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In recent news, New Zealand has banished this virus from their shores. The last person known to have the infection has been cleared of it.

Australia is close behind: Coronavirus (COVID-19) health alert

From the "current status" diagram ... they currently have 20 hospitalised cases, 3 in ICU, in the whole country. There are about 400 currently infected people in the whole country, 7 new identified in the last 24 hours.
 
Trials said:
I like this headline: COVID-19 cases are on the rise among young adults, but health experts aren’t sure why

:unsure: could it be the young adults don't really give a damn about something they believe only kills old people?
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They hope to get their inheritance faster. If the parents get sick, they won't spend all their money. (sarcasm just in case)
 
Trials said:
I like this headline: COVID-19 cases are on the rise among young adults, but health experts aren’t sure why
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I wouldn't be surprised if some of those people in their 20s have started 'seeing' people.
When it comes to being in close proximity like that..I doubt they are worrying about masks, lol.
 
Apparently Lecce came in close contact with a Covid patient. Douggie, CE, Lecce are all locked up pending test results.

Post-secondary fires up again July 2 for courses that required practical experience to graduate (nursing, welding, etc). This is expected to affect 10,000 out of 600,000 PS students.
 
friend came by the house last night to borrow a saw, his wife is a teacher, they have two adult children at home with boyfriend/girlfriend staying over, he hasn't stop going into his sales job for one day (sells vinyl gloves and rags, doesn't like being home with idiot kids) . Says he his not worried because he's not getting covid. These are allegedly educated people.
I told him I'll call him if I ever want the saw back, and please dont stand in my driveway.
Stupids like this are the core root of why this will be hard to get rid of covid
 
crankcall said:
friend came by the house last night to borrow a saw, his wife is a teacher, they have two adult children at home with boyfriend/girlfriend staying over, he hasn't stop going into his sales job for one day (sells vinyl gloves and rags, doesn't like being home with idiot kids) . Says he his not worried because he's not getting covid. These are allegedly educated people.
I told him I'll call him if I ever want the saw back, and please dont stand in my driveway.
Stupids like this are the core root of why this will be hard to get rid of covid
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Why is he immune? Blind optimism or is there a kernel of sound reasoning that has been ambitiously expanded?
 
Aaand this is why countries like NZ and Australia (and Spain and Italy and a few others) dealt with this by a near-complete lockdown: Everything stops. Nobody allowed out of your house except to get supplies, and you have to prove it if the police see you. This way, the stupid people don't have the chance to get sick and infect others. Our halfhearted lockdown wasn't stringent enough and/or not quite long enough if they insisted on only doing it halfheartedly.

That we opened up while there was still some level of community transmission means we now have to cope with that low level of community transmission (brought on by idiots as described above). We have a fighting chance, the numbers have been going down, but it's going to be a longer battle than it would have been with either a tighter lockdown or another week or two longer.

The US is screwed. They have states in which the number of cases and deaths are going up. If you go to www.worldometers.info and click on the USA and click on states like California (which has about the same population as Canada) ... click on "Projections". I found a few states where the projected number of cases is not tailing off for as far ahead as their projection shows. California, Texas, Florida are like that. Ohio is almost like that.
 
POWERMAN said:
I wouldn't be surprised if some of those people in their 20s have started 'seeing' people.
When it comes to being in close proximity like that..I doubt they are worrying about masks, lol.
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We haven't been through this thing for a year. What if the virus affects genetics and those meet ups produce kids with handicaps. Worse still they are born dumber than their parents.
 
crankcall said:
friend came by the house last night to borrow a saw, his wife is a teacher, they have two adult children at home with boyfriend/girlfriend staying over, he hasn't stop going into his sales job for one day (sells vinyl gloves and rags, doesn't like being home with idiot kids) . Says he his not worried because he's not getting covid. These are allegedly educated people.
I told him I'll call him if I ever want the saw back, and please dont stand in my driveway.
Stupids like this are the core root of why this will be hard to get rid of covid
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Mrs. nobbie was at the bank yesterday and a guy at the next wicket took out some money but when informed of his balance decided to give some back. He licked his thumb and counted it out.

CC, I wouldn't trust someone that dumb with anything sharp.
 
nobbie48 said:
Do they think if they are put in a garbage bag they're going to mate and kill you in your sleep?
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Because people are stupid and/or believe everything they read online.

Some people are treating Covid like it's aerosolized and is floating in the air everywhere, just lurking around every corner waiting to rush into their lungs and kill them even when there's nobody with 30 feet of them. And some people are so absolutely paranoid about that "airborne" aspect that they're treating anything that they feel as being "infected" like it's kryptonite.

There's one lady on a local community FB group who says she hasn't physically stepped out of her house since the first week of March.
 
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PrivatePilot said:
Because people are stupid and/or believe everything they read online.

Some people are treating Covid like it's aerosolized and is floating in the air everywhere, just lurking around every corner waiting to rush into their lungs and kill them even when there's nobody with 30 feet of them. And some people are so absolutely paranoid about that "airborne" aspect that they're treating anything that they feel as being "infected" like it's kryptonite.

There's one lady on a local community FB group who says she hasn't physically stepped out of her house since the first week or March.
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Does she irradiate all of her groceries when they get dropped off? Seriously, it's a good idea to minimize your risk, but some people turn one aspect of safety up to 11 and don't realize some parts of their life are still at 2.

There's probably a riddle in here somewhere. Like the fox, chicken and bread that you need to get across the river. Mary gets a delivery of lysol wipes, bleach and apples, how does she decontaminate them all without getting infected or poisoning herself.
 
GreyGhost said:
Does she irradiate all of her groceries when they get dropped off? Seriously, it's a good idea to minimize your risk, but some people turn one aspect of safety up to 11 and don't realize some parts of their life are still at 2.
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I've seen this. The more fanatical that some people seem to be when it comes to masks and gloves, the more insanely oblivious they sometimes are when it comes to things like cross contamination, etc.

The "magic glove brigade" are a great example. Wear gloves from morning to night, go out shopping, come home, cross contaminate the bejesus out of every single thing they touched all day (including stuff inside their house), take gloves off before bed and somehow feel "safe".
 
I know one elderly lady that replaces her furniture or carpets if she thinks it is dirty. ... it doesn't need to actually be dirty, if she thinks it's dirty that's reason enough. Her kids must be having a heck of a time with her right now.
 
Covid is causing a ******** of pollution with all the disposable masks and gloves. Might as well mix hand sanitizer in there too. Water bills will be going up.
 
I wipe down my groceries after buying them, we wash fruit and veg. I wipe down packages when they are delivered. Any surface that could have been touched/coughed on by someone else within the last few hours is suspect for the next little while. I don’t care if that sounds extreme but I’ve spent my career working in labs dealing with contamination of one kind or another, whether it’s radioisotopes or chemicals, so it’s not that big of a deal for me. It takes an extra minute or two out of my day and it’s an easy thing to do to reduce risk a tiny bit. Cases here in Kingston are now listed as zero but testing is not widespread
 
Evoex said:
just double down on the hand washing
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Ditto. I'm talking things seriously, but the "if someone someone positive touched that cereal box and then put it back on the shelf and then you touch it, you're going to be infected" method of transmission has increasingly been shown to be infinitesimally low.
 
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