Masks and the like
Oct. 9th, 2020 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owsf2000Since where I am we were put back into the Orange phase of the pandemic (household bubbles, various specific types of businesses (salons, etc) are closed, etc) I decided to go stock up on some groceries. During the original shutdown in the spring I made sure I had all the food I'd need for at least a 2 week sprint in the event I'd have to do self isolation myself. That never happened - I'm practically a hermit anyway so the opportunity for infection was insanely low.
When I was at the grocery store though today, and it was a little crowded - I hope they were actually trying to keep count of the people in the store to make sure it wasn't over the 170 maximum... Anyway, I did notice something different. Despite no signs that I saw requiring it, everybody I saw had a mask on. Myself included.
Typically at this particular grocery store - the closest one to me by far - the mask use would normally be closer to 50-60%. I'm guessing news of the current outbreak at the senior's home finally made the rounds as I don't think there was 100% mask compliance yesterday.
I stocked up on a few things, including supplies for making the various wraps I prefer, so I should be good for food until the middle of next week at the earliest. I'm more worried about making sure I get exercise now that I'm avoiding going to the stores again until we see things settle down again.
On the plus side after that initial spike of 17 cases we've only had another 1 or 2. 150+ are in self isolation though so while they may end up eventually testing positive over the next week we can hope that the community spread from them won't happen.
That's the beauty of living in a place that actually took the pandemic seriously from the get go and did the initial near 2 months of full shut down when it started. When we get these these sudden outbreaks we have the manpower and supplies to immediately contact trace and test everyone involved which can help END that outbreak before it really gets out of hand. Case in point, there's 19 active cases right now from the local outbreak (another part of the province started up as well which might end up getting worse.) and we might see a bunch of those in self isolation go positive as well. But contact tracing those isolated people should be trivial - ie: if they were self isolating properly there won't be much of anyone to check.
Granted I have less people reading this blog than I have fingers on one hand, but in the off chance of anyone going on "WTF? Your retarded government shut down the economy over less than 20 people?!" I'll pointedly remind that individual that these things always START small. They do not END small. That's the whole point of exponential growth. 1->2->4->8->16->32->64. And that's only assuming things double every 3 days. So yeah, I'd rather them shut it down temporarily to get it under control so we can (relatively quickly) get back to normal which can be as little as 2 weeks but realistically may take 3-4. We'll have to see how new positive cases go which might or might not be good for the other part of the province...
When I was at the grocery store though today, and it was a little crowded - I hope they were actually trying to keep count of the people in the store to make sure it wasn't over the 170 maximum... Anyway, I did notice something different. Despite no signs that I saw requiring it, everybody I saw had a mask on. Myself included.
Typically at this particular grocery store - the closest one to me by far - the mask use would normally be closer to 50-60%. I'm guessing news of the current outbreak at the senior's home finally made the rounds as I don't think there was 100% mask compliance yesterday.
I stocked up on a few things, including supplies for making the various wraps I prefer, so I should be good for food until the middle of next week at the earliest. I'm more worried about making sure I get exercise now that I'm avoiding going to the stores again until we see things settle down again.
On the plus side after that initial spike of 17 cases we've only had another 1 or 2. 150+ are in self isolation though so while they may end up eventually testing positive over the next week we can hope that the community spread from them won't happen.
That's the beauty of living in a place that actually took the pandemic seriously from the get go and did the initial near 2 months of full shut down when it started. When we get these these sudden outbreaks we have the manpower and supplies to immediately contact trace and test everyone involved which can help END that outbreak before it really gets out of hand. Case in point, there's 19 active cases right now from the local outbreak (another part of the province started up as well which might end up getting worse.) and we might see a bunch of those in self isolation go positive as well. But contact tracing those isolated people should be trivial - ie: if they were self isolating properly there won't be much of anyone to check.
Granted I have less people reading this blog than I have fingers on one hand, but in the off chance of anyone going on "WTF? Your retarded government shut down the economy over less than 20 people?!" I'll pointedly remind that individual that these things always START small. They do not END small. That's the whole point of exponential growth. 1->2->4->8->16->32->64. And that's only assuming things double every 3 days. So yeah, I'd rather them shut it down temporarily to get it under control so we can (relatively quickly) get back to normal which can be as little as 2 weeks but realistically may take 3-4. We'll have to see how new positive cases go which might or might not be good for the other part of the province...
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Date: 2020-10-10 03:06 pm (UTC)The very fact that they even need to have a term for it, "superspreader event," is just fucking asinine. Granted, that Wikipedia article above is more about the scientific use of the term, but that's what people are starting to call these dumbshit rallies and concerts and whatever the fuck, too, and it is definitely appropriate.
And we still have people to this day militantly refusing to wear masks, no matter what, including the God Emperor himself, even while the God Emperor himself is in the very midst of an infection. Far too many people are far too fucking stupid. Also ignorant, lazy, uncaring, basically sociopathic.