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    B4 Girls On Vacation - General Topic 2021 #81 (July)

    in B#4 Sara, Karma, Katarina, Medusa (11/11/15)

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    37 minutes ago, JenniferMom said:

    This is OT I know but the constant bickering here is so maddening.  I can get bickering here at home by 6 year olds.  So maybe I can steer the conversation to something else besides all-things-Harley.

    Anyway ... I was just curious, it seems like all these apartments leave their TV's on 24x7.  What is driving that?  My two thoughts are (1) the dogs/pets like that as I know my dad does that when he leaves the dog at home; and (2) maybe the TV causes motion sensing and this somehow helps them with their cam scores, i.e. being present in the apartment must score more RLC points than never being in the apartment so the TV causes the cams to trigger ...

    Any other thoughts?  Leaving the TV's is so wasteful of electricity, which is something I don't worry about.  But given there are people here who obsess over COVID-19, smoking, drinking, drugs, etc. ... no one cares about wasting electricity?

    the constant bickering here is so maddening.  I ignore it and move on to other comments.😴

    B2 Girls on Vacation - General Topic 2021 #19 (July)

    in B#2 Nadia, Dayana (08/02/16)

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    4 minutes ago, moules said:

    You are admitted to the hospital if you are seriously ill.  The doctors can give you treatments in the hospital that cannot be given at home.   He may have an underlying condition that puts him more at risk, for example, diabetes, and that can be a consideration on whether to admit someone to the hospital.  A newspaper article from the Associated Press nearly two weeks ago.

    "BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Julio Miranda had never felt the threat of the coronavirus too close. With an appointment for his first COVID-19 jab scheduled for mid-July, the 48-year-old house painter was, like many in the vaccine-abundant developed world, eagerly awaiting the end of his personal pandemic worries.

    Then a colleague fell ill last month, followed by his boss’ wife. Gradually, all but one of his five coworkers found themselves in bed. Miranda, who is from Chile, also started feeling stomach cramps. Soon, he was lying on the sofa, struggling to draw every breath.

    “It’s only when the virus hits you that you take it much more seriously,” Miranda said this week from a hospital room overlooking Barcelona’s beachfront where he recovered after a week in intensive care, conscious but connected to a machine aiding his oxygen intake.

    The increase comes amid the advance of the delta variant of the coronavirus that spreads more easily. And it’s being driven mostly by younger, unvaccinated patients who require less ICU care but are turning in droves to health centers and emergency wards. If they reach the point of needing hospitalization, they typically spend longer in regular wards until they recover.

    Most hospitalized patients don’t need much breathing support and get well enough with corticosteroids. But doctors are seeing people in their 20s and early 30s developing serious pneumonia.

    In Spain, the young are largely socializing while unvaccinated because authorities have strictly prioritized the elderly and most vulnerable groups. As a result, 21 million — or half of the country’s adult population — are fully vaccinated, but fewer than 600,000 of those are younger than 30, according to the latest Health Ministry data."

    The northeastern Catalonia region, for example — where Barcelona is — only allows bars and nightclubs to operate their outdoor spaces starting this weekend, and yet authorities have allowed a music festival to go ahead with thousands of people. Concert-goers are required to test negative for antigens before joining the fun.

    Ana Aguilar, a 20-year-old nurse at the Hospital del Mar, sympathized with those who want to party but said her generation needs to be more patient. As a medical worker, she also expressed the frustration of a never-ending cycle of virus surges."

    [Hospital del Mar is right on the beach.  You can walk from your sunbed to the Emergency Room.]

    _________________________________

    Thursday 22 July 2021

    In Catalonia, the virus reproduction rate has fallen for 15 consecutive days, and today stands at 0.97. The virus is in a recessionary phase and each infected person is passing the virus to an average of 0.97 others.

    The cumulative incidence rate of the coronavirus in 14 days has increased from 1,220.89 to 1,234.03 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. There have been 7,585 new infections and 17 deaths registered in the last 24 hours. Today, there are 1,938 hospitalised patients, 66 more than yesterday. There are 440 patients in intensive care, an increase of 36 in the last 24 hours.

    A total of 4,831,137 (62.56% of the population of Catalonia) have now been vaccinated, 19,634 in the last 24 hours. This includes 3,744,757 (48.49% of the population) who have received their scheduled two doses.

    Thanks Moules, thats interesting stuff. In the UK the R rate has risen to 1.2-1.4 and it looks like our lot are saying ''sod it lets see what happens''🙄.

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