The German Government’s new #COVID19 campaign is very clever and, dare I say it, funny.pic.twitter.com/bP8jTNFShr
— Richard Chambers (@newschambers) November 14, 2020
Trump has all but ceased to actively manage the Covid pandemic, which so far has killed at least 244,000 Americans & infected at least 10.9 million. He has not attended a coronavirus task force meeting in “at least five months,” said one senior adviser. https://t.co/tCtymIZgNK
— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) November 15, 2020
The U.S. reported more than 177,000 new infections on Friday – a new daily record – with new cases staying above 100,000 for 10 straight days, according to a Reuters tally https://t.co/B22Gywldrs pic.twitter.com/x1w30dxwBn
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 15, 2020
CDC reports 243,580 deaths from coronavirus https://t.co/1Astkze2P8 pic.twitter.com/rnk13pnvdz
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 15, 2020
READ: The promise of #coronavirus #vaccine at a factory in India – and the looming fight over it “Covid anywhere is Covid everywhere” said @melindagates of the Gates Foundation.
Tune in On Assignment with @RichardEngel tonight 10pm ET only on @MSNBC. https://t.co/vJ6SSmq8aF pic.twitter.com/gBFFK95lYM
— On Assignment with Richard Engel (@OARichardEngel) November 15, 2020
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#Coronavirus restrictions are tightening in Europe as global deaths top 1.3 million https://t.co/YnhRHRSWHa via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 15, 2020
A swathe of new restrictions to curtail a second wave of coronavirus infections were announced or came into force from Austria to Greece, Italy to Portugal on Saturday as the global death toll climbed above 1.3 million https://t.co/1tW1i7XE9y pic.twitter.com/NdonspnCm2
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) November 14, 2020
Greece on Saturday announced the closure of primary schools, kindergartens and daycare centres as coronavirus deaths crossed a thousand https://t.co/GmupfeHB3b
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) November 14, 2020
One of the biggest studies of coronavirus in England found a curious jump in cases at the beginning of November. What could have caused it? One obvious candidate: rumours of a second lockdownhttps://t.co/TPaPtm9vjC
— Rowland Manthorpe (@rowlsmanthorpe) November 13, 2020
France's rural idyll threatened by coronavirus lockdown https://t.co/o0lhTAdxTd
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 15, 2020
Coronavirus: Austria locks down as new wave grips Europe https://t.co/VTrGGvR4vl
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 14, 2020
A fire in the COVID-19 intensive care ward at a public hospital in Romania killed 10 people and injured seven others, including a doctor who suffered severe burns as he tried to rescue patients. https://t.co/BTtxQqHzlz
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) November 14, 2020
⚡ Russia confirmed a new one-day record of 22,702 coronavirus cases, bringing its total to 1,903,253 https://t.co/jfNsknlIVA
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 14, 2020
Russia's struggling regional hospitals make Moscow seem like the best place to be in during the pandemichttps://t.co/syrgARtNzm
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 12, 2020
South Korea reports 208 new COVID-19 cases, eighth day of triple-digit rises https://t.co/Rfp9FxpeYt pic.twitter.com/NJ3LfBOvV3
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 15, 2020
Brazil registers 38,307 new cases of coronavirus https://t.co/3n01kYgs4M pic.twitter.com/woHfamvxUB
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 15, 2020
BREAKING: Mexico has registered over 1 million total coronavirus cases and nearly 100,000 test-confirmed deaths, though officials agree the number is probably much higher. The country's leaders have shunned measures such as face mask wearing and lockdowns. https://t.co/w0okWla495
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 15, 2020
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If you test positive, don't wait for public health to call. Notify anyone you've had close contact w/ (w/in 6' for 15 min+)during communicable* period to quarantine 14 days from the date of their last exposure to you
*2 days before sx onset, if asx 2 days before test collection
— COVID19 (@V2019N) November 15, 2020
‘Breakthrough finding’ reveals why certain COVID patients die: The virus apparently suppresses tiny virus-fighting proteins called interferons https://t.co/PM9Nw55Aph via @khnews
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 14, 2020
Rich nations have the technology and the money to hog all of the emerging COVID19 vaccines. Who will make coronavirus vaccines for the developing world? India may hold the key https://t.co/YElF0PZDn4
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 14, 2020
NEW RESULTS:
Rapid Antigen tests work v well!
Not all are same – Some much better than others
This paper is a masterclass of how to study AND interpret the use of #COVID19 rapid antigen tests!
Best study IMO to date of how to think about these testshttps://t.co/hvLyPFi5Zi
— Michael Mina (@michaelmina_lab) November 14, 2020
Pfizer, Moderna, Novavax: executives at several American laboratories developing Covid-19 vaccines have recently pocketed millions of dollars by selling shares in their companies — raising questions about the propriety of such a move https://t.co/qtzRu1vy2V pic.twitter.com/zRozrQLYjD
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) November 15, 2020
Dogs are so successful at Helsinki Airport identifying passengers infected w/ SARSCoV2 by sniffing samples of sweat wiped from their necks, that Britain is starting a similar trial overseen by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine https://t.co/XE3HBoFq9y pic.twitter.com/8d7StzLRP0
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 15, 2020
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The political coronavirus paradox: where the virus was worst, voters supported Trump the most https://t.co/4M98JZ8rtQ
— TIME (@TIME) November 13, 2020
“I don’t want to catch it. But if I get it, I get it. That’s just how I feel.” The biggest reason coronavirus cases are soaring in the Midwest isn’t because residents don’t understand the dangers of the virus. It’s because many aren't that concerned. https://t.co/Td9jM4k6nL
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 14, 2020
In Kansas, school nurses trying to do contact tracing are being berated or stonewalled by parentshttps://t.co/ngXWgTRNMi pic.twitter.com/RQXfcYJGwy
— Kate Taylor (@katetaylornyt) November 11, 2020
I can’t believe I’m telling you this but Utah county anti-maskers tried to break into a hospital ICU wing to prove it wasn’t as full as the media and health department claimed.https://t.co/OSlN6eWMBN
— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) November 13, 2020
I have a night off from the hospital. As I’m on my couch with my dog I can’t help but think of the Covid patients the last few days. The ones that stick out are those who still don’t believe the virus is real. The ones who scream at you for a magic medicine and that Joe Biden is
— Jodi Doering (@JodiDoering) November 15, 2020
I can’t stop thinking about it. These people really think this isn’t going to happen to them. And then they stop yelling at you when they get intubated. It’s like a fucking horror movie that never ends. There’s no credits that roll. You just go back and do it all over again.
— Jodi Doering (@JodiDoering) November 15, 2020
Arrest the parents.
Make an example of them.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 14, 2020
Rand Paul: We have 11 million people in our country who have already had COVID. We should tell them to celebrate. We should tell them to throw away their masks, go to restaurants, and live again because these people are now immune(they are not immune) pic.twitter.com/Un2CQ1b5Tg
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) November 13, 2020
mrmoshpotato
Silly Germans. Well done.
satby
Rand Paul and Donald Trump are proof there is a god and he hates our guts.
Zzyzx
Washington state is about to lockdown again
mrmoshpotato
@satby: Rand Paul’s neighbor needs to beat the snot out of him. What a horse’s ass.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. The Ministry of Health reports 1,208 new cases today for a cumulative reported total of 47,417 cases. The Ministry also reports three new deaths for a total of 309 deaths — 0.7% of the cumulative reported total, 0.88% of resolved cases.
Meanwhile, 1,013 patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 34,785 patients recovered — 73.4% of the cumulative reported total.
While daily new cases in Sabah are on a stable downward trend, the Ministry says it is particularly concerned about the Klang Valley — Selangor, KL, and Putrajaya — where a total of 661 new cases were reported today.
Three new clusters were reported today: Jeri in Johor; and Jalan Kalabakan and Plaza in Sabah.
1,202 new cases are local infections. KL has the most new cases, 469: 462 in existing clusters, two close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. Sabah has 381 cases: 53 in older clusters, 14 in new clusters Plaza and Jalan Kalabakan,191 close-contact screenings, and 123 other screenings. Selangor has 185 cases: 132 in existing clusters, 24 close-contact screenings, and 29 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan has 48 cases: 39 in existing clusters, seven close-contact screenings, one SARI screening, and one other screening. Perak has 21cases: eight in existing clusters, six close-contact screenings, and seven other screenings.
P.Pinang has 42 cases: 37 in existing clusters, 3 close-contact screenings, one SARI screening, and one other screening. Labuan has 30 cases: 19 in existing clusters, 9 close-contact screenings, one SARI screening, and one other screening. Johor has nine cases: three in new cluster Jeri, one SARI screening, and five other screenings. Kedah has eight cases, all in existing clusters.
Sarawak has four cases: three in existing clusters, and one other screening. Melaka has two cases: one in an existing cluster, and one close-contact screening. Kelantan has one case, a close-contact screening. Putrajaya has one case, found in other screening. And Perlis has one case in an existing cluster.
Terengganu and Pahang reported no new cases today.
Six new cases are imported.
12,323 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 104 are in ICU, 42 of them on respirators.
The three deaths today, all reported in Sabah, are an eight-year-old girl; a 77-year-old man with hypertension, heart disease, and kidney disease; and a 63-year-old woman with diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.
mrmoshpotato
Reposting.
NeenerNeener
Down to 160 new cases in Monroe County, NY yesterday. Not great, but better than the 300-a-day cases we had during the week.
OzarkHillbilly
“Who cares if I pass it on to a dozen other people and 3 of them end up in ICU and one of them dies. It’s not my problem.”
satby
It will be a miracle if we manage to keep the hospitals staffed until the pandemic ends, between the abuse they take and the loss of health care workers to the disease. My friend, a nurse at the UIC hospital, said she can’t imagine why anyone would even become a nurse when this is over. And Chicago isn’t even a hotbed of covidiots.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: I hear the “if I get it I get it” routine every single day at the market. They honestly think they won’t; or still think they’ll be asymptomatic if they do. And they refuse to think they could spread it, because how could they if they don’t feel sick?
That’s their decision tree. Oh, and they’re mad that business is terrible because the news media is terrorizing people. Not because there’s reasons why people might stay home.
I really get why the smart rural kids get the fuck out as soon as they can.
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
Exactly who they are??
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
“Ain’t no law against infecting other people.”
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Around here, there is a difference between last spring and now. The Franklin/Crawford/Washington counties area are getting hit hard and people are taking it a lot more seriously. Mask usage is at 90-95% and people are acting… different. Hard to say exactly how but they are a lot quieter, subdued. Of course, maybe that is just the election.
I also recently heard someone say, “I don’t understand why it’s so bad. Everyone is wearing masks now.” so there is still some magical thinking going on, the desire for a magic bullet.
Amir Khalid
Contact tracers are doing urgent work to contain the pandemic and save lives. There ought to be a law against refusing to cooperate with them. Penalties should include jail time and a fine.
hells littlest angel
A lot of words to say, “I’m stupid.”
OzarkHillbilly
On a personal note, I found out what happened to my long time Nurse Practitioner: She had a massive stroke. Completely paralyzed on her left side. They opened up her head to get at the clot and then closed her up again and said, “There’s nothing we can do.” because of all the plaque there. R is the last person one would expect this to happen too. Ate right, exercised daily, yadda yadda you know the drill.
Sometimes you just get a bad hand dealt to you.
Amir Khalid
@hells littlest angel:
The Trump “administration has not helped by actively encouraging the belief that if you’re asymptomatic, then you don’t have it and can’t spread it.
TS (the original)
Begosh – trump never started to actively manage the covid pandemic – so how can anyone say he has “all but ceased:
Amir Khalid
@TS (the original):
But Trump has been managing the pandemic. It’s just that all his actions have been to the advantage of the virus, rather than the people.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
Eating healthy and exercising are never a guarantee – they are simply statistically more likely to lead to positive health outcomes. Conversely, the conservatives who say “uncle whoozits smoked two packs a day and ate bacon with eggs fried in bacon grease every morning until he dropped dead on his 93rd birthday” are referencing someone who beat the statistic.
TS (the original)
@Amir Khalid:
No way that is going to get past the SCOTUS appeals, which would be instant. Given the latest speech from Alito – this is against the rights of the people.
He who is 100% protected in his job, has never missed a days pay, is going to uphold the rights of those who want to see a fast spreading virus rather than answer a few questions.
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed and 0 new asymptomatic cases.
In Xinjiang “Autonomous “ Region, 4 cases have recovered and 24 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There are currently 35 confirmed cases (none in serious condition), all in Kashgar, and 187 asymptomatic cases in Xinjiang (175 in Kashgar and 12 in Kizilsu).
Yesterday, China reported 13 new imported confirmed cases and 6 imported asymptomatic cases and 1 imported suspect case:
Yesterday, Hong Kong reported 14 new cases, 9 imported and 5 from local transmission (4 have source of transmission identified).
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: That is so sad.
Sab
@Amir Khalid: So true.
Frankensteinbeck
Copied from downstairs, about the angry patient story:
Even before Trump, conservatism was an angry whine by white bigots that they are no longer the norm, catered to in all ways. They were furious then that they are wrong about so many things, and demanded to be treated as if they were right. That is the entire anti-science thing, ‘how dare you contradict us, the chosen ones.’ Of course they are enraged when they catch it. Life is contradicting them again, and they are demanding their doctors and nurses admit they’re right and the facts are wrong.
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL: 63 yo. I kept telling her she couldn’t retire before I died. Guess that ain’t happening.
debbie
Next time, read from the top.
JoyceH
Time Magazine says:
It’s not a paradox at all. They just stated it backwards. If you say, ‘where voters support Trump the most, the virus is worse’, it makes perfect sense. Heck, it’s cause and effect.
Baud
@Frankensteinbeck:
@debbie:
Makes it easier to allocate scarce medical resources.
NotMax
FYI. 85%, while disappointing, is above the average compliance for the state as a whole. Getting the sloppy or uninformed group into proper use would up that to 91%, which is enocuraging.
Can report anecdotally it has consistently been 100%, across all age groups, at the places I happen to go when venturing out of the house.
AM in NC
@OzarkHillbilly: That needs to be the follow-up question EVERY “reporter” asks. Because I really do think most of these people have not given one second of thought to that possibility because NOBODY in their info bubble talks about that – everything is framed in terms of “MY individual liberty”. And we need something to penetrate that message to get them to think about themselves as potential vectors rather than potential victims. Because while some won’t care, some surely will.
I was running on a path near my house a few weeks ago without a mask but I pulled my shirt up over my nose and mouth (and detoured well off the path) when a lady talking on her phone walked by me in the other direction. When I did that she started laughing and said to the person on the phone that some crazy person just ran by scared to death and pulled up her shirt – hahahahahah! So I stopped, and shouted out to her “Ma’am, I pulled my shirt up because I don’t know if I have COVID – I haven’t been tested and a significant percentage of people never show any symptoms, they just pass the disease around unawares. I couldn’t live with myself if I gave this illness to you. So that’s why I pulled my shirt up. I really could not live with myself if I made other people sick and they died, or someone they loved died. ” She got silent, clearly brought up short by something that had not entered her pea brain before, and I ran on.
Information bubbles are a hell of a thing.
Emma from FL
I am tired of these people. Let them die if they want to. Screw them.
And I just lost my good human badge. But it is so exhausting to keep trying to protect me and mine against a horde of imbeciles.
WereBear
@satby:
That is the real price these areas pay. I’ve seen parents deliberately undercut their children’s prospects, all so they don’t leave.
marklar
I appreciate the German PSA, but do want to point out one concern. For people with mental health challenges, isolation and lack of activity can be extremely difficult and damaging.
I’m not quite sure what the alternative is right now (I’d suggest part of the next stimulus plan start by providing communication devices (e.g., chromebooks) and wifi to everyone in the country), but I wouldn’t want to diminish the challenges faced by many of us.
oldster
@marklar:
I’d like to register another objection to the German PSA: it unfairly slanders raccoons for laziness, when in fact, they are extremely industrious. Also inventive, persistent, focused, and brilliant with their hands. Just ask anyone who has tried to keep them out of the trash.
I cannot imagine why raccoons would become a byword for laziness in German, except perhaps because they are not native to Europe, and the Germans were fed anti-raccoon propaganda.
Otherwise, great ad!
MagdaInBlack
@WereBear: I’m 62 and never made that connection, but yes, thinking back, thats exactly what my MIL did: undercut her kids so they wouldn’t leave. Mindboggling, isn’t it.
Skepticat
@OzarkHillbilly: R is the last person one would expect this to happen too.
When I lived in Massachusetts, I had a terrific doctor, a Russian woman who was an excellent diagnostician. When I turned 50, she encouraged me to get a colonoscopy, but I put it off. When I turned 51, she really pushed me to do it, so I did. They found colon cancer at such an early stage that only minimal surgery was necessary—and successful. Three years later, this superb doctor died. Of colon cancer.
Skepticat
@oldster: My thought exactly! If only raccoons were lazy.
Sab
@oldster: Lazy raccoons? Gawd, I wish ours were around here.
Sloane Ranger
Yesterday in the UK we had 26,860 new cases, down 450 or so from the previous day but please note the usual weekend warning. In the 7 days to 14th November we had 172,915 new cases, up 8.2% from the previous 7 days. Yesterday’s new cases were,
England – 24,298 (down @250)
Northern Ireland – 511 (down @100)
Scotland – 1118 (down @250)
Wales – 933 (up @130).
The R number remains at 1 to 1.2.
Deaths – There were 462 deaths yesterday, 396 in England, 10 in Northern Ireland, 36 in Scotland and 20 in Wales. This number may be low due to weekend reporting delays.
Testing – No update on testing numbers due to weekend.
Hospitalisations – There were 14,915 people in hospital on 12th November and 1355 on ventilators as of 13th. Both metrics are trending upwards but the rate of increase in the use of ventilators seems to have flattened a bit.
That’s all from here.
Citizen Alan
@WereBear: I’m 51, and I am intensely bitter over the emotional manipulations that my immediate family made over the course of my life to keep me from leaving Mississippi.
MagdaInBlack
@Citizen Alan: I’m feeling kind of dumb right now, because I naively believed/told myself they were just stupid, but I can see the manipulations, now its pointed out to me. Now I despise those people all over again. It also explains so many of my old friends who never left. We were discouraged from college, encouraged to marry early and have babies, told we couldn’t make it on our own, never exposed to any other way of life. Im disgusted now.
CliosFanBoy
@WereBear: I remember hearing back in college (late 70s) a girl from rural WV saying one of her teachers telling the students they were lucky not to be smart because smart people have so many problems. GAD>
VOR
In October the MAGAs complained the media would stop talking about COVID after the election. They felt COVID was not real, deaths were lies or exaggerated, and the whole thing was a conspiracy to attack the Great Leader. Now, after the election, they still won’t admit COVID is a serious issue because it would call their entire worldview into question. The Great Leader lied about it? That’s impossible, he always tells the truth, only the MSM lies. The meme on Facebook was wrong? Can’t be. Fox News actively misleading? No way, they are the only network which tells the truth.
Acceptance of being wrong is just too hard so they double-down.
CliosFanBoy
@VOR: but they do “research” (i.e. they read their equally-gullible friends’ Facebook pages)
MagdaInBlack
@CliosFanBoy: We had a guidance counselor who felt women only went to college to get their Mrs. When I said I wished to study history, he told me that unless I wished to teach, there wasnt much point in studying that.
Actively discouraging people from improving themselves.
CliosFanBoy
@MagdaInBlack: GAH!! I could smark them.
Uncle Cosmo
Hate to break it to ya but Virus don’t care how tired you are; Virus never gets tired.
Virus don’t care about your “good human badge” either. Or your “horde of imbeciles.”
Those “imbeciles” have two things going for them that all your railing at them won’t change:
Ignoring fact #1 very nearly got us another 4 years of Hair Furor and the destruction of American democracy for generations, when we went out of our way to mock and deride and generally piss them off & they got back at us with their votes.
Ignoring fact #2 bids fair to keep Miz Rona an unwelcome guest in these parts for years longer than needs to be.
We are our brothers’ & sisters’ keepers and we need to start (or keep) acting like it, no matter how little we like it, because it’s the only way out of the current mishegoss without major longlasting damage to the body politic.
The best part of small-town/rural life is that everybody you know knows you. And the worst part of small-town/rural life is – that everybody you know knows you. You come complete with a history stretching right back to birth, & often several generations before; and you will never, ever, ever be allowed to live down anything you (or your kinfolk or their ancestors) have done or said that displeased or (heaven forbid!) challenged the few people in charge.
The only way out is to get out & find a place where you can prosper & grow based on who you are now, not what your bloodline was back into dim antiquity. And when you do so you are resented forever by the “folks back home” who never had the gumption to leave; you were spozeta stay right there & stand still while the-powers-that-be mistreat you for their own profit & amusement.
(NB I write as the descendant of two generations with the gumption to move on in search of a better life: grandparents who abandoned Italy for the US at the turn of the Novecento, and parents who left coal-dusted Appalachia for the factories of Baltimore forty years on.)
MagdaInBlack
@Uncle Cosmo: That last part is exactly why I ran away after my husband died: to escape the expectations of who I was. To be anonymous. To be able to make mistakes without every fn person in the county knowing it.
Sloane Ranger
@MagdaInBlack: I don’t know your age but I’m 62 and, to be fair, this wasn’t just a problem in rural America. It was common in the UK when I was at school and only started changing with the passing of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, and then only slowly.
The assumption up to then was that women would get married and leave the workforce to “make a home” for their husband and eventual children so why “waste a university place on them?”. This was true of parents as well as some teachers because that was the way it had always been.
I was lucky, I went to an all girls school and our Headmistress was an Oxford graduate and her Deputy a very strong minded and opinionated woman . They pushed back on those assumptions and encouraged us to achieve whatever we were capable of, but I subsequently learned of other schools where girls who expressed an interest in medicine were pushed into nursing rather than medical school and into teacher training schools rather than university.
MagdaInBlack
@Sloane Ranger: I’m 62, and I think its referred to as “tracking.” Im sure someone here can tell me if I’m correct or not. All the women I knew who worked outside the home were either teachers or nurses.
Scout211
Late to this thread but I wanted to give a heads up to anyone who has a retired military or retired military dependent ID card. I was panicking last month because my dependent card is expiring in December and there were zero appointments available. Anywhere. We already have to drive over an hour to the closest military facility and almost 2 hours to Travis AFB, the closest base to where we live. My military dependent ID card is also my Medicare supplement and Part D card, so I was in a panic.
It took me a long time, searching through military sites to finally find out that if your card expires in 2020, it will be automatically extended to June 30, 2021. This is the second time it has been extended but the first time I had heard about it.
I don’t know why this was so hard to find out. It was frustrating. But finding out I have another 6 months was a big relief.
And I wonder if the bases are having a high incidence of cases?
Emma from FL
@Uncle Cosmo: Well, thank you for lecturing me instead of seeing it for the cry of despair it was. You, sir, have the sensitive of an Everglades alligator. And I speak as someone that is a first generation seeker of freedom.
evodevo
@MagdaInBlack: Welcome to Appalachian America (eastern Ky, especially). That is standard behavior there…anyone who made it out to the real world and got a good job and has a normal life will get slagged every time they go back to the hometown for a visit…”Well, here’s Mr. Bigshot, comin’ back to town in his fancy car” or, and this was said to a girl who escaped to Lexington and went to Med School, “yer gettin’ above yer raisin’ “. I’ve see it in action…
Kathleen
@evodevo: A dear friend of mine who’s my age (71) was raised in Vanceburg and has described that same oppression when she was growing up. She escaped, graduated from college and had a long career as a teacher. She lives in Cincinnati now.
Chetan Murthy
@CliosFanBoy:
Oh god, yes. I remember similar shit from my high school classmates and even my friends, in the late 70s in Texas. Insularity and anti-intellectualism. At least some of my teachers didn’t have that attitude, but geez, it seemed to me like the heartland was *full* of anti-intellectual closed-minded morons.
MagdaInBlack
@evodevo:
I was naive enough to believe that parents wanted their children to do better.
Bruce K
How’s it go – positive COVID cases lag by two weeks, COVID deaths lag by three?
In Greece, the northern regional lockdown hit about two weeks ago (the spiking cases led to the national lockdown a week ago, and to the stricter national curfew this past Friday), and new cases today have dropped by almost half from yesterday’s (from 2835 to 1695) even as deaths hit a new high (71 today).
It’s still looking ugly. My family’s safe in the islands – most island jurisdictions are safe, and will probably remain safe with regional travel restrictions in place. But Attica’s in bad shape – not quite as bad as northern Greece, but that’s only relative.
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
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J R in WV
@OzarkHillbilly:
Sorry to hear about your medic, R. Sometimes it really is shocking when someone dies and you learn of it. When my cousin died of ovarian cancer I was especially shocked because she was younger than I… Her brothers are also both gone now too.
Sorry for your loss, I know how it feels. A physical shock.