Link? I drove by my local hospital today. Again, the parking lot is relatively empty. My brother, in Las Vegas, was told not to go to the hospital. He tested positive, was sick, and after 8 days tested negative. Stayed home the entire time. His doctor wouldn't see him in person either. The lockdown is affecting him mentally.
The cure is worse than the disease. As before in Harris county, mask compliance is >95%. I see people even driving with masks. You aren't going to get 100% compliance-just isn't going to happen. It wouldn't make a difference anyway because one person coming from outside the country could restart the pandemic.
Again, Judge Hildago set up two emergency hosptials in Houston that weren't used.
The cloth masks are bullshit anyway. You might as well have sex with a cloth condom.
As I've written before, a relative died in his sleep several months ago. They did an autopsy: pnumonia and heart disease. Covid test came back negative. Funeral home wouldn't touch body until COVID test came. Came back negative. They still would not let family touch body. A few weeks later his death changed to "COVID related."
How COVID deaths a declining when it's get close to Biden being installed is truly "cooincidence."
Originally Posted by gnadfly
Am I reading this correctly:
https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-upda...ositive-cases/
The Houston MSA, population 7 million, has only had an average of about 1200 new cases per day over the last couple of weeks? If so, our daily cases per capita are 5X yours. Actually higher, because the positivity rate has been around 30%, so undoubtedly there are more people per capita walking around with Covid here who've never been tested.
People where I live love God and Country and Donald Trump and don't wear masks. The pansy asses have mostly relocated to places like Montrose. I'm exaggerating a little, but in my building about 70% or 80% of the people you see in the lobby and on elevators aren't wearing masks. The hospitals, which are overloaded, were begging the city council to pass a mask mandate on businesses last week, and the proposal was overwhelmingly rejected.
I seriously doubt that 95% of Houstonians are wearing masks most of the time. But I have no doubt that mask usage where you live is much higher than here.
So just maybe one of the reasons Houston is so much better off than we are right now is the mask usage. There are other reasons as well. For example, I bet it's pretty rare to see a crowded restaurant in Houston. It's not here.
It's really bad in Texas cities west of Fort Worth. No room in the hospitals, people dying. Search for Amarillo, Lubbock, Abilene, Odessa, San Angelo, or El Paso and Covid in Google News. You'll see.