How is the corona virus affecting you?

caseydog said:
I was lucky. I drove 5.4 miles in my own car. I'd be really reluctant to use mass transit just yet -- not that there is mass transit in Frisco, TX. It is drive, or Uber here.

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Public traffic like tram and train is my daily must, and many other co-passengers. In the morning I will walk 55 minutes to avoid tram, but in the evening I am too tired and it us too late usually around 9 pm...so I will take the tram, after the train.
Good thing 99% would be wearing masks, 90% properly covering the nose too.
 
Duck59 said:
About two hours ago, I was stabbed.

Yes, it was shot number one, the Oxford/AZ vaccine. We rebooked our times so that we could go to the same place at the same time. It meant we had a catch a train (for the first time in over a year) and it was forty minutes each way, but that was preferable to the venue in Kirkcaldy that they offered us, which would have entailed two bus trips.

All was fine apart from the return journey. A large group of teenage girls had clearly decided this was a great time for a day out and piled onto the train en masse. Not a single face covering between the lot of them. Unfortunately, they also decided to get off at our stop, so we ended up waiting for about another ten minutes for them to get out of the station, where for some reason they chose to hang around shouting and generally being a word I can't really post here. You get the gist, though.
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Congrats on getting the jab, forget about the morons - in a few weeks you will be in the pub, they won't be.
 
LissaC said:
In neighbor Spain, face masks are now mandatory everywhere except your own private home. People must wear a mask at the beach, the pool, and while riding their own private car.
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I would spot drivers in what appears to be their private car, by themselves, here too, wearing a mask, and I wondered, what is playing here? So basically they are protecting the rest of us from the virus, if they have it, to spread via outbreath and out the window? Is that it?
 
Timenspace said:
I would spot drivers in what appears to be their private car, by themselves, here too, wearing a mask, and I wondered, what is playing here? So basically they are protecting the rest of us from the virus, if they have it, to spread via outbreath and out the window? Is that it?
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No idea. Whenever I see people driving alone in their car wearing a mask, my question is the same. Could it be they're afraid of people opening their car windows and spreading particles to the outside of their car and someone touching their car door and getting Covid from it? Sounds farfetched, but probably possible.
 
LissaC said:
Same here, usually you only get tested for free if you have symptoms. If you want to do a test on your own, that will usually set you back at least 60€.
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I think that's OK, as long as it's not a mandatory thing. But here, most people are not yet vaccinated yet poor people are forced to provide evidence of negative tests even if they don't have symptoms and that's unfair.
 
If extensive testing could be used to restore some normalcy to our lives, I'd be totally up for it. In the Azores islands anyone coming from outside the island needs to take 2 tests, and a third test if you stay longer than 72hrs. Masks are mandatory but coffees are open, restaurants are open, everything is more or less normal. The mandatory tests are paid for the local government. I imagine this is a very costly strategy, but at least it allows businesses to open. Lockdowns are incredibly effective at stopping the disease, but their social costs are immense.
 
Timenspace said:
I would spot drivers in what appears to be their private car, by themselves, here too, wearing a mask, and I wondered, what is playing here? So basically they are protecting the rest of us from the virus, if they have it, to spread via outbreath and out the window? Is that it?
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I can't see myself wearing my mask when I am alone in my car.

BTW, my car has a HEPA cabin filter (Bosch). I got it for allergies, but they are pretty effective against viruses. Not 100-percent, but close. If I use the recirculating mode on my HVAC, the cabin will be pretty safe against Covid.

CD
 
Timenspace said:
I would spot drivers in what appears to be their private car, by themselves, here too, wearing a mask, and I wondered, what is playing here? So basically they are protecting the rest of us from the virus, if they have it, to spread via outbreath and out the window? Is that it?
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I frequently drive around with a mask on in the car. The reason being is, once I get it adjusted and it's comfortable, I don't want to take it off again until I'm completely done with my errands. If I have to make three stops in town, the last thing I want to do is take my mask off, put it back on, take it back off, put it back on, etc.

Also, I don't really find a mask terribly oppressive. I tend to forget about it after a while. I've come home more than once and sat down with my mask still on, and 15 minutes later, my wife will point out that I'm still wearing it. :laugh:
 
LissaC said:
If extensive testing could be used to restore some normalcy to our lives, I'd be totally up for it.
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Sure, but only if like your government does, they provide for it. Otherwise it would be a very unjust system excluding those with less financial means who are already the hardest hit by this pandemic.
It would be a massive cause for riots too, seeing half the population going about business as normal while you're excluded because you can't afford a test.
That's why I oppose our government's plans.
 
I'm also one who doesn't mind wearing a mask. I mean, I don't like it, but I don't find it super annoying either. And if wearing a mask everywhere and anywhere will stop the spread of the disease, let's do it. But I work from home and wear a mask when I'm outside and it's for short periods of time, if I had to wear everyday for 8 hours I'd be tired by now, that's for sure.
 
Windigo said:
Sure, but only if like your government does, they provide for it. Otherwise it would be a very unjust system excluding those with less financial means who are already the hardest hit by this pandemic.
It would be a massive cause for riots too, seeing half the population going about business as normal while you're excluded because you can't afford a test.
That's why I oppose our government's plans.
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49-percent of Republican men in the US, basically half, don't plan to get the Covid vaccine. Texas is mostly Republican, so mediatory testing could be cause for armed rebellion. :ohmy:

CD
 
In Brazil, where almost 4,000 people died of Covid today and 6,000 are waiting for an ICU bed, the president keeps denying the need for lockdowns and vaccination is insanely behind schedule. Instead, he invited the people to do one full day of fasting and praying to keep to curb the spread of the disease :(
 
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