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Rose in SC said:
Well, I guess things are getting back to normal somewhat here in my little South Carolina town. Had to stop by Walmart on my way to work and noticed that both main doors (pharmacy side of the store and the grocery side) were open. For weeks now we've had the pharmacy side locked and everyone had to go through a metal maze on the grocery side past masked, customer-counting employees to enter the store. All of that is gone now. I figured the 'face coverings' sign would be gone too. It was still there although I saw customers and employees alike without masks.

I work in a large church office and we've had on-site services for a few weeks now, although 2/3rds of the congregation still stays home to watch the livestream. Starting September 27, on-site Sunday School classes and the morning nursery will start back up again. Curious to see how that's going to go. But here I am, still wearing a mask in my office all day, keeping a baby gate up to block my doorway, lol. :p
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I noticed the same thing yesterday at my Walmart! Everyone was still wearing masks, though. Jmo
 
“Don’t compare country strategies until at least one more year has passed,” he said. “Maybe five.”

(quote from one of WHO's top epidemiologists, see link to article, below)

While it is tempting to compare countries on how they are doing with regard to the pandemic, top epidemiologists and others note that it will take time to evaluate the success of different countries' strategies in fighting the pandemic.

They also emphasize that "When we are facing a novel threat that affects the whole planet, it is impossible to avoid a certain amount of experimentation."

“Don’t compare country strategies until at least one more year has passed,” he said. “Maybe five.”

From Australia to India and the Philippines, are lockdowns working?

Article also points out impact of lockdowns on economy and other health issues, such as cancer, heart attacks, suicide, etc. and the impact of lockdowns on the increase in these death rates now and in the coming year(s).

In the US state of Colorado, researchers at Denver Health found the imposition of a stay-at-home order in March was followed by a 2.2-fold rise in heart attacks at home, with those deaths exceeding the total number of fatalities from Covid-19 in the two weeks following the order.

At the University of Toronto, researchers estimated that unemployment resulting from “containment measures” could see suicides in Canada rise by about 28 per cent from 2018.

We know that undetected cancer will be a problem as people had to cancel visits with doctors during lockdowns and hospital closures for these kinds of check ups and appointments and tests during the spring of 2020.
 
SouthAussie said:
Just so you know, I am not doing comparisons.

I completely understand that we have a few significant advantages. We have a large geography, cities that are spaced widely apart, a smaller population, an isolated country, national healthcare, unity.

Someone asked way back in the threads, what kind of toll others would expect of a large first world nation such as the US. My answer was about 60,000 people.

IMO
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So you thought it would only be as bad as a high end flu death count?

CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010.
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Burden of Influenza
 
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More than 20,000 counterfeit N95 face masks seized in Massachusetts
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Federal authorities seized more than 20,000 counterfeit N95 face masks that arrived in Boston from Hong Kong this month.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the International Cargo Port in Boston confiscated a shipment of 43 boxes arriving from the Chinese region on Sept. 2 that appeared to hold counterfeit N95 respirator masks, according to a statement from the federal agency.

Specialists in apparel, footwear and textiles determined the items were in fact counterfeit and valued the 20,400 masks at $163,200, CBP’s statement said.
 
Families of health care workers killed by COVID fight for denied workers' comp benefits
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James “Mike” Anderson was a hospital employee in suburban Philadelphia with a low-profile though critical job: changing air filters in COVID patients' rooms.

By late March, new COVID cases in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, had ramped up to as many as 90 per day. At the hospital, Anderson handled air filters and other surfaces that might have been contaminated with the deadly virus, also known to hang in the air.

In early April, Anderson, 51, came down with what he thought was a cold, according to his family’s lawyer, David Stern. On April 13 Anderson was rushed to the hospital, where he died of acute respiratory distress syndrome from COVID-19, according to the county coroner. He left behind a wife and two children, ages 5 and 9.


Anderson was exposed to the virus at work, the lawyer contends, making his family eligible for workers' compensation death benefits paid by his employer’s insurer.


“His family deserves to have that income replaced,” Stern said. “Their husband and father certainly can’t be.”


But in a June 16 response to Stern’s death benefits claim, St. Mary Medical Center denied all allegations.
 
Idaho pastor who prayed against mask mandate is in intensive care with coronavirus

An Idaho pastor who called himself a "no-masker" and prayed with his congregation against a local mask ordinance has been in a hospital intensive-care unit with Covid-19 for more than two weeks.

The pastor wrote in a notice on the church's website on Thursday that he was marking 15 days in intensive care and was told he would be there "a few more days." That followed a church update earlier this week saying Van Noy felt he was "really starting to turn the corner—for the better," although he was still on oxygen support.

Pastor Paul Van Noy of Candlelight Christian Fellowship in Coeur d’Alene encouraged the congregation to meet in his absence.

He said he shut down the church for 13 days beginning on Aug. 31, but services resumed this past Sunday "with understandably low attendance."

"Now it is time to get back to church," he wrote Thursday. "I want to encourage all of you to begin to regather this Sunday and let nothing hinder you from doing so," he wrote.

At least six members of the church have tested positive for coronavirus.
 
Sundog said:
We've been using saliva tests, rather than nasal swab tests, at universities across the country to test aymptomatic students, faculty and staff, as part of surveillance strategy during the university reopenings, which has been a big help.

The BC test, though, since it was developed in Canada, will probably save the province some money since it is home-grown.
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The question is, has contracting the virus changed his mind about masks?
 
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