Bars in Florida, Texas, and Arizona close after employees tested positive amid spike in new coronavi

[progree]

Source: Insider

Three bars in St. Petersburg, Florida are closing temporarily after some staff tested positive the Tampa Bay Times reported. None of the bars offered a timeline for when they might reopen as they sanitize the restaurants and test their employees, according to social media posts reported by the Times.

Similarly, nine bars and restaurants in and around Austin, Texas, and at least eight in the Phoenix, Arizona area announced they were temporarily closing after employees tested positive for COVID-19 in recent weeks.

The reports of shuttered nightlife spots in cities across the country come amid an alarming spike in new infections and hospitalizations due to the novel coronavirus as officials have aired their concerns with residents flocking to newly reopened public places without exercising caution that is still recommended by the CDC.

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/bars-florida-texas-arizona-close-194624553.html

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Full title: Bars in Florida, Texas, and Arizona close after employees tested positive amid spike in new coronavirus cases

Including the surronding area: 3 bars/restaurants in St. Petersburg, 9 in Austin Texas, and at least 8 in Phoenix

Texas was one of the first states to start opening (May 1) and had its highest number of new cases ever on June 12.

[Blues Heron]

1. to me it looks less like a "spike" than a relentless upward grind

why do they always say "spike?"

[CountAllVotes]

3. 2,000+ cases a day per state is indeed a spike

Do you have a better name for such action?

It is clearly out of hand and due to their inability to control their actions, they are now paying the price with human lives.

Look here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us



& recommend !!

[Blues Heron]

5. I was just lookng at california yesterday

it just looked like an upward sloping ramp for at least a month rather than a sudden spike. Anyway, just semantics, the graphs tell the tale no matter what lingo is used. Definitely out of hand!

[CountAllVotes]

8. I know!

I have (HAD) this person living in a red state trying to play it down.

I told this individual that COVID-19 is on a roll!

I was of course not being taken seriously (like I make this shit up?) and I sent the chart.

That sort of shut 'em up for the time being.

I have since time directed all incoming email from said person to be deleted.

I really do not need the added stress of trying to deal with some red neck awhole so delete delete delete it is.

Its all those Mexicans causing the problem I was informed ... uh huh!

One by one it seems what few acquaintances I have are rapidly disappearing.

Who needs these dump thugs anyway?

Denial gets you nowhere and keep your eye on that chart. It changes by the minute it seems.

We are living in some scary ass times and I am staying indoors!

Hang-in there and stay well!

[progree]

4. I just looked at Texas's Daily New Cases on Worldometers

and checked the 7-day moving average checkbox at the right end of it, and yes, it very much looks like relentless upward grind.

One must scroll down and down forever to get past the list of counties and get to the Daily New Cases ... it's much faster to do Control End, to get to the end of the page, and then page up. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/

Florida is somewhat more "spiky" https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/

Arizona inclines even more "spikier"

Arizona doesn't have a Worldometers page, but I put below the Arizona Dept of Health Services page https://www.azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-control/infectious-disease-epidemiology/covid-19/dashboards/index.php

More testing is also a factor.

In Minnesota, where I live, I watch the hospital and ICU numbers.

The New Cases in Minnesota are presented according to the day the specimen was collected, so the last several days are always way down due to tests not completed yet. And new cases are affected by number of tests, whereas hospital and ICU levels are much less so affected.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. I know you are a data guy

and what some of the counties here in SE PA have been doing (and I know NY state is doing it for their counties) are looking is at the % positive out of a daily total of "x" number of tests performed, which would essentially "correct for" whatever number of tests were done per day, and would give you a trend over time of whether more people percentage wise (whether symptomatic or not) are testing positive or not.

So a locality might test 1000 one day and get 20% positive. And as the days progress, you might have 1200 tests the next day, then 500 the day after that (weekend/holiday), 800 another day, and so forth, and you start to see the daily % positive rates slowly going down, eventually translating over a 7 and/or 14 day period, to perhaps 14% positive... and then another 7/14 days it gets down to 12% positive... and so on. At some point, you may reach some "steady-state/background" number that might eventually correspond to a R0 (rate of infection) of <1, meaning that one person is no longer potentially infecting 2 or more people per day (or at least per some fixed period of time).

The ability to even start to do that level of testing (i.e., looking at a broader sample of the populace vs only the sickest, the symptomatic, or healthcare workers/first responders) has only really become available recently due to the previous lack of testing supplies and reagents needed for the tests.

[progree]

16. Thanks! Yes, I wish I had the daily percent of tests that are positive readily available

since it is a very helpful metric to help see what's going on. But I have to do some spreadsheet work to do the history and keep it up to date. It's just dividing two readily available numbers, but still yet another chore that I haven't made the extra time to do.

I've only been keeping track of Minnesota in the last several weeks, and have been too lazy to do more than glance at the https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html page (there's no Worldometers page for Minnesota because we're at the northern fringe of flyover country, though we have some who try like hell to get us more attention). Though I read and make notes on each of the daily CBSLocal and MPR articles about it.

Occasionally I look at the Worldometers or other sources for other states and countries when there's something in the news about them. But Minnesota is the only one I track on a daily basis.

[Midnightwalk]

2. Barrios brewery was packed

Walking around tucson today and their lot was full with cars parked across the street. Normally I would have gone in to cool off, rest and cold beer is so good after walking, but oh well.

Btw it is hot out!!! Only 104 and the breeze helps but hot.

[progree]

6. Minneapolis has a face mask requirement. Minnesota just opened up for indoor dining/drinking

on June 10, (on June 1, the state opened for patio-only dining/drinking).

Anyway, I am soooo tempted to look inside one and see if they are wearing face masks.

[Jersey Devlin]

7. Lookest

before thou Leapest!

[Nevilledog]

9. Don't you hate it when a hoax turns out to be, you know, not a hoax?

[donkeypoofed]

10. Golly, what a surprise

[keithbvadu2]

11. Texas bar owner, armed men arrested at business reopening after dramatic standoff with police

Texas bar owner, armed men arrested at business reopening after dramatic standoff with police

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-bar-owner-armed-gunmen-swat-standoff-reopening-coronavirus 06 May

https://www.google.com/search?q=Big+Daddy+Zane%27s+Bar&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com

[SWBTATTReg]

18. Ridiculous. And these people claimed that they were protecting 1st and 2nd Amendment rights and...

were surprised that the state of TX brought in a armored personnel carrier to subdue the six armed men...

So, they were willing to shoot police officers etc. (who else would they need so many armed security personnel at that bar (six of them)) in order to get their alcohol. I would say that someone has a little addiction problem w/ alcohol in TX, especially defying the governor's edict and also putting officers of the law (and possibly the public) in harm's way. Maybe these people need to lose their liquor license, if this is how they act regarding a legal move by the governor to protect the health of the overall public (not just bar patrons).

[tom_kelly]

12. Stopped in an Irish Pub in Lake Worth

(Palm Beach County) Friday night to pick up a to go order. Half the large bar was occupied by patrons. Only one guy was wearing a mask, around his neck. Bars inside of restaurants here can Open at half capacity. There was no social distancing of course. Our county has set new case daily records Friday and today.

[obamanut2012]

19. Our death rate in PBC is DOWN, cases are up because of new testing sites

Including the huge big one on the FAU campus. PBC will almost for sure be lopped off from Broward and Miami-Dade this week and dropped into Phase II.

You need to call the PBC DoH NOW if they were not doing what they should ahve done, esp since Lake Worth is the main hotspot in PBC.

I have seen ZERO non-compliance in Boca, Lake Worth, Boiynton, and Lantana, including groceries, MMJ, stores, salons, and eateries. So report them.

[tom_kelly]

21. Places like Publix and believe it or not Walmart

in Lake Worth are pretty safe less the obvious trumpets. Check out Lake Ave and you’ll see what I mean.

[stillcool]

13. bars closed where employees tested positive..

good thing there's other bars to keep the spread going. Am I missing something?

[hadEnuf]

15. I guess Americans haven't learned yet....

[truthisfreedom]

17. If anyone wants me

I'm home.

[C Moon]

20. I was walking in Redondo Beach California shopping/restaurant area near the beach Sat. night.

I would estimate 10% of the people in this area were wearing masks. There was a huge group of people in their 20's gathered outside of one of the restaurants. I walked by a restaurant I used to frequent and I saw a waiter walk by without a mask. It didn't hit me until later that I saw the waiter without a mask. I think these places need to be reported, so next time I see that, I'm going to report it.

These people are idiots.

Outside of the shopping area, near to the beach most people walking, even running, were wearing masks.