The Coronavirus Thread

[JimC]

I am wearing a mask so that the black helicopters can't identify me...

[Brian Peacock]

Who is that masked man?

[Scot Dutchy]

Well they are useful for something. For keeping out bugs they are useless.

How many cases in the Netherlands today?

The 7-day rolling average for new cases went from 512 on the first of September to 5537 yesterday. In the same period the 7-day rolling average for deaths went from 3 to 19.

The peak of the 7-day rolling average for new cases during the second wave in Australia was 552 on the 5th of August. By yesterday it had dropped to 18. The 7-day rolling average for deaths reached its peak of 22 on the 4th of September. By yesterday it had dropped to 0.

Reminder: Netherlands has a population of 17.2 million. Australia's population is 25.6 million.

I'm certain it has nothing to do with the Ozzies wearing masks, and the Hollanders not.
Where is the double blind study?

Nothing at all more to do with it but more to do geographies and societies. Very difficult to make comparison countries so far apart and totally different.

[pErvinalia]

Yeah, we don't wear clogs.

[Tero]

That's what you get for putting your country in the middle of all the highways to Europe. Now Finland, nobody drives through it to anywhere. A few hundred German tourists drive up to Hammerfest.

[Svartalf]

I am wearing a mask so that the black helicopters can't identify me...

Bah, doesn't work, everybody I know recognizes me even when I'm wearing one.

[Svartalf]

Who is that masked man?

WT? is that thing Ned Kelly's helmet?

[Hermit]

Well they are useful for something. For keeping out bugs they are useless.

How many cases in the Netherlands today?

The 7-day rolling average for new cases went from 512 on the first of September to 5537 yesterday. In the same period the 7-day rolling average for deaths went from 3 to 19.

The peak of the 7-day rolling average for new cases during the second wave in Australia was 552 on the 5th of August. By yesterday it had dropped to 18. The 7-day rolling average for deaths reached its peak of 22 on the 4th of September. By yesterday it had dropped to 0.

Reminder: Netherlands has a population of 17.2 million. Australia's population is 25.6 million.

I'm certain it has nothing to do with the Ozzies wearing masks, and the Hollanders not.
Where is the double blind study?

Nothing at all more to do with it but more to do geographies and societies. Very difficult to make comparison countries so far apart and totally different.

Um, yeah. We can't explain why the Dutch second wave of infections keeps rocketing while the second wave in Australia has been knocked on the head. Not at all. Perfectly mysterious. So, let's not even try.

[Brian Peacock]

Who is that masked man?

WT? is that thing Ned Kelly's helmet?

Yeah. Apparently you can get one on eBay as part of a fancy dress outfit. We can organise a whip round if you really want one?

[Svartalf]

Thanks, but even if I wanted a helm, I'd go for something new, without the bullet impacts.

[Brian Peacock]

I think one of those copper helmets sported by the Roman legions would suit your colouring better.

[JimC]

Who is that masked man?

The Oz lefty band Redgum wrote a song about him:

Poor Ned, you're better off dead
At least you'll get some peace of mind
You're out on the track
They're right on your back
Boy they're ‘gonna hang you high

Eighteen hundred and seventy eight
Was the year I remember so well
They put my father in an early grave
Slung my mother in gaol
Now I don't know what's right or wrong
But they hung Christ on nails
Six kids at home and two still on the breast
They wouldn't even give her bail

Poor Ned, you're better off dead
At least you'll get some peace of mind
You're out on the track
They're right on your back
Boy, they're ‘gonna hang you high

[pErvinalia]

Who is that masked man?

WT? is that thing Ned Kelly's helmet?

Yeah. Apparently you can get one on eBay as part of a fancy dress outfit. We can organise a whip round if you really want one?

That's cultural appropriation!

[Svartalf]

I think one of those copper helmets sported by the Roman legions would suit your colouring better.

actually, they weren't copper, they were brass, or gilded iron.

[macdoc]

ugh

Covid reinfection: Man gets Covid twice and second hit 'more severe'
By James Gallagher
Health and science correspondent
Published1 hour ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54512034