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| langwadt:
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 21, 2020, 12:10:29 am --- --- Quote from: langwadt on April 21, 2020, 12:00:25 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on April 20, 2020, 11:25:06 pm ---Australian schools will be back on a staggered roster, one day a week, different grades on different days. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-21/coronavirus-return-to-nsw-school-plan-revealed/12166526 --- End quote --- here today all the kids up to fifth grade started back in school etc. like normal. Some types of stores that had been forced to close were also allowed to open again, so you can now again get a haircut, a tattoo, a massage, a beauty treatment, among other things. Maybe it is just me but neither of those things seem very critical or easy to do while keeping a distance --- End quote --- The other day I had a talk with someone who does dental work. They remoddeled the waiting room (take chairs out), increased the amount of ventilation and manage the patients more strictly (no people coming along). Since the work they are doing already involves taking measures against spreading viral infections like hepatitis, HIV, etc the only thing they added as an extra protection is a full face mask. --- End quote --- things like hepatitis, HIV spread in a very different way |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 21, 2020, 12:02:57 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on April 20, 2020, 11:25:06 pm ---Australian schools will be back on a staggered roster, one day a week, different grades on different days. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-21/coronavirus-return-to-nsw-school-plan-revealed/12166526 --- End quote --- One day a week... sounds weird. --- End quote --- I guess the idea is to spread the kids out around the school and also at the congested pick up and drop off point. e.g. Likely something like Years 1/6/7, 2/8, 3/9, 4/10, 5/11/12 or some such mix, or whatever mix works for each school. They are leaving it up the school to implement. But legally I don't think there is anything stopping any school from opening up fully, especially private ones. Technically the schools have not been closed here, they have just advised parents who can keep their kids at home to do so. But ultimately it comes down to the political optics of trying to appease as many groups of people as possible. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 20, 2020, 11:36:09 pm --- --- Quote ---You specifically said "Japan are apparently experiencing a second wave after relaxing lock down." That doesn't appear to be backed up by the data, if anything, daily cases are down. --- End quote --- For the umpteenth time: number of cases means sh*t because they rely on testing. Testing is erratic at best due to material shortage and test protocols. Based on anti-bodies in donated blood about 3% of the people over 18 in the NL has been infected with Covid19 which in absolute numbers come down to 500k people. The offical number of cases showed somewhere around 20k at the time the 'sample' was taken. --- End quote --- Do you have evidence that Japan has slowed down testing? The data says they have not: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1100135/japan-number-of-conducted-coronavirus-examinations-by-type-of-patients/ Therefore, with testing rates not dropping and with daily cases also dropping, there seems to be zero evidence that "Japan are apparently experiencing a second wave after relaxing lock down." |
| maginnovision:
Here a reporter asked our president about liability issues pertaining to businesses re-opening in our latest covid briefing. I hope this doesn't go a place that matters. Opening 1 day a week is so odd though. Is it basically going to be come in review your work and pick up more work for the week? Can't that be done remotely? |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 21, 2020, 12:45:38 am ---Therefore, with testing rates not dropping and with daily cases also dropping, there seems to be zero evidence that "Japan are apparently experiencing a second wave after relaxing lock down." --- End quote --- Here is Australia's current new cases vs testing. IMO this is the best and most useful way to determine what's actually happening and to base decisions on. And this is why Australia is now starting to open things back up (beaches now open again to "exercisers" for example, plus the new decision today on schools). When you have declining (esp from the peak) of daily cases, even if remains steady at under 50 cases per day, they were forced to act on partial re-openings. |
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