For the first time, San Francisco Pride is officially canceled

https://www.sfexaminer.com ^ | 14 April 2020 | MICHAEL BARBA

[BackRoads775]

For the first time in decades, thousands upon thousands of people will not march down Market Street this year to celebrate San Francisco Pride because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The colorful celebration of LGBTQ experiences, which has been held nearly every year since its humble beginnings in 1970, is officially canceled, Pride organizers announced Tuesday.

Organizers had hoped to postpone the parade until later this year, but decided to cancel the event as the coronavirus raged on, with nearly 1,000 confirmed cases in San Francisco so far.

[Ann Archy]

THAT is worth losing all the money we have lost!!

[nickcarraway]

Coronavirus is homphobic!

[digger48]

Wanna bet some poofter sues and it’ll be back on again?

[a fool in paradise]

aids pandemic couldn’t get them to shut down the orgy.

[Vendome]

Key Points

• Nationally, the percent of laboratory specimens testing positive for influenza at clinical laboratories continued to decrease and is now low.
• ILI activity continued to decrease nationally but remains elevated.
• Recent changes in healthcare seeking behavior, including increasing use of telemedicine and recommendations to limit emergency department (ED) visits to severe illness, as well as increasing levels of social distancing, are affecting the number of persons with ILI and their reasons for seeking care in outpatient and ED settings.
• Laboratory confirmed influenza-associated hospitalization rates for the U.S. population overall are higher than most recent seasons and rates for children 0-4 years and adults 18-49 years are the highest CDC has on record for these age groups, surpassing rates reported during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Hospitalization rates for school-aged children (5-17 years) are higher than any recent regular season but remain lower than rates experienced by this age group during the pandemic.
• The percent of deaths associated with pneumonia and influenza is above the epidemic threshold. The increase is due to an increase in pneumonia deaths rather than influenza deaths and likely reflects COVID-19 activity.
• 166 influenza-associated deaths in children have been reported so far this season. This number is high compared to recent seasons, but remains lower than the 2017-2018 season during which 188 pediatric deaths were reported.
• CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 39 million flu illnesses, 410,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu.
• Antiviral medications are an important adjunct to flu vaccine in the control of influenza. Almost all (>99%) of the influenza viruses tested this season are susceptible to the four FDA-approved influenza antiviral medications recommended for use in the U.S. this season.
• With ongoing declines in influenza activity and the continued effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on outpatient ILI and P&I mortality data, this will be the final week of a full FluView report. More detailed interpretation of data from these systems can be found in COVIDView starting next week (week 15).

 

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

 

 

[dfwgator]

Just like they sued when they tried to close the bathhouses during the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

[goodnesswins]

“CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 39 million flu illnesses, 410,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu.”

[Sarah Barracuda]

Oh noes how with the fruits be able to spread their diseases around

[Texas Eagle]

Are they series? Have you ever been to SF? Every day is a gay pride parade.

[cherry]

there is a GOD and HE is good....

[GaryCrow]

AIDS, a disease with a 100% mortality rate at the time, didn't slow them down but COVID-19 which has a 1.9% mortality rate shuts them down.

Go figure.

[NormsRevenge]

Silver lining or what?

[utax]

What exactly were they proud of?

[hoagy62]

For the first time in decades, thousands upon thousands of people disgusting perverts will not march down Market Street this year to celebrate San Francisco Pride because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The colorful celebration of LGBTQ experiences flaunting their perversions, which has been held nearly every year since its humble beginnings in 1970, is officially canceled, Pride organizers announced Tuesday.

Fixed it.

[Ann Archy]

I remeber that Reagan wanted to Quarantine the AIDS victims and ALL HELL BROKE LOSE!!!

SOCIAL DISTANCING would have been GREAT!

[Morgana]

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[Sacajaweau]

Something good came out of this.

[rightwingcrazy]

Think outside the box. This is San Francisco. Deploy a parade of drones carrying live displays of barely clad people gyrating, bumping and grinding. The networks can carry it, so people can see.

[Political Junkie Too]

This just means that the September Folsom Street Fair will be extra fabulous.

-PJ