Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

Some days the sky is actually orange

Any idea which bridge that is?

Looks to me like the Bay Bridge from the SF side looking toward Angel Island

It’s the Bidwell Bar Bridge in Oroville.

Bidwell Bar Bridge (Lake Oroville):
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/boat-motors-by-as-the-bidwell-bar-bridge-is-surrounded-by-news-photo/1228423382

Some discussion about where the picture was taken from:

EDIT
Oops, erlebo beat me to it.

Thanks everyone!

Sky is just a reflection of your own world :confounded:

Hank, it does look similar to the Bay Bridge, but fortunately, Angel Island didn’t catch fire, as far as I know.

Awesome picture! When are they going to make a “Backdraft” kind of movie about the firefighters out there? Feel bad for the people out there, wish the idiots in charge would prepare better for the fires that happen every single year

>Angel Island
Yep, bad guess on my part. I thought maybe I was seeinge electric lights filtered through the orange air.
Seen one old design suspension bridge, you’ve seen them all.

I was told long ago, in the Usenet days, that the best way to get correct information on the Internet is to post what you think and await correction.
Works for me.

Makes sense to me. Some folks don’t like being corrected though.

How is it possible that some people never got corona from a sick person living in the same house? They even took a test that showed no
history or sign of corona, while the sick people were tested positive.

I hear multiple people talking about not getting sick at all while their relatives were sick with corona. They didn’t isolate and even drinking from the same cup. This supposedly happened before the lockdown and mask requirement in early 2020.

Anecdotal evidence is not good evidence.

Yeah I’ve wondered that too. I’ve gone to restaurants, stores, flown on planes, and been around huge crowds of people where no one is wearing masks and I feel great. But I’m a generally healthy person. I think it’s the people who are unhealthy to begin with who are mostly at risk. But to qualify that, I’m in IT and know nothing about health, medicine, biology, or a thousand other things

I see they might be lucky, sharing a cup doesnt mean there is enough viral load on the cup etc.

I don’t know if there are any reliable tests to show if you had corona before but did you happen to take a test?

Probably same mechanism as flu: A lot of infections are asymptomatic. I found older studies about the flu and was surprised about the dark figure of infections. It appears as if we develop each year (except 2020 likely) some kind of heard immunity with a strong backbone of immune (recent infection by similar flu subtype), vaccinated or people that just develop weak to no symptoms. That’s why the danger of flue infections are overestimated and why there’s a myth of it mysteriously vanishing each year, I think. Not sure of course.

With corona, we’ll have asymptomatic infections, too, but likely to a much lesser degree. We’ll know in a year or two in the aftermath. What we know is it’s more deadly so we cannot count on heard immunity unfortunately but have to keep that curve flat until there’s a vaccine, be it Sputnik-V or Apollo-V.

Great, same here :+1: :beer:

Nah, you’re wrong.

Well… the problem is I took advice from one of my idiot friends who is in the medical field back in March-ish. He told me this was no big deal and it would all blow over. Talked about herd immunity and all that. By the time I realized he had rocks in his head I’d already spent time in huge crowds and around other dummies who did the same thing