Approximately 22,000 people live in the Orkney islands – of those, about 4,300 people have been tested positive for COVID since the outbreak began. That’s not too bad compared to many other places.
Except . . . . more than half of those cases have occurred in the last 6 weeks. Almost 2,400 Orcadians have tested positive since February first. Currently 1 in 19 people are known to have COVID in Orkney. WTF?
I don’t understand how that is possible. Everyone I see here is masked indoors; many out of doors. There are no tourists – they don’t start arriving until May.
I was going to run some errands today – but I’m seeing my 89-year old uncle on Monday – I’m not going anywhere between now & pulling up to his house. I think I’m going back to my self-isolating habits of March 2020 – at least until I get back from our trip.
Here I was worried about going to the south of England – turns out I’m in the eye of the storm.
They are estimating that 6 million Ontarians have been infected by COVID, since Dec 1, 2021! That’s over a third of the population in less than 6 months. It’s everywhere. Including inside of my nose. (sneeze, sneeze)
So Orkney isn’t alone in its stats – interesting. I’m still impressed with their mortality rate of less than 1/2 of 1%.