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  1. Originally posted by hedyzera:the international media says that here in Brazil will be the next focus of covid-19, my state have a grown in number of cases last week. waiting the next days to see what will be happen.
    Stay safe, Hedy!
  3. Originally posted by hedyzera:the international media says that here in Brazil will be the next focus of covid-19, my state have a grown in number of cases last week. waiting the next days to see what will be happen.


    Is your country social distancing?
  4. yes, but our president is treating the pandemic as a joke, some people and governors stays on his side, however, there are efforts by other governors to maintain the quarantine and social distancing.
  5. In South Korea, we've been on social distancing since late February, and now moved on to a new stage.
    The government has set three stages of social distancing: aggressive social distancing, (relaxed) social distancing and distancing in daily life. We're on the third one starting today.
    Almost three weeks passed since the election. New locally transmitted cases are in single digit or zero per day for the last weeks, and untraceable cases are less than 5% of them on average.

    Nevertheless, it doesn't mean that social distancing is over. Rather, it's about embracing it as a part of our daily life. KCDC published lengthy guideline for individuals and various kinds of groups.
    In fact, some of those experts, who made living our life possible in times like these, are against reopening, arguing that it is too soon. Concerned and cautious at the very least. These days, streets and shops are filled with people and very lively, which is good, but some of them forget to wear masks. Not a good sign. Social fatigue should not be ignored but some people seem to have forgotten there are people actually fighting for us on the front line.

    Out of five principle of distancing in daily life, #1 rule is: stay home for 3-4 days if you are sick. Going to school or work even if you are sick is the norm here. We certainly need to fix this. The time has come.

    Public museums, theaters, libraries and other public facilities reopen with a number of new quarantine rules, including limiting the number of entrance to keep physical distance.
    KBO (baseball) league started yesterday and K League (football) starts on Friday, both with no spectators and again, many quarantine rules.

    Schools will gradually open in the coming weeks. Offline class this time. Finally!
    All students, teachers and school staffs are instructed to adopt the prevention guideline. It needs to be a little more specific, however. For example, whether they can turn on air conditioning, and if they can't, what should be done not to faint in hot and humid summer while wearing masks.
    There's a debate whether opening school is a right decision. Parents and families can't take care of their children at home forever and are in desperate need of (offline) schooling. But all those safety and hygiene rules cannot be adopted in crowded and wild classrooms. But students are already going everywhere but school. But who's gonna take responsibility when someone's infected? Don't say it's the teachers. Well, there's about two weeks' time to work out the details.

    This won't end in short term and we're constantly being warned of second wave that will likely to come either in this fall or winter. And possibility of more cluster outbreaks as well... Churches, PC bang, gyms, some densed workplaces, and many more.
    Over the last two weeks, about 10 cases were not traceable, which means there are still unknown sources of infection in our society. Less number of suspected case reports and tests per day could also mean there are more infected people with mild or no symptoms but undetected. We need to be wary. (Well, yes, I check the daily briefing every day )
    Also, we are waiting for the verdict of long holidays (4/30 - 5/5).
    If new confirmed cases exceed 50 in one day, we go back to strict social distancing.
    Above all, we won't be able to get back the normal life we knew anyway....... (in good and bad ways)

    The production of masks and respirators seems a bit stabilized.
    I can buy three kf94/kf80 masks for 4500 KRW (roughly 4 US dollars) now. Two masks per week two weeks ago.
    Can't say there are enough as demand is far exceeding supply. (The demand will never go down for another decade. Forget the past.) But not quite in desperate shortage, either.
    It is also reported Korean government is planning to support masks to countries that aided us during Korean War. Our president spoke about it in recent phone conversations with the president of South Africa and Taoiseach - Irish prime minister (respectively). So the plan is official, I guess? I really wish to see something good going on between countries these days. (And, by the way, our president and Taoiseach did mention Mr Bono in their conversation hahaha Always glad to see something about U2 in Korean)

    Anyway, it all seems fine for now, at least in here... But, then again, don't let the guard down. Carelessness is the enemy. The second wave coming, possible outbreaks, and that we still know little about this virus and medical resources are limited. But at the same time don't lose hope. Imagine what post corona tour would be like. Can't wait
  7. Brazil, the United States and the United Kingdom, the 3 developed Western countries with extreme right leaders and the 3 developed Western countries with the biggest death tolls....
    Looking at threads with other countries' reactions to the UK government is awful, people are asking their UK friends if what's on their news really is what's happening (what's on their news being that the UK government is treating the virus as nothing serious and just trying to get things open as soon as possible with no regard for public health... and that largely being the case)
    We have had next to no testing, absolutely no tracing, people can come into the country with no quarantine measures, no testing at airports, no nothing, there is next to no PPE for hospital/care staff, there were nearly 700 deaths yesterday and the government wants to end lockdown on Monday
  9. UK TV news is by no means perfect (they get about an equal amount of complaints from all sides) but there's a reason that the TV news has to be impartial here, so we don't get bullshit like this - nobody "would rather see the president fail than save lives" (the print news is another story, they're abhorrent in the UK), pointing out what a politician is doing wrong isn't "playing politics," it's holding them to account
  10. I just listened to another video where Cuomo was saying that 66% of the new cases are coming from people who in fact are in quarantine and have been following the guidelines. Let me find it.....

    Gov. Cuomo: 66 percent of new hospitalizations in New York are people who were at home

    https://video.foxnews.com/v/6154826983001#sp=show-clips
  12. Always fox from Pete lol try another source for once, you may be a Russian bad actor!
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