D&D and the rising pandemic

[Dannyalcatraz]

Also predictable:

Coronavirus: Second home-owners 'evading police checkpoint detection by sending luggage ahead'

Couriers have reportedly been tasked with transporting luggage for second home-owners.

www.yahoo.com

The Costly Toll of Not Shutting Down Spring Break Earlier

MIAMI -- You could find Beatriz Diaz at this spring's Winter Party Festival in Miami Beach, giving out hand sanitizer.It was early March. She knew the coronavirus was beginning to make its way around the world, but she figured if she kept her hands clean and avoided sweaty people, she would be safe

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[Zardnaar]

It’s a global pandemic. It was summer in the Southern Hemisphere when all this started.

I had friends in Texas ask me that 3 weeks ago.

Warmth didn't seem to effect it in Iran and Italy.

Australasias weaker ozone layer might help but would put money on it.

 

[Zardnaar]

This was sadly predictable:

Dumped Milk, Smashed Eggs, Plowed Vegetables: Food Waste of the Pandemic

In Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of fresh milk into lagoons and manure pits. An Idaho farmer has dug huge ditches to bury 1 million pounds of onions. And in South Florida, a region that supplies much of the Eastern half of the United States with produce, tractors...

www.yahoo.com

TL;DR: pandemic lockdown has cut the food market (approximately) in half, even as people eat at home more. Recycling the perfectly good food in situ is more efficient & logical than trying to harvest & ship the food to groceries and food shelters that are already at capacity.

Something similar happening here in a smaller scale.

Everything got shut down so fast the government effectively gave two companies a complete duopoly on food.

All the smaller shops, restaurants etc that bought produce stopped.
It's not really harvest time here though except some apples and a little bit in the north. We'll need to plant soon though.

Some things have already disappeared off the shelves like flour. Plenty of it but they used all the packaging in 4 days.

No yeast either.

We did most of the stock up before serious panic buying started. Watched a prepper video of all things and bought some recommendations.

Not going to go hungary here but variety might take a hit.

Job wise though might be picking food or on a boat after lockdown. Might have to do the same stuff our Great grand parents and grand parents did.

Hunting whales isn't an option these days though.

Country was set up as England's farm. Done crap jobs before, might have to do it again.

 

[GreyLord]

Yeah, the only way I have heard high heat maybe having an effect on the virus is if it is combination with high humidity. So a state like Florida could be better off than a state like Arizona. Wet heat versus dry heat.

I've heard a lot of media talking about high heat and humidity, but I heard an alternate idea about how humidity actually may be helping it spread.

Looking at various areas it would appear humidity may be spreading it faster than dry areas. Heat does appear to kill the virus faster (though if that's going to do a lot of good is anyone's guess....one day vs. that of 3-7 days still means the virus is there for a day), but hot and dry may be more hostile to this virus than wet and hot. This may also be why some humid areas (New York, the South) are suffering more than dryer areas of the Western US.

They are puzzled thus far why it's not hit California cities as hard if not harder than New York, especially as it appeared to get it's start in California in the US. California can get humid on the coast, but it's nothing compared to how humid the US's east coast gets.

 

[Zardnaar]

I've heard a lot of media talking about high heat and humidity, but I heard an alternate idea about how humidity actually may be helping it spread.

Looking at various areas it would appear humidity may be spreading it faster than dry areas. Heat does appear to kill the virus faster (though if that's going to do a lot of good is anyone's guess....one day vs. that of 3-7 days still means the virus is there for a day), but hot and dry may be more hostile to this virus than wet and hot. This may also be why some humid areas (New York, the South) are suffering more than dryer areas of the Western US.

They are puzzled thus far why it's not hit California cities as hard if not harder than New York, especially as it appeared to get it's start in California in the US. California can get humid on the coast, but it's nothing compared to how humid the US's east coast gets.

NYC bigger hub and west coast went into lockdown sooner.

On another site most infections seem to be coming out of Europe via China. Other countries banned travel with China early as well.

They would transit through NY.

I've been to the supermarket once in almost 4 weeks. We're getting it drummed into us. Act if you've already have Covid, stay at home and don't go to supermarket unless you really have to.

Total numbers seen to be a factor as well. Per capita Australia and NZ have a lot of tourists but lower numbers total and where they come from seems to be a big factor.

I'll see if I can find the link. USA has highest numbers but Europe per capita is beating them.

Spain, Italy, France, UK combined have smaller population but way more cases combined.

Last I noticed Wyoming has 0 cases.

Detroit's not looking good, numbers are starting to ramp up in Alabama for it's size.

 

[abirdcall]

I've heard a lot of media talking about high heat and humidity, but I heard an alternate idea about how humidity actually may be helping it spread.

Looking at various areas it would appear humidity may be spreading it faster than dry areas. Heat does appear to kill the virus faster (though if that's going to do a lot of good is anyone's guess....one day vs. that of 3-7 days still means the virus is there for a day), but hot and dry may be more hostile to this virus than wet and hot. This may also be why some humid areas (New York, the South) are suffering more than dryer areas of the Western US.

They are puzzled thus far why it's not hit California cities as hard if not harder than New York, especially as it appeared to get it's start in California in the US. California can get humid on the coast, but it's nothing compared to how humid the US's east coast gets.

From what I can gather California has a good lockdown and most people are taking it seriously.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

From what I can gather California has a good lockdown and most people are taking it seriously.

I think that's it - the west coast (both USA and Canada) locked down earlier because we had travellers from China when the news was mostly focused on how it was effecting China. The east coast of both countries weren't screening as thoroughly as we all were when everyone went out and returned during spring break (and earlier). It's not that we don't have travellers to/from Europe on the west coast, but we were already aware and worried about it by the time Europe started getting sick.

Seattle's first case was Jan 20. Vancouver's was Jan 24. San Francisco was the first US city to lockdown. I think it's just that the west coast was ahead of the rest of North America when it came to taking it seriously. Presumably, the same was true of NZ - the kiwis may have had their first case later, but they took it very seriously right away.

 

[cmad1977]

I've heard a lot of media talking about high heat and humidity, but I heard an alternate idea about how humidity actually may be helping it spread.

Looking at various areas it would appear humidity may be spreading it faster than dry areas. Heat does appear to kill the virus faster (though if that's going to do a lot of good is anyone's guess....one day vs. that of 3-7 days still means the virus is there for a day), but hot and dry may be more hostile to this virus than wet and hot. This may also be why some humid areas (New York, the South) are suffering more than dryer areas of the Western US.

They are puzzled thus far why it's not hit California cities as hard if not harder than New York, especially as it appeared to get it's start in California in the US. California can get humid on the coast, but it's nothing compared to how humid the US's east coast gets.

It’s because we didn’t funk about when this started. Step by step we(in L.A. anyways) progressively ‘locked down’. Outliers aside... no one here is really flouting the guidelines.

 

[Zardnaar]

I think that's it - the west coast (both USA and Canada) locked down earlier because we had travellers from China when the news was mostly focused on how it was effecting China. The east coast of both countries weren't screening as thoroughly as we all were when everyone went out and returned during spring break (and earlier). It's not that we don't have travellers to/from Europe on the west coast, but we were already aware and worried about it by the time Europe started getting sick.

Seattle's first case was Jan 20. Vancouver's was Jan 24. San Francisco was the first US city to lockdown. I think it's just that the west coast was ahead of the rest of North America when it came to taking it seriously. Presumably, the same was true of NZ - the kiwis may have had their first case later, but they took it very seriously right away.

First case was Feb 28. It crept up to 5 for a week or so.

Early testing focused travellers and people exposed.

Once they found two cases of community spread we were in lockdown 2 days later. Community spread being they couldn't tie it to travellers/foreigners.

We don't have very many ventilators per capita and a lot were already in use.

PM had friends in UK tell her to lick down now and Italy was a thing.

We're increasing testing numbers and getting declining cases. Government forecast 4000 cases we've got 1200 iirc.

Before lockdown they already quarantined old folks homes and people started self isolation already.

I called my wife's Aunt an idiot for going on cruise early March, she got as far as Australia before she got in a boat and everything fell apart. Managed to get a flight back in a day or two things really went to custard.

Last year, currently around 10 degrees Celsius.

August 2019

Do weather doesn't seem to make a difference. Queenstown is our hotspot, Alpine area not overly warm atm.

Smaller scale but tourist traps and transit hubs same pattern as north.

 

[Eltab]

I suspect that the after-action report will conclude the term "community spread" was techno-babble to avoid saying "the virus can transmit through the air".