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WikiProject COVID-19

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I've created WikiProject COVID-19 as a temporary or permanent WikiProject and invite editors to use this space for discussing ways to improve coverage of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Please bring your ideas to the project/talk page. Stay safe, ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:51, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The First Sentence

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This article's first sentence is a tautology. I will use ellipsis to illustrate that.

"The ... pandemic in Virginia is part of an ongoing pandemic ... in ... Virginia."

Virginia's coronavirus pandemic is part of a worldwide pandemic. 69.137.146.91 (talk) 04:13, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the wording slightly to correct this. 69.137.146.91 (talk) 04:23, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Change to chart - math mistake

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Hello, on the chart titled COVID-19 cases in Virginia, United States, there is a mistake in the case increase amount from March 23 to March 24. It says +46 when it should say +36. The percentage calculation of 14.2% is accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:4040:1060:5B00:B401:BBF8:804B:4A12 (talk) 17:24, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. Thanks for catching that. Shearonink (talk) 15:31, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Peninsula Health District death

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First time on a talk page, so be gentle. As far as I can recall, when the second death from COVID-19 occurred in Virginia, the only municipality in the district that had any cases at that time was James City County. Thusly, wouldn't it make sense that the death was from James City County, even though the district still hasn't specifically said that was the case? Just a thought, and I could be wrong. Thanks! JayKibler (talk) 12:18, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

JayKibler It was reported in reliable sources as taking place in the Peninsula Health District. I don't know why there wasn't more specificity in the VDH statements. We can extrapolate and infer and what you said makes sense but that would be original research and that's a no-no. We have to stick with what reliable sources state. If a reliable source comes up with more specificity then we can edit the statement accordingly. It does seem to me that in the early numbers most states or localities were quite vague and as non-specific as possible, perhaps out of an abundance of caution and protecting people who test positive but who are sheltering in their homes. If you find a reliable source that is more explicit as to the person's location, have at it. Shearonink (talk) 15:03, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fairfax County Parks "closed" sign image

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In a recent edit this image

was placed within the infobox. It seemed to me that this sign photo was overshadowing the Virginia counties map so I moved it elsewhere in the article but let's discuss etc. Shearonink (talk) 14:26, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Shearonink: I have no trouble with moving it. I just thought the infobox looked lonely without an image, and that was the one I chose. :-) For what it's worth, a lot of the other US state and territory articles on the outbreak have some sort of image in the infobox. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 16:38, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Fair point. but can the image be put underneath the map? I think the map should be primary, what people see first at the top of the article, but yeah... I think the issue for me is that the sign image is so tall, it visually takes over the infobox. Is there maybe another Virginia COVID-19 image that is chunkier, that would match the width of the map? Another month of this social distancing...*sigh*. Shearonink (talk) 17:22, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Shearonink: Take your pick. I have a few more pictures on my phone as well, if none of those will do the trick. I did want to avoid the CBP images, because those are related to the federal government and not the state. Ah, well...gives us something to do while we wait for insanity to take hold. Although in my case... --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 18:50, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ser Amantio di Nicolao I moved the image back to the infobox but made it smaller. What do you think?... Shearonink (talk) 19:43, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Shearonink: It's not showing, for some reason... --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 19:44, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I thought I had saved the change but apparently not...now it's saved. Shearonink (talk) 19:46, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Shearonink: That's good, I think. Gets the point across nicely. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 19:51, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can anyone find updated death statistics? For the County/City table?

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I have been unable to find the death statistics for the County/City table, other than local newspaper articles & local TV-news reports. Has anyone been able to find an updated list from a reliable source that states where the deaths have occurred? Help! and thanks - Shearonink (talk) 19:54, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, Virginia doesn't officially report county/city death statistics, they instead report them by Health District. If the death stats are updated by editors they will have to rely on media reports from reliable sources. Shearonink (talk) 19:56, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Am puzzled by graphic/assertion from University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (HealthData.Org)...

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This states non-essential services are not closed (per this edit). Is this possibly incorrect? Northam's Executive Order Fifty-Three closed certain non-essential businesses and detailed at length the businesses that were allowed to remain open, travel is severely-restricted, the stay-at-home order is in-effect, etc. Shearonink (talk) 20:11, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Shearonink: The language in the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's statement that my edit described is correct.
Governor Northam's March 23 Executive Order Number Fifty-Three (2020) "Temporary Restrictions on Restaurants, Recreational, Entertainment, Gatherings, Non-Essential Retail Businesses, and Closure of K-12 Schools Due To Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)" identifies certain "essential" retail businesses that would remain during their normal business hours. The order did not identify any "non-essential" businesses or even contain the term "non-essential" outside of its title. Governor Northam's order instead only closed "all dining and congregation areas in restaurants, dining establishments, food courts, breweries, microbreweries, distilleries, wineries, tasting rooms, and farmers markets" and "recreational and entertainment businesses" (see https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/executive-actions/EO-53-Temporary-Restrictions-Due-To-Novel-Coronavirus-(COVID-19).pdf).
Governor Northam's order therefore permits some or all parts of many types of businesses (such as bars and pubs that don't serve food, mattress stores, parts of restaurants that are not within dining or congregation areas, vape shops, bicycle shops, hardware stores, department stores without grocery or pharmacy operations, areas within automobile sales rooms, etc.) to remain open.
In contrast, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan's March 23 Order Number 20-03-23-01 "Amending And Restating The Order Of March 19, 2020 Prohibiting Large Gatherings and Events And Closing Senior Centers, And Additionally Closing All Nonessential Businesses And Other Establishments" contains a provision that closes all "businesses, organizations, establishments, and facilities that are not part of the critical infrastructure sectors identified by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastruction Security Agency" (see https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Gatherings-THIRD-AMENDED-3.23.20.pdf).
Virginia does not have any "bars and pubs that don't serve food." There are minimum percentages of food sales that ABC license holders must meet, with an exception for breweries, microbreweries, distilleries, wineries, and tasting rooms that either produce on site or meet other requirements. Therefore there are no pubs or bars in the state of Virginia, they are all restaurants. (see https://www.virginiamercury.com/2018/10/02/where-did-virginias-food-to-liquor-ratio-come-from-and-does-it-still-serve-a-purpose/ ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bksward (talkcontribs) 18:15, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
There is a big difference between Governor Northam's and Governor Hogan's March 23 orders. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's statement recognizes this. Corker1 (talk) 00:38, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
See, the way you explained it, that all makes sense. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 00:57, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If a person didn't die?

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Are the number of active cases reduced? One would assume the vast percentage do not die. But this number is not displayed in the stats.2600:8805:3A00:1038:3D5D:411C:1748:ABDF (talk) 23:41, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

All we can do as Wikipedia editors is report what the reliable sources state. Shearonink (talk) 00:58, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The first graph under §Statistics labels the red bars as "Active cases", but the source does not include this data. It reports "Total Deaths" and "Total Cases" which it describes as "Positive Tests Among People Tested". It is incorrect to describe the difference of those two figures as "Active cases" as that difference includes both active cases and recoveries. The sources gives neither active cases nor recoveries, so we are unable to differentiate further.
"Active cases" is the default label generated by the {{Medical cases chart}} template. I've edited {{2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data/United States/Virginia medical cases chart}}, adding "altlbl1=Active cases & recoveries" to correct this. -- ToE 16:55, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

cluster

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This ref 1 reports that 42 of the 154 cases are at one facility, more than 25%.--Billymac00 (talk) 15:49, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I've added that information to the article. Shearonink (talk) 17:08, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Population figures recently added to article

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Populations were added for the counties here and here but no refs were given. At all. I have asked the editor who added those figures to provide references/sources. Keeping in mind WP:verifiability and reliable sources, referencing from reliable sources must be provided, otherwise, those population figures and percentages should be removed from the article. Shearonink (talk) 22:32, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That editor has now provided a ref: US Census 2019 Virginia County Population Estimates . -- ToE 22:06, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed that - YAY! I knew they had to be working from real statistics and they were operating in good faith but gotta have those sources. Shearonink (talk) 01:33, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deaths by health district

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@CAWylie, Corker1, and Leviavery: Since the VDH is now regularly reporting deaths for each county, I think the table for health districts is redundant and can be removed from the article. Thoughts? Jayab314 13:16, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I hid the table until a decision is made. Jayab314 14:05, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by me. Now that deaths are reported by county I don't think the health districts table adds anything. Leviavery (talk) 14:14, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The VDH said they were doing that to protect people's privacy especially for people in individual counties/cities where there were small numbers of deaths...it would be easy to figure out who the deceased people were - HIPAA etc. I am going to disagree on removing the table completely. I am not sure it should be removed - the death reporting by health districts is part of the historic timeline of events. How about putting the table into the timeline or into Notes with a hide-show and sourced explanation? Shearonink (talk) 15:48, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Jayab314, Leviavery, and Shearonink: I concur with Shearonink. It is important to retain the historic timeline of events in one way or another. Corker1 (talk) 17:05, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Jayab314: Firstly, you don't hide, strike, or undo another editor's work of that size before getting consensus to do so. Secondly, in this case, redundancy is good, as there's nothing similar between tables in any way. Wyliepedia @ 20:25, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Data mistake or inconsistency

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The colorized map of Virginia shows two counties with zero cases. The table a bit farther down shows 3 counties with zero cases. I believe this is a mistake in one or the other because they are inconsistent. 1-Jul-2020

Both are pretty out of date right now, but the data in the table is from all the way back in May, while the map is more recent. Leviavery (talk) 21:09, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics table

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Since I removed the outdated statistics table a few days ago, I figured I should provide better data too. Here's a chart. Cases and deaths derive from [1], 2019 population derives from [2] (the Virginia link under "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Counties: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2019"), and percentages are calculated from the other data. Nyttend (talk) 18:52, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nyttend, Thanks for providing this data here. I am interested in deep linking the VDH dashboard that provides daily case rates and have asked my Wiki Education instructor how to do so. I'll update once I figure how to do this. Caracol1313 (talk) 16:09, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
You're quite welcome. Unfortunately I don't know how to get good statistics without mousing over individual counties and cities, which is particularly hard with Manassas and Manassas Park (they've mis-marked the two cities) and other cities that are small, and it takes much longer than if we could download statistics from a chart. This makes updates take a good deal more work. Nyttend (talk) 18:10, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]


County/city Cases Deaths 2019 pop % of pop infected % of pop killed % of cases fatal
Accomack County 2342 31 32316 7.25% 0.10% 1.32%
Albemarle County 3924 35 109330 3.59% 0.03% 0.89%
Alexandria (city) 9435 104 159428 5.92% 0.07% 1.10%
Alleghany County 1122 31 14860 7.55% 0.21% 2.76%
Amelia County 640 10 13145 4.87% 0.08% 1.56%
Amherst County 2380 11 31605 7.53% 0.03% 0.46%
Appomattox County 1241 8 15911 7.80% 0.05% 0.64%
Arlington County 11691 201 236842 4.94% 0.08% 1.72%
Augusta County 4754 48 75558 6.29% 0.06% 1.01%
Bath County 240 8 4147 5.79% 0.19% 3.33%
Bedford County 5171 39 78997 6.55% 0.05% 0.75%
Bland County 603 9 6280 9.60% 0.14% 1.49%
Botetourt County 1866 21 33419 5.58% 0.06% 1.13%
Bristol (city) 1182 24 16762 7.05% 0.14% 2.03%
Brunswick County 1089 9 16231 6.71% 0.06% 0.83%
Buchanan County 1162 32 21004 5.53% 0.15% 2.75%
Buckingham County 1856 17 17148 10.82% 0.10% 0.92%
Buena Vista (city) 748 12 6478 11.55% 0.19% 1.60%
Campbell County 3522 31 54885 6.42% 0.06% 0.88%
Caroline County 1576 13 30725 5.13% 0.04% 0.82%
Carroll County 1978 56 29791 6.64% 0.19% 2.83%
Charles City County 352 9 6963 5.06% 0.13% 2.56%
Charlotte County 625 10 11880 5.26% 0.08% 1.60%
Charlottesville (city) 2740 39 47266 5.80% 0.08% 1.42%
Chesapeake (city) 15436 136 244835 6.30% 0.06% 0.88%
Chesterfield County 19150 203 352802 5.43% 0.06% 1.06%
Clarke County 674 8 14619 4.61% 0.05% 1.19%
Colonial Heights (city) 1043 31 17370 6.00% 0.18% 2.97%
Covington (city) 565 5 5538 10.20% 0.09% 0.88%
Craig County 215 3 5131 4.19% 0.06% 1.40%
Culpeper County 3743 34 52605 7.12% 0.06% 0.91%
Cumberland County 325 4 9932 3.27% 0.04% 1.23%
Danville (city) 3655 66 40044 9.13% 0.16% 1.81%
Dickenson County 819 14 14318 5.72% 0.10% 1.71%
Dinwiddie County 1482 18 28544 5.19% 0.06% 1.21%
Emporia (city) 559 32 5346 10.46% 0.60% 5.72%
Essex County 533 4 10953 4.87% 0.04% 0.75%
Fairfax (city) 427 12 24019 1.78% 0.05% 2.81%
Fairfax County 59481 784 1147532 5.18% 0.07% 1.32%
Falls Church (city) 291 6 14617 1.99% 0.04% 2.06%
Fauquier County 3476 33 71222 4.88% 0.05% 0.95%
Floyd County 679 18 15749 4.31% 0.11% 2.65%
Fluvanna County 1150 13 27270 4.22% 0.05% 1.13%
Franklin (city) 859 21 7967 10.78% 0.26% 2.44%
Franklin County 3348 34 56042 5.97% 0.06% 1.02%
Frederick County 6000 45 89313 6.72% 0.05% 0.75%
Fredericksburg (city) 1522 14 29036 5.24% 0.05% 0.92%
Galax (city) 955 39 6347 15.05% 0.61% 4.08%
Giles County 928 7 16720 5.55% 0.04% 0.75%
Gloucester County 1501 27 37348 4.02% 0.07% 1.80%
Goochland County 1035 8 23753 4.36% 0.03% 0.77%
Grayson County 1037 26 15550 6.67% 0.17% 2.51%
Greene County 848 5 19819 4.28% 0.03% 0.59%
Greensville County 1312 18 11336 11.57% 0.16% 1.37%
Halifax County 2005 52 33911 5.91% 0.15% 2.59%
Hampton (city) 7174 66 134510 5.33% 0.05% 0.92%
Hanover County 5843 101 107766 5.42% 0.09% 1.73%
Harrisonburg (city) 5305 61 53016 10.01% 0.12% 1.15%
Henrico County 18463 344 330818 5.58% 0.10% 1.86%
Henry County 3747 74 50557 7.41% 0.15% 1.97%
Highland County 81 0 2190 3.70% 0.00% 0.00%
Hopewell (city) 1745 17 22529 7.75% 0.08% 0.97%
Isle of Wight County 2179 38 37109 5.87% 0.10% 1.74%
James City County 3454 39 76523 4.51% 0.05% 1.13%
King and Queen County 251 3 7025 3.57% 0.04% 1.20%
King George County 1225 11 26836 4.56% 0.04% 0.90%
King William County 718 5 17148 4.19% 0.03% 0.70%
Lancaster County 563 3 10603 5.31% 0.03% 0.53%
Lee County 2146 37 23423 9.16% 0.16% 1.72%
Lexington (city) 809 18 7446 10.86% 0.24% 2.22%
Loudoun County 20384 181 413538 4.93% 0.04% 0.89%
Louisa County 1502 12 37591 4.00% 0.03% 0.80%
Lunenburg County 566 4 12196 4.64% 0.03% 0.71%
Lynchburg (city) 6173 71 82168 7.51% 0.09% 1.15%
Madison County 473 6 13261 3.57% 0.05% 1.27%
Manassas (city) 3696 33 41085 9.00% 0.08% 0.89%
Manassas Park (city) 1070 8 17478 6.12% 0.05% 0.75%
Martinsville (city) 1374 36 12554 10.94% 0.29% 2.62%
Mathews County 441 6 8834 4.99% 0.07% 1.36%
Mecklenburg County 1787 46 30587 5.84% 0.15% 2.57%
Middlesex County 410 16 10582 3.87% 0.15% 3.90%
Montgomery County 6323 64 98535 6.42% 0.06% 1.01%
Nelson County 640 6 14930 4.29% 0.04% 0.94%
New Kent County 1053 7 23091 4.56% 0.03% 0.66%
Newport News (city) 9772 97 179225 5.45% 0.05% 0.99%
Norfolk (city) 12850 142 242742 5.29% 0.06% 1.11%
Northampton County 632 33 11710 5.40% 0.28% 5.22%
Northumberland County 582 13 12095 4.81% 0.11% 2.23%
Norton (city) 233 2 3981 5.85% 0.05% 0.86%
Nottoway County 1649 27 15232 10.83% 0.18% 1.64%
Orange County 1516 18 37051 4.09% 0.05% 1.19%
Page County 1655 40 23902 6.92% 0.17% 2.42%
Patrick County 1063 29 17608 6.04% 0.16% 2.73%
Petersburg (city) 2634 37 31346 8.40% 0.12% 1.40%
Pittsylvania County 4132 46 60354 6.85% 0.08% 1.11%
Poquoson (city) 599 8 12271 4.88% 0.07% 1.34%
Portsmouth (city) 6547 97 94398 6.94% 0.10% 1.48%
Powhatan County 1330 7 29652 4.49% 0.02% 0.53%
Prince Edward County 1709 20 22802 7.49% 0.09% 1.17%
Prince George County 2544 10 38353 6.63% 0.03% 0.39%
Prince William County 35245 313 470335 7.49% 0.07% 0.89%
Pulaski County 2167 45 34027 6.37% 0.13% 2.08%
Radford (city) 1796 9 18249 9.84% 0.05% 0.50%
Rappahannock County 263 2 7370 3.57% 0.03% 0.76%
Richmond (city) 12757 132 230436 5.54% 0.06% 1.03%
Richmond County 1220 7 9023 13.52% 0.08% 0.57%
Roanoke (city) 6928 119 99143 6.99% 0.12% 1.72%
Roanoke County 6485 78 94186 6.89% 0.08% 1.20%
Rockbridge County 1072 29 22573 4.75% 0.13% 2.71%
Rockingham County 5537 74 81948 6.76% 0.09% 1.34%
Russell County 1908 22 26586 7.18% 0.08% 1.15%
Salem (city) 1736 33 25301 6.86% 0.13% 1.90%
Scott County 1499 44 21566 6.95% 0.20% 2.94%
Shenandoah County 3407 94 43616 7.81% 0.22% 2.76%
Smyth County 2409 75 30104 8.00% 0.25% 3.11%
Southampton County 1710 46 17631 9.70% 0.26% 2.69%
Spotsylvania County 7194 82 136215 5.28% 0.06% 1.14%
Stafford County 7956 48 152882 5.20% 0.03% 0.60%
Staunton (city) 2208 52 24932 8.86% 0.21% 2.36%
Suffolk (city) 5810 112 92108 6.31% 0.12% 1.93%
Surry County 324 5 6422 5.05% 0.08% 1.54%
Sussex County 996 16 11159 8.93% 0.14% 1.61%
Tazewell County 2958 33 40595 7.29% 0.08% 1.12%
Virginia Beach (city) 26211 206 449974 5.83% 0.05% 0.79%
Warren County 1999 37 40164 4.98% 0.09% 1.85%
Washington County 4057 79 53740 7.55% 0.15% 1.95%
Waynesboro (city) 1855 25 22630 8.20% 0.11% 1.35%
Westmoreland County 1018 16 18015 5.65% 0.09% 1.57%
Williamsburg (city) 444 9 14954 2.97% 0.06% 2.03%
Winchester (city) 2287 20 28078 8.15% 0.07% 0.87%
Wise County 2654 84 37383 7.10% 0.22% 3.17%
Wythe County 1797 36 28684 6.26% 0.13% 2.00%
York County 2548 16 68280 3.73% 0.02% 0.63%

K-12 Education

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Hello, I've added info on K-12 education, mainly as it relates to operational status of public schools. I'd welcome additional info and/or suggestions on either public or private education throughout the state. Thanks! Caracol1313 (talk) 16:13, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Impact on Prisons

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I added some information on the COVID-19 impact on prisons. There's a table on the VA ACLU website that includes weekly data on release decisions, COVID case numbers, etc, at individual correctional facilities, but I've yet to figure out how best to upload it. If you know how to do deep linking or have other ideas about how best to use this, I'd be interested in learning more. Thanks all! Caracol1313 (talk) 17:31, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Where exactly is the estimated recoveries source?

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The template on the right side of the page cites page as source for the estimated recoveries, but i can't find them. Chopanero77 (talk) 13:34, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]