Coronavirus (NO POLITICAL OR SOCIAL COMMENTARY PLEASE)

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by dublinbluray108

Are there any specific rules in place for social distancing & using face masks when using a train, tram, metro, bus or a taxi within the United States & Canada?

No.

Welcome to the United States of Corona-ville.

In all seriousness, each state is handling it differently, hence the wildly differing outlooks and outbreaks. There is no uniform rule/law that all states have to follow.

[Pondosinatra]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

In my NYC neighborhood today, it's been nothing but blaring music and fireworks being illegally set off on the middle of the street. I feel I'm becoming one of those grouchy dudes that wants to scream "turn the music down" even though I like some of it.
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[LordoftheRings]

I think we should go back to Corona and ID4

[Pondosinatra]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

11000 new Florida cases.

[Show spoiler]

[LordoftheRings]

[Pondosinatra]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Captain Covid???

Captain Trips?

[Pondosinatra]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

When was Canada Day ... is it over? Yup it is, no fanfare no parade no wako.

Hey man, we had fireworks!

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Pondosinatra

Hey man, we had fireworks!

Not much where I was, they are very strict in regards to forest fires.
In Vancouver, the mainland, I don't know...I didn't watch the news.

In New York ...


Fireworks burst from the top of the Empire State Building during the Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular in New York City.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Anthony you are from Montreal, I have few relatives and friends in Montreal and all over Quebec. My Mom lives in Laval. I am quite familiar with the situation in their neighborhoods. It's the toughest for my Mom because of that major outbreak in Laval before, in the nursing home. And I also know about the other major outbreaks before in Montreal, also in nursing homes.

Depending of where people live and their level of consciousness no one feels exactly the same. I know that for a fact as I am in constant communication with my entire family from various regions in Quebec and of course in Laval and in Montreal.

You personally and your friends who live in Montreal, what is the overall sense of the situation around you? Like on masks, self-distancing, grocery shopping, etc., and are people calm overall, and some edgy @ times?
_____

Something I've read earlier, just in general worldwide ...
• https://www.nature.com/articles/d415...6-8f64487ce9a7

P.S. I'm from BC myself, very close to Victoria on Vancouver Island.
It is overall quite quiet here, but still it took me two hours @ the bank few days ago.
There was a line outside the bank, about a dozen people plus few more inside the bank.
There was only one teller working, wearing a mask and cleaning the desk (sanitizing) after each customer. Then I got back to my car to find a ticket ($50) on my windshield...not a very good day. Everything is very slow and people are very different too. Most are very calm, only very few are wondering if they are safe...I cannot blame them.

I'm realistic and I know that this is for the long term, even when we think that things are getting better. Because Coronavirus is not on vacation, and doesn't intend to go on vacation either. It won't disappear like abracadabra ...

politically speaking everything is opened up now with some rules, masks are recommended but generally obligatory (they will be for public transit after July 13 and in some municipalities that enacted their own regulations), private gatherings max 10 people from three housholds, public gatherings max 50. They had opened elementary schools and daycares out side of Montreal area but now it is summer brake. day camps are allowed but not sleep away camps.


Socially speaking I think it is like everywhere else, some people take it seriously while other don't. I live on the southshore and have not been on the island since it started. Even here I have been twice to a little bakery (only me and the baker in there and it had plexiglass and the employee was wearing a mask) and have only been to a grocery store for pickup (i.e. order on line, get there at our slot, call to say we are outside, they bring out groceries and put it in your car) what I see in those few minutes is some people wear masks others maybe not ( did they put it on after entering, take it off before exiting... impossible to say)

with my dad in his eighties and living with us we really want to make sure we don't bring it in our home so none of us mingle with others. Probably a bit harder on kids. But we all must do our part to keep each other safe

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by dublinbluray108

Are there any specific rules in place for social distancing & using face masks when using a train, tram, metro, bus or a taxi within the United States & Canada?

Here some fall under federal jurisdiction(Canada) while others Provincial

Federally masks are mandatory on trains if 2m distance can't be maintained and planes. Quebec last week made them mandatory on all public transportation starting July 13

How about where you live?

[DetroitSportsFan]

Michigan makes the news again. Hopefully these morons stay on the west side of the state.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/05/maskle...e-on-july-4th/

[Batman1980]

To anyone who feels like they “wasted” the time during quarantine because they didn’t write a book or learn a second language or get their bodies in shape, I have good news: Quarantine ain't over get back inside.

Source - Denzel Washington and Bailee Madison on Twitter

[Penton-Man]

I learned this in a History of Physics 101 course years ago -
https://www.biography.com/news/isaac...ue-discoveries

[Underworld54]

Yesterday was the lowest number of coronavirus deaths since March 23rd, daily deaths are down 92.4% since April 21st.

[dublinbluray108]

Originally Posted by Anthony P

Here some fall under federal jurisdiction(Canada) while others Provincial

Federally masks are mandatory on trains if 2m distance can't be maintained and planes. Quebec last week made them mandatory on all public transportation starting July 13

How about where you live?

Masks only became mandatory on all public transport in Ireland last Monday.

In the early stages of the pandemic; transport operators had to run reduced timetables for a while & place yellow coloured 2m signs on seats on all public transport vehicles & facilities. The operators had to drastically reduce capacity to keep it for essential workers & for other people going on essential journeys. A standard double decker bus with either front & middle doors and with front doors only could only fit a maximum of between 15 to 18 people per bus.

The transport operators have signs in their vehicles & facilities here below to say they had reduced capacity.







Since Monday there has been a really good uptake so far of people wearing face masks on my local bus routes although take up of this measure has been very low in Ireland. Only 10% of people have been wearing face masks on public transport services around the country since Monday. I cannot really guage a picture for you on train & tram services because bus services are the only mass transport services near to my home.

[LordoftheRings]

Yesterday (July 4) only 254 recorded deaths in the US ...
• https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

This must be the lowest count in the last while.

* Mexico; if things follow the pattern of recent days...in ten days (mid-July) they will surpass Italy in the total count of departed. ...And would become number 4 in the overall worldwide losses count, behind UK, Brazil and US.

** Thx Anthony for your reply above.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Underworld54

Yesterday was the lowest number of coronavirus deaths since March 23rd, daily deaths are down 92.4% since April 21st.

That's for the US (250). You are right, that was nice to see a lower number.
Zero would be perfect.

* Worldwide yesterday it was 4,500 departed.

** That bus in Dublin, Ireland, looks very clean.

Here on the Island (Vancouver, BC) overall I see roughly 10% of people wearing masks, on average.
Last time I was in town, just three days ago (Thursday), that's what I noticed. And I visited about six different establishments plus I walked around on sidewalks, and of course I drove around.

In cities (Victoria, Nanaimo), you don't see too many masks in general. Some days more or less, it depends of who you encounter on different days.
In the countryside, none.

I find banks are the toughest places to go...it takes forever.
And depending on the days and time when going grocery shopping it can be quite long too.
Another thing I noticed, in general there is much more traffic (cars in the city streets).

Things are supposed to slack tomorrow, in banks...with more than one teller working...about time!
Self-distancing is always the prime directive. And plexiglass is everywhere, I mean everywhere.
So it must be tremendous good business for plexiglass makers.
If you want to invest ... plexiglas.

Today is magnificent, weather wise here on the Island.

[Underworld54]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

That's for the US (250). You are right, that was nice to see a lower number.
Zero would be perfect.

* Worldwide yesterday it was 4,500 departed.

** That bus in Dublin, Ireland, looks very clean.

Here on the Island (Vancouver, BC) overall I see roughly 10% of people wearing masks, on average.
Last time I was in town, just three days ago (Thursday), that's what I noticed. And I visited about six different establishments plus I walked around on sidewalks, and of course I drove around.

In cities (Victoria, Nanaimo), you don't see too many masks in general. Some days more or less, it depends of who you encounter on different days.
In the countryside, none.

I find banks are the toughest places to go...it takes forever.
And depending on the days and time when going grocery shopping it can be quite long too.
Another thing I noticed, in general there is much more traffic (cars in the city streets).

Things are supposed to slack tomorrow, in banks...with more than one teller working...about time!
Self-distancing is always the prime directive. And plexiglass is everywhere, I mean everywhere.
So it must be tremendous good business for plexiglass makers.
If you want to invest ... plexiglas.

Today is magnificent, weather wise here on the Island.

I doubt zero will happen until the vaccine is readily available to everyone.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Underworld54

Yesterday was the lowest number of coronavirus deaths since March 23rd, daily deaths are down 92.4% since April 21st.

do you see this as part of a month-to-month trend now in progress, with no going back?
Meanwhile, some of the effects of the morbidity involving discharged ICU patients….

YouTube

[LordoftheRings]

Health - New

Hundreds of scientists say coronavirus is airborne, ask WHO to revise recommendations

Hundreds of scientists say there is evidence that the novel coronavirus in smaller particles in the air can infect people and are calling for the World Health Organization to revise its recommendations, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

In an open letter to the United Nations agency, which the researchers plan to publish in a scientific journal next week, 239 scientists in 32 countries outlined the evidence showing smaller particles can infect people, the NYT said.

It's a super short article but supremely important as we learn more and more each day.
There's nothing scribed in gold tablets when it comes to COVID-19 ... It is constantly evolving and we are discovering each minute ... because many expert scientists and epidemiologists are working on a race clock on this, 24/7 all over the world.

I hope WHO follows the expert scientist's recommendations...that's what they are paid for, to protect humanity's health, to prevent the spreading of viruses, to offer help in combating, financial help, proper medical equipment, support to front line fighters, telling the world the truth, ... all that jazz.