D&D and the rising pandemic

[Zardnaar]

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".

Here it just means they can't trace the source.

Someone in the community has it who hasn't been overseas or had contact with travellers.

If it's airborne you would have a higher number of people. Sounds terrible but Covids very mild as Pandemics go. It's not that fatal not that contagious.

You don't need to yeah for the hills with your favorite selection of AR-15s. Don't be an idiot either.
It's not that hard to overwhelm the health care system though that's the problem.

Not that they can do much anyway they can save a few of the worst effected via Ventilators.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

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".

I don't think so. Community spread just means that it didn't come directly from a previously known case. It only "transmits through the air" by taking in (symptomatic or not) sick people's recently-breathed water vapour. That's a scientifically different thing than "airborne".

 

[NotAYakk]

"Airborn" means it will fly through (for example) ventilation ducts.

"Breathing" means it is in droplets large enough that they fall to the ground (or other surface) and stick to things.

From what I understand, you can make the novel coronovirus airborn by malfunctioning toilets (it is contained in feces sometimes, and the toilet can aerosolize it) or when intubating a person (shoving a breathing tube down someone's throat and pressurizing it). But these are not normal, everyday events.

 

[Umbran]

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.

This may matter more than weather:

Californian cities are high in population, but also large in area. So, Californian population density is lower, and that helps control spread. The New York Metropolitan area has ten of the eleven highest population density incorporated areas in the country.

 

[Zardnaar]

This may matter more than weather:

Californian cities are high in population, but also large in area. So, Californian population density is lower, and that helps control spread. The New York Metropolitan area has ten of the eleven highest population density incorporated areas in the country.

Forgot to mention that. Italy also has high density in the north.

 

[Umbran]

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".

As others have said - no, this is incorrect. "Community spread" is an epidemiology term, meaning that a case cannot be traced to a known source.

Being "airborne" also means something specific, that thankfully does not generally happen with covid-19

 

[Zardnaar]

More food dumping.

Stuff

i.stuff.co.nz

Can't sell it, can't give it away. Deer seem happy.

Wish lettuce was like that when I harvested it in 1993/94.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

More food dumping. Wish lettuce was like that when I harvested it in 1993/94.

Poor lettuce-man. I wish I could get some of his lettuce. Looks great.

 

[Zardnaar]

SPPS update.
1 more death, elderly man 3rd linked to the same rest home. 5 total. All 5 elderly

19 new cases, 15 confirmed, 4 probable.

4 in ICU

 

[Zardnaar]

Poor lettuce-man. I wish I could get some of his lettuce. Looks great.

We buy that type, probably not off him. It's nice.