D&D and the rising pandemic

[Baron Opal II]

"Orange to the North of us, green to the South. Here I am stuck in the yellow with you..."

Not sure why that jumped into my head looking at the map, but there it is.

 

[Zardnaar]

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Not sure what people expect.

Jacinda burned all her political capital on vaccines.

No point using restrictions that people stopped following you'll just look like an idiot.

Changing the rules all the time and not being consistent along with lockdown fatigue.

 

[Hussar]

Yeah, Japan's on the upswing again too after quite a long downward trend. Grrr. Canada, OTOH, seems to be doing really well. Which does make me happy.

 

[Zardnaar]

Yeah, Japan's on the upswing again too after quite a long downward trend. Grrr. Canada, OTOH, seems to be doing really well. Which does make me happy.

NZers forget we've come through reasonably well death toll about 1/10th of USA.

Per Capita last I looked it's similar to Japan.

Can't really blame the government when people stopped following the rules.

Not that everyone could follow the rules even if they wanted to.

 

[MoonSong]

Can't really blame the government when people stopped following the rules.

In my cas I can. The gov officially decreed the end of the emergency... right before cases exploded. Seriously, 32k cases in a single day...

 

[CleverNickName]

I get that people are tired of this pandemic, but the virus doesn't care. Without deliberate actions to keep it in check, more people will get sick and more will die. That's just as true now as it was in March of 2020.

 

[Zardnaar]

In my cas I can. The gov officially decreed the end of the emergency... right before cases exploded. Seriously, 32k cases in a single day...

We came close to 30k with vastly smaller population than Mexico.

They don't really care about case numbers now they do care about deathscand state of the hospitals.

Flu season has been rough this year becausevthe country mostly dodged that 2020/21.

Hasn't helped health sector has been run down last 20 odd years.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yeah, in the end, its reached the point where completely avoiding sizable infection numbers if probably impossible short of eternal lockdown. So the target has been to manage hospitalizations and deaths (and worry like heck about Long COVID).

 

[Zardnaar]

Nephews school. Fail at social distancing aka no one cares.


Wasn't there I wouldn't go to that event.

 

[niklinna]

And as BA-4/5 continue rising worldwide, we've got another new variant coming up in India.

COVID State of Affairs: July 7

Driven by Omicron sub-variants, country-level hotspots are now peppered across the globe. Yesterday, the WHO reported cases are on the rise in 110 countries, causing overall global cases to increase by 30% over the past two weeks. Of course, these numbers and country-level comparisons are only...

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