bob_doe_nz on 2/6/2020 at 10:29
11 days without a new case and still just that one person infected still. Someone send this person some chicken soup please!
zombe on 2/6/2020 at 12:55
Things look quite nice indeed there. I presume that most of the social distancing measures have been lifted a long time ago, right?
Today was a good day for us too - first day where no new cases were found (still have 170 active cases, but none serious/critical atm). Afaic, the last of the social distancing measures have been ended a short while ago (thous started to go, one by one, a long time ago). There were a few minor sparks in the past two weeks - but nothing flared up so far (4 occasions where new cases count reached double digits for a day). Last seven days averages 0.5% of positives per test - which, while considerably worse than when restrictions started to drop, is good enough it seems.
bob_doe_nz on 3/6/2020 at 03:05
Quote Posted by zombe
Things look quite nice indeed there. I presume that most of the social distancing measures have been lifted a long time ago, right?
We're still at level 2. (
https://covid19.govt.nz/covid-19/how-were-uniting/physical-distancing/#physical-distancing-at-alert-level-2) So social distancing is still in effect in some cases.
Public transport has been limited to every other seat for example. Shops are limiting how many people are allowed in. Not that people are actually following the rules.
zombe on 3/6/2020 at 14:43
Nice to see that contact tracing has such a high stand and is well communicated. Contact tracing is especially important as there are quite many that never get any symptoms at all.
We still have our 2+2 rule in effect - in public places, if possible, more than 2 people should not be together and should also keep 2 meter distance to others. Etc. There still are some travel route restrictions in relation to other countries ... unless they got already dropped (forgot the date). Shops are open and all other such mandated restrictions are gone. All-in-all, sounds quite comparable to your level 2.
Our local antibody studies (results are preliminary as the study is ongoing) have shown that 38% who had developed antibodies for the virus never had any symptoms and also no known contacts. That is higher than the guesstimates given months ago. I presume, that study among others (we also have a weekly random sampling study for situation monitoring etc) in conjunction with contact tracing is used to estimate current infection rate - 0.3 (ie. currently, 1 infected manages to infect 0.3 others). Which is well below 1.0 - that would be needed to keep the virus alive (and WELL below when the shitstorm was in full swing).
No known contacts can probably be explained by our initial outbreak being quite bad in comparison with everyone else in the vicinity and our contact tracing not being able to cope at the time. If i would scale our numbers up to NZ population count then we would have: 7054 known cases and 256 dead. Or when scaling up to S.Korea: 72298 cases with 2629 dead. Which would be around 6 and 10 times as much as the actual S.Korea. A bit of a fail. Could have been worse, much worse. Besides one of our naturally isolated islands - it never truly exploded anywhere else.
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Something else ...
India daily cases keep slowly but steadily going up (exp. ramp) - despite reportedly considerable testing (with some serious question marks - death/case ratio tells that all is alright, buuuuut ...). It is a darn big country. It is actually so darn big that thous case counts could be seen just as the virus moving in and trying to find a place to flourish. Is the current state worrying or not yet i wonder?
Brazil - now this is bad. Like really bad. Daily cases seem to still be exponentially ramping up (strong weekly cycle muddies the view) - with highest peak in a week so far already reaching 30K (~47K if scaled up to US population count - US never got even remotely near that in its peak). Testing, as reported (does not update daily) is abysmal (>0.5 cases per tests ... i hope that just their reporting is abysmal and has persistent omissions).
SD on 4/6/2020 at 19:22
Our government has done East Germany and China, and now they're going full ayatollah and requring face masks on public transport.
I don't really have any other option than to suffer under this fascist nonsense if I want to get to work, so I need the most obnoxious, intimidating face covering possible. All suggestions gratefully welcomed.
Pyrian on 4/6/2020 at 20:04
Guy Fawkes? Darth Vader?
driver on 4/6/2020 at 23:36
Get one of the transparent face masks.
Renzatic on 5/6/2020 at 01:27
Slip some pantyhose over your head, then wrap a bandana around your face. Wear a fedora for extra effect.
bob_doe_nz on 5/6/2020 at 03:15
Go full plague doctor.
On another related topic. It's been 14 days officially since a new case. That damn last person just won't get better.
Judith on 5/6/2020 at 05:40
Got dammit, person, you better get cured like yesterday, cause we need better stats! :mad:
