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Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - April 17
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
Government says also that R is at 0.7 right now. I believe it. I don't think it'll stay there, with the relaxation measures coming. But that's better than the 1.0 I heard before that. Up from 1.0 is baaaaad, up from 0.7 could be just-slightly-less-good-than-now.
It looks like we... managed to control it? Daily change of newly infected is about 1% now and is steadily decreasing.
Czech republic 5152 infected, 1174 cured, 173 died
We accepted pretty radical measures early on and it worked. Immediately, before there were 200 infected, we closed borders, and soon afterwards closed all shops except things like food, medical supplies and petrol, closed schools, cancelled all events and forbidden people from going anywhere expect shop, work and forest. Which is rough. But people are following the rules surprisingly well. I didn't see anyone who was breaking the rule, people even wore the masks before it was mandatory. It's especially surprising given this old saying I've heard a thousand times.
But now, the restrictions are relaxing. More shops are being opened, some schools are slowly starting to open with some restrictions. It will keep going on for months, our government said that mandatory mask wearing (which was mandatory from the end of first week when we started putting down restrictions - which itself was about a week and half from when we recorded first infected) will last at least three or four months. But it looks like we flatten the curve surprisingly well.
Generally I started to look at this pretty optimistically. It looks like the measures work and they are even repealing some of them. And it looks like the economical hit is way smaller than expected according to the government.
Well, we didn't and still don't have. People are just making their own. Generally all masks and real medical equipment go towards hospitals, cashiers, and so on.
Almost everyone here can - or knows someone who can - sew, and it isn't that hard either. So we just banned people from entering anything without something that covers your face, and extended that to going outside as well few days later. And people made their own. Or just used a scarf or something. Even a scarf is better than nothing.
Also the first week is kind of misleading from me, it was at the end of the first week when our government started freaking out, which was when we reached about 200 infected. Which was itself about a week and half after first positive test. I'll edit my comment to make that clear :-)
8 new cases here in New Zealand yesterday (but unfortunately 2 more deaths). Randomized community testing has started across the country to see whether it's prevalent in asymptomatic people throughout the general population—no one so far has been identified as such.
We are so close to eliminating this now.
Not much new for us. A couple of days ago we went for a hike in the hills above Berkeley, with some pretty spectacular views. There were a fair number of people wearing masks, maybe half, and people were mostly keeping their distance.
My wife found flour at an Indian grocery.
I will post bay area headlines that I find interesting as child comments.
It's hard to find affordable housing around here, but at least they're setting up places to park: New Mountain View safe parking lot open 24/7
Our state government here in São Paulo has used our phone data to figure out only 49% of people are practicing social distancing in my city and the districts doing it the most or least follows pretty closely the 'wealth' of your district. (As in the rich are doing it the least. Yes.)
Also a district is this. They're monitoring the location of every phone in the city to a very granular level.
Sigh.
Every day we stray further into post-truth. So this is what he's gonna use to clog up the debates? I presume that's what fox has to gain from covering these protests positively.
you forgot colorado
edit: dont think trump has commented on the colorado protests today and tomorrow