Hi August!
14 Nov 2020 22:26, from August Abolins -> All:
How's everyone fairing with the covid situation in your area?
Austria has one of the worst second waves.
We managed the first one really well, but now deaths are sharply rising.
Here in Canada, in just the last week the media has been in
ecstasy reporting how the cases have sky-rocketted
Aehmm ... could that be because the ACTUAL NUMBERS skyrocketed???
That is actually the JOB of media to people aware of this!!
and it's the worse than ever it was!
Indeed same here.
But it has NOTHING to do with the media, it has to do with a VIRUS spreading!
in a tone to suggest that we're all gonna die from this thing.
I am not following Canadian media, but I would doubt that that is what they are reporting.
The media here are truthfully reporting that the death number sharply increase, and that the hospital capacity is around 90%.
MANY people will die, and much, much more if hospitals are out of capacity, and they need to decide which of the 8 people they got in, can use the 2 remaining beds for example.
The others will very likely die.
Austria has an excellent health system, and I do NOT want our doctors in a situation where they have to decide whom to help and whom to likely kill (due to not having enough resources to help all patients!)
There never seems to be any reports on how the vast majority
of people sailed through this thing or how bad their sysmptoms
were.
Not???
There are many here.
Many young people have very mild symptoms.
That is actually also the issue. They do not feel too sick, and infect many others, that can potentially die!
And many old people will have a more severe form.
But there are MANY exceptions from the rule.
There are some 20 and many 30 year olds dying, and there are old people that only have flu like symptoms, and get well soon.
The point being is that MANY people will die if you go above hospital capacity. Just take a look at Italy or Spain in the first wave.
They had huge numbers of people dying.
Those deaths were unnecessary and could have been easily prevented if people act in an informed way!
It's just bad bad bad... we will die.
We all will definitely!
Most of us will not die of Covid.
But if we take this not seriously enough many, many will die NOW that would have otherwise lived much longer.
Every morning when I drive to work along a lone 4km stretch of
backroad, I pass a person walking their dog. There are no
houses and other people around and this person is wearing a
mask!
So what???
If he feels safer that way, good for him!
I would not do it, because the risk looks manageable to me.
But aerosols can stay long time in the air.
So if somebody sneezed there minutes ago, you CAN infect yourself.
Why do you have any issue with it?
As long as he does not force you to wear a mask, he is free to do what he wants.
I agree that wearing a mask in a car where you are alone is a bit strange.
But in general it is better to be safe than sorry.
Wearing a mask is not hurting you, but not wearing a mask in contaminated air can kill you.
I think there is another virus that has superceded covid.
Stupidity of people that play with the life of others you mean?
I agree, that is really sad ;)
To come back to a much more nuanced point ... schools.
That is a tough one, as it has many implications.
According to the science I have seen the pupils are not likely to infect others, as their virus count in their throats is usually very low.
So here it would make sense to KEEP pupils in school, as long as the TEACHERS (that can very easily spread Covid) wear masks.
Anyhow as you have seen my opinions differs from yours, if you have any scientific data that tells otherwise, please feel free to point me to it.
CU, Ricsi
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