Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[celedhring]

Yeah, I thought they would die eventually, but after one month they're geting louder in my neighborhood. Same with the odd car honking.

[PDH]

In Santa Cruz all the shut ins celebrate each afternoon at 4:20.

Of course, they also celebrate throughout the rest of the day as well.

[Iormlund]

We've had people chanting happy birthday a couple times, and also some surprisingly-good folk-singing by a neighbor. Also annoying "DJs".

It's mostly for the kids at this point, I'd guess.

[crazy canuck]

Yeah, I thought they would die eventually, but after one month they're geting louder in my neighborhood. Same with the odd car honking.

It has become a huge thing here.  Especially in neighborhoods near hospitals.  Local radio stations are coordinating what song people should sing that night.  The Noon horn (long story) also sounds at 7 as well as the 9 o'clock gun (again long story).

Health care workers don't see it as an empty gesture since they received pay raises both prior to and during the pandemic.

[DGuller]

New Jersey statistics are a little worrisome. They haven't really been flattening the curve over the last 10 days.

[Sheilbh]

Interesting new FT graphics on hospitalisation figures (very patchy in the US). In Italy it looks like almost all regions are now falling:


In Spain, Madrid is definitely falling most other regions are decelerating (and Catalonia's numbers are extraordinary):


In the UK, London is definitely falling and good signs in the Midlands, Scotland and South-East - everywhere else is decelerating:

[celedhring]

Those numbers for Catalonia are most definitely wrong. I presume there's a clerical error in the scale, or misinterpretation of the original data. We have always been below Madrid in hospitalizations, and those +10k increases are absurd.

[Sheilbh]

Those numbers for Catalonia are most definitely wrong. I presume there's a clerical error in the scale, or misinterpretation of the original data. We have always been below Madrid in hospitalizations, and those +10k increases are absurd.

Maybe a typo - 1,000 and 500 make a lot of sense?

[celedhring]

I think it might be the number of overall active cases rather than hospitalizations.

[mongers]

New Jersey statistics are a little worrisome. They haven't really been flattening the curve over the last 10 days.

DG which county are you in?

My 1st cousin is in Passaic county, which doesn't look too bad, but then again he's nearly 70 and with significant health issues. 

[DGuller]

New Jersey statistics are a little worrisome. They haven't really been flattening the curve over the last 10 days.

DG which county are you in?

My 1st cousin is in Passaic county, which doesn't look too bad, but then again he's nearly 70 and with significant health issues.

I'm in the Hudson county.  It's not as deadly as Bergen or Essex counties, but it's not too far behind.

[merithyn]

Dr Oz on Hannity: "Schools are a very appetizing opportunity. I just saw a nice piece in The Lancet arguing the opening of schools may only cost us 2 to 3%, in terms of total mortality. Any, you know, any life is a life lost, but that might be a trade-off some folks would consider."

2%-3% of children, I might add.

So, basically, he's saying that 1.4 million to 2.1 million kids dying is okay if, you know, the economy picks back up.

[mongers]

New Jersey statistics are a little worrisome. They haven't really been flattening the curve over the last 10 days.

DG which county are you in?

My 1st cousin is in Passaic county, which doesn't look too bad, but then again he's nearly 70 and with significant health issues.

I'm in the Hudson county.  It's not as deadly as Bergen or Essex counties, but it's not too far behind.

Stay safe DG and keep up the fitness during lockdown, it helps, supposedly.

[Oexmelin]

Dr Oz on Hannity: "Schools are a very appetizing opportunity. I just saw a nice piece in The Lancet arguing the opening of schools may only cost us 2 to 3%, in terms of total mortality. Any, you know, any life is a life lost, but that might be a trade-off some folks would consider."

2%-3% of children, I might add.

So, basically, he's saying that 1.4 million to 2.1 million kids dying is okay if, you know, the economy picks back up.

I think we should routinely seize the assets of 2% to 3% of millionaires. It would be sad, of course, but I think it's a trade off some folks would consider to be much less horrific, and much less detrimental to the fabric of society than sacrificing children.

[Razgovory]

The opposite seems to be happening in the US. If you get stabbed in the face and bleed out, but test positive for the virus, your death will be added to the tally for Xijinpingwinniethepoohwuhanflu.

You have proof of this?