The US Military Has Experienced 55,443 COVID-19 Cases - Including Vice Chief of Space Force (upi.com) 45
UPI reports:
Space Force's vice chief of space operations tested positive for COVID-19 Wednesday, Space Force announced.
According to a press release issued jointly by the Space Force and the Air Force, Gen. David D. Thompson took a test for the virus after learning that a close family member had tested positive. Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said Thompson has not shown symptoms of COVID-19 so far and was on leave last week, but returned to the Pentagon for work on Monday and Tuesday to address a virtual symposium for the National Defense Industrial Association and Texas A&M University. He is now self-isolating and working from home...
As of Thursday morning a total of 55,443 COVID-19 cases had been reported in the [U.S.] military since the beginning of the pandemic, with 8,839 of those reported among Air Force personnel.
According to a press release issued jointly by the Space Force and the Air Force, Gen. David D. Thompson took a test for the virus after learning that a close family member had tested positive. Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said Thompson has not shown symptoms of COVID-19 so far and was on leave last week, but returned to the Pentagon for work on Monday and Tuesday to address a virtual symposium for the National Defense Industrial Association and Texas A&M University. He is now self-isolating and working from home...
As of Thursday morning a total of 55,443 COVID-19 cases had been reported in the [U.S.] military since the beginning of the pandemic, with 8,839 of those reported among Air Force personnel.
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Re:2.6 percent infection rate (Score:5, Insightful)
Yup, pretty much meaningless.
Exactly. Over 230,000 dead in a few months (that we know of) is no big deal. It's only the most infectious disease we've had in this country for over a century. Let's keep ignoring it as hospitals once again are flirting with full capacity [npr.org], where the state of Utah sent an emergency alert message to every phone [cnn.com] warning people of the surging number of infections and deaths along with hospital utilization, where places such as Fuck You Idaho have repealed mask mandates [thehill.com] as hospitals are having to send patients elsewhere because they're near or at capacity, where in an effort to show it's not really that bad [sun-sentinel.com], Florida is reviewing all covid deaths so they can lower the number even after they were caught previously manipulating the numbers [npr.org], and where the U.S. is now number one in reported cases which means in the next few weeks we will see a similar rise in deaths.
So yeah, no big deal.
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Re: 2.6 percent infection rate (Score:1)
Hey, don't upset the thought police by making rational comments! You'll get troll-banned. Oops. Too late.
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In other other news, 100 right-wing neckbeards on slashdot engage in an increasingly absurd game of mental gymnastics to dismiss the seriousness of a global pandemic because their golden calf in the Oval Office continuously handled it wronger than anyone thought remotely possible in a first-world country, and actually admitting that would spike their blood pressure so bad their bacne would all pop simultaneously.
55000 cases eh? Whatever. Considering that 0.003% of the population dies in alcohol-related car
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Wow, Slashdot has employed the thought police as moderators. Remarkable, point out a simple stat that suggests that COVID, while serious, isn't actually wiping out humanity and your post gets tagged as troll bait. Long live the thought police!
Time to remove Slashdot from favs list.
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Re: So did anyone die or is this just a bad cold? (Score:3)
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I caught Covid too in California. It took a little over 8 weeks to get rid of the main symptoms (e.g. breathing issues). But it has left my eye sight in much poorer condition than it was pre Covid, and has certainly affected my mental health. And yes I realize that my case is "anecdotal evidence", but based on personal experience, I think people shouldn't dismiss Covid's effects (both short and long term) so lightly.
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All everyone seems to talk about these days is cases... is that because there aren't enough deaths anymore to scare people now that we're done with the nursing home phase?
Exactly this. And not that I wish harm upon any group with this pandemic, but our US Military will be an excellent group to study, because we enforce a physical standard among that particular group of humans. (Perhaps we can stop Morbid Obesity from blaming oversized cups too.)
It will be interesting to publish the other statistics which are far more relative at this point. Simply understanding the virus better and better treatments alone will hopefully reduce the overall death rate regardless of total nu
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now that we're done with the nursing home phase?
What lead you to believe that's a phase rather than a cycle?
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All everyone seems to talk about these days is cases... is that because...
You sound a little light-headed. I prescribe twenty four hours of rest and a few doses of Googlin.
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You're actually right and even CNN agrees with you on that. Biden got that number crazily wrong. I disagree with your post being modded down.
So now that you've brought it up, what do you want to have happen?
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Is that a lot? A little?
What's the rate of infection vs. the general population?
I was listening to something on the radio just a week ago that the military was taking Covid very seriously and that the rate of infection was lower than the general population because strict protocols were mandated and the military generally follows rules very well.
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My only concern is if the cost justifies the decision, or if the net reduction due to the infection rate lead to an decrease in morale of the troops.
How does the military manage this? (Score:1)
I was just wondering the other day on how the military manages this. When I was in Army basic training many years ago there would be about 100 recruits in a company all living in tight quarters. Even though people would be screened for disease before entry, and be given a number of vaccinations during the entrance processing, there would still be people getting sick. Primary among them would be some kind of influenza or pneumonia. I was among them, one day showing up at the infirmary with an oral temper
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That brings another thing to mind. We can call the Spanish flu the Spanish flu and nobody gets triggered over that. If someone calls the Chinese flu the Chinese flu then people are called racists. The Spanish flu is called the Spanish flu because that's where the first known case of it was seen.
Plain wrong as so many of your silly posts.
The Spanish Flu originated in the USA. Everyone not born in the USA knows that, no idea why you don't.
The Spanish flu was deadly when first discovered but today we still see
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The Spanish Flu originated in the USA. Everyone not born in the USA knows that, no idea why you don't.
Did I claim it originated in Spain? No, I did not. I wrote that Spain is where people first became aware of it. You even quoted me and still got it wrong.
It appears to me that there is quite the dispute on where the Spanish flu originated. It seems that blaming the spread of disease on the USA is popular among the anti-American crowd around the world, including the many anti-Americans in America.
There does not appear to be any doubt on where the Chinese flu came from. There may be some dispute on the s
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The spanish flu was detected in the US first, and not in Spain.
It was "marketing" to call it "spanish flu".
The rest of your post makes no real sense as usually.
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No, it originated in the USA, but because of wartime media restriction, the newspapers effectively couldn't report on wha
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Not a conspiracy. However, certain national-level politicians have learned that they benefit by pushing the most dire narrative they can get away with.
COVID is super contagious. The average person has a very low probability of dying if contracting it. However, elderly with other health problems are terribly vulnerable. These are the facts. These facts support arguments for public health interventions aimed at mitigating the risks to those that are most vulnerable. They also support the logic behind public p
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COVID is super contagious. The average person has a very low probability of dying if contracting it. However, elderly with other health problems are terribly vulnerable. These are the facts.
You are missing the long-term effect for the average person. These are not well understood, but there is consensus that some long term or permanent damage may occur even after recovering (which may count as a "pre-existing condition"). The chances of very long-term damage are much higher than the admittedly low probability of dying.
And then there's the question of how long the immunity lasts after you do recover. Very low probability of dying increases if you can get re-infected multiple times.
The facts do not support "dark winter" or other such hysterical narratives. Moreover, they don't support additional lockdown focused public policies. In fact, such policies make matters worse. COVID will not go away even with the most draconian lockdown interventions. The virus will just hang out until lockdown policies are rolled back a bit and then start spreading again.
I wouldn't t
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They do not list how many died in the military, so my guess is the number is near zero. Military requires healthy people.
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If we just stop testing it will be all over right booted in the head 246?
Isn't that the line?
China had so few cases because they are a science based country. Not a superstitions sky daddy based one.
Space force! (Score:2)
Space force lost a commander! What will the US do if the Vulcans attack!?
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Big deal (Score:1)