Pandemic Thread (CoronaVirus etc.)

[Cam]

A problem here is students refusing to get tested, knowing they will be quarantined if they are positive.

Lots of people partying at the bars downtown.

[Dicknose]

Australia as a whole had a new case total of 0.
That lasted one day. But we are very close to zero, one state has been almost 3 months without a new case.
Borders are starting to re-open. Heck Im even considering driving to Adelaide, SA to watch the cricket - although there is a specific road I need to take that is allowed as a shortcut thru Victoria. It just cuts the corner of that state as you go from NSW - Vic - South Australia.

[Godson]

I'm jealous guys.

Meanwhile in freedom-fuckistan people are telling me I don't understand science.

These same people cheated off my science tests in HS and still managed to fail...

[Jason]

My city's new cases continue to rise, highest level since May. When I go out for night runs/walks, I see bars and restaurants absolutely packed and no one wearing masks. Incredibly frustrating, especially since the area is so deeply blue. You'd think they would understand why one should wear masks/socially distance, but apparently the drinking and fucking beckons.

[Godson]

Biology is a motherfucker, my man.

[Cam]

Walking my dog the other day, a woman approached me and asked if we could talk. I am immediately on the defensive because I figure she is going to hit me up for money and she is smoking a cigarette. I find smoking really offensive these days. She gets pretty close and I say as I back away from her, "That's close enough. Social distancing, please." She says, "Oh, I don't have corona." I retort, "I don't care if you think you don't have corona." I wish I had added, "Maybe I do."

I never found out what she wanted because she wanted me to go somewhere else to talk and I walked away. "I'm leaving." She proceeded to go hit up another couple of people nearby to "talk." Her behaviour told me that she is ignorant of the purpose of masks and keeping distance between people.

[Tom Servo]

Covid or not, that's just weird. It's never a good thing when someone you don't know is asking you to go to another location to "talk". Covid's the least of your worries when she steals your kidneys.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Strangers acting weird are one thing, but a long time family friend who lives in Utah meeting up with her son attending UC Irvine decided to pay my parents a visit and had dinner together with them.

Yeah, they wore masks and assume that they don’t have COVID, but how can you be so certain and be so careless with my aging parents? She used to be a nurse too...

Anyway, we were old neighbors back in Taiwan and she sees my parents as her parents too... so I’m sure she meant no harm and just wanted to see my parents because she hasn’t seen them for a while.., she even called me up and asked to bring my daughter along because she misses her...

I want to yell at her, but just like my parents, we’re too nice to outright reject her requests. However, I did say we’re busy, maybe next time.

I think most transmission are due to small family gatherings... we think we’re safe..., but people really should know better.

Sometimes I do wish to just get it and get it over with. Living like this with an indefinite timeline is annoyingly tortuous, we are social animals, but I still have a kid to raise.., can’t risk dying...

Told my parents to please try to say no to such unexpected visits. Now I can’t risk taking my daughter to my parents house for couple of weeks... hope everything’s gonna be fine for them.

[Freude am Fahren]

My girlfriend is a physical therapist assistant at an inpatient rehab center. One of her patients has tested positive for Covid, and they are seriously just like "put him upstairs, everyone self-monitor." She worked directly with him. She *might* get a test on Friday, no thanks to her employer.

This shit is pathetic.

[Rare White Ape]

That centre needs to close for a deep clean, and everyone who’s been there since that patient first arrived needs to get tested and self isolate along with everyone in their household for two weeks.

Then all of those people need to retrace their steps and get in touch with everyone they’ve been in contact with (every shop, every bar, every friend, every family member, every co-worker, every student, every fuel station, every bank teller) and tell them to get tested and if they’re positive then THEY will have to do the same process.

Seems really hard doesn’t it?

Our government does all this for you if you’ve tested positive in Australia.