So, today this happens.
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Aleksandr S wrote:Our daughter once saw a child's colorful suitcase in the airport. Now when we ask her about a present, she answers: a suitcase! A 5yr old girls wants a suitcase!
All I ever wanted was a horse.
Is she getting a colourful suitcase??
Jennifer R wrote:
Oh, they know and they know about all their friend's birthdays as well. They know what they want for cake and of course the presents months ahead.
Ah, spot the non-mother lol. I didn't like birthdays as much because of the lack of a horse for so many of them...
Petra R wrote:
Aleksandr S wrote:Our daughter once saw a child's colorful suitcase in the airport. Now when we ask her about a present, she answers: a suitcase! A 5yr old girls wants a suitcase!
All I ever wanted was a horse.
Is she getting a colourful suitcase??
Jennifer R wrote:
Oh, they know and they know about all their friend's birthdays as well. They know what they want for cake and of course the presents months ahead.
Ah, spot the non-mother lol. I didn't like birthdays as much because of the lack of a horse for so many of them...
Of course, she is.
She also says she is going to carry it by herself, but we all know that it will last for 5 minutes only. Then here it goes "I'm tired!".
I fear she asks a horse (or worse, a unicorn) some day, she likes them too.
Looks like the curve is bending nicely.
7 day average of daily deaths on a timeline starting when deaths reached 0.1 per million
(Source)
Added Norway and New Zealand for Valerio and Jennifer 🙂
It's nice to see a graph falling like this 
I usually look at the infections, and the USA leaves me amazed.
I hope they can deal with so many infected people. If not, it will be a disaster.
Maria T wrote:It's nice to see a graph falling like this
I usually look at the infections, and the USA leaves me amazed.
I hope they can deal with so many infected people. If not, it will be a disaster.
In fairness, personally I think the total infection numbers look scarier than necessary, simply because the number of people are so different from country to country.
We can't compare the numbers of a country with a population of 330 Million (USA) with a country like Norway with a population of 5 and a half Million.
So we should rather look at the numbers of total infections per million. The problem with that is that every country is on a different place on the curve. Even a week or 10 days difference from the outbreak makes a huge difference, that' why I kept saying "watch the Italian curve" a couple of months back, when people were still saying "Ah but we don't have many cases!"
When we look at the total cases per million, what is is concerning is that some countries are slowing down (flattening) and others aren't (yet) but again, they're not on the same point of their own timeline.
Thanks for the chart Petra 
Since there are so many options to choose from, and all in English, I go crazy to find what I want!
So we are above the USA! Ummmmh!
We will see how it evolves. Here the restrictions are being relaxed and, to be honest, I'm a little scared.
For now, people are being pretty silly. As soon as they have given a little freedom, it seems that they no longer remember the two months that have passed and the number of people who have died due this.
Petra R wrote:Maria T wrote:It's nice to see a graph falling like this
I usually look at the infections, and the USA leaves me amazed.
I hope they can deal with so many infected people. If not, it will be a disaster.
In fairness, personally I think the total infection numbers look scarier than necessary, simply because the number of people are so different from country to country.
We can't compare the numbers of a country with a population of 330 Million (USA) with a country like Norway with a population of 5 and a half Million.
So we should rather look at the numbers of total infections per million. The problem with that is that every country is on a different place on the curve. Even a week or 10 days difference from the outbreak makes a huge difference, that' why I kept saying "watch the Italian curve" a couple of months back, when people were still saying "Ah but we don't have many cases!"
When we look at the total cases per million, what is is concerning is that some countries are slowing down (flattening) and others aren't (yet) but again, they're not on the same point of their own timeline.
I have to add that Norway only tests people that needs to be hospitalised and work in health care and had contact with a confirmed infection.
Jennifer R wrote:I have to add that Norway only tests people that needs to be hospitalised and work in health care and had contact with a confirmed infection.
Hmmmm, it says here "Anyoone with symptoms and key groups?"
And overall, per million, Norway is testing in the same ballpark as other countries
Petra R wrote:
Jennifer R wrote:I have to add that Norway only tests people that needs to be hospitalised and work in health care and had contact with a confirmed infection.
Hmmmm, it says here "Anyoone with symptoms and key groups?"
And overall, per million, Norway is testing in the same ballpark as other countries
Hospital staff got tested several times but so far they only 200 people out of 30k in my town. Most back in March and they closed the "Corona center" last week because noone was placed there.
When can we stop practicing, and start for real?
