Coronavirus

People have been complacent for ages now. The spread here really stsrted again when people went on holiday abroad and partied hard. Some people appear to have caught it on flights home too, and there have been numerous clusters attributed to people coming back from holiday and going out partying with their mates.

Some of it has been spreading in schools too, but several universities have been really badly hit. It's insane in Newcastle where they have two universities -hundreds of cases in or linked to students.
 
In Finland, schools have been open all autumn, and the virus doesn't really seem to be spreading there. A largish number of the cases lately has been attributed to bars, University student parties and sports events. Although many people also don't know where they got it, because they have much more contacts now than they did in the spring.

The amount of cases in Finland has risen substantially over the last couple of weeks. The Government is talking about new restrictions, and some have been implemented already. I'm slightly scared what new restrictions would do to my already limited social life. But I'll have to wait until I know what the restrictions actually will be.
 
Well this isn't good. A friend who got a positive antibody test a few weeks ago, and was pretty sure he caught Covid in April, is waiting for the results of a new test because he's now got classic Covid symptoms.
 
There was an idea that my department would return to the office within two weeks, due to the number of cases and the deteriorating situation regarding the availability of drugs, doctors, and places in hospitals, I would probably stay at home until January. Already, all trainings have been moved to MS teams for the next two months. I'm a little bit worried because my GF work as a driving instructor and such a number of sick people may mean the closure of her school or a high chance of infection - fortunately, in the last few months we have saved as much as possible, so we will calmly survive 5 - 6 months without income, but the mere thought of this stress does not fill us with optimism.
 
Friends of mine who I always thought were on the sane side of the road are now sharing Corona skeptical videos on Facebook. :confused: This pandemic needs to end soon or any last bit of faith I have left in humanity will be irretrievably lost.
 
Poland today - 6356 new cases / 115 deaths. Numbers are rising every day now. And this are cases with symptoms - we stopped counting positive test results without symptoms a month ago.

Teachers are infected and a few have died in the last two weeks. This is a statement by the ruling party's politician on this subject, the comment is redundant:
"Schreiber noted that the situation is being analyzed on an ongoing basis, but that there is no decision on the possible closure of schools. - On the other hand, joining in pain with the families of the victims, of course, is a huge tragedy, but let us also remember that teachers are killed, for example, in car accidents - he added."
 
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Starting from monday: Pubs and restaurants have to close for 4 weeks.
Curfew from midnight until 5am.
Numbers here are worse than start from lockdown in march.
 
MindRuler said:
Starting from monday: Pubs and restaurants have to close for 4 weeks.
Curfew from midnight until 5am.
Numbers here are worse than start from lockdown in march.
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That's where we are here too. Well, no curfew. Patio service can continue, because patio service in Ottawa in October is awesome.
 
Patio service in Ottawa in October is probably too cold even for Coronavirus

(Diagnosed) case numbers are getting really shit here too. Anything from 15k to 19k cases a day, and upwards of 100 deaths every day. Apart from Scotland, and maybe Northern Ireland too, I can't remember, pubs and restaurants are staying open except in Very High Risk areas (Liverpool). Hospitalisations are supposedly higher than they were in March/April. Testing and diagnosis seems to be a lot more accurate. I still think the detected number of cases is far, far, off the actual number of cases, but it makes you think there were actually 20k-30k cases per day back in March and April, which officially was only a few thousand a day.

A friend's mother just died of Covid. She'd been in hospital for two weeks and they concluded they could do no more for her. Her husband was allowed in to say goodbye. Now he has to isolate.
 
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Brigantium said:
Patio service in Ottawa in October is probably too cold even for Coronavirus

(Diagnosed) case numbers are getting really shit here too. Anything from 15k to 19k cases a day, and upwards of 100 deaths every day. Apart from Scotland, and maybe Northern Ireland too, I can't remember, pubs and restaurants are staying open except in Very High Risk areas (Liverpool). Hospitalisations are supposedly higher than they were in March/April. Testing and diagnosis seems to be a lot more accurate. I still think the detected number of cases is far, far, off the actual number of cases, but it makes you think there were actually 20k-30k cases per day back in March and April, which officially was only a few thousand a day.

A friend's mother just died of Covid. She'd been in hospital for two weeks and they concluded they could do no more for her. Her husband was allowed in to say goodbye. Now he has to isolate.
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Cases per day back in March have been estimated to be around 100,000 or higher; most went undetected and number of tests was way, way lower than now. That being said, things are not looking particularly rosy at the moment.

I am sorry to hear about your friend’s mother. :(
 
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Well well. The friend in Ireland I mentioned some time ago who has been quite ill since she had a mystery bug with lung problems in January is now thought to have had Covid. She's getting some more tests next week. She visited London and Dublin in late December. Fell ill in early January, was hospitalised late January. Now has suspected permanent lung damage.
 
Apparently virus was doing the rounds in Europe since late 2019. Some of my students were sick with a pretty nasty cold back in January/February and are pretty certain it was Covid-19 based on the symptoms they experienced.
 
It's suspected, but thought to be in very small numbers and isolated cases. Maybe tourists who had visited China, or tourists from China. There was a family in France who were ill, blood sample from one member of the family was later found to contain the virus. I tend to think more widespread community transmission would have quickly become obvious, though. There was a nasty cold/flu on the go last winter which caused coughs and breathing difficulties. The thing I find significant about this person I know is she travelled through two large international airports. The early cluster in France is associated with another big international airport.
 
Anyway, after the fierce lockdown in spring which helped Czechia to be really low in numbers and altogether alright our government completely forgot about it, spent the whole summer fishing I guess and suddenly our rates are increasing alarmingly. We have more infections, more hospitalisations ... but also because the lockdown was rather hard and the consequences of the virus are very ... subtle here (we haven't had that many deaths or even serious cases, most have either no symptoms at all or very mild ones) people tend to completely ignore any safety precautions, make fun of it, invent conspiracy theories.

But the numbers are growing and I'm afraid soon our hospitals will exceed their capacity.

On a press conference this week when our prime minister (a colourful character, a businessman in conflict of interest, sucking on the EU funds and a very boorish rube, a fellow of no integrity or charm) was asked if they did anything wrong he answered (and I translate verbatim, including the mistakes in grammar - he's Slovak, not Czech, by the way - but all the nonsense was already there):

"I don't know where the mistakes happened. I don't see any significant problem. We have just made a decision and of course, yes, we are hygienes [sic]. The army has delivered to the Ministry of Health on the first of June [sic]. And then I came to the conclusion it is necessary to put army back in the game with Mr. Dzurila [I don't even know who that is]. That was on the 27th of July when I saw that on the sampling point in Bulovka [a prominent Czech hospital] that it doesn't work. So I think that I'm engaged since morning until the evening. I have no feelings as if I made a mistake, we simply made decisions. And in March someone came with the mathematical model, and in August someone - though it was the same person - but he came at certain time and those who should have come haven't [sic]. So according to me it's a futile debate at this point. I don't feel as if we did something wrong. Nobody properly the virus [sic], we can discuss, here's an expert. You can ask the hread doctors [sic - "přimářů"] how the virus behaves. Of course people die. People die with Covid. Yes and I'm sorry [but not as an admission of guilt, more like "I have compassion"]. Likely the covid accelerates or shortens life. And I'm also terribly sorry [again, having compassion]."

So, nice to now we're in good hands, really. People have been making fun of it the whole week.

Time for Tom Lehrer, I guess

 
JudasMyGuide said:
Anyway, after the fierce lockdown in spring which helped Czechia to be really low in numbers and altogether alright our government completely forgot about it, spent the whole summer fishing I guess and suddenly our rates are increasing alarmingly. We have more infections, more hospitalisations ... but also because the lockdown was rather hard and the consequences of the virus are very ... subtle here (we haven't had that many deaths or even serious cases, most have either no symptoms at all or very mild ones) people tend to completely ignore any safety precautions, make fun of it, invent conspiracy theories.

But the numbers are growing and I'm afraid soon our hospitals will exceed their capacity.

On a press conference this week when our prime minister (a colourful character, a businessman in conflict of interest, sucking on the EU funds and a very boorish rube, a fellow of no integrity or charm) was asked if they did anything wrong he answered (and I translate verbatim, including the mistakes in grammar - he's Slovak, not Czech, by the way - but all the nonsense was already there):

"I don't know where the mistakes happened. I don't see any significant problem. We have just made a decision and of course, yes, we are hygienes [sic]. The army has delivered to the Ministry of Health on the first of June [sic]. And then I came to the conclusion it is necessary to put army back in the game with Mr. Dzurila [I don't even know who that is]. That was on the 27th of July when I saw that on the sampling point in Bulovka [a prominent Czech hospital] that it doesn't work. So I think that I'm engaged since morning until the evening. I have no feelings as if I made a mistake, we simply made decisions. And in March someone came with the mathematical model, and in August someone - though it was the same person - but he came at certain time and those who should have come haven't [sic]. So according to me it's a futile debate at this point. I don't feel as if we did something wrong. Nobody properly the virus [sic], we can discuss, here's an expert. You can ask the hread doctors [sic - "přimářů"] how the virus behaves. Of course people die. People die with Covid. Yes and I'm sorry [but not as an admission of guilt, more like "I have compassion"]. Likely the covid accelerates or shortens life. And I'm also terribly sorry [again, having compassion]."

So, nice to now we're in good hands, really. People have been making fun of it the whole week.

Time for Tom Lehrer, I guess

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Sounds nearly as competent as Boris Johnson!

By the way, is the remark about him being Slovak and not Czech a casual racist remark or just a way of explaining a difference in grammar?
 
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