Texas USA is removing all restrictions

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On March 10th, Texas is removing all restrictions and I hope it doesn’t get out of control, they do expect people to used some common sense, but this is not good news because it cause schools and jobs to be forced close contact with each other. (Like sharing school desks to fit students in one classroom)

And Mississippi. 15 states have no mask mandates.

I’m jealous!

If people want to wear a mask they can.

@LifeExperience you do have far more beds per 100,000 and thus didn't feel the crunch as much as here. It wasn't 'saving' the NHS, it was preventing doctors at the front door deciding who gets care.

You certainly don't get what you pay for because prices are insanely expensive. That stance is why Americans are the most selfish nation on the planet. You're ok because you can pay the huge costs of insurance and co-pays the majority can't. You probably also had less people going to hospital due to being terrified of the cost. I suspect the US deaths are massively under reported due to not wanting to bother testing homeless deaths.

Florida generally has a warm climate with low population density. They also are hopeless at actually reporting numbers.

Yes now that hospital admissions are lower and vaccinations are high the Uk needs to lift lockdown faster but you cannot compare the two. I worked in healthcare in the US and I'll take our health care every time because I'm not a selfish twat that believes only the rich deserve decent healthcare

The problem with no mask mandate is that your job can actually tell you not to wear a mask. I wasn’t allowed to wear it when this whole coronavirus started. Then I wasn’t allowed to wear a mask where I felt was safer. I had to wear their “uniform” mask which was a stretchy material and very hot to breath as it is too close to your face. I wanted to wear 100 cotton non stretching material . People don’t always get to wear a mask if they wanted to. They have to do what their workplace required. As you can see when you go to McDonald’s and how they wear uniforms

You certainly don't get what you pay for because prices are insanely expensive. That stance You're ok because you can pay the huge costs of insurance and co-pays the majority can't

Actually, the majority can. But yeah, they’d probably like to pay a little less. Who wouldn’t?

You probably also had less people going to hospital due to being terrified of the cost

Since this is a virus that strikes the elderly, it’s not a big issue. They’ll be fine with Medicare, there are government programs for those with no insurance as well.

I suspect the US deaths are massively under reported due to not wanting to bother testing homeless deaths

Hasn’t happened. And they do test. Why are you assuming they’re not?

www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/us/coronavirus-homeless.html

Doesn't bother me. They cannot travel over here anyway. Hope it works out well for them I really doubt it will

Most of our insurance through employment (or private if they chose it) cover about 80% of our healthcare

We have Medicaid/Medicare for those who are unable to work for whatever reasons.

Then we also have free clinics run by volunteers . There is one in my area. When I went to the emergency room with no insurance, no job, no government assistance, they had me fill in a charity form and my bill was wiped clean.

But with insurance, it can run high so I still prefer Medicare-for-all

Why does so many people think outdoor activities is low risk?

Because the actual evidence suggests that there are very few cases of it being transmitted outside. Situations like mass crowd events where people are squashed up next to each other for quarter of an hour or longer are the exception.

One of our main offices is in Houston.

Our company is still offering WFH for everyone though.

I have friends in Texas and they will still wear masks even when they don’t have to. I guess they are handing responsibility over to the population. Many will probably still work from home and they will carry on. Vaccinations will continue. They have huge drive through centres over there.

So there may be a slight blip (which in balance is worth it to open up the economy) no bloodbath.

Florida generally has a warm climate with low population density. They also are hopeless at actually reporting numbers.

complete bollocks

Wish I was Texan!

Good luck to them.

@ILookAtTheFloor

Wish I was Texan!

Good luck to them.

it is great news 🌺

Hopefully this will be us soon! 👍🏻

It'll be interesting to see what happens, that's for sure. I must admit, Florida really surprised me, I thought it would be much much worse.
endlesscraziness underreported covid deaths are usually revealed in excess deaths, and Florida's excess deaths seem to be consistent.

It will be interesting. It didn’t work out for the Isle of Man, did it. Has the Isle of Man had a good injection rate? I wonder why rates have risen so much?

My in laws live in FL . They didn’t visit family (nor family visit them) during this pandemic , and didn’t get out often and they wore masks. So they never caught the virus. People in FL tend to space out some as they are there to relax and enjoy the weather. It is not a busy like NYC where everyone have career to worry about so they tend to get too close to other people to get things done or get where they need to be.

My in laws live in FL . They didn’t visit family (nor family visit them) during this pandemic , and didn’t get out often and they wore masks

You can do all the right things and still get it you know ...

Well they never got it. Luckily for them both of them got their vaccinations (both doses)

www.tampabay.com/news/2021/03/04/wealthy-florida-keys-enclave-received-vaccines-in-january-before-much-of-the-state/

I just now signed up for Jonathan & Jonathan vaccine . Hopefully it’s a step forward opening our states

@endlesscraziness CARES Act ensures that even people without insurance will have the costs of their COVID treatment covered. There is no “terrified of the cost” when it comes to COVID-19 and treatment.

My family live in the US - my parents haven't gone anywhere for a year. No shops, ever. My niece hasn't been to (in-person) school in a year. The vaccine rollout in their state has been a farce and their vaccination rates are pretty low.

In contrast, my partner's parents met up with us all in the summer when rates were low, and the kids all got to go to school. We all know where we stand in relation to our turn for a vaccine.

The difference is that my family in the US can't trust anything because there are no rules.

One major factor to consider is healthcare. Yes we can complain about the US healthcare system but although I don’t have the actual numbers to hand I have read that they have 3-4 times the amount of critical care beds available per capita. Similar in Germany and Scandinavian countries compared with the UK. Lockdown in the uk has always been about Stopping the nhs getting overwhelmed. If the NHS in the UK only has the capacity to actually treat a fraction of the number of people that the US and Germany has, then it follows that the acceptable limit of infections is lower. Hence these awful restrictions.

Isn’t Florida a warm, humid sort of climate? I’m sure I’ve read that covid spreads more efficiently in dry air (and cold air, of course).

In any event, it seems very silly to me to compare different US states without factoring in climate, pollution, covid mutations, population density, methods of air conditioning and/or heating internal spaces, clusters of infections, etc, etc.