Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Hopefully it'll just be a couple weeks off. Good luck, Zoupa.

[viper37]

Yeah McDonald's need to shut down. The one near me is never not full of people queueing - normally out the door as well. There's always a huge number of Uber Eats drivers as well. To make it worse it's one of those McDonald's that has got rid of being able to order at the till so you have to input your order with your hand on a giant ipad which, right now

unrelated to McD', but someone just posted a neat trick on FB to use the credit card machines: use a q-tip.  This particular store is offering a q-tip to each client, but recommend we bring one.

Could be used for these giant iPad at McD's...

[Pedrito]

Italy should peak in the next few days. The virus will start going extinct.

Btw, I could spend the next month watching this, Italian mayors enforcing lockdown.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJeRgjlLaZk

Beautiful.

Is that the mayor of Bergamo?

I saw him on the news last night, he has two daughters studying in the England, but so worried is he about the UK, that he's organising for them to come back home. That's to the european epicentre, which he now reckons is safer.

Oh well the video is making the rounds in chats and socials since yesterday, and I can't stop watching it.
They're all from Southern Italy, the first (the flamethrower one) is Campania's governor (Naples region), and is famous for his inteviews.
The others are mayors of small to medium towns that are trying to battle idiocy, especially in the South where the issue is not pressing like in Lombardy, so people keep going outside. There are videos of Naples' markets full of people just until a couple days ago.
Oh, and by the way, the "hairdresser" mayor is using a dialect hard to understand for us northerners, go figure for you

L.

[mongers]

Italy should peak in the next few days. The virus will start going extinct.

Btw, I could spend the next month watching this, Italian mayors enforcing lockdown.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJeRgjlLaZk

Beautiful.

Is that the mayor of Bergamo?

I saw him on the news last night, he has two daughters studying in the England, but so worried is he about the UK, that he's organising for them to come back home. That's to the european epicentre, which he now reckons is safer.

Oh well the video is making the rounds in chats and socials since yesterday, and I can't stop watching it.
They're all from Southern Italy, the first (the flamethrower one) is Campania's governor (Naples region), and is famous for his inteviews.
The others are mayors of small to medium towns that are trying to battle idiocy, especially in the South where the issue is not pressing like in Lombardy, so people keep going outside. There are videos of Naples' markets full of people just until a couple days ago.
Oh, and by the way, the "hairdresser" mayor is using a dialect hard to understand for us northerners, go figure for you

L.

Pedrito, thanks for the summation. 

[Grey Fox]

Quebec has changed it's way to count cases, we raise by 400+ to 628.

[Zoupa]

I've tested positive.

Not much symptoms. A little cough now and then, fever treated with acetaminophen/paracetamol.

No symptoms from my wife. I hope they disinfected with the non-existent alcohol at work...

prompt rétablissement!

Does your wife need to isolate herself too?

Yes. So her parents have been dropping us food. Bless them, but they buy the weirdest shit 

So we call the Covid phone number daily as instructed to give updates on my condition (I feel like a superstar lol "I feel ok, my temp is fine".)

What I'm not clear about is let's say my wife gets it (likely), on a delayed schedule compared to me. Then she goes through the 14 days. Do I still need to isolate, even though I probably developped antibodies by that time? I'm assuming yes, since my clothes etc can carry this thing, but I don't know how likely this is. The folks at the phone number don't really know. I know the virus lives on surfaces for a couple of hours.

Fate?

[Pedrito]

New cases and new deaths are lower than yesterday! New cases +8%, new deaths +11%. Way less tests than yesterday, though, 17.000 vs. 25.000 

Let's hope we're seeing a light 

L.

[Josquius]

I've tested positive.

Not much symptoms. A little cough now and then, fever treated with acetaminophen/paracetamol.

No symptoms from my wife. I hope they disinfected with the non-existent alcohol at work...

prompt rétablissement!

Does your wife need to isolate herself too?

Yes. So her parents have been dropping us food. Bless them, but they buy the weirdest shit 

So we call the Covid phone number daily as instructed to give updates on my condition (I feel like a superstar lol "I feel ok, my temp is fine".)

What I'm not clear about is let's say my wife gets it (likely), on a delayed schedule compared to me. Then she goes through the 14 days. Do I still need to isolate, even though I probably developped antibodies by that time? I'm assuming yes, since my clothes etc can carry this thing, but I don't know how likely this is. The folks at the phone number don't really know. I know the virus lives on surfaces for a couple of hours.

Fate?

I recall seeing a nice visual explanation here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51506729

Would it be possible in your place for your wife to isolate from you?

[Admiral Yi]

I loved Italy's Funniest Town Hall Videos. 

[Barrister]

Had a 2-day trial scheduled.  Only in-custody trials are proceeding, but this fellow was in custody.

Wound up making a generous offer which he took - cleaned up his files and he got out of custody.

BUt I think we're kidding ourselves trying to run trials.  I noticed that there were NO witnesses today, and none of the handful of in-custody trials actually proceeded.

[Sheilbh]

UK testing still hovering around 6,000

Deaths and cases up by about 20%. The mortality figures seem to be sticking at about 50 a day. Not sure on ICU usage/capacity which I imagine is a key part of that.

Edit: Also - I'd really appreciate London specific data at this point. I think it's on about 2-2,500 cases and about 50% of the deaths but not sure and as we're ahead of the rest of the country it would be useful to see how rapid the rapid increase is.

[crazy canuck]

77 new cases in BC 348 total

Nine people have died, including eight in one old age home. Twenty-two people are now in hospital, with 10 in intensive care. Six people have fully recovered

There are 74 new confirmed cases and 5 additional hospitalizations.  424 total confirmed cases with 27 total in hospital and 12 in ICU.  10 deaths in total.

As of yesterday

48 new cases and three additional deaths in the province.  This brings the total number of confirmed cases in B.C. up to 472 and the total of deaths up to 13. 

Of those 472 cases 100 have recovered, 33 people remain hospitalized and 14 of those are in the intensive care unit.

[Tamas]

New cases and new deaths are lower than yesterday! New cases +8%, new deaths +11%. Way less tests than yesterday, though, 17.000 vs. 25.000 

Let's hope we're seeing a light 

L.

Nice! Let's hope so.

[Habbaku]

Likely a shelter in place order coming down for Georgia/Atlanta tonight. Guess I'll post on Languish more and read more RPG books.

[Syt]

WTF is he doing