[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

[heywoodu 16,434]

Italy is going down fast.

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Italy is going down fast.

 

So who will host 2026 Winter Olympics now?

[heywoodu 16,434]

Just now, dcro said:

 

So who will host 2026 Winter Olympics now?

Mount Hotham.

[heywoodu 16,434]

In Austria they are now advising against travelling to Italy. Luckily there's only one more race left in Antholz.

[Dunadan 1,103]

Or Italian authorities are just dumb and should have taken the same approach of many other countries at the moment, no mass testing=few cases and no panic and claim that the country is dead, some deaths that can be counted among those for influenza or other patologies and that's it.

[heywoodu 16,434]

1 minute ago, Dunadan said:

Or Italian authorities are just dumb and should have taken the same approach of many other countries at the moment, no mass testing=few cases and no panic and claim that the country is dead, some deaths that can be counted among those for influenza or other patologies and that's it.

The complaint for a lot of countries is that they aren't testing enough..

[OlympicIRL 6,299]

Courtesy of worldometer, here is the current state of play in the Covid-19 medals table....

 

 

Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Serious, Critical
China	76,940	+652	2,443	+98	23,163	11,477
Diamond Princess	691	+57	3	+1	17	27
S. Korea	602	+166	6	+4	18	7
Japan	146	+12	1		22	6
Italy	134	+55	2		2	26
Singapore	89				49	5
Hong Kong	74	+4	2		12	6
Iran	43	+14	8	+2
Thailand	35				21	2
USA	35				6
Taiwan	28	+2	1		2	1
Australia	22	+1			11
Malaysia	22				17
Germany	16				14
Vietnam	16				15
U.A.E.	13				3	2
France	12		1		10
Macao	10				6
Canada	9				3
U.K.	9				8
Philippines	3		1		2
India	3				3
Russia	2				2
Spain	2				2
Belgium	1				1
Cambodia	1				1
Egypt	1				1
Finland	1				1
Israel	1
Lebanon	1
Nepal	1				1
Sri Lanka	1				1
Sweden	1
Iraq	1

Highlighted in green

= all cases have recovered from the infection.

Highlighted in grey

= all cases have had an outcome (there are no active cases).

 

 

[AlFHg 330]

4 hours ago, Dunadan said:

Or Italian authorities are just dumb and should have taken the same approach of many other countries at the moment, no mass testing=few cases and no panic and claim that the country is dead, some deaths that can be counted among those for influenza or other patologies and that's it.

As I said before, this is a result of mass testing. At the moment 3 people died for this virus, all of them relatively old or with preexistent pathologies (cardiac and cancer). As by tradition in our health system, we are going to record a sharp rise in cases of coronavirus as this mass testing will continue for at least 2 weeks. Personally I don't think they are acting bad with this mass screening, as this is due to prevent serious consequences for potential people at high risk. In my view, the problem is the fear around this virus, which seems to me too much.

 

However, I would like to ask to european users here about their governments' actions to prevent virus from spreading. Here in Italy, direct flights from China were suspended weeks ago, but no mandatory quarantine was required to those coming from there. What about your countries?

[heywoodu 16,434]

17 minutes ago, AlFHg said:

As I said before, this is a result of mass testing. At the moment 3 people died for this virus, all of them relatively old or with preexistent pathologies (cardiac and cancer). As by tradition in our health system, we are going to record a sharp rise in cases of coronavirus as this mass testing will continue for at least 2 weeks. Personally I don't think they are acting bad with this mass screening, as this is due to prevent serious consequences for potential people at high risk. In my view, the problem is the fear around this virus, which seems to me too much.

 

However, I would like to ask to european users here about their governments' actions to prevent virus from spreading. Here in Italy, direct flights from China were suspended weeks ago, but no mandatory quarantine was required to those coming from there. What about your countries?

 

This sums up the Dutch authorities:

 

[dcro 10,210]

Someome collected 15 pages of this?