I drove to the supermarket today to pick up food order by phone. Curbside pickup. Passed by a restaurant. Breakfast type place, very popular before. Loads of tables outside with people waiting to sit down, 6 feet apart. Eaters had no masks at least the ones sitting at the tables. Loads of traffic. Yesterday passed by expensive Chinese restaurant. All the tables were out in the parking lot about 1/3 full. But it was early Friday. Don;t recall if they had masks on. Most people moving around have masks on or put them on when they go into the stores. This is in central New Jersey about 50 miles from NYC. Things seem to be picking up.
If the tables are at least 6' apart, the customers don't need masks. I would think the restaurant would require masks while waiting to be seated. I wonder if any agency checks up on these restaurants to ensure proper procedures are being followed.
Where's that?
The whole thought of going to a dentist scares me what with the virus.
The American Dental Association has come up with good guidelines for practice. I had my routine check up this past Wednesday. You wait in your car until they are ready for you. They do a temperature check and you need to complete a questionnaire about travel and illness before the visit (I did it on line). Hygienist and Dentist take all the necessary precautions.
It's the last part that I don't trust.
You should. Medical staff have been doing this germ stuff for at least 100 years. They train in it, develop routines in it. Surgery goes on every day, everywhere, and all before Covid-19 showed up.
9585 new cases in Florida. No wonder the Europeans won’t let Americans in. Even Pinocchio Pence cancelled his campaign trip down there. It was supposed to be called The Great American Comeback Tour. Oops.
Dentistry is different than surgery.
Nobody gets closer to your mouth than the dentist.
Mine has added full face shield over masks and glasses in addition plus a hepa vacuum spot tube (about 6 inch diameter) pulling from where i exhale.
It's the same thing. So they took the total for the 144 days and divided by 144 or they took the 365 total and just showed the first 144 days. Either way you get the same effect. So the relative graphs for all the diseases except Covid never changes. Covid changes because they are inputting the daily quantities of actual deaths. The rest is a daily total average based on the 144 days. If they switched the method and listed actual daily changes for let's say drownings, you'd see it jump around too. It creates a false impression because the methodology for Covid is expressed differently than all the others. There's another more glaring phoniness that I just noticed. At the bottom of the graph is a note: "*Except COVID, causes of death shown account for ~7% of global deaths annually"So what they did is eliminate 93% of the worlds deaths by other causes. That puts Covid at the top of the graph because they eliminated those types of diseases on the graph. That's another distortion that makes it seem like Covid kills more people than any other disease, which is false. Lies, damn lies, and statistics. Here are the diseases not shown on the graph that killed more people than any other disease on the graph including Covid.First is worse. Covid not shown, statistics are for 2017. Cardiovascular diseasesCancersRespiratory diseasesLower respiratory infectionsDementiaDigestive diseasesNeonatal disordersDiarrheal diseasesDiabetesLiver diseasesRoad injuriesKidney diseaseTuberculosisHIV/AIDSSuicidehttps://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death
