Covid 19 Pandemie

1:180 active cases in the Netherlands.

Only need to go say five times to a supermarket to find one infected.
I think I start wearing mouth caps again. Just play the fool again.

What you doing at your keyboard? You should be outside digging a bunker. You'll also need it if Putin starts carrying out his threats!

About buying atomic bunkers, the 1955 story from Philip K. Dick then immediately comes to my mind, in case anyone never read it, it is short, topical as ever; 'Foster, You're Dead!'

Not sure it is everywhere in the public domain, so I removed the link here, but there are several sources for a PDF I can readily find with Google.

1:153 (from active cases in the Netherlands)

About 1:50 from active cases in Germany

1:126 (from active cases in the Netherlands)

1:114 (from active cases in the Netherlands)

It looks as though Covid infection is increasing again in Russia. Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to be serious enough this time to force Putin to get out of Ukraine.

Do what you wanna do. Make everybody love you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAYObnlehE

Active cases increasing in the Netherlands. But number still low.

Sadly, people still die of Covid these days. Even in remote areas like in the Arizona desert you are not safe. I encountered an obituary of comet hunter Donald Machholz in the digital Sky and Telescope pages. I had not heard of him before, but it was an interesting article:
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/remembering-donald-machholz-1952-2022/

I love those binoculars he built!


Don Machholz (right) showed his large comet-hunting binoculars to Brian Marsden (left) during a visit in the 1990s (Brian Marsden was  was a British astronomer and the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) that tracks dangerous asteroids and also the movements and characteristics of regular asteroids and comets)

Wastewater already as bad as in 25 juni or 22 januari of this year.

Say about 1:270 infected now in the Netherlands. Taken from active cases.

Wastewater already almost at height of peak in july  of this year.

We may be in some luck with this one. See screenshot from our RIVM today But it is early days of course. Would be good news for many also the economy right now? I think the mild fall weather up to now may play a role and because so many people seem to have had antibodies also from infections with omicron, at least that is what Boodbank Sanquin is telling us: https://www.nu.nl/coronavirus/6228124/drie-kwart-van-nederlandse-bloeddonoren-heeft-coronabesmetting-gehad.html
(it is not trivial to distinguish infections from antibodies by vaccination I think but apparently they can do that well enough)