Corona Virus

[Call Me James]

41 minutes ago, Tbe said:

I just read the link in his post. It said hospitalizations were up by 12 since Friday. 
 

Now that link says hospitalizations are down by 38.

 

It says hospitalizations are down 38 from the peak of 883, but still up from 797.

 

 

[Wes21]

6 hours ago, Call Me James said:

It says hospitalizations are down 38 from the peak of 883, but still up from 797.

 

 

ITS SOARING!  WE AREN'T GONNA MAKE IT!!!

[stirs]

speaking of masks

A GC I am working with in Houston says that OSHA is not happy with their masks because they are not designed for environments where people might sweat.  So construction guys are being advised that their masks are bad when they get wet from sweat as the virus "sticks" to it?  Really damned if you do and damned if you don't.  They said that the bandana type things are the worst, do not use.  At least that is what they are telling the construction crews.

He had one team where 16 guys tested positive but only 3 had any symptoms at all. 

[Tbe]

21 minutes ago, stirs said:

speaking of masks

A GC I am working with in Houston says that OSHA is not happy with their masks because they are not designed for environments where people might sweat.  So construction guys are being advised that their masks are bad when they get wet from sweat as the virus "sticks" to it?  Really damned if you do and damned if you don't.  They said that the bandana type things are the worst, do not use.  At least that is what they are telling the construction crews.

He had one team where 16 guys tested positive but only 3 had any symptoms at all. 

That’s a tough situation. Working in 90+ degree heat with a mask can’t be easy. 

[45catfan]

11 minutes ago, stirs said:

speaking of masks

A GC I am working with in Houston says that OSHA is not happy with their masks because they are not designed for environments where people might sweat.  So construction guys are being advised that their masks are bad when they get wet from sweat as the virus "sticks" to it?  Really damned if you do and damned if you don't.  They said that the bandana type things are the worst, do not use.  At least that is what they are telling the construction crews.

He had one team where 16 guys tested positive but only 3 had any symptoms at all. 

This is why until a quicker, cheaper and widely available antibody test becomes available, we won't have any clue to how many people have had this.  Even then it will only be an educated guess.  Still only 2.2 million people nationwide have tested positive.  Yes, I said ONLY because that's not how many people who have contracted this disease. It's honestly some figure with a multiplier higher than that.

The 13 of the 16 that were asymptomatic is right in line with the high end of the conclusions of studies conducted I've seen highlighted in a couple articles being as high as 80%. I'm assuming since we are talking about construction workers, these people are younger and fairly healthy men.  So that is not surprising at all.

[Ja Rhule]

I’m in Toyota dealership and almost no one is wearing a mask but people good 6 feet away from each other.

[cookinbrak]

39 minutes ago, Tbe said:

That’s a tough situation. Working in 90+ degree heat with a mask can’t be easy. 

Use 2 and keep rotating them. After you wash them, they dry out quickly.

[Moo Daeng]

1 hour ago, stirs said:

speaking of masks

A GC I am working with in Houston says that OSHA is not happy with their masks because they are not designed for environments where people might sweat.  So construction guys are being advised that their masks are bad when they get wet from sweat as the virus "sticks" to it?  Really damned if you do and damned if you don't.  They said that the bandana type things are the worst, do not use.  At least that is what they are telling the construction crews.

He had one team where 16 guys tested positive but only 3 had any symptoms at all. 

If this is coming from somebody in the know that's one thing. It certainly sounds like some assumptions and bs though.

[Moo Daeng]

32 minutes ago, Ja Rhule said:

I’m in Toyota dealership and almost no one is wearing a mask but people good 6 feet away from each other.

I've visited a handful of dealerships the past several week. Most everyone I've seen is wearing a mask and they had masks for customers at the door if needed.

[Ja Rhule]

6 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

I've visited a handful of dealerships the past several week. Most everyone I've seen is wearing a mask and they had masks for customers at the door if needed.

Not a single employee is wearing a mask and no one offered me anything :(

[Moo Daeng]

4 minutes ago, Ja Rhule said:

Not a single employee is wearing a mask and no one offered me anything :(

I'm in the Winston area. People up here have been surprisingly pretty good about wearing masks. Unfortunately some areas have different demographics and have started a war on common sense.

[Paintballr]

Yeah I went to Hendrick Honda of Concord about two weeks ago and not a single employee was wearing a mask, no sanitizer out for us to use, and maybe 1 out of 10 customers were wearing a mask. 
 

I was the odd ball in a mask and ended up sitting outside just because I didn’t want to sit in their waiting room with no care to distancing or masks 

[stirs]

2 hours ago, Moo Daeng said:

If this is coming from somebody in the know that's one thing. It certainly sounds like some assumptions and bs though.

Was on a Zoom call this morning and one of the guys said he found out he had it by chance as he was taking another CYA test for the virus and the doc told him he was positive.

He said the only thing he has experienced is a loss of smell and taste to an extent.

Can you imagine trying to run a construction crew and the Feds, Mayor, Gov, CDC and OSHA all singing from a different sheet of music?

[Paa Langfart]

3 hours ago, Ja Rhule said:

I’m in Toyota dealership and almost no one is wearing a mask but people good 6 feet away from each other.

I wonder if those tools know that the virus can stay suspended in the air for up to 3 hours ?

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973