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"To ensure people under compulsory home quarantines do not stray from the confines of their apartments, the Hong Kong government has rolled out electronic tracker wristbands that alert authorities to rogue escapees."
Meet the contactless elevator button system which allows riders to “press” buttons on a virtual control board. Its electric sensor can detect hand movements and receive orders. The buttons came as part of the efforts to prevent cross-infection amid the #covid19 pandemic https://twitter.com/caixin/status/1241200021527097344
One of the changes that will probably come out of this pandemic is increase surveillance using facial and geofencing tech to keep the infected monitored. Your privacy no longer important. If you've been infected and cured, it will go into a national database. Then employers can check whether you've had it or not and may determine future employment chances if the vaccine isn't widely distributed.
I think China lied and Italy is showing us the true impact of this virus.
What Italy shows is that people aren't taking precautions seriously. I honestly have not seen anybody in Italy wearing face masks or concerned about the safety of others. You may have the virus and have no symptoms by not wearing any mask in public you are spreading the virus and killing people who have underlying conditions.
It's spreading like wildfire because people are ignoring quarantine and not wearing masks or doing things that prevent the spread.
Evidence over Hysteria - this article has extensive Corona Virus info including how likely an infection is based on latitude, air transmission, and exposure rate based from countries getting the virus ahead of the US.
Excerpts:
Dr. Paul Auwaerter, the Clinical Director for the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine echoes this finding,
“If you have a COVID-19 patient in your household, your risk of developing the infection is about 10%….If you were casually exposed to the virus in the workplace (e.g., you were not locked up in conference room for six hours with someone who was infected [like a hospital]), your chance of infection is about 0.5%".
Air-based transmission or untraceable community spread is very unlikely. According to WHO’s COVID-19 lead Maria Van Kerkhove, true community based spreading is very rare.
Don't become a messenger of fear until you read some facts. The above is from doctors of WHO, CDC, John Hopkins...
The data is telling.
I think Italy is what's freaking out everyone.
And I think what happened in Italy is, due to cultural norms, a bit of stubbornness, and ignorance of warnings before the shut down: they hit a fast peak of cases from something that'd been circulating weeks before their national quarantine. And people need to understand, there's. No. Way. They only have 50,000 infections. Their unknown infections are well into 6 or 7 figures.
If you look at their timetable, deaths should start to taper off soon. This thing can take a long time to kill. Remember, it hasn't been that long since they locked down.
That said, I hope it remains the world's worse case and we don't see worse.
Evidence over Hysteria - this article has extensive Corona Virus info including how likely an infection is based on latitude, air transmission, and exposure rate based from countries getting the virus ahead of the US.
Excerpts:
Dr. Paul Auwaerter, the Clinical Director for the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine echoes this finding,
“If you have a COVID-19 patient in your household, your risk of developing the infection is about 10%….If you were casually exposed to the virus in the workplace (e.g., you were not locked up in conference room for six hours with someone who was infected [like a hospital]), your chance of infection is about 0.5%".
Air-based transmission or untraceable community spread is very unlikely. According to WHO’s COVID-19 lead Maria Van Kerkhove, true community based spreading is very rare.
Don't become a messenger of fear until you read some facts. The above is from doctors of WHO, CDC, John Hopkins...
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Nothing justifies the hysteria, but nothing justifies assertions that others are being hysterical in their concerns without backing of data. There is a lot we do not know - and that includes the experts.
#232 link providing summary of research in China on airborne transmission is quite important. In recent days, WHO has strengthened the airborne transmission precautions (presumably in response to research/data available to it). I would rather see the research and data than its characterization by x and y.
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