Famous words from 20th century lyrics sadly ring true now..
The ‘older’ generation of kids grew up in a strange world of terrorism.. fears and loathing in public locations for almost two decades.
Now a virus came along to close those places down!
Younger people now are more likely to feel panic.. anxiety.. fear..
A majority of Americans ages 18 through 34 — 56% — say they have at least sometimes felt isolated in the past month, compared with about 4 in 10 older Americans, according to the latest COVID Response Tracking Study conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago.
Twenty-five percent of young adults rate their mental health as fair or poor, compared with 13% of older adults, while 56% of older adults say their mental health is excellent or very good, compared with just 39% of young adults.
The survey found 67% of young adults, but just 50% of those older, say they have at least sometimes felt that they were unable to control the important things in life. And 55% of 18 to 34 year olds say they have felt difficulties piling up too high to overcome, compared with 33% of older adults.
UPDATE 5:58 pm: Robert Pattinson himself was tested positive for coronavirus..
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Breaking coronavirus news from across the pond: Covid-19 has temporarily shut down production of THE BATMAN in England.
This information being widely reported:
Warner Bros. has stopped production after one of the people on the production turned up positive with COVID-19.
Warner statement:
“A member of The Batman production has tested positive for Covid-19, and is isolating in accordance with established protocols. Filming is temporarily paused.”
No further information was provided by the studio in protecting their workers’ privacy.
This delay comes after a 5 and a half month delay due to the larger scale production and Hollywood shutdowns that occurred because of coronavirus..
At this point THE BATMAN is still set for an October 2021 opening in theaters.. All delays add up, however..
On Wednesday, the United State Justice Department requested COVID-19 data from the governors of states that issued orders which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable populations, often without adequate testing.
The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is evaluating whether to initiate investigations under the federal “Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act” (CRIPA), which protects the civil rights of persons in state-run nursing homes, among others. The Civil Rights Division seeks to determine if the state orders requiring admission of COVID-19 patients to nursing homes is responsible for the deaths of nursing home residents.
So .. back to school. The nation’s school system has been tasked with figuring out how to educate the youth of our country.. Online? A mix in between?
Each district has been choosing different schemes.
But the harder part has been college: Dorm life. Party life. Sex lives.
All of those mixtures coupled with a hundred-year pandemic has given college educators and administrators the toughest syllabus in a generation.
And already schools and plans are buckling under the weight of the world!
Just a few days ago, a local college to our location found itself in a predicament. Bloomsburg University, often known as a party school, brought everyone back to their dorms. And just days into the fall semester, the institution decided to go online only! The number of 90 students testing positive for Covid-19 and growing was the reason.
And by Friday: Bloomsburg University on Friday reported another 29 students have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing to 119..
Penn State University reported Friday that 28 students there had tested positive in the past week, all on the main University Park campus except for a single case at Penn State Behrend in Erie. It brought the university’s total to 31 cases since Aug. 7, according to Penn State’s COVID-19 dashboard..
The University of Alabama — which had planned for face-to-face instruction in 80% of classes and was allowing indoor gatherings of up to 50 people — has had the worst case volume, with positive tests approaching 600 in just one week.
And the party life is being blamed by some! Schools are not actively monitoring social media and even cracking down on lifestyles.
Northeastern sent warnings to 115 freshmen who said in an Instagram poll that they plan to party. The university went as far as to threaten to rescind admissions…
Purdue and Syracuse have both suspended students who have been caught partying, and UConn has evicted them.
Columbia South Carolina: The Columbia Fire Department had to break up an overcrowded pool party where hundreds of revelers ignored the city’s mask ordinance and social distancing mandates.
Alabama slama: A coronavirus tide is rolling at the University of Alabama — where 1,200 students have tested positive since the school opened this month. The alarming stat was reported on the university’s own online “COVID-19 Dashboard.” Classes had resumed two weeks ago at the school — home of the Crimson Tide football team — where nearly 30,000 students attend.
A consensus is building among public health experts that it’s better to keep university students on campus after a Covid-19 outbreak rather than send them home as many are doing.
It’s easier to isolate sick or exposed students and trace their contacts if they stay put, said Ravina Kullar, epidemiologist and spokesperson for Infectious Diseases Society of America. Sending students home risks exposing other people there as well as along the way, and makes contact tracing all but impossible.
Doesn’t it seem that we’re just venturing into a great experiment with our youth? This idea for the entire year that COVID-19 would not spread amongst them will now be tested.
And already schools and colleges are seeing little flareups that could lead to bigger outbreaks.
Despite parents across the nation and even world hoping for a “normal school year” that Hope will dwindle with each new classroom and each new case.
I have my own son beginning school this week, the reality of this grand experiment is heading home. I have relatives in college, as most likely to you..
The social norms of yesterday had become the repugnant future and present day.
The virus did and just “go away.“ And most likely will not, some experts say that COVID-19 will still be here flaring in 2021 and even 2022..
But!
One school year at a time…
Hopes and prayers for a year filled with joy, education, and health.
But trepidations of the year filled with chaos, sickness, and darkness.
Let’s hope that the light wins over the darkness during the grand experiment: The school year of 20-21..
Theaters are beginning to slowly roll out reopening plans.
AMC is among those offering dirt price films for people brave enough to re-enter the old world..
During its opening-day promotion, AMC will show catalog films, including “Ghostbusters,” “Black Panther,” “Back to the Future” and “Grease.” Those older films will continue to play afterward for $5.
AMC, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, confirmed that Disney’s much-delayed “New Mutants” will debut in theaters Aug. 28, with Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” to follow Sept. 3.
Theaters will have reduced capacity along with social distancing standards.
“Please remember to social distance before, during and after the movie. Directional signs and reminders will be posted throughout the theater for guidance,” AMC’s website reads.
As schools, nursing facilities, and the public itself is getting mentally braced for what experts say could be ‘wave 2’ of COVID-19, one Pennsylvania nursing home is tragically dealing with wave 1..
To date, the Milton Nursing home in Milton PA was coronavirus clear.. No deaths occurred even during the most trying weeks in the late winter and early spring of this year.
But just within the past day, this information has been released:
Milton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Northumberland County (as of 08/18/20):
93 total residents. 73 residents have been infected with COVID-19 36 staff members have been infected with COVID-19 13 residents have died from COVID-19
There were just 0 deaths from COVID days ago.
The virus seemingly has rampaging through the home with a thunderous and deadly zeal.
…people are tired of being tired. Sick of being sick. . angered at being angry.
We are fuming with emotions, we have it building up inside like a powder keg..
We are worried about school returning. Parental fears and how to teach kids while working is a huge question.. Facebook gives us daily fresh arguments about whether the virus is real or fake. Plandemic? Pandemic? Masks.. anti-maskers.. All of that can be found on a news feed near you.
But the state of mind that America– and the world — is slipping into as 2020 continues seems dangerous.
A number of memes have repeatedly tried to make us laugh about the state of affairs during the first year of these new roaring 20s. But instead we are being plagued with a real plague and real videos and accounts of people acting weird all over America. People losing it. Fights in parking lots.. riots on street corners.
Drinking. Paranoia.. Suicides skyrocketing. Opioid use rising..
We can all feel this happening but now science and stats back it up.
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made public on Thursday surveyed 5,412 Americans. It found that “40.9% of respondents reported at least one adverse mental or behavioral health condition.”
That is not a small number!
According to the new study, 31 percent of respondents were suffering from symptoms of anxiety or depression; 26 percent experienced symptoms of traumatic disorder; 13 percent were using drugs or alcohol more heavily, or for the first time, to cope with the pandemic; and 11 percent had seriously contemplated suicide..
“Younger adults, racial/ethnic minorities, essential workers, and unpaid adult caregivers reported having experienced disproportionately worse” mental health outcomes than other groups, the study concluded.
People are losing friends and family .. not to Covid. But to the lonely feeling of depression..
Anxiety symptoms tripled in incidence compared with the same period in 2019; the incidence of depression symptoms quadrupled. The rate of serious suicidal thoughts doubled in comparison to levels recorded in 2018.
Yes, there are fun commercials that talk about how great and whimsical it is to work in your pajamas or go to work meetings on Zoom without shoes.. but we are losing something else more substantial, doesn’t it seem?
More than 90 percent said they were not being treated for anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder before the pandemic struck, meaning that their symptoms arrived with the coronavirus and its attendant social disruptions.
My own personal account with a physician concludes this to be true: My family doctor has been overwhelmed with mostly healthy patients asking for antidepressants and medication to help cope with the newfound pandemic depression.
THE KIDS AREN’T ALRIGHT
There has been a long thought belief since March that kids were safe from Covid. That was a stretch of a belief for many.. this autumn will test that theory. We are about to advance into one of the strangest and most potentially dangerous experiments since 1918: Schools returning during a global pandemic.
Two news stories that bring caution to the air of the fall school season:
An Arizona school district that ignored state safety guidelines and voted to begin in-person learning on Aug. 17 has had to cancel classes after staff said it was unsafe to return and called in sick. Greater Phoenix’s J.O. Combs Unified School District cancelled all instruction for Monday due to “insufficient staffing,” days after its board disregarded state benchmarks on when students can safely return to classes during the pandemic. The “sick out” underlined the difficulties in returning to in-person learning in the United States after schools in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama closed this week as students and staff were infected with COVID-19 or forced to self-isolate from exposure.
And this strange activity from Georgia:
Remember that photo of kids randomly pushing each other without masks? And school then closed? And cases then popped up?
A result now known, the Cherokee County School District reported 80 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 1,106 students and staff quarantined as a result of those cases, for the week.
That number is almost triple the number of students and staff that were confirmed Covid-19 positive the prior week and double the number in quarantine.
In the first two weeks of school, the district has reported a total of 108 confirmed cases of Covid-19 among students and staff. Last week, 28 positive cases of Covid-19 were reported and 563 were in quarantine.
This is going to be a long, dark autumn.
IF WE MAKE IT THROUGH OCTOBER WE’LL BE FINE?
Maybe not.
But October seems to be the next date we are being warned about.,
Social isolation and distancing are taking hold.. anxiety of the spring turned to hope in the summer. But sadly these summer days are getting shorter.. the darkness is creeping in.
A lot of people are beginning to let reality sink in deep..
We need to support our friends, and our families.. we need to help those who are suffering.
And yes, YOU may be among them.. You may be hopeless like so many others.
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