How has the coronavirus affected your personal life?

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According to the local paper 13 other counties in California have been hit worse than our county. Los Angeles county was of course the worst. Some of the more remote counties have had no deaths at all.

Los Angeles has had hundreds but our county so far has only had 38 fatalities attributed to COVID-19. Right now we have about 1000 people testing positive and another 600 have been declared recovered.

That does not include whatever might’ve happened last night as morning paper hasn’t come yet.

You all have a great day and stay negative!
 
Our corona death toll of 38 on Tuesday is 48 as of today, so I think we are on the second wave of this in Fresno county.

They are finding dead people out in the remote county, and several in care have passed away on ventilators. I suspect they have found some dead illegals, as the details are unusually sparse. The reported cases are all almost 100% very elderly folks, or nurses and Drs.

Meanwhile my Africans continue to fight and I've move one of the young hybrids to the outdoor sump. It was getting chewed up, and couldn't survive it.

In the sump, it's cozy, and there are 100 tiny molly fry to munch on. He looks happier already.
 
Football started again this week after 3 months. Still no crowds allowed and on the TV broadcast they dub the crowd noise in whenever there's a goal which is weird and unsettling when you can see there's no crowd in the statidium.
For the rugby they use cardboard cut outs to make it look like there's a crowd but got in trouble when someone noticed one of the cutouts was of Adolf hitler!
 
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i think 90 days off so far.... lots of fish room expansion, digging/trenching outside....

mainly fish...

i’m ready to go back to work though.... think my wife appreciates the high level of service she’s provided and absence of any type of housework...?
 
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Ulu said:
I want to predict some shocking things here, but I will be as gentle as I absolutely can in respect for everyone’s feelings.

I don’t think the Covid virus is viable enough to survive much longer as a major health factor. Unless it is unusually strong it will have increasingly common “reproductive” errors, and just dwindle.

Unless there is some awful terrorist attack or incredible event, It is 99% likely IMO that the world economy is going to continue to bounce back like a silicone Super Ball. I do believe DOW Jones will hit 30,000 before Nov.

I think there are going to be special economic bail-outs for people affected by the US rioting. Those are the kind of things that boost confidence across-the-board.

Now there is a pent-up desire to get to work. People have responsibilities and they are determined to meet them no matter what. That is the factor that matters more than anything.

We are fully in an age where science, industry and social cooperation can free many from much labor in a very short time. The evidence is that we have already done so much, with much less technology, in the recent past.

I do not believe that our motivation as a race, to do good, has decreased. It might be slightly frightened or confused....

We are going to have so many jobs that Americans will not be able to do them and we will have to import foreign labor.
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I agree. Great points. Especially the economy. I do think a select few sectors will be hit harder than others. Airlines are going to be Especially hit hard. Maybe not a direct result of the pandemic. Even if the virus disappears tomorrow allot of their revenue comes from business travel some say up to 50 percent. With all the new technologies that rised to the top zoom being one i think they are in some real trouble.

I always thought too much comparisons were made between covid and influenza models and not sars1. You could very well be right and this version of sars follows sars1 and flames out.


Ulu said:
I don’t think I’ve ever spoken of the white race or the black race or the yellow race.

There is a human race. Hopefully more people will remember that they belong to it.
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So simple and yet so true.
 
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In the UK, before the coronavirus was even heard of everybody was sick to the back teeth of Brexit. I'd have given anything to get rid of the day to day bulls*it that we had to endure. For sure, no one's talking Brexit at the moment, but what it's been replaced with is just more abject misery. Brexit was mainly a European thing but this virus is all over the world. We are living in truly dreadful times at the minute.

I don't know if anyone's heard of Ben Fogle, he has a series on TV where he visits people all over the globe who live in the most far flung places, totally desolate and unreachable places, sometimes many hundreds of kilometers from the nearest people. Their day to day existence is a struggle and usually I wouldn't want to be in their shoes for one minute.

But boy i've been watching it recently and I almost envy them now. Just to get away from all this mess.
 
In the same vein, being in South Africa I have family/friends that live on farms, so much space while we are cooped up at home. And by the way, my 9' x 9' bedroom is sometimes bigger than the shack of a family in an informal settlement. It is sad.
 
Informal settlement? What percentage of the population lives in informal settlements?
I don't think we have enough to be blessed with such a PC name.

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I gotta look up Ben Fogle. It sounds amazing.
 
Ulu said:
Informal settlement? What percentage of the population lives in informal settlements?
I don't think we have enough to be blessed with such a PC name.
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Conservative estimates say 3-3.5 million people in 2011 were living in informal settlements, or about 7% of the country at the time. This is not to be confused with rural villages etc. The problem started under the Apartheid government when certain racial groups were moved to Townships and since then many of these people have failed to recover from the hardship due to this inequality. It's a deep problem that's causing much struggle today. There are homeless people living on almost every street, and I live in a more well-organised part of the country.

55% of the country lives in poverty, aka $60 per person per month.
 
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