COVID-19 >>"True and Helpful" Covid Information Thread

[Anonymous]

I will take any good news.

[Frood]

I think I saw on BF yesterday that some symptoms are lack of taste and smell, as well as "allergy eyes", not the white part, looks like red eye shadow.

Like pink eye or conjunctivitis...

[Anonymous]

If you do these things, you won't catch the virus.

[cc]

Excellent!!



Alongside no hand to face, could accentuate more touching things that others have touched or even coughed on .. shopping cart, doors and handles, rails, debit or credit card pay machines, shopping store counters etc etc etc .. and of course people distancing

[Anonymous]

Excellent!!



Alongside no hand to face, could accentuate more touching things that others have touched or even coughed on .. shopping cart, doors and handles, rails, debit or credit card pay machines, shopping store counters etc etc etc .. and of course people distancing

I aint too worried about it where I live. I go into town once or twice a week and usually make one or two stops only.

[cc]

Excellent!!



Alongside no hand to face, could accentuate more touching things that others have touched or even coughed on .. shopping cart, doors and handles, rails, debit or credit card pay machines, shopping store counters etc etc etc .. and of course people distancing

I aint too worried about it where I live. I go into town once or twice a week and usually make one or two stops only.

I'm out of character  careful .. fussbudget in fact



I'm very healthy with no underlying problems .. BUT It's because I had severe pneumonia last month  .. severe enough to be in hospital for 5 days in fact .. and know that could be a risk factor if I got virused

[Anonymous]

Excellent!!



Alongside no hand to face, could accentuate more touching things that others have touched or even coughed on .. shopping cart, doors and handles, rails, debit or credit card pay machines, shopping store counters etc etc etc .. and of course people distancing

I aint too worried about it where I live. I go into town once or twice a week and usually make one or two stops only.

I'm out of character  careful .. fussbudget in fact



I'm very healthy with no underlying problems .. BUT It's because I had severe pneumonia last month and know that could be a risk factor if I got virused

Big difference, you live in a city and I live on a farm. It's real easy for me to isolate. I could drive in to Kindersley once and never have to leave the farm again for two weeks if I had to.

[cc]

I understand

[Anonymous]

Excellent!!



Alongside no hand to face, could accentuate more touching things that others have touched or even coughed on .. shopping cart, doors and handles, rails, debit or credit card pay machines, shopping store counters etc etc etc .. and of course people distancing

I aint too worried about it where I live. I go into town once or twice a week and usually make one or two stops only.

I'm out of character  careful .. fussbudget in fact



I'm very healthy with no underlying problems .. BUT It's because I had severe pneumonia last month and know that could be a risk factor if I got virused

Big difference, you live in a city and I live on a farm. It's real easy for me to isolate. I could drive in to Kindersley once and never have to leave the farm again for two weeks if I had to.

It's even harder for me to isolate. I live in a condo.

[cc]

NY police - 14% (930) got the virus, 3 have died



Heros .. without police, society breaks down and enters dangerous chasos



At this rate, is about 8000+ enough?



Several have run the course of the virus and are back on the job ... fighting an invisible enemy

[cc]

Sweden govt refuses to get serious - They will kill many of their people - the next Italy is starting



'They are leading us to catastrophe': Sweden's coronavirus stoicism begins to jar

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/catastrophe-sweden-coronavirus-stoicism-lockdown-europe">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... own-europe">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/catastrophe-sweden-coronavirus-stoicism-lockdown-europe



There's a surreal calm in the last country in Europe to hold out against lockdown. But the death toll is rising and some are voicing dissent



The global pandemic has closed down Europe's economies and confined millions of people across the continent to their homes. But here, schools, gyms, and (fully stocked) shops remain open, as do the borders. Bars and restaurants continue to serve, and trains and buses are still shuttling people all over the country. You can even, if you wish, go to the cinema (it smainly indie fare: The Peanut Butter Falcon and Mr Jones were on at my local arthouse over the weekend).



The prime minister, Stefan Löfven, has urged Swedes to behave "as adults" and not to spread "panic or rumours".



Panic, though, is exactly what many within Sweden's scientific and medical community are starting to feel. A petition signed by more than 2,000 doctors, scientists, and professors last week – including the chairman of the Nobel Foundation, Prof Carl-Henrik Heldin – called on the government to introduce more stringent containment measures. "We're not testing enough, we're not tracking, we're not isolating enough – we have let the virus loose," said Prof Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér, a virus immunology researcher at the Karolinska Institute.

 "They are leading us to catastrophe."

[Anonymous]

I'm shocked that Sweden is still open.

 

[cc]

Govt openly intend to stay open and let it play out on its own



They half destroyed their country by taking many more refugees than others  (they did that "their way") ..looks like they will now finish it off completely  "their way"



It is accurate as I've now seen it in many news outlets ... I suppose they could turn around when they get huge number of cases, but then it's too late





Dunno ... in the back of my mind I can't help wondering if it will continue until everyone is immune

[Anonymous]

Sweden govt refuses to get serious - They will kill many of their people - the next Italy is starting



'They are leading us to catastrophe': Sweden's coronavirus stoicism begins to jar

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/catastrophe-sweden-coronavirus-stoicism-lockdown-europe">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... own-europe">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/catastrophe-sweden-coronavirus-stoicism-lockdown-europe



There's a surreal calm in the last country in Europe to hold out against lockdown. But the death toll is rising and some are voicing dissent



The global pandemic has closed down Europe's economies and confined millions of people across the continent to their homes. But here, schools, gyms, and (fully stocked) shops remain open, as do the borders. Bars and restaurants continue to serve, and trains and buses are still shuttling people all over the country. You can even, if you wish, go to the cinema (it smainly indie fare: The Peanut Butter Falcon and Mr Jones were on at my local arthouse over the weekend).



The prime minister, Stefan Löfven, has urged Swedes to behave "as adults" and not to spread "panic or rumours".



Panic, though, is exactly what many within Sweden's scientific and medical community are starting to feel. A petition signed by more than 2,000 doctors, scientists, and professors last week – including the chairman of the Nobel Foundation, Prof Carl-Henrik Heldin – called on the government to introduce more stringent containment measures. "We're not testing enough, we're not tracking, we're not isolating enough – we have let the virus loose," said Prof Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér, a virus immunology researcher at the Karolinska Institute.

 "They are leading us to catastrophe."

 :2r4ml1j_th:

[Anonymous]

South Korea keeps covid-19 at bay without a total lockdown

https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/03/30/south-korea-keeps-covid-19-at-bay-without-a-total-lockdown">https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/03/ ... l-lockdown">https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/03/30/south-korea-keeps-covid-19-at-bay-without-a-total-lockdown



There are social distancing rules in place, but not as much as here.