Only 42% of Del Norte voted to seceded from California though, so they're not quite as backwards as their neighbors where "State of Jefferson" referenda have passed.
Sutter Hospital in Crescent City in Del Norte County is a bit of an outlier because it services Pelican Bay max security prison. A lot of families come from all over the state to visit their incarcerated family members. I don't know exactly what difference this makes, but I'm sure it makes some.
I bet the inmates are required to be vaccinated and tested. The thing I'm noting is that family members are not and they come from all over, interacting with gas station employees, etc...
Stories like this happen going on since the beginning of the pandemic. I’m shocked at the number of people who casually skip over the body bags and refrigerated trailers to declare COVID to be vastly overblown.
We're past shock. Shock was appropriate in early 2020, when there was no meaningful defense and bodies stacked up in coolers. Today there are effective vaccines that, when applied broadly, preclude this outcome. But there are intransigent demographics that won't act in their own interest and this is exactly what one should expect.
It’s morbid, for sure, but eye opening (ignore the distasteful comments sections, focus on the post content; posted to provide some semblance of insight into the unvaccinated’s take on COVID after unsuccessful outcomes).
My ~90 year old grandmother refuses to get vaccinated due to misinformation on a major news network. She asked me if I get my flu shot, and why bother with a vaccine if it’s only good for 8 months. Local hospital ICUs are at capacity. No amount of data or critical thinking will change her mind. She is upset she can’t travel or cruise without getting a vaccine.
In fairness, there's no shortage of schadenfreude in the opposing echo chambers too. Plenty of obnoxious vaccine advocates suffering untimely deaths, miscarriages, strokes, etc.
In fairness, there's no shortage of schadenfreude in the opposing echo chambers too. Plenty of obnoxious vaccine advocates suffering untimely deaths, miscarriages, strokes, etc.
A lot of the posts on COVIDAteMyFace (and the more general LeopardsAteMyFace) consist of a series of someone's social media comments where they repeat all the usual COVID conspiracy theories and misinformation (and often insults directed toward all of us stupid sheeple who get vaccinated and wear masks) followed by a social media post where they say they have COVID and need prayers, followed by a social media post from a family member or friend asking for more prayers because the person is now on a ventilator and not doing well, finally followed by family or friends posting that the person has died and listing a GoFundMe page to help pay the bills and mortgage and such for the spouse and children left behind.
This last part, the frequent GoFundMe requests, raises a question--do these people not have life insurance?
I haven't seen any conspiracy theories or other misinformation about how life insurance is a sheeple thing or a commie plot or satanic etc, so I wouldn't expect there to be any particular correlation between the kind of person who ends up on COVIDAteMyFace and the kind of person who does not have life insurance.
I have family in CA. I am concerned about the recall election. As bad as the situation is today, it might get worse if a republican replaces Newsom, which looks like a possibility :(
I came across this striking graph showing COVID rates per 100k over the course of the pandemic so far in the US broken down by county voter distribution in the 2020 election [1]. It is striking how different COVID rates have been between Republican counties and Democrat counties.
I found this on Reddit. It claims to by from the NY Times and the MIT Election Lab, but I can't find the original so do not know if that attribution is accurate.
Just another example of how Delta is tearing its way through the under-vaccinated parts of the country. But it's important to remember it isn't just "red states" that are susceptible, but really any conservative region, even in deep blue states.
Meanwhile in NY, where nearly all restrictions have been lifted for months, the Delta wave has barely registered and the rate of new cases has flattened if not started to decline in recent weeks.
This wave began in the south (and on the west coast), but it has been creeping up the map in recent weeks. You can see it spreading into southwestern PA now. The wave simply hasn't gotten to NY yet. It is coming.
The Northeast seems to be doing better than the rest of the country, but it's still not zero risk. The first major breakthrough outbreaks were in the Northeast, and we're definitely not 100% vaccinated up here. (There isn't even a vaccine that's approved for 100% of the population!)
Just looking out my window in Brooklyn, people in my neighborhood walk around outside with masks on. I gave that up a couple months ago, but I definitely feel like I'm on the losing side of that convention and people are probably judging me. (I still wear a mask indoors, of course, including in the common areas of my apartment building. The risk of transmission outdoors seems pretty low to me.)
I think it's very dangerous to point fingers and say "haha, that can't happen to us". In the early days of the pandemic, that's what people said about New York. And they were right for several months -- that first wave that hit New York hard barely registered across the country. But now, those people are getting hit.
COVID is spreading, and there is nothing stopping another variant -- perhaps one that doesn't care about vaccines at all, or one that kills kids. Now is not the time to glibly celebrate victory, or point the finger and laugh "look at how much worse those other states are than us". 600,000 Americans are dead from this pandemic, and the end is not in sight.
Hundreds of bars and restaurants are packed literally everyday all over NYC with unmasked patrons and that's been happening for months now. And while kid are mostly unvaccinated, they don't tend to be in restaurants much these days. Among adults, something like 80% are now vaccinated in NYC (71-86% depending on borough).
Combine that with the fact that Delta makes up almost every case of COVID in NY now, it's hard to see who is even left for the virus to infect.
Del Norte has a population of 30,000. I cannot imagine their mortuaries have much overflow capacity. 2800 cases is 10% of population, which is about the same as the national average. Its actually less. the us has 39 million cases, about 11.5% of pop infected.
But I always worry that factors like prison populations could distort cases-per-million numbers when you consider how small the population of a bunch of those counties are.
Not to mention that comparing those kinds of numbers for counties with just a few thousand people to LA County (population: 10,039,107) doesn't make much sense at all.
Nobody understands...it's incessant distractions to keep everyone off balance...including Afghanistan...the major black Swan that is coming will make you forget all your nit picky squabbles...and Sars
Food and water will be weaponized, and you won't be able to get any at any price...you've ignored the food shortage headlines so far...and you haven't prepared, so it's your fault...possible war in the far East too...
Sep 5 Tyson foods is jacking up the price of chicken...
> Deaths in Del Norte County from COVID-19 have more than doubled in recent weeks, from 10 on Aug. 15 to 22 on Friday. Four people died in a single day, officials said.
Apparently there are 27,000 people in Del Norte County. That's a terrifyingly high rate (about 1/day) now that vaccination of the elderly should now largely be done.
In Ireland we have five million people and a persistently high rate of covid (~2k cases/day). Since over-65s were done, deaths have typically been 1-3 per day; the difference, I suppose, is that virtually all over-65s took the vaccine.
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[ 0.24 ms ] story [ 95.1 ms ] thread(Using a Datasette instance I've been running against Covid data since last year)
https://krcrtv.com/north-coast-news/eureka-local-news/del-no...
It’s morbid, for sure, but eye opening (ignore the distasteful comments sections, focus on the post content; posted to provide some semblance of insight into the unvaccinated’s take on COVID after unsuccessful outcomes).
My ~90 year old grandmother refuses to get vaccinated due to misinformation on a major news network. She asked me if I get my flu shot, and why bother with a vaccine if it’s only good for 8 months. Local hospital ICUs are at capacity. No amount of data or critical thinking will change her mind. She is upset she can’t travel or cruise without getting a vaccine.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This last part, the frequent GoFundMe requests, raises a question--do these people not have life insurance?
I haven't seen any conspiracy theories or other misinformation about how life insurance is a sheeple thing or a commie plot or satanic etc, so I wouldn't expect there to be any particular correlation between the kind of person who ends up on COVIDAteMyFace and the kind of person who does not have life insurance.
I found this on Reddit. It claims to by from the NY Times and the MIT Election Lab, but I can't find the original so do not know if that attribution is accurate.
[1] https://i.imgur.com/bQFbGVL.png
Meanwhile in NY, where nearly all restrictions have been lifted for months, the Delta wave has barely registered and the rate of new cases has flattened if not started to decline in recent weeks.
"Delta Now 97% of COVID Cases But Hospitalizations, Infection Rates Drop" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/delta-now-97-of-...
Just looking out my window in Brooklyn, people in my neighborhood walk around outside with masks on. I gave that up a couple months ago, but I definitely feel like I'm on the losing side of that convention and people are probably judging me. (I still wear a mask indoors, of course, including in the common areas of my apartment building. The risk of transmission outdoors seems pretty low to me.)
I think it's very dangerous to point fingers and say "haha, that can't happen to us". In the early days of the pandemic, that's what people said about New York. And they were right for several months -- that first wave that hit New York hard barely registered across the country. But now, those people are getting hit.
COVID is spreading, and there is nothing stopping another variant -- perhaps one that doesn't care about vaccines at all, or one that kills kids. Now is not the time to glibly celebrate victory, or point the finger and laugh "look at how much worse those other states are than us". 600,000 Americans are dead from this pandemic, and the end is not in sight.
Combine that with the fact that Delta makes up almost every case of COVID in NY now, it's hard to see who is even left for the virus to infect.
But I always worry that factors like prison populations could distort cases-per-million numbers when you consider how small the population of a bunch of those counties are.
Not to mention that comparing those kinds of numbers for counties with just a few thousand people to LA County (population: 10,039,107) doesn't make much sense at all.
Every last one of them sucking Mao's dick off.
REEEEEEEEE
Science!!!!!!
RRRRREEEEEEEEE
Orange man bad! Orange man Bad!
Facts and science!
Facts and science!
Food and water will be weaponized, and you won't be able to get any at any price...you've ignored the food shortage headlines so far...and you haven't prepared, so it's your fault...possible war in the far East too...
Sep 5 Tyson foods is jacking up the price of chicken...
See red vs blue:
http://mapsof.net/uploads/static-maps/california_2004_presid...
Apparently there are 27,000 people in Del Norte County. That's a terrifyingly high rate (about 1/day) now that vaccination of the elderly should now largely be done.
In Ireland we have five million people and a persistently high rate of covid (~2k cases/day). Since over-65s were done, deaths have typically been 1-3 per day; the difference, I suppose, is that virtually all over-65s took the vaccine.