Blogfinger

OG Boardwalk. May 1, 2020. APP photo.

Seaside Heights. APP photo.

APP: Ocean  Grove achieves notoriety because of the failure to close our boards.  The photo of OG above is misleading.  Let’s see what the boards look like this weekend.

This is the headline from the Asbury Park Press on May 2:

“As the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading throughout New Jersey in March, boardwalks in almost every single town were closed until further notice, with the exception of Ocean Grove, a privately owned area of Neptune Township.”

Isn’t it funny that the CMA can change its stripes as needed.  Now the boards are “privately owned.”  With FEMA, it was a “public thoroughfare,” and at the boardwalk dedication after rebuilding the middle section, and in front of the governor, the CMA said that this was “New Jersey’s boardwalk.”

NJ.com:    “New Jersey needs 75,000 coronavirus tests a day to reopen, analysis says. It’s running about 7,000 a day now.”

—“Such a ramped-up testing capacity is required “to catch hot spots before they turn into wildfires of disease,” the STAT report says.”

—On Friday, another 311 people died in NJ from the virus.  Do you hear that CMA?  Are you at least a little nervous about bringing crowds into our town?

NJ Patch:  “Murphy addressed the unemployment crisis facing New Jersey, one of the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak. There are more than 900,000 New Jerseyans who have filed for unemployment since March.”

NY Post:     Polling shows majorities favor continued restrictions on reopening, especially if the question mentions the possibility of a second wave of infection. But there is also increasing evidence of people ­going out in public and chafing at restrictions.

Blogfinger:  At least half of American doctors are practicing tele-medicine, but those visits are lacking the ability to do a physical exam other than to look at the skin. I had an endocrinologist tell me that she was considering teaching her patients to examine their own neck.  That is ridiculous.

But there is an Israeli company called TYTO CARE which has developed devices that permit certain physical exams  :

From the company:    “Tyto’s handheld devices that examine the heart, lungs, skin, ears, throat and abdomen, as well as measure body temperature, provide health professionals with the clinical data required to make informed treatment decisions while minimizing physical contact”  The company has been raising millions of dollars  (the last was $50 million) from investors anxious to be part of this startup.

The way things are going, someone will invent a device to do home colonoscopies, transmitting the images to your gastroenterologist who has quarantined in place under his desk.  There will be a miniaturized doctor who will deep dive and guide the camera more accurately than your own doctor could.