I know someone who’s affected by COVID health-wise.
It’s me — right now — along with three family members and possibly a couple more, pending results. And we’ve all tried our best to do things right since March.
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Almost 100 Apple Stores Closed Again, Including All Stores in California
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It’s me — right now — along with three family members and possibly a couple more, pending results. And we’ve all tried our best to do things right since March.
Why not sell customers masks for $29 in Space Gray and Rose Gold?
We need to fix that. USA #1. /sOn the other side of the coin are Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, plus Australia and New Zealand.
Japan -- with a population 38% the size of the USA's -- has about 2828 cumulative COVID-19 deaths as of December 19th. The USA has 306,345.
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If you look at COVID-19 death rate by 100K people:
- UK: 100.4 deaths per 100K
- USA: 93.3 deaths per 100K
- Canada: 37 deaths per 100K
- Australia: 3.6 deaths per 100K
- Japan: 2.2 deaths per 100K
- South Korea: 1.3 deaths per 100K
- New Zealand: 0.5 deaths per 100K
- Taiwan: <0.1 deaths per 100K
It's worth noting that the population density in those three Asian countries is far higher than the USA and they also are extremely heavy users of mass transit. Compared to the USA, Japan has a far larger percentage of senior citizens (their average life expectancy is #1 of all industrialized nations) who are the greatest risk of COVID-19 fatalities.
Japan's suicide rate is higher than its COVID-19 fatality rate.
I understand. Completely.
People touch masks all the time and then touch things around them, spreading concentrated dirt and germs wherever they go. Breathing isn't the issue. It's the concentration and the spreading through touch. And because of that, masks make things far, far worse. People smear germs everywhere because of the masks.
And masks don't stop droplets being spread around.
An even bigger problem now is that the government has not secured enough doses to cover the population. Only about 50% it seems. Latest news from the Biden folks is that the vaccine won't be generally available until Summer or Fall 2021. Now that is a catastrophe.
Except the disease is spread mostly through the air through close contact with others, not on surfaces. And masks are not 100% in stopping droplets from being spread but if they are worn properly, they do make a difference.
We don’t really make many quality products over here. We sent it overseas a while back.
Tesla Cars, Apple computers, the best space program, the smartest engineers, and pretty much every social media platform you run. Oh yeah, and it’s America, which is the best country to live in, period.
Well... if the whole world just did that for a few weeks it's likely that we'd all have been back to normal in no time, with limited cases, better quarantining & minimal impact to the economies (ie. like New Zealand & Australia).
We're not out of the woods by any means.
Yeah I saw that on the news. People heading out to London to go to the North and down to the south coast. They should’ve shut the train stations down and kept people in London
Hasn’t shutting down been great to this point? So productive!
happened to be at the stanford mall about an hour ago and the apple store was open... weird.
I must say, though, that temperature checks are a very imperfect way to detect COVID-19. I was exposed to someone who later tested positive for COVID last Saturday, became sick with COVID symptoms on Thursday, tested positive myself yesterday, and I haven’t had a fever since my exposure.
The presence of a fever means you may have COVID-19 (or one of a litany of other possible causes for a fever), but the lack thereof certainly doesn’t mean you don’t have COVID-19.
The presence of a fever means you may have COVID-19 (or one of a litany of other possible causes for a fever), but the lack thereof certainly doesn’t mean you don’t have COVID-19.
Apple only makes one computer in the United States and it’s a niche product.
Yeah, “if only” it would be fine, right? Unfortunately, we can’t test this failed logic. Much more likely is we would be where we are now bc locking down perfectly is impossible.
sorry to hear, hope you feel better soon
Well, it's worked in my country... and our Apple Stores have been open for months. No community transmission, etc. It can totally be done.
I can't wait until Biden gets in. And does........absolutely nothing different except 'suggest' people wear a mask.
Yeah, maybe in your country and maybe if your numbers are even real. America isn’t your country for many, many reasons. Next.
Why not just declare apple stores are essential so the virus knows that location is off limits. That’s what they did for the entertainment industry.
Hey, what about refunds? I bouhgt something in the store and maybe I want to return it to get more storage etc... If my local Apple Store closes, what should I do to return an Item?
Yeah, because transmission isn’t a result of shopping at freaking Apple store in all likelihood. Transmission happens when families and friends are bored of lockdown, and gather in homes, apartments and exempt areas with no precautions.