Conavirus......

[Teacher Terry]

Rosa, your state is being smart.

[bae]

Iceland seems to have a handle on things:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/i...rus/index.html

[JaneV2.0]

Iceland seems to have a handle on things:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/i...rus/index.html

They're taking it seriously, and using science.
Far, far from what is happening here.

[Teacher Terry]

Now they are able to reopen and e normal. Well worth a small sacrifice.

[pinkytoe]

One quarter of Texas surge hospitalizations right now are under 30. We are set to make a road trip there in a week and are wondering if they will have to shut things down again.

[dmc]

I’m doomed, the Italians have been laying tile now for three weeks straight, they took off last Sunday for a soccer game. There have been at least three of them in all parts of the house. And I’m getting pretty tired of the music and singing. There are 8 landscapers that have been here for a week, at least they are outside. And two plumbers for two weeks. The cabinet maker is behind, so we wil be exposed to those guys in a few weeks. And of coarse multiple delivery guys, electricians, and some I can’t remember.

But the city is not doing inspections inside, so I don’t know when I’ll get the final inspections done. The plumber is the only inspection I’ll need, he said so far they have asked him for pictures and gave approval on those.

And I made two trips to West Palm that is a hotspot in the state to buy a boat. And the wife flew to Ohio last week.

We are staying away from the grandkids till this is over.

[rosarugosa]

Rosa you may be fine not going to these businesses, but many of them would prefer to open. Some will have to permanently close, wiping out the lifetime savings people invested in them. Something like a third of restaurants may never recover. The jobs in them will not come back.

As you are retired I am assuming you are over 60 so I am glad you are being cautious. You should feel under no obligation to go to businesses, but others should be free to do so.

Small local businesses are being disproportionately hurt. A future in which most new jobs are as delivery drivers for Amazon is not rosy.

I know and love some small business owners, and I think it's terrible what this pandemic is doing to businesses in general. I don't see it as anyone's fault though; it's a pandemic and of course it sucks. I cannot live in a complete bubble even though I'm retired, and a spike in Covid cases still has the potential to affect me and/or people I care about with just more illness swirling about. For example, my mother took a fall and I spent yesterday morning at the local ER with her (fortunately just a bad sprain, no fracture). So much for my efforts to avoid medical facilities. We are all interconnected to some degree.

[dado potato]

Iceland seems to have a handle on things:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/i...rus/index.html

The article confirms what I understood about Iceland's thorough tracing/quarantining of contacts. On the island kinship is well established... as they say, "everybody knows everybody".

The leadership of the effort to counteract the spread of the virus in Iceland was out of the hands of politicians. The key roles were played by a police detective, a nurse, and a public health official. I believe they were on TV together for an hour every day... so the population was given a consistent message, not biased by an elected president or a state governor (as in the USA), and not perpetually criticized by the "loyal opposition".

I agree with JaneV2.0 that Iceland was using science, and I would add "for the public interest". COVID-19 tests were plentiful because a local company, a subsidiary of a multinational pharmaceutical company, dropped all other activities to produce testing kits for the Iceland national government.

Another factor was voluntarism. I believe the tracing effort was greatly aided by retired nurses in Iceland who heeded the call to return to service.

BZ BRAVO ZULU to Iceland

[bae]

The article confirms what I understood about Iceland's thorough tracing/quarantining of contacts. On the island kinship is well established... as they say, "everybody knows everybody".

It's such a small community that they have a special dating app for Icelanders, ÍslendigaApp, which allows you to bump your phones together at a bar or whatnot to see if you have close kinship. The app slogan is “Bump the app before you bump into bed.”

I have greatly enjoyed my many visits to Iceland :-)

[Yppej]

Daily covid deaths are now a tenth of what they used to be, yet large portions of the state remain locked down by our dictatorial governor. It's fear not facts. Very frustrating.