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Post by zamalek »

perl4ever wrote: post #37
zamalek wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TB has proven to be a great practice run for COVID. Southern African countries have not messed about with it. I still remember just how strict things became even with minor outbreaks. For something like a decade, Zimbabwe has required Foot and Mouth Disease control at borders - long after the risk has passed. I was temperature screened in an airport sometime in the early 2010s in South Africa for a domestic flight. M…

The figures I see on the internet for testing in most African countries are not very high. It's become a talking point that more tests produce more cases; couldn't you argue the inverse - fewer tests produce fewer cases? It appears about 3200 tests per million are reported for all of Africa, compared to say Spain at ~110,000 or the US at around 96,000.

Absolutely, maybe I'm wrong. My experience has just been that Africa deeply respects the power of a pathogen.

Re: “Loss of smell” Google search now trending in West Virginia, Nebraska, Nevada

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Post by m463 »

jka wrote: post #2

This trend is even more striking (and perhaps more convincing and verifiable) when you extrapolate it out over a longer time scale: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%22loss%20... Edit: just to temper this a bit; trends can be misleading and I'm not stating that this query is a robust indicator. It'd be great to figure out how reliable these charts are.

I searched for loss of smell early on when they were saying that was a symptom.

I didn't have a loss of smell (although women in my life seem to have a markedly better sense of smell... and taste and common sense)

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Post by kuroguro »

ashtonkem wrote: post #30
jshaqaw wrote: post #25

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Very minor. Aside from loss of smell for a month my wife and I had no significant symptoms. I felt pretty exhausted but those weeks in NYC were so crazy that it’s hard to say what was Covid and what was ambient stress. My kids had positive antibody tests but never had symptoms. We were very fortunate.

Loss of smell apparently is correlate with more minor cases and better outcomes. I don’t believe we know why yet.

Either that or people with more serious symptoms have other things to worry about and don't notice/report it. Additional research required.

Re: “Loss of smell” Google search now trending in West Virginia, Nebraska, Nevada

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Post by redis_mlc »

jshaqaw wrote: post #33
redis_mlc wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just FYI: In NorCal there was no "crazy" or ambient stress, unless one overreacted to the headlines. Very calm here.

If you were managing the conversion of an entire elementary and junior high school to remote learning on the fly in the midst of a pandemic while you and your spouse had said pandemic while overseeing the mental health of your children while also dealing with parents who had Covid at the same time you might have seen your stress level tick up but I’m glad you live such a chill and unencumbered lifestyle.

Thanks, in SV most if not all companies were ready for remote ops.

Schools are in a tough spot because the in-school computer experience wasn't great to start with.

Re: “Loss of smell” Google search now trending in West Virginia, Nebraska, Nevada

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Post by perl4ever »

zamalek wrote: post #41
perl4ever wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The figures I see on the internet for testing in most African countries are not very high. It's become a talking point that more tests produce more cases; couldn't you argue the inverse - fewer tests produce fewer cases? It appears about 3200 tests per million are reported for all of Africa, compared to say Spain at ~110,000 or the US at around 96,000.

Absolutely, maybe I'm wrong. My experience has just been that Africa deeply respects the power of a pathogen.

Among the top 20 countries with the most new cases at the moment, other than South Africa, Russia, and the US, they seem to all be developing countries outside Africa.

So if African countries in general have had a good response, I wonder why it's spreading so rapidly in countries like India, Mexico, Chile, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Peru, Colombia, Iran, etc...do they not respect the power of a pathogen?

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