Nicker on 13/8/2020 at 18:42
:rolleyes:
Tony_Tarantula on 13/8/2020 at 19:12
It's easy to roll eyes until someone in your family dies from the virus. People need to take this much more seriously like Italy did and Melbourne is doing.
Renzatic on 13/8/2020 at 19:14
Is Tony doing that thing where he tries to trick us into supporting extreme positions so he can crow on about how easily manipulated we all are?
Renzatic on 13/8/2020 at 19:16
Fortunately for him, I'm very easily manipulated!
I think we should kill all the not-maskers, and eat their hearts!
Starker on 13/8/2020 at 20:01
I, for one, welcome our new masked overlords.
heywood on 13/8/2020 at 20:26
Quote Posted by bob_doe_nz
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53761122) 14 new cases. *sigh*. At least they are from the same group. Now we've found out that they have been out of the Auckland and down to one of our touristy hot spots. We're going to pull a Victoria, Australia if this keeps up.
I agree with what Pyrian and zombe said.
The results of antibody studies suggest the vast majority of infected don't get tested and counted. The most logical reason is that they don't develop any symptoms, and so they are unaware that they are carrying the virus. But there's also irresponsible people who develop milder symptoms and don't report them and/or don't get tested. Sometimes people lie because they don't want to/can't afford to miss work. Sometimes people just shrug it off, maybe assuming it's a cold, or for reasons I can't explain. And sometimes people report symptoms to their physician and are told not to bother getting tested because they probably don't have COVID-19. But we know these people exist, because some of them get worse and then seek treatment and get tested, and some of them have been back-traced from people they infected. So even though New Zealand has a small population and is geographically isolated, I don't think you can expect to completely eradicate this virus without universal testing of everybody on a frequent basis, which is not really feasible at the moment. It just spreads too easily under the radar.
I doubt you'll have the sort of problem that Victoria has. They took potentially infected people and gathered them together in an environment where they were allowed to spread it among themselves and the staff, thereby creating a super-spreading venue with pathways out into the surrounding communities.
bob_doe_nz on 14/8/2020 at 06:28
Auckland is now staying at level 3 for another 12 days. Everywhere else is staying at level 2.
Apparently a new strain. With still no idea where it came from
demagogue on 14/8/2020 at 08:02
It's admirable to take such strong measures with such few number of cases. Can they keep it up every 2~3 months for the next year or so? That's a question for every country really, mutatis mutandis. This is just the 2nd wave and even good countries are slipping a lot more this time than the last time. God help us a year from now if these waves keep coming.
Anyway, apparently there's a club in Tokyo which has given itself the mission to purposefully spread the virus on the trains, I don't know if they're apocalyptic or trolls or have some kind of herd-immunity-by-force / thin-the-herd, uh, herd mentality. They just stay on the trains and cough on everything. Japanese do so many things so well to take care of each other, but then there's things we can fairly call Japan-level fucked up, and this is one of them. Glad I don't have to take the trains these days.
Azaran on 14/8/2020 at 18:35
Quote Posted by demagogue
14 is not the number where you start sighing.
This is Covid. Which means you have 14 cases one day, 28 the next, 56 the day after, over 100 the next day, you know the drill
Pyrian on 14/8/2020 at 21:37
And anything you do to change the direction, doesn't really show up in the trends for about three weeks.