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Anonymous wrote:https://newsroom.arlingtonva.us/release/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-virginia-department-health/

Thanks for link!

I wish these announcements would be more specific re international travel. Were they in Italy? On a cruise? It’s not helpful to provide such little detail.

My guess is going to be the Egyptian cruise

You rich, snotty 'I must travel because nothing will effect me during an epidemic' are going to be the death of us all.

At work today I heard about 5 people say completely incorrect things like “it’s no worse than the flu” and “kids can’t catch it”. I think we need large propaganda style posters with facts like they have in other countries. Everyone is getting their medical advice off Facebook and tik tok.

Anonymous wrote:Would you ever decide to self quarantine without symptoms? Say, for example, you’d had casual contact with a confirmed case. What about 2nd degree (contact with someone who knows they had contact with a confirmed case). Or 3rd?

Someone I know was denied testing because of lacking symptoms, despite knowing they were in contact with a confirmed case. Since we know transmission doesn’t require symptoms, where do you, personally, draw the line?

I would have demanded a test and limited my exposure to other people/public places and limit contact as much as possible with my family members - and insist they be tested as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Every single announcement says they’ve had limited contact. Then they walk that back. Pretty sure the initial announcement about the rector in DC said he had limited contacts at first. Now they’re telling hundreds to self quarantine.

Exactly and the rector and his church made the announcement themselves re who he was, where he’d been, etc. not the DC DOH. I wish more people would be forthcoming to protect others. I’d like to think if I had it I would do the same.

Woaah, it hadn't occurred to me that DOH may not have even asked parishioners to self-quarantine if the rector hadn't outed himself.

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Anonymous wrote:https://newsroom.arlingtonva.us/release/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-virginia-department-health/

Thanks for link!

I wish these announcements would be more specific re international travel. Were they in Italy? On a cruise? It’s not helpful to provide such little detail.

What difference does it make? Planes are used for different flights; flight crews board different planes; infected people may travel on different planes on their return trips or even take another trip before they know they're infected; etc.

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Anonymous wrote:It is getting warmer and sunnier. God willing this starts to help

Why would you assume that? It’s hot and sunny in LA and FL right now.

Alabama? Mississippi? Louisiana? Texas?

This is taking hold in cool wet climates.

+1. Compare Korea and Singapore too. I think climate matters. And why wouldn’t it?

jfc. do you understand geography?

Seoul is in the 50s now. Cool. Singapore is 82 degrees. Do you?

45 people were just diagnosed on a Nile cruise ship - the same one the Maryland cases came form. It's in the 90s in Luxor, Egypt. The virus does just fine in hot weather.

High viral load in close living quarters. Not even remotely comparable to urban community spread

OMG. People need to stop being stupid.
Urban communities: crowded buildings, crowded schools, public transit through multiple jurisdictions with a multi-national population and frequent international travel on planes that may have previously had an infected passenger(s), a lot of uninsured or under-insured or hourly wage workers who aren't going to go to a doctor and who are going to keep going to work even when sick, people going to work and to grocery stores and to church and schools and events etc for two weeks before they know they might have been infected.
New virus: unknowns; evolution; climate change; organisms adapt.

Better to be cautious than to be stupid and arrogant.

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Anonymous wrote:It is getting warmer and sunnier. God willing this starts to help

Why would you assume that? It’s hot and sunny in LA and FL right now.

Alabama? Mississippi? Louisiana? Texas?

This is taking hold in cool wet climates.

+1. Compare Korea and Singapore too. I think climate matters. And why wouldn’t it?

Self-soothing?

Not the PP. Simple science. Flu season dies down as weather heats up. Mid March usually begins to abate

There are vaccines for flu, which many people have received. Symptoms don't take 2 weeks to appear with flu.
Singapore implemented an aggressive and effective containment plan. Every country's response is different - as we know all too well. Stop listening to Trump. Listen to the medical experts instead of the self-proclaimed "medical genius"

Anonymous wrote:Every single announcement says they’ve had limited contact. Then they walk that back. Pretty sure the initial announcement about the rector in DC said he had limited contacts at first. Now they’re telling hundreds to self quarantine.

Exactly and the rector and his church made the announcement themselves re who he was, where he’d been, etc. not the DC DOH. I wish more people would be forthcoming to protect others. I’d like to think if I had it I would do the same.

Every single announcement says they’ve had limited contact. Then they walk that back. Pretty sure the initial announcement about the rector in DC said he had limited contacts at first. Now they’re telling hundreds to self quarantine.

It says they “had limited contact with others while ill.”

Well, how about before they were showing symptoms? I’d like to hear a bit more about that.

Anonymous wrote:https://newsroom.arlingtonva.us/release/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-virginia-department-health/

Thanks for link!

I wish these announcements would be more specific re international travel. Were they in Italy? On a cruise? It’s not helpful to provide such little detail.

Anonymous wrote:3rd case - Arlington Co. Age 60s, international travel.

The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) announced that an Arlington County resident has tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). VDH and the Arlington County Public Health Division (ACPHD) are working together to identify any close contacts of this resident who would require testing or monitoring for symptoms of COVID-19. This is the third presumptive positive result, with the other two being a Marine Base Quantico resident and Fairfax City resident. All three cases were exposed through international travel.

Link? I tried google but couldn’t find anything.

3rd case - Arlington Co. Age 60s, international travel.

The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) announced that an Arlington County resident has tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). VDH and the Arlington County Public Health Division (ACPHD) are working together to identify any close contacts of this resident who would require testing or monitoring for symptoms of COVID-19. This is the third presumptive positive result, with the other two being a Marine Base Quantico resident and Fairfax City resident. All three cases were exposed through international travel.