Every day is a living hell for me RayRay, the kids argue over EVERYTHING.
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Every day is a living hell for me RayRay, the kids argue over EVERYTHING.
whiteshadow
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Sorry, I did not make myself clear.
In an uncontrolled environment when no-one knows about the it agree that how a virus spread means that high population places would be hit harder and indeed I expected that to play out throughout the outbreak myself
But once a country knows about it that doesn’t necessarily mean the same still applies and that was what the World Bank was exploring. In theory it might still be the same - after all even with social distancing you’d probably see more people going out to a grocery store in an urban area than a rural one. But it might be that there was better testing rates available in a rich, high density area compared to a lower density one that enabled earlier quarantine. Or better compliance with lockdown because of being able to work from home with better internet access or getting deliveries of food or other factors like mask wearing or even obeying lockdown orders.
San Francisco for instance is up there as one of the most dense population cities US.
Yet despite being very close ties Santa Clara where the first US deaths were and an outbreak likely spread for quite a while undetected it has a very low number of deaths - 25 in a city of over 800,000
List of United States cities by population density - Wikipedia
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In comparison Boston has less population, spread out over a bigger area and yet a significantly worse death toll of 340
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Everyone ages 6 months and older should stay up to date on COVID-19 vaccines, which provide the best protection against infection, severe illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19. It is strongly recommended for children between 6 and 23 months, adults 65 and older, healthcare workers...www.boston.gov
There are undoubtably many different variables - SF put in lockdown about a week before Boston, weather, how recording deaths, % of vulnerable people may be different factors that are at play.
But overall there so far seems to be pretty weak correlation between population density and outbreak which I find intriguing and which is why I was interested in the China data that seemed to further raise questions if populatiom density was a significant factor.
I agree with you on following the data, maybe there is something behind the theory but I just can't trust Chinese data.
Will be interesting to see when we get more data from other countries.
Exactly that Pete, political boundaries are irrelevant now when it comes to managing a way out of this.
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Welcome back Wayne
Just like being on here then.....
roydo
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I am truly blessed in this lock down mate. Which is hugely ironic.
The most stressed I got today, (other than the CV thread), was making sure I got my parents some vinegar and a breakfast cereal I never knew existed until this morning.
They don't take questions from journalists, they take them from reporters. There's a big difference between the two.
roydo
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Pretty sure newspaper writers would consider themselves as journos. They have made a conscious decision to have more and more regional newspaper journos having questions.
Cookmysock
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second that.5 girls here aged 7,9,10,13,18 all will be okay then it only takes 1 to spit her dummy over something and it has a knock on effect where they all end up bickering and shouting. muuummm tell her or. she said this she said that.my wife has patience of a saint takes it in her stride and deals with it she should be a un peacekeeper. my brain feels like a small bomb has gone off in there at times and she just goes on wit whatever she was doing.
Man alive - How many bathrooms have you got?!
roydo
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There is not an emoji that can express that ffs!
They probably are then!
Cookmysock
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3 bathrooms 5 bedrooms its normally not too bad during normal times . but just small things are magnified at times all stuck in during this lockdown. home schooling trying to keep them active keep their brains active.stop their mouths becoming active is the hard bit at the minute i'm seriously thinking about buying a camper van or building a soundproofed she'd .my son 21 works for network rail and is working in wales until later in the year so only home from work on a Saturday morning and stays until Monday morning brings his washing and some much needed male company.
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