COVID 19 GLOBAL

[lazarus]

COVID-19 kills the market for new cars in the US.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-19/photos-stadiums-and-lots-overflow-with-cars-as-coronavirus-takes-an-economic-toll

Thousands of new cars sit in storage at Toyota Logistics Services yard at the Port of Long Beach.

Edited May 19, 2020 by lazarus

[KhunDon]

6 minutes ago, lazarus said:

COVID-19 kills the market for new cars in the US.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-19/photos-stadiums-and-lots-overflow-with-cars-as-coronavirus-takes-an-economic-toll

Thousands of new cars sit in storage at Toyota Logistics Services yard at the Port of Long Beach.

I’m waiting for the Black Friday sales, or even BOGOF offers. 🤣

[coxyhog]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1284199/China-coronavirus-new-lockdown-latest-Jilin-province-quarantine-COVID-19-update?fbclid=IwAR0agT_zVYn3ftC2RSjWJdZhx1xmHjLOgFEQ1wIrdC7GeamrlSWw5oiWa3s

[dcfc2007]

26 minutes ago, coxyhog said:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1284199/China-coronavirus-new-lockdown-latest-Jilin-province-quarantine-COVID-19-update?fbclid=IwAR0agT_zVYn3ftC2RSjWJdZhx1xmHjLOgFEQ1wIrdC7GeamrlSWw5oiWa3s

This is why I think the Thais pinning their hopes on a Chinese led recovery in tourism is misguided. No doubt the outbreak there is much worse than is being reported, CCP won't dare let its citizens go abroad and risk making the situation worse.

[fforest]

Masks are useless....... Says so right on the freaking box!!

What more proof is needed?

This is the mask about 80-90% of the people wear in Thailand...

So is mask wearing based on good science or Theater?

 

 

 

Edited May 19, 2020 by fforest

[Nightcrawler]

There are lots of other masks available. I have seen loads of people in UK wearing the better ones. Masks are for one way traffic mainly and apparently more effective to prevent a person who is or maybe infected from spreading it. Coughs and sneezes are interrupted and the distance of spray is muted. 

If people feel safer using a mask then good luck to them as long as they also clean their hands regularly as well 

[lazarus]

5 minutes ago, Nightcrawler said:

There are lots of other masks available. I have seen loads of people in UK wearing the better ones. Masks are for one way traffic mainly and apparently more effective to prevent a person who is or maybe infected from spreading it. Coughs and sneezes are interrupted and the distance of spray is muted. 

If people feel safer using a mask then good luck to them as long as they also clean their hands regularly as well 

Bought a box of masks the other day at my local cannabis shop. Good deal. (Wish the weed had been...)
I wear them filter side out. That way whatever comes your way is filtered.
Good for allergy season here...less hay fever when out & about...it's windy.
Masks are required in public places (shops, etc.), and when social distancing is problematic.

Easy, really.

[Nightcrawler]

I had a bit of a drive today mainly around my local area in the South of London. 

I noticed quite a lot of traffic about. Probably double what it was 2 weeks ago. A lot more shops appear to be open too but apart from Supermarkets, DIY superstores and Garden Centres they seem to be small shops mainly selling food. 

My local garage was open and I got my mate who works there to stick in some new fog  light bulbs for me 

Halfords cycle and motor parts also open with distancing queues about 50 metres long. 

Lots of girls walking about in tight leggings

Most people wearing masks and seem to be observing the distance rules. 

Beautiful sunny day in London and the air feels fresh. 

 

[fatbhoytim]

33 minutes ago, Nightcrawler said:

Masks are for one way traffic mainly

Surely it would stand to reason that if a virus can enter, then it would also be able to exit -- therefore rendering masks useless ?? More bullshit from the so called government health "advisors"

[Nightcrawler]

Just now, fatbhoytim said:

Surely it would stand to reason that if a virus can enter, then it would also be able to exit -- therefore rendering masks useless ?? More bullshit from the so called government health "advisors"

I could easily be wrong. However as, I mentioned, if you were to cough or sneeze wearing a mask, then the projectile of saliva would be muted by the mask. That's the idea anyway

[thegrogmonster]

Things are very slowly returning to normal.

I live across the road from a railway station and this is how I have been gauging things, in normal times the car park is full and all the surrounding streets have cars parked everywhere. At the peak of the virus the car park was about 5% full and the streets empty. At the moment the carpark would be a third full with the surrounding streets still empty. Every day a few more commuters are returning back to work.

[fatbhoytim]

1 minute ago, Nightcrawler said:

I could easily be wrong. However as, I mentioned, if you were to cough or sneeze wearing a mask, then the projectile of saliva would be muted by the mask. That's the idea anyway

I tend to think that unless you are using medical grade masks/PPE , then in reality apart from the  minimal protection they provide it is, as you said, only a placebo effect.

[Nightcrawler]

8 minutes ago, fatbhoytim said:

I tend to think that unless you are using medical grade masks/PPE , then in reality apart from the  minimal protection they provide it is, as you said, only a placebo effect.

Yeah I have a medical grade box of masks which I had before the outbreak. I look like a proper c*nt wearing them. 

[lazarus]

Science. Believe it or not...

Paper:  Universal Masking is Urgent in the COVID-19 Pandemic: SEIR and Agent Based Models, Empirical Validation, Policy Recommendations
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13553.pdf

 

Edited May 19, 2020 by lazarus

[Nickrock]

42 minutes ago, Nightcrawler said:

Yeah I have a medical grade box of masks which I had before the outbreak. I look like a proper c*nt wearing them. 

I could be so nasty and facetious but I'm not so I will say something like but it improves your looks lol

[Nightcrawler]

11 minutes ago, Nickrock said:

I could be so nasty and facetious but I'm not so I will say something like but it improves your looks lol

I was waiting for someone to say that I look a proper c"nt without it 😁😁😁😁

[boydeste]

1 hour ago, Nightcrawler said:

I could easily be wrong. However as, I mentioned, if you were to cough or sneeze wearing a mask, then the projectile of saliva would be muted by the mask. That's the idea anyway

That's exactly what happens, the mask helps to prevent you from spreading anything to others. If everyone wore a decent mask then the spread would be reduced for sure!

[Stillearly]

9 minutes ago, boydeste said:

That's exactly what happens, the mask helps to prevent you from spreading anything to others. If everyone wore a decent mask then the spread would be reduced for sure!

Unfortunately some people believe wearing masks infringes on their rights to be @rses  🙂 

[boydeste]

15 minutes ago, Stillearly said:

Unfortunately some people believe wearing masks infringes on their rights to be @rses  🙂 

Unfortunately some people are thick as shit and don't give a f**k about anyone else.

You can't make this thing c**t proof me thinks!

[Thai Spice]

2 hours ago, Nightcrawler said:

I could easily be wrong. However as, I mentioned, if you were to cough or sneeze wearing a mask, then the projectile of saliva would be muted by the mask. That's the idea anyway

I thought basic education and politeness has always been to  caugh or sneeze in a tissue, handkerchief or with your hand in front of your mouth ?

At least that what my parents teached me 60y ago, and I taught my kids.....

Hell, even if alone at home I use a tissue. 

 

[jcolorado]

2 hours ago, boydeste said:

Unfortunately some people are thick as shit and don't give a f**k about anyone else.

You can't make this thing c**t proof me thinks!

What was it you told me back in the day? People are ignorant?

 

[dcfc2007]

5 hours ago, thegrogmonster said:

Things are very slowly returning to normal.

I live across the road from a railway station and this is how I have been gauging things, in normal times the car park is full and all the surrounding streets have cars parked everywhere. At the peak of the virus the car park was about 5% full and the streets empty. At the moment the carpark would be a third full with the surrounding streets still empty. Every day a few more commuters are returning back to work.

Same in my part of the world. Still a long way off normal, but starting to get there.

[lazarus]

Las Vegas is OPEN..! But...there is a 'catch'... 😞

DEALS:  https://www.vegashotelspecial.com/index.php/category/holidays/memorial-day/

. . .

Crazy cheap rooms available for Memorial Day in Vegas, still no casino reopening date

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/slideshow/Las-Vegas-reopen-and-hotels-are-cheap-202486.php

 

Edited May 20, 2020 by lazarus
Vegas, baby,

[fforest]

5 hours ago, Stillearly said:

Unfortunately some people believe wearing masks infringes on their rights to be @rses  🙂 

 

I dont get why the mask wearers cant just be satisfied that they are wearing a mask, since they believe the masks gives them protection from Covid, and just let the non mask wearers be??

The mask wearers should be rejoicing that the human population is being culled of all the stupid dangerous neanderthal non mask wearers right??

Funny how the non mask wearers never seem to attack the mask wearers and try and force them not to wear a mask...........unlike the mask wearers..... 

 

Edited May 20, 2020 by fforest

[Jambo]

12 hours ago, lazarus said:

COVID-19 kills the market for new cars in the US.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-19/photos-stadiums-and-lots-overflow-with-cars-as-coronavirus-takes-an-economic-toll

Thousands of new cars sit in storage at Toyota Logistics Services yard at the Port of Long Beach.

That photo reminds me of all the new parked Honda's that got written off  in 2012 (?) when we had all the flooding right up to Suvarnabhumi Airport.