Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It pays to be sensible, like taking a self enforced quarantine, which I have largely been on for the last week, except for a couple of trips to stock up on provisions. We hear that Chennai will be on lockdown till March 31st (the whole country was on lockdown from 7am to 9pm today, mainly, I would guess, as a dress rehearsal, and to sensitize people on the issues), which is fine with me, and I think this pandemic will have a healing effect on society by reducing the polarization caused by religion and politics, worldwide. These are actions we have to take to tackle the COVID 19 outbreak, and even that has its positives. That, however, does not mean we get terrified and panic, on the basis of research, which is just a modern system of prophesying. I know, pretty much, in all societies that those who can afford Leicas will largely go through unscathed, and those who cannot dream of owning one will pay the price. Unfortunately, and totally unfairly, that is the rule of survival of the fittest in this time and age. Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 6:37 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > I totally agree, Philippe. The volume of testing is key to understanding > the variance in the death to case ratio. However, no matter how many > people are tested, there are still a significant number of people who > won't bother getting it done for varying reasons - ignorance, > recklessness, being asymptomatic, etc. > > It is down to the vulnerable - old, etc. - to isolate and/or protect > themselves by assuming any contact with anyone else could be opening a > conduit to the infection. > > Douglas > > > On 22/03/2020 12:25, Philippe via LUG wrote: > > I have no idea Don. > > > > What I know is that I live near the German border, which is now closed. > Maybe social interaction is more limited in Germany? Or the tsunami has > simply not reached them, yet. Just guessing. > > The other reasonable explanation might also come from how the statistics > are produced. Germany performs more tests than France for instance. The > resulting ratio contaminated/dead is subsequently more accurate than here, > and also lower. Here, only those already (too?) far in the condition are > tested. The toll may consequently look higher in proportion. Just > conjectures I said as I don?t know the raw data for Germany. > > > > If you look at Italy and Spain, with a milder climate and a strong habit > of ? socializing ? on the streets, in the resaurants or the caf?s, the > casualties are more than three times ours at the time I?m writing. Which > doesn?t mean anyone is faring better. Time only will tell. > > > > Alsace where I live is dramatically affected after a convention by a > congregation of evangelists that spread the disease (also nationwide) a > couple of weeks ago. And it was snowball from there. > > > > I live in a tiny (600 inh.) remote village that, in theory, should have > been spared, had people been reasonably careful. Yet, we have villagers in > hospital right now. And some deaths are reported in the old people?s home > located on the outskirts of the village. How did they get it ??? > > > > Stay home ! > > > > Amities > > > > Philippe > > > > > > > >> Le 22 mars 2020 ? 12:54, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a > ?crit : > >> > >> More relevant would be comments from our European members as to the very > >> disparate mortality rates of Germany to France(~100 to ~400) Even > >> backtracking for population numbers France has a much higher mortality > rate > >> with a similar proficiency in medical capabilities. Both countries > should > >> have had similar initial exposure profiles and I assume reasonably > similar > >> internal movement/ external tourism but I would like to know more. > >> > >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 11:15 PM Brian Reid <reid at > >> mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/13/science.abb3221.full > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information