Covid-19

[Bubba Zanetti]

4 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

Got my 2nd shot on Monday night and man its still kicking my butt. About the only time I feel good about being feeling crappy.

Should have got it in the arm then.....

[bustamente]

Bomber game 100 percent capacity approved

[bustamente]

The province will implement the second phase of the ‘4-3-2-One Great Summer’ Reopening Path two weeks early, on July 17, as vaccination rates continue to climb across the province, Premier Brian Pallister and Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief provincial public health officer, announced today.

“Vaccines are the safest and quickest way out of this pandemic. The sooner all eligible Manitobans get fully vaccinated, the sooner we can all get our lives back,” said Pallister. “Thanks to the incredible efforts of Manitoba’s vaccine team and Manitobans’ willingness to roll up their sleeves – not once, but twice – we are able to move forward earlier than anticipated with fewer restrictions on our economy and our communities.”

The second vaccination milestone of at least 75 per cent first dose and 50 per cent second dose for those age 12 and older was reached nearly a month ahead of schedule on July 6. With continued improvement in the overall COVID-19 situation, Manitobans will be able to enjoy more freedoms with expanded indoor and outdoor activities, the premier noted.

Under the second phase of the ‘4-3-2 One Great Summer’ Reopening Path, most facilities may now open to 50 per cent capacity, allowing more people to gather indoors and outdoors, shop, dine out, visit cultural and recreational facilities, and more. Fully immunized Manitobans who have received two vaccination doses at least two weeks ago, may enjoy even more benefits under new public health orders.

Specifically, the new public health orders will now allow the following:
• indoor gatherings at private residences are permitted to a maximum of five people, plus the household members;
• indoor gatherings in public spaces are permitted to a maximum of 25 people;
• outdoor gatherings on private property increase to a maximum of 25 people;
• public outdoor gatherings increase to a maximum of 150 people;
• retail businesses increase to 50 per cent capacity or 500 people, whichever is lower;
• restaurants, licensed premises and food court capacities expand to 50 per cent capacity:
   - outdoor maximum table size remains at eight people;
   - patrons may only sit together indoors if they are from the same household or if all patrons 12 years of age or older are fully immunized (unvaccinated children under 12 may dine with fully vaccinated members of their household in this case);
   - opening hours extend to midnight;
   - the requirement to purchase food when ordering alcohol no longer applies;
   - VLTs may be operate with all other restaurant/bar rules applying (two-metre distance, only households or fully vaccinated people seated together);
• personal services (haircuts and styling, nail salons, estheticians and massage) continue at 50 per cent capacity; however, appointments are no longer required;
• dance, theatre, and music school capacities increase to 50 per cent capacity to a maximum of 25 perople per group;
• indoor sporting facilities may host groups up to a maximum of 25 people, interaction between groups and tournaments are not permitted;
• day camp capacity increases to groups of 25, joint activities between groups and overnight camps are prohibited;
• outdoor recreation including games and practices may take place to maximum group size of 50 people; spectators are permitted and do not count towards this capacity limit; tournaments are not permitted;
• gym and fitness centre capacities expand to 50 per cent capacity; masks and increased physical distancing (three metres) are still required;
• outdoor weddings and funerals may include up to 150 participants in addition to photographers and officiants; indoor weddings or funerals increase to 25 people in addition to photographers and officiants;
• libraries may open to 50 per cent capacity to a maximum of 150 people, whichever is lower;
• faith-based and cultural gatherings (pow wows, sun dances) may expand to 50 per cent capacity or 150 people indoors, whichever is lower; masks and physical distancing between households is still required;
   - if the facility design allows, the capacity limits may be applied to different physical spaces within the venue;
   - outdoor faith-based and cultural gatherings permitted up to 150 people and drive-in services continue to be permitted without restriction;
• the following may now reopen for fully immunized people only, to a maximum capacity of 50 per cent: movie theatres; bingo halls, VLT lounges and casinos, and museums and galleries;
   - museums operate under the fully vaccinated requirement when open to the public as a museum, both indoors and out, and if the museum is used as a private venue for another purpose (e.g. wedding), then the appropriate orders apply;
   - unvaccinated children under 12 may attend/visit these facilities/events (as appropriate) if accompanied by fully vaccinated members of their household;
• large-scale, outdoor professional sports or performing arts events may operate with capacities up to 100 per cent after developing an approved event plan in consultation with public health.

In all cases, following the COVID-19 fundamentals, including indoor mask use and physical distancing, is still required to protect the health and well-being of all Manitobans.

“This is the safe, reasonable and appropriate next step in our reopening”, said Roussin. “More and more vaccinations allow us to loosen public health restrictions. But COVID-19 is still circulating in the province and continues to challenge our hospital and ICU capacity, a phased reopening is a safe reopening.”

Pallister echoed the need for caution and care in the province’s reopening plan.

“This is a marathon, not a sprint. We are not at the finish line yet, the race to beat COVID-19 is not over yet,” said the premier. “Until that race is over, Manitobans must continue to do their part and fulfil the two most important public health responsibilities each of us have; get fully vaccinated and follow the public health orders designed to keep COVID-19 away.”

The new public health orders will go into effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 17.

The orders are scheduled to expire at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 7 and will be reassessed at that time in the context of vaccination rates and the province’s overall COVID-19 situation.

“We are close to achieving all of our vaccination milestones ahead of schedule. Now we just need that extra effort by every Manitoban not yet vaccinated to roll up your sleeve and push us across the finish line so we can fully reopen, safely and quickly,” said Pallister.

[FrostyWinnipeg]

Libraries open! **** yeah!

[SpeedFlex27]

19 hours ago, Mark H. said:

I read the reports every day. Nothing beyond "we are seeing some transmission in schools."  

When there have been some cases, one contact tracer will ask the entire cohort to isolate, while another will say they don't need isolate if everyone was wearing masks. 

It has been wildly inconsistent.  Some schools stopped wearing masks altogether, and there were no repercussions (true story). 

Just today I saw a report from Tennessee saying adults need to watch themselves around children as they are highly transmissable. 

[Stretch]

5 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Just today I saw a report from Tennessee saying adults need to watch themselves around children as they are highly transmissable. 

And we all know that adults are the leading cause of children. 😜

[iHeart]

awesome we are lower again

and for the first time since god knows when the Interlakes have more cases than we do

Edited July 15, 2021 by iHeart

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

Sooo... the peak of the pandemic is this fall? dafuq?

 

 

[Tracker]

7 hours ago, Stretch said:

And we all know that adults are the leading cause of children. 😜

And here I thought all along that it was alcohol.

[iHeart]

oh no, that didn't take long

 

[Noeller]

The CFL published the results in a statement Thursday.

Through pre-training camp and quarantine, the league administered approximately 6,000 COVID-19 tests to Tier 1 personnel, which includes players, coaches and support staff. Those tests resulted in a total of 10 individuals returning a positive test result for COVID-19.

Five of the positive tests occurred prior to the affected individuals’ travel to their respective CFL markets; they were subsequently not allowed to travel. Please note that, on occasion, a test that comes back positive is determined to be false-positive.

Any individual that tests positive is prevented  from joining or is removed from team activities, and is isolated or quarantined, in accordance with the CFL’s Return to Play Health and Safety protocol, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) protocol and local public health protocol.

 

The CFL will continue to provide updates on tests administered to Tier 1 personnel. As a matter of policy, it will not identify the affected individuals or Clubs.

[Sard]

19 minutes ago, Noeller said:

The CFL published the results in a statement Thursday.

Through pre-training camp and quarantine, the league administered approximately 6,000 COVID-19 tests to Tier 1 personnel, which includes players, coaches and support staff. Those tests resulted in a total of 10 individuals returning a positive test result for COVID-19.

Five of the positive tests occurred prior to the affected individuals’ travel to their respective CFL markets; they were subsequently not allowed to travel. Please note that, on occasion, a test that comes back positive is determined to be false-positive.

Any individual that tests positive is prevented  from joining or is removed from team activities, and is isolated or quarantined, in accordance with the CFL’s Return to Play Health and Safety protocol, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) protocol and local public health protocol.

 

The CFL will continue to provide updates on tests administered to Tier 1 personnel. As a matter of policy, it will not identify the affected individuals or Clubs.

There was something on Twitter about 1 of the Sask players having tested positive, but it turned out to be a false-positive.  Also, 10 out of 6000 is a TPR of 0.17%, so overall, not too bad.

[bustamente]

Americans are acting like everything is back to normal and Covid is over, they are fooling themselves, LA Country has just mandated masks again in all indoor spaces vaccinated or not and tonight's Yankee's/Red Sox game was postponed as several pitchers on Yankee's tested positive with more results to come.

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, bustamente said:

Americans are acting like everything is back to normal and Covid is over, they are fooling themselves, LA Country has just mandated masks again in all indoor spaces vaccinated or not and tonight's Yankee's/Red Sox game was postponed as several pitchers on Yankee's tested positive with more results to come.

Epidemiologists in the US are grimly expecting another wave in mid-to-late September that will arise in the south of the US, and leak out into the rest of the country as people flee from the plague areas. 

[Noeller]

Anyone not vaccinated is in big danger.... Scary stuff to come this fall. 

[Stretch]

5 hours ago, Sard said:

There was something on Twitter about 1 of the Sask players having tested positive, but it turned out to be a false-positive.

You sure that wasn't an IQ test? 😉

[FrostyWinnipeg]

13 hours ago, Stretch said:

You sure that wasn't an IQ test? 😉

Tested positive for corn-husking.

 

Edited July 16, 2021 by FrostyWinnipeg

[blue_gold_84]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-covid19-trends-cdc-delta-1.6105503

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The delta variant of COVID-19 is now the dominant strain worldwide and is driving a surge of deaths around the United States, almost entirely among unvaccinated people, U.S. officials said Friday.

Cases of COVID-19 are up 70 per cent over the previous week and deaths are up 26 per cent, with most of the surge occurring in counties with below average vaccination rates, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said during a news briefing.

"This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated," Walensky said, adding that 97 per cent of people entering hospitals in the United States with COVID-19 are unvaccinated.

According to the officials, four states account for 40 per cent of the rise in cases, with Florida alone accounting for one in every five new national cases over the past week.

Along with Florida, Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana and Nevada were cited as states that have seen significant increases in cases.

These variants are troubling to say the least.

[Noeller]

9 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-covid19-trends-cdc-delta-1.6105503

These variants are troubling to say the least.

....if you're unvaccinated.....

[Tracker]

Got my double-double card today, so I'm OK and I'm not even a lumberjack.

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

39 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-covid19-trends-cdc-delta-1.6105503

These variants are troubling to say the least.

 

29 minutes ago, Noeller said:

....if you're unvaccinated.....

 

We should rename it the Darwin Variant.

[Sard]

30 minutes ago, Noeller said:

....if you're unvaccinated.....

My concern is for the kids who can't get vaccinated yet.  I have an 8 year old, and until she is vaccinated I'm still a little uncomfortable with loosened restrictions.  Specifically anything to do with masks and distancing.

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

3 minutes ago, Sard said:

My concern is for the kids who can't get vaccinated yet.  I have an 8 year old, and until she is vaccinated I'm still a little uncomfortable with loosened restrictions.  Specifically anything to do with masks and distancing.

I totally understand where you are coming from- I have a 9 and 7 year old. Last thing I heard was that 12 and under will be eligible for vaccination in mid winter.... They better not drop the mask mandate... 

[Sard]

15 minutes ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

I totally understand where you are coming from- I have a 9 and 7 year old. Last thing I heard was that 12 and under will be eligible for vaccination in mid winter.... They better not drop the mask mandate... 

I heard that they expect the vaccine approvals to be done by the end of September, so they could be getting vaccinated as early as October... here's hoping...

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

1 hour ago, Sard said:

I heard that they expect the vaccine approvals to be done by the end of September, so they could be getting vaccinated as early as October... here's hoping...

Those were initial estimates... the ones I posted were more recent updates.