Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[Plutonic Panda]

I've deleted a bunch of posts.

NO POLITICS!!!

Bans are coming if this persists.

Pete, my bad man, but it is fairly easy to forget which thread is which when we have like 5 of them. I’ll try my best but an honest mistake is an honest mistake.

[Pete]

Pete, my bad man, but it is fairly easy to forget which thread is which when we have like 5 of them. I’ll try my best but an honest mistake is an honest mistake.

If you use the "Latest Posts" button at the top of every page, you'll only see threads outside the Politics Forum.

[Plutonic Panda]

If you use the "Latest Posts" button at the top of every page, you'll only see threads outside the Politics Forum.

I always use that

Why is mine different?

Idk why it’s blurry but I click on latest post and politics shows up unless I’m doing something wrong,

[brian72]

Serenity Now.

[Roger S]

Pete... I get politics threads (which I avoid like Covid*) when I click Latest Posts also.... If I click New Posts then the politics are filtered out. It's been that way for me for a few years.

*Formerly the plague

[jerrywall]

Pete... I get politics threads (which I avoid like Covid*) when I click Latest Posts also.... If I click New Posts then the politics are filtered out. It's been that way for me for a few years.

*Formerly the plague

So something I saw for me...

There's a setting under "general settings"...



It works backwards for me, so it may be for other people too. What this means is, if I select to exclude the "politics" from "what's new", the political forums actually show up under "what's new" but are hidden from "latest posts". Which is how I prefer it (I use "latest posts" mainly). If I set it to exclude "none", then "what's new" no longer shows political posts, but they DO show up under "latest posts". So it's some sort of binary switch in the logic somewhere.

[Pete]

427 new cases today.

6 more deaths.

And 62 additional hospitalizations, which is by far the most for one day.

[PoliSciGuy]

But at least total hospitalizations are down by 6 and the 7 day average decreased a bit.

[Pete]

Over 10,000 new cases in Florida today. 10K in one day in one state!

Texas yet to release #'s but they set a record yesterday and Arizona is also raging out of control.

[dankrutka]

If you use the "Latest Posts" button at the top of every page, you'll only see threads outside the Politics Forum.

I can also verify that I see political posts in "Latest Posts" and have for a while now.

[David]

I can also verify that I see political posts in "Latest Posts" and have for a while now.

What is the actual link you see if you mouseover the Latest Posts button? For me it's:

https://www.okctalk.com/search.php?d...ost&exclude=24

The very end is the important bit, and it functions in a fairly obvious way if you look at links in the forum and see that the Politics subforum has an ID of 24.

[dankrutka]

What is the actual link you see if you mouseover the Latest Posts button? For me it's:

https://www.okctalk.com/search.php?d...ost&exclude=24

The very end is the important bit, and it functions in a fairly obvious way if you look at links in the forum and see that the Politics subforum has an ID of 24.

Yes, here's the link I see for "Latest Posts" and it shows "Politics" threads

https://www.okctalk.com/search.php?d...ost&exclude=24

[Pete]

You may try clearing your browsing history and see if that helps.

[David]

Oh wow, in looking at this I managed to break it just now for myself so that Politics posts showed back up in those results, but then by fiddling with the settings Jerry mentioned I got them to go away again.

I went here, made sure the "-- Politics" option was selected, and then saved changes at the bottom. So far so good with none shown.

[catch22]

Oh wow, in looking at this I managed to break it just now for myself so that Politics posts showed back up in those results, but then by fiddling with the settings Jerry mentioned I got them to go away again.



I went here, made sure the "-- Politics" option was selected, and then saved changes at the bottom. So far so good with none shown.

Thanks. I had to go and reselect Politics. Maybe a forum update inadvertently reset that option for some users.

[Libbymin]

I'm really hoping people smarten up this weekend in light of Mayor Holt's request that people mask up. I have seen more mask usage at grocery stores which is good to see but this holiday weekend will be a real test for us.

[TheTravellers]

I'm really hoping people smarten up this weekend in light of Mayor Holt's request that people mask up. I have seen more mask usage at grocery stores which is good to see but this holiday weekend will be a real test for us.

I'll bet we get a "D" at best, but I expect an "F" when grading that test.

[jdizzle]

427 new cases today.

6 more deaths.

And 62 additional hospitalizations, which is by far the most for one day.

But currently hospitalized went down. I am not sure the lag between the 2 hospitalization #s, though.

[Pete]

But currently hospitalized went down. I am not sure the lag between the 2 hospitalization #s, though.

It's not just about hospital capacity.

62 additional people were sick enough to have to go to the hospital in one day, the most ever in the state.

That's significant, especially if you happen to be one of those people.

[PoliSciGuy]

It's not just about hospital capacity.

62 additional people were sick enough to have to go to the hospital in one day, the most ever in the state.

That's significant, especially if you happen to be one of those people.

That's...not exactly what hospitalizations capture. If you are hospitalized with anything, you're going to get tested for COVID, even if you're in there for a broken arm, elective surgery, etc. So it's more that 62 people were in the hospital and tested positive for COVID, *not* that 62 people had COVID symptoms so severe they had to be hospitalized. This also probably explains why our net number of people in the hospital *decreased* in the last 24 hours, as some folks may have been hospitalized for something other than COVID but were positive and asymptomatic. Nuance matters with these stats.

[Pete]

^

It's safe to assume a decent percentage of those hospitalized got to that point due to the virus.

They *may* have been hospitalized for some other reason and then tested positive, but no way to know what percentage fits that description.


And regardless, the # of new hospitalizations has gone up significantly in the last week and that was not happening before even when total cases were setting new daily records. That strongly implies that the big surge in cases is now leading to more hospitalizations, allowing for the typical 1-week delay between those trends.

[catch22]

That's...not exactly what hospitalizations capture. If you are hospitalized with anything, you're going to get tested for COVID, even if you're in there for a broken arm, elective surgery, etc. So it's more that 62 people were in the hospital and tested positive for COVID, *not* that 62 people had COVID symptoms so severe they had to be hospitalized. This also probably explains why our net number of people in the hospital *decreased* in the last 24 hours, as some folks may have been hospitalized for something other than COVID but were positive and asymptomatic. Nuance matters with these stats.

Is that an Oklahoma policy? In Colorado, I believe they are only counting and reporting deaths and hospitalizations for those where COVID was the primary or only factor.

If there is one positive take away from ALL of this, hopefully, we can get policies for reporting standardized so god-forbid the next pandemic can be handled expediently and accurately. This real-world scenario has shown incompetency and inconsistency from all forms of government and policymakers across the world. When this is over hopefully everyone from the city level to the global level can find some sort of middle ground for reporting so we have true apples-apples comparisons.

[Pete]

BTW, the positive test rate for the state today was 4.5%.

[TheTravellers]

Interesting, confirmed it's there on my Android phone.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ker-phone.html

[Bill Robertson]

Interesting, confirmed it's there on my Android phone.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ker-phone.html

It seems to have installed on I Phones with the latest IOS update. But on all that I’ve heard of it is defaulted off and has to have an additional app installed by the user to actually track.