[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

[konig 1,609]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

What's the biggest non-family groups still allowed in your countries? Here no more than three people, obviously everyone has to keep 1,5 meters of distance.

You mean: outside the houses, rigth?

[heywoodu 16,468]

Just now, konig said:

You mean: outside the houses, rigth?

Of course  

 

Rules don't count here for people who live together, since - I quote - "last time we checked, someone's house is still private space". If you live in a family with three kids for example, you're of course still allowed to go and take a walk or something, as long as you maintain proper distance from other people. Since both getting fresh air and at least stay moving are both vital parts of one's general health, quite a lot of people are doing so and luckily most people do keep their distance.

 

About inviting people into your house, the quote was: "The advice is not more than three people at the same time, and only if you can manage to keep 1,5 meters of distance between each other."

[phelps 8,766]

34 minutes ago, konig said:

our goverment discard the "quick test" for coronavirus, great.

 

 

https://www.lapoliticaonline.com/nota/125417-preocupacion-por-la-decision-de-gines-de-descartar-los-tests-rapidos-y-cederle-el-monopolio-a-roemmers/?fbclid=IwAR1sKE9ullfOLQ1chUD5H4vFEhLLvyLxEiWcU1C_OaEMqyj_ax_4vQi2zAo

 

not a big issue, really...it's not effective and reliable enough (only about 60% of results are correct)...

 

it might be difficult and expensive, but only a massive campaign of full tests can give a reasonably good idea of what's going on...

[phelps 8,766]

by the way, here in Italy, after 3 consecutive days of downwards trend, today the number of new cases has gone back rising... 

 

4492 new positive tests (more than 2500 in Lombardy), 662 more deaths and 999 new recovered people...

 

total number of currently sick people is around 62,000 and we also have 10,300 recovered people and 8500+ deaths in total...

[heywoodu 16,468]

2 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

not a big issue, really...it's not effective and reliable enough (only about 60% of results are correct)...

 

And that is such a massive problem. It sounds cool to be able to do quick tests (temperature check here, some quick real test there), but first the Diamond Princess showed that doesn't work well (half the cases there didn't have any symptoms, so also no fever) and if you have a large amount of false negatives...that means there's a lot of people with the virus walking around thinking they don't have the virus. There you go, your next and bigger problem..

[konig 1,609]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Of course  

 

Rules don't count here for people who live together, since - I quote - "last time we checked, someone's house is still private space". If you live in a family with three kids for example, you're of course still allowed to go and take a walk or something, as long as you maintain proper distance from other people. Since both getting fresh air and at least stay moving are both vital parts of one's general health, quite a lot of people are doing so and luckily most people do keep their distance.

 

About inviting people into your house, the quote was: "The advice is not more than three people at the same time, and only if you can manage to keep 1,5 meters of distance between each other."

Here is: you can be outside ALONE and only for essential activities like buy food, you cant invite nobody in your house.....of course, faithful to our idiosyncrasy, a 20% of the population are doing whatever they want.....

[MHSN 3,822]

6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

What's the biggest non-family groups still allowed in your countries? Here no more than three people, obviously everyone has to keep 1,5 meters of distance.

 

as much as you want they closed shops, parks, and almost anywhere possible. but if you just want to go out, no restriction for that. YET

 

[heywoodu 16,468]

Just now, phelps said:

by the way, here in Italy, after 3 consecutive days of downwards trend, today the number of new cases has gone back rising... 

 

4492 new positive tests (more than 2500 in Lombardy), 662 more deaths and 999 new recovered people...

 

total number of currently sick people is around 62,000 and we also have 10,300 recovered people and 8500+ deaths in total...

 

Wait, 4492? I read 6100+ half an hour ago...they mentioned the exact same number of deaths (662), so I wonder how come there's such a difference in the number of cases.

[heywoodu 16,468]

1 minute ago, konig said:

Here is: you can be outside ALONE and only for essential activities like buy food, you cant invite nobody in your house.....of course, faithful to our idiosyncrasy, a 20% of the population are doing whatever they want.....

 

Luckily most people aren't really inviting people to their homes now, with some exceptions but then it's generally only one or two people with distance between them. I'm glad this part is an advice instead of a 'law' here (for now), it's a rather slippery slope if you start enforcing laws about how many people can be inside one's private house. Again though, luckily most people here aren't being that stupid.

[phelps 8,766]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Wait, 4492? I read 6100+ half an hour ago...they mentioned the exact same number of deaths (662), so I wonder how come there's such a difference in the number of cases.

 

that's sick people (4492) + deaths (662) + recovered people (999)...

 

to be more precise, 4492 is the increase of positive cases compared to yesterday...

 

tbh, I don't know why they count that total number instead of keeping precise track of the specific sectors...

Edited March 26, 2020 by phelps