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billythemountain

Posted 6:41 pm, 09/05/2021

Yes. I work for a funeral home now.

underdog2

Posted 6:36 pm, 09/05/2021

Are you working for a funeral home now billy bob?

billythemountain

Posted 6:29 pm, 09/05/2021

https://www.gofundme.com/f/...-with-loss

I'd be shocked if she was jabbed. Local lass whose mom died too.

Tabs

Posted 9:32 am, 09/05/2021

Hopefully we are close to the peak of the Delta variant, at least in the south. I just don't know what to expect with this virus anymore......who knows what will happen this winter.

billythemountain

Posted 5:59 pm, 09/04/2021

https://www.boonefuneralhom...rationWall

This dude die from Covid? Unvaxxed? Thoughts & prayers etc

wonderingthrough

Posted 12:21 pm, 09/04/2021

US COVID-19 Statistics Week Ending 09/04/2021

Total US Cases

Total US Deaths

US Mortality Rate

# US Cases Last 28 days

# US Deaths last 28 days

% US Infected (Total)

39,853,067

647.593

1.62%

4,154,772

30,984

12.058%


NC COVID-19 Statistics Week Ending 09/04/2021

Total NC Cases

Total NC Deaths

NC Mortality Rate

# NC Cases Last 28 days

# NC Deaths last 28 days

% NC Infected (Total)

1,237,393

14,708

1.19%

166,256

972

11.785%


Local COVID-19 Statistics Week Ending 9/04/2021

County

Total Cases

Total Deaths

Mortality Rate

# Cases last 28 days

# Deaths last 28 days

% Infected (Total)

Ashe

2803

53

1.89%

408

5

10.304%

Alleghany

1213

6

0.50%

117

1

10.891%

Watauga

5395

35

0.65%

499

3

9.643%

Wilkes

8725

140

1.60%

1352

53

15.60%


Local COVID-19 Active Case Counts 09/04/2021

County

Active Cases

Quarantined

Ashe

83

199

Alleghany

41

145

Watauga

150

217

Wilkes

491

No Data


Additional Information:


The US is currently averaging 164,326.43 new cases of COVID-19 per day and 1,559.14 new deaths per day over the last week.


North Carolina only trails Florida (583,466), Texas (461,930), California (373,509) and Georgia (222,275) in the number of new COVID-19 cases over the last 28 days.


A new variant, Mu has been found in portions of the US. The Mu variant looks to have originated in Colombia and was first identified in January. The Mu strain accounts for 40% of the current COVID-19 cases in Colombia. Preliminary laboratory tests have indicated that the mutations could degrade immunity effectiveness received from vaccines and exposure to previous strains of the virus. ( https://www.yahoo.com/enter...00252.html)

aFicIoNadoS

Posted 7:56 pm, 08/15/2021

Wondering, some of your data is misleading.


Let's start with the fact that the delta variant is hitting younger people. Well, that's because most people in the high risk age groups have been vaccinated. I think it's 85% of them now. Younger people are not getting vaccinated because they don't see the benefit outweighing the risk.

As for Florida, NJ is actually having a higher surge than Florida. But the media wants to make a big deal out of Florida because of their position on masking.

A couple weeks ago, America had 300 deaths a day even though cases were spiking. That's significantly lower than death rates before the vaccines. Last week, there were 650 deaths total for the week.

The problem is we have a nation of cowards now that suddenly think people shouldn't get sick at all.

Tabs

Posted 6:11 pm, 08/15/2021

I wonder if they ask vaccination status when they test now?

underdog2

Posted 3:14 pm, 08/15/2021

I wonder if they will be checking the sewage at ASU for covid?


Watauga is not surprising since the students have been coming back now for 2 weeks and Ashe has been full of tourists except for Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday when the town in the evening looks like a ghost town.

wonderingthrough

Posted 11:59 am, 08/15/2021

Current US COVID-19 Statistics 8/15/2021

Total Cases

Total Deaths

Mortality Rate

Seven Day Avg New Cases

36,650,822

621,287

1.70%

129,925.71


Current NC COVID-19 Statistics 8/15/2021

Total Cases

Total Deaths

Mortality Rate

Seven Day Avg New Cases

1,107,414

13,826

1.25%

5,182.14


Current Local COVID-19 Statistics 8/15/2021

County

Active Cases

Total Cases

Quarantined

Deaths

Ashe

74

2,484

42

48

Alleghany

13

1,117

6

5

Watauga

71

4,987

93

32

Wilkes

383

7,702

No Data

119


Trends:


The US is continuing to see a surge in COVID-19 � Delta Variant Cases. Unlike the initial outbreak, the Delta Variant seems to be affecting younger age groups more severely than the previous incarnations of the virus. There are currently a record number of Americans in the 30 to 39 years old age bracket hospitalized. The virus is also hitting and killing toddlers and the youngest as well. Florida seems to be the epicenter of the surge (470,405 cases over the last 4 weeks), followed by Texas (294,363 cases over the last 4 weeks), California (266,564), Louisiana (118,831) and Georgia (106,639). On 8/15/2020 the US seven-day average of daily new cases was 54,162.14 new cases per day compared to the current average of 129,925.71.


Over the last 28 days, North Carolina has added 84,538 new cases of COVID-19. This is the sixth most in the US. As with the US, younger citizens are being hit much harder in this surge. A year ago, NC was averaging 1,261.86 new cases per day over the previous seven days, and was trending down, compared to the current 5,182.14 average which continues to trend up. We are at the same point we were in early December between the Thanksgiving and Christmas surge. With face-to-face classes public school classes starting back over the next few weeks in NC combined with the ease of the spread of the virus, it could be like fighting a forest fire with gasoline.


Locally, cases counts continue to trend up following a relatively quiet summer, especially in Wilkes.



onlyinashe

Posted 7:57 am, 08/04/2021

Fins, in many areas of the Country, with low vaccination rates, the total number of patients hospitalized is exceeding the totals during the largest surges in 2020. Florida, Alabama and Texas are experiencing significant increases in COVID positivity and hospitalizations. Deaths typically trail the increase in admissions by approximately 2 weeks. With the improved treatments available for those hospitalized the fatality rate should decrease from the rates seen in 2020. ICU hospitalizations in Florida as a percentage of hospitalized patients is running between 11 and 20% which is a decrease from the rates seen in 2020, the rate of death per hospitalization has also decreased from 2020 highs.

underdog2

Posted 5:39 pm, 08/02/2021

Crawl back in that cnn hole you came out of marlboro girl. Talk about the blind leading the blind thats you and your liberal fools.

aFicIoNadoS

Posted 2:59 pm, 08/02/2021

Who's being put on ventilators? Are you fools really still talking about ventilators? Are you not smart enough to realize that with all the talk of spiking delta numbers, there is no talk at all about hospitalizations or Covid deaths? Try real hard to figure out why that is.

ashehomegrrl

Posted 2:22 pm, 08/02/2021

Yes, Tabs - you're right. I don't understand why fully half of the eligible population in the US won't get the free and readily available vaccine. It makes me sad to read about all those folks in Florida right now who are getting ready to be put on ventilators, begging for the vaccine and being told that it's too late.

I spoke to a young man a few weeks ago who told me he won't get vaccinated because he "wants to have children" some day. He truly thought it would make him unable to reproduce and nothing I could say would dissuade him. Where did he get this (mis) information? Social media...

Tabs

Posted 8:31 am, 07/31/2021

Unfortunately it looks like we are headed in the wrong direction again.

wonderingthrough

Posted 12:15 pm, 06/26/2021

It looks like the US case numbers have begun to rise over the past three days. The actual low point was on 06/19 when the US 7-day average dropped to 9,593.86, only to increase to 11,549.14 the next day followed by slight daily decreases through 06/23. Over the next three days, the average has increased by a little over a 1,000 cases a day. While the increase is not significate, it does end the trend of weekly decreasing case counts. The US Mortality Rate did tick up 0.01% this week, settling at 1.80%.

The 7-day average in NC has also shown increases over the past four days, climbing from 271.71 new cases per day to 318.57 new cases per day. Like with the US numbers, the increase is slight but it does end the trend of dropping case counts.

Locally, active cases continue to be fairly low. The last two weeks have seen 4 additional COVID-19 related deaths (2 Ashe, 2 Wilkes) in the local four county area.

aFicIoNadoS

Posted 7:41 pm, 06/13/2021

What else was wrong with him?

ashehomegrrl

Posted 6:53 pm, 06/13/2021

Death #45 for Ashe...my neighbor & a young family man...a very good hard-working person who simply didn't get the vaccine in time. He's leaving a mother, a wife, young children and a brother. I can't imagine the pain that they are going through. RIP **.

Go get vaccinated, please. Don't die because of some BS on Fox News or social media!

underdog2

Posted 4:07 pm, 06/13/2021

You would not lose your sweet concubines ****.

aFicIoNadoS

Posted 2:34 pm, 06/13/2021

What I find fascinating are the people that are still wearing masks. I'd bet my best concubine that everyone of them are already vaccinated too.

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