The NY Times this morning

[BlsdMama]

Ya'all, I think we might be in some trouble here in Iowa.  And it was going so well - wide open and 500-1,000 cases a day for MONTHS.
Then the bars opened, university started, schools started...  This is going to be uncomfortable.  How the heck did we make both the WORST list and the upcoming WORST list?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/upshot/five-ways-to-monitor-coronavirus-outbreak-us.html

[BlsdMama]

I admit I'm worried for DD18.  She's a CNA at a nursing home while she goes to nursing school.  She is one tough cookie and I know she'll work herself to death before she lets someone hurt because she can't work, but this might be more than her young self is going to be able to handle.  PTSD much?

She has refused to work the Covid area for right now, but there is going to come a time,  I suspect, when it's all Covid.  They are currently tested twice a week.  

[Not_a_Number]

3 minutes ago, BlsdMama said:

Ya'all, I think we might be in some trouble here in Iowa.  And it was going so well - wide open and 500-1,000 cases a day for MONTHS.
Then the bars opened, university started, schools started...  This is going to be uncomfortable.  How the heck did we make both the WORST list and the upcoming WORST list?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/upshot/five-ways-to-monitor-coronavirus-outbreak-us.html

Eeek. I would find that depressing 😕 . I think it's just fall and winter and people moving indoors 😞 . 

[Danae]

55 minutes ago, BlsdMama said:

Ya'all, I think we might be in some trouble here in Iowa.  And it was going so well - wide open and 500-1,000 cases a day for MONTHS.
Then the bars opened, university started, schools started...  This is going to be uncomfortable.  How the heck did we make both the WORST list and the upcoming WORST list?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/upshot/five-ways-to-monitor-coronavirus-outbreak-us.html

It was not going well. Your state leaders confused being on the early part of the exponential curve with going well and fantasized all kinds of “it’s different here in the heartland than in the big cities” ideas to justify doing nothing to head off uncontrolled spread.

We’ll all be lucky if “uncomfortable” turns out to be a reasonable description of what this winter will be for the Midwest. 😞

[Joker]

Yeah, things are getting bad here in Indiana and no one seems to care yet. Youngest has their last in person class on campus in Bloomington today and then we plan to lock ourselves back down. 

[Not_a_Number]

9 minutes ago, Danae said:

It was not going well. Your state leaders confused being on the early part of the exponential curve with going well and fantasized all kinds of “it’s different here in the heartland than in the big cities” ideas to justify doing nothing to head off uncontrolled spread.

We’ll all be lucky if “uncomfortable” turns out to be a reasonable description of what this winter will be for the Midwest. 😞

It wasn’t exponential in the summer, though. Just like in Europe... lots of people being outside helps.

[Danae]

53 minutes ago, Not_a_Number said:

It wasn’t exponential in the summer, though. Just like in Europe... lots of people being outside helps.

It was in Iowa.  If you look at their death and hospitalization curves they hit a low point the first week in July and have been climbing ever since.  The absolute numbers were just low enough that they didn't set off enough alarm bells.

 

[kbutton]

1 hour ago, Margaret in CO said:

Maybe it's best that the Bloomington IN kids aren't coming next week--3rd highest fastest growing numbers. I'm sure it's because of the college kids. Our college had to shut down. Our numbers are up, but almost ALL are from the college. Dd's college is not seeing an outbreak, but then, they aren't allowed off campus at all. It helps to be a military school!

The chart says Bloomington, Illinois, I believe. 

1 hour ago, Joker said:

Yeah, things are getting bad here in Indiana and no one seems to care yet. Youngest has their last in person class on campus in Bloomington today and then we plan to lock ourselves back down. 

I haven't heard much about Bloomington, IN but would love an update. We have family there, but I am not sure we'd get a great picture of what is going on through them.

[OH_Homeschooler]

I'm located smack dab in the middle of all the midwestern sites on that list (on the border of Iowa). But hey, at least Covid Kim just issued her first (completely useless) mask mandate. It's hard to be optimistic. 

I'll be thinking about you, your DD, and your entire family. 

[OH_Homeschooler]

28 minutes ago, kbutton said:

The chart says Bloomington, Illinois, I believe. 

Yes, also home to a large midwestern university-Illinois State. Not sure what they're planning for Thanksgiving. 

[Not_a_Number]

1 hour ago, Danae said:

It was in Iowa.  If you look at their death and hospitalization curves they hit a low point the first week in July and have been climbing ever since.  The absolute numbers were just low enough that they didn't set off enough alarm bells.

 

Ah, yeah, and I see the positivity looks like that, too. 

 

[Joker]

2 hours ago, kbutton said:

The chart says Bloomington, Illinois, I believe. 

I haven't heard much about Bloomington, IN but would love an update. We have family there, but I am not sure we'd get a great picture of what is going on through them.

All of IN is starting to struggle now and hospitals are starting to get overwhelmed in some areas. Our governor is starting to move things back but not enough IMO. My mom works for a large hospital in Indy and they are expecting their numbers to triple soon based on what they’re seeing.

[Ausmumof3]

Illinois has a huge jump in deaths yesterday I’m not sure if there was a data dump of some kind. 

[Laura Corin]

I checked my county and it's comparable in cases per 100k to the worst in the States. But then I realised that the US cases were for one day and ours are for a week. I'm sorry, that looks rough.

[Denise in IN]

4 hours ago, kbutton said:

The chart says Bloomington, Illinois, I believe. 

I haven't heard much about Bloomington, IN but would love an update. We have family there, but I am not sure we'd get a great picture of what is going on through them.

Indiana COVID dashboard is a good resource:  https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/

Bloomington area (Monroe County) looks better than a lot of IN right now, but generally speaking Indiana is in trouble.  Not as bad as IL & IA yet, butI'm very worried. 🤔

[Denise in IN]

1 hour ago, Joker said:

All of IN is starting to struggle now and hospitals are starting to get overwhelmed in some areas. Our governor is starting to move things back but not enough IMO. My mom works for a large hospital in Indy and they are expecting their numbers to triple soon based on what they’re seeing.

I'm in NE Indiana and just so...frustrated.  We pretended everything was "normal...fine" for too long.  The governor's moving in the right direction but way too slowly.  I expect most of Indiana's counties to be red by next week.  

On a positive note, both of my boys' universities have handled this pretty well, just hoping they can make it two more weeks to the planned end of on-campus instruction.

[Sneezyone]

Cases in my little area of Hampton Roads are slowly rising. I’m watching it closely b/c my DD wants to do winter cheer and I’m going to have to say no. High school and middle school students only returned to campus on Monday and their absence helped hold cases/spread down. I’m hopeful it’ll all get shut again before I have to put my foot down. Everyone here is masked tho. Compliance is very high in stores. Ppl. Like my neighbors are entertaining again tho. SMH.

Edited November 12, 2020 by Sneezyone