Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus
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Hhabelt
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I got really excited for the US.
I got really disappointed finding out you don't live in the US.
Bsdmr2
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Doesn’t make any sense. Cases and death rates are still so low for you. Au revoir economy.
Joe Mac
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Death rates are low. Cases are high. Bear in mind that you have something in the line of 20x our population when you look at our figures. I think the thinking is that doing it now allows us to have everything up and running a lower instance in December for the Christmas rush. One thing thats clear is that everyone is going to have to have at least one more during this pandemic.
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Turbo
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To be honest, it's better to stabilize early rather than later in the curve. People may not understand and it takes guts for the officials to do so, but it's best in the long run.
We took a while to start taking serious measures over here during the 2nd wave (not a full lock down though). It worked and they managed to stabilize the situation, but it's still steady at 1000 cases a day. Not great, but better than the exponential increases we were getting until a couple weeks ago. It would have been better if they had acted sooner and stabilized at a lower number of daily cases (and some measures could be relaxed faster).
Joe Mac
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TBH we’ve had amongst the strictest regimes in Europe over the last 4 or 5 weeks but it’s not flattened the curve, this is an attempt to do that early and have the country up and running to spend in December.
The science is starting to back this approach too. The WHO is recommending that lockdowns be short and sharp, but not the end all of coronavirus containment strategy. I was just reading about all this and the lockdowns in Wales, here:
Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response
A regular round-up of the latest coronavirus news, plus insight, features and interviews from New Scientist about the covid-19 pandemic
www.newscientist.com
But I would just like to take out a lovely graphic from the article:
Ouch.
Trump trashes Fauci and makes baseless coronavirus claims in campaign call
A frustrated and at times foul-mouthed President Donald Trump claimed on a campaign call that people are tired of hearing about the deadly pandemic which has killed more than 215,000 Americans and trashed Dr. Anthony Fauci as a "disaster" who has been around for "500 years."
www.cnn.com
Covid is getting worse. Trump says people are getting tired of hearing about it and called the health officials idiots.
Sighs.
Despite high rates of Covid 19, India and African countries are seeing far fewer deaths. This puzzling phenomenon is not so puzzling once considering the population make up.
As leads of the COVID-19 team in the African Academy of Sciences, we have followed the unfolding events and various explanations put forward. The emerging picture is that in many African countries, transmission has been higher but severity and mortality much lower than originally predicted based on experience in China and Europe.
We argue that Africa’s much younger population explains a very large part of the apparent difference. Some of the remaining gap is probably due to under reporting of events but there are a number of other plausible explanations. These range from climatic differences, pre-existing immunity, genetic factors and behavioural differences.
Given the enormous variability in conditions across a continent – with 55 member states – the exact contribution of any one factor in a particular environment is likely to vary. But the bottom line is that what appeared at first to be a mystery looks less puzzling as more and more research evidence emerges.
Personally, I am happy with this. As a person who ended up crying over the thought of how many people in the third world would die from Covid 19, this is both a relief and rather logical. Unfortunately, the life expectancy in a third world country is much less than here.
As leads of the COVID-19 team in the African Academy of Sciences, we have followed the unfolding events and various explanations put forward. The emerging picture is that in many African countries, transmission has been higher but severity and mortality much lower than originally predicted based on experience in China and Europe.
We argue that Africa’s much younger population explains a very large part of the apparent difference. Some of the remaining gap is probably due to under reporting of events but there are a number of other plausible explanations. These range from climatic differences, pre-existing immunity, genetic factors and behavioural differences.
Given the enormous variability in conditions across a continent – with 55 member states – the exact contribution of any one factor in a particular environment is likely to vary. But the bottom line is that what appeared at first to be a mystery looks less puzzling as more and more research evidence emerges.
Personally, I am happy with this. As a person who ended up crying over the thought of how many people in the third world would die from Covid 19, this is both a relief and rather logical. Unfortunately, the life expectancy in a third world country is much less than here.
Dtknuckles
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This is why I don’t think schools should be open, especially with younger and students with disabilities. The constant change can be more damaging.
But at the same time, I'm not sure if my oldest could handle virtual classes. He's so behind and his disabilities make it hard for him to understand both the written and spoken word (I really suspect SPD here) that sometimes the only instruction he's able to take is hand over hand. None of these decisions are easy.
Skalap
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Just watched the news about Ireland and Wales. Be patient, I hope things will get better after these six weeks. There isn't much more to do for now.
Joe Mac
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No exactly. Lockdown starts midnight tomorrow so going to get my hair cut and do a couple of jobs tomorrow and bed down for 6 weeks. Hopefully my crazy levels don’t increase too much...
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Skalap
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I believe otber countries will have to do the same. I don't see how things can turn better without it. Here in France we are not in a lockdown yet but I think it's just a matter of time.
Joe Mac
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Yeah definitely, every country has at least one of these to come over winter. The govt’s thinking is to go early to get the R rate down before December to allow people some form of normality over Christmas. Fingers crossed it works as intended!
AnthonyI
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If people in the states don't start getting a clue it's gonna happen here too, just a question of time.
Skalap
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Yeah I am not sure our French government really cares about the people. It's all about economy now here.
Joe Mac
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Britain is worse. The way the government acted towards Greater Manchester was a disgrace. Fucking bojo the clown.