was walking my dogs around the neighborhood and saw some people having a children’s birthday party outside...there were at least 15 kids and just as many adults gathered on the street and sidewalk there was a firetruck on the street with the kid’s name on a poster on the side...a firetruck at a kid’s birthday party was a new one for me I hope none of them end up contracting the virus
Over 41 grocery workers dead in Seattle after testing positive for COVID-19. Seattle, WA, USA - April 15, 2020 6:03:32 pm https://www.theviruswatch.com
What is the source of information? That just takes me to a site where there's a link that 41 grocery workers died in Seattle. When? Over what period? Is it even true? There was a stat that over 40 grocery workers have died nationwide from the Washington Post, but I hadn't heard about 41 dying in Seattle alone. Here is a link to 41 dying nationwide as reported by the Washington Post (the Post article is behind a paywall) : https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...-dying-from-coronavirus-we-dont-have-a-choice
If I lived in NY/NJ I would be getting the **** outta there. Or any cold weather state, I'm sure thing thrives in the cold.
You cannot outrun the virus. Wherever you go it will come. In some weeks from now NY will be the safest area to be in. And their doctors will have the most first experience on how to deal with the virus.
Often when you click on a headline you'll then see a down arrow where you'll find a link to more info, but not in this case. I actually did a search myself on Google before sharing it to see if there was a news article or a Twitter post somewhere that I could link to, but I couldn't find one. I presumed at the time that it was because it was breaking news, but I still can't find anything to corroborate it. In fact, like you, I've since seen stories like the one you've referenced that claim 41 dead grocery workers nationwide. So it could well be a case of broken news. If that's the case, I'm sorry. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Timing appears to be everything. If science is slow to give us a definitive plan of action within the next 3 months, whether its vaccine or quick/accessible testing measures, we're going to have a lot of big social questions revisted.
“Several hundred people involved in arranging the concert had passed a test a few days before the event.” Seems like that’s a pretty large group. False negative is maybe as high as 30% so test could have (actually likely if the area has many cases) missed. With the lack of testing data in many regions and almost none in the US in Jan and Feb, can you really say much about that time period? We really don't know how wide-spread it was then and where it was. We took a big guess... some cities got lucky and some got very unlucky.
"The vast majority of newly identified cases had no symptoms and no fever on a single point-in-time assessment" (which was done over a 2 day period, which again... need to be monitor over at least a 5-14 days period). I hate twitter headline . What this report yield is how rapid it spread among the homeless population there (and the need for universal testing, as the authors said)
They pretty much traced all of Italy's issues to a single Champion's league match. https://time.com/5809848/game-zero-soccer-game-italy/
On the Apple and Google enabling world-wide coronavirus tracing ... Some quick high level Q&A here Good article that explain it here
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.12.20059618v1.full.pdf There's the link to the pdf of the study
Well it is time for us to leave the soft lockdown. People are getting tired. Almost noone dies anymore and they can't even find many new cases. The supposed "peak" is moved later and later every few days and it seems it will never come. No peak. But how to leave? It would be lucky if there was a guide or a similar country to act as an experiment. Schools are impossible to be opened. Restaurants and bars and cafes too. So what will open? Maybe some shops.
Not sure what it would be like in Greece, but here in the US, I imagine it will be the reverse order of how things shut down. First open recreational facilities, manufacturing, and retail stores - all places that don't mass people together in an uncontrolled environment. See how things go and if the virus takes off again. Then schools, restaurants, movie theaters, etc would be next. Convention centers, sports, and other big gatherings would be last.
I dont think that cinemas, casinos, dance clubs, gyms and theatres will ever open, before the vaccine. Restaurants and bars probably with half capacity. It would be great if like Germany we could keep closed the churches for long but religious people are already at their wits end and need to have their holly communion with a shared spoon. Hotels are a real problem. Now that presymptomatic infection is finally scientifically proven is also a given that obligatory mask measures will be taken. Which is absolutely hell for people with asthma.
There are studies like this that say while presymptomatics are contagious it is not as serious as thought. That said whether it is soccer or bball, physical contact is unavoidable. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...tient-who-isnt-showing-symptoms-infect-others
The only reason to leave NY/NJ area is TAXes. Other than that 300 sunny days enough to load vitamin D.As of cold we have not seen snow this year .
