Write some prose?
What do you do when you find yourself imprisoned in your room for 6 weeks? Xavier de Maistre, a 27-year-old Frenchman found himself in this uneasy situation when he was arrested in Turin after a duel, in the Spring of 1790. But with only a butler and a dog for company, Xavier de Maistre managed to fill his time by embarking on a journey around his bedroom, later writing an account of what he had seen.
Well, Iām not this far gone just yet 
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Seriously, this volume escaped meā¦this happened??
Yes, in 1794 in Turin. After being informed that his house arrest has been cancelled, de Maistre initially refused to leave the bedroom ābecause he hasnāt yet seen everythingā
So perhaps the going insane part is not optional.
Continued discussion from the flame free thread.
China cannot possibility have reached herd immunity. Maybe in Wuhan(the place of origin), but not anywhere else. You probably know Iām always skeptical about anything pertaining to the CCP so I wouldnāt be posting this if I werenāt at least pretty sure I know what Iām saying.
The initial lockdowns were very strict, with deployment of the military, high tech surveillance, constant movement monitoring with app tech supplied by, and jointly coordinated with tech giants like Alibaba, plus mass testing.
You can get a COVID test easily at any hospital for less than 10USD in China right now. My wife just got 2 there. Anyone who enters China from abroad is quarantined in a dedicated facility for 2 weeks and tested.
Friends on the ground in 3 different provinces have told me the same thing.
They stopped renewing passports to prevent people from leaving the country in my wifeās city a couple of months ago, presumably to prevent people from travelling and bringing the virus back home. I donāt know whether itās the same in other places.
4 major provinces have been put on the āsafeā list on the immigration side where I live. Guangdong(113million pop), Zhejiang(58million pop) and 2 others I canāt remember but theyāre pretty big. No other country in the world is on that list.
Lord preserve us from Scousers.
Also, culturally speaking, a large proportion of Chinese ppl fear death and are willing to put up with both authoritarianism and hardship.
Idk about anywhere else, but my contacts in Shanghai reported that a large proportion of they city put on a self imposed lockdown that lasted 2-3 weeks AFTER the government gave the okay to open up
WeChat has been critical for extensive contact tracing (help when 90+% of the population rely on the same app for pretty much everything).
In Shanghai, if your COVID score is yellow or red (in a potential COVID region or in contact w/ other potential covid person) businesses wonāt let you in.
As compared to Liverpudlians, for whom death would be a mercy.
Neither did Sweden. For example, currently theyāre registering two times as many new infected cases per million than Italy.
But that doesnāt stop the baseless alt-right mantra how a bureaucratic left wing government allegedly became a beacon of freedom and defeated Covid.
You want freedom? Hereās your freedom (not you per se, but you know what Iām talking about)
A ānear-capacityā crowd of some 47,000 is expected to pack into Aucklandās Eden Park for the second Bledisloe Cup international between New Zealand and Australia on Sunday.
But thereās a massive industry for peddling comforting lies to people. Self-deception is an easy way out when dealing with a systemic shock thatās a pandemic.
Plus most of my friends and relatives stay with, or within close proximity with their parents and/or grandparents. Even if theyāre not afraid of catching the virus, theyād not want to risk spreading it to the elderly.
Itās a tian da lei pi sin lol.
(Confucius say:
If you get your parents wuhaned, lightning will strike you.)
Canāt access the first link.
EDIT:
Nevermind, found it on the main page.
Likewise. But apparently according to Swedenās chief epidemiologist multi-generational socializing is a problem that needs to be āsolvedā by the state.
Beacon of freedom indeed.
Why are you quarantining?
I believe 99% of the people who use the term herd immunity have no clue what it means. Herd immunity does not happen in a matter of months, if it happens at all, without a vaccine.
Who actually expected it to happen in a few months though? The problem is that the lockdowns and restrictions are having disastrous consequences around the world, so the longer we let this drag on the worse it will be. It doesnāt look like a safe and effective vaccine is coming anytime soon either, so trying to slow the spread might only delay deaths from COVID and not prevent them at all. Also, there are no vaccines in existence for any other coronavirus because immunity is supposedly short-lived, the fact is that we could be dealing with this for the foreseeable future.
The virus is bad enough, all the added bullshit is making this worse than necessary. As long as hospitals arenāt overwhelmed there is no reason to freak out.
Because I was in extensive contact with someone who tested positive
Prayers that you stay in good health
Seconded.
Thank you kindly gents, sincerely. Iāve also got @loppar and his in-laws in mind. So far persistent dizziness is all I have, but I anticipate other symptoms starting to show up in the next 3 days or so based on my athleteās symptoms.
\let steam off
Right now Iām more than a little salty about how close I came to infecting my father - who has had stroke and although fully recovered is in no condition to to fight this thing with meds, etc. - and my first weekās client, who is 80 with CHF. If I hadnāt been notified Sunday, Iād have possibly killed someone.
The person who infected me was the kickboxing coach for one of my athletes, and subject to mandatory testing prior to fight night. Except he didnāt take it, and lied to me about it and the results. My athlete, his wife, his kids are all infected along with the other corner man, who ended up cornering a fight the next night as well. The athlete DID test, and was negative, but caught it during the weight cut in the next 24 hours (day before fight). Of course he didnāt know it and ended up fighting both his opponent and the fatigue.
The rest of us are all bored and salty. And I imagine the same for the 100 or so people my other corner man had to notify. Fortunately still no symptoms for him so unlikely he transmitted it.
I feel a bit better now lol
/letting steam off
Be positive. The vast majority of people have very mild symptoms if any.
Thanks Chris. I donāt want to sound annoyed at you (Iām not), but I do know that. I am not in fear for my life or well-being, but thank you for positive encouragement.
I am very upset at the way my infection happened. Particularly coming close to giving this thing to my father and potentially killing him, since I was thinking about spending a few days visiting, or my first client of the week and killing her. They are both particularly at risk.