Man (Stories) during Corona

[ADoyle90815]

I was also going to post the Florida Man protest as well. All they're showing is that they can easily work out from home.

[Audrey2]

Guess I'll put this here.

Former Coronavirus Skeptic Warns Others To Take Pandemic Seriously After Infection

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/florida-man-brian-hitchens-coronavirus-warning-001955197.html

Here is the first part of the article:

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A patient battling COVID-19 in Florida admits that he used to believe the pandemic was being blown out of proportion. But, after he and his wife were hospitalized with serious infections, he’s urging people to take coronavirus seriously. 

“I don’t want to see anybody go through what I went through,” Brian Lee Hitchens, a ride-share driver in Jupiter, Florida, told WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach in an interview from his hospital bed. “This wasn’t some scare tactic that anybody was using. It wasn’t some made-up thing. This is a real virus that you’ve got to take serious.”

Just last month, Hitchens said he was skeptical about coronavirus and didn’t think the crisis was real.

“I thought it was maybe the government trying something, and it was kind of like they threw it out there to kinda distract us,” he told the TV station.

“I’d get up in the morning and pray and trust in God for his protection, and I’d just leave it at that. There were all these masks and gloves. I thought it looks like a hysteria,” he added. 

In posts on his Facebook page in early April, he had claimed, “I do not fear this virus because I know that my God is bigger than this Virus will ever be.”

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Hitchens said Tuesday that he’s feeling much better, although still has “some pneumonia in my lungs” and is still COVID-19 positive. He’s holding on to hope for his wife, who is still on a ventilator and has been for several weeks. The two aren’t able to see one another and don’t know when they might be discharged. 

“Please listen to the authorities and heed the advice of the experts,” he implored people in his Facebook post. “Looking back I should have wore a mask in the beginning but I didn’t and perhaps I’m paying the price for it now.”

Karma meet butt.

[JMarie]

20 hours ago, Audrey2 said:

Guess I'll put this here.

Former Coronavirus Skeptic Warns Others To Take Pandemic Seriously After Infection

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/florida-man-brian-hitchens-coronavirus-warning-001955197.html

Here is the first part of the article:

Karma meet butt.

His wife is on a ventilator and ECMO, according to a Facebook post today.  He is still in the hospital as well.

about ECMO:  https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/clinical-care/ecmo-life-support-last-ditch-intervention-coronavirus-patients

[AmericanRose]

Sometimes... I just shake my head. Your baby is 10 months old. I don't doubt socialisation is important, but will she really remember anything from this time period? Is it really worth your baby's health?
 

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Okay friends, as a parent of a very outgoing baby, I am starting to be concerned as to what [Baby] will be learning if I continue to tell her “no touching” and keep her physically distant from her friends on our “distance play dates”.... this is such an impressionable age. And humans NEED TOUCH. Now, with more strict measures in place and this whole quarantine pushed for another 3 months, I am angry. And I don’t like feeling this way, but mama wants her cub to learn and play with friends. To me, raising her without this sort of connection feels UNHEALTHY!

I’m genuinely curious what everyone thinks....

Response 1: "Yeah that’s a scary thing. Who and who not to be around. It’s so not worth getting sick it frustrating I’m sure but better to be safe then sorry in the long run"
Reply: "but on that front, we have never lived like that before with that sort of mentality. So I guess I don’t understand why we have to now"

Response from her husband: We're going to let her play with her friends. It's literally two other babies in the neighborhood and everyone has done a good job of taking precautions.

I, for one, am not choosing to live in fear of a virus with such a low mortality rate. If someone is uncomfortable being near me for that reason, then they are more than welcome to stay as far away from me as they see fit. I'm not going and visiting my own friends, or those that are at higher risk. And anyone who's high risk has the right to stay home and away from others if they wish.

This was about flattening the curve to not overwhelm the healthcare system.... well we did that. SEVERAL WEEKS AGO. Now out of nowhere it's about finding a cure? And Bill Gates is to be our savior? Sorry, but I'm done.

The media and people on Facebook have done a great job of pushing fear on to everyone for years, and Covid-19 became the perfect vehicle for them to do JUST THAT. Quarantine people that are at higher risk or sick. Not healthy people.

I would be willing to bet that deaths from suicides, alcoholism, and drug use will rival the deaths from covid-19 when all of this is said and done. Not to mention how many families will be ruined by this. How many kids will go hungry because their parents won't be able to afford to buy food for them or pay for healthcare.

 

TLDR; people are giving up on social distancing for the children (there was 2 or 3 that said it sucked, but - but the rest admitted to letting their kid(s) continue playing with their friends because they were all being cautious).
 

Edited May 17, 2020 by AmericanRose

[JMarie]

2 hours ago, AmericanRose said:

mama wants her cub

^^^^ makes me want to vomit

[AmericanRose]

A few more comments:

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1. "I read a really good article about how we are flattening the curve for the virus but making it exponentially worse for the mental health field for years to come. The curve is already spiking and they were already short staffed and small resources before this all happened and that's not including the programs they have had to cut since all this started. We are making that curve spike more than we could have imagined and with no end in sight it's only getting worse. Of course, you won't hear about those deaths and statics."

2. "Exactly! And nope. We won't hear a SINGLE THING ABOUT IT. Not from the media anyway. I don't know a single person that has contracted or died from Covid-19. I do, however, know SEVERAL that have lost their livelihoods because of this quarantine. I know several people that are suffering from depression because of it. I'm more concerned for them at this point than anything else. I'm fortunate enough to have a job that I will be guaranteed to go back to when this crap is over. But there are millions of people out there that can't. People out there that have spent the past several decades making a career that will have to start from scratch. How many of them will be willing to do that? How many that would rather choose death than starting from scratch. What about middle aged people that CAN'T just start over? I'm in my 30's. If someone told me I would either have to start over, OR I could go back to work with a guarantee that I will catch covid-19 with a high risk of dying from it.... I'm choosing the latter. [He has a wife and a 10 month old baby.]

If people want to claim I'm a a horrible person for thinking that way... then I could care less."

1. "YES!!! Thank you! I'm not saying this virus isn't bad, I know a couple people who had it, but I know a few people who have either killed themselves or had spouses kill themselves. My mom's friends husband shot himself in front of her because they lost their business, he couldn't get unemployment and couldn't get in touch with anyone at the unemployment office and they didn't qualify for the stimulus money. It's horrible, and no one will talk about it and if you try you get yelled at for being selfish.

I'm sick of people claiming to be empathetic but then not looking at the other side of the coin. They are only empathetic to people who think they same way as them."

2. "I couldn’t have said it better myself, it definitely feels like only one side of the coin is being considered. And we are are “selfish” “inconsiderate” “assholes” for thinking differently."

I'm inclined to call BS on the concern for mental health. I'm 99% percent certain #2 commented on some point about mental illness not being an excuse for anything... but I suppose unemployment counts as the one worthy reason. We're from MI, where your job is tied to your worth. But still... you didn't worry about the cuts being made to mental health before now, why should I take you seriously?

And what do they advise people to do? You can't force people to go out to eat, shop, and vacation - unless they're advocating for the government to tell people it's all fine and to go ahead.

I realised that I've not heard a peep from the people that they're 'fighting' to put back to work. I've heard cashiers and other essential workers ask for more protections, but I've not yet heard a retail salesperson begging to have the store she works at open again.

 

[clueliss]

John Piper book/video banned on YouTube (and we’ll note that this is from a Christian twitter account who might want to let you know about persecution)

 

[Someone Out There]

@AmericanRose So far as I'm aware the 10 month old doesn't need companionship with other kids, they do need love and touch from their parents though.  Kids 3-4+ would be more the ones to need to learn how to deal with other kids.

In regards to mental health it is a serious issue.  I'm not sure on the context of what you're pulling out, but the loss of jobs, stress of money, health effects from a lack of money and treatment, etc are longer term effects and can lead to death (either by their own hand, or illness due to stress).  Certainly initially there were some commenters questioning which would be worse from the shutdowns or a lack of shutdowns, the death toll from people with the virus, or the people who would die earlier due to the stressors of isolation, lockdowns, and job loss.

I certainly know that I need a certain amount of social contact (thankfully it doesn't need to be in person for me) otherwise I get depressed.  And I'm definately an introvert.  One of my friends who is an extrovert has been having difficulties with staying at home with just her husband and herself.

Here I do believe they are regularly putting up ads on TV for the what I'm going to call "mental health hotline" (not sure on the appropriate terminology/actual definition).  That hotline has had a significant increase of callers to it, there are more people  calling than were calling during the bushfires that were happening hear at the start of the year.

[GreyhoundFan]

Look! Two idiots for the price of one.

 

[AmericanRose]

1 hour ago, Someone Out There said:

@AmericanRose So far as I'm aware the 10 month old doesn't need companionship with other kids, they do need love and touch from their parents though.  Kids 3-4+ would be more the ones to need to learn how to deal with other kids.

In regards to mental health it is a serious issue.  I'm not sure on the context of what you're pulling out, but the loss of jobs, stress of money, health effects from a lack of money and treatment, etc are longer term effects and can lead to death (either by their own hand, or illness due to stress).  Certainly initially there were some commenters questioning which would be worse from the shutdowns or a lack of shutdowns, the death toll from people with the virus, or the people who would die earlier due to the stressors of isolation, lockdowns, and job loss.

There were a few comments that said something along the lines of, "oh, at that age you're the most important to your baby! Use this time to bond! <3" but they didn't get a response... I don't think that's what she wanted to hear.

I agree that mental health is important, but Republicans don't tend to think so, which is why I think their concern now is... well, BS. In truth, Republican politicians don't want to pay for small businesses and employees to stay home. However, saying it's concern for the mental health of Americans sounds much better! And so that's what they give their base, who grabs onto it without apparently realising the disparity between what the Republican party does and what they say.

And even if our governor said everything could re-open tomorrow, I don't think the restaurant / hospitality / tourism business will rebound this year. And then they would be forced to close permanently, leaving more big business and less small. People should be rallying the government for more aid, but for some reason Americans have this paranoia of their government, and seem to assume it should be slow and inefficient.

[JMarie]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/churchgoer-potentially-exposed-180-others-to-covid-19/ar-BB14ga3o?ocid=spartanntp

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A person in Butte County, California, went to a crowded in-person church service on Mother's Day and then tested positive for COVID-19 one day later. Now health officials say the person potentially exposed 180 others at the church.

An investigation and contract tracing by Butte County Public Health (BCPH) is under way. In a statement, public health officials said individuals attending the service have been notified of their exposure and have been instructed to self-quarantine. The department also said it's working with health care partners to get testing for people who attended the service. 

The infected person went into isolation after testing positive — but it was one day too late. Even though gatherings of any size have been officially barred since Governor Gavin Newsom's stay-at-home order went into effect on March 19, the church still opened its doors, putting members of the congregation at risk.

 

[Ozlsn]

Cellphone data shows lockdown protests may have spread covid-19.

Personally I can't say I'm surprised.

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Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests – some of which have been connected with Covid-19 cases – are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states, and even crossing into neighboring ones. 

The data, provided to the Guardian by the progressive campaign group the Committee to Protect Medicare, raises the prospect that the protests will play a role in spreading the coronavirus epidemic to areas which have, so far, experienced relatively few infections. 

The anonymized location data was captured from opt-in cellphone apps, and data scientists at the firm VoteMap used it to determine the movements of devices present at protests in late April and early May in five states: Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado and Florida.

They then created visualizations that tracked the movements of those devices up to 48 hours after the conclusion of protests. The visualizations only show movements within states, due to the queries analysts made in creating them. But the data scientist Jeremy Fair, executive-vice president of VoteMap, says that many of the devices that are seen to reach state borders are seen to continue across them in the underlying raw data. 

One visualization shows that in Lansing, Michigan, after a 30 April protest in which armed protesters stormed the capitol buildingand state police were forced to physically block access to Governor Gretchen Whitmer, devices which had been present at the protest site can be seen returning to all parts of the state, from Detroit to remote towns in the state’s north.

One device visible in the data traveled to and from Afton, which is over 180 miles from the capital. Others reached, and some crossed, the Indiana border. 

In the 48 hours following a 19 April “Operation Gridlock” protest in Denver, devices reached the borders of neighboring states including Wyoming, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Utah. 

In Florida on 18 April, devices returned to all parts of the peninsula and up to the Georgia border. In Wisconsin on 24 April, devices returned to smaller towns like Green Bay and Wausau, and the borders of Minnesota and Illinois.

Following the initial wave of anti-lockdown protests in April, epidemiologists warned that they could lead to a new surge in cases. 

In North Carolina in late April, one of the leaders of the state’s anti-lockdown protests tested positive for Covid-19 but said she would attend future rallies. 

Dr Rob Davidson, executive director of the Committee to Protect Medicare, said that although “it’s hard to draw a straight line between devices, individuals at these protests, and cases”, the data suggests that the protests may be epidemiologically significant events.

“The behavior we’re seeing at protests carries a high risk of infection. We can see protesters are going from a highly concentrated event and then dispersing widely,” he added. 

Davidson, who has run for Congress as a Democrat, said that neither he nor his advocacy group were currently affiliated with the Democratic party. The group is made up of more than 300 “doctors who are concerned that the healthcare for their patients has become unaffordable”. 

In a series of widely shared videos and threadson Twitter, Davidson has criticized Trump, and attempted to dispel what he calls the “distrust in public health” which “Donald Trump has fomented in his movement”.

I can't get over this interstate travel to protest lockdown in a state you're not actually living in. Travelling within the state is bad enough.

[Ozlsn]

2 hours ago, JMarie said:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/churchgoer-potentially-exposed-180-others-to-covid-19/ar-BB14ga3o?ocid=spartanntp

 

I wonder how long the turn around time on testing in that area us - i.e. did the person know there was a possibility of a positive test? Because if they had been tested and were waiting they should have been at home self-isolating until the results came back. And if they did know and went anyway I think they should be fined (assuming that is possible). 

[47of74]

Another day another covidiot 

I’d buy that Costco employee a beer. 

[JMarie]

26 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

Another day another covidiot 

I’d buy that Costco employee a beer. 

Uh, no, you're not a fucking sheep.  But you are a soon-to-be hungry ex-customer.

[47of74]

25 minutes ago, JMarie said:

Uh, no, you're not a fucking sheep.  But you are a soon-to-be hungry ex-customer.

I do hope Costco cancels his membership.  Costco is doing what they have to in order to serve the public in a safe as manner as possible. 

[Cartmann99]

16 hours ago, 47of74 said:

Another day another covidiot 

I’d buy that Costco employee a beer. 

 

 

[47of74]

Ahh, New York....

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The MTA is gonna need more of those disinfecting UV lamps …

A raunchy couple took advantage of the practically empty transit system to get freaky on a subway platform, a new video shows.

The nearly minute-long clip, filmed by a chuckling onlooker from across the tracks, appears to show a man and woman in the throes of passion on the platform of the Flushing Avenue station in Brooklyn.

“Yeah, I don’t care, I don’t mind that s–t, that s–t is like PornHub to me,” the giddy gawker can be heard saying as the man looks over, sticks out his tongue and flashes hand-horns.

 

[JMarie]

NJ ministers are mad

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/defiant-new-jersey-pastors-plan-to-reopen-churches-gov-murphys-order-doesnt-trump-constitution/ar-BB14qnBv?ocid=spartanntp

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I'm guessing she's a MAGAt:

 

[Audrey2]

4 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I'm guessing she's a MAGAt:

 

I bet she considers herself pro-life, too.

[47of74]

Karma in action again 

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Former U.S. Rep. Allen West of Florida was recovering Sunday after suffering a concussion, several fractured bones and cuts in a motorcycle crash in Texas, according to a post on his Facebook page.

The post said West was driving back from a rally in Austin focused on reopening the state amid the coronavirus pandemic when the accident occurred Saturday.

A post on his page later on Sunday said West, who was in stable condition, was expected to be released Monday and then plans to take a week off to recuperate.

West is running for chair of the Republican Party of Texas.

 

[47of74]

Then this happened in Staten Island

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Video showing a group of furious shoppers berating a woman who wasn't wearing a face covering at a Staten Island ShopRite went viral over Memorial Day weekend. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, New Yorkers are required to wear masks or face coverings when out in public and unable to follow social distancing guidelines.

The footage shows customers yelling at the woman and demanding she leave the ShopRite because she isn't wearing a mask. The video, which was originally shared on Facebook, gained popularity on social media after a Twitter user reposted it Sunday night.

A ShopRite spokesperson told CBS News in a statement Monday that the incident happened two weeks ago and the store management reported it to authorities. ShopRite said customers who notice others that aren't wearing face coverings should notify customer service and not take the matter into their own hands. 

I don't like that for two reasons: (a) shoppers taking matters into their own hands is the kind of garbage that can result in a violent confrontation; (b) these shoppers have no idea if that woman has an actual legitimate reason for not wearing the mask. 

[47of74]

Brit Hume stepped in it today...

Of course that fuck Brit is getting his ass handed to him by the twitter-verse. 

Vice President Biden looks positively bad ass with his mask on.  Fuckopotomus should try it, maybe he wouldn't look like so much of a fucking fool then if he wore a mask like this. 

[clueliss]

Alyssa Milano snaps back at people after she posts a picture of herself wearing a CROCHETED mask.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/alyssa-milano-fires-back-at-backlash-crochet-face-mask-163141374.html