I would very much like to know whether Covid can spread via children. Closing the schools is very difficult for parents, who are having to teach and work at the same time. And if it continues into the fall, this generation of children will fall far behind where they should be.
Do you trust that
a) parents will keep their sick and asymptomatic carrier kids home
b) kids will follow social distancing guidelines and wash their hands after coming into contact with possibly contaminated surfaces
c) kid will wear masks all day but not touch them
These don't really seem like things these groups of humans do.
Which is whatever, but the upside is you can probably go hang out with your kids' classmates' parents without significantly increasing your risk.
Parents will absolutely 100000% send their kids to school no matter how sick they are, and be forced to come pick them up later. This is standard, there's at least one in every class in every grade.
This is because most people don’t have enough sick days for both themselves and their kids.
Putin's political leanings are neither an update nor COVID-related.
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– enlarged lymph node gland on one side of the neck
– red cracked lips or red tongue
– swollen hands and feet
It can come weeks after infection, even after asymptomatic infection, and this disease has appeared in infants less than 1 year up to twenty year olds. There's some kind of multi-organ and blood vessel inflammation that occurs and there doesn't seem to be any links with pre-existing conditions; almost all the children with MIS-C appeared to be healthy beforehand. There's still a lot unknown and it appears relatively rare, but SARS2 isn't completely harmless to children as previously believed.
Okay, that is a MUCH higher dip than the 5.5% I saw reported last month. So that's good news, at least.
There is bad news: Atmospheric levels are still rising. They didn't set a record for net monthly increase again in April at least but this still isn't enough to change the direction, a year of this would buy us about 3 months on projections.
This sounds like it makes fighting climate change out to be entirely hopeless. While we could be a little more shut down considering the states that are re-opening, for the most part we're as shut down as you can get without having people starving to death. Just how much would we have to stop living to actually have an impact?
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Okay, that is a MUCH higher dip than the 5.5% I saw reported last month. So that's good news, at least.
There is bad news: Atmospheric levels are still rising. They didn't set a record for net monthly increase again in April at least but this still isn't enough to change the direction, a year of this would buy us about 3 months on projections.
This sounds like it makes fighting climate change out to be entirely hopeless. While we could be a little more shut down considering the states that are re-opening, for the most part we're as shut down as you can get without having people starving to death. Just how much would we have to stop living to actually have an impact?
We can live as much as we want as long as we cut down on the fossil fuels. Switch as much transportation as possible to be electric and switch the grid to zero emission sources. Doing stuff the same old way but just doing less of it isn't going to work.
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Shit, didn't realize this was the Updates thread, just moving response to Climate Change this tangent is hella off topic.
– enlarged lymph node gland on one side of the neck
– red cracked lips or red tongue
– swollen hands and feet
It can come weeks after infection, even after asymptomatic infection, and this disease has appeared in infants less than 1 year up to twenty year olds. There's some kind of multi-organ and blood vessel inflammation that occurs and there doesn't seem to be any links with pre-existing conditions; almost all the children with MIS-C appeared to be healthy beforehand. There's still a lot unknown and it appears relatively rare, but SARS2 isn't completely harmless to children as previously believed.
SARS2 was never completely harmless to children, they just had the lowest rates of death and related complications.
One thing to note here is that children with this condition have responded well to treatments for Kawasaki disease etc (even though this is not Kawasaki disease) so make sure to bring any child with these symptoms to the doctor ASAP.
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Okay, that is a MUCH higher dip than the 5.5% I saw reported last month. So that's good news, at least.
There is bad news: Atmospheric levels are still rising. They didn't set a record for net monthly increase again in April at least but this still isn't enough to change the direction, a year of this would buy us about 3 months on projections.
This sounds like it makes fighting climate change out to be entirely hopeless. While we could be a little more shut down considering the states that are re-opening, for the most part we're as shut down as you can get without having people starving to death. Just how much would we have to stop living to actually have an impact?
We can live as much as we want as long as we cut down on the fossil fuels. Switch as much transportation as possible to be electric and switch the grid to zero emission sources. Doing stuff the same old way but just doing less of it isn't going to work.
What we just had was a grand experiment in individual actions. Turns out, individual actions (driving less, etc.) cannot contribute nearly enough to ending the climate crisis - we need mass collective action and working for the long term. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem enough governments in the world are interested in that sort of thing - authoritarians just care about clinging to power no matter the cost.
Speaking of authoritarians, China's going through another series of lockdowns in areas and cities near the North Korean border after new clusters of cases were found there. Cases from internal Chinese circulation that's been ongoing, spillover from a long-denied North Korean epidemic, or both? Who knows? It's just all sorts of lies and coverups.
Speaking of lies and coverups, a serosurvey in Wuhan to see how many people might have antibodies against SARS2 came up with an estimate of about 5% or 500,000 people who had been infected, 10 times the official number. We know this because the number was very briefly posted before being deleted and suppressed in China Of course, that 5% number is being seen in a lot of places and that number of cases isn't unexpected at all - people have been flinging numbers like that around for a couple months now. But authoritarians can't admit facts, because that's weakness to them.
Well, today in BC (population around 5 million) we have.. 2 new cases total. Phase 2 of the re-opening plan starts officially today, though in reality people started acting like it was at that phase as soon as they announced it was coming. Biggest change is businesses in approved categories being allowed to re-open. You can even get a hair cut.
My worry here in B.C. in that we got way ahead of it, and a large % of our population didn't even come in contact, could a wave hit with reopening?
Yeah it's quite possible, but there hasn't been significant community transmission in BC for a while, or our numbers wouldn't be this low. My main concern would be the feds re-opening the border with the USA, which I guess they could do over the Premier and provincial health minister's concerns, but would be out of line with how the feds and provinces have been handling things.
Welp, it looks like Oklahoma's plan is starting to unravel. I would link a news story or something, but our local media is horrendous and only reports on things that our terrible governor says. There appears to be essentially 0 investigative reporting as it pertains to our COVID cases, which is making it pretty rough over here!
But, we have the Oklahoma Department of Health's COVID Dashboard to look at. If you scroll down the page and look at the graph on the left, you'll see what I'm alluding to. Note, that we are being cool like Georgia and backdating tests to the "date of when symptoms are first reported". So, that big spike on May 12th is the latest day that we have more or less full reporting for -- the subsequent days are almost certain to follow suit. For reference, when I checked this graph on May 15th, with May 15th's data input, it was showing total cases as about 40 on May 12th, not the 224 it is showing currently.
Our governor is of course, plunging us in the phase 2, and I honestly don't think anything will stop him from 100% opening (with no protections for vulnerable populations anymore) on June 1st.
including antibody tests in the test numbers but not as a confirmed case.
HMMM
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ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
NV doesn't do that for new cases I don't think, but they do report deaths by the date the person dies instead of the date the death is reported to the state, which I appreciate because it's a lot easier to see what's really happening. They say they do that, and that it means that sometimes the numbers for a given day in the past may go up. It also means graphs on other sites look real weird and jagged, because they use date reported to the state.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
I think its better than back dating because once a day is passed no ones looking at those numbers again. So it lets them kind of hide cases in the backlog rather than keeping currentl
Due to the potential of going to Gencon (a gaming convention in Indianapolis held each year, one of the largest gaming conventions in the world), I've been watching Indiana's numbers, and don't mind the way it's being presented on that dashboard.
I can't recall seeing any backdating on newly reported cases, but they definitely do it with deaths, however the graph makes it pretty easy to see where they are. So you have the overall number, which to me is most relevant, and then a more granular view of when they happened, which seems reasonable enough.
My thought is that depending on how testing is going (and with the US, "badly" is the default assumption), if some lab finally gets to test a couple hundred samples from deceased individuals, reporting the deaths they find on that specific day makes it seem like a giant spike is happening, when in reality a bunch of those may have happened across the last week. Still not great, but not 'oh god our fatality rate tripled overnight'.
Maybe I've misunderstood the discussion, in which case the more pertinent point was that I was generally happy with what I saw of Indiana's local information reporting dashboard.
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Just in case you hadn't seen it yet, they finally canceled Gencon for this year @Forar
Due to the potential of going to Gencon (a gaming convention in Indianapolis held each year, one of the largest gaming conventions in the world), I've been watching Indiana's numbers, and don't mind the way it's being presented on that dashboard.
I can't recall seeing any backdating on newly reported cases, but they definitely do it with deaths, however the graph makes it pretty easy to see where they are. So you have the overall number, which to me is most relevant, and then a more granular view of when they happened, which seems reasonable enough.
My thought is that depending on how testing is going (and with the US, "badly" is the default assumption), if some lab finally gets to test a couple hundred samples from deceased individuals, reporting the deaths they find on that specific day makes it seem like a giant spike is happening, when in reality a bunch of those may have happened across the last week. Still not great, but not 'oh god our fatality rate tripled overnight'.
Maybe I've misunderstood the discussion, in which case the more pertinent point was that I was generally happy with what I saw of Indiana's local information reporting dashboard.
Good news is that GenCon cancelled yesterday if you didn't get the email they sent out. You can let your badge roll over to 2021 or request a refund for it if you already purchased it. Details are in the link.
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including antibody tests in the test numbers but not as a confirmed case.
HMMM
From the first article:
At a news conference Monday afternoon, Abbott denied the state was mixing the tests.
"The answer is no, they are not commingling those numbers," the governor said. "Those numbers will be provided separately."
After Abbott's press conference, Grand Prairie state Rep. Chris Turner, chairman of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, said that after the governor's comments his staff had again confirmed with DSHS that Texas' testing statistics included both active virus and antibody tests.
WOW, I WONDER WHO TO BELIEVE...
Meanwhile, in a surprise to no one, Texas continues to trend in the wrong direction. Just looking at the graph of new daily cases, you don't even need to do a rolling average or anything to see it. It's quite obvious.
ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
I think its better than back dating because once a day is passed no ones looking at those numbers again. So it lets them kind of hide cases in the backlog rather than keeping currentl
Well, the reason I think it's good is that it's specifically labeled with the data that they're doing that. They put out a new set of graphs just about every day in a daily situation report that looks like this. You can look at the old ones if you want to, they're all listed on the same page they put together on a specifically for state covid-19 info. You can go back and look at the old ones to see what's changed from day to day if you want to. It's https://nvhealthresponse.nv.gov and it's a nice site. Some part of me assumes that every state puts out something like that.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
Just in case you hadn't seen it yet, they finally canceled Gencon for this year Forar
Yeah, I saw that notice shortly after it was posted, and I'm glad they've chosen to do the only sensible thing here.
I just hope that doing so without (from what I've seen) being compelled to do so by the city or state doesn't lead to them getting financially reamed over taking reasonable action.
It would have been nice for it to be earlier, but 10 weeks out is better than nothing.
I've been working with a company's booth to demo games for them for the last couple of years, so we've all been watching this pretty closely.
Thanks for the heads up, and while I already knew, it's good to get the word out far and wide.
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Québec updates!
After having the date being pushed back twice, stores in greater Montréal will be allowed to open on May 25.
Dentist, therapeuthic and personal care will re-open outside of Montréal on June 1. No date given yet for Montréal.
Outside gatherings of 10 or less people are now expressly permitted (Note : Outside gatherings were never made downright illegal as long as you respected the 2M distancing but they were strongly discouraged by the autorities. Honestly it was kind of confusing. Now it's no longer the case)
Our trendline is FINALLY going down. We were stuck on a platteau of 750-900 daily cases for almost all of April. Now, we're down in the 500s.
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- Restore Illinois plan to be evaluated at end of May. Any Illinois region that meets certain thresholds (listed here: http://www.dph.illinois.gov/restore) will be eligible to enter Phase 3 as of June 1.
- Phase 3 has been expanded. New rules:
- Restaurants may open to proper social distancing, tables at least 6 feet apart, staff must be supplied with masks.
- All gatherings (not just essential) of 10 and fewer people are allowed, encouraged to practice proper social distancing
- State parks will reopen with proper social distancing and masks recommended
- All retail stores that conform to proper IDPH safety precautions can open (precautions include capacity limits)
- Tennis indoor/outdoor facilities can open
- Golf courses can open to a foursome per hole at a time
- One on one personal training and care facilities can reopen
- Other businesses can open following industrial guidelines laid out by the state, given proper capacity limits and social distancing
The governor and state medical expert reiterate that the virus has not gone away and it won't go away on its own, so it's important to follow proper hygiene, hand washing, social distancing, and masks when social distancing is not possible.
I'd like to see Texas and California numbers by region rather than by state. Putting everything from Amarillo to Brownsville in the same set of numbers is like doing it to everything between Philadelphia and Chicago.
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South Korea had a cluster of cases associated with people going to fitness classes in a gym. It's an early release research letter, but these researchers believe that the intense exercise was aiding with the transmission of droplets - people breathe in and out harder, so more droplets get expelled harder and then get inhaled deeper into the lungs. It does seem to fit the pattern seen by church choirs having intense transmission - the deeper breathing and projecting sound while singing likely have similar effects.
Unless you already recovered from COVID-19, don't go to the gym.
I'd like to see Texas and California numbers by region rather than by state. Putting everything from Amarillo to Brownsville in the same set of numbers is like doing it to everything between Philadelphia and Chicago.
- Restore Illinois plan to be evaluated at end of May. Any Illinois region that meets certain thresholds (listed here: http://www.dph.illinois.gov/restore) will be eligible to enter Phase 3 as of June 1.
- Phase 3 has been expanded. New rules:
- Restaurants may open to proper social distancing, tables at least 6 feet apart, staff must be supplied with masks.
- All gatherings (not just essential) of 10 and fewer people are allowed, encouraged to practice proper social distancing
- State parks will reopen with proper social distancing and masks recommended
- All retail stores that conform to proper IDPH safety precautions can open (precautions include capacity limits)
- Tennis indoor/outdoor facilities can open
- Golf courses can open to a foursome per hole at a time
- One on one personal training and care facilities can reopen
- Other businesses can open following industrial guidelines laid out by the state, given proper capacity limits and social distancing
The governor and state medical expert reiterate that the virus has not gone away and it won't go away on its own, so it's important to follow proper hygiene, hand washing, social distancing, and masks when social distancing is not possible.
For restaurants, my understanding is that it's solely for outside/ patio seating. Indoor dining is still pushed out later to phase 4.
I'd like to see Texas and California numbers by region rather than by state. Putting everything from Amarillo to Brownsville in the same set of numbers is like doing it to everything between Philadelphia and Chicago.
It’s another good day to be a rhesus macaque. A group of monkeys at Beth Israel medical center were infected, suffered moderate symptoms including pneumonia, and were then attempted to be reinfected 35 days later. On challenge the monkeys all rapidly cleared any live virus and showed no symptoms, with the virus only detected transiently in the nose.
Another group of 45 monkeys were given doses (1 per monkey) of varying vaccine candidates. All provided some benefit leading to faster clearance and lesser symptoms, and at least two candidates were completely protective.
So, in alternate monkey universe where rhesus macaques are the dominant species, break out the bubbly because this damn viruses days are numbered! Unfortunately here in earth prime we will still need to wait to see if our vaguely crappy human immune system can be persuaded to behave.
It is a VERY good sign that’s there is no evidence or vaccine enhancement of the virus in infected or exposed monkeys. That does usually show up in monkeys if it’s a thing, we saw it a lot with SARS vaccines there.
With the data coming out, if someone offered me a chance to be in a vaccine trial I would jump at it.
Sweden found to have about the amount of antibodies at the end of April that anyone other than Sweden thought they would have had by the end of April. Pretty much in line with everything else coming out about the death rate (0.5-1% ish in random people as healthy as random French people from various studies around Europe). Seems like 7% of Stockholm had had the virus by the end of april. Clearly more than that now, but, only enough to say they are past the beginning of the crisis, and have the whole midsection to go.
Florida theme parks will start to re-open in June. Early June. Legoland June 1, and Universal submitted local plans to open to the public on June 5, at roughly 25% capacity. Still has to go through the governor, but I imagine if he were to change anything about the plans, it would be to open them sooner because he'd love to continue to pretend this doesn't exist.
If Disney tries to re-open, which I imagine they will in a response to universal, I'm definitely going to insist continuing to work from home. Especially since Disney is requiring all of its working cast to perform a health screening on themselves before going into work each day. I'd rather just stay at home.
Fourth day of no new cases, 1 person remains in hospital, and 97% of our 1153 cases are confirmed as recovered. Bars reopened yesterday, the last of our hospitality businesses to be allowed to do so. Here's hoping we've not managed to miss a viral reservoir somewhere.
Sweden found to have about the amount of antibodies at the end of April that anyone other than Sweden thought they would have had by the end of April. Pretty much in line with everything else coming out about the death rate (0.5-1% ish in random people as healthy as random French people from various studies around Europe). Seems like 7% of Stockholm had had the virus by the end of april. Clearly more than that now, but, only enough to say they are past the beginning of the crisis, and have the whole midsection to go.
Florida theme parks will start to re-open in June. Early June. Legoland June 1, and Universal submitted local plans to open to the public on June 5, at roughly 25% capacity. Still has to go through the governor, but I imagine if he were to change anything about the plans, it would be to open them sooner because he'd love to continue to pretend this doesn't exist.
If Disney tries to re-open, which I imagine they will in a response to universal, I'm definitely going to insist continuing to work from home. Especially since Disney is requiring all of its working cast to perform a health screening on themselves before going into work each day. I'd rather just stay at home.
A theme park at guaranteed 25% capacity honestly sounds kind of rad.
Florida theme parks will start to re-open in June. Early June. Legoland June 1, and Universal submitted local plans to open to the public on June 5, at roughly 25% capacity. Still has to go through the governor, but I imagine if he were to change anything about the plans, it would be to open them sooner because he'd love to continue to pretend this doesn't exist.
If Disney tries to re-open, which I imagine they will in a response to universal, I'm definitely going to insist continuing to work from home. Especially since Disney is requiring all of its working cast to perform a health screening on themselves before going into work each day. I'd rather just stay at home.
A theme park at guaranteed 25% capacity honestly sounds kind of rad.
And a lot more expensive since they still need to make money
The Kawasaki like syndrome looks like it isn't only in kids but also seemly healthy young adults as well. This disease is just nasty but not surprising as it is clot based more than anything.
Florida theme parks will start to re-open in June. Early June. Legoland June 1, and Universal submitted local plans to open to the public on June 5, at roughly 25% capacity. Still has to go through the governor, but I imagine if he were to change anything about the plans, it would be to open them sooner because he'd love to continue to pretend this doesn't exist.
If Disney tries to re-open, which I imagine they will in a response to universal, I'm definitely going to insist continuing to work from home. Especially since Disney is requiring all of its working cast to perform a health screening on themselves before going into work each day. I'd rather just stay at home.
A theme park at guaranteed 25% capacity honestly sounds kind of rad.
And a lot more expensive since they still need to make money
yeah, but you'll make up for it with cheap flights
The Kawasaki like syndrome looks like it isn't only in kids but also seemly healthy young adults as well. This disease is just nasty but not surprising as it is clot based more than anything.
Oh boy a fresh new spike of anxiety to mix into my custom blend
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Putin is extremely right wing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinism
This is because most people don’t have enough sick days for both themselves and their kids.
Putin's political leanings are neither an update nor COVID-related.
– persistent fever
– irritability or sluggishness
– severe abdominal pain
– diarrhea
– vomiting
– rash
– red or pink eyes
– enlarged lymph node gland on one side of the neck
– red cracked lips or red tongue
– swollen hands and feet
It can come weeks after infection, even after asymptomatic infection, and this disease has appeared in infants less than 1 year up to twenty year olds. There's some kind of multi-organ and blood vessel inflammation that occurs and there doesn't seem to be any links with pre-existing conditions; almost all the children with MIS-C appeared to be healthy beforehand. There's still a lot unknown and it appears relatively rare, but SARS2 isn't completely harmless to children as previously believed.
This sounds like it makes fighting climate change out to be entirely hopeless. While we could be a little more shut down considering the states that are re-opening, for the most part we're as shut down as you can get without having people starving to death. Just how much would we have to stop living to actually have an impact?
We can live as much as we want as long as we cut down on the fossil fuels. Switch as much transportation as possible to be electric and switch the grid to zero emission sources. Doing stuff the same old way but just doing less of it isn't going to work.
SARS2 was never completely harmless to children, they just had the lowest rates of death and related complications.
One thing to note here is that children with this condition have responded well to treatments for Kawasaki disease etc (even though this is not Kawasaki disease) so make sure to bring any child with these symptoms to the doctor ASAP.
What we just had was a grand experiment in individual actions. Turns out, individual actions (driving less, etc.) cannot contribute nearly enough to ending the climate crisis - we need mass collective action and working for the long term. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem enough governments in the world are interested in that sort of thing - authoritarians just care about clinging to power no matter the cost.
Speaking of authoritarians, China's going through another series of lockdowns in areas and cities near the North Korean border after new clusters of cases were found there. Cases from internal Chinese circulation that's been ongoing, spillover from a long-denied North Korean epidemic, or both? Who knows? It's just all sorts of lies and coverups.
Speaking of lies and coverups, a serosurvey in Wuhan to see how many people might have antibodies against SARS2 came up with an estimate of about 5% or 500,000 people who had been infected, 10 times the official number. We know this because the number was very briefly posted before being deleted and suppressed in China Of course, that 5% number is being seen in a lot of places and that number of cases isn't unexpected at all - people have been flinging numbers like that around for a couple months now. But authoritarians can't admit facts, because that's weakness to them.
Yeah it's quite possible, but there hasn't been significant community transmission in BC for a while, or our numbers wouldn't be this low. My main concern would be the feds re-opening the border with the USA, which I guess they could do over the Premier and provincial health minister's concerns, but would be out of line with how the feds and provinces have been handling things.
But, we have the Oklahoma Department of Health's COVID Dashboard to look at. If you scroll down the page and look at the graph on the left, you'll see what I'm alluding to. Note, that we are being cool like Georgia and backdating tests to the "date of when symptoms are first reported". So, that big spike on May 12th is the latest day that we have more or less full reporting for -- the subsequent days are almost certain to follow suit. For reference, when I checked this graph on May 15th, with May 15th's data input, it was showing total cases as about 40 on May 12th, not the 224 it is showing currently.
Our governor is of course, plunging us in the phase 2, and I honestly don't think anything will stop him from 100% opening (with no protections for vulnerable populations anymore) on June 1st.
https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/texas-coronavirus-testing-conflate-antibodies-11912520
They're being accused of co-mingling antibody tests with regular ones to inflate thier numbers
Georgia's being accused of the same.
https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/coronavirus/article242831786.html
including antibody tests in the test numbers but not as a confirmed case.
HMMM
I can't recall seeing any backdating on newly reported cases, but they definitely do it with deaths, however the graph makes it pretty easy to see where they are. So you have the overall number, which to me is most relevant, and then a more granular view of when they happened, which seems reasonable enough.
My thought is that depending on how testing is going (and with the US, "badly" is the default assumption), if some lab finally gets to test a couple hundred samples from deceased individuals, reporting the deaths they find on that specific day makes it seem like a giant spike is happening, when in reality a bunch of those may have happened across the last week. Still not great, but not 'oh god our fatality rate tripled overnight'.
Maybe I've misunderstood the discussion, in which case the more pertinent point was that I was generally happy with what I saw of Indiana's local information reporting dashboard.
Good news is that GenCon cancelled yesterday if you didn't get the email they sent out. You can let your badge roll over to 2021 or request a refund for it if you already purchased it. Details are in the link.
From the first article:
WOW, I WONDER WHO TO BELIEVE...
Meanwhile, in a surprise to no one, Texas continues to trend in the wrong direction. Just looking at the graph of new daily cases, you don't even need to do a rolling average or anything to see it. It's quite obvious.
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Well, the reason I think it's good is that it's specifically labeled with the data that they're doing that. They put out a new set of graphs just about every day in a daily situation report that looks like this. You can look at the old ones if you want to, they're all listed on the same page they put together on a specifically for state covid-19 info. You can go back and look at the old ones to see what's changed from day to day if you want to. It's https://nvhealthresponse.nv.gov and it's a nice site. Some part of me assumes that every state puts out something like that.
Yeah, I saw that notice shortly after it was posted, and I'm glad they've chosen to do the only sensible thing here.
I just hope that doing so without (from what I've seen) being compelled to do so by the city or state doesn't lead to them getting financially reamed over taking reasonable action.
It would have been nice for it to be earlier, but 10 weeks out is better than nothing.
I've been working with a company's booth to demo games for them for the last couple of years, so we've all been watching this pretty closely.
Thanks for the heads up, and while I already knew, it's good to get the word out far and wide.
- Restore Illinois plan to be evaluated at end of May. Any Illinois region that meets certain thresholds (listed here: http://www.dph.illinois.gov/restore) will be eligible to enter Phase 3 as of June 1.
- Phase 3 has been expanded. New rules:
- Restaurants may open to proper social distancing, tables at least 6 feet apart, staff must be supplied with masks.
- All gatherings (not just essential) of 10 and fewer people are allowed, encouraged to practice proper social distancing
- State parks will reopen with proper social distancing and masks recommended
- All retail stores that conform to proper IDPH safety precautions can open (precautions include capacity limits)
- Tennis indoor/outdoor facilities can open
- Golf courses can open to a foursome per hole at a time
- One on one personal training and care facilities can reopen
- Other businesses can open following industrial guidelines laid out by the state, given proper capacity limits and social distancing
The governor and state medical expert reiterate that the virus has not gone away and it won't go away on its own, so it's important to follow proper hygiene, hand washing, social distancing, and masks when social distancing is not possible.
Don't elect fascists!
Unless you already recovered from COVID-19, don't go to the gym.
Look at the Hopkins map. It does this.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map
For restaurants, my understanding is that it's solely for outside/ patio seating. Indoor dining is still pushed out later to phase 4.
Don't you make me touch Ohio.
It’s another good day to be a rhesus macaque. A group of monkeys at Beth Israel medical center were infected, suffered moderate symptoms including pneumonia, and were then attempted to be reinfected 35 days later. On challenge the monkeys all rapidly cleared any live virus and showed no symptoms, with the virus only detected transiently in the nose.
Another group of 45 monkeys were given doses (1 per monkey) of varying vaccine candidates. All provided some benefit leading to faster clearance and lesser symptoms, and at least two candidates were completely protective.
So, in alternate monkey universe where rhesus macaques are the dominant species, break out the bubbly because this damn viruses days are numbered! Unfortunately here in earth prime we will still need to wait to see if our vaguely crappy human immune system can be persuaded to behave.
It is a VERY good sign that’s there is no evidence or vaccine enhancement of the virus in infected or exposed monkeys. That does usually show up in monkeys if it’s a thing, we saw it a lot with SARS vaccines there.
With the data coming out, if someone offered me a chance to be in a vaccine trial I would jump at it.
For those who still are.
Sweden found to have about the amount of antibodies at the end of April that anyone other than Sweden thought they would have had by the end of April. Pretty much in line with everything else coming out about the death rate (0.5-1% ish in random people as healthy as random French people from various studies around Europe). Seems like 7% of Stockholm had had the virus by the end of april. Clearly more than that now, but, only enough to say they are past the beginning of the crisis, and have the whole midsection to go.
If Disney tries to re-open, which I imagine they will in a response to universal, I'm definitely going to insist continuing to work from home. Especially since Disney is requiring all of its working cast to perform a health screening on themselves before going into work each day. I'd rather just stay at home.
Fourth day of no new cases, 1 person remains in hospital, and 97% of our 1153 cases are confirmed as recovered. Bars reopened yesterday, the last of our hospitality businesses to be allowed to do so. Here's hoping we've not managed to miss a viral reservoir somewhere.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Sweden has also seen 3,871 deaths with 32,172 confirmed cases, or about a 12% case fatality rate which is double what the US is seeing right now.
Sweden's response is absolutely not the path you want to follow
A theme park at guaranteed 25% capacity honestly sounds kind of rad.
And a lot more expensive since they still need to make money
The Kawasaki like syndrome looks like it isn't only in kids but also seemly healthy young adults as well. This disease is just nasty but not surprising as it is clot based more than anything.
yeah, but you'll make up for it with cheap flights
Oh boy a fresh new spike of anxiety to mix into my custom blend