zxczxcv wrote:
I drove home a few weeks ago through Georgia, stopping for take out at a sub restaurant in Richmond Hill, near Savannah. Almost no one in the restaurant, other than employees, was wearing a mask and one woman complained when my wife politely asked her to keep her distance (six foot distance marks were on the floor and signs were posted--this was a corporate chain). Total contrast to the Northeast, where they have now kept the virus down for three months.
This guy is a data scientist and Dr. teaching at Augusta U. He is a good one to follow on Twitter for both his work on tracking national infection rates and local issues in SE Georgia.
https://twitter.com/_stah/status/1295645557986332673Six months and counting and still don't know a soul who has gotten sick from this.
Nor does anyone I talk to about this.
Sure does exist in the media though.
24/7 fear.
[quote]THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
Florida date is in almost on time. 3,838 new cases, 219 new deaths.
How many deaths outside of nursing homes (where the median life expectancy is five months)?
Texas had 7,282 new cases and 216 new fatalities. No big data dumps today. Hospitalizations are steadily declining and are at @6,200 state wide after peaking above 10,000. Similar dynamic in Houston as seven day moving average on new COVID hospitalizations has dropped from a peak of over 300 a day down to around the 130-140s. Before the surge, the daily hospitalizations were around 50 a day.
Good article on Texas' data problems. Meanwhile, the governor is focused on denying local government state funds if they cut police budgets.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-just-hit-10000-covid-deaths-and-its-flying-blind
Easy one to answer. Florida has 4,118 deaths at nursing homes of their 9,758 resident deaths.
It's funny to see now that their daily releases have gotten kinda defensive probably at DeSantis' behest:
Florida Department of Health Issues Daily Update on COVID-19
~Sixth straight day below 10 percent positivity of new cases~
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Department of Health (DOH), in order to provide more comprehensive data, releases a report on COVID-19 cases in Florida once per day. Today, Florida had the sixth straight day below 10 percent positivity of new cases.
Today, as reported at 11 a.m., there are 3,838 new positive COVID-19 cases and 219 reported deaths - 12 occurred yesterday, August 17.
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They used to lead with deaths and cases. Now they lead with some spin ~ a positive test % number in the headline and first paragraph (never mind that number is with their modified math that distorts the numbers). Also they're now bringing up just how few deaths occurred yesterday, so you cast some doubt over the figures' reflection on the situation on the ground. I see what you're doing, DeSantis.
brazen2 wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
Lovett is not a Christian school. Get a clue.
The Lovett School values and encourages a sense of responsibility to God, respect for diversity, service to others, and moral awareness, and expects its graduates to be men and women of honor and faith.
While respecting all religious traditions, chapel at Lovett is an inclusively Christian service. All students and faculty meet once a rotation for the chapel service by division.The chaplains of all three divisions are ministers from various Christian traditions. Though different in age appropriate ways, all three chapel services follow the same basic structure: Every service includes a processional of a cross and torches carried by acolytes, a call to worship, readings from the Old and New Testaments, prayers for the community including the Lord’s Prayer, music, a message, and a benediction.
If it quacks like a duck...
As usual, you don't know what you are talking about. It's a very secular school. Kids from many world religions go there, as well as kids from families with no faith tradition at all.
The outbreak at Lovett had nothing to do with Christianity. It had everything to do with Brian Kemp.
Fat hurts wrote:
brazen2 wrote:
The Lovett School values and encourages a sense of responsibility to God, respect for diversity, service to others, and moral awareness, and expects its graduates to be men and women of honor and faith.
While respecting all religious traditions, chapel at Lovett is an inclusively Christian service. All students and faculty meet once a rotation for the chapel service by division.The chaplains of all three divisions are ministers from various Christian traditions. Though different in age appropriate ways, all three chapel services follow the same basic structure: Every service includes a processional of a cross and torches carried by acolytes, a call to worship, readings from the Old and New Testaments, prayers for the community including the Lord’s Prayer, music, a message, and a benediction.
If it quacks like a duck...
As usual, you don't know what you are talking about. It's a very secular school. Kids from many world religions go there, as well as kids from families with no faith tradition at all.
The outbreak at Lovett had nothing to do with Christianity. It had everything to do with Brian Kemp.
I am very familiar with Lovett.
Once again on this thread I need to correct you. What is this? The 50th time? I'm not sure if you are obtuse or an idiot. Given the number of times I and others have had to correct you on this thread and the wild theories you've come up with, I'm going with the latter.
A very secular school doesn't include the following in their mission:
Lovett's mission is to graduate young men and women of honor, faith, and wisdom. ....Although not formally affiliated with any specific denomination, Lovett’s philosophy is rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition and values and encourages a sense of responsibility to God, respect for diversity, service to others, and moral awareness.
Very secular schools don't have chapel every rotation that includes:
While respecting all religious traditions, chapel at Lovett is an inclusively Christian service. All students and faculty meet once a rotation for the chapel service by division.The chaplains of all three divisions are ministers from various Christian traditions. Though different in age appropriate ways, all three chapel services follow the same basic structure: Every service includes a processional of a cross and torches carried by acolytes, a call to worship, readings from the Old and New Testaments, prayers for the community including the Lord’s Prayer, music, a message, and a benediction.
Very secular schools don't expect their graduates to me men and women of faith.
The Lovett School values and encourages a sense of responsibility to God, respect for diversity, service to others, and moral awareness, and expects its graduates to be men and women of honor and faith.
Very secular schools don't require graduates to have two religion courses in order to graduate.
In very secular schools, in kindergarten, kids don't focus on the following:
In kindergarten, students answer the questions, "How does God relate to me"? and "How can I relate to God"?
In very secular schools, in second grade, kids don't focus on the following:
In second grade, students make additional connections that help them see how the stories of the Old and New Testaments can help us develop character, informing how we treat others and become our best selves.
In a very secular school, third and fourth graders don't focus on:
They learn that understanding the Old and New Testaments helps us grow our own perspectives on faith and spirituality.
Very secular schools don't have a Lower School Chaplain.
Very secular schools don't have a Middle School Chaplain.
Very secular schools don't have a Head Chaplain.
Perhaps, you are confusing secular with non-denominational. I'm not sure. What is clear is that you lack the intellectual capacity to have an intelligent conversation. I'm done with you on this thread unless I feel the urge to slap you down again after another one of your outrageous statements.
Wear a mask
Social distance
Wash your hands
GET TESTED
7-day average for newly reported cases is down 21% from a week ago.
Wear a mask
Social distance
Wash your hands
GET TESTED
The Unkle wrote:
Six months and counting and still don't know a soul who has gotten sick from this.
Nor does anyone I talk to about this.
Sure does exist in the media though.
24/7 fear.
You took the blue pill, bro.
brazen2 wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
As usual, you don't know what you are talking about. It's a very secular school. Kids from many world religions go there, as well as kids from families with no faith tradition at all.
The outbreak at Lovett had nothing to do with Christianity. It had everything to do with Brian Kemp.
I am very familiar with Lovett.
Once again on this thread I need to correct you. What is this? The 50th time? I'm not sure if you are obtuse or an idiot. Given the number of times I and others have had to correct you on this thread and the wild theories you've come up with, I'm going with the latter.
A very secular school doesn't include the following in their mission:
Lovett's mission is to graduate young men and women of honor, faith, and wisdom. ....Although not formally affiliated with any specific denomination, Lovett’s philosophy is rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition and values and encourages a sense of responsibility to God, respect for diversity, service to others, and moral awareness.
Very secular schools don't have chapel every rotation that includes:
While respecting all religious traditions, chapel at Lovett is an inclusively Christian service. All students and faculty meet once a rotation for the chapel service by division.The chaplains of all three divisions are ministers from various Christian traditions. Though different in age appropriate ways, all three chapel services follow the same basic structure: Every service includes a processional of a cross and torches carried by acolytes, a call to worship, readings from the Old and New Testaments, prayers for the community including the Lord’s Prayer, music, a message, and a benediction.
Very secular schools don't expect their graduates to me men and women of faith.
The Lovett School values and encourages a sense of responsibility to God, respect for diversity, service to others, and moral awareness, and expects its graduates to be men and women of honor and faith.
Very secular schools don't require graduates to have two religion courses in order to graduate.
In very secular schools, in kindergarten, kids don't focus on the following:
In kindergarten, students answer the questions, "How does God relate to me"? and "How can I relate to God"?
In very secular schools, in second grade, kids don't focus on the following:
In second grade, students make additional connections that help them see how the stories of the Old and New Testaments can help us develop character, informing how we treat others and become our best selves.
In a very secular school, third and fourth graders don't focus on:
They learn that understanding the Old and New Testaments helps us grow our own perspectives on faith and spirituality.
Very secular schools don't have a Lower School Chaplain.
Very secular schools don't have a Middle School Chaplain.
Very secular schools don't have a Head Chaplain.
Perhaps, you are confusing secular with non-denominational. I'm not sure. What is clear is that you lack the intellectual capacity to have an intelligent conversation. I'm done with you on this thread unless I feel the urge to slap you down again after another one of your outrageous statements.
Wear a mask
Social distance
Wash your hands
GET TESTED
Yes they do. There is some token religious stuff, but the student body is not overtly Christian like in a true Christian school.
Your contention is that Christianity had something to do with the Lovett outbreak. Given the actual makeup of the student body, that is preposterous.
Just got some encouraging news about my friend with covid who is on a ventilator. The doctors say he is becoming less dependent on the ventilator and might get to come off it soon.
Thought some of you might be interested.
Fat hurts wrote:
Yes they do. There is some token religious stuff, but the student body is not overtly Christian like in a true Christian school.
Your contention is that Christianity had something to do with the Lovett outbreak. Given the actual makeup of the student body, that is preposterous.
The private schools on the north side of Atlanta hold themselves out as being Christian primarily to pander to people who think that a religious school will mean that their kids will be better behaved, not do drugs and have sex. At school, the extent of religion and religious teaching is an occasional prayer before a school assembly or sporting event, one required semester of a bible class and a few churchy clubs like Key Club on campus. Religion does not make it into the curriculum. Of course, the kids are jerks, do lots of drugs and screw like rabbits.
There are a lot of Jews on the north side who send their kids to private Christian schools. My family was Jewish. My sister got the award for the highest grade in bible class at Westminster. At the academic awards ceremony, the chaplain told her that he hoped she would one day see the light. But that was about as bad as it ever got. The private schools know that they have to be careful not to alienate non-Christians in order to keep classes full and people paying sky high tuition.
Money is really what makes people who they are at private schools on the north side of Atlanta. There is always a clique of the really, really rich kids who know each other from their parents' country club memberships and other rich people things like the charity gala circuit, tennis, golf, polo, etc. It seems like that crowd was primarily behind the outbreak at Lovett.
Fat hurts wrote:
Just got some encouraging news about my friend with covid who is on a ventilator. The doctors say he is becoming less dependent on the ventilator and might get to come off it soon.
Thought some of you might be interested.
Good to hear
Precious Roy wrote:
[quote]Fat hurts wrote:
At school, the extent of religion and religious teaching is an occasional prayer before a school assembly or sporting event, one required semester of a bible class and a few churchy clubs like Key Club on campus.
Key Club isn't religious, is it?
JamesD2 wrote:
Precious Roy wrote:
[quote]Fat hurts wrote:
At school, the extent of religion and religious teaching is an occasional prayer before a school assembly or sporting event, one required semester of a bible class and a few churchy clubs like Key Club on campus.
Key Club isn't religious, is it?
Key Club is the high school offshoot of Kiwanis Club. One of the objects of Kiwanis club is, "To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships."
The Golden Rule was proclaimed by Jesus.
So according to brazen2, that makes Key Club a certified band of Christian covid-spreaders.
I see the GA website has a feature where it lists the date of onset for corona cases. It shows a really sharp drop. Did they do this to make cases look better? Do any other states do this? Itd be interesting to see comparisons to FL, CA, TX and others.
I've seen deaths charted this way for Florida but not cases. In Florida, this is definitely a good week for cases and positive % rate. Makes me think in a month 50-75 deaths will be the norm not 150-250.
Fat hurts wrote:
JamesD2 wrote:
Key Club isn't religious, is it?
Key Club handed out bibles to students every year at my (private) high school.
Key Club is the high school offshoot of Kiwanis Club. One of the objects of Kiwanis club is, "To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships."
The Golden Rule was proclaimed by Jesus.
So according to brazen2, that makes Key Club a certified band of Christian covid-spreaders.
Bad day for fatalities in Texas. 309. If you do a 20 day lag between infection and fatality, we should be seeing fatalities start to decline. Positives peaked in the middle of July and have been on a slow and uneven decline since then.
New cases were at 6,474. Another 500 cases from Dallas added to the overall state totals that were left out due to coding error at a commercial testing facility. That makes almost 6,000 cases in Dallas that were originally left out and dumped back in after the error was discovered. Collin County (northern suburbs of Dallas) put a warning on their COVID 19 dashboard stating that they have no confidence in the State's data.
It is good to see cases come off of highs of 10k+, but 6-7k is still 6-7x the number of cases we were seeing every day before reopening. Statewide hospitalizations flattened out a bit this week at just above 6,000, ending a steady decline over the past few weeks. Most are considering the 6-7k range to be a plateau as the rate of decline in cases has been stagnant this past week.