New York is being hit hard. Keeping good thoughts for you.
South Australia is doing OK we have not had one new case in the past two weeks .In fact all Australia is no too bad we have had less than 100 deaths so far and 21 of those came off a cruise ship the Ruby Princess also 1000 cases are attributed to the ship aswell.
Stay safe all.
Brian
I rather enjoyed the reports of an AU-NZ "travel bubble".
"People get antsy, they want to travel, so you send me yours, and I'll send you mine."
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
It has finally arrived in town at a long-term care facility. I just hope that stringent measures are taken to prevent wiping out a number of residents & workers. I just ordered a couple masks, but they are coming by regular mail. I should have had them ship express mail instead!
We just had a zoom with some old friends and I was a bit surprised to hear their rather cavalier remarks about the present covid regime. One chap said "we're having several of our neighbours round to our garden to have a drink and maintain the 2m distance". But I know his garden is tiny - can't see how he could welcome more than two people and maintain the 2m distance! Another chap said he was going to visit his girlfriend a few miles away - "as we're both clear, what's the problem?" This seems to me to be the attitude "these restrictions don't apply to me - I know better". "It's about common sense", they said - not slavish obedience to dictats from the politicians.
My wife and I are worried by this - we're inclined to observe the protocols from the government. But we've been asked to visit some other friends to sit in their very big garden - should we go?
""we're having several of our neighbours round to our garden to have a drink and maintain the 2m distance". But I know his garden is tiny"
" "as we're both clear, what's the problem?""
In our town during the early days of the stay at home period, someone set up a neighborhood block party quite close to the police station! The police went to the location several times to get them to disperse.
In our area, there are more cars and more pedestrians on the streets than ever before.
Our R number is slightly above 1 when we need to get it to 0.2.
The R number is the the number of one person passing on the virus to others ie R1 means one person who has the virus is passing it on to one person, R3 is one person passing it on to 3 people.
"... But we've been asked to visit some other friends to sit in their very big garden - should we go? ..."
philb said:
"In todays paper they say that most of the infected were not the commuters who travel on the congested subway..but retirees like the wife and myself. Strange illness."
"... [Governor] Cuomo's data says 66% of Covid-19 hospital admissions are from home, but doesn't explain how the virus got into the homes ..."
"... Mind-blowing statistics as of just yesterday, finds that sequestering at home causes greater Covid 19 illnesses and death than being out and about ..."
"Q/ And how did the Coronavirus get *IN* to those homes to begin with ?
A/ It was carried in by people who were "being out and about".
The hospitals asked people where they had come from, not where they had been, or where their family members had been."
re: Covid-19 in our locality
New York is being hit hard. Keeping good thoughts for you.
re: Covid-19 in our locality
South Australia is doing OK we have not had one new case in the past two weeks .In fact all Australia is no too bad we have had less than 100 deaths so far and 21 of those came off a cruise ship the Ruby Princess also 1000 cases are attributed to the ship aswell.
Stay safe all.
Brian
re: Covid-19 in our locality
I rather enjoyed the reports of an AU-NZ "travel bubble".
"People get antsy, they want to travel, so you send me yours, and I'll send you mine."
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
re: Covid-19 in our locality
It has finally arrived in town at a long-term care facility. I just hope that stringent measures are taken to prevent wiping out a number of residents & workers. I just ordered a couple masks, but they are coming by regular mail. I should have had them ship express mail instead!
re: Covid-19 in our locality
We just had a zoom with some old friends and I was a bit surprised to hear their rather cavalier remarks about the present covid regime. One chap said "we're having several of our neighbours round to our garden to have a drink and maintain the 2m distance". But I know his garden is tiny - can't see how he could welcome more than two people and maintain the 2m distance! Another chap said he was going to visit his girlfriend a few miles away - "as we're both clear, what's the problem?" This seems to me to be the attitude "these restrictions don't apply to me - I know better". "It's about common sense", they said - not slavish obedience to dictats from the politicians.
My wife and I are worried by this - we're inclined to observe the protocols from the government. But we've been asked to visit some other friends to sit in their very big garden - should we go?
re: Covid-19 in our locality
""we're having several of our neighbours round to our garden to have a drink and maintain the 2m distance". But I know his garden is tiny"
" "as we're both clear, what's the problem?""
re: Covid-19 in our locality
In our town during the early days of the stay at home period, someone set up a neighborhood block party quite close to the police station! The police went to the location several times to get them to disperse.
re: Covid-19 in our locality
In our area, there are more cars and more pedestrians on the streets than ever before.
Our R number is slightly above 1 when we need to get it to 0.2.
The R number is the the number of one person passing on the virus to others ie R1 means one person who has the virus is passing it on to one person, R3 is one person passing it on to 3 people.
re: Covid-19 in our locality
"... But we've been asked to visit some other friends to sit in their very big garden - should we go? ..."
re: Covid-19 in our locality
philb said:
"In todays paper they say that most of the infected were not the commuters who travel on the congested subway..but retirees like the wife and myself. Strange illness."
re: Covid-19 in our locality
"... [Governor] Cuomo's data says 66% of Covid-19 hospital admissions are from home, but doesn't explain how the virus got into the homes ..."
"... Mind-blowing statistics as of just yesterday, finds that sequestering at home causes greater Covid 19 illnesses and death than being out and about ..."
"Q/ And how did the Coronavirus get *IN* to those homes to begin with ?
A/ It was carried in by people who were "being out and about".
The hospitals asked people where they had come from, not where they had been, or where their family members had been."