COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[city2]

Looking at the beaches today looks like a lot of people seem to think this virus has disappeared.

 

[Bill Walker]

I know Steve Coogan is a comedian but Shirley he's having a laugh, furloughing his housekeeper and gardener.
Guy is minted.

https://mol.im/a/8342093

 

[BosnianBlue]

this shit is seriously going on my tits now. Can't fucking order anything online as our airports are still completely closed and no incoming post traffic (apart from letters from some european countries) is working.

 

[BosnianBlue]

Interesting. Hopefully they're not just some anomaly. Wonder what's causing the lack of infections. Great for the Danes though!

it's same here. Schools and airports are closed, but apart of that, pretty much everything is working now, anyone barely gives a shit about social distancing, but cases haven't gone up at all. We never were too affected, but it felt down a bit before lifting the restrictions and it never rose so far.

 

[Vic]

That is not quite right,it is 2-14 days according to the WHO,it has always been that

The time between exposure to COVID-19 and the moment when symptoms start is commonly around five to six days but can range from 1 – 14 days.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/dis...-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses

Either way, VE day hasn't caused a spike.

 

[NorCalBlue]

The average incubation (median) period is 5.1 days.
95% of infections occur between 4.5 and 5.8 days and 97.5% occur before 11.5 days. So the vast majority of new cases from going back would have been picked up.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-0504

The 95% quoted in the article is the confidence interval for the average - there's a 95% chance that the average incubation period is between 4.5 and 5.8 days. It doesn't mean that 95% of infections occur between 4.5 and 5.8 days.

 

[NorCalBlue]

Interesting. Hopefully they're not just some anomaly. Wonder what's causing the lack of infections. Great for the Danes though!

Presumably most people are wearing masks in public. If you consider that the main mode of spreading seems to be via stuff coming out of your nose or mouth, if you mostly block that, you're going to dramatically reduce the spread, even when people are in fairly close contact. It's night and day compared to the situation pre-lockdown.

 

[jay_mcfc]

Some good signs for some countries following deescalation. Here in Valencia it has been nearly 4 weeks since children have been allowed to go out and nearly 3 weeks since adults have been allowed to exercise. So far there's been no spike in cases or hospitalizations. We're all set for phase 2 in about ten days if it continues likes this.

 

[shemnel]

haha it all kicked off round here last night, proper party on the beach, someone hauled a load of decks out onto the street, going off.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Presumably most people are wearing masks in public. If you consider that the main mode of spreading seems to be via stuff coming out of your nose or mouth, if you mostly block that, you're going to dramatically reduce the spread, even when people are in fairly close contact. It's night and day compared to the situation pre-lockdown.

Isn't this so bloody obvious.

And yet for weeks and weeks we had that moron Witty and his band of cretins, advising government ministers without a science o-level between them, that there was no need to wear them and no benefit in doing so. So that was the moronically stupid and wrong advice being pedalled.

And yet all the time we could see how effective mask-wearing was in Asian countries. An effective solution was right there in front of us.

The government's persistently wrong advice on something as important as this ha been a bloody bloody disgrace.