[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

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1 hour ago, Vic Liu said:

 

Is it too over? I mean being cautious is good but isn't it should be accessed weekly or monthly. Eager to start economy is risky but just ignoring it and staying at home too long may cause unrecoverable damage to the economy. It shouldn't be a two extremes battle in my opinion.

 

I was also surprised at this decision as here in Europe even the most hard hit countries and regions have adopted a faster "relaxation" plan.

I assume the situation as assessed by their (LA county / CA state) authorities is still bad, or, alternatively, they are afraid that people coming from more "infected" states/regions of the USA would bring back the virus if they relax too quickly.

[dcro 10,211]

First case in Lesotho, amazingly enough.

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Latest data as of 13^th May, 2020.

Top best recovery rate (These countries have recorded more than 70% recovery rate)

Data counted only for countries with more than 1000 cases.

No	Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Percentage recovered from total cases
1.	Iceland	1,802	+1	10	+0	1,780	12	98.78 %
2.	Hong Kong	1,051	+3	4	+0	1,008	39	95.91 %
3.	China	82,926	+7	4,633	+0	78,189	104	94.29 %
4.	Thailand	3,017	+0	56	+0	2,844	117	94.27 %
5.	New Zealand	1,497	+0	21	+0	1,402	74	93.65 %
6.	Luxembourg	3,894	+6	102	+1	3,610	182	92.71 %
7.	Australia	6,980	+16	98	+1	6,271	611	89.84 %
8.	Austria	15,997	+36	624	+1	14,304	1,069	89.42 %
9.	South Korea	10,962	+26	259	+1	9,695	1,008	88.44 %
10.	Switzerland	30,413	+33	1,870	+3	26,800	1,743	88.12 %
11.	Germany	173,546	+375	7,780	+42	148,700	17,066	85.68 %
12.	Croatia	2,213	+6	94	+3	1,834	285	82.87 %
13.	Denmark	10,667	+76	533	+6	8,663	1,471	81.21 %
14.	Uzbekistan	2,568	+49	10	+0	2,040	518	79.44 %
15.	Iran	112,725	+1,958	6,783	+50	89,428	16,514	79.33 %
16.	Malaysia	6,779	+37	111	+2	5,281	1,387	77.90 %
17.	Ireland	23,242	+107	1,488	+11	17,110	4,664	73.62 %
18.	Azerbaijan	2,758	+65	35	+2	1,789	934	64.87 %

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7 hours ago, Vic Liu said:

 

Is it too over? I mean being cautious is good but isn't it should be accessed weekly or monthly. Eager to start economy is risky but just ignoring it and staying at home too long may cause unrecoverable damage to the economy. It shouldn't be a two extremes battle in my opinion.

No, our mayor said that they will evaluate the plan every week, but this is the plan for now. We just can’t trust many Americans to follow social distancing rules, or mask laws, or other other measures.
 

It definitely shouldn’t be a two extremes battle, but that’s the U.S. for you.

[hckošice 16,630]

Yesterdays recap:

 

4326 Tests provided yesterday unveiled 4 new confirmed cases, no new death and 77 recovered patients which means we surpassed the 1000 healed patients.

 

382 Active cases, 139 hospitalized patients, 5 in intensive care beds and 1 still under artificial lung ventilator

 

 

So right now in Slovakia

1469 Confirmed Cases   (+4 Yesterday), 

4326 Tests Yesterday    (127034 in Total)

27 Deaths  (+0 Yesterday), 1060 Fully Recovered  (+77 Yesterday)

 

https://covid-19.nczisk.sk/en

[hckošice 16,630]

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/05/slovakia-mask-coronavirus-pandemic-success/611545/

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Yesterday we had record number of cases 556 (453 of them from miners of coal mines in Silesia) + 27 new deaths and 315 recoveries

 

Today it's 322 cases (167 from Silesia) + 23 new deaths and 279 recoveries 

 

Despite those big numbers from 18th May next step of lifting restrictions will be introducted:

 

• Outdoor cinemas (I don't know any outdoor cinema in my city..) will be open 
• Work on plans for movies and music videos will resume
• Cycling tracks, ski jumping hills, small stadiums for children will only be reopen to up 14 people
• Large football stadiums will be available only for 22 players and 3 coaches (it's about national football leagues)
• Swimming pools, gyms and sports halls will remain closed
• Hairdressing salons and beauty salons with will be opened withs restrictions (e.g. waiting rooms will be closed, you can come there only if you reserved "your turn" earlier by phone)
• Restaurants, cafes and bars will also be reopened with restrictions such as, keeping 2m distance, wearing gloves and masks by employees and wearing gloves by customers. Customers can take off masks only during consumption (wow...), disinfecting each table after each client and every 15 minutes if no one comes

 

From 25th May, children in grades of 1-3 in primary schools will be take care in schools if parents can't stay at home with their children because they have go to work.

 

Borders will remain closed at least until 12th June.

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1 hour ago, hckosice said:

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/05/slovakia-mask-coronavirus-pandemic-success/611545/

 

How on earth can they even attempt to compare a place like the United States (330 million) to a country like Slovakia (5 million)?

 

If anything, living in small places with limited international travel has proven highly advantageous in battling the coronavirus crisis. And even there, living in small towns/villages is even more beneficial than living in cities.

 

Also, is there no 1.5 m rule in Slovakia?

 

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8 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

How on earth can they even attempt to compare a place like the United States (330 million) to a country like Slovakia (5 million)?

 

If anything, living in small places with limited international travel has proven highly advantageous in battling the coronavirus crisis. And even there, living in small towns/villages is even more beneficial than living in cities.

 

Also, is there no 1.5 m rule in Slovakia?

 

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Plus, you’re comparing a population that largely believes in basic scientific principles, to one that refuses to.

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43 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

How on earth can they even attempt to compare a place like the United States (330 million) to a country like Slovakia (5 million)?

 

If anything, living in small places with limited international travel has proven highly advantageous in battling the coronavirus crisis. And even there, living in small towns/villages is even more beneficial than living in cities.

 

Also, is there no 1.5 m rule in Slovakia?

 

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Yeah those photos of leaders standing directly next to each other, ignoring what's widely been called the number one safety measure, have baffled me since the beginning (from multiple countries)  

 

Population itself says something, but population density says even more. I'm guessing Bratislava is Slovakia's most densely populated city (do correct me if I'm wrong), and it's barely even at 30% of the density of the 133rd most densely populated US city. If you're not densely populated, you're going to do a hell of a lot better.

 

To take it to an extreme: even if they might have given everyone in the former Kowloon Walled City a mask, no way it would not have spread like madness there simply because distance