Starker on 12/9/2020 at 17:36
Did places like Australia and South America where people got a lot of sun as the pandemic began have a significantly lower death rate?
SubJeff on 18/9/2020 at 13:53
Concerning stuff.
Best to avoid getting it.
zombe on 19/9/2020 at 08:12
Quote Posted by icemann
On the positive end, we've gone from 700+ new infections per day to 30-45.
Thous are the numbers we are at (last 3 days: 36,22,36) - with a fraction of the population count (1.3M). Fueled by foreign travel and small local hotspots that pop up and promptly die out. A big percentage of positives come from people that already are under observation / self-quarantined. Currently there are 1955+485+135+42=2617 (4 regions) people under observation with 194+96+44+6=340 of them being ill (so, if you pardon my
French "math", ~13% chance of getting it vs 1.6% of everyone being tested).
Fortunately/unfortunately - there are / have not been any out of control hotspots. Not much incentive to do anything more restrictive. Not getting worse nor better - yet. Essentially no-one wears a mask (i vaguely remember seeing one, but i might be misremembering). Relying on keeping ones distance and effective contact tracing / etc. Mandatory self quarantine for most European travellers (6 countries excepted from having to do any quarantine: Cyprus, Lithuania, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Finland and lol Vatican). So, yes, even the French can come if they do some self quarantining.
Speaking of French ... have they officially given up now? Adjusting to US population - they are getting 67000+ new cases per day in comparison.
Gryzemuis on 19/9/2020 at 11:30
Thing are getting out of hand again here in NL. Early july the numbers were way down. During only the last week, number of infections went from a few hundred per day to 2000 per day today.
Number of hospitalizations, ICU-intake and deaths are still way lower than what they were during spring. I thought that could be because we have less aggressive strains now. But that's not true. The virus is just as aggressive. It's just that doctors know better how to treat patients, there are better medicines, etc. And most new infections are young people, who are less likely to get severely ill.
I expect the whole situation to become a lot worse this winter. Partially because (younger) people are less careful now than they were in the spring. Let's hope we'll get vaccines soon.
Phatose on 24/9/2020 at 19:48
OK, so according to that link, part of the problem in Covid patients seems to be part of the immune system attacking a different portion of the immune system, and as a result our immune system does jack shit to protect us. This eventually results in our immune system giving a hyper-inflammatory response, which kills us. I'm trying very hard to remember this is just biology, and not a metaphor for anything.
lowenz on 24/9/2020 at 20:15
Quote Posted by Phatose
OK, so according to that link, part of the problem in Covid patients seems to be part of the immune system attacking a different portion of the immune system, and as a result our immune system does jack shit to protect us. This eventually results in our immune system giving a hyper-inflammatory response, which kills us. I'm trying very hard to remember this is just biology, and not a metaphor for anything.
It's both :p
Azaran on 28/9/2020 at 18:36
And back to lockdown in my area. Thanks to all the careless party people who made this possible
Harvester on 28/9/2020 at 18:43
Yes, here the reins have been tightened as well. For the last couple of months I was allowed to work at the office again for a couple of days a week. Now for the next 3 weeks at least, that is no longer allowed, everyone who can reasonably do their job from home is now required to do so. So I'm stuck at my home office for the time being and will see my colleagues over MS Teams only. I suspect this will last longer than 3 weeks but we'll see.
Various other measures have also been taken, like bars/restaurants close at 10, no audience at sports matches, and the maximum amount of people allowed at a gathering has been reduced, among other things. It's too bad but it's necessary, we're on the brink of a second wave.