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Albany and it's surrounding areas is the wake-up call - the nightmare, if you will - for the REST of the country. If it can happen to Albany, it can happen just about anywhere in (more) rural parts of the country (where I grew up Albany was a big city).
Perfect storm hit there weeks ago, and they have fought to keep their heads above water since. They represent what so many communities are trying to avoid as we start seeing each other a little more.
I do believe our knowledge of the virus, the situation, and what to look for may help prevent this from repeating itself - but it stands as the absolute warning to anyone who claims this is just a metro virus.
just because things start opening...i really hope everyone continues to cover their coughs and sneezes, and wash their dang hands... lets keep the etiquette going and not just go completely "normal" immediately. lets try and ease into this, and try to limit this thing from finding hosts.
Don't live there but do read AJC most days. Didn't Albany have some kind "event" (fair or something) right about the time this was beginning? Think I remember reading that. Just an awful accident of timing.
Another incredible weather day in SC. Blessed to be able to get out and enjoy nature during these hard times. Wife and I went on about a 1.5 mile hike late morning through the woods (lots of elevation change, so great exercise as well). Got absolutely bum rushed by a turkey hen with little ones - she wasn't backing down. Gotta appreciate her attitude...
It continues to be a different world in our state. 6000+ people hospitalized in the whole state - 5000+ beds available - 307 total hospitalizations due to Covid-19 in the whole state as of yesterday - less than 5%. I pray and hope this continues. We continue to get new cases each day, not really going up or down. Hard to look at fatalities statistically cause the variance is so big compared to the actual number - 3 one day, 14 the next, 4 the next, 11 the next, etc. I know we are starting to test more and more and more, so that has to be a good sign.
We have an event for our seniors tonight (well, probably about 25 of them) - an outside movie on a blow up screen. One lawn chair per 2 parking spaces for social distancing sake. They are excited to see each other, even if it is at a weird distance.
Two big funerals around March 10-15, right before the crap hit the fan... Most of the initial cases were linked to these two events, but they didn't know it for a week or two.
Correct and unfortunately in the African American community. Very close nit and set in traditional funerals. Lots of interaction between family and guest. Someone had it and went, it spread like wildfire and unfortunately became the epicenter for the county.
No new cases in my county as of noon today. 21 standing for 3 days in a row. Only one death reported with 7 having to be hospitalized.
Although, it being the first of May and the lifting of the SIP, there has been a influx of people coming into town with RV's, Campers and out of state tags.
Really hope they left that $hit at home and brought their on TP......not going to find it here....just saying...
How many people travel to Clayton county?
The "real" outbreak started in NYC (123 per 100k) from Europe.
Top 10 deaths by state are NY (123) serviced by JFK, Newark many European flights in December particularly.
New jersey (85) - Newark many European flights connected to NY.
Conn (63) - NY commute
Mass (52) - Boston (hourly shuttles from NY) and Many European flights
Louis (42) - exception Mardi Gras
Michigan (39) - Detroit
DC (33) - Hourly air and train shuttles from NY
RI (26) - NY commuters
Penn (21) - NY and many European flights come into Philly
Illinois (19) - O'Hare is 2nd only to ATL in volume.
The population density allows the virus to spread faster not necessarily infect a greater percentage.
Airport in Atlanta is in Clayton county. But just barely. It's in the northern edge of Clayton but people that leave the airport (for the most part), don't go south. They go north into Atlanta (Dekalb and Fulton counties). Just to put in perspective. Clayton county numbers are not really indicative.
the numbers are hard to make determinations with because there are so many factors (age of population, public transit, apartments/close quarters housing, existing health conditions of the population, occupation/industry percentages of the area, etc etc etc)
too many correlations which can make determining any sort of trend a big guess we cant bank on.
I just hope we can get this figured out/recover/get healthy quickly...too many people are getting screwed financially and may never recover... credit scores, debt, house payments, interest rates, repo cars, evicted, retirement funds, you name it....this is a life altering economic punch in the face.
praying/sending the good energy for all of you
Fair enough - just used Clayton as the correlation being made seemed to be that cases/deaths were higher near the busiest airports in the US. Fulton County COVID death total is currently at 103
And Dekalb--36. Really have to combine them because Atlanta is about 1/2 Fulton and 1/2 Dekaib. Not nit-picking. Just saying that if we're going to compare numbers....
Not sure where you get your data from, but I go here and you can scroll over each county for the updates...
BTW ORD is O'Hare not Orlando (MCO)