Lord Protector Tate Reeves issued the following statement.
Today, Governor Reeves announced additional measures
to slow the spread of COVID-19. A new executive order places a 10%
capacity requirement on healthcare facilities across the state. If
hospitals cannot maintain 10% of their capacity for COVID-19 patients,
they must delay elective procedures. This was a vital part of the effort
to prevent hospitals from becoming overwhelmed during the summer wave.
Mississippi’s COVID-19 cases have increased over the past few weeks—part
of a global and national trend of increasing cases.
The governor also announced additional targeted measures for counties
which meet the standards established during the summer wave. In these
counties, indoor social gatherings should be limited to groups of 10.
Outdoor social gatherings should be limited to groups of 50. Face
coverings are required while indoors and interacting with the public
without social distancing.
“We’ve seen this before. We know what can happen if we allow this to get
out of control, and so we want to be proactive to prevent that from
happening,” said Governor Tate Reeves. “None of these elements are
silver bullets. None of them will totally eliminate the virus. We have
to allow for life to go on in the meantime. As we wait for a vaccine,
our mission is the same as it ever was: to prevent our healthcare system
from being overwhelmed. That has to be the focus.”
The counties with additional COVID-19 safety measures are Chickasaw,
Claiborne, DeSoto, Forrest, Itawamba, Jackson, Lamar, Lee, and Neshoba.
Counties must meet the following criteria for additional measures: more
than 500 cases per 100,000 residents over a designated two-week period
or more than 200 cases total over the designated two-week period (with
more than 200 cases per 100,000 residents).
A copy of the executive order can be found here.
28 comments:
What a toothless dictate. Hospitals have to stop admitting patients if the capacity drops too much, but everyone except those living in 9 counties can keep on like nothing is wrong. Tater has no vision. You don't wait for things to get critical before you start taking action. Then again, he has been nothing but reactionary so far. Pure political theater.
I hope the governor also looks into the COVID-transmission in private schools. JA and Prep again not reporting their numbers. Maybe they are ashamed of them? Wonder how you can be ashamed of something you believe is a hoax? Or maybe they just don’t care. Wait, where do the governor’s kids go to school?
https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/resources/11098.pdf
Tater went to Millsaps, ya’ll keep forgetting that.....
Good thing the virus can’t cross invisible county boundary lines.
My personal anecdote is that 80 people at my employer have tested positive. From ages 20 to 65 and not one single person was admitted to the hospital. They all survived their paid quarantine. Hell, people who only got 3 days off and tested negative were actually pissed they had to come back to work! Rumer has it people are actually chasing the bug for their paid 2 weeks off!
The take-away from the news conference is the governor`s announcement of the 7% fatality rate for those tested positve over 50 years old. It ain't just like the flu.
This is insane. The MS GOP needs to be disbanded if they don't primary his a$$.
@3:29, I assume you are one of the Branch Covidians who scream “a private business can require you to wear a mask?” If so, you should support private schools rights to do as they please.
I've taken this seriously from the start ( going on eight months now).
But this week, there's no rhyme or reason about anything "the gub'ment" says.
Let the damn China virus spread . . . as does the annual flu.
There is something to be said about "Herd Immunity".
It worked in 1918 with the Spanish flu.
And that "virus" didn't really end until 1920 . . . but it worked.
100 years ago, Doctors were very concerned and saying much the same things as many say today.
But it seems many Doc's back then . . . didn't want their image on the front page of 1918 newspapers.
Now it seems many of the Doc's can't wait to be on any "news" camera.
Tate is going back to a piecemeal county by county approach to a virus that doesn't respect county boundaries.
Tate: just reimpose the State Wide mask mandate and keep it on until there is widespread deployment of a vaccine. Don't wait until Biden has step in with a mask mandate two months from now.
My right to freedom from Covid-19 should not be infringed upon by by idiots not wearing masks.
"Herd immunity" only "Worked" in killing folks in 1918.
The equivalent today would be 2,000,000 dead. Or, 5 times World War Two.
Surely you can't be that stupid. Or craven.
If you are, don't cry in 2 weeks when we get a solid Democrat Government and maybe a Democrat liberal Senator.
We have the most cowardly, wimpish folks in the world in Covidiots. What brainless, maskless Sheep.
There are a lot of folks who live in adjoining counties, but work and shop in one of the counties with the face mask mandate? When they go back home to those counties, does the virus stay behind, Professor Tate?
Mississippi will be the last place on earth to get Covid-19 under control which will be years from now.
I'm not too worried about Covid running rampant through JA and Prep.
Once again our favorite liberal city and State Chicago Illinois is seeing a dramatic increase in Covid. The Mayor and governor trying to shut the state diwn again. But the liberal clowns told us they be doing everything right.
Tate has lost the little credibility he had by allowing the state fair to go on and now being extended for a third weekend for purely financial reasons. The mask mandate will not be imposed in Hinds County until after Mistletoe Market Place. More prove that lockdowns and other measures are meaningless. Stop with the daily counts and the daily press conference.
Considering that Mississippi is supposedly helmed by Republicans (who are supposedly for LIMITED government), it is surprising to observe the degree to which Governor Quisling, Doctor Dissembling, and Executive Director Mendacious, all seemingly follow the same Covid-19 playbook followed by Democrats.
They sure do seem to be good "team players", careful to neither say nor do anything which might challenge, undermine, or disrupt the approved Covid-19 narrative, or the desired trajectory of current events. They seem resolute, in allowing neither logic nor statistics to threaten potential profits from tests, tracking, and the much-anticipated vaccines.
Ann Coulter (though it might as well have been Ayn Rand) once observed that America has two political parties. There is the Stupid Party, and there is the Evil Party. Occasionally the Stupid Party and the Evil Party work together, to achieve things which are both stupid AND evil. This is called 'Bipartisanship'.
Should we be comforted, by the current bipartisan efforts to address this "health crisis"? Or should we be AFRAID?
Ann Coulter is hot.
Masks being tested. Science prevails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BslFT9cKZwc
For those demanding the healing balm of mask mandates, I can only assume that your only source of news is cable TV. Positive tests do not equal cases.
https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1318253420617199616
@5PM Herd immunity is the the only way we still exist as a species, vaccines weren't invented until almost 1800. There are places that have reached 0 deaths and very few cases. Do you think that's because they secretly developed a vaccine, only gave it to their country, and are still hiding it from the rest of us? Y'all think of yourselves as so worldly and informed but are either completely unaware of anything happening outside of your own state, or refuse to look at any data that doesn't conform to your fear.
@10:24 Thanks for sharing, hadn't seen that.
My concern is that many are being admitted solely to make money for the institute admitting them. Yes there are medical professionals that will do this. Most I know, including myself, with Covid were treated at home and did well without all of the feared and claimed Sequela that's been touted about. I am of the belief that this is truly a bad cold and not the proclaimed end of mankind as many are crying from the rafters. We have many other disease processes out there.
@Jacksun. So you’re good with the vaccine and the GAVI/MasterCard chip that will be required afterward right? (You didn’t research it like I asked you to, did you?) You aren’t just ignorant of what’s happening, you are now complicit and that makes you an enemy of not just the American people, but of humanity as well.
Well, Pappy is late for the game here, but I will take a garbage time TD. So, the state government is tying public health measures to hospital capacity. Is this not the same state government that restricts capacity by Certificates of Need? So they created the problem and now we are being punished for it.
The survival rate of 98-99% only includes those who actually got tested. One would have to assume that some people got it but weren't all that sick, and so never got a test. Those people are not included. Wonder what the survival rate would be if we include those?
11:37am: I wasn’t aware, no, that the Gates Foundation and MasterCard are working together to fund an out reach to immunize the 20% of children who still are unimmunized against Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) ang get them digital vaccination certificates to keep up with the progress. Truly the Gates Foundation are the hands and feet of Christ reaching out to protect vulnerable children. And here is one for you: Did you know the Rubella portion of the MMR vaccine has a 19% similarity in protein structure to the Covid 19 virus? That gives the MMR vaccine a high cross reactivity to Covid, diminishing its worst effects against prolonged illness or death. That is an important reason why recently vaccinated children do better than older Americans against Covid who never had the MMR not developed as 2 courses until 1979. So stretch out your arm, get the MMR vaccine, and get at least an important protection against the worst effects of Covid with the valuable, off the shelf MMR vaccine from any clinic today.
So tired of hearing Covid this and Covid that. Hearing it is the end of mankind and been wishing for an Asteroid strike taking us all out. So now I hear one may, May I say, hit on 3 November. But once again, hopes shattered.
https://news.yahoo.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-says-asteroid-150143772.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIICCC80lOHG0m_RkQSFy14QdQFL3RQ6enphyr8aObeL4yMAcgdToiArlH_9WD8ovyEFoRfhR1VVgycEkoIfbJCQfwrOecIHUWht2I1Z6Fmpflhm1Up5Bg3Yu86tPT4X_n8rp2w74dWrrFTlEs8yVFa_F_QgAdtfwyKQ1GpifByr
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