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Can someone explain this logic to me:

Grocery store: Carts get cleaned, disinfected after every use, same with the belt at the checkout, cleaned before the next person.
School: High touch areas will be cleaned twice a day. Everyone touches it but we'll clean it at lunch and after school.

School is supposed to start today but already postponed until next week. Cases are up 25% in Canada, higher than they were when schools had to close.



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https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-covid-patients-long-term-lung-heart.html

Follow-up study on formerly hospitalized patients from Austria show decreasing lung damage and other after-effects in the months following discharge. No severe heart disfuction related to SARS-CoV-2 was observed. Rehabilitation seems to speed up the path to complete recovery as well.



 

 

 

 

 

Barozi said:
Mnementh said:

I don't actually why the people protesting here in germany. Pretty much everything is possible again. Yes, you may have to wear a mask in certain situations. End of the world!  But you can go to a restaurant, schools are reopened, even cinemas (which I think are actually a big risk). So what to protest against?

Brothels I guess.

Well that didn't take long. Brothels re-opened in a few federal states already and a bunch more will follow next week.



Nighthawk117 said:

The only thing Trump and Hitler have in common is that they are both white men.

Along with the populism, authoritarianism, fascism, xenophobia, etc. Just because we haven't gone full genocidal dictatorship doesn't mean the same tactics and rhetoric haven't been employed.



haxxiy said:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-covid-patients-long-term-lung-heart.html

Follow-up study on formerly hospitalized patients from Austria show decreasing lung damage and other after-effects in the months following discharge. No severe heart disfuction related to SARS-CoV-2 was observed. Rehabilitation seems to speed up the path to complete recovery as well.

Good news it eventually gets better, however

It is sobering to hear that more than half of the patients in this study showed damage to their lungs and hearts 12 weeks after hospital discharge, and that nearly 40% were still suffering from symptoms such as breathlessness. The good news, however, is that patients do improve and this surely will help the rehabilitation process, as discussed in the second presentation.

We still aren't any wiser whether my wife actually had Covid-19 in Februari, but she is still often short of breath. It's been 6 months now... Too late for regular anti-body tests, not that you can get them here nor T-cell tests (if that exists).



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2nd wave (really 1st wave for many states) is turning down and that will be the end of covid in the US just in time for the election. Topic will be memory holed soon.



JRPGfan said:
France and Spain worry me.... looking at daily grow over the last two weeks that looks like exponential growth to me.
They clearly have a new outbreak (a 2nd wave) and need to do something to fight it just like the first wave (potentially another lockdown).

France, Spain and the EU have a case-demic caused by increased testing with low specificity pcr tests with nearly no death.

https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=swe&areas=usa&areas=ita&areas=esp&areas=deu&areasRegional=usfl&areasRegional=ustx&areasRegional=usny&areasRegional=usnj&areasRegional=usga&areasRegional=usct&byDate=0&cumulative=0&logScale=0&perMillion=1&values=deaths



numberwang said:

2nd wave (really 1st wave for many states) is turning down and that will be the end of covid in the US just in time for the election. Topic will be memory holed soon.

Are you sure? I'm actually hoping Covid makes a rebound, just in time for early Nov.



RolStoppable said:
Nighthawk117 said:

Sounds like something from the mouth of Adolf Hitler.

Thank you Germany, your biggest gift to planet Earth is that asshole.

Now now, give credit where credit is due. Hitler was Austrian.

But in fairness to the Germans, if it hadn't been for their collective naivity at pretty much every corner of Hitler's path to power, none of it would have ever happened.

Having fun with your US stimulus check?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-biz-coronavirus-stimulus-check-relief-20200908-byhr35at2feadgzss4m3g7ycsm-story.html

"A retiree in Austria says he received a U.S. government coronavirus relief check for $1,200, despite not having lived in America for over half a century.

[...]

Austrian public broadcaster ORF reports the 73-year-old man from Linz, who worked as a waiter in the United States for two years in the 1960s, was able to cash the check.

His wife, who never worked or lived in the United States, got one too.

ORF reports banks in Austria confirm they’ve cashed dozens of checks for residents of the Alpine country. It’s unclear how many were entitled to the money."

According to other sources there were already over 100 Austrians that cashed in the check, so at least $120k in US tax payer money right into Austrian pockets.



Nighthawk117 said:

Even if Hillary were president, instead of Trump, the US would still have 200k dead from the China virus. The American people don't listen to their leaders, they would rather flip them the bird.

You have met Australians right?
We abused our leader, we ridiculed our leader, we dragged our leader through the mud, we refused to shake our leaders hand... And that was in January this year while the country was burning.
COVID hit and our leader introduces measures to curb it's spread, we listened and we complied for the benefit of the entire nation.

Amazing how one single corrupt, incompetent, selfish wanker can have an entire country against him, then support him a month later.... Why? Because his arguments were sound when they needed to be sound.

The reason why Trump just can't convince Americans of anything is simply because... He is an absolute idiot that has divided the nation and keeps it divided and hasn't provided any sound arguments or plans to stop COVID in it's track, it's simply a running joke at this point...

Absolutely destroyed economy, way to many lives lost... And all he cares is probably when he can play Golf next.



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