Jackson Jambalaya

Very sad. Thank you to Executive Director Pickering and all the veteran homes staff. Amazing job keeping it out for this long. Thoughts and prayers!

I pray there aren’t more deaths. COVID hits retirement homes hard. 31 staff and residents with positive confirmations and another 10 pending shows quite a bit of asymptomatic spread. They need to have retested everyone after another week just to be sure they got everyone quarantined.

10:35 - We can test everybody on this earth today and wait for results to come in three days later and half of them could become infected in the interim. Your suggestion does not hold water.

But in this case the home is locked down with the infected isolated from the healthy. A retest would catch any of the “healthy” that was exposed but hadn’t been infected long enough to give a positive result. If you don’t get them out the disease will just start over. Have a little compassion for those brave people who protected our country, we owe them that.

Even more than that recently tested positive at a nursing home in Clinton, but the state has tried to keep it quiet. Most of those residents were asymptomatic.

People need to consider the actual accuracy of the testing under the circumstances. Mississippi is notorious for being behind the ball when it comes to educating its population and implementing new science/technology, so we have to assume the techs in these labs are both underprepared and overwhelmed. We have to question whether a percentage of “asymptomatic” positives are actually false positives and that a certain percentage of negatives are actually positives. Both assumptions have to be considered, not just the one that fits your narrative.

@11:34, not sure what narrative you are pushing, but if MSDH is going to publish data regarding positive cases, it should at least be accurate/honest.

@1:38 You’re not sure which narrative I’m pushing because I’m not pushing one. I only pointed out potential issues that could affect the totals being reported by MSDH which anyone thinking critically should have been able to surmise.

To your point, MSDH is relying on and reporting data from testing it has received from labs, but their information is only as good as their source(s) which, for the reasons I mentioned, could be skewed one way or the other. I’m not arguing (and don’t believe) that any person or entity is knowingly misreporting or misconstruing test result counts, just that the counts may be off.