Covid-19

Alex van de Wetering · #1 28-03-20, 12:52

It's such an odd situation.....Here in The Netherlands, the maximum speed on the motorway was recently lowered to bring nitrogen levels down. For years the government has been trying to get people to work from home more often and spread working hours to avoid traffic jams and stuffed trains during rush hour. Now due to the Corona virus.....in just two weeks the nitrogen levels have dropped and almost 80% of people work from home!

Lynn Eades · #2 29-03-20, 03:18

N.Z. has had its first death. We went into lock down first thing Thursday morning.

James P · #3 30-03-20, 00:07

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Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

N.Z. has had its first death. We went into lock down first thing Thursday morning.

To late, stock up and await the worst.

Dirty Deuce · #4 06-04-20, 23:09

Here’s a project my kids wanted to do to help show our support.
Everyone stay safe!
Kevin and family

hrpearce · #5 24-08-20, 00:44

Four months since the last post in this thread.
Here in the country area life is fairly normal, although events are still being cancelled or postponed. State borders still closed so no holiday this year, left the deposit with travel agent for next year. I still check the link Tony Smith provided and the numbers are still climbing unfortunately.
While I was sitting around after the knee surgery I started reading all the comments on face book and it wasn't pretty.
Then we have the problem with the media, instead of just reporting what is happening they are trying to make the politicians look as bad as possible and that is hindering the chief medical officers in getting their message out.
In my opinion some of the mistakes being made are caused by media interference.
Hope the MLU community is staying safe and we can travel together again in the future.

rob love · #6 24-08-20, 01:18

My area went 2 months (actually longer) without a case. But with the easing of restrictions, some workers from Brandon decided it was a good time to have a cultural get-together. We also have another identifiable group who live communally that sent representatives to an Alberta funeral. Between those two sources, our area has lost control. Today Manitoba set a record day, beating Ontario's numbers (who have 24 times the population) and almost equaling Quebec, which has about 8 times the population.

In our region, 45 of the 72 new cases were in our region, where the largest city is just 40,000.

At least we have not been plagued with deaths, and the government has moved our area up a notch in the response level, making masks mandatory and going back to earlier limits on gatherings.

I got back from a road trip to Ontario about 2 weeks ago and have only left the yard once since then, to get a covid test (travel to the East it id recommended to get one). Waiting the results, but quite frankly, I kept my trip fairly isolated, slept and ate in the vehicle, and generally used the forest for washrooms. MLU members were 3 of the 6 people I actually saw during my half day in Southern On.

Glad to see we have not lost any members to this thing, but it will get worse before it gets better. Everyone is waiting for an approved vaccine. Our government chose to partner up with a Chinese company, whose customs will not approve the export to us of the vaccine we helped create. But that is a whole nuther story.

Hope everyone remains safe.

Phil Waterman · #7 24-08-20, 01:57

Hi All

All ok here, but missing the social interaction. To say more would be to get into politically inappropriate speech, which I choose not to inflict on my friends.

Cheers Phil