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How Texas, USA, is reopening it's economy , despite rising death tolls from the virus. Interesting to see the outcome.

Texas is reopening retail stores and restaurants on Friday despite rising coronavirus death tolls in the state — here's a closer look at how the Lone Star State is preparing to reopen its economy

Six countries, six curves. How nations that moved fast against coronavirus avoided disaster.



6 countries, 6 curves: how nations that moved fast against COVID-19 avoided disaster

Canada is 84 deaths per million.

Case numbers are meaningless. Even the places with the most testing are only seeing a percentage of the total cases.

Coronavirus, Mexican factories risk workers lives.

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Originally Posted by bob10

How Texas, USA, is reopening it's economy , despite rising death tolls from the virus. Interesting to see the outcome.

Texas is reopening retail stores and restaurants on Friday despite rising coronavirus death tolls in the state — here's a closer look at how the Lone Star State is preparing to reopen its economy

My brother lives in Houston. With this opening in mind, his sister-in-law planned a family get together with her (her husband is in hospital, not C19), her sister (my s-i-l) her daughter, her s-i-l, her grandchildren, my brother, and my niece. When my niece heard about this she immediately got on the phone to her mother to talk her out of any inclination she had to accept the invitation. (My niece won't even enter her parent's house, regarding them as too old to risk. She will however, do their shopping and either bring it round or get it delivered.)

So while shops, restaurants etc may be allowed to reopen, it is a bit unclear how many customers they will have. I should also point out that local government restrictions are not overridden by the state governor, and the LGA my brother lives in (Harris County) had restrictions in place weeks before Texas did.

"ATLANTA — Last week was a bad one for Georgia, and an especially bad one for our governor, Brian Kemp. On April 20, he announced that he would allow Georgia’s tattoo parlors, hair and nail salons and other “high touch” businesses to reopen as early as April 24, ahead of even President Trump’s ambitious plans. In the days since, the state has reverberated with political turmoil. Even the president rebuked Mr. Kemp for moving too fast.


For better or worse, the governor has made our state the nation’s canary in this particularly terrifying coal mine.


Someone had to go first, and Mr. Kemp isn’t the only political leader eager to reopen the country. But the ham-handed way he went about it makes Georgians of all stripes afraid of what comes next, and it leaves us wondering whether he is setting us up for a punishing new wave of infections. He has clashed with city and county leaders and left business owners — the people he was trying to help — in the dark.



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Just been busy automating the down load for Covid 19 test results. Local procedures here are
https://www.4cyte.com.au/VIC%20-%20Box%20Hill.pdf


if you need test it may be from https://www.4cyte.com.au/ You do need a Path request from from your Doc.

Here's an explanation of bugs with the Covidsafe ap.

COVIDSafe rollout faces software bugs and lingering iPhone issues
COVIDSafe coronavirus contact-tracing app faces software bugs and lingering iPhone issues - ABC News

[QUOTE=NavyDiver;2995175]"ATLANTA — Last week was a bad one for Georgia, and an especially bad one for our governor, Brian Kemp. On April 20, he announced that he would allow Georgia’s tattoo parlors, hair and nail salons and other “high touch” businesses to reopen as early as April 24, ahead of even President Trump’s ambitious plans. In the days since, the state has reverberated with political turmoil. Even the president rebuked Mr. Kemp for moving too fast.


For better or worse, the governor has made our state the nation’s canary in this particularly terrifying coal mine.




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Will be worth watching and re-visiting, maybe the end of this month which would give the Beer Virus time to infect AND display enough symptoms to cause 'canary testing'.