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It is good to see I'm not the only one trying to keep my home as a virus free clean zone. Hang in there Brain...Godspeed for you and your wife to make a full recovery. My wife and I had a nasty "cold" for a month from mid Feb to mid march.....no fever....no sore throat...minor cough so I don't think it was the virus.....but it made me very tired and did not feel like a normal cold. I will take a covid-19 antibody test once it is available to see if I had the virus. I'd really like to know if I had it with mild symptoms and now I am immune. I'm not into drugs o

I installed a bidet toilet seat today.....my wife is one happy camper now. Hope to tinker on my car or motorbike tomorrow. With the warmer weather my garage is finally usable. I've heard the lockdown might linger on for a few more months in my area. I'm enjoying the lack of traffic. Stay healthy everyone....avoid all human contact outside your household.

Drug addicts in Canada... It seems that the border to the US being closed to all but commercial traffic has seriously slowed down the flow of drugs (crystal Meth) into Canada. The Meth heads are all freaking out and violent crime has gone up. I'm guessing a skinny drug addict will not stand a chance if they get Covid-19 as a healthy immune system is critical to fight this virus. I'm guessing they will not survive this pandemic.

Let me just preface this by saying I do believe and fear this virus.....I believe it is the real deal. There is a co-worker of mine that believes every conspiracy theory and he says the virus is a hoax and the people in the hospitals simply have the flu. He says the virus is to control the people and introduce laws etc that will get a tight grip of the people in each country. To me he is a nut bag....heck he spends plenty of time trying to explain to me that the world is flat etc. He is also an anti-vaxxer.....he says the virus was caused by the introduction of 5G in

You know....there is a quiet truth to that. Both countries do work closely together to defend our shared continent.

That is a very interesting website....rather sobering.....then there is the fear of a second wave....and so on until a vaccine is released or herd immunity is achieved.

That photo is priceless

This American doctor gives a very sobering assessment of the situation....I can not stress this enough.....please respect this virus and take it VERY seriously.

I think I need to add zinc to my daily vitamins. I drink a pint of beer each day after work as a gift from the boss. I am not a drinker, but working in an N95 mask and interacting with many people gives me the wrong sort of stress. Thankfully most people accept me wearing a mask. I have come to look forward to that beer after work. I don't see this virus ending until a vaccine is available and I can't imagine wearing an N-95 mask in the summer heat. It is hard to believe these are the happy times....one day at a time.....and I hope I survive the year.

Fantastic URL's and advice...thank you everyone. I can't do much to stop the pandemic or help the medical staff, but I will work very hard to keep myself from getting the virus. That is my contribution to this war against the virus. If we all did that...this virus would be dead in a month.

I am 59 and I figure I can help the situation by not getting sick myself. I stay home except to work and I wear a N-95 mask with a tight seal when I go out. My wife stays at home now and does not like going out.

Social distancing and stay home seems to be working in my province. Our rate of climb of new daily cases being admitted to the hospital has dropped 50%. We are not out of woods, but were seeing promising results. It is suggested here we stay 2 meters apart from each other.

To fight this virus you need a healthy immune system. Vitamin C and Vitamin D are very helpful in this regard. If you live far from the equator, then Vitamin D is needed because we get it from the sun and northern climates to offer very little Vitamin D in the winter.

Here are a few links I have found helpful to keep myself informed each day. First is Dr John Campbell in he UK....he is the one bright light in this nightmare https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg Second is a webpage that tracks the numbers daily https://wuflu.live/ Third is a webpage that also tracks the numbers daily https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

In these troubling times it helps to work together. Sure our various governments might not be doing the best job, but there is no reason we can't rise above that and help each other survive this virus. As scale modelers our average is creeping up each year and that makes us more at risk to this virus. So please post any help tips or ideas that can help other ARC'ers to get though this pandemic.

But my numbers only consider the numbers of deaths as compared to the total population so testing does not enter into that. Now I would think that in 2 weeks the lack of early testing in the USA will cause the USA numbers to surge past Korea....but for now the USA seems to be doing much better than we thought when compared to S Korea. As I say.....it will be interesting to compare the numbers in 2 weeks.

You can buy N95 masks on Amazon....it blocks the virus. I hang my used N95 masks over a heater for 5 days....then reuse them I only have 5....gave the other 5 on my ten pack to daughters etc). I use the respirator type. It protects me but not the people around me. I always strip of my clothes as soon as I come through the front door....then go straight into the shower. After the shower I put on clean (virus free) indoor clothes. Outdoor clothes go into a laundry hamper inside the front door. My wife takes my phone when I get home and steralizes it with alcohol. The home must be kept as

Lets ponder Italy...712 souls succumbed in the past day of a total population of 60 million ( https://wuflu.live/ ) Lets ponder Spain...718 souls succumbed in the past day of a total population of 46 million ( https://wuflu.live/ ) If the US gets as bad as Spain you would have 5,104 people dying in 1 day....that is a death rate in the USA of 153,121 in 30 days. How long does the flu season last...more than 30 days? A 5 month flu season could see 765,606 deaths if you use the number from Spain as a guide. The number of 5,104 deaths in the US each day is what w

I do not think you can believe any of the government numbers coming out of China. There are still reports by netizens in China that people with the virus going to the hospitals but they are not being admitted or tested, simply sent home. Speculation is a second wave is coming but the second wave will be blamed on people that came home from other countries, thus infecting China with the virus from other countries. At least this will be the story fed to the average citizen in China by the CCP. Of course this makes no senses to us because all people returning to China are put in forced quaran

I do agree that testing is needed for many reasons. It would be nice to test people so we can isolate the infected people so they can not pass it on to others, thus stopping the virus. As I said, comparing the US and S Korean numbers in 2 weeks would be interesting to see if the numbers are still close together. Dr John Campbell https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg was today talking about a low cost home test to see if you have already had the virus and if you have already had the virus and you are no immune, then you could go back into society and start wo

If you consider the fact the USA got Covid-19 5 days before S Korea (according to Wikipedia) then I would say the USA is on Par with South Korea. So the USA so-called horrible response doesn't seem all that bad. It will be interesting to run all these numbers again in 2 weeks.

In a typical flu season, I have never heard of hospitals being overrun with critical care patients needing respirators and doctors having to pick who lives or dies due to the high volume of patients needing to be put on ventilators. If you leave society open as normal and let this virus run it's course, then you will get some accurate numbers to compare this to a regular flu season. Where this story goes and what the final numbers are will depend on how well each country met this new challenge. South Korea has been praised for their amazing response....as compared to the US. Let

The idea of having a boat and going out for a long sail up and down the coast of my country without going into any port anywhere and eating fresh seafood each day is quite appealing right now. I do quite enjoy staying home and sleeping in with no alarm clocks to disturb us. I do wonder if the cruise ship industry will ever recover from this?

BTW...if you want solid non-biased updates each day, then follow Dr John Campbell in the UK. He provides medical advice to help beat this virus as well and daily situational update of this virus and it's progress globally. He has been featured on various US networks. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg

Once they built the hospital in 1 week in Wuhan, it was obvious this was not being spread from eating bats, because not that many people could be eating bats. Once it spread to the first country beyond China, that was proof this virus could visit any country.