California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulative total passes 20k

Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by fossuser on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:11PM (#23618739)

I live in Palo Alto - last weekend I cycled past some sort of art festival in downtown Los Altos.

There were hundreds of people packed together looking at and touching art.

There was a big sign that 'we'd get through this together'.

They're also opening up farmers markets.

I think we're going to see the number of cases rise again.

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by spike021 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:24PM (#23620510)

>They're also opening up farmers markets.

The one near me in downtown San Jose just re-opened a couple of weeks ago. I walked through to see what it was like. Not too bad, they require masks for patrons and also the people working the vendor stalls. Also, customers aren't allowed to touch produce at all and contactless payment is preferred.

So all of that looked relatively decent. My issue was I would see patrons walking around or about to pay and they'd be lowering their mask to talk, not covering their nose with the mask, wearing their mask on their neck, etc.

I'm not sure how to correct issues like that.

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by chillacy on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:19PM (#23621095)

Supposedly if it's outside it's not as bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6QwnzbRUyA

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by jeffbee on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:20PM (#23618885)

Farmers' markets never closed here in Alameda County which is a lot more densely populated than Los Altos. I think the risk of transmitting respiratory diseases in the outdoors is wildly overstated. Also, people gotta eat.

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by SomeoneFromCA on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:33PM (#23619090)

Nah, it is not overstated. Last time I checked, Wuhan marke was outdoors.

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by user_50123890 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:16PM (#23619656)

https://images.says.com/uploads/story_source/source_image/75...

Looks like prime batcave-like conditions for coronavirus spread.

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by jeffbee on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:40PM (#23619195)

When did you check last?

Nothing about the photographs I have seen of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market suggests "outdoors".

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by SomeoneFromCA on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:47PM (#23619286)

No doors, roof only. I consider it outdoors. Anyways, in my country open markets get disenfected twice a week, and yet they still find infections through contact tracing, originated from the sellers at these markets.

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by kpennell on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:30PM (#23621197)

Given that there hasn't been a bump from the protests, it seems like outdoor spread is not super common.

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by ping_pong on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:50PM (#23621378)

Incorrect, the bump we are seeing now looks like it perfectly correlates to the protest. The initial spread you would see in the beginning few weeks wouldn't be noticeable, but it's laying the seeds. It's about 4-6 weeks after we see the effects of those early sees from exponential growth.

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by tingletech on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:28PM (#23619004)

Farmer's markets have been open the whole time in Alameda county.

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by tylersmith on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:32PM (#23619082)

When people move from more isolation toward more interaction cases of all communicable diseases should rise so I think that's a safe assumption.

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