Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[dankrutka]

It’s been mandatory in LA where I’ve been the last couple weeks. No, you won’t (and shouldn’t) get arrested or ticketed for not wearing one, but it seems to help. But it’s not like everyone wears one when they can maintain social distance. I’d say 90% did not have them on the beach, but people were also socially distancing.

Businesses can really make a bigger difference by just requiring and enforcing them.

[soonerguru]

https://twitter.com/rogman99/status/...176834/photo/1 Dang Tulsa is really bad.

Tulsa had exactly two more new cases yesterday than OKC. It’s bad here, too, we just are lucky not to have a mayor so dumb to allow and welcome a superspreader event in our city.

[soonerguru]

How are we going to enforce mandatory masks?

Put it on the businesses and employers. Tell them to enforce it or face new shutdowns.

A friend told me she braved dining out for the first time, eating on the patio of Redrock Canyon in Norman. She felt relatively safe but looked inside and said there was no distancing in the dinig room whatsoever, and it was packed. I was disappointed to hear that because I had been under the impression that the Hal Smith RG was taking this seriously.

[FighttheGoodFight]

Put it on the businesses and employers. Tell them to enforce it or face new shutdowns.

A friend told me she braved dining out for the first time, eating on the patio of Redrock Canyon in Norman. She felt relatively safe but looked inside and said there was no distancing in the dinig room whatsoever, and it was packed. I was disappointed to hear that because I had been under the impression that the Hal Smith RG was taking this seriously.

Complete opposite of PubW in Norman. We have ordered to go and everyone is in masks inside and distanced. The curbside is great as they put in my backseat.

[jerrywall]

Put it on the businesses and employers. Tell them to enforce it or face new shutdowns.

Maybe. I'm a little nervous about what happens when the police get called out to enforce a mask or remove someone for not wearing a mask, considering everything else going on right now. Regardless, I still think it's a good idea. I've already written my Councilman in Edmond expressing my support for mandatory masks.

[soonerguru]

Maybe. I'm a little nervous about what happens when the police get called out to enforce a mask or remove someone for not wearing a mask, considering everything else going on right now. Regardless, I still think it's a good idea. I've already written my Councilman in Edmond expressing my support for mandatory masks.

Good for you!

[FighttheGoodFight]

Based on comments on any news site Facebook/Twitter there will never be a mask mandate either. People are wild, man.

[C_M_25]

Based on comments on any news site Facebook/Twitter there will never be a mask mandate either. People are wild, man.

I have been really disappointed with oklahomans as a whole during this. I think there is a group of people, typically educated and understands science/statistics, that is taking this seriously and favors masks and/or mandatory masks. The vast majority (probably 95% or greater) of people who comment on those news sites, as well as people that I work with, think this is a conspiracy, a bad cold, or fake news. I grew up in this state, and I'm well aware of the education issue as a whole here; however, this really brings to light how poorly educated people really are around here.

[PhiAlpha]

I have been really disappointed with oklahomans as a whole during this. I think there is a group of people, typically educated and understands science/statistics, that is taking this seriously and favors masks and/or mandatory masks. The vast majority (probably 95% or greater) of people who comment on those news sites, as well as people that I work with, think this is a conspiracy, a bad cold, or fake news. I grew up in this state, and I'm well aware of the education issue as a whole here; however, this really brings to light how poorly educated people really are around here.

Rule #1 about news articles...don’t read the comments lol.

[HangryHippo]

Rule #1 about news articles...don’t read the comments lol.

This should be the second rule right after mandatory masking. 😂

[Roger S]

Rule #1 about news articles...don’t read the comments lol.

But there is some comedy gold to be found in those comments and sometimes laughter is the best medicine.

[Ohwiseone]

Good News and Bad News.
Good News: Cases fell.
Bad News: Total new cases 392.

Only one new death.

26 New hospitalizations if my math is right.

[Libbymin]

I just don't totally understand why wearing a mask is even that big a deal to begin with. You go into a grocery store for maybe 15 minutes and put it on and then you can take it off when you get to your car. It's really not that big a deal. Some people will say that they're not worried about getting sick, but I don't want YOU to get ME sick. And I'm wearing my mask so I don't get YOU sick.

I think some of it is that, as a general rule, people don't like being told what to do, especially if it comes from the government.

[Pete]

Yes:

352 new cases
26 new hospitalizations
1 new death

That's 2,501 new cases in just the last 11 days.

And of course, until yesterday, 352 new cases would have still been 100 cases more than the previous record high.

[PoliSciGuy]

Another bit of good news about today is that we added about 7k new tests, almost double our daily average, so the positivity rate will nudge back down a bit. Also our "currently hospitalized" number has *dropped* by 70 since Wednesday.

[Ohwiseone]

I really hope holt implements a mask requirement.

[Pete]

Here are the new positives over the last 11 days:

352
450
259
228
186
158
225
222
146
117
158

This represents well more than double any previous 11-day span, and of course the trend seems to be accelerating.

[soonerguru]

Yes:

352 new cases
26 new hospitalizations
1 new death

That's 2,501 new cases in just the last 11 days.

And of course, until yesterday, 352 new cases would have still been 100 cases more than the previous record high.

Unreal.

[PoliSciGuy]

https://twitter.com/KassieMcClung/st...11829828812801

Breakdown:
Tulsa Co.: +125
Oklahoma Co.: +85
Cleveland Co.: +15
McCurtain Co.: +19

No surprise that the metro areas are the hotbeds, but man Tulsa is in for a long six weeks after this weekend

[Pete]

Today over yesterday:

Tulsa Co. +125
OK Co. +85

Population for reference:
Tulsa County 651,000
OK County 797,000

[oklip955]

I wear a mask and social distance. I try to politely ask people to keep the 6 ft but they come back with, you are wearing a mask so you don't have to worry about social distancing. Yah and the person saying this is not social distancing and refusing to as well as not wearing a mask. They don't get it. Paper and or cloth masks don't protect you from the virus but protects others. And this is in Edmond with a supposite high education level.

[OKC Guy]

Whats strange is deaths are not increasing. Could it be more have built in immunity yet test positive now?

Does anyone have the death toll tally over the past few months by day or week? I would be curious to see it.

[PhiAlpha]

Whats strange is deaths are not increasing. Could it be more have built in immunity yet test positive now?

Does anyone have the death toll tally over the past few months by day or week? I would be curious to see it.

Holt said the new cases over the last few weeks have been disproportionately young people so that’s probably why the deaths have stayed low.

[PoliSciGuy]

Whats strange is deaths are not increasing. Could it be more have built in immunity yet test positive now?

Does anyone have the death toll tally over the past few months by day or week? I would be curious to see it.

Deaths lag by about a month. We won't see the deaths from this uptick for another 2-3 weeks. We're seeing the death numbers from the last couple weeks of relatively low case counts.

Our seroprevalence is around 4-5%, nowhere near herd immunity.

[Pete]

Florida just reported nearly 4,000 new cases which means their increase was more than double that of ours in per capita terms.

And yesterday, WHO reported the largest ever increase in cases world-wide.