Yeah, not listening to the WHO. I won't get fooled again!

In healthcare "droplet precautions" and "airborne precautions" are clearly defined protocols. The WHO and CDC have declared that this thing spreads via droplet because, while caring for patients with droplet precautions is a PIA (everybody has to gown up every time you go in the room, etc), you can do it in any hospital room. Airborne precaution patients can only be placed in special negative pressure rooms. And a 500 bed hospital might only have 6 of those rooms.

Mexico and Brazil deaths blowing up. USA deaths very surprisingly low given the tons of positive tests.

America is going to be ok

https://www.tmz.com/2020/07/05/arizo...ask-40k-rolex/

Not like you, clever person. You know it is all a lie.

Canada has your back, America

https://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/tor...mask-1.5012010

Rate of transmission has increased above 1.0 for the first time in 10 weeks. Concerning...

https://twitter.com/GovMurphy/status...85798780993536

Deaths in the 200's the last couple of days. Seems suspect, even with long weekend effect.

Looking at the daily deaths graph on worldometers, we're pretty much inline with the trend.

JayTee,

What are your thoughts on this: 'Mild' Covid still does plenty of damage

I'm afraid we're getting to a point where 'young people just get a flu' is the message, and it seems doctors are realizing that is not the case.

^ that's why, as a rule of thumb, I try not to catch diseases that are a mere 6 month old.

Some concern that COVID is turning into ME/CFS. Similar to what’s mentioned just above.

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/20...igue-syndrome/

It probably means I am a total utter douchbag, but I am always a little suspicious of people who claim to be a bit tired etc because of illness.

Its not my fault though, my mother is a total hypochondriac who will bore me for hours over the phone about latest aches and pains etc.

For her age she is one of the healthiest/most active/alert people I know.

I wonder how much of the long term stuff is a result of PTSD or some form of that. It has to be pretty traumatic finding out you have the disease then not knowing if you're going to be the guy dying alone on a respirator or just get over, like a cold, or somewhere in between. You get it, then start trying to sift through all the information to separate fact from fiction. Scary stuff.

And now the mother has a gofundme and is making money off of killing her child.

wow.

Anecdotal cliffs from a friend of my fiancee's on Facebook:

Tested positive 101 days ago. Symptoms started 112 days ago. She is still having symptoms. She is in the process of having half of her lung removed. She has a heart murmur and alarmingly high blood pressure for a healthy 28 year old. She's had a fever and cough for all 112 days. She is struggling to walk to the mailbox without gasping for breath. She was never on a ventilator and has remained outpatient for all treatments.

Sounds like O.A.F.K.1.1's attention-seeking hypochondriacs to me. Clearly very desperate for attention to have half a lung removed. Sad.

I get it. It sounds terribly unsympathetic for him to say that but at some point OAK you have to concede that all these leople arent making up illnesses solely for attention. So what if some of them are lying? If they feel the need to speak out that they are troubled give them the benefit of the doubt man.

I had this syndrome a bit when I was younger and when I injured my back I got it, physical pain can be debilitating. I always understood mental disorders but took personal experience to grasp everything else. That case about that teenager is ****ing awful, those parents should be held accountable for that.

I also have a client who is 57 years old. He certainly isn't healthiest man alive, but overall in pretty good shape. His biggest issues are not sleeping enough since he is overworked and he is a little bit overweight.

He went to the ICU last Tuesday and came home from the hospital this past Sunday. The doctors told him had he not gone to the hospital on Tuesday, he wouldn't have made it through the night.

Yea, get back to me when its both lungs.

The one I hear a lot is the long term lung damage where people say they can feel what seems like crinkling plastic cellophane when they take a deep breath.

Do not ****ing want.

So anyway, I flew Hungary to Spain a few days ago.

Fantastic flying when the airports aren't overloaded like they usually are. No queuing at any point. Slovak Hungarian border is open as normal (i.e. Schengen like crossing an internal US state border without stopping). We had to fill in a health form for Spain and print out a QR code which we showed when we got there.

On the flight, first 11 rows had 20 of 66 seats occupied, 46 empty, it was about the same behind us. There didn't seem to be much of a seating pattern though - I was obv in a block of 3 with my kids, but a couple of the seats directly in front and two of those across the aisle were occupied. Most people had surgical or cloth masks, my kids and I had KN95s. There was another guy who had one of those hard plastic things but he was the only other guy on the whole plane who had some kind of "enhanced mask". I got the impression that most of the flight was Hungarians. Spain checked our temperature when we landed.

Airline has cancelled our flight back home though - que sera sera. I went for 120% credit rather than money back or alternative flight as I should be able to book another one with the same company cheaper now anyway.

Pretty good to be here though, some amount of envy from students as I teach my Skype lessons by the pool.

Slovakia is like that - the government reports "here are the cases for yesterday" and world meters reports "here are the cases that were reported today", so the dates on the data are always one day out of sync.