Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[Sheilbh]

Meri - Patient Zero!

[Tonitrus]

If it was COVID, then it is amazing that I didn't get it.  Or my immune system is super-human. 

Or you were lucky and were asymptomatic.

I like the super-human immune system theory. 

But I should say...I haven't even had so much as a (symptomatic anyway) cold for the 1.75 years I've been here in the UK.

[PDH]

You will note how the initial spreader in Europe traveled widely in order to maximize the infection...

[merithyn]

Meri - Patient Zero!

I got sick while in the UK.

Mind, it was after spending more than a week in Italy.

[celedhring]

My guess is that in order to get the virus to show up in the sewage it must have been present for a while (the samples that tested positive were collected on Jan 15).

[DGuller]

If you're alive, wouldn't you want to have been sick with Covid some time ago?

[merithyn]

You will note how the initial spreader in Europe traveled widely in order to maximize the infection...

All about herd immunity. 

[celedhring]

Meri - Patient Zero!

I got sick while in the UK.

Mind, it was after spending more than a week in Italy.

And Spain before that... 

[Sheilbh]

My guess is that in order to get the virus to show up in the sewage it must have been present for a while (the samples that tested positive were collected on Jan 15).

.......Why does Barcelona city council collect monthly samples of sewage? Is this normal city council behaviour? How har back do the samples go?

[DGuller]

My guess is that in order to get the virus to show up in the sewage it must have been present for a while (the samples that tested positive were collected on Jan 15).

.......Why does Barcelona city council collect monthly samples of sewage? Is this normal city council behaviour? How har back do the samples go?

Are you accusing them of theft of public property?

[celedhring]

My guess is that in order to get the virus to show up in the sewage it must have been present for a while (the samples that tested positive were collected on Jan 15).

.......Why does Barcelona city council collect monthly samples of sewage? Is this normal city council behaviour? How har back do the samples go?

To monitor public health. I don't know for how long the samples are actually kept, but they started the monitoring in the 1990s 

[Sheilbh]

My guess is that in order to get the virus to show up in the sewage it must have been present for a while (the samples that tested positive were collected on Jan 15).

.......Why does Barcelona city council collect monthly samples of sewage? Is this normal city council behaviour? How har back do the samples go?

Are you accusing them of theft of public property?

I'm just intrigued - I've no idea if this is normal city council behaviour

[Tonitrus]

I would think from an anthropologic viewpoint, the history of our sewage is the history of Humankind. 

[celedhring]

Sheilbh is having a General Ripper "precious bodily fluids" moment 

[HisMajestyBOB]

My guess is that in order to get the virus to show up in the sewage it must have been present for a while (the samples that tested positive were collected on Jan 15).

.......Why does Barcelona city council collect monthly samples of sewage? Is this normal city council behaviour? How har back do the samples go?

Look, some people have very odd fetishes, and sometimes they end up in positions of power.