Positive vs confirmed

I live in central Texas. Limestone County. When the Governor decreed that in all counties that had 20 or more cases of the virus, you had to wear a mask in public, I finally got a mask. On the way to the grocery store, I stopped off at the gun shop to pick something up. I put the mask on and went inside. The place was packed and nobody had on a mask. They looked at me like I was from Mars, so I took the mask off. There was a cop there, so I said that I thought we had to wear a mask. He said that we didn’t have the 20 cases of CV. I had just read that we had 56 cases, but he said the 56 were ‘positive’ tests, but we only had 17 ‘confirmed’ cases. Very interesting. I had thought positive cases were actual cases, but no...

Obviously, the more testing done, the more positive cases will be found. The way that info is put out in the media is unnecessarily alarmist. Which, I suppose, is their objective.

603, They are considering “confirmed cases “ to be “active cases”. Many of your 56 cases recovered and therefore fall off the active list.

Make no mistake, the media will whip this issue into the biggest frenzy they can. It’s their life blood right now, along with racism.

Reporting the numbers of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths is whipping the issue into a frenzy? Reporting that Mexico closed part of their border and the EU closed their borders to people from the USA is whipping the issue into a frenzy? Reporting how to slow the spread or states that impose a quarantine whips things up? Please explain how that creates a frenzy.

According to the state of Texas, there are 45 exempt counties in the state.
Limestone isn't one of them.


https://tdem.texas.gov/ga29/

When Trump closed the border and airline travel from other countries was called every racist name in the book by the libs. Now why don’t Mexico close all the damn border instead of part of it?

The virus was already in the USA when Trump banned flights from China, and a number of Americans returning from China and neighboring countries likely also brought in the virus. You'll have to ask Mexico why they have not closed the whole border.

Why is reporting facts a "media frenzy"?

Well said!!!!!

Right, so lets all thank the root cause for all of this misery and destruction..........CHINA. Thank you once again china for perpetrating this plague upon the world, you loathesome, despicable morons.

Oh, ok, so you are watching fox now and they are reporting the facts? I will have to check that out

And aren’t you the guy that believes that mass gatherings of protesters does not spread the virus? I mean you posted an article stating that, from the media. Maybe you are overly gullible

Y'all have 23 active cases in Limestone County...y'all should be under the mask mandate.

There is a different between positive and active...and but they are supposed to only count confirmed active cases, not presumed positive (which means you have the symptoms, but have not had a positive test).

I said there is no data supporting the statements that the BLM protests are causing the spikes in cases. I also provided links to support my statement. Many of the protestors wear masks. Much of the rise in cases is from people not wearing masks and gathering in large numbers for social events like parties, church services, or Trump rallies. Check out the number of mask wearers in photos of BLM protests vs Trump events.

Any potential case is considered positive, until it’s proven to be negative. Bunch of BS, guilty until proven innocent...

So all the new positive cases are conservatives or drunks?

Funny how certain protests get the nod of approval from TG. Apparently the virus knows who to infect based on their political and social opinions.


https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/group-to-hold-anti-mask-protest-in-downtown-austin-today/



Austin Mayor and health officials sure seem to think protestors could super spreaders.
https://www.statesman.com/news/2020...us-cases-health-and-local-officials-warn

You’re very good at twisting my words. The statements were frequently made here that BLM protests are the reason for the rise in COVID cases. There was no supporting evidence supplied to support those statements, and those statements ignored social gatherings. I stated there was no evidence linking the protests to the spike in COVID cases and provided a number of links from public health experts.

Note your link says "could". Of course mass gatherings of unmasked people in close and prolonged contact will spread the virus. Where are those happening? Social gatherings, parties, churches, rallies. Once again, look at the percentage of people wearing masks at BLM protests vs people wearing masks at bars, anti-BLM rallies, and political rallies.

The virus does not recognize political affiliation, and those towns or people who do not take preventative measures will only prolong the problems. Those states which tried to open early pretty much wasted all of the economic pain of March-June.

The reason the BLM protesters wore mask wasnt because of the virus, doesn’t take a genius to figure that out.

What you have is some fear mongers, they are gonna beat the war drums of financial ruin and chaos until the election. It is a waste of perfectly good time and energy arguing with them. We know who they are on here and feeding the trolls of socialism is what they want. Most of us here get it. There are about 6 or 8 that don't, aren't and you may as well talk at the tree in the yard. Do the right thing at the election box just like in 2016. That's how you deal with them. Trump 2020

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And that is why you'll continue to suffer with the COVID problem. You've made an apolitical public health problem and the steps necessary to contain it into a fake political problem.

Whatever you say tg.

There is also no data supporting the statements that the BLM protests are not causing the spikes in cases. In areas where no data supports a statement, common sense should be used.

He posted an article, that’s his evidence because it supports his position. Common sense doesn’t come into play

And yet another video about the China Flu, by a Doctor in McKinney. So many local physicians are coming forward with real case experience.

You are free to post data and evidence to support your statements. We eagerly await such evidence.

So you think mask wearing is a 100% safeguard against Covid?

Thank god there was only 17 “confirmed”, three more and you could have DIED without that mask on.

What are those folks buying at the shop? Ammo, so they can shoot the virus? Lol.

Wow hope you never come across a group of people jumping off a bridge or anything like that.

I didn’t want to wear the mask anyway, so yep, I slid it down on my neck. That mask wearing was the only time I’ve used one, so I suppose I’ve had a mask on for maybe 20 seconds total so far. If you want to wear a mask, go for it. I don’t. If I lived in DFW or was back in Houston, I probably would have a mask. As it happens, we live way back in the country, behind a fence and gate. No visitors except the occasional grandkid and UPS driver. It’s just us, the yard fox, coons, and deer. And a few hogs. All that said, if the county is now over 20 confirmed cases, I suppose I’ll have to use the mask when I go to the store. But maybe we still aren’t...

As for the gun shop crowd, I have no idea what they were buying. I wanted 380 ACP practice ammo, which is the only caliber I need that I don’t load for. And there is no 380 ammo available anywhere. People seem to be buying guns and ammo like wild during these unsettling times. My LTC instructor told me today that his phone is ringing off the hook. He’s in Austin, so apparently even liberals and Marxists are buying guns for self defense. And I’ll soon start loading for the 380. I didn’t want to.

Of course, it could have been the mask I was wearing that caused them to look at me.

Beyond obvious that this is what all of this has always been about...the "protests," the statues, the "virus," the masks....just an attempt to create a chaotic mess to sway elections. Sad how many good people don't see it.

I agree that these circumstances are highly publicized due to an election being near. Sadly, they are are real. Not some “fake news”.

Diggin the mask.

TG cracks me up with his BS. He provided links from public health experts.

That's like watching the news when they bring on a professor to give their expert advice.

So I passed through Limestone county this morning.
Everyone was wearing a mask.
I don't know which part of Limestone county the OP was in, all I know is masks were being worn by everyone in Kosse at 10am this morning.

I want one of those masks. Where did you get it?

I ordered it from FoxPro. They had a coyote hunting show for a time and one of the hunters usually wore a mask like that. I had to have one. $20.

Limestone County again today. Gunshop had no mask wearers. Grocery had only mask wearers. I asked how many confirmed cases we had now and nobody knew. It seems we go by ‘herd think’. Depends on what herd a person happens to be with at the time. The gun shop herd was not the same folks I saw in the grocery store herd.

If I was still back in Houston, in corporate America, in a tie, and on the 10th floor, I’d probably wonder if there’s any place in the country that isn’t wearing a mask. I’d think ‘surely not’. Yet, here I am.

Where do we go from here?

So many of the frat boys like him are big on spreading panic because they think it will help ruin the economy and get, Biden the cellar dweller, elected
They're also big on the flat earth belief and the climate change conspiracy. You can identify them by their tin foil hats.

1A gotta love it when they speak proves their IQ level!

Yeah, you might want to try that again.

It seems you'd be the conspiracy person.

because all your "facts" are faux news bs perhaps?

for someone that touts his scientific prowess you sure are a simpleton.
fact: a mask only stops about 70% of your exhaled breath, thus anyone within the magic 6' proximity is exposed to your 30%. going on that then I would opine that approximately 10-15% of rioters/blm punks have now spread the virus to each other. since no one has any idea of just who went to the blm riots we will never know for a fact what percentage it really is. given the fact that wearing a mask is only to prevent you from catching spit from someone who coughs or sneezes yet you still inhale 30% (or more) of the outside air unfiltered you have a better chance of catching covid from a large gathering no matter who has one on.

it is called common sense, look into buying some cuz you sure don't have any now

If you would try making your points without the constant digs, you would be better received.