Cases rising or dropping by you?

[chickapin parterre]

Well....here in yuma we are relaxing, they are now allowing more folks to enter the building for other reasons than life or death.....they give you a bright large roundsticker that says ZONE and right below zone they have abbreiations, mine was app= appointment, which means you don't need an appointment....anyhow, social distance protocol is broken if they have to read my sticker. And when I left my passenger door to enter the hosptial, I had to walk thru a grouip of unmasked men loitering to the side of the large door entrance. I think construction has been allowed to continue on interior.

 

[RamblingMad]

We hit a Labor Day bump in cases. My county is back to more than 75 cases per 100,000 people over 14 days.

I honestly don’t think it’s going to get any better until a vaccine. People seem to be hitting COVID fatigue and aren’t going to isolate like they were at the beginning.

You definitely see a second wave in the UK and France.

 

[Colleen27]

We hit a Labor Day bump in cases. My county is back to more than 75 cases per 100,000 people over 14 days.

I honestly don’t think it’s going to get any better until a vaccine. People seem to be hitting COVID fatigue and aren’t going to isolate like they were at the beginning.

It isn't fair to blame it on entirely on fatigue. As Americans, we're pretty conditioned to laying everything at the altar of "personal responsibility" but right now, most people *can't* isolate like they did in the beginning. Their jobs are telling them "come back or else" or their unemployment is a pittance and close to running out so they're looking for work where ever they can get it. And when people have to go to work every day, they're going to stop for food and coffee and do more shopping and worry about things like hair appointments and otherwise resume a more normal way of living than when they're able to stay home completely.

 

[mantysk8coach]

We are just doing horribly in Wisconsin. It’s so frustrating to see the numbers break records every day. Everything is wide open, most hate the mask mandate. The attitudes are just so backward and uneducated. Meanwhile hospitals are nearing capacity. Pray for us.

 

[belleatdisney]

I am hunkered down and stopped all shopping and carry out even. Our numbers are terrible.

No one is respecting distancing and lots ignore the mask mandate. I cannot control them but I sure as heck don’t have to be near them.

 

[mantysk8coach]

I am hunkered down and stopped all shopping and carry out even. Our numbers are terrible.

No one is respecting distancing and lots ignore the mask mandate. I cannot control them but I sure as heck don’t have to be near them.

Wisconsin also?

 

[EACarlson]

Wisconsin also?

I'm in Oshkosh. We had 200+ cases in a single day for the first time yesterday in my county. I'm somewhat surprised to see how many people are out at all the bars when I drive or run past them. Honestly the people that I've seen doing the most are the college students.

 

[RamblingMad]

Wisconsin cases are going through the roof. Any response to mitigate this?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/wisconsin/

 

[*DisneyDreamer]

Wisconsin cases are going through the roof. Any response to mitigate this?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/wisconsin/

Another Wisconsinite here and the answer is no. Other than an extended mask mandate which is pointless with everyone complaining about it daily. I don’t have much hope right now. If our governor tried to do anything, the state Supreme Court would probably just overrule him again. Maybe when our hospitals hit capacity someone will try to do something.

 

[TJA]

I'm in Oshkosh. We had 200+ cases in a single day for the first time yesterday in my county. I'm somewhat surprised to see how many people are out at all the bars when I drive or run past them. Honestly the people that I've seen doing the most are the college students.

I live in a smallish county in New York (around 135,000 people), and we had a spike RIGHT before school started where we had around 200 cases, which is the most we have had this entire time. It was traced to a food plant and a college. Thankfully, within 1-2 weeks, we went down significantly and now have around 25 current cases. This nice thing is, around here, we haven't had many hospitalizations. Right now, we currently have only 1 in the hospital, with the most this whole time being 4 or 5 people. Our health department's analysis has been the virus has been a weak strain this whole time, which is interesting. We do have mask mandates, so maybe that has helped. We have had 10 deaths, but last I heard there are at least 5 being contested as actual Covid deaths.

 

[EACarlson]

Wisconsin cases are going through the roof. Any response to mitigate this?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/wisconsin/

Closing bars would be more effective than the mask mandate. The spike started when colleges came back, more than half of the cases in my county in the last two weeks were on campus. Between parties, bars and dorms, that is a lot of close contact. I don't know what the mask wearing rate is in Milwaukee or Madison, but it seems pretty good around here and in Green Bay.

 

[*DisneyDreamer]

Closing bars would be more effective than the mask mandate. The spike started when colleges came back, more than half of the cases in my county in the last two weeks were on campus. Between parties, bars and dorms, that is a lot of close contact. I don't know what the mask wearing rate is in Milwaukee or Madison, but it seems pretty good around here and in Green Bay.

I’m in the Milwaukee area, and at the places I go to (grocery store, quick shopping trips), mask compliance is usually good. I think the mask mandate should stay in place, but we definitely need more measures than just that. Like absolutely the bars and restaurants. I feel for the people who run those businesses since they need an income, but it seems likely that a large percentage of spread is coming from there, and universities, since that’s where people are likely to not be wearing masks. If people want the mask mandate to end because it’s not working, then there needs to be alternative measures. We can’t just pretend it doesn’t exist. We need to sound the alarm and not just encourage people to follow guidelines, because they’re not and we’re going to be in big trouble soon.

 

[EACarlson]

I’m in the Milwaukee area, and at the places I go to (grocery store, quick shopping trips), mask compliance is usually good. I think the mask mandate should stay in place, but we definitely need more measures than just that. Like absolutely the bars and restaurants. I feel for the people who run those businesses since they need an income, but it seems likely that a large percentage of spread is coming from there, and universities, since that’s where people are likely to not be wearing masks. If people want the mask mandate to end because it’s not working, then there needs to be alternative measures. We can’t just pretend it doesn’t exist. We need to sound the alarm and not just encourage people to follow guidelines, because they’re not and we’re going to be in big trouble soon.

I feel that wearing a mask is a good idea and should be done. I think that allowing the government to mandate it is wrong. Just like I believe the shutdown was wrong. The government should only be mandating those things in government facilities, it is up to the business owners to decide if they want to mandate those things in their businesses. Menards had no problems requiring masks almost immediately, same for Pick N Save and Festival.

 

[hereyago]

I am sure it will rise way higher in about 2 weeks from a super spreader event at my very local airport last night

 

[JimMIA]

South Florida bars reopened last night after a six-month closure, so we'll see what happens. If that doesn't light us up, nothing will.

Our local positivity rates have been steadily declining. Miami-Dade County has been fluctuating around 4.5%, and Broward has been pretty consistently below 4%. Those are the two most populous counties in Florida and also the two biggest hotspots.

Statewide, rates continue to decline slowly. Florida’s statewide positivity rate from yesterday’s testing was 4.08%. The 14-day average is 4.46%. The 7-day is 4.61%, skewed a little higher by two days over 5% with lower test volumes.

 

[HeatherC]

Massachusetts daily numbers are slowly creeping back up from a month ago. 594 today, 554 yesterday, etc... each day has been a slight increase.

 

[Colleen27]

Closing bars would be more effective than the mask mandate. The spike started when colleges came back, more than half of the cases in my county in the last two weeks were on campus. Between parties, bars and dorms, that is a lot of close contact. I don't know what the mask wearing rate is in Milwaukee or Madison, but it seems pretty good around here and in Green Bay.

I agree. You can put the numbers side-by-side and see a difference - most Michigan colleges are also back on campus, but bars are closed and masks are required in most public spaces (all indoors, crowded outdoors). And while campus numbers are driving our current case counts, the numbers are moderate and our statewide totals are flat-ish (ups and downs by single-digit percentages). Meanwhile, right next door in Wisconsin, the schools are also back with bars and everything else open and cases are up 90+% over two weeks ago.

 

[dvcgirl67]

Massachusetts daily numbers are slowly creeping back up from a month ago. 594 today, 554 yesterday, etc... each day has been a slight increase.

Samer here in NJ. We're in the 700's the last few days....we've been in the low hundreds since early June. We've been slowly doing that stair step up in the last two weeks....the main culprit here seems to be schools opening. Because people are getting more lax with allowing kids in homes without masks, and I see more and more noses when I'm out and about....I'd expect we're going up.

 

[*DisneyDreamer]

I agree. You can put the numbers side-by-side and see a difference - most Michigan colleges are also back on campus, but bars are closed and masks are required in most public spaces (all indoors, crowded outdoors). And while campus numbers are driving our current case counts, the numbers are moderate and our statewide totals are flat-ish (ups and downs by single-digit percentages). Meanwhile, right next door in Wisconsin, the schools are also back with bars and everything else open and cases are up 90+% over two weeks ago.

Wisconsinites love their bars way too much. It’s one of the things about our state that makes me an outsider. I’ve never seen the appeal, even in normal times. Considering people flocked to the bars within hours of them being allowed to reopen in May, when the Supreme Court overruled our governor’s stay at home order, I’m not surprised that this is where we are now. Bars + colleges opening + lower mask compliance = trouble.

 

[anniemae]

Samer here in NJ. We're in the 700's the last few days....we've been in the low hundreds since early June. We've been slowly doing that stair step up in the last two weeks....the main culprit here seems to be schools opening. Because people are getting more lax with allowing kids in homes without masks, and I see more and more noses when I'm out and about....I'd expect we're going up.

I was thinking that when school started cases would increase in all states. It's so strange to me I keep seeing on the news a about states opening up more and more, allowing more folks in restaurants, no mask orders etc. Then it seems when the states drop the regulations a bit and open up more and more, people become more relaxed and you start to see people not wearing masks (or just covering their mouths), neighborhood gatherings start up, bbq's become more common etc. Just today I saw a big party at a house down the street with about 25 people, no masks.

I guess I have to wonder why governors are relaxing the boundaries knowing that if they do, the cases will rise. I know we have to open up at some point, but Dr. Fauci keeps saying that NOW is the time to be strict about masks and social distancing. I read that he said we could be over the pandemic at the end of 2021 if we act now and tighten up the restrictions. Then I see everything opening and rules being relaxed. It makes no sense.