Honestly, at this point I'm sitting here with a bucket of popcorn.
Dublin is currently headed into another lockdown because cases are rising exponentially, and deaths have started rising too together with hospital admissions. A friend who works in the emergency department told me about having to do CPR on someone with covid.
Everything that's happening rn was predicted. People still trying to tell me it's a hoax? Can go lick a rat.
I'm sure there is a lot on both sides of the fence, and very few fence sitters. I do pretty good at balancing on a fence. I see the stories the news reports from around the world and decide even though I do not like where I live right now, I am happy that I live in an area that has been pretty much untouched by the virus.
Extremely carefully, or wait for it to abate a little bit. They were telling everyone at the outset of the virus things would improve in the summer due to the heat,but it really did not. I am sure they, (the experts), will get a handle on it soon.
I also wonder about the fresh outbreaks, is it because people feel safer wearing a mask and the social distance has decreased, or are the type of mask being worn not effective at blocking the virus? I have seen a lot of so called covid mask on the market and they just seem to be made out of normal cotton.
We were down to only a handful of new daily cases, and then there were big outbreaks in meat factories. Now we're back to almost 400/day, numbers growing.
The cotton masks are actually not too bad, as long as they have 2-3 layers, fit well, and are handled correctly. Won't keep everything in, but stop spit droplets when talking, which reduces viral load at the very least. And those seem to be correlated with outcomes https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30354-4/fulltext
I have a set of 3 layer masks where the outside is thick cotton and the inside is a flimsy material that can hold electrostatic charge. The few times I actually go outside I wear those. It's better than nothing.
Honestly, at this point I'm sitting here with a bucket of popcorn.
Dublin is currently headed into another lockdown because cases are rising exponentially, and deaths have started rising too together with hospital admissions. A friend who works in the emergency department told me about having to do CPR on someone with covid.
Everything that's happening rn was predicted. People still trying to tell me it's a hoax? Can go lick a rat.
I'm sure there is a lot on both sides of the fence, and very few fence sitters. I do pretty good at balancing on a fence. I see the stories the news reports from around the world and decide even though I do not like where I live right now, I am happy that I live in an area that has been pretty much untouched by the virus.
Got lucky there 😅 I'm mostly wondering how I'm supposed to do my PhD research under these circumstances
Extremely carefully, or wait for it to abate a little bit. They were telling everyone at the outset of the virus things would improve in the summer due to the heat,but it really did not. I am sure they, (the experts), will get a handle on it soon.
I also wonder about the fresh outbreaks, is it because people feel safer wearing a mask and the social distance has decreased, or are the type of mask being worn not effective at blocking the virus? I have seen a lot of so called covid mask on the market and they just seem to be made out of normal cotton.
We were down to only a handful of new daily cases, and then there were big outbreaks in meat factories. Now we're back to almost 400/day, numbers growing.
The cotton masks are actually not too bad, as long as they have 2-3 layers, fit well, and are handled correctly. Won't keep everything in, but stop spit droplets when talking, which reduces viral load at the very least. And those seem to be correlated with outcomes https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30354-4/fulltext
I have a set of 3 layer masks where the outside is thick cotton and the inside is a flimsy material that can hold electrostatic charge. The few times I actually go outside I wear those. It's better than nothing.