Ask HN: How is Covid-19 affecting your daily life?
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I live in Thailand. In Thailand there are 60 confirmed cases of people infected with the corona virus. I feel this number is much too low. The Netherlands went from 1 case to 250 in just 1 week. Thailand has stayed around 50 or so for the last few weeks. I'm thinking the Thai government tries to keep the official numbers low in order to try to prevent hurting the tourist industry too much. With that said, tourism is at an all time low right now, for this season in major part due to corona and businesses suffer a lot.
With that said though, I am not worried about my (and my families) health too much. When I look at the statistics [0], it seems mainly old people should worry.
I do live together with my girlfriend and daughter and my girlfriend is quite a bit worried. I don't fear for my daughter since from what I've read no children below 9 years old have died as of yet from the corona virus. Our daughter is 3 years old.
My and my girlfriend are in the 30-40 age group and in our group about 0.2% of the people have died from corona. I suspect a large amount of people who died in this age group might have had some other sickness as well, weakening their immune system.
I live in the Chiang Mai province in Thailand and to be honest I worry a lot more about the air pollution here. AQI over 200 for the last 2 days [1]. The statistics point out an above average amount of people in our area suffer from lung cancer, asthma and COPD [2].
I've convinced my girlfriend to travel south to the beach for a few weeks for some clean air. My girlfriend is somewhat worried about corona when visiting hotels, restaurants, etc… but also agrees that the air quality here right now is horrid, so she's willing to take the bet.
We wear masks in public and we bought some soap with alcohol to clean our hands whenever we go somewhere.
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[0]: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
[1]: https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/air-pollution/chiang-mai-has...
[2]: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30369008
With that said though, I am not worried about my (and my families) health too much. When I look at the statistics [0], it seems mainly old people should worry.
I do live together with my girlfriend and daughter and my girlfriend is quite a bit worried. I don't fear for my daughter since from what I've read no children below 9 years old have died as of yet from the corona virus. Our daughter is 3 years old.
My and my girlfriend are in the 30-40 age group and in our group about 0.2% of the people have died from corona. I suspect a large amount of people who died in this age group might have had some other sickness as well, weakening their immune system.
I live in the Chiang Mai province in Thailand and to be honest I worry a lot more about the air pollution here. AQI over 200 for the last 2 days [1]. The statistics point out an above average amount of people in our area suffer from lung cancer, asthma and COPD [2].
I've convinced my girlfriend to travel south to the beach for a few weeks for some clean air. My girlfriend is somewhat worried about corona when visiting hotels, restaurants, etc… but also agrees that the air quality here right now is horrid, so she's willing to take the bet.
We wear masks in public and we bought some soap with alcohol to clean our hands whenever we go somewhere.
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[0]: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
[1]: https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/air-pollution/chiang-mai-has...
[2]: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30369008
[business travel] We are not allowed to do any business travel which means I had to cancel several NYC trips, which I was really looking forward too.
[travel] I had multiple flights booked for a variety of short holidays for the next weeks. Many of my flights have been cancelled or rebooked.
I live in London.