Coronavirus - Overall
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It’s airborne.
A choir decided to go ahead with rehearsal. Now dozens of members have COVID-19 and two are dead
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On March 6, Adam Burdick, the choir’s conductor, informed the 121 members in an email that amid the “stress and strain of concerns about the virus,” practice would proceed as scheduled at Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church.
“I’m planning on being there this Tuesday March 10, and hoping many of you will be, too,” he wrote.
Sixty singers showed up. A greeter offered hand sanitizer at the door, and members refrained from the usual hugs and handshakes.
“It seemed like a normal rehearsal, except that choirs are huggy places,” Burdick recalled. “We were making music and trying to keep a certain distance between each other.”
After 2½ hours, the singers parted ways at 9 p.m.
Nearly three weeks later, 45 have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or ill with the symptoms, at least three have been hospitalized, and two are dead.
The outbreak has stunned county health officials, who have concluded that the virus was almost certainly transmitted through the air from one or more people without symptoms.
In interviews with the Los Angeles Times, eight people who were at the rehearsal said that nobody there was coughing or sneezing or appeared ill.
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@Salacious-Crumb pretty sure we knew it can be suspended in air.
Hence the 1.5m (or is that 2m now) spacing.
If you're standing in a space where there's a whole heap of people breathing out viruses (virii?) into a closed environment where a whole heap of people are breathing it in it's not surprising it will be transmitted.
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Twat. Just have a wank. Stupid is everywhere.
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@Stargazer Thanks. Prompted me to do a search on Nga Taonga Sound and Vision for Spanish Flu
Came up with this https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/collections/catalogue/catalogue-item?record_id=207645
There are some interesting bits but its about half an hour and both the interviewee and presenter are very "proper"
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@Stargazer said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Interview from 2008, going around on social media.
Interesting to hear this woman talk about the 1918 influenza pandemic.I recall m Grandmother, who was born in 1910, described to me a childhood memory of the 1918/19 influenza pandemic , in Dunedin. Of horse drawn hearses and funeral processions frequently going past her house. And in general passing when in the street, stop &take off hat until it has passed.
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@booboo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Shit just got real
Not 100% convinced.
Was on Welsh News this evening. Legit.
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As I start to feel less anxious about Australia's situation my fears for the poor around the world increases.
Brazil is a big worry with their leader. Human rights issues in India as they spray people with bleach. The millions of day workers who have no support.
Guess we should all be happy we won the lottery and live where we do.
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Got two mates in China currently. One I think is in Zhenjiang, she reckons the Chinese government are massively underplaying it..
Thw above was posted on 24th January. Turns out, Rembrant's sauces were on the money with this one from the start.
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Breaking story about a locomotive engineer near the Port of Los Angeles who deliberately derailed a train near the naval hospital ship USS Mercy, because of “coronavirus concerns.”
Developing, clearly...
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@Salacious-Crumb this?
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So I found this site a statistical gem for al your number and graphs nerds.
I found it after reading the latest doubling time theory's and doing a search for more info. It has that (more bad news for the US at current rates they will be looking at just under 3/4 mill cases and 20K dead by Easter Sunday) but also a whole lot more.
None of it that good I'm afraid.
Elsewhere it seems there is no link between warmer countries and lower infection rates although behavioural changes brought on by warmer weather may help.
They're also developing a fingerprick blood test which may tell whether you have had it and are clear - good for medical staff - but are concerned about rate of false positives. But it won't be any use for screening people because you'll have to have had it for a week before the test works.
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