Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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Yes and almost certainly.

Glad to see you back, Magz.

That's what happened in Israel and things are completely out of control now with more people infected than ever before. It's a Catch 22 when the kids are at home people can't work, when they go to school Corona spreads like wildfire. We opened bars restaurants and schools, now things are being closed again. Young people believe that they will not be seriously affected and are ignoring social distancing.

The Internet is always a great source for knowledge....but, sometimes, I can use a vacation from social media-type interactions.

I certainly hope deaths don’t exponentially increase in areas like Texas, California, Florida.

Israel was doing really well but now there's the second wave, greater than the previous one... https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... ry/israel/

We ended the term with remote schooling supplemented by hygienically paranoid partially open kintergartens and schools for kids under 10 whose parents needed it. I wonder what September will look like.

I hope things will go well in Poland . Things are complete chaos in my country now.

Not bad here. Most businesses work with various additional hygiene requirements - you have to wear a mask indoors in public space like stores, hand sanitisers are everywhere and you are required to use them when entering places like supermarkets or dentists but otherwise life is largely normal. Keeping constant rate of about 300 new cases and about 10 deaths daily for months now, which is entirely manageable in a 37.8 million country.
Schools are a big unknown, currently we're enjoying summer vacations but on September the epidemics won't be over, we need to develop some long-term solutions there.

We had 1,300 new cases today in a country of 7 million. In May it was down to 15 confirmed cases per day. Then we opened schools and malls, bars and restaurants all at once.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday ordered a halt to indoor activities at certain businesses statewide as cases of coronavirus surge in the country’s most populous state.

Newsom, a Democrat, announced during a press briefing that all bars across the state must close up shop and that restaurants, wineries, tasting rooms, family entertainment centers, zoos, museums and card rooms must suspend indoor activities.

The governor also announced that all gyms, places of worship, malls, personal care services, barbershops, salons, and non-critical offices in counties on the state’s “monitoring list” had to shut down under the new order. The order affects more than 30 counties which are home to about 80 percent of California’s population.

"We've made this point on multiple occasions and that is, we're moving back into a modification mode of our original stay-at-home order," Newsom said during his press briefing. "This continues to be a deadly disease.”

As of Monday, the state had reported more than 320,000 COVID-19 cases and more than 7,000 deaths, with 23 people dying from the virus since Sunday. Los Angeles County – the country’s most populous county – leads both the state and the country in number of confirmed COVID-19 cases with more than 133,000, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

In March, California became the first state to impose a mandatory stay-at-home order to slow the spread of the virus. Public health officials praised the state's quick action, marveling at how the nation's most populous state kept its cases and hospitalizations low while states like New York and New Jersey struggled to contain the highly contagious disease.

By late April, Newsom -- under increasing pressure – began allowing businesses and activities to resume, citing the state's increased hospital capacity to handle a new surge of cases. Cases began rising in early June and have exploded since, increasing 48 percent in the past two weeks, while hospitalizations have increased 40 percent.
Arizona seeing surge in coronavirus cases

Newsom’s announcement comes just hours after the state’s two largest school districts, Los Angeles and San Diego, announced they will not reopen for in-person instruction when the 2020-21 academic year begins next month. The districts said they will plan for in-person learning as health conditions allow.

Also on Monday, the World Health Organization warns that the pandemic is worsening globally and things won’t return to “the old normal” for some time.

I think the "all at once" part was the problem. People could easily interpret it as a signal that the epidemics was over - it wasn't. Gradual reopening with restrictions probably wouldn't have had this psychological effect, at least not so strong.

I hope you're staying safe!

Yes magz, I don't trust the government so I am quarantining myself and only meeting friends and family outside with masks . The day before yesterday there were 1,300 new cases, yesterday it rose to 1,800. (7 million national poulation) We are running out of medication. The economy is crashing. I believe that a new better world will emerge post Corona, a more altruistic less egoistic world. We shall see The present world situation is nothing to be proud of.