and wet

We recently went into the highest tier here in OC. No indoor dining, restrictions on bars (not my thing, so not sure), other than that, not too bad. Kid are in Hybrid In-person/remote to reduce class density.

we haven't had indoor dining or pubs since early November

My youngest son (10) is full remote by choice (he wanted it and I didn't care that much either way - it's working for him).

You’ve got to be kidding me! “Georgia recount in Fulton County delayed by Dominion server crash: “

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@nachik @TaLoN132 do you believe COVID-19 is an immediate threat to you and family you live with?

no, not at all

well it's a threat to our economy

because of the panic

and people are getting really depressed by being locked down as days get shorter

Crashed into a plasma furnace?

Not really... I am way heavier than I care to admit, but otherwise healthy.

London's latitude is above Calgary just to give a North American perspective

and most of the UK is higher up

@TaLoN132 @nachik how many people do you know that have become sick or died from COVID-19?

I think people usually disregard how important daylight is

I think I got it around December last year, but wasn't tested

Yeah this is insane lol

I was tested in October and was negative

Covid.19 death sentence if they put you on a ventilator. I would resist letting anyone know.

for me it was a bad cold, with very intense cough but was over in about 10 days in late December 2019 (not confirmed it was Covid19 but it was a very bad cold and could be)

if they put you on a ventilator it's because it went into the lungs and you got severe pneumonia

you have like 20% survival rates if you require it, and if you require it and don't use it, you are essentially dead

My next door neighbor... has been in the hospital for a month plus intubated... the balance of the family recovered quickly.

My sister was recently diagnosed, mild symptoms so far - seems to be OK. There are more incidents happening nearby 6 reported cases at my middle son's school. His best friend's GF just was diagnosed. My dad is in a retirement home in OR, where about a dozen have died. It's an independent living home, so none required medical care before. They would have folks die of old age every so often, but nothing like this.

on the bright side this only happens to a small minority of symptomatic cases

note that these early bad numbers are partly due to the fact that they tried to avoid using them

and there was basically no treatment other than dealing with the symptoms and hoping for your immune system to deal with it

which is what we typically do with colds anyway

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/k3ohws/third_order_pearson_v_kemp_11292020pdf/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Can anybody tell me what this is about

It seems to be hit or miss as to whether it becomes severe or not. Some say it has to do with initial viral load, which is why medical front line workers seem to get it much worse.

yep that was the consensus around April already, and seems to be true

@TaLoN132 viral load... is definitely a factor in severity I believe for whatever little that's worth

death rates going down I'm not sure why exactly, can be a combination of earlier testing and treatment, and also the virus mutating to milder strains which has happened with previous epidemics

I got H1N1 too and it hit me much worse than this, genuinely feared for my life

for some reason, we didn't panic then

and at its worst, it hit many people

@nachik, you just advanced to level 9!

It's a good excuse to not have to hang around people too long. I'm best experienced in small doses - it's good to know your own shortcomings, I suppose.

we had 100s of thousands of people with long term sequels for H1N1