Looks like we've entered the 2nd wave

[The Very Man Himself]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

It's bad up here. The hospital is overloaded and sending people to Ruby and UMPC as well as refering ER patients to the triage tent and urgent care unless they need immediate admittance. Testing wait at our (finally!) free testing center is 100s of cars and several hours.

No local leadership on the issue at all. I just saw a pic. of one of our Commissioners inside, maskless, with his arm around two people........at a bar no less.......his reelection is guaranteed now that he passed the "purity test".

Bad as it is you're still a smidge under the state average per capita. 2.8% v. 2.9%

NYC just shut down their schools because the positivity rate hit 3%. The current Md rate is 7.1%, so I'd expect things to get worse before they get better.

[GunsMass]

The CovidBot on reddit/maryland gives an accessible and detailed daily output. You can see how badly Alleghany & Garrett are getting rocked.

I personally only use hospitalizations to rate the current position. April was at 1700 right before the mask mandate, then decreased and stayed in the 300s during the summer. We're now at 1200 mid-Fall.

I was mocked the other day outside of a food store for wearing a mask. Yesterday I turned away a person from working inside my house because they wouldn't wear a mask. It seems we haven't seen the worst of it yet.

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by The Very Man Himself

Bad as it is you're still a smidge under the state average per capita. 2.8% v. 2.9%

NYC just shut down their schools because the positivity rate hit 3%. The current Md rate is 7.1%, so I'd expect things to get worse before they get better.

Again, no first wave in Allegany to add cases to what is happening with the virus right now, so the per capita rate in total cases since Spring has little to no relevance as to our situation right now.

We had a grand total of 483 cases on Sept. 30, and 1909 cases by Nov. 20th. as of the county update. Our 7 day moving case rate is 130.65 per 100k vs. 31.66 per 100k for all of Maryland right now. We are exploding right now to a level far beyond the rest of the state. I hate to think what it will look like if you catch up to us.

[GunsMass]

If we catch up to you, the hospitalizations will exceed 7000, with 4000 available beds statewide.

[The Very Man Himself]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

Again, no first wave in Allegany to add cases to what is happening with the virus right now, so the per capita rate in total cases since Spring has little to no relevance as to our situation right now.

We had a grand total of 483 cases on Sept. 30, and 1909 cases by Nov. 20th. as of the county update. Our 7 day moving case rate is 130.65 per 100k vs. 31.66 per 100k for all of Maryland right now. We are exploding right now to a level far beyond the rest of the state. I hate to think what it will look like if you catch up to us.

Point taken. I just looked at the numbers again.

[The Very Man Himself]

Originally Posted by GunsMass

If we catch up to you, the hospitalizations will exceed 7000, with 4000 available beds statewide.

If the whole country was as bad as the Dakota's currently are, we would have 12,000+ deaths a day.

[G1..]

The sad part is we knew this was coming and the ignorant decided to forget or just not practice the safety protocols.WE were all told this would happen in the fall.