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COVID-19 cluster emerges at Sam's Club in Worcester

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WORCESTER — Another cluster of COVID-19 cases has emerged, at the Sam’s Club distribution center near the Walmart store on Tobias Boland Way, City Manager Edward M. Augustus announced Tuesday.

Earlier this spring, 81 employees of the Walmart Supercenter at 25 Tobias Boland Way tested positive for COVID-19. The Sam’s Club distribution center is at 1 Tobias Boland Way, in the same shopping center.

“Since the last outbreak that we had that was at the Walmart facility, we tested people both at the Walmart and the Sam’s Club. Nine people on the Sam’s Club side had tested positive at that particular time,” Augustus said. “It looks like another 19 individuals at Sam’s Club have tested positive.”

The Sam’s Club distribution center, which is not open to the public, now has a 24-hour nursing presence and “a clinical individual” giving guidance on mental health issues or any anxiety issues that employees may have, Augustus said.
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Also, 309 positive hospital employees / among three? facilities in the city
Ive noticed these are never referred to as *clusters* o_O:rolleyes:
As of last week no deaths of healthcare workers in the city, but city’s medical director says some have gotten “very, very sick. Very sick”. Three verys. Not encouraging.

Two friends have lost relatives- one dad(nursing home), one aunt (lived independently)

A neighbors adult child,spouse,kid all had it mild symptoms afaik

Have a coworker who’s (shared apartment) roommate was a positive Walmart employee. Their other roommate (not a Walmart employee) passed away. Very quickly i guess they didn’t even realize he was really sick until it was too late. My Coworker tested negative.

Another coworker who is back to work now after testing positive with mild symptoms about a month ago says they “feel safer now, less stressed about coming to work”.
 
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I still feel as if I'm living in a Science Fiction Movie.
If someone had videoed my day today, then had me watch it a year ago, I most certainly would have thought it to be doctored fiction.
I'm down at my second home, a sailboat in San Diego that is located in a marina on the San Diego Bay.
As outside as it gets.
Everyone is wearing a mask. Joggers, walkers, people alone on their boat and even alone in their cars. Very few elderly, lots of young people. All. Masked. Even in the great outdoors.
Went to my favorite grocery store for dinner items "Trader Joe's" .
They've got this pat.
At the time I went, there were two entrances. Manned. They have you wait in a quickly moving line, 6 feet apart.
Prior to giving you your shopping cart, they disinfect it right in front of you.
Then they offer you either a wipe or a squirt of gel.
When you enter the store there are arrows showing you which way to go. There are also employed monitors on each isle ensuring you do not deviate from the arrows.
I always loved Trader Joes. They have always had great samples of their latest new offerings, and it was always a happy time to see and taste their latest offerings.
Of course, I did not get everything I came for. I was too concerned about following the yellow brick road.
I do give this company Kudos.
Yet. I'm still absolutely furious that we now have to live like this.
I personally don't forgive any country for bringing this to our shores and our lives.
If I get kicked off for my opinion, I'll live with it and move on.
I'm watching the world as I know it be destroyed.
That. Angers me to no end.
 
KALI said:
I still feel as if I'm living in a Science Fiction Movie.
If someone had videoed my day today, then had me watch it a year ago, I most certainly would have thought it to be doctored fiction.
I'm down at my second home, a sailboat in San Diego that is located in a marina on the San Diego Bay.
As outside as it gets.
Everyone is wearing a mask. Joggers, walkers, people alone on their boat and even alone in their cars. Very few elderly, lots of young people. All. Masked. Even in the great outdoors.
Went to my favorite grocery store for dinner items "Trader Joe's" .
They've got this pat.
At the time I went, there were two entrances. Manned. They have you wait in a quickly moving line, 6 feet apart.
Prior to giving you your shopping cart, they disinfect it right in front of you.
Then they offer you either a wipe or a squirt of gel.
When you enter the store there are arrows showing you which way to go. There are also employed monitors on each isle ensuring you do not deviate from the arrows.
I always loved Trader Joes. They have always had great samples of their latest new offerings, and it was always a happy time to see and taste their latest offerings.
Of course, I did not get everything I came for. I was too concerned about following the yellow brick road.
I do give this company Kudos.
Yet. I'm still absolutely furious that we now have to live like this.
I personally don't forgive any country for bringing this to our shores and our lives.
If I get kicked off for my opinion, I'll live with it and move on.
I'm watching the world as I know it be destroyed.
That. Angers me to no end.
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I'm an old woman. I've lived through wars, assassinations, civil rights marches, space catastrophies, threats of nuclear disasters, recessions, opioid epidemics, but I never thought I would witness the world masked, and I would be prevented from spending time with extended family and grandchildren.
 
5/26/2020 1:11 PM PT
L.A. skateboarders defy stay-at-home orders, remove sand from Venice skate park

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Here's the deal ... back in April, some California lawmakers were so fed up with skateboarders violating stay-at-home orders, they dumped tons of sand into ramps at parks all over the state.

The move worked for over a month ... but on Monday in Venice, skaters took back the place -- removing the sand with nothing more than shovels, brooms, buckets and bare hands.

According to TMZ, several police officers stood and watched the Venice dig without interfering.

Skaters took advantage of their renewed access and were using the park again by Monday evening, according to the report.
 
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Cool Cats said:
5/26/2020 1:11 PM PT
L.A. skateboarders defy stay-at-home orders, remove sand from Venice skate park

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Here's the deal ... back in April, some California lawmakers were so fed up with skateboarders violating stay-at-home orders, they dumped tons of sand into ramps at parks all over the state.

The move worked for over a month ... but on Monday in Venice, skaters took back the place -- removing the sand with nothing more than shovels, brooms, buckets and bare hands.

According to TMZ, several police officers stood and watched the Venice dig without interfering.

Skaters took advantage of their renewed access and were using the park again by Monday evening, according to the report.
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They just saved the city money on the clean-up that would likely be happening soon anyway. That’s probably why the cops just stood and watched. Free labor.
 
Two top officials at Pa. veterans nursing home hit by 37 coronavirus deaths are suspended

"PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The head of the Pennsylvania-run Southeastern Veterans’ Center and a senior staffer there were placed on indefinite suspension Tuesday amid an investigation into operations at the nursing home where dozens have died from the coronavirus, according to a state senator and sources at the facility.

Rohan Blackwood, the center’s commandant, and Deborah Mullane, the director of nursing, were asked to turn in their badges and escorted from the Chester County center Tuesday, the sources said."
 
Cool Cats said:
5/26/2020 1:11 PM PT
L.A. skateboarders defy stay-at-home orders, remove sand from Venice skate park

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Here's the deal ... back in April, some California lawmakers were so fed up with skateboarders violating stay-at-home orders, they dumped tons of sand into ramps at parks all over the state.

The move worked for over a month ... but on Monday in Venice, skaters took back the place -- removing the sand with nothing more than shovels, brooms, buckets and bare hands.

According to TMZ, several police officers stood and watched the Venice dig without interfering.

Skaters took advantage of their renewed access and were using the park again by Monday evening, according to the report.
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Well I am in favour of that sort of protest. Good for those youngsters.
 
CharlestonGal said:
Two top officials at Pa. veterans nursing home hit by 37 coronavirus deaths are suspended

"PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The head of the Pennsylvania-run Southeastern Veterans’ Center and a senior staffer there were placed on indefinite suspension Tuesday amid an investigation into operations at the nursing home where dozens have died from the coronavirus, according to a state senator and sources at the facility.

Rohan Blackwood, the center’s commandant, and Deborah Mullane, the director of nursing, were asked to turn in their badges and escorted from the Chester County center Tuesday, the sources said."
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This will be the first of many investigations I think.
 
dixiegirl1035 said:
Hmmm, this post seems to be on my FB feed. Folks are again now discounting saying it affect only elderly ...and they comment on such.

What is a response to such? Is this article weighted/incorrect or ????

Would appreciate any input, @Henry2326 are you still here posting as you are the best at such!

The Most Important COVID-19 Statistic: 43% Of U.S. Deaths Are From 0.6% Of The Population
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From the article -
"Let that sink in: 43% of all COVID-19 deaths are taking place in facilities that house 0.62% of the U.S. population."

This is no surprise to me. We knew this was the case since we saw the problem initially in Spanish care homes.
 
“We’re surging:” Alabama reports largest COVID-19 increases to date

"Alabama saw its largest single-day increase in new COVID-19 cases Monday, according to the state, as daily case counts continue an upward trend and hospitals across the state report increasing hospitalizations."

"The state saw its largest single-day increase in new cases Monday at 646 new cases, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health’s daily case totals, a little more than three weeks after the stay-at-home order expired on April 30 and two weeks after the state allowed restaurants and bars to reopen on May 11 with social-distancing restrictions."

"The number of cases confirmed per day has been rising since April 30, showing no sign of slowing. Over the past week, new cases rose faster than in 46 other states with no comparable increase in testing."
 
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