Covid-19 pandemic

[ursus arctos]

Along the same lines

https://twitter.com/evgrieve/status/1271601468051767296

This is the East Village and is very much NOT representative of our neighbourhood or the rest of the city

[tuckwat]

Stratford is still very quiet. But then most of the shops and all the pubs are shut. Even the traffic is still relatively quiet. It all feels like a Sunday afternoon 35years ago.

[Balderdasha]

140,917 new cases globally yesterday, another new high.

[Snake Plissken]

Despite their best attempts the makers markets aren’t persuading traders to restart with them, let alone customers.

[Balderdasha]

And yes, Brazil has overtaken the UK's death toll, with 41,901 deaths.

[Balderdasha]

Bangladesh has overtaken China in terms of number of cases, 84,000+ and has recorded 1,100+ deaths.

[elguapo4]

5 deaths ,46 new cases in Ireland. The new cases looks worrying at first, but the chief medical officer was quick to reassure the public that half of them were historical cases, and the R number is still below 0.5

[Nesta]

This is the East Village and is very much NOT representative of our neighbourhood or the rest of the city

The East Village Othered

[Balderdasha]

4 million people have officially 'recovered' from Covid-19. I wonder what proportion of them will have ongoing rehabilitation needs or other health issues.

[Amor de Cosmos]

The Covid Quickstep. That little dance you do with someone as you approach a one-way aisle in the grocery store. Am I going to get there first? Who's got right of way? The person approaching from the bakery, or the one coming from the fish counter?

The Safeway Shuffle. Conducted by the large person standing in the middle of an aisle who can't make up her mind whether to buy the Cheetos or the Popcorn. There's a line-up behind her which she's totally oblivious to. You edge forward a few inches, the person behind follows, as does the one behind him. Four people back there's a loud sigh as someone turns around and scuttles the wrong way down the the aisle, runs two rows down and reappears walking backwards towards the other side of the lady who's finally decided to go for the chipotle flavoured tortilla chips.

Any more contemporary dances with loaves?

[San Bernardhinault]

The check-out reel. Where they have someone directing a single queue from a single aisle to the check-outs to make sure everyone stays distanced. But you're coming in at the check-out end and realise you have to go two aisles past to find an up aisle, and then come the reverse-direction down the check-out aisle because they always make the check-out aisle one that's actually one-way in the wrong direction.

[San Bernardhinault]

4 of the last 5 days have seen over 3000 new cases reported in California. There were only two previous days at all where over 3000 cases were reported (and they were in the preceding 10 days). Clearly we're still having exponential growth in reported cases in the state. The exponent's not very high, but it's still exponential. There has been no talk of rolling back reopening, and blithe comments about having enough hospital beds as if being able to hospitalise tons of very sick people is a reasonable steady state scenario.

[Hot Pepsi]

Orange County decided they won’t wear masks and ran their healthy director out of the job with death threats and such.

[Balderdasha]

With 7.8 million+ cases confirmed worldwide, we have now reached the status of 1 in 1,000 people globally having been already infected with Covid-19 (2020 global population is estimated to be 7.8 billion). That's still very far off herd immunity. If we assume that 10 times as many people have actually been infected and just not tested due to non-lethal symptoms, we'd still only have 1 in 100 people having contracted the virus. Current death toll is 432,500+. I would really not like to see that rise to 4 million, or 40 million.

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...r-a-generation

A good read this.

[Balderdasha]

The current UK official Covid-19 death toll of 41,662 is higher than the 2017 population estimates for the towns of Fleet, Tonbridge, Eccles or Great Yarmouth.

[Balderdasha]

Meanwhile the number of confirmed cases, 294,375, is higher than the 2017 population estimate for Newcastle upon Tyne.

[Balderdasha]

Another way of looking at the UK death toll is that it is higher than the entire population of several countries, including Monaco, Liechtenstein and San Marino.

[Balderdasha]

The current US death toll of 117,538 is higher than the populations of Micronesia, Grenada or the Seychelles.

[Balderdasha]

And the USA has reported more Covid-19 cases than the population of Phoenix, Arizona.

[Balderdasha]

36 deaths in the UK today, which is lower than last Sunday, but the number of new cases (1,500+) is higher than it was last Sunday. Lockdown easing may be leading to new cases creeping up, which will mean the death toll will likely increase in 3-5 weeks.

[elguapo4]

1 more death, 8 new cases in Ireland.

[Guy Profumo]

Only 36.

Christ almighty.

"Only 36"

What an absolute shower.

[Balderdasha]

Asia has reached more than 40,000 deaths and 1.6 million cases. The virus currently appears to be spreading fastest in India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh.

[Balderdasha]

South America has nearly 60,000 deaths and 1.4 million cases, with the virus spreading fastest in Brazil, Peru and Chile.