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SvennoJ on 29 June 2020
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JRPGfan said:

Summer heat isnt bad, if it means you eat outsides, when you go to a bar/dinner to get food.
Summer heat is bad if its so hot, it means you need A/C to get through it, so everyone packs inside small spaces, breathing the same air.

I actually think that the nice weather in europe, means we re more likely to be outsides, instead of insides (bars, dinners ect), so that might be helping slightly lessen spread. Are you a group of friends, that wants to get together to drink? bring your own, have a picnick instead of clumping together in some bar or disco. Also eating outsides, and enjoying the scenery and good weather, while being alot more protected from the virus, is a good thing.


Yeah its odd they didnt bother giveing numbers for the weekend.
We have like ~900 active cases, 31 in the hopsital, and 10 in the ICU (4 ppl on ventilators).

We have a track the virus update on one of our news sites, that shows the graph for hospitalisations.
You can see its still dropping (very slowly though), so hopefully the spread is still going downwards.

The initial hope in Februari was that heat and humidity would slow it down, no clue if it does but doesn't seem so.

The difference atm is not eating at restaurants (they were closed) to now being packed together on patios. Better than inside of course, worse than take out. Packed on the beaches, large park picnics are back, crowding around snack stands etc.

What I see locally is tourism starting up again, the rubber boats on the river are back, 10 people per boat, lots of canoes and other things as well. Whole groups going down together and then they get transported back to the rally point in small vans. Sadly the rescue helicopters were out already last night, 16 year old missing. There are dangerous currents under the bridge a bit upstream from my house, no clue if anything happened there yet now they are advising to launch downstream from our house. Ah update just in :( https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/brantford-teen-drowning-grand-river-1.5630978

Europe wants to start up international tourism as well. It seems everyone has forgotten that the bulk of the spread is through asymptomatic carriers. South Korea, Japan and now Australia are still not safe. Even New Zealand has been reporting cases again.

Imo it's too soon to pretend everything is fine again, which is what I see outside and in governments slowing down on testing/reporting instead of stepping up track and trace efforts. It's still left up to the people here to go get tested when they feel symptoms. At least the border is still mostly closed and the 14 day quarantine is still in effect for some coming in. (Trucks crossing the borders are exempt, as well as Americans going to Alaska and back. So it's only returning Canadians that have to quarantine)

I'm cancelling my chiropractor appointments again for now. Small old building, low ceilings, small air volume, lots of traffic with people waiting and being there for 20 minutes or more, no mask use. The chance of catching anything is very low, but I feel more comfortable in the supermarket with its huge air volume, big fans and half the people wearing masks. The earlier you go, the less contaminated the air will be as well. (Any airborne virus should not survive the night)