In today’s (Saturday, July 11, 2020) Bristol Herald Courier they note that Covid-19 cases have more than doubled from 657 to 1,421 in the last 2 weeks in the 10 Northeast Tennessee counties (Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi and Washington).
So have the Bristol Virginia cases, which will surprise no one who has seen the activity in the bars along State Street.
https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/local...aad76.html
Ballad Health COO Eric Deaton says that their Covid-19 patients are doubling every week.
Tennessee’s new cases hit 1,955 for the day on Friday. New cases in the U.S. hit 71,000 for the day according to
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Probably just a hoax which will disappear after election day, though, yes?
I’ve got to disagree with Fan1: there is not much expert controversy over what needs to be done (social distancing, masking, testing, contact tracing). Countries which have done this (European Union, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) have generally done pretty well, even while cautiously reopening parts of their economy.
The disagreement is whether to follow the consensus of medical advice – and that is almost entirely a political disagreement.
After all, masks may be the devil’s work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqLkhxLp1fo
And as Ohio Republican legislator Nino Vitale says, we should NOT test for Covid-19!!!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/...index.html
Wonder where he got that idea?
Rod may be right. We may be bungling this less badly than Brazil. Hooray for us! Although, our Covid-19 numbers are still
worse than Brazil in both cases per capita and deaths per capita.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I’m glad to hear that President Trump’s friend Bolsonaro is taking his hydroxychloroquine. I wonder if the President has repeated his suggestion that they try injecting disinfectant or “introducing light into the body”?
Sorry to Fan1 if that seems to make our leader look foolish - but his words have consequences for us all. It's not too much to wish that he were actually following medical advice.