It's literally the apocalypse right now. I'm so over 2020!
It's literally the apocalypse right now. I'm so over 2020!
"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
We've managed to be really under the curve, so now it's about gradual economic recovery. I expect that we'll get spikes in the next few weeks, but it's just about making sure that it's at a level that our hospitals can handle. At most I expect that we might have delays to our easing restriction plans as opposed to actually going backwards and having to reinstate any restrictions that have relaxed.
Long term immunity would be tricky since SARS-COV1 hasn't even gotten a vaccine yet after 5+ years. That said, that virus never had the same drive to develop a vaccine like this one.
USA has bigger fish to fry but.
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If I recall correctly, SARS initial trials on mice found the particular issue where the one implementation resulted in occasionally worse symptoms, and then SARS was largely eradicated in 2004, so all the funding dried up and vaccine development was abandoned.
The following was a facebook post by an intensivist in our country whom I had the pleasure of learning from as a medical student. Great guy. He puts this really well:
Originally Posted by A fucking brilliant intensivist
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Stop spreading COVID already people. My gundams are being delayed because Australia won't let people ship stuff in yet
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I'm living in the US. Nuff said.
Peace.
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You fucken penis noser.
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Peace.
Has anyone here caught it? Has anyone you know?
My best friend caught it and got sick for 3 weeks or so. His coughing was intense, and fever was pretty bad. He lost his sense of taste as well, but eventually made a full recovery. He lives in the Netherlands.
My friends here in the US have caught it but developed milder symptoms, just a fever and coughing. All have made full recoveries except one whose sense of taste is still a bit off. None of my friends in the Philippines have caught it.
Fortunately, no one I know has died yet.
Peace.
A young client has had it, fairly quick and easy recovery.
An older one died from it, living in the east of France in the beginning of the outbreak that was pretty severe in that region. He was a cardiologist, but at the time nobody knew how to deal with it.
It seems the protocols are getting better at handling patients partly explaining why with so many positive cases we do not get the surge in ICU patients we had last spring.
Another explanation might be that positive people are younger, after all most exposed summer jobs are for the younger generation...
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How seriously are people treating the pandemic in your area?
Here, there is a mask mandate, but a lot of people don't wear them outdoors, and wear them improperly indoors. People still travel and congregate in large numbers. Some restaurants and bars are full capacity, even though stores have "limited" capacity.
How are you dealing with the restrictions in your daily life? Particularly going out and/or vacationing?
Peace.
I live in Augusta, Georgia. The mask mandate here only requires you to wear them inside buildings and businesses. Most people I see don't have a mask on unless they're really old. If a young person has on a mask, they usually have their nose out. Whenever I go get groceries at Walmart, I see a lot of unmasked people. Even the employees are unmasked or have only their mouths covered. Walmart doesn't even enforce their mask policy to avoid fights.
Three counties here in Georgia rank in the top 20 for new COVID cases. As of 3 p.m. today, there have been 5,604 deaths in Georgia, an increase of 28 since the previous day. Over the last 14 days (8/17-8/30), the average daily increase in newly reported deaths was 64.43 deaths each day. Over the previous 14-day period (8/3-8/16), the average daily increase in newly reported deaths was 61.57.
There have been 268,973 cases confirmed in Georgia, an increase of 1,215 since the previous day. Over the last 14 days, the average daily increase in newly confirmed cases was 2,281.64 new cases a day. Over the previous 14-day period, the average daily increase in newly confirmed cases was 3,132.
Personally, my life hasn't changed much. I just stay in my room all day like I always have. I only leave my house for groceries. Most of the time I'm ordering McDonald's or Captain D's through Uber Eats.
Social distancing is still a thing in my state. Masks are not mandatory but recommended especially in areas where social distancing isn't feesible like some public transport. Masks are mandatory within hospitals. Nursing homes and hospitals allow no visitors.
Research from outbreaks in Australia found that healthcare workers mostly didn't get infected by patients (one or two did), but then gave the rest of it amongst each other in cafeterias etc - so in my hospital now all medical staff wear goggles and masks as a minimum at all times aside from eating. Even some of us don't do it properly, let alone patients.
We're now getting some community cases, but new cases are all less than 10 per day, probably even less than 5 per day (in my state).
Overall the general population is taking this more seriously than before. At the start, it was believed to be a mild flu-like illness without much consequence. Then when lockdown was in place hardcore, people reluctantly complied.
Because we were lucky and also had a low population density in general in my state with good backywards and big homes we didn't have a large outbreak.
People then thought we overreacted and went about their daily business. This was roughly when the Black Lives Matter situation happened.
The Southern state of Victoria then had an outbreak shortly afterwards. It's much worse there than the rest of the country and we've essentially locked them out. As such, the general population has realised how badly this can actually effect us and nobody wants to go back to full lockdown - thus people now take this seriously.
No one I am close to has had COVID.
My life itself hasn't changed. I've been going to work as usual for the past 8 months (plus extra precautions), social distancing is not possible at work. When I'm not working I don't really go out anyway. I stay home and play games + chat with friends online when I do. Occasional dinners and stuff outside. Groceries when necessary.
There was a particular day when the entire orthopedic department was being tested for COVID so there were only 2 surgeons doing things in the whole hospital. That was an issue for our emergency department for some time because patients needed their input.
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Social distancing, masks, we have that with a myriad of exceptions, laws that end too soon and your usual politicians/journalists fake news/opinions making things over complicated...
When basically it's simple:
-social distancing is the first basic rule, avoid all unecessary social activities and try to minimise the unavoidable ones. That includes shopping and all activities where you meet people even from your friends or familly circles when you don't live under the same roof.
-wear a mask whenever social distancing is impossible.
-wash hands a lot more frequently, yes even after going to the bathroom. Strange idea isn't it ?
-wear a mask whenever you're away from home is a good practice too, especially in dense cities/places even if social distancing is easy but you cross paths with lots of people.
-if you are out but in non populated places like walks in the forest/treks/empty beach, do as you please if you're sure to never cross paths with anyone.
But the problem here like everywhere on earth, is that we have a massive pandemic that kills a lot: idiocracy and idiocy...
Last edited by David75; Mon, 08-31-2020 at 05:53 AM.
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I don't personally know anyone who would have had Covid-19, let alone died because of it. Finland went pretty hardcore on it early on and it really helped. There have only been mask recommendations here and there, aside from airplanes with obligatory masks, and most people don't wear one. I only wear one on a bus. I most certainly wear gloves a lot more, though, and use hand sanitisers in stores.