Well, contact tracing is starting to fail in Prague as anywhere from 20 to 30 percent of diagnosed cases cannot be traced back to their source.
The Czech government uses a traffic light system to define high-risk areas for covid19 and Prague has been upgraded to orange which is the second highest level (it’s the only part of the country at such a level). This means that the government will begin implementing restrictions within the next few days.
I say at least one school ends up quarantined in the Czech Republic during the first week of school.
Sigh… one of the best restaurants in the city, an upscale take on Filipino street food, just announced its closing its doors. I spent numerous nights drunkenly walking home from Pacers games and stopping in for a night cap and crispy pig ears. They posted a well thought out statement bashing the response from Washington.
The stock market indices rising along with mass employment should be an obvious sign to everyone that the interests of the rulers are diametrical to the ruled.
If that isn’t a system that needs to be fixed or destroyed, I don’t know what is.
EDIT: And Prague has 103 new cases today. That’s the highest number in a day since the beginning of the pandemic and there are still 6 more hours to go!
I’m skeptical on this sort of thing given that either test could have been a false positive. Anecdotal example, I am aware of an instance where a person tested negative, then positive, then negative again all within a short time period that shouldn’t be possible. But they don’t know which test was the incorrect one. So pretending like our testing is actually accurate when it isn’t is a likely issue when talking about whether people have immunity or if reinfection is possible.
We’re not sending our 18 month old. Thankfully, both my wife and my employers have been willing to work with our schedules. I’ve been closing my store 3 nights a week when I normally do an 830-6. We’ll monitor it throughout the winter but I don’t envision a scenario where he goes back until spring at the earliest
Both of our kids are back in daycare. It’s just unworkable otherwise. The other families do all seem to be WFH and taking proper precautions, but they’re perhaps not as paranoid as I’d like. I almost summoned my parents back to take care of the kids back in July, but with things having stabilized a bit, we’re leaving them in. We’ll see if it starts getting worse again.
Don’t beat yourself up. As much as we all wish we could snap our fingers and have a society that was humanity first instead of profits first we can’t.
Our daughter is still doing remote for school and we are doing everything we can to keep it that way but it’s tough. Its like another full time job on top of our full time jobs.
We found out our daughter’s best friend’s mom - the kid is also her gymnastics teammate - has COVID. Thing is, she was still going to let her daughter go to the gym. My wife talked to her a bunch a couple days ago to convince her to do the right thing. Got a bunch of babble about how she sent the kid to live with her father as soon as the symptoms started SO IT’S ALL OK, SHE COULDN’T POSSIBLY HAVE IT. Also, GOOD NEWS NOW I’LL BE IMMUNE.
She said she was going to inform the gym, but my wife was skeptical, considering she was still going to send her daughter to practice. Finally, my wife and at least one other mom got her to do the right thing, I think mainly by warning her that if the gym (which is run by the county) finds out that she has COVID and still sent her daughter, that they could just get booted completely.
We found out yesterday that she did, in fact, inform the gym and that the gym is not letting her daughter back until she produces a negative test (the mom wasn’t going to get her tested).
In this case the link says they looked at the genome of both positive cases and they were different and different enough to have not evolved in his body, but rather he got it from two different people.
I don’t think that they are getting the genome from a false positive.
However, only 48 days apart means maybe he wasn’t over the first case so didn’t yet have immunity for second?
