More like a divorce these days:
"A wedding on Aug. 7 in Millinocket, Maine, has been linked to 134 coronavirus cases statewide, a public health official said Tuesday. Dr. Nirav D. Shah, head of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, provided the tally during his regular news briefing. He said 123 cases are confirmed and 11 cases are probable. The cases included wedding guests, their contacts, and people later infected at Maplecrest Rehabilitation & Living Center in Madison, Maine, and the York County Jail in Alfred, Maine. A jail employee attended the wedding, Shah said, and a Maplecrest employee was a “secondary contact” of an attendee. Shah said the investigation into the clusters linked to the wedding is ongoing. One woman whose infection was tied to the nuptials but who did not attend the event, 83-year-old Theresa Dentremont, has died. The first Friday in August outside the Tri Town Baptist Church was one of those quintessential summer Maine days. Midday temperatures reached the high 70s. A bay of spruce trees rose up behind the tiny East Millinocket church, the green lawn spread before it. A perfect day for a young couple’s wedding. At the ceremony’s end, the crowd headed to the Big Moose Inn, a lodge and restaurant sandwiched between the Ambajejus and Millinocket lakes. Each guest had his or her temperature checked at the door, and once cleared, went inside to feast on rib-eye and duck, toast the couple, and dance for hours. Few of the 62 wedding and reception attendees wore masks. The pastor who officiated the wedding, Todd Bell, gave a defiant sermon during an indoor church service on Sunday....."
I actually read through that Sunday sermon, and he convinced me to be in it for the long haul:
"Two coronavirus deaths, 144 cases now linked to Aug. 7 wedding in Millinocket, Maine" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, September 3, 2020
Authorities have now linked 144 COVID-19 cases, including two deaths, to an Aug. 7 wedding in Millinocket, Maine.
Dr. Nirav D. Shah, head of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the second death was a man in his 70s from Somerset County. It wasn’t clear if the man had attended the wedding. The first person whose death was linked to the outbreak, Theresa Dentremont, 83, did not attend the event, officials said.
Any underlying health conditions?
Shah said the cases include 56 wedding guests and their secondary and tertiary contacts, 46 inmates and 19 staff members at the York County Jail, and 16 residents and employees of the Maplecrest Rehabilitation & Living Center in Madison, Maine.
Eight inmates at the York County Jail had tested positive within the past day, Shah said.
Means they were all likely negative given the 90% false positive rate.
“Our concern level remains high,” Shah said, for the jail and all of York County, where about half the known outbreaks are located. The situation in York County “has the potential to spiral” and affect other areas if it’s not contained, Shah said.
“No outbreak is an island,” Shah said. “One outbreak can quickly lead to several more outbreaks.”
Look out, Maine, for it looks like a jail is going to be emptied.
Among the York County outbreaks is one at Cavalry Baptist Church in Sanford, Shah said. Ten cases have been associated with the outbreak. The church’s pastor, Todd Bell, officiated the wedding in Millinocket on Aug. 7.
Shah said the church outbreak had not been directly linked to the earlier wedding, but that contact tracers are investigating.
Huh?
Looks like they want to trace enemies of the state.
Shah said his team has been in regular communication with Bell and on Thursday sent him a letter outlining public health recommendations and “our expectations of compliance.” Shah stressed that officials want to see “action” around compliance, not just “communication.”
Will a sieg heil salute get it done?
Jesus Christ!
Put a guy in charge of some $hit bureau and watch the power flow to the head.
Bell gave a defiant sermon on Aug. 30, one day after the Maine CDC announced it was investigating a coronavirus cluster among those affiliated with the church.
“I’ll tell you what the world wants all the churches to do,” Bell said during one of two Sunday services, which the church posted on YouTube. “They want us to shut down, go home, and let people get used to that just long enough until we can finally stop the advancing of the Gospel.”
No one answered the phone at a number listed for Bell’s church Thursday.
Probably has caller ID, or the Shepard has abandoned his flock.
Meanwhile, York County Manager Gregory T. Zinser said officials are hiring an outside investigator to review the outbreak at the jail.
At what cost to overburdened and put-upon taxpayers?
The county plans to shortly identify the third-party investigator, Zinser said. He said the “first indication” that the outbreak linked to the wedding had spread to the jail came on Aug. 19.
Except there is no direct link, so WTF?
Currently, infected inmates are being housed in a separate unit in single cells, he said.
“We understand we are operating under some difficult circumstances,” Zinser said, “however, with the protocols we put in place ... we are able to keep up with our duty to man and staff the facility.”
There are approximately 106 inmates at the jail, which has a capacity of about 250. A small number of infected correctional officers have reported mild, flu-like symptoms, and some infected inmates have complained of issues such as diarrhea, fever, and chills.
Have you noticed that many of the "victims" are captive populations of the state or some other authority?
We had COVID running through the military in the spring, as well as nursing homes where families were not allowed. Schools, homeless, immigrant populations, prisons, all held captive by the state in one way or another.
Free people know this is rubbish, and this situation in Maine is not only a direct attack on life and liberty, it is a violation of the First Amendment as I understand it.
Shah urged Maine residents to cooperate with contact tracers, noting that they will not ask about sensitive matters such as immigration status, finances, or social security numbers, and do not track cell phone location data.
Bull$hit!
Go ahead and Google it:
"The first thing people should probably do when they fear they have contracted the novel coronavirus is call their doctor. The first thing most people actually do is Google their symptoms. That’s good news for researchers. Google is sharing its treasure trove of data about runny noses and fevers to help health researchers learn more about covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The data set could even help them predict future hot spots for the disease, or learn more about what long-term effects it has. On Wednesday, Google is making county-level data on symptom searches in the United States available to researchers and the public. The information goes back three years and includes up to 400 symptoms and conditions, not just those known to be associated with covid-19. It will have information on searches for things such as stress and diabetes so experts can learn more about secondary health impacts. The company has done some work to clean up the data for researchers, such as figuring out which search terms all describe a single symptom. For example, few people are going to type in “anosmia” when they lose their sense of smell or taste. They’re more likely to type something like “loss of smell covid” or “why can’t I taste this cantaloupe.” All the data is anonymized and not connected to individual users, says the company. Instead of actual numbers of people looking up a symptom in a single area, Google will present the volume of searches for each symptom as a range....."
That's bull because they always know where, m in fact, it came from, and it is all being collected and stored for at least 7 years BS (before Snowden), and Bill Barr is looking into it.
“The bottom line here is that Maine CDC contact tracers are never gonna give you up, they’re never gonna let you down,” Shah said, riffing on the 1980s pop tune from Rick Astley. “They’re never gonna run around, and desert you. Maine CDC contact tracers are never gonna make you cry, they’re never gonna say goodbye, and they’re never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.”
OMG, what an absolute out-of-touch piece of $hit making light of the whole global contact dragnet meant to exterminate all enemies, since the whole f**king thing is based on lies.
In a more serious vein, Shah urged Maine residents to exercise caution over Labor Day weekend, when precautions like face coverings and physical distancing will remain paramount.
“COVID-19 likes holidays. It can make an uninvited appearance at just about any backyard gathering ... that you might have planned,” Shah said.
F**k off, "doc."
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Maybe Maine should be like Thailand and lock down for 100 days before spreading the faith gets out of hand and they find a savior.
