Yeah. The problem with going into lockdown in say Brazil is they view their homes completely different to how we do. They are out and about all the time, the home is not a place you spend alot of time in.
Added to this their need for contact via hugging/kissing is cultural. I have no idea how they will practice social distancing let alone lockdown if it does get hold there.
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Me three.
More of this positivity please! God I need it
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Then ASADA will come knocking to test for bat flu
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Would it be wrong if I walked around town carrying this fan, warning people to keep their distance??
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Bloody ASADA. Can’t help themselves.
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Me aussi
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out getting lunch at banjos and panic buyers were raiding the store for bread as apparently supermarkets are out some people taking 10 loaves at a time, what are they gonna do with ten loaves, even that would last us 5 weeks and i love bread.
I miss Banjos
I look forward to and enjoy your posts.
Please keep them up.
One important thing people need to understand is that the mortality rate percentage to number of tested cases is skewed from day to day.
If a country finds a test case today, it’ll take them a few days before they clear the virus ( via death or cure).
The numbers out of Italy are a given to rise as the case tests have been climbing daily for five days now. The deaths or cures will only begin being affected based on guys diagnosed a few days back (if not more). The sad thing is that they do not have time to do contact tracing. That horse has bolted. They just treat straight away and by the time they finish treating there is another there waiting. I really feel for the doctors in this situation who will be working round the clock trying to save lives.
We are nowhere near that and it’s too early to tell if we will end up being that way.
The comforting thing is there is far more awareness now than there was before. Hopefully people get the media hysteria over the number and statements being thrown around.
We should be comforted that the test cases are rising. In an odd way, knowing about it means we can treat the problem. What’s more important is how many of those cases survive. That’s why flattening the curve is important regardless of whether you think it is too early or late.
We should be trying to ensure that we give doctors enough time to treat the cases.
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I had a similar experience when swine flu was a thing, never got tested but ended up getting sick and it was a similar experience.
i actually went for a group job interview at the time, and they spoke to my job network provider and asked if i was alright cos i looked like i was drying.
it stuck around for 4 weeks,pretty much not being able to do much, and slept alot.
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Might be better with nuggets. No danger of raw chicken, cos no chicken!
Kids are known as “healthy spreaders” unfortunately so although they won’t become symptomatic they can pass it on.
I think it’ll mean more self isolating/social distancing from a domestic POV. I don’t know any other way around it. I’ve got an 80 yo father who I will limit contact with when it hits down here - we’ve only got 7 cases with no hospital admissions at present.
Everyone has seriously got to cool it. Media have rag dolled the whole thing. Sanitise, wash hands, don’t stand so close to me etc.
if you base everything on social distancing you’ll soon work out if 20 people in the lift going to the 17th floor is a wise thing or not.
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Well the playing of the matches shouldn’t really be an issue, … you’re almost certainly always going to be “Social Distancing” on court, … even when playing doubles for the most part, (No whispering between points though), … distancing while not on Court would be the hard part.
Play & Leave, … get an sms when your next game is on?? Or if just in anyway somehow there was SD ing implemented while off court, you should be ok.
Look at it this way…
If we are tracking as the same as italy as people suggest then how come not more are dead?
1 of our deaths was from the cruise ship so that makes it 4 from infections in this country…
Nobody has died since the 15th in australia.
How many have died in italy in the last 3 days.
345 yesterday …totally number for italy is a third of all deaths.
So tell me
A … have we not come to the tipping point when everyone just gets it
B are our measures doing something to combat the spread.
C …anything else anyone can think of that is helping ?
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my guess so far not many infected in the dangerous age brackets 70+
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There are many variables at play. Proximity. Population density. Even where the majority of the elder population live (one their own or in facilities vs with family in italy). I think the biggest success in Australia (so far) has been to limit the spread into nursing homes. Though is this just luck so far? Environment factors, temperarure. Jeez I have no idea really.
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Another possibility is that there’s validity to the idea that its a different mutation tearing through Europe.
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