We are pretty small, and used to have maybe 20 cases after quarantine, even less sometimes. It keeps rising rapidly after we opened up for summer, it doesn’t seem good.
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This is interesting:
This topic came up repeatedly between me and my husband. We talked about our assumptions regarding the risk of infection in public transport, but never came to any solid conclusions, because there’s just so much that we can’t know for sure. I mean, except that of course everyone should wear a mask in the bus/subway/tram/whatever else. That should be a no-brainer by now. But still, I see people who have their nose hang out or who take their mask off to talk on the phone… 
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Could you tell my government, please?
Actually that’s a bit unfair, masks are mandatory in public transport. But that’s the only thing where they’re mandatory, or even advised, over here… 
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We also had 121 new cases yesterday. Why is it so hard for people to wear masks, wash their hands and not pile on another like herds of sheep?
Don’t toddlers learn easily enough to wear recommended clothing,basic hygiene and not cling to everyone?
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They don’t. Some until very late age.
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OK, then I can categorize those adults as “late age toddlers”, because worthy of the “adult” tag they are not.
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everyone wears mask in Japan, but
62 percent of people in the nation who developed cold-like symptoms went to work despite a request by the government for them not to do so, a recent survey has found.
17 percent said they either stayed home or only went out to go to the hospital.
Of the 82 who showed cold-like symptoms, 71 percent said they had gone out to buy groceries and 21 percent dined out, while 6 percent said they went out for recreation and another 6 percent attended events.
Respondents were able to choose multiple answers. It is unknown whether any of them were infected with the novel coronavirus.
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All around the world, people and countries have made mistakes in how they handled this pandemic. However, I think America completely trumps the rest, in terms of how stupidly we’ve acted during this crisis.
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One very interesting response I saw in one of the “masks take away our liberty and speech” posts that happen here as well was someone pointing out “as if you lot were speaking to one another before the pandemic anyway. Everyone was focusing their eyes to their phones and social media”. What was actually said cannot really be translated (and that is for the best 
), but that comes close and I think that it really is a fair point on that matter.
Maybe a lot of people want to fight for the freedom to ignore others and not talk to them? 
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America completely trumps the rest
Well what did you expect from a president, whose main campaign slogan was: America first.
(Or am I now too cynical?)
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New infections are rising pretty much across Europe. And I hear lots of politicians saying that another lockdown is entirely out of the question. While I indeed would very much welcome if new lockdowns can be avoided, I’d still somewhat prefer if they discussed a bit more about what measures can and will be taken.
To me it seems many people (including some being in power) act as if it’s over, some even while saying we shouldn’t believe it’s over.
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This is very sad. Heartbreaking…
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Anyone trusts this vaccine to be safe?
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/08/11/putin-announces-worlds-first-coronavirus-vaccine-a71112
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Well, there was enough time to test for safeness, so I’d say the chances for that are good. Efficiency is a different matter though, not nearly enough time to test for that, unless people have been infected on purpose for a trial. (Something that has been discussed, but I have no indication that this happened here.)
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I don’t know. It could be safe and efficient, or it could be a “race to be the first, throw tests out of the window”. But this could be any country.
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I do not know anything about vaccines, but I’ve had this marketing strategy for years and it has spared me a lot of trouble: “Never buy something that is totally brand new as a product and always wait a while for it to be tested”
In that regard, for example, I got windows XP when they were finally on their Service Pack 3, instead of facing all the problems that lead to all those service packs. Same thing applies to electric cars, new hardware, new software, new Steam releases and new medicines.
It is unfortunate that in a lot of industries they are skipping the “beta tessing” part and they let the initial consumers do that all-important quality control test. So, since that is the “industry standard” nowadays, I think that it is reasonable for us to think that just because next things are out in the market, that doesn’t mean that they work correct from day one or that we should go get them immediately. 
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From the article:
Experts, including an industry body representing multinationals that conduct clinical trials in Russia, have called the vaccine’s swift registration without completing Phase III trials a “Pandora’s box.”
The World Health Organization last week urged Russia to follow established guidelines and go “through all the stages” necessary to develop a safe vaccine.
Is that a commonly used word? It sounds so Orwellian. I have not heard people use “voluntold” in English.
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In French volontaire already includes “taire”
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