Indiana reports record-high 6,654 new COVID-19 cases, 51 more deaths

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1. ***Crickets from the anti-mask “open it all up” folks.

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   1. They want herd immunity, remember? They’re about to see what a stressed healthcare system looks like. It isn’t going to be pretty…

   2. They will come up with every excuse in the book not to believe the numbers………or continue to say that my neighbor’s co-worker’s friend had it and said it wasn’t that bad. They live in an alternate realty,

2. The Governor stated at the beginning of the pandemic that he would follow the numbers. Am I missing something? Because we have worse numbers now than we did in late Spring and early Summer. Yet he decides to remove the state restrictions and have every county set their own guidelines.

   Will someone please explain how that is going to work when we have people who live, work and shop in different counties (look at the numbers in the commuting patterns) and we have school corporations that cross county lines and some even serve multiple counties.

   To all of those who will not wear masks: I pray you have not lost a loved one to this pandemic, because if you had you would do everything in your power to protect your remaining family and friends, which means wearing a mask – even if it is uncomfortable.

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3. Hey, Grant and Jennifer, the only immunity is “herd immunity” if that is what you want to call it. History has PROVEN this. This is achieved through massive exposure, recovery and less and less susceptibility. Or it is achieved through vaccinations or a combination of both. Lockdowns only delay the inevitable. It also leaves the people held out or “locked down” in a point of stasis. They don’t develop immunity while being cocooned. When exposure eventually comes, and it will, they will be right back at square one. This is a nasty virus and screaming for easy fixes or completely ineffective measures won’t change anything. Better testing, better seclusion of those that are sick and better treatment is a better answer.

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   1. True Neil.
      People who this they can contain a respiratory virus like this one are the same ones who think they can control the climate.
      Protect the vulnerable for Covid, because it’s going to run its course.
      Protect the environment as much as possible from super polluters like China, but know that you can’t control it.

   2. Lockdowns slow the spread until the therapeutics and vaccines are available… which is coming. That’s not “the inevitable”.

4. The Governor is doing too little and in many respects too late. This is not a serious plan to mitigate the pandemic which is totally out of control.

   So I will continue to post the following since the underlying issues remain the same:

   I posted this yesterday, and I will keep posting this as long we have an incompetent government which does not want to keep its citizens safe!!!!!
   New record numbers every day!!!! How many citizens are we going let get sick, and how many are we going let die? It really is as simple as that.
   However, let me try to understand the logic of the State response to the surging pandemic: Stage 5 is okay. Our focus, per Dr. Box, is to increase the amount of healthcare staff and healthcare capacity to take care of the increasing number of sick people. Oh by the way, please wear you mask, pretty please!! (I love it when Health Commissioner, who recently got over COVID-19 episode, has only this to offer to curb the raging pandemic in our State.
   As I have said before our State needs outside expertise (e.g. Dr. Anthony Fauci) to tell us citizens the REAL status of our State’s current plan to mitigate the pandemic of our State. The current “experts” from State outside of government (e.g. IU) have done little more than to create a bunch of numbers that are totally not understood by the common lay person.
   There needs to a ground swell of outrage from the medical community (i.e. hospital, physicians, medical organizations, nursing organization, pharmacists, etc.) to force a change in how our State is handling the pandemic.
   The State has the money to finance, through the Care ACT, to fund a more comprehensively plan to provide all the necessary tools (PPE, testing, contact tracing, etc.) to get the situation under control.
   A responsible government would be able to balance the economy AND public health. Indiana appears not to be able to multi-task. A responsible State government would be able to do both. (As a small business owner, I have lost at least 50% of my income for the year. I know the financial consequences of the pandemic. It took months as the beginning to obtain the necessary amount of PPE to keep my employees and customers safe. I have been able to keep the staff intact as well. However, one does not know what the future will bring)
   Hopefully, with the election over for the State, our local leaders will begin to multi-task. Frankly, I do not expect any progress. With the flu season beginning and with more indoor events, we need to expect that things are just going to get worse.
   Everyone for our State should realize that our current situation was avoidable. Letting things get worse by this State’s administration is UNCONSCIONABLE and INDEFENSIBLE.
   Everyone should re-watch the scene from “NETWORK” where Peter Finch gives a speech that still resonates today. Here is the YOUTUBE link:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug

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