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SvennoJ on 27 December 2020
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JRPGfan said:

UK version spreads faster (56-70% or something), but doesnt appear to make you much more sick than the normal strain.
What worries me is the african mutation, that one also seems to spread more, but unlike the UK strain, this one appears to make younger democrafics sick too.

So far,  the "upside" of corona was mostly those that got very sick were the elderly.
The fact that the africa mutation, is makeing more younger crowds get really sick as well, is a bad sign.

The irony is, dispite how many countries cut off flights to the UK (to avoid this mutation), alot of countries havn't done so towards african nations (where this mutation is starting to spread).

Also heard that during the holidays upwards of 115m americans choose to travel.
Which to me is crazy. I know Cristmas is about spending time together as family, but mass gatherings isnt a good thing with corona out there.
Supposedly something like 1/3 americans choose to go spend holidays outsides their own homes, traveling to family to celebrate it.
Its bound to lead to more infections, just gotta give it a few weeks, and it ll start showing on testing sites.

I really hope danes are more sensible than this..... but I wouldnt be surprised if we had mass travel and family gatherings during the holidays as well.

I was wondering why Africa was rising so much again, another strain :( South Korea and Japan also seem to be in trouble.

More deadly or not doesn't really matter if you're already in the severe risk group for the original strain. The extra rate of spread is enough to make it more dangerous. So far we've skipped all Christmas meetings and dinners, traditions broken. And I've skipped doing groceries for now, going on the stash we build up until the lock down takes effect. I have no intention to get in the long line ups for the supermarkets.

Oh well, overall the cases in Canada are down, we're doing great!
NOTE: Some provinces and territories won't be providing COVID-19 updates or are giving partial information during the holidays. As such, data will be incomplete.


While the world was on a rising trend, yesterday had about 74% of the cases of the week before on Saturday and 66% of the reported deaths. Christmas miracle.