Into Reopening
Texas saw its deadliest day and its biggest increase in new cases since the start of the outbreak. The second most populous U.S. state added 1,448 new cases to its rolls on Thursday, outpacing the previous peak of 1,441 on April 10, state health department data showed. Fatalities climbed by 58 to more than 1,200, the largest-ever daily increase.
The surge in new cases comes two weeks into Governor Greg Abbotts controversial moves to reopen the economy and ease restrictions that shuttered vast swaths of commercial and social life for weeks.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-13/u-s-cases-up-1-6-accuracy-questions-over-tests-virus-update?srnd=premium
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)How long is Texas going to continue their current open economy?
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)Remember, those bastards have said we should sacrifice old people so the rich can make their money.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)I am staying inside. As long as I get food and med deliveries, I will be OK.
Trueblue Texan
(2,440 posts)...other than that and a weekly grocery shopping, I'm staying home. and so is the rest of my household.
dem4decades
(11,304 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The best estimates are that the virus has a two week incubation period, so what you see today is the result of what was going on two weeks ago. More relaxation of restrictions will lead to more people being infected and more people dying.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)And Michigan with all these protests...people mingling, shouting, no masks. Georgias another one.
Its really unbelievable.
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)Enjoy your hopes and prayers while you die.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)DBoon
(22,397 posts)Last edited Thu May 14, 2020, 09:14 PM - Edit history (1)
and it won't work now
shelshaw
(535 posts)Jarqui
(10,130 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)republican governors), mostly in the Midwest, plains states plus Iowa, Missouri, and a few others, that CV trends trailed or lagged behind, will now start (as existing CV infections take root) increasing.
In some of these states, we're already seeing some pretty large % increases but of course initial numbers of CV cases are low, which explains why % increases being seen are so large. The bad news is that in those states
that lagged in implementing protective measures, are now starting to see more and more CV cases.
That's why even though the stay at home order in MO is ending this coming Monday (May18, 2020), I'm still going to continue to self isolate, for at least a week or so more.
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)and the lack of testing
When the refrigerator trucks full of body bags are taking up the parking at the funeral homes with the friends and relatives they couldn't say goodbye to, they'll start to catch on ......
Make
America
Get
Embalmed
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)in some jurisdictions (like in MO) where you review the % of overall CV cases vs. the number of CV-related deaths, and %s ranged from over 10% of the CV cases result in death (the most extreme number) down to an 4% to 7% range, but one case in particular struck my eye, it was 3%, a rural trump county, it screamed out right at me (or anyone else) that the numbers aren't accurate or are being fudged.
I think your refrigerator trucks outside the doors of the funeral homes is a great analogy and illustrative picture of the actual CV deaths (vs. 'fake' or 'fudged' CV deaths).
erronis
(15,328 posts)If you ask what happened to your mother, your father, your child, you'll be told that it's none of your business.
One degree of freedom from the nazi death camps.
KPN
(15,650 posts)Make
America
Get
Ambalmed
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Conservatives willingly sacrifice children for their 2nd Amendment "freedoms". Conservatives have repeatedly put profit over people.
This is just more of the same. As long as conservatives and their families are not the ones paying the price they don't give a f**k.
Stallion
(6,476 posts)this is the result after the Governors usurped their authority
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)tanyev
(42,610 posts)FirstLight
(13,364 posts)So CA still has S-i-P but things are totally reopening too, in stages...at least in 2 counties, mine included.
ElDorado County is home to LAke Tahoe, where EVERYONE comes up from the Bay and Sac and LA even... guess what? even if the hotels and vrbo's are still closed, we had SO many people up here this past weekend.
So much for safety
Our local hospital has 68 beds and 5 of those are ICU
It's been nice knowin ya!
Doodley
(9,124 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)rurallib
(62,448 posts)Salviati
(6,008 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Dotard is killing his own supporters.
Carry on.
erronis
(15,328 posts)innocents suffer too much, or take up valuable medical resources while the contemplate their stupidities.
Traildogbob
(8,797 posts)Before Texas red hats start congregating in full camouflage will big ass guns and start shooting the damn librul virus? Freedumb!
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)I guess we'll find out now won't we....
txwhitedove
(3,929 posts)on 6/12, after this reopening hoopla, that the virus is not "poof" gone. They also plan a big multi family get together Memorial weekend, and I'm worried.
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)The virus is on my mind every day. I no longer see a reason to buy much except food and a handful of necessities. A major consideration is the question: "If I buy this *whatever it is*, will I be here to use it? Or will I be dead soon after?"
So I don't buy. I can't see piling up things I might never use, and to burden my heirs with dealing with it. I'm sure they'd rather have the 10s and 20s.
Celerity
(43,498 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Shut up, Fauci! And shut up all you other doctors and experts and regular people who just know stuff!
No one who counted could have predicted this. Only the President counts anyway.
Operaweeble
(45 posts)I live in Texas. I think the people in charge here don't give a tinker's damn about their people......unless, of course, they are fetuses.
JCMach1
(27,572 posts)crowded salons, etc.
No shocker about the case #'s