Yes it's a logistics thing. - If you are unaware of what logistics is, I am more than happy to educate you on the topic.

We don't test the entire country for COVID-19 all at once do we?

They are forced to refrain from driving unless it's "essential".
And the same thing exists in countries that have actually handled COVID-19 well, essential workers only.

People are stupid. The United States lack of appropriate action in curbing the spread of COVID-19 is absolutely evident of that.

Allowing people "free reign" has done fuck all... Clearly it doesn't work... And clearly the Government needs to employ some direction and actual leadership and stop being an absolute joke on the world stage.

And that is selfish free-for-all mentality that gets people killed. Good job. You are part of the problem, you lack empathy for other people.

I protect life, property and the environment.

I run into burning buildings with 300'C/600'F temperatures while other people run out.
I scale down cliffs on a couple of pieces of rope to pluck someone who has fallen down.
I head out to sea with 8-10 meter/26-32 feet swirl to pluck someone from a sinking boat.

I am not adverse to making myself uncomfortable to protect another individual.
I am not against giving up a little of my time to ensure that someone is safe and healthy.

And by giving up some of my "freedom" and staying in lockdown for a few weeks, I have ensured that other people are safe and healthy and can continue their much enjoyed freedoms at a later date when lockdown is lifted.

Everyone is in this together. Don't be selfish, I literally got the moral high ground on this one Eric.

Why weren't people informed? Incompetent leadership. Elect better leaders.
People were informed and educated constantly during the entire COVID phases here, we defeated the virus.

Correct. You drive a vehicle which is "at risk" then you will have additional consequences if you kill someone.
If you have COVID 19 and go around ignoring social distancing, lock-downs and so forth... Then you are obviously a selfish individual with no care about the health and safety of your country and it's people.

You are only looking at it from a binary perspective.

Basically there are alternatives which ensures safety can be retained... Such as a loan vehicle, look at the other options, weigh the risks and hazards which is generally outlined in all hazards approach to incident management.

I'll be honest. I had to google who the hell that was. - But he isn't an elected official, he is a source of "information" for your elected government.

If your government is only sourcing information directly from one person, then it's not from the scientific community and chances are, not backed by the scientific method... And thus a potential bad source.

We didn't wear masks in Australia and New Zealand for the most part, those who were more at risk or actually had COVID-19 did wear them, however... People weren't ignoring basic hygiene, we went into lock down, people conformed to social distancing... And that is why it was unnecessary.

The USA having pretty much thrown all that out the window... Needs them if it wants to "operate as normal" whilst minimizing the risk to the general populace.

Cancer isn't COVID-19.
Spanish Flu isn't COVID-19.

You are delving into logical fallacies now by attempting to draw false comparisons, which means you don't have an argument.

The media in the USA is also not the media here, so I cannot speak to the accuracy of the media in the United States, for or against, it's irrelevant anyway, the President has his own conferences and can inform the public and set appropriate policy.

And that one driver would likely face some serious punishment for doing so.

If you drive a car and you do not maintain it appropriately or use it's appropriate safety features such as a seatbelt in an appropriate manner, you are liable for prosecution.

So by your logic, those who do not wear masks and try to curb the spread of COVID-19 should probably be prosecuted, which I am fully supportive of if it saves lives. - Maybe then people will learn to think about their neighbor instead of being selfish.

That is because I am a winner in life.

You don't know they are going to happen. But you PLAN in the event they do happen.

It's part of PPRR and emergency management and all hazards approach, it's absolutely basic stuff.

Borders are opened to all states and countries that have defeated the virus.

Restrictions were lifted here 2 months ago. Still no cases.

How much time do you think we should give it? Again. We are winners.

You have definitely had more lives lost, that's for sure. It's a running world-wide joke at this point if it wasn't so blatantly disgusting and sad to see and hear.

The American Mainstream Media doesn't exist here... And we still know your response to COVID 19 was the incorrect one, you can't really use that excuse with me I am afraid.
The Mainstream Media isn't your elected officials, they made the shit decisions.

You don't have those in Germany? We had these in little Luxembourg for a while now. Not quite my taste, though.

Never seen them in Luxembourg because petrol stations usually aren't that well stocked with these kind of items ;)

But no I've never seen them in Germany either though to be fair I'm not spending much time in these sections (other than quickly grabbing some onions). I'm very sure though that our discounters like Aldi, Lidl, Netto, Penny etc. don't have them.

Are those 100 injured/killed people also driving cars into other people directly after that?

Woke up to stimulus money. Dunno why it took sonlong but at least i got it.

Seasoning/right cooking time is key,well yeah as long as you can mildly taste the different flavours of all the ingredients.

Also depends on the diet you're on,from my own experience the more healthier i eat the more i begin to dislike the taste of unhealthy fatty snacks and like the taste of plain vegetables as it looks like their flavour strenghtens depending on eatingstyle.

Probably has to do with combination of brain longing for different nutrients/endorfine release and also a bit with the tastebuds themselves.

I think it's only a US thing to have a separate bagger / carry out to car service. I live in Canada and while stores like Walmart will put it into plastic bags for you at the register, it's not a separate person. The supermarket I go to only offers to sell you plastic bags if you don't bring your own bags and will only assist the elderly when needed. I rather pack it myself anyway, might as well pre sort it for faster putting away at home.

Only beer, wine and liquor bottles are recycled here at the stores (which are government licensed separate stores, only sold with ID) The rest goes in the blue bin and gets sorted out at the recycling center. Milk comes in sets of 3 x 1L plastic bags here that you put in a plastic container.

Still bad for the environment, the plastic goes in the regular garbage. When I lived in the Netherlands they had a barter system with durable clear plastic milk bottles that you brought back to the store for re-use. It looks like they went back to milk cartons and non re-use plastic bottles, can't find a picture.

I do prefer the recycling rules here. It was always a question what went where in the Netherlands. Here it's simply, everything with the recycling logo on the package goes in the blue bin, gets sorted out at the recycling center. But most still ends up in the landfill bleh. FACT: About 86 per cent of Canada's plastic waste ends up in landfill, while a meager nine per cent is recycled. The rest is burned to create energy, which causes emission problems, or the plastic enters the environment as litter.

Anyway plastic bags were on the outs before the pandemic hit. Then everyone panicked that bringing your own bags would spread the virus so stores started providing tons of plastic bags again. Luckily your own bags are allowed again currently, however the cupboard we had with plastic bags (to re-use as garbage bags in the bathroom) which was almost empty, now hardly closes again ugh. Set for another 10+ years of garbage liners lol.

Not only supermarkets started using tons of plastic again
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/28/coronavirus-plastic-waste-surges-as-restaurants-use-more-disposable-packaging.html

https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/06/22/the-other-pandemic-a-resurgence-in-single-use-plastic-and-plastic-waste-during-covid-19.html

The coronavirus has produced another sort of outbreak: a global resurgence in single-use plastic and a torrent of mostly unrecyclable personal protective equipment littering city streets, clogging sewage pipes, even turning up deep below the waves.

“This is only the beginning,” said a spokesperson for Opération Mer Propre (Operation Clean Sea), a French environmental NGO that collected nine surgical face masks and 14 latex gloves during a recent dive to the Mediterranean seabed around the resort town of Antibes. “If nothing changes, it will become a real ecological disaster if not a sanitary one,” the group said on Facebook where images of the debris were posted last month.

The plans to completely ban plastic bags at supermarkets in parts of the country have been abandoned for now.

I came from Europe, hence the funny looks and getting cursed out on the road for cycling like I'm going through traffic in Amsterdam :) Compared to The Netherlands it's still the wild west here when it comes to 'rules' for cycling on the road. It's a huge grey area and bicycle lanes are very inconsistent to nonexistent. (Plus traffic lights for cyclist, never seen them here. Construction, no detours posted for bicycles)

Everyone does use the carts to bring the stuff (in bags) to the car. Some people are just lazy and leave the cart on the parking lot. Then probably get just as mad when they run into an abandoned shopping cart with their car...

Stealing carts is not common here. Nearly everyone uses a car to do groceries after all. It was common in Amsterdam. Students and others taking the carts home, and you often saw carts that had ended up in ponds and canals.

Seems it's still a problem

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=https://www.abax.com/nl/blog/is-het-oke-om-winkelwagentjes-mee-naar-huis-te-nemen&prev=search&pto=aue
Supermarkets / hardware stores still lose five million euros annually because approximately 20 thousand shopping carts disappear each year. An average shopping cart costs around Euro 250, -

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=https://nos.nl/l/2298347&prev=search&pto=aue
It is a persistent phenomenon: shopping carts and baskets that disappear from the supermarket. Every year thousands of copies are 'borrowed' or actually just stolen. Much to the chagrin of supermarkets. It leads to millions of euros in extra expenses.

I do prefer living here, much more room, never any trouble parking and once you get away from the busy streets, perfect cycling. I can cycle for 80 to 120km here and hardly see anyone along the way. In the Netherlands it was constant stop and go, weave through tons of cyclist and pedestrians while dodging mopeds. Any slightly nice day and it was slow going, bicycle traffic jams... Here you can also leave your bike unlocked to pop in a store and never any trouble to find a spot to place it. I have a trailer which I used to take the kids cycling (they're too big now) but it's still fine to get pool supplies for example. 40kg of salt and 20L of chlorine, chemical load coming down hill lol.

No more of this!


This is my downtown nowadays :)

We actually didn't own a car until 2006. We lived in Brantford until then, across the street from a 24h supermarket. Then we got an electric hybrid and quickly found out that sucks in the cold winters here. Takes forever to warm up and is hardly more efficient in the cold. We drove it for 4 years and didn't really break even for the extra cost vs lower fuel consumption. The small trunk space (due to battery) was a pita as well. So when we got kids we switched to a SUV, 9 liters per 100 km. Much worse than the hybrid (which could do 4.5/100 in summer, but up to 7 or 8 in winter). Happy wife, lots of room to put plants in (gardener) We don't drive much, we'll stick to gas for now.

Having a garage helps the environment as well. A lot of people around here have remote starters and have their car idle for 10 minutes in winter to thaw out the car before they leave... Then you have lawnmower pollution. The EPA estimates that hour-for-hour, gasoline powered lawn mowers produce 11 times as much pollution as a new car. According to the EPA, each gas-powered lawn mower produces as much air pollution as 43 new automobiles driven 12,000 per year – lawn care produces 13 billion pounds of toxic pollutants per year.
The world needs better battery tech. The heavy batteries for edge trimmers hardly last 10 minutes, then 12 hours to charge again. Electric lawnmowers aren't popular either. Properties are so big you would need very long extension cords which you can run over or decapitate plants with :/ I used a push mower at our previous place, it sucked. Canadian weeds are too tough lol. Anyway no need to mow now due to the long heat and no rain. Grass is all yellow.

Back to the numbers. Europe is still declining, however slightly less each week. The current 3-day average week over week change is 96.2%, a week ago that was 94.8%. Not much of a change, pretty steady overall.

3-day average reported cases

Norway, Denmark and Ireland are pretty much off the chart. Very low numbers each day.
Switzerland and Austria are still heading up a bit and have swapped places with Belgium and the Netherlands.
Poland still on the same level while Germany is recovering from their latest outbreak.
Italy, Spain and France seem to have lost their downward momentum.
The Ukraine might have peaked now, heading downwards.
The UK is still going well despite a little uptick at the end.
Sweden's reporting is getting worse and worse, last update was July 2nd.
Russia ever so slowly declining.


3 day average reported deaths

It looks like Belgium and The Netherlands will soon hit the bottom.
Spain went up a little last week, still tracking lower than expected after all the changes made to their reporting/counting.
The Ukraine hasn't peaked yet in reported deaths, probably seeing the effects of their recent resurgence in cases.
Russia, despite under counting, is firmly leading the pack.

It's now been more than 19 weeks since Italy started charting...

Tomatoes, etc are fruits, some people think of them as vegetables and that's ok.

Flordia had more than +11,433 cases today so far....

a month ago florida had, had 50,000 cases total.
now barely a month lateron, and its over 240,000 cases.

They wont even mandate you have to wear masks.... its still optional in florida right?