The Coronavirus Thread

[Tero]

Are those absolute or relative figures?

The US has that 45-50 million total cases so far, as on the graph.

[Tero]

County cases now going up again

Possible reasons:
College football (70-80 000 attend)
Indoor events

[Scot Dutchy]

Where does it say it was a Dutch report? Presumed fairy data. Just an email. The dictators are doing everything to hold on to power. Something does not rhyme. The A&E's are meant to be overloaded yet when I went last Friday it was empty and only one ambulance outside which was the one I came in. Treatment time was normal about five hours. They have to do blood tests which take time. There was no problem getting a bed for me if I wanted to stay in overnight. This is the biggest A&E in Netherlands. The tv reports are also very tongue in cheek. It stinks.

All test street are meant to so busy that there are queues and queues. Well the test street next to the hospital i went to to today was empty. Stories are not matching. The advisory management team are advising minor lock down measures for two weeks. Their power is dying.

[Tero]

This is all I have so far.

Story is behind NYT paywall.

[JimC]

Booster shots are being used in Oz; 5 to 6 months after the second jab. I'll get mine next March sometime...

Apparently getting a mild dose of covid after being fully vaccinated does the same as a booster shot, maybe even better...

[Tero]

A year ago

[Tero]

Cases were down to 200 every mon, the peak day. Now 500.
Hospitalizations for COVID-19 patients: 91 with 54 from Lancaster County (3 on ventilators) and 37 from other communities (10 on ventilators). Note: This includes patients who no longer test positive for COVID-19 but continue to be hospitalized.

No info on their vaccinations.

[Sean Hayden]

Any word on when we're allowed to go back to not being obsessed with this?

[JimC]

When it has mutated into something like the common cold...

[Sean Hayden]

So never then?

No thanks. I'm vaccinated as are the kids. We've done more than most nearby to be safe. But the strain of thinking about covid and the constant adjustments are taking their toll.

I'm just going to get back to normal now, thanks.

[Tero]

I'm not doing normal till spring. Maybe not fully normal even then.

[JimC]

Covid has scarred us all, and although they will heal to a degree, the marks will remain in our minds forever...

[pErvinalia]

I'm over it.

[macdoc]

things not going so well in wooden shoes land

Netherlands to impose partial lockdown to halt COVID-19 surge: Report
FILE PHOTO: A general view shows a street during a curfew following the COVID-19 outbreak in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Jan 23, 2021. (Reuters/Piroschka Van De Wouw)
12 Nov 2021 02:14PM

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/n ... ge-2308926

[Brian Peacock]

So never then?

No thanks. I'm vaccinated as are the kids. We've done more than most nearby to be safe. But the strain of thinking about covid and the constant adjustments are taking their toll.

I'm just going to get back to normal now, thanks.

Yeah, it's probably time we got back to finalising those plans for that revolution we were on about.