Coronavirus is just the family name. Do you remember the dangerous SARS virus that spread a few years ago? That one was from the same Family. It was CoVid 1 (Corona Virus Desease 1). The current one is CoVid 2. Hence the "new". Over here, in the weekend the police had to deal with flashmobs of several hundred people without masks or personal distance claiming the virus was harmless and the government just trying to suppress people. Oh man! If Covid2 was a brain virus, these people would have nothing to fear... Unfortunately, everyone has lungs. The hospital staff replied promptly that they were overworked to the point of exhaustion but if the protesters insisted in breathing through a tube while lying on their stomachs and dying all alone without friends and relatives they'd of course do more overtime and be there for the protesters as well. A perfect reply imho but with these brainless idiots it's thowing pearls to the pigs. They simply don't have the intelligence to realize the truth.
Exactly. So why not just call it new? "Novel" just sounds too weird. I can't get the word "novelty" out of my head when I see people call it that.
https://www.coronavirustoday.com/coronavirus-particles-are-spread-through-air https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them
Why would you try and get the word "novelty" out of your head when thinking about something new and original, because that's exactly what it means? Just because the word novel can be associated with new things that are pleasant doesn't mean it's being used incorrectly in regard to new coronaviruses, or that it's some obscure and needlessly complex word; it's in pretty common usage. "Novel" is the World Health Organization's standard terminology for new pathogens from a previously known family of viruses. There are lots of coronaviruses (so named because they are surrounded by a halo or "corona") and each time a new one is discovered it is referred to as a novel coronavirus until it is given a formal name. Previous tradition had been to name a new virus after first outbreak locations, discoverers, or animal species the virus was spread from, but the WHO found that could be stigmatizing and counterproductive, like the people using "Wuhan Flu" or "Chinese Flu" as an excuse for discrimination and crimes against people of Chinese descent or theirr businesses.
I just discovered this awesome video! The staff of a makeshift Corona hospital in Wales recorded their version of Bridge Over Troubled Water as a thumbs up to all infected and their carers. There are a lot of really good voices there https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-52644558 (article with lots of background info plus the video) https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=540833343490487 Awesome project! Da chwarae! *sends tons of good vibes to Wales*
So. Did the usual weekly grocery shopping this week. Care to guess how many other shoppers were wearing masks this week? Throughout my time at the store, I saw a grand total of two others. And it's not like the store was deserted or anything; it was pretty much at its regular level. I know from everything they've told us that wearing a mask doesn't protect the wearer that much, but it does help protect others if the wearer is carrying the virus but asymptomatic. So I *thought* the social contract was, I'll wear a mask to help protect you, and you wear a mask to help protect me. And if we all do that, then we'll all have a better level of protection than we would otherwise. But how effective is it if only a couple people here and there are actually doing it? Is it still worthwhile for me to consider doing so, when hardly anyone else seems to care? Our premier is talking about starting to open things up in the very near future. If the majority of people aren't even willing to make this minor adjustment to help minimize risk moving forward, then I don't expect our reopening will go very well at all, and we'll probably all be back in full lockdown sooner rather than later.
That's what I thought too. I had to go to the store today but here at least half of the people were wearing masks. The store has the aisles marked to go one way only but I think that I was the only one paying attention to the arrows.
over here it's just the opposite: people do wear masks but they don't keep to the distance rule. Both have to be attended to in order to get at least some security. Tempers are getting frayed and quite a lot of distance-ignorers are getting reported to the police and fined.
Very hard to get masks here in Glasgow, but at least when doing the once a week shopping people are staying away from each other as much as possible...so that is something, although i only go once a week first thing in the morning to my local store at 8am, and usually there are about 8 people in the queue standing well apart, and i am in and out dodging everyone i can as if they were erupting fire from their being. lol
Would homemade ones suffice? I am not quite certain what restrictions there are atm for parcels and letters but I could try to send some if you PM me your address and favourite colour and style (simple square mask or an anatomically fitting one? With or without aluminium nose clip?). Might take a while, though, as even under normal circumstances German mail is legendary for its slowness.
Thank you for the offer but we are still in lockdown here in Scotland and i only venture to the shops once a week so it has not been a issue, but when it does i think your suggestion of homemade ones is very good, and luckily i have family just along the road from me and she is a master with the sewing machine, but thank you for the kind offer. Continue to stay safe everyone.
You're welcome If your sewing family member would like to try out a different pattern than the ones published in Europe, my sister discovered a very good sewing pattern on Singer's hongkong website: https://singer.com.hk/blogs/sewing-projects/another-way-to-make-a-face-mask That one is quite comfortable and fits particularly well with glasses.
Terminology is standardized so that all researchers around the world use the same word to reference it.
Thank you, but I’m in Michigan. Our stay at home order is in place until the 28th. Our numbers up north are extremely low, but we’ve lost about 4K down in the Detroit area. The density of the cases increases the further South-East you go; it seems to be concentrated in the most densely populated areas.