134 New Covid-19 Cases and 4 Deaths

If ever there was a time for us all to collectively realize that The teachers union is obviously and actively working against the common good... its now!

This was posted on KTLA last week. Basically a study showing that if we allow kids to be exposed, and their symptoms have been shown to be minimal to nonexistent, that they will build up an immunity to it, and it will end up as more of a common cold than anything. https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/study-covid-19-may-eventually-be-no-worse-than-childhood-cold/

SBLocal1967: You don't feel for anything. "Conservatives" (if that's what you call the cultish freak show anymore) have lost any scrap of legitimacy as a guiding force of policy. I was a conservative, gun rights, pro-law enforcement voter for decades. Then this complete nonsense appeared based on following a known conman and bankrupt casino hustler no matter what he did. Complete and utter nonsense conspiracy theories. I have not heard ONE policy proposal or good idea come out of the GOP for years. I am done with them and I know for sure many other like-minded reasonable people are DONE with the treasonous bullshit.

SB schools have seemingly pledged to open whenever we get to 25 per 100k... but yeah nothing from GUSD. Id say it’s shocking, but then again I’ve watched some of the school board meetings and...it’s not shocking at all. They truly seemed determined to not even consider or make plans to reopen any time soon. It’s probably going to require a mandate from the powers that be for Ms Jahungir to even start acting/planning...

There will be no in-school instruction this Spring. Not going to happen. Even if the teachers get vaccinated, they will refuse to go back into the classroom until their families are vaccinated, too, on the assumption that kids will shed virus in the classrooms, and teachers will take it home with them and infect their families. You just have to look at what is happening in Chicago and L.A. This is why I believe teachers should NOT be prioritized for the vaccine. We'll be lucky if the kids are back in school in the fall.

DUKE - I haven't heard a peep from GUSD, meaning they're probably going to kick the can down the road once the state allows them to open. I did read that for elementary schools, our numbers just need to be down to 25 per 100,000 and at least last week, we were at 49 per 100K. For Jr. high and High School, it's a little more rigorous, which I don't understand. They need us to be in the Red Tier for 5 consecutive days. I did hear from a friend that the DPHS Principal announced that the second they are allowed to open, the kids will be coming back. So, I just hope that same sentiment goes for the elementary school kids out here!

SBLOCAL - hahahahaha! So, Alabama and Mississippi have better education systems than "liberal" states ? Try again, that's absolutely absurd. Do you even try to research things before making wildly ridiculous claims? https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/prek-12

I’m fairly resigned to august being the realistic restart for Goleta. There is no urgency or planning... we could (and should!) have had the Fall and then closed for an extended Christmas... instead this never ending limbo. I like your positivity and am dreaming we can put together something for the Spring (mid March to June anyone) but it’s hard to see how our school board can accomplish anything (beyond spend money and “feel deeply” about things).

Dem run states do not care about kids getting educated. More uneducated people equals more people dependent on big government which equals more voters. CV is just an opportunity for Dems to grab more power. Rep run states have kids back in school because it is the right thing to do and not based on some political agenda. Just calling it as I see it. Really feel for the kids and the parents dealing with this BS

DUKE - that horse is neither dead, nor worth not beating. We need our kids in school ASAP. If they can do it safely tomorrow, do it. I'm terrified that the districts are going to move the goal posts even further. Kids need to be in class again. In SB, it is inexcusable for any campuses to not be set up to handle COVID precautions. We have the $$$ here, let's get it done!

Well said, my friend.

Thank you MountainMan for intellectually contributing to the conversation. The very old strategy of divide and conquer is alive and well. We are becoming weak as a society, rather than united. The enemy ceased to be the virus and quickly became each other. There's no spreadsheet in the world that can predict where we'll be in a short time, but I do believe it will not be a good place if this continues. We all have political differences, but if we cannot set that aside for even a second and come together to fight a package of molecules smaller than the eye can see, we are all doomed.

Yellow, why do you automatically assume because I think CNN is a bunch of biased propaganda I don't also think Fox is a different bunch of biased propaganda? I don't have time to watch the news and you can't get nearly as much info from watching as reading. A few times a week I peruse both websites because you won't get the full story from either site. My disdain for the lying, two-faced crooks in the DNC who got a hall pass for 4 years because everyone was too focused on the orange man doesn't mean there aren't lying, two-faced, crooks in the GOP. They are both wolves, I think the DNC is worse because they're a wolves in sheep's clothing and have many convinced they're the righteous "for the people" party which is a load of BS because both parties are bought and paid for by the oligarchs/billionaires.

Yellowfin, forget CNN and FoxNews. I trust neither. The problem is that few people are empowered by knowledge and cannot tell when they're being misled.

https://factcheck.afp.com/posts-mischaracterize-who-advice-coronavirus-testing-equipment

I was wondering how they were going to work pyramids into it, and maybe the Maya calendar.

The Keystone Doks expand their conspiracy doctrine.

VOR, yes, this is troublesome. Some on Edhat are suggesting we do not count the numbers ourselves, or question anything from "authorities". That is a recipe for disaster. We are a nation of self-governance, that shouldn't end at educating the public at questioning data.

Look what we're dealing with now, a populace that shrugs off things they don't understand as a "conspiracy" because it wasn't on CNN while anything on CNN is fact not to be questioned.

I really appreciate your thoughts. Those are great observations and legitimate concerns, intelligently and succinctly stated. It troubles me that tools used for scientific research may have been exploited by those in power in order to manipulate the public. I often pass our lab’s thermocyclers and wish the public had a better understanding of how PCR works, and chemistry in general. I’m afraid that much of the public is poorly educated in STEM, despite all the recent efforts being made. Is the gap widening? It’s frightening to think of the prospect where a small few keep a large amount of knowledge and control the rest with fear. I was down in Chichen Itza, wandering the site. From the “football” stadium, where the winners were sacrificed to bring messages to the god, such as more rain for the crops, to the observatory, one thing was clear. Those with scientific knowledge, who could predict the solar calendar using data, who kept that celestial knowledge all for themselves, were feared and respected. Let’s not let that happen again.

Very true if your choice is to unfold bottom up. It's an intelligent approach and certainly a method that beneficially produces data to comb through. However, standing at the entry of a testing protocol that was not designed for diagnostic, health related outcomes just more simply demonstrates the construction of a process that was ad hoc and evolving from the get go.. Add to that the immense political and industrial pressures applied via powerful participants and your left with a system that's ripe for power-play positioning from those that will derive a profit from the underlying issue. Yet simply stated, the amplification of polymerase reaction of converted RNA strands utilizing a lab processing technique, which targets select structures within a sequence and then runs it at 35+ cycles such that it's amplified 35 billion times is beyond reasonable. It's been clearly demonstrated that doing so produces exponential artifacts that are entirely misleading. Thus, false positives are real. This novel experience has also not produced a statistically relevant base infection rate to even construct decent sensitivity/specificity numbers. Also, not focusing on prophylactics prior to or during acute illness episodes has systematically ignored our ability to work through the illness in process. That leaves us with only hope, as we're asked to wait for a preventive solution that "cures all". And this "cure by pill" method (i.e. vaccine) shows there are fundamental, logistic and potentially long term challenges that are not being considered. A solution today to add value immediately would be to ramp up and immediately (EUA) home use rapid testing kits so we can better target symptomatic carriers inside the envelop of all those potentially infected. That and focus more on empowering healthcare providers with whatever they need to adequately address and treat symptoms as they were educated and trained to do. Good day and all the best.

More Deep Health conspiracy!

Interesting hypothesis. Lowering the cycles will certainly miss some of those cases, but will miss pre-symptomatic cases as well, those that go one to get really sick and die. How would you test this hypothesis? One way might be to watch the hospitalization numbers and deaths. Those numbers should decrease as the case rate and % positive values drop. If the diagnostics have been manipulated to catch fewer positives, then hospitalizations, ICU beds occupied, ventilator use, and deaths should not decrease proportionally. There is already data for the first wave, in terms of how the hospitalizations and deaths waned as the case rates and positivity decreased. We should see a similar trend. If not....

Regionally? Zero. And zero cases.... wait, let me double check to see if the SBPH website updated yet - yep. Zero cases, zero deaths. Statewide - looks like 17 deaths. As far as cases or hospitalization.... it's a puzzle to extract the numbers. The State reports different numbers from different hospital systems separately, on different graphs.... look at the State Report - it's a downloaded PDF.

https://www.countyofsb.org/phd/epidemiology/seasonal-flu.sbc

Hey Mountain, did you notice that EdHat updated the 3-day total of cases? We were correct. Thanks for helping me confirm that and get the article updated with the correct number of cases. (https://www.edhat.com/news/1129-new-cases-and-7-deaths-in-past-three-days)

In this coutny... I think there have been 4 deaths in the state, but I haven't checked this week.

There are actually zero flu cases.... and no deaths. Pretty spectacular that.

They're way, way down, thanks to physical distancing, mask wearing, and the few shutdowns we've done. It just shows how much more contagious SARS-CoV-2 is than influenza. But, of course, to people who get their opinions from social media, it's some sort of conspiracy.

15 more healthcare workers today. Out for onlt two weeks, if they're lucky.

That figure was 1171 infected at some point in the pandemic, so approximately 5% of the estimated 20,000 healthcare workers in the county

They ALL matter!! I was asking because of the poster who said 20 healthcare workers were positive.. I am curious about how many healthcare workers there are in Santa Barbara County? 20 workers equaling 5% seems like a low number of healthcare workers. I figured there were at least a few thousand if not more

It comes to a bit over 5%, as estimated by the SBPHD. At what level do you begin to care?