Anonymous wrote:I think the bolded is important as we have not seen this as a general recommendation. So far, it was only directed towards older people and people with underlying health conditions.

To lower the risk of respiratory germ spread, including COVID-19, the Virginia Department of Health encourages the following effective behaviors:

Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer only if soap and water are not available.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth.
Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) when coughing or sneezing.
Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces.
Stay home when you are sick.
Avoid contact with sick people.
Avoid non-essential travel.

Anonymous wrote:"Apologies bc this is unsubstantiated but a parent on our community list serve posted that she and her kid are one today because there was a positive case in the building in Crystal City where her daycare is housed. The daycare is Everbrook Academy."

It's a confirmed case now, at least according to JBG property management.

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Anonymous wrote:Apologies bc this is unsubstantiated but a parent on our community list serve posted that she and her kid are one today because there was a positive case in the building in Crystal City where her daycare is housed. The daycare is Everbrook Academy.

Maybe that’s where the diagnosed Arlington resident works.

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Anonymous wrote:Apologies bc this is unsubstantiated but a parent on our community list serve posted that she and her kid are one today because there was a positive case in the building in Crystal City where her daycare is housed. The daycare is Everbrook Academy.

Maybe that’s where the diagnosed Arlington resident works.

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the building


https://www.arlnow.com/2020/03/09/just-in-coronavirus-patient-worked-in-crystal-city-office/?fbclid=IwAR0F3mhj1lg8jm1sSkh7cbpDIDr-SvTL5sioFLKVaXA2saDk24XjKugSnlY

Anonymous wrote:Apologies bc this is unsubstantiated but a parent on our community list serve posted that she and her kid are one today because there was a positive case in the building in Crystal City where her daycare is housed. The daycare is Everbrook Academy.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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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.