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What are you going to be doing during the lockdown?

  • At home. I’m non essential

    Votes: 70 41.2%

  • Working. The virus doesn’t scare me

    Votes: 41 24.1%

  • On standby

    Votes: 10 5.9%

  • Working from home. Too essential to take any risk!

    Votes: 66 38.8%
  • Total voters
    170
  • Poll closed .
So how is this curve thing going now, have we hit peak ?

What is the infection rate per 100 000 ?

What is the death rate per 100 000 ?
 
Stranger said:
So how is this curve thing going now, have we hit peak ?

What is the infection rate per 100 000 ?

What is the death rate per 100 000 ?
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although the amount of daily reported cases are down, the amount of daily tests are also down, so it's not necessarily a decline in infections as much as a decline in testing.
 
Dela Rey Steyn said:
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although the amount of daily reported cases are down, the amount of daily tests are also down, so it's not necessarily a decline in infections as much as a decline in testing.
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Deaths are way down too, and on the downside surely this is the figure that's most reflective of the situation? Unless EVERYONE is tested, I'm not sure that the test figures are entirely useful, except as a percentage - and if the tests are taken in outbreak areas only, even this will be massively inflated.
 
DavyH said:
Deaths are way down too, and on the downside surely this is the figure that's most reflective of the situation? Unless EVERYONE is tested, I'm not sure that the test figures are entirely useful, except as a percentage - and if the tests are taken in outbreak areas only, even this will be massively inflated.
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The problem with statistics are that 173% of them are unreliable.

Even in the best of times, stats should and can only serve as a guideline.
 
DavyH said:
Deaths are way down too, and on the downside surely this is the figure that's most reflective of the situation? Unless EVERYONE is tested, I'm not sure that the test figures are entirely useful, except as a percentage - and if the tests are taken in outbreak areas only, even this will be massively inflated.
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They are (a bit too late) going to be testing "natural" deaths too now, we have a massive amount of excess natural deaths.
 
I just realized August does not feel like August without Vapecon....

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Friends told me yesterday that FB said that bottlestores are closing again , went to get rolls for the boerie braai tonight and outside Tops were guys with crates of beer and booze trying to get a refund ... that's why I don't have FB or Whats app :D:D:D
 
I doubt that they'll bring the ban back again, but they are certainly talking of changing alcohol laws i.e. zero % alcohol for drivers. They've been talking about that for a while already though - even before COVID. Quite honestly I'm all for it. There are far too many drunk drivers on the roads.
 
ARYANTO said:
Friends told me yesterday that FB said that bottlestores are closing again , went to get rolls for the boerie braai tonight and outside Tops were guys with crates of beer and booze trying to get a refund ... that's why I don't have FB or Whats app :D:D:D
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I was at Pick n Pay, shipping everybody's parcels of what they bought from me. When I heard the following:

Customer to supervisor - "do you accept RCS cards?"
Supervisor - "yes we do".
Customer - "do you have to phone RCS for authorisation?"
Supervisor - "No we don't phone for authorisation"
Customer - "Can I use my RCS card also by the Liquor store?"
Supervisor - "Yes you can"

Customer to her child - " kom ons gaan koop drank (let's go buy booze)"

Got home and read in the news that the information being spread around on WhatsApp and Facebook that Goverment is going to ban Alcohol again is a hoax. I just started laughing. The Customer at Pick 'n Pay was most probably buying with the idea she's going to make a killing during the so called ban.

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Our Spar no longer checks customers' temperatures before they enter the store. I must say I felt a bit safer when they did. At least I knew that no-one with a temperature was in the store. However, one could still have COVID without having a temperature.
 
Hooked said:
Our Spar no longer checks customers' temperatures before they enter the store. I must say I felt a bit safer when they did. At least I knew that no-one with a temperature was in the store. However, one could still have COVID without having a temperature.
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I don’t think it served any purpose at all @Hooked , I’m running at anything between 28 to 34.7 deg, at some of those temps I should not be around any more. The problem is that most places just bought any no touch thermometer, and some of them are seriously dodgy quality.

Funny enough, my Matrix store has as serious expensive one, and there I’m alive at least. He spent the extra money, nearly 3 times what the other places did, some laughed at him, but I do think that he is the only one able to get a temperature even remotely near what it actually is. For info, with my previous glasses, titanium frames, I was always over or no reading, take them of 29 deg, good to go.
 
Hooked said:
Our Spar no longer checks customers' temperatures before they enter the store. I must say I felt a bit safer when they did. At least I knew that no-one with a temperature was in the store. However, one could still have COVID without having a temperature.
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when we went a few days ago to the Killarney golf course for little Silver to run around a bit, they checked our temps but not of the little one. There were three of us that were checked: me , wife and my mom.

All three of us were exactly 36.2

What are the odds of that :D

but I do agree it’s nice to know they are checking and sanitizing
 
I find it very amusing that they measure my 3 year girl's temp and then show her the screen. As if she knows what it means.
 
Hooked said:
I doubt that they'll bring the ban back again, but they are certainly talking of changing alcohol laws i.e. zero % alcohol for drivers. They've been talking about that for a while already though - even before COVID. Quite honestly I'm all for it. There are far too many drunk drivers on the roads.
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The problem with a 0% alcohol law...

Diabetes, certain foods, heart conditions and low carb diets may all give a false positive.
Cinnamon rolls
Protein bars
Ripe or fermented fruit
Bread
Macadamia nuts
Dishes that incorporate alcoholic beverages
Hot sauces
Sugar-free gums

https://www.natureworldnews.com/art...tions-trigger-false-positive-breathalyzer.htm

Liquid medications.
Non-alcoholic beer and wine, which contain trace amounts of alcohol.
Breath strips, which have a small amount of alcohol like mouthwash.
Aftershave, hairspray, mousse, and some body washes.
Astringents for skin care.
Bug sprays.
Nail polish remover.

https://post.health.ufl.edu/2011/07/19/a-positive-test-without-drinking/

https://www.alcohol.org/alcoholism/household-products-abuse/

And of course our 70% hand sanitiser.
 
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