Covid - 20 Feb - are you changing your habits?

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Are you changing your habits and activities during this outbreak?

Poll ended at Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:07 pm

Fundamentally changed my activities
4
10%
Taking many more precautions
9
23%
A few changes
16
40%
Life as normal
11
28%
 
Total votes: 40
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No change here
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Doc67 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 12:07 pm I was just wondering if people were beginning to take this a lot more seriously...
How many death due to covid19 in Cambodia?
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Really this is the absolute worst time to be complacent. The risk has literally never been higher. Sure it's tiring after all this time but really we have been so incredibly lucky until a fortnight ago. Now's the time to actually step it up.
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I respect those who are encouraging more vigilance but I do wonder at what point the halting of activities must outstrip the harm of the disease. I seems to be mostly a matter of managing foreign entries then hitting hard once that fails rather than shutting down life. I think at some point one must figure out how to safely conduct things rather than abstaining or the show must go on.
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orussey98 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 3:25 pm
Doc67 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 12:07 pm I was just wondering if people were beginning to take this a lot more seriously...
How many death due to covid19 in Cambodia?
Officially or unofficially
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atst wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:54 pm
orussey98 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 3:25 pm
Doc67 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 12:07 pm I was just wondering if people were beginning to take this a lot more seriously...
How many death due to covid19 in Cambodia?
Officially or unofficially
What's the rumours on the streets about deaths?
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timmydownawell wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 3:25 pm Really this is the absolute worst time to be complacent. The risk has literally never been higher. Sure it's tiring after all this time but really we have been so incredibly lucky until a fortnight ago. Now's the time to actually step it up.
Totally agree, although I’m probably not exactly leading by example myself. However, the outright smug carelessness that seems to be prevalent the last few days is definitely dangerous. Especially young people are trying to outdo each other with IG and FB posts showing them partying in packed places, full gyms (yes, many are still open!), always complemented with the customary “f*** Covid” or the cynical “we are soooo afraid/smiley face” texts.
The fact that the country has breezed though this pandemic with relative easy seems to make people far too complacent. I have personally experienced the impact of such behaviour in other places during 2020.
That virus is now very firmly embedded in the community, they found another 50 cases this evening, and things really don’t look too promising.
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atst wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:54 pm
orussey98 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 3:25 pm
Doc67 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 12:07 pm I was just wondering if people were beginning to take this a lot more seriously...
How many death due to covid19 in Cambodia?
Officially or unofficially
you have the unofficial figures?
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On the other side of the pond, me and missus are taking this quite seriously. We’ve gone to double masking as per recommendations. Not yet face shields in public. Now people in the village are now testing positive. Expect quarantine and food hoarding coming soon.

We’ve sent older sister funds to procure more rice and dried fish before the markets run out. She has so many mouths to feed, bless her heart.

Please be safe out there everyone!
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newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 3:18 am We’ve gone to double masking as per recommendations
I don't mean to be rude but I find this new thing quite ridiculous, many countries were able to effectively manage the thing without such a policy or idea. It seems like far more people have a problem even abiding in or correctly utilizing basic common sense like washing hands and wearing a mask at all that people wearing two masks won't help.
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