NC State - Sept. 18

[Affirm]

Furman hopes to add to its giant killer history Saturday at N.C. State

https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/ ... 346180002/

According to at least on UFFP poster, Furman does not hope to, but instead Furman EXPECTS to, add to its giant killer history Saturday at NC State. Great expectations. Good luck.

[FUBeAR]

So…I believe 2 posters mentioned “the south” with regard to Covid. Fully aware this is off-topic, but just want to say/show that, for the most part, the current increases are NOT in the South. Seems to have peaked (again) in the South and increasing, despite (typically) having much higher vaccination rates, where all of the ‘smart’ people in our country live, i.e., not “the South.”

Where cases increased the most in the last week - https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CO ... kvlgkrkpb/

For the week ending Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021 (selected states)

CASES TO DATE ONE-WEEK TOTAL
State Total cases Per 100K New cases Per 100K 1-wk chg.
United States 41,156,616 12,397 1,030,445 310.4 –10.0

Nebraska 253,080 13,083 5,760 297.8 +19.5%
Alaska 95,175 13,010 4,533 619.6 +16.6%
Pennsylvania 1,347,569 10,526 27,888 217.8 +11.8%
North Dakota 122,559 16,083 3,003 394.1 +10.5%
Utah 479,979 14,972 10,550 329.1 +10.4%
Ohio 1,298,625 11,110 45,427 388.6 +10.0%
New Hampshire 111,111 8,172 2,398 176.4 +9.6%
Vermont 30,114 4,826 1,120 179.5 +9.6%
Montana 133,715 12,511 4,228 395.6 +9.2%
Idaho 233,907 13,089 8,363 468.0 +9.2%
New Jersey 1,117,506 12,581 15,018 169.1 +6.1%
Michigan 1,088,201 10,896 17,238 172.6 +6.1%
Delaware 125,105 12,848 2,994 307.5 +3.8%
Rhode Island 165,849 15,656 2,107 198.9 +3.2%
Colorado 634,888 11,025 12,544 217.8 +2.7%
New York State 2,324,562 11,949 33,611 172.8 +1.7%
Virginia* 801,827 9,394 23,660 277.2 +0.6%

Texas 3,823,955 13,188 124,911 430.8 –4.1%
Kentucky 620,356 13,885 27,867 623.7 –6.7%
Louisiana 712,574 15,328 15,674 337.2 –8.4%
North Carolina** 1,279,500 12,200 42,107 401.5 –12.5%
South Carolina 784,052 15,228 31,674 615.2 –16.9%
Alabama 747,606 15,247 25,484 519.7 –16.9%
Georgia 1,487,434 14,009 50,641 477.0 –20.7%
Arkansas 475,001 15,740 11,206 371.3 –22.2%
Florida 3,452,700 16,076 100,249 466.8 –22.4%
Mississippi 460,312 15,467 13,449 451.9 –30.0%

‘We’ just peaked earlier. Doesn’t seem to have been caused because we were all too stupid to get vaccinated. I just hope Uncle Joe & the rest of the country will continue to be so patient with us. Hey - maybe packing into Football stadiums helps prevent Covid. We need some peeps to study that - next week vs. Mercer would be a good time to participate in that study at Paladin Stadium.

* No longer worthy of being called the south
** Still retains right to be in the south, but on probation & being heavily scrutinized

[DungeonRealm]

[DungeonRealm]

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[Furmanoid]

So…I believe 2 posters mentioned “the south” with regard to Covid. Fully aware this is off-topic, but just want to say/show that, for the most part, the current increases are NOT in the South. Seems to have peaked (again) in the South and increasing, despite (typically) having much higher vaccination rates, where all of the ‘smart’ people in our country live, i.e., not “the South.”

Where cases increased the most in the last week - https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CO ... kvlgkrkpb/

For the week ending Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021 (selected states)

CASES TO DATE ONE-WEEK TOTAL
State Total cases Per 100K New cases Per 100K 1-wk chg.
United States 41,156,616 12,397 1,030,445 310.4 –10.0

Nebraska 253,080 13,083 5,760 297.8 +19.5%
Alaska 95,175 13,010 4,533 619.6 +16.6%
Pennsylvania 1,347,569 10,526 27,888 217.8 +11.8%
North Dakota 122,559 16,083 3,003 394.1 +10.5%
Utah 479,979 14,972 10,550 329.1 +10.4%
Ohio 1,298,625 11,110 45,427 388.6 +10.0%
New Hampshire 111,111 8,172 2,398 176.4 +9.6%
Vermont 30,114 4,826 1,120 179.5 +9.6%
Montana 133,715 12,511 4,228 395.6 +9.2%
Idaho 233,907 13,089 8,363 468.0 +9.2%
New Jersey 1,117,506 12,581 15,018 169.1 +6.1%
Michigan 1,088,201 10,896 17,238 172.6 +6.1%
Delaware 125,105 12,848 2,994 307.5 +3.8%
Rhode Island 165,849 15,656 2,107 198.9 +3.2%
Colorado 634,888 11,025 12,544 217.8 +2.7%
New York State 2,324,562 11,949 33,611 172.8 +1.7%
Virginia* 801,827 9,394 23,660 277.2 +0.6%

Texas 3,823,955 13,188 124,911 430.8 –4.1%
Kentucky 620,356 13,885 27,867 623.7 –6.7%
Louisiana 712,574 15,328 15,674 337.2 –8.4%
North Carolina** 1,279,500 12,200 42,107 401.5 –12.5%
South Carolina 784,052 15,228 31,674 615.2 –16.9%
Alabama 747,606 15,247 25,484 519.7 –16.9%
Georgia 1,487,434 14,009 50,641 477.0 –20.7%
Arkansas 475,001 15,740 11,206 371.3 –22.2%
Florida 3,452,700 16,076 100,249 466.8 –22.4%
Mississippi 460,312 15,467 13,449 451.9 –30.0%

‘We’ just peaked earlier. Doesn’t seem to have been caused because we were all too stupid to get vaccinated. I just hope Uncle Joe & the rest of the country will continue to be so patient with us. Hey - maybe packing into Football stadiums helps prevent Covid. We need some peeps to study that - next week vs. Mercer would be a good time to participate in that study at Paladin Stadium.

* No longer worthy of being called the south
** Still retains right to be in the south, but on probation & being heavily scrutinized

Jeepers FUBeAR, I mentioned the South because where I live (Augusta) things are pretty F’up in our hospitals. But they are slightly better than before. AU (formerly MCG) reports about 30 fewer than last week. In the ICU, out of 47 0% are vaccinated by the way.

I have been resistant to the notion that Southern stupidity is causing our Covid woes. It seems obvious to me that this virus is very seasonal and we are having a surge in CASES now that other regions will see in the coming weeks. But our hospitalization rate is clearly driven by idiots who refuse to get vaccinated. They have a right to go unvaccinated, but I know people who are having operations and cancer treatments deferred because of them and that sucks. If they are afraid to get a freaking shot, fine. But they should stay home if they get Covid.

[FUBeAR]

Jeepers FUBeAR, I mentioned the South because where I live (Augusta) things are pretty F’up in our hospitals. But they are slightly better than before. AU (formerly MCG) reports about 30 fewer than last week. In the ICU, out of 47 0% are vaccinated by the way.

I have been resistant to the notion that Southern stupidity is causing our Covid woes. It seems obvious to me that this virus is very seasonal and we are having a surge in CASES now that other regions will see in the coming weeks. But our hospitalization rate is clearly driven by idiots who refuse to get vaccinated. They have a right to go unvaccinated, but I know people who are having operations and cancer treatments deferred because of them and that sucks. If they are afraid to get a freaking shot, fine. But they should stay home if they get Covid.

Didn’t intend to call you out per se, but also tired of the finger-pointing and the aspersions being cast at my people - y’know, rednecks.

Your closing line is a bit troubling though, but I’ll table that debate.

The 2 pieces of great news are the ‘rona is waning again in the South & the smart people in those non-southern states, where it’s now rapidly waxing, won’t have these hospital capacity issues because of their much higher (in most cases) vax rates. Not ‘zactly sure why they would be experiencing such similar wax-up case rates as we Southerners saw in recent weeks, since they’re all vaxxed up, but I’ll just hope & pray that the more recent headlines about the miraculous therapeutic (essentially) properties of the vax are more accurate than the similar earlier headlines we read about its near-perfect prophylactic success.

[Furmanoid]

I am skeptical about media accounts myself. But our local hospitals post their numbers and I mostly trust them. For several weeks they have been pretty overwhelmed. And the ICU numbers are always >90% unvaccinated.
You are going to see hospitalization spikes in the “smart” states as well but probably confined to the cities. And actually our previous infection numbers are so high that added to our slightly lower vax rate they are probably nearly equal to immunization rates in the “smart” states.

But we do have too damn many people going to the hospital with something they could have avoided. That just isn’t even debatable anymore. And it is impacting the care of people who themselves have done everything they were supposed to do. That isn’t fair.

It is actually possible that a player with a severe injury tomorrow will have to wait for hours in the ER because of Covid cases. It will mostly be a painful inconvenience but still messed up.