The Virus Outbreak Thread

In Malaysia, we are getting around 5000s of cases every day.
 
Dad once shared to me a report that predicted that by the middle of February, we might have 7000s of cases.

another Chinese New Year ruined

This pandemic WILL end soon. Mark my words.

@Flutter_Lover  
One order of marked words coming right up; how well do you want ’em done?

I couldn’t get over some stupid American’s comments on Facebook. When I complained that America gets high Covid infection rates because its people are so obsessed with “freedom”, some QAnon/Trumpist boomer likened wearing a mask to slavery.
 
People like them make me hate the US more. A sinking ship!
 
@RD4590
 
Me too, as I cannot see the shopping mall’s decorations. MCO in Malaysia is extended to mid-February.

@HorsesandMuchMOAR  
Local lockdown is expected to last for another three weeks in Hebei Province in China. And all the experts and the government are calling people to celebrate locally and avoid traveling. And travel restrictions are in place.  
However that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to travel as there were 18.01 million travels done on Feb.2nd (yes, today). But that is 75.9% fewer than in 2020.

@RD4590
 
There are two things about Malaysia’s lockdown, as it may be more severe than in China:
 

Just so we’re clear….. the vaccines that are currently developed, are they effective against the new strains of the virus?

@Flutter_Lover  
As far as we know, they are.

@Flutter_Lover  
Probably yes. But the vaccination progress is far from enough so far

Where I live we locked down early and hard and I don’t know what are case rate is like but we’ve had a lot of uptime because of our early lockdown. It wasn’t even an official thing, businesses just did it voluntarily.

@Flutter_Lover  
My news said they were supposed to be less effective against new strains, but still work.

Car carrying vaccines stolen in Florida.
 
So the question is was this a random car theft, or some anti vaxxer?

@lonewolf  
If this was in western Melbourne, probably the former.

@lonewolf  
It’s Florida. Anything is possible.

Can’t tell if people are being obedient or there’s been a fluctuation on the numbers currently going on.
 

So is it true that covid cases are on the verge of declining, GLOBALLY?

South Africa suspends Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout after ‘minimal’ protection against variant reported
 

No dooming!

@Background Pony #6CBF  
You got to be fucking kidding me…

I have to wonder, do disinfectants take care of the variant of the virus? Microban and Lysol has the “coronavirus” label.

@Flutter_Lover  
Yes. Those things fundamentally melt/fry microorganisms way beyond whatever they can mutate into.
 
To note is that macroorganisms (which includes humans) are made out of millions and billions of microorganisms, so while handling such products is usually “safe”, it’s only because we have enough cells to shed on our skin before it can do any real damage. Ingesting or injecting those sort of products will burn through less protected cells and cause serious injury or death, and you should generally avoid direct contact as much as possible for the sake of skin health and its own protective mechanisms.