It used to be common to empty car ashtrays on the road in parking lots. Luckily far less people smoke now. A couple years ago I cleaned up the park here, picking up cigarette butts for hours. I also found condemns and even a needle. Nice to know what your kids play in. One thing that seems to work is to keep areas clean often, the cleaner it is the less people throw their stuff on the ground. Garbage attracts more garbage.

I haven't been picking up stuff this year though, unsure about the risk of covid19 on trash. It should be safe now again, the wave has mostly passed. Plus the park has been closed all this time, also helps with the littering :)

People are just so lazy, there are multiple garbage cans around that get emptied often, but it's 100 steps to put it in the garbage instead of chucking it in the bushes. It's a shame. You don't notice it so much with everything growing fast in spring covering the trash. By fall all the mess pops up again.

Well I called the city parks department and let them know that small park needs a quick cleanup. Looked to be at least 4-5 garbage bags full laying around. I'm going back Saturday to practice my shot in basketball so I'll see if they sent anyone by then. If not I'll just bring some bags and pick it up myself on Sunday.

I believe I've only seen one mask on ground there and rest just random bottles and trash. Not many people frequent there so it probably hasn't been clean in a few months.

Funny thing is that our biggest park has many sports accomodations such as soccer fields, baseball fields (some with stands with shade protection, snack stands in between multiple fields open when youth leagues play), numerous tennis courts, shuffle board, horseshoe pits, sand volleyball courts, badminton and many other sports yet there isn't one single basketball hoop or court. 

Qatar with a population below 3m has already over 80k cases and over 1000 new cases per day. They do a lot of testing but damn...

New CDC report on #COVID19 in the US January-May 30:
-5% of people who tested positive died
-14% hospitalized
-Deaths 12x higher in people w/diabetes or other underlying conditions
-Median age 48
-Incidence HIGHER among 40-60 yr olds than 60-80 but highest >80
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— Amy Maxmen, PhD (@amymaxmen) June 15, 2020

Yeah, jump a phase and have a untested (or not enough tested) vaccine unleashed on the people. If just anything goes wrong and people get sick or even die from the vaccine, then not only is the cure worse than the disease, it's also perfect fodder for all the Anti-Vaxxers who will feel themselves confirmed in their views and get huge support and swelling numbers - which would only make future outbreaks more dangerous.

I mean, just look what happened in the Philippines with the Dengvaxia Dengue Fever Vaxxine: The Vaccine was dangerous for people with certain pre-existing conditions and has killed hundreds of people in the Philippines. But worse is that the trust into vaccines is broken (trust into vaccines dropped from 95% in 2015 to 32% in 2019) and thus only very few people take vaccines there anymore. The result: A deadly measles outbreak due to low immunisation.

So better have them thoroughly tested before they get unleashed on the population. 

Beijing residents are rounded up and put in quarantine as the city goes back into lockdown and new travel bans are introduced to stop 'extremely severe' fresh coronavirus outbreak blamed on 'European salmon'

• China reported 40 more coronavirus infection on Tuesday, with 27 in Beijing as parts of the city lockdown
• One scientist has warned the new strain of the virus could be more infectious, believing it came from Europe
• Officials have been fencing off parts of the city with some in total lockdown while mass testing has resumed
• The outbreak has been linked with a food wholesale market called Xinfadi which sees thousands of visitors

China now faces a dilemma on how drastically to deal with new outbreaks while keeping the momentum in its economic recovery - a situation shared by other countries such as New Zealand that have beaten the virus.

There remains a sense of unease on Asian and global markets about signs of a COVID-19 resurgence, just as the city was getting back on track and after months of no new cases.

12 new cases here in Aus over the last 24 hours.

So far, we've had 7347 cases and 102 deaths. 

We've tested 1.8 million, out of a total population of 25 million.

62.1% of cases were acquired overseas, 27.8% were acquired locally, and 10.1% have no identified contact.

Of the deaths, only 1 was under 50, and only 3 under 60.

17 people are currently in hospital, 3 in intensive care.

https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert/coronavirus-covid-19-current-situation-and-case-numbers

New worldwide peak today. 142,557 new cases.

California, Texas, Florida, Arizona are the hotspot states with the latter 3 having. a peak number of new cases and California coming close to passing their peak. Oklahoma, Utah, and the Carolinas are also seeing a rise in new cases.

I tested negative for the antibodies Friday before last. It makes me feel good about my 3 months spent at home isolating, as if they have not been a waste. At the same time I was hoping I had the antibodies so I might have some immunity. I am incredibly pessimistic about the state of the virus in the world. It only keeps spreading and the number of cases keeps going up. I do not think people have the political will to go into another full scale lockdown. I think we might just have to adapt until there is a proven vaccine.