D&D and the rising pandemic

[Zardnaar]

Hehe, I share your relative whippersnappery! I'm 46, and my parents are both 70ish-- adults with their own lives & ideas. And it's their home, whereas I'm the accidental guest who kinda got stuck here by the pandemic. So until I can leave, I suppose the best I can do personally is promise that, if anyone in this house does get it, it's not going to be because of me.

The fear goes away eventually. Wife's patting a driver's dog at work, technically probably shouldn't do that but 0 cases locally now. Wasn't doing that a few weeks ago.

Still don't pat random animals on the street even if the cat/dog is being obvious about wanting pats.

 

[Eltab]

I’m in D/FW, and nobody in THIS house is scampering out the door.

Understandably so, you have good reasons.

Other folks, without those particular good reasons but different good reasons of their own, will reach different conclusions of what is best for them to do.

 

[Zardnaar]

Grand reopening.

Stuff

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[Hussar]

Still waiting for the shoe to drop in Japan. We've been, more or less, stable for new cases and whatnot for a while now. I'm going to be teaching my Uni classes remotely, but, we'll see about my other stuff. Next week is Golden Week here in Japan, more or less a full week of national holidays, and they're pretty firm about everyone staying at home.

But, again, Japan isn't breaking out the police state at all. It's all 100% voluntary. Sigh.

 

[Zardnaar]

Still waiting for the shoe to drop in Japan. We've been, more or less, stable for new cases and whatnot for a while now. I'm going to be teaching my Uni classes remotely, but, we'll see about my other stuff. Next week is Golden Week here in Japan, more or less a full week of national holidays, and they're pretty firm about everyone staying at home.

But, again, Japan isn't breaking out the police state at all. It's all 100% voluntary. Sigh.

Japan might luck out. Australia didn't do much either early on but has excellent stats.

Air travel hasn't been much if a factor last month.

Some nation's just had more time.

I guess subways and airports in NYC and London were major transmission vectors.

Virus was probably spreading in January first deaths early February before testing revealed first official numbers.

 

[Zardnaar]

Some light entertainment.

Our director general of health and PM. Context injecting bleech.


His face and her "is it" comment.

 

[abirdcall]

Quebec is Canada's hardest hit province (twice as bad as Ontario with half the population) and they have announced schools to be reopened on May 11 in rural areas and the 19th in the capital (thankfully not secondary schools though).

So, so much for Canada being on the right track.

At least Ontario (the 2nd hardest hit province) announced today that they do not currently have a date on when to enact their re-opening plan. School closures in Ontario have been extended to at least May 31st.

 

[ccs]

Some light entertainment.

Our director general of health and PM. Context injecting bleech.


His face and her "is it" comment.

You should post that to the (very stable!) geniuses twitter feed.

 

[Zardnaar]

You should post that to the (very stable!) geniuses twitter feed.

I don't use twitter but falling in love with these two.

His face literally speechless.

 

[Hussar]

Japan might luck out. Australia didn't do much either early on but has excellent stats.

Air travel hasn't been much if a factor last month.

Some nation's just had more time.

I guess subways and airports in NYC and London were major transmission vectors.

Virus was probably spreading in January first deaths early February before testing revealed first official numbers.

Frankly, it's baffling to me. I honestly don't understand why we're not hip deep in sick people. Record (year on year record numbers for the past decade) numbers of Chinese tourists which weren't stopped until well after Wuhan was quarantined. People packed into public transpo in the cities on a daily basis. On and on. But, we're not only not seeing the numbers, but, it looks like we're seeing the beginings of the dawn as well. Cases have been slowing all over the country.

No massive testing (Japan is WAYYYY behind on testing), no lockdown, virtually no actions taken, other than some business closing and the schools closing. It's baffling.

To be fair, here in the schools, if you test positive for flu, you must stay home for two weeks. We've had classes closed because of flu numbers routinely. So, people are kinda sorta used to reacting to viral infections, but, this is just mind blowing. A bajillion Chinese tourists and nothing. Nobody gets that lucky.