COVID-19 'Pandemic'

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Ocean Breeze said:
U.S. government talks to tech industry about using smartphone location data to combat
Public-health experts are interested in the possibility that private-sector companies such as Facebook and Google could let them study their location data in anonymous, aggregated form to help map the spread of the coronavirus, according to three people familiar with the effort who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Analyzing movements could help track the outbreak but could leave some Americans uncomfortable, depending on the level of detail shared about their whereabouts.
source: WAPO
Interesting.
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The source is WAPO so it's prahley fake news.
 
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Coronavirus cases are now being reported in all 50 states and D.C.


source: WAPO
 
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DaSleeper said:
The local grocery store opened early for seniors this morning.
Apparently there was an early lineup waiting outside for the doors to open to go in.


I went there at about a quarter to ten to get fresh fruits and veggies and a dozen beers and was back home 20 minutes later.
Sometimes people are such lemmings!
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I went into the Mile today and the only line-ups were at the grocery stores and even then I was out the door in less than 10 minutes after I pulled into line. Save-On has it's own traffic police and they do a great job. No TP in any of the five different stores I went to. The cleaning product aisles were busy places. No other shortages that I could see. Everyone seemed to be happy to be out and about. No one was hoarding. I got everything on my list, did two loads of laundry and filled three large water bottles. The only downer was that I missed getting some library books by a day. The CRD closed the doors on all our libraries today. Went to our local bookstore and found several good second-hand reads. The sun shone all day, the roads are bare and dry and it was grand day to be Irish. :smile:
 
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Ocean Breeze said:
Self Assessment Tool for the virus.

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ontario-launches-self-assessment-tool-for-covid-19-1.4854921


BC is encouraging people to do a self assessment tool........as well.

excellent idea........ and can be reassuring. Something tangible and factual is a good thing.
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Heard about it on BC1 after I got home from town. Went to the website and was done in no time. It's a great tool. I don't have any of the symptoms but I am going to self-isolate because I did come in close contact with a number of people today though nobody looked sick or was coughing. No one was wearing a mask.
 
DaSleeper

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First death in Ontario, in a Barrie hospital so far, but pending an autopsy they don't know if he died from the corona virus or other causes since he was an old man who actually was admitted in the hospital for other reasons!
 
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The latest numbers of COVID-19 cases in Canada as of March 18, 2020

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on March 18, 2020:

_ Ontario: 189 confirmed (including one death and 5 resolved)
_ British Columbia: 186 confirmed (including 7 deaths, 5 resolved)
_ Alberta: 97 confirmed
_ Quebec: 74 confirmed
_ Canadians quarantined at CFB Trenton: 8 confirmed
_ Manitoba: 8 confirmed, 7 presumptive
_ New Brunswick: 2 confirmed, 6 presumptive
_ Saskatchewan: 8 presumptive
_ Nova Scotia: 1 confirmed, 6 presumptive
_ Newfoundland and Labrador: 3 presumptive
_ Prince Edward Island: 1 confirmed
_ Total: 566 confirmed (including 8 deaths, 10 resolved), 30 presumptive
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 18, 2020.
The Canadian Press
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All BC K-12 schools were closed ufn yesterday

The university and colleges (unbelievably) remain open for the time being.

The large number of foreign students at our colleges are a major factor right now. I don't think anyone really knows what will happen to them. I suppose they will have to remain here until the pandemic resolves itself somehow.
 
petros

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If on a Visa they get the same treatment a citizen does but they have their own insurance.
 
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