Coronavirus: California health secretary provides update on COVID-19 testing and spread in state

Dr. Mark Ghaly, the California Health & Human Services secretary, was providing updates on Aug. 4 regarding COVID-19 testing and spread in state. #COVID19 #coronavirus #California

[lisme]

Flu. Im so tired of this. Do we really need to teach common sense.

[yogamom]

I want him to be quarantined in a prison. With Newsom #plandemic

[tory]

Video has covid in the headline, please feel free to downvote the video and move on, thank you and have a nice day

[MartinPHE]

Yea yea we know the update. trying to stay 1st in America, with Texas, Florida, Arizona trying to win 1st place.

[teddsterpinx]

All California .gov need to be ejected into space

[faststart]

So many people are flouting the current social distancing and stay-at-home restrictions that they have become all but useless at this point, smh. Seriously, people... But given that, and the continued rising tensions and economic problems, among other things, I really think we need a change of course.

I know that the approach has been highly criticized, and even I have some issues with it, but I'm honestly beginning to think that it might be the right thing to do at this point. One of the primary arguments I've heard against it is that people going out would spread it to the more vulnerable, but that makes no sense because the whole point of quarantining the more vulnerable is to keep them away from anybody who could potentially spread it to them (including potentially asymptomatic people), thereby eliminating that risk. And anybody who lives with them, or interacts with them for any reason, would have to take extreme precautions.

I know that everybody is potentially vulnerable to severe infection or even death, but if you subtract the severe infection and mortality rates of the most vulnerable groups (the elderly and people with severe underlying conditions) from the total, then those rates become drastically lower. So if we were to just quarantine the sick and most vulnerable, the health care system would not be so overwhelmed, and would instead be quite manageable.

Also, I'd like to point out that people might not have been quite as freaked out about this virus if it hadn't been for that whole nursing home fiasco earlier this year. Ah yes, I am still really upset about that. I can't believe they were stupid enough to send those sick patients back to those nursing homes. I just...ugh! I don't even want to talk about it anymore. At least not right now.

And don't even get me started on all the politicizing of this whole virus situation (we just had to go and politicize this, which of course made even more of a mess out of it). Well, okay, I will say one thing: I just want Trump out of office. His failure at handling the coronavirus situation, combined with the media really hyping up this situation to continue to make him look bad (which is pointless, because the orange freak already does that on his own), is a huge part of why we are in this whole mess.