How is your country faring with Corona?

[onesteptwostep]

Not to flex or anything, but South Korea is, well, as most people know from the news, doing quite well.

No extreme lockdown of any sort, and we've been able to minimize our deaths to around only 450~, with currently 26,000 cases confirmed. Around 24,000 recovered, so only around 2,000 have the virus in the country as of this moment: http://www.koreaherald.com/coronavirus/index.php#btnTexta

My heart goes out to the US and various places in Europe.. I really hope things turn around, and that the vaccine would come out soon (though experts say realistically it would take years o_o).

 

[Cognisant]

Australia
Total Cases: 27569
Total Deaths: 907

Queensland
Cases: 1169
Deaths: 6

New South Wales
Cases: 4411
Deaths: 53

Victoria
Cases: 20344
Deaths: 819

Up here in Queensland we are very reluctant to open our southern border, I think the Tasmanians have essentially declared their independence and the relative lack of cases in South Australia is due to the fact that it’s an awful place and nobody goes there. Perth is so far away that Western Australia may as well be another country, indeed it doesn’t even have a name it’s just the west side of Australia, how desolate does a place need to be that they don’t even bother giving it a name?

Nobody died of COVID in the Northern Territory, the 37 people who were confirmed to have been infected were all eaten by crocodiles.

 

[sushi]

shit

cases keep coming back and rising after periods of downturn.

 

[onesteptwostep]

@Cognisant

Did Aussieland do a lockdown or is it not that serious? Seems like Victoria was hit the hardest, that's the province where the capital is right? I dunno much about Australia's geography.

@sushi

Where are you from sushi? You had Hong Kong, but now your flag is India.

 

[Cognisant]

Australia's capital is in the Australian Capital Territory, a cancerous little mole on the hideous face of New South Wales, fun fact marijuana is illegal pretty much everywhere in Australia (there's a few hippie towns in the ranges where the police just gave up) except the ACT because of course it's one rule for the politicians in their own private little state and another significantly larger set of rules for everyone else.

The lockdowns were most severe in VIC and NSW, in QLD it only lasted a few weeks but a lot of people continue to work from home which is really hurting small businesses, the specifics are complicated because there's a lot of exceptions and it really depends on where you are, in QLD wearing masks was never mandatory for example.

I'm curious to hear about India, it seems it was really bad there.

 

[onesteptwostep]

Ah, so it's more or less the same as Korea then. That's good to hear. I figure you live in QLD; Queensland then?

 

[TheScornedReflex]

NZ had faired bloody well.

 

[onesteptwostep]

Yeah, PM Ardern, huuuge props to her on locking down on her country before the pandemic started. Her huge win is super well deserved.

 

[TheScornedReflex]

Yeah, PM Ardern, huuuge props to her on locking down on her country before the pandemic started. Her huge win is super well deserved.

She's had the craziest run of any PM in our short history. Our first mass shooting that happened just up the road from where I lived and then the pandemic, both of which I think she handled bloody well.

As much as I like nationals views on helping small businesses she got my vote. /derail

 

[Deleted member 1424]

We're probably gonna break the 100,000 infections a day milestone soon, if not in a few days, then definitely in the spike post election.

So y'know... Not well.
Very bad actually. Entirely expected of course, but still bad.

 

[onesteptwostep]

Lol, to me, (I'm Korean and live in Seoul) "still bad" doesn't really cut it. We only have around 90 infections per day, and only 460~ had died so far from February.

What the fuck is the US doing? Like.. I just have no words...

..

 

[Deleted member 1424]

Believe me. I understand too well. Anyone with a realistic understanding of the US knew what what a shit show it would be as it was breaking in China. You numb to it after awhile.

 

[onesteptwostep]

Yeah.

Condolences. ;_;

 

[Rook]

Don't follow the news.
Just more laws that make things harder.
Bubonic plague was a chad plague, this?
Agh, uh, stats are: 725,452 cases - recov 654,182
deaths 19,276

and hundreds of thousands of jobs fucked cos of .gov action. 20 00 folk out of 50 million die, so let's fuck up the economy and make the poor even poorer, why not.
gotta love the herd, and gotta love its shepherds.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Our populist government which probably won due to election fraud doesn't care about covid, they spend most of the time purging the opposition, enacting medieval laws (like the recent ban on abortion which caused country wide protests) and encouraging one half of the population (the uneducated rural mob, religious fanatics, nationalists and hooligans) to fight the other half (the educated urban folk).

In the last 5 years our legislation and institutions were dismantled and brought down to a level they were at 20 years ago and it's getting worse. It's becoming more and more medieval around here. As a result of the destructive internal conflict created by our government no policies and no effort was made to stop the second wave of covid. They actually removed the salary bonus system and are refusing to pay the due wages to medics who in some cases decide to quit their jobs as they have no support and lots of stress. Their idea is to fight the labor organizations and medics at a time when they can't organize protests as they are too busy and ethically committed to dealing with the problem.

We're exceeding 20k new cases daily. This figure is not representative of a true number of cases because our greedy government doesn't care to support more than 50k tests every day. So in many cases people with covid have to wait up to a week to be tested when they usually either get better or much worse. At this point we're running out of intensive care beds and the healthcare system is stretched too thin. The biggest problem isn't the lack of equipment, but the lack of personnel to service the equipment.

 

[Puffy]

UK gov is reacting quite harshly to covid-19. We're entering a second national lockdown this week for at least a month. There's a lot of evidence of economic damage in the cities wherever you go.

I'm curious if corona conspiracy style thinking is less common in other countries that are faring better? It's common for people in the UK to feel that the government has over-reacted, and this mistrust has bred a lot of different conspiratorial perspectives around what kind of agendas are at play.

A shame Sinny is banned from this forum right now, I'm sure she's had one hell of a year.

 

[sushi]

We're probably gonna break the 100,000 infections a day milestone soon, if not in a few days, then definitely in the spike post election.

So y'know... Not well.
Very bad actually. Entirely expected of course, but still bad.

wear masks, dont go out, develop more effective ways to diagnose those who are infected.

@onesteptwostep, i am somewhere in asia.

 

[greysolive]

I wear mask every time I go out too. I just hope we will get rid of this virus next year.

 

[Deleted member 1424]

Oooooh, we blew past 100k and hit 120k. Barely anyone has noticed of course.

 

[crippli]

As expected. Not well. But 'everyone' said it would be a cold winter. So I hope people are prepred. Good luck.

 

[BurnedOut]

Haha. Thanks for asking. That was a sucker punch

 

[Grayman]

Is corono still going around these days?

 

[Daddy]

Yes and No - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/15/china-covid-cases-causing-higher-shipping-costs-delayed-goods.html

There's probably going to still be production shortages, until at least the end of the year. So in a way it's still going on, even if it's not.