CDC: coVid REAL DEATH stats

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

 

On Aug 19 the CDC updated their statistics to show that only 6% of the ~150K deaths attributed to COVID were actually COVID-only deaths.  That is just over 9K deaths that can be directly attributed to the virus.  In the other 140K+ deaths (94%) each had on average 2.6 additional co-morbidity issues that were the underlying cause of death. And, the clear majority were noticeably of advanced a

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PANDEMIC & relationships

Stress from the pandemic can destroy relationships with friends — even families


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By Katherine Ellison
August 8 at 8:21 AM CT
Tell the truth: You’ve started to size up friends and relations as potentially lethal threats. You’re avoiding the longtime pal who’s married to an emergency room doctor, and maybe also the demonstrative sister who can’t stay six feet away. 

Conversely, perhaps you’ve finally told off the worrywart who keeps trying to persuade you to sterilize your mail.
Abundant research suggests that supportive relationships can help relieve harmful stress, with physical and mental benefits that include resistance to viruses. Yet our five-month-old ride on the coronacoaster is fraying, and sometimes destroying, bonds that in simpler times might have helped carry us through.
“There’s been a tightening of our social circles,” says science journalist Lydia Denworth, author of “Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond.” The pandemic, Denworth says, is “causing stress and strain to every relationship.”
Philadelphia personal injury lawyer Danyl Patterson says covid-19 has ended her days as a “social butterfly” who used to fry 80 pounds of fish at a time for crowds of casual friends. “I’ve learned I need fewer people in my life,” she says.
Several weeks ago, Patterson moved temporarily to her boyfriend’s New Jersey home, which has a pool. As the weather heated up and friends angled for invitations, she set strict rules concerning who could visit her.
“We had to have a lot of hard conversations,” she says. “Essential workers can’t come.” Nor can people “who haven’t been truly isolating. . . . And do you have kids 16 and older? Then you can’t come, either.”



Some friends and relatives were hurt, and some were angry.
“There are people I’m no longer speaking with,” Patterson says. Several years ago, however, Patterson lost both of her parents to the H1N1 virus, also called swine flu. Today, she says: “Everyone knows I’m serious.”

Patterson concedes she may have lost some friends for good, but she says the overall quality of her friendships has improved.
“If you’re supposedly my friend,” she says, “and you don’t accept my wishes about safety, then you’re really not my friend.”
[Loneliness was a concern he heard from people of all generations]

 former U.S. poet laureate discusses the pleasures of anticipating letters from friends and shares the poetry she is turning to during the coronavirus crisis (The Washington Post)
Some public health experts say they’re worried the lockdowns and stay-at-home rules are aggravating a “loneliness epidemic” that was worrisome enough before the pandemic began. Yet Denworth, the author, says the restrictions may also provide a chance — and even the perfect excuse — to weed out relationships that were troublesome before all this began.
Good health depends not only on the closeness of our ties but also on their nature, says Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a neuroscientist at Brigham Young University. Holt-Lunstad’s recent studies suggest that “ambivalent” relationships, those combining affection and hostility (alas, like so many family ties), create chronic stress that can ultimately damage health.
“This sometimes gets lost when we talk about social isolation,” Holt-Lunstad says. “It’s not as if we just need to make people more engaged with others. We also have to pay more attention to the negativity in some relationships.”
The pandemic’s toll on friendships goes deeper than mere political polarization — the confusion of a mask with support for “big government.” It’s more about discovering personality differences between you and your relatives and friends, including different levels of risk-tolerance and what might seem like irrational optimism on one side vs. hysterical alarmism on the other. At a time when many of us are losing sleep, picturing ourselves or someone we love gasping for air in a crowded emergency room, these differences are painfully relevant.


Making the necessary conversations so much harder, however, is the scarcity of scientific information. This has made risk-assessment a moving target. When even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention isn’t providing clear-cut answers about how long the virus stays on surfaces (Hours? Days?), opinions may substitute for facts, making you likelier to argue with a friend who has just told you that you can’t use her bathroom.
“I heard this somewhere and wish I’d thought of it: We’re faced with a moment with our friends in which we’re having to navigate consent like people do with sexual relationships,” Denworth says.
In this case, however, disputes involve other primal drives, including the fear of being ostracized for possibly spreading disease and a craving for more of a sense of control.
“People have stopped inviting me places because they’re worried I won’t come, which is true,” says Jennifer Renner, an office worker in Berkeley, Calif., with a 1-year-old child. “Or I get these condescending comments, like, ‘We’re all going to do this but feel free to bring your own cup.’ I get treated like I have this weird anxiety tic I have to manage.”
After weeks of not leaving her house, Renner recently accepted a friend’s invitation to meet at a park. “It’s perfectly safe,” she says her friend told her. Renner bundled her child into the car and drove for a half-hour, but on arrival she was shocked to see throngs of people walking, running, biking and rollerblading, all close together and with hardly a mask in sight.


She never got out of her car. Instead, she texted her friend, who, to her surprise, kept insisting that she come. “She said, ‘It’s safe, you can trust me,’ with this air that I had to get out of my comfort zone.”
Renner refused. She didn’t believe her friend had any special knowledge of what was safe.
Later, she says: “I felt gaslit. This isn’t like a fear of elevators, like something I have to conquer.”
The two didn’t speak again for nearly two weeks, and although they’ve since reconciled, Renner is still bothered that her friend couldn’t appreciate her grounds for fear.
Of course, these conflicts aren’t a one-way street. Protests against alleged control-freaks are breaking out at dinner tables and on Zoom calls and social media.
An elderly woman in Marin County, Calif., normally receives a lot of “likes” when she confides her covid-19 worries on Facebook. But when she recently suggested that police should control teenagers assembling without masks near her favorite coffee shop, Jen Shulman, a freelance writer, accused her of wanting to “see young people arrested on summer break so she can enjoy her damn macchiato in safety.”
“It brought out my inner cyberbully,” Shulman said in a later interview.
Shulman has elderly parents whom she’s trying to protect but is also the mother of three teenagers whose lives have ground to a halt during the pandemic. Her perspective makes her impatient with both sides of the squabbling over masks, which she says has degenerated into “both groups transferring their frustration and dread onto others who are likely doing the best they can.”


There may be an upside in this strife, if friends and family eventually learn to speak more directly to one another about things that matter, strengthening relationships with new levels of understanding. But this sort of evolution would take a lot of work.
“Fighting the good fight is exhausting,” concludes Hannah Smith, an artist in Sioux Falls, S.D., after arguing with her sister in Bunker Hill, Ill.
She described the run-in on a five-week-old Facebook page called: “So . . . Are we still COVIDing?” which at last count had 3,000 members sharing news, advice and complaints about other people’s behavior.
On the page and in a subsequent interview, Smith says she had tried in vain to convince her sister to keep her three children out of school, even offering to home-school them herself.
“Kids can’t get it,” she quoted her sister as saying, leading Smith to write her profanity-laced tirade, accompanied by a GIF of an actor banging his head against a wall. “I live in the land of stupid,” she fumed. Her sister declined to comment.
Research has shown that many fewer children than adults are testing positive for covid-19, while deaths among children are extremely rare. Yet studies also demonstrate that children can still spread the disease to others.
The strength of social networks will be even more seriously tested as the weather grows colder later this year, says University of Rochester psychologist Harry Reis, who studies the effect of relationships on health.
“Right now, it’s pleasant and easy to meet outdoors,” Reis says. “But what happens when the weather gets nasty? At that point will people just cut off most of their contacts with others?”
Judging from “Are we still COVIDing?” that moment cannot come too soon for some.


“Does anyone else want to join me in finding an island where we can live with like-minded people who wear masks in any indoor space, keep distance, and don’t comment on how ‘this is just like the flu’ or ridicule you for taking precautions?” read a recent post by a high school teacher in Ohio. “I am so exhausted from having to navigate life with people who don’t seem to give a s . . . .”
Her complaint drew an outpouring of emoji and supportive comments, several of which simply said: “I’m in!”
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HUNTSMAN/Kat Summer Visit

COSTCO PANDEMIC CHANGES—8-6-2020

Many changes were made during Pandemic. One change that made me so sad was FREE COSTCO SAMPLES!!!

In AUG of 2020, FREE WRAPPED samples returned, but no eating in store!!!

Huntsman KC VISIT:CoVid Summer

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PANDEMIC SUMMER: INDIAN CREEK & COLORADO

MOM CAME IN SECOND playing one of the hardest games listed in a current Board game APP. The game took 3 hours with Brad, Carson & Jess!!!

FOUNDING FATHERS

LORD OF THE RINGS

TOMATOES & SQUASH

BRAD USED OUR OLD DRYER DRUM TO CREATE THIS FIRE PIT!!!!

In reference to one of my FAVORITE card games,

PHASE TEN

the board game APP listed the following review:

I want to burn this game. It’s the most infuriating peace of junk in the entire universe. I’ll give you an overview on the average phase 10 turn. You draw a card from the deck, and you hope that you make a set or run of cards. That’s basically the whole game right there. You can draw from the discard pile but the chances the card you want being there are slim. It is the most boring thing in the world. But wait, there’s more. This game takes years to finish, and I mean YEARS. And it feels EVEN longer. When someone asks me to play uno, i’ll play. Because the game takes like 5 seconds to complete. But then you have phase 10 where, you’d expect it to be the same as it's a light card game, BUT NO. It just draaaags and draaags on. Another EXTREMELY infuriating thing is a lot of the time you can be a ton of phases behind someone and so you know you have no chance and just have to sit there hoping someone wins already. Enough ranting, the conclusion is that this game deserves to be destroyed by 15,000 acres of fire, then stabbed 1200 times, and then a nuke dropped on it.