A whole lot of people are comparing Reykjavik to BFE, which is laughable. Sure, it’s not Manhattan, but it’s a whole lot more dense than some shithole town in the middle of nowhere. Hell, a lot of cities don’t have 20 story apartment buildings, but Reykjavik does. The more spread out residential areas are filled with touching 2-4 story buildings, which is still a far cry from Green Acres, Arkansas or Shittsville, Alabama.
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[li] It’s been one week since restaurants were permitted to reopen, and already many of them are closing again due to a lack of customers.[/li][/QUOTE]
This is going to be the big problem: the world has changed. The world has changed and the vast majority of people see that it simply is not safe to leave their houses and sit down amongst dozens of other people for the purpose of putting things in their mouths.
And lots of other activities, too, and so businesses are going to fail.
I don’t really think this is the case, at least not everywhere. Here in the Netherlands people seem to be waiting impatiently for restaurants to open up again. Since this will be at a much lower capacity at first, I don’t expect them to struggle that much.
This is of course different for areas that rely on tourists from abroad. These just aren’t going to be around (although I’m seeing quite some German cars around, the last few days.
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Today in Austria:
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[li] A survey on attitudes towards vaccination revealed that 62% of Austrians would like to be vaccinated against coronavirus if/when such a vaccine becomes available. (This number is actually much higher than that reported in previous surveys on the desire to be vaccinated against influenza.) The same survey showed that 25% would not want to take a coronavirus vaccine.[/li][/QUOTE]
Was there a follow-up question asking those who are against such vaccination why they are against it?
Patrick Ewing is in the hospital after testing positive.
5,306,158 total cases
340,040 dead
2,160,039 recovered
In the US:
1,645,094 total cases
97,647 dead
403,201 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
In the developing world, the coronavirus is killing far more young people
Article attributes this, at least in part, to poor health care available to many younger people in the countries in question. But I wonder whether those in the USA who are claiming we only need to shut up old people and those obviously ill, and everyone else can carry on as 2019-normal, aren’t setting us up for similar problems.
I’d read somewhere that many developing countries skew much younger than developed ones, especially in comparison to places like Italy or Japan. This could skew infection incidence younger as well, since there’s fewer old folk to be victims in those places.
Poor underlying health, maybe. But poor healthcare? Most of the younger people in the first world who aren’t dying of it aren’t getting much healthcare, either. They are staying home, resting, and drinking chicken soup, as they would for a cold or an ordinary flu. I’m pretty sure that “bed rest” is available medical care even to most of the world’s poor.
And of course, we have younger people dying, too.
Roughly half the Twitter accounts pushing to ‘reopen America’ are bots, researchers found
Well, of course. Bots are immune to coronavirus.
Hertz is being killed off by Covid-19, just the latest corporate person felled by this deadly disease.
From COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer - Brazil is now #2 in cases, and is still in the exponential growth phase. Russia is number 3 and only recently hit peak numbers of cases while deaths have yet to subside.
Hertz was already on death’s door.
Today in Austria:
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[li] A poll on attitudes towards compulsory vaccination show that 55% of Austrians are in favour of making a coronavirus vaccine mandatory (if/when one becomes available), while 28% are opposed.[/li][li] Business and government leaders in Italy have been vigorously lobbying the Austrian government to open its border for tourism. IIRC the Italian side of the border has already been open for about a week now, but Austria is still imposing border controls and a mandatory quarantine for incoming travellers, which effectively prevents Austrians from vacationing in Italy.[/li][li] Current statistics: 16,402 confirmed infections, 639 deaths, 15,035 recovered.[/li][/ul]
Right, but the point was in a developing country it may appear the death rate is ‘n’ and “OMG All the Young are Dying!” where really the death rate is less than it might be if there were more elderly available to be infected, as in the US and EU. In each case the young are dying too.
And Slovenia too. 3 consecutive days with no new cases and no deaths here. It does look as semi dick move from other perspective. All borders open here, some restrictions still towards Italy.
OTOH. Things returning to normal. Probably “all normal” in June.
5,405,096 total cases
343,982 dead
2,247,322 recovered
In the US:
1,666,828 total cases
98,683 dead
446,914 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
Are there news articles that relate statistics from a site like An interactive visualization of COVID-19 | 91-DIVOC to government actions or other events?
Chile seemed to have the epidemic under control, but infection rate soared beginning April 30, and is now highest in the world. What happened? Chile’s death rate is still low, but is rising.
Why is Brazil’s infection rate rising? What caused the sudden jump in new cases in South Dakota in early May? What works and what measures have little utility?
Brazil was simply not testing, meanwhile their president did not take the virus at all seriously - result is that there was no lockdown in practice and it has spread undiagnosed like wildfire.
Two of his health ministers have resigned over his lack of any policy and the country is simply rudderless when it comes to leadership and actions in relation of the virus.
The infection rate only appears to have jumped because testing has started well after the fact of the pandemic itself and in a nation of some 200million just 735k tests is nothing at all, less than 0.5% - which puts it way down the world order.
The supposed infection rate is a massive underestimate, probably two to three times under - reported.
Remember that Brazil has a relatively young population too, had the age profile have been similar to Italy or the US then the death rate would have been very much higher. As it is, just watch over the next two weeks - it will get to peak US rates in around that time.