Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (nCoV-2019)

[AlbertC]

We're all just jealous that Sweden are partying like it's 1999 and we're stuck at home baking cookies and sitting on the inernet.

Let's find a way to chip in and buy this ?? :

An Entire Village in Sweden Is for Sale for $7.2 Million

Christie's International Real Estate released a statement on Thursday that the tiny village of Sätra Brunn, in Sala, Sweden, is now for sale for $7.2 million.

www.travelandleisure.com

 

[Admiral Beez]

11 active outbreaks in Toronto shelters

According to the City of Toronto's latest data, there have been 451 COVID-19 cases connected to the shelter system.

I was riding my motorcycle home from Buckhorn yesterday and saw a beggar walking amoungst the cars at Kingston Rd. and McCowan. I thought to myself, who is crazy enough to roll down their window and come face to face with a stranger during a pandemic, especially one that’s spreading in the shelters? Even though I had my full face on I had my hand on the throttle read to bail if this evident cast member of the walking dead approached me. I had thought that Covid19 would have curtailed the scourge of roadside begging in Toronto since there are few cars, no backed up traffic and everyone is being told to stand back six feet.

 

[AlbertC]

Schools reopening in BC tomorrow:

School resumes in B.C. on Monday. This is what things will look like | Globalnews.ca

On Monday thousands of B.C. students will go back to school for the first time since before spring break in March.

globalnews.ca

 

[Admiral Beez]

I would posit it was dead weeks before these events. It's been out of vogue for many outside introverts and "Correct Thinking" Twitter since about April 1.

In the US once they realized it was primarily old people and POC that were dying the pressure to open up exploded.

 

[lenaitch]

Hippocratic Oath should be followed by Long-Term Care Minister Dr. Merrillee Fullerton.

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:​

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I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.​

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I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.​

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I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.​

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I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.​

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I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.​

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I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.​

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I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.​

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I will protect the environment which sustains us, in the knowledge that the continuing health of ourselves and our societies is dependent on a healthy planet.​

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I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.​

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If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.​

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But then maybe the doctor doesn't like to "swear".

Did you pull any muscles with that stretch? What part of being a Minister of the Crown is the actual practice of medicine?

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Social distancing is now socially dead- the curtain of fear and mystique ("Corona's gonna kill everyone + the lockdown must be doing something!") has been pulled away with the protests (thankfully peaceful in Toronto) and Trinity Bellwoods.

Exepct more people to increasingly flout the rules until #flattenthecurve is dead in the water.

With a poor understanding of how and where it is spreading in the community, carelessness and flouting of these rules will literally be the end of flattening the curve - we already got a taste of the post-long weekend rise in cases.

This guy is an idiot:

Coronavirus: Belgian Prince Joachim tests positive after lockdown party

Prince Joachim, 28, travelled from Belgium to Spain for an internship on 26 May, the palace said.

Two days later, he went to a party in the southern city of Córdoba, before testing positive for Covid-19.

Spanish reports suggest the prince, a nephew of Belgium's King Philippe, was among 27 people at the party.

Under Córdoba's lockdown rules, a party of this size would be a breach of regulations, as gatherings of no more than 15 people are currently permitted.

Coronavirus: Belgian Prince Joachim tests positive after lockdown party

Spanish police are investigating whether a party attended by Prince Joachim breached lockdown rules.

www.bbc.com

Good thing disease doesn't recognize privilege.

AoD

 

[SunriseChampion]

Hippocratic Oath should be followed by Long-Term Care Minister Dr. Merrillee Fullerton.

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:​

​

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.​

​

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.​

​

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.​

​

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.​

​

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.​

​

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.​

​

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.​

​

I will protect the environment which sustains us, in the knowledge that the continuing health of ourselves and our societies is dependent on a healthy planet.​

​

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.​

​

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.​

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But then maybe the doctor doesn't like to "swear".

But how has she abrogated her oath?

 

[jje1000]

With a poor understanding of how and where it is spreading in the community, carelessness and flouting of these rules will literally be the end of flattening the curve - we already got a taste of the post-long weekend rise in cases.

I think it's going to end up being accepted as one of those seasonal things, joining the menagerie of flus we have to deal with every year. Our lives will change, as will architecture and design to accommodate this.

The world has missed the point where the flu is contained so that the economy can be safely reopened, and the longer the economy stays shut down, the greater the risk of permanent damage. The narrative will inevitably flip to 'why was XX so slow in reopening the economy?'

Good thing disease doesn't recognize privilege.

Yeah, but privilege gets you private hospitals and doctors, and not dying in an overcrowded ventilation ward.

 

[SunriseChampion]

Let's find a way to chip in and buy this ?? :

An Entire Village in Sweden Is for Sale for $7.2 Million

Christie's International Real Estate released a statement on Thursday that the tiny village of Sätra Brunn, in Sala, Sweden, is now for sale for $7.2 million.

www.travelandleisure.com

I'm down! Party like it's 1999 in Sweden and open a furniture factory!

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

I think it's going to end up being accepted as one of those seasonal things, joining the menagerie of flus we have to deal with every year. Our lives will change, as will architecture and design to accommodate this.

The world has missed the point where the flu is contained so that the economy can be safely reopened, and the longer the economy stays shut down, the greater the risk of permanent damage. The narrative will inevitably flip to 'why was XX so slow in reopening the economy?'

Yeah, but privilege gets you private hospitals and doctors, and not dying in an overcrowded ventilation ward.

It's going to get accepted until it hits home and one catches it. Architecture and design can only go so far - it isn't a magic bullet. And even the privilege of private hospitals and doctors doesn't keep the Grim Reaper from knocking at one's doorstep. It's always easy to offer someone else as the sacrificial lamb on the altar of one's freedoms.

AoD

 

[AlbertC]

I'm down! Party like it's 1999 in Sweden and open a furniture factory!

Live scenes in Stockholm right now

 

[PinkLucy]

It's going to get accepted until it hits home and one catches it. Architecture and design can only go so far - it isn't a magic bullet. And even the privilege of private hospitals and doctors doesn't keep the Grim Reaper from knocking at one's doorstep. It's always easy to offer someone else as the sacrificial lamb on the altar of one's freedoms.

AoD

My family and friends group is still distancing and taking precautions. But we know people who have been ill and people who have died. We don’t want to lose anyone else. We also have family who work with COVID patients daily. It's the millenials in my family who are the most adamant about following the guidelines and being careful.

 

[SunriseChampion]

Live scenes in Stockholm right now

Me with my rudimentary grasp of German trying soooo hard to understand a single word: ?

See what I mean? They're having football rallies...what a life.

 

[SunriseChampion]

It's the millenials in my family who are the most adamant about following the guidelines and being careful.

When it first hit, I demanded my parents stay home and demanded a grocery list for the next three weeks and then went shopping for them. I still won't go see them nor any of my family, but I have started socialising with my mate who lives in the same building as me. He's also alone and actually works from home normally so he's been completely isolated these last two months plus.
In any case, he's diabetic, asthmatic, and overweight so if he wants to chance it who am I to say no?
Also, we're only getting together outdoors. Car park beers.

I'm looking forward to seeing my family again. I miss the kids. I'm just not sure when...what's the concensus estimate?

 

[PinkLucy]

I don't know. I miss my family too. We Zoom a lot, but it isn't the same. We should be at the cottage hanging out and having a blast.