Poll of the Day > Is the covid situation in your area worse right now than it was in May?

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is it

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We had more cases on Thursday and Friday than we did all of May and June combined. We also got alerts on our phones telling us that the state is almost out of hospital beds. Yes, it's worse

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Much. Peak in May for Nebraska was 677 new cases in one day. Yesterday saw 1,114 new cases, Thursday was 2,876, making it the second highest day on record, Wednesday was 2,394. Peak for November was the 16th, with 3,440 new cases. Active hospitalizations are up almost 5 fold. Only 167 ICU beds are available across the entire state.




The only nice news is that 69% of ventilators in the state are currently available.

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New cases are way up. Restrictions are more lax.

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Way worse. It was fine here in may, then the douchebags decided rules didn't apply to them. And rather than arrest or mercilessly beat them, they just got a disapproving finger wag from authorities.

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I think so, but I wasn't here in May and I don't remember the exact timeline. I think by May, things were mostly under control and we were relaxing a bit and starting to open up travel with neighbouring provinces (who were doing similarly well), though it wasn't until June that the travel restrictions between them really lifted. By comparison, we've now got 150-odd active cases with 10-15 new ones per day as we face our second wave, brought on by somebody who failed to isolate properly after travelling from France. We're not in really bad shape now, by any means, but I think it's still worse than it was in May, largely because it was going quite well in May.

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DoubleOSnake posted...

is it

According to the governments fake states yeah. Funny thing is we were is lockdown during that time for several months. Then we got put into a tier system, currently are in lockdown again and will be put into another tier system come 2nd of December. All while the government is claiming Covid cases and deaths are on the rise. They keep schools and Unis open no matter what though after the first lockdown because that's logical and London is fine to have the hospitality sector open while us up north are fucked.

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adjl posted...

I think so, but I wasn't here in May and I don't remember the exact timeline. I think by May, things were mostly under control and we were relaxing a bit and starting to open up travel with neighbouring provinces (who were doing similarly well), though it wasn't until June that the travel restrictions between them really lifted. By comparison, we've now got 150-odd active cases with 10-15 new ones per day as we face our second wave, brought on by somebody who failed to isolate properly after travelling from France. We're not in really bad shape now, by any means, but I think it's still worse than it was in May, largely because it was going quite well in May.

same here in BC, pretty tame on my little Island still but they locked shit down in the whole province anyway, largely because Surrey is full of braindead animals.

acesxhigh posted...

same here in BC, pretty tame on my little Island still but they locked shit down in the whole province anyway, largely because Surrey is full of braindead animals.

This exactly.

Vancouver Island looked like it dodged COVID pretty well right up until about three weeks ago. We're seeing substantially higher case numbers than at any other time during the pandemic (still nothing compared to Fraser Valley, though).

I live out on one of the Gulf Islands, so things are still pretty quiet here, but people are definitely more nervous now than a month ago.

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Yeah, the governor just passed a mandatory mask mandate.

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It's worse, and will only get worse because things only get worse, never better. If they get better, then it's too good to be true, and will get much worse than they've ever been. The COVID-19 pandemic is an example: cases dropped in the summer, but now there are more than in the spring.

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Seems like it. I actually know more people that have it now. Some of them have it pretty bad. Nothing fatal so far.

Stafforshire is kind of bad we leave tier 3 on 2nd of dec

way to many idiot's around

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Things feels like pretty much normal where I live.
The cold weather naturally makes people stay inside more often and hinders the spread.
And it being a small town helps as well.

There aren't even any cases in the elderly care homes which is great.
The whole country failed protecting them in the spring but they're doing a much better job now.
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Greater Manchester - Tier 3 till December 2nd. Guess we'll see if it helps.

I've been shielding since March anyway. I've been out 3 times in 9 months: twice for emergency vet trips, once to remove a live mouse far enough that it wouldn't come right back (at 2 in the morning - I wouldn't have gone out in the daytime).

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6.6% of the population of Nebraska is or has been infected, and we still have no state-wide mask mandate. The only mask requirement is for staff & clients of barbershops and salons. Only 11 of the state's 25 most populous cities have a mask mandate, all in the eastern half of the state. The idiot governor Pete Ricketts has been actively opposed to a mask requirement.

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Yes it is. They just closed all restaurants a week ago and suspended school again. People an only go into places if they wear a mask and no than a handful of people at once. Most restaurants are allowed to do curbside takeout or delivery.

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acesxhigh posted...

same here in BC, pretty tame on my little Island still but they locked shit down in the whole province anyway, largely because Surrey is full of braindead animals.

NS locked down province-wide to start, but as things improved they switched to a Zone system that broadly quartered the province (I think, there might be 5 zones) so restrictions could be more specifically tailored to their regions. The current outbreak is very much limited to the Central zone (roughly the Halifax municipality), so that's the only one where bars and restaurants have been fully shut down (at least for dine-in) and strict gathering limits are in effect. Everyone everywhere is still required to isolate after travelling out of province (and they recently updated the rules to specify that anyone living with an isolating person also has to isolate, because apparently common sense needs to be spelled out and that was the root of this outbreak), and they've issued a broad advisory not to travel to Halifax for shopping until this quiets down (or for Haligonians to travel elsewhere), but the really strict lockdown has been more regional. I think that's a sensible way to do it, rather than trying to get buy-in for sweeping measures from regions that aren't affected and probably won't be regardless of what happens.

What I really don't get is why the US didn't move to restrict travel between states. I know any such restrictions would be imperfect, but anything in that vein would have worked wonders for keeping the worst of the outbreak contained in NY, California, and Washington, potentially allowing the rest of the country to get away with much lighter restrictions (and also for federal resources to be focused on those hotspots, but Trump obviously was never interested in that). Instead, borders remained open and now everybody's infected. The Atlantic bubble has succeeded up until now purely because we carefully controlled the intake of people, including from elsewhere in Canada (meanwhile, the Quebec/Ontario border is completely open), and it will continue to succeed once we squash this second wave. Why has this strategy been so rarely employed?

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Yes. The hospitals are not doing so hot right now. The governor fired a health official for ordering a mask mandate, then he tested positive the very next day. Fuck the GOP for doing this to us.

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I really don't get why people are so up in arms (literally, in some cases) about masks. No, the government is not "controlling your life" by telling you to wear a mask any more so than they already are with the thousands of other laws that control your life. It's a mildly uncomfortable piece of fabric with unambiguous benefits for mitigating the current public health crisis (potentially allowing business restrictions to be eased up). This has got to be the stupidest hill anyone could possibly die on, yet people are lining up for the privilege.

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