Coronavirus Thread

Dave

Staff member
The more I see stats and the more that I see what the right is doing (downplaying or ignoring the virus) the more I'm sure they think it's in their best interest to let Americans die.

Cities - which are blue - tend to get hit the hardest. They like that. But I've said that before. What is new? What else could be happening that they like?

 
I suspect that's one reason why AZ doesn't want to release COVID data by Zip Code. They'd realize that all the cases are centered around the downtown areas of our major cities (us, Phoenix, Tempe, Tucson).
 
You know, I've been wondering why the CDC seems to have had its head up their ass lately, and today I learned the head of the CDC is a (2nd choice) Trump appointee who thought AIDS was God's judgement. Well, question answered I guess.
 
FYI, for those engaging in exercise while trying to maintain effective social distancing, it's probably safer to stay 4-5 meters (13-16 feet) away from the people around you when running in a line, and up to 20 meters (65 freedom units) behind a person cycling ahead of you. (Caveats: white paper, so not peer reviewed; affects mainly movement in a line/column vs. running/cycling next to someone; recommendations extrapolated from model of droplet dispersal in slipstream, with no component evaluating detection of actual virus or infective potential)
 
Already been treating people as if they were constantly exhaling cigar(ette) smoke and I don't want to get in any of the cloud.

--Patrick
 
I'm glad I have a backyard, because that's about as outside as I get these days. Even grocery shopping is just ordering in advance and having someone come out and put the groceries in the trunk without us getting out of the car.
 
FYI, for those engaging in exercise while trying to maintain effective social distancing, it's probably safer to stay 4-5 meters (13-16 feet) away from the people around you when running in a line, and up to 20 meters (65 freedom units) behind a person cycling ahead of you. (Caveats: white paper, so not peer reviewed; affects mainly movement in a line/column vs. running/cycling next to someone; recommendations extrapolated from model of droplet dispersal in slipstream, with no component evaluating detection of actual virus or infective potential)
I read this as 20 meters behind a person crying ahead of you. Still following it.
 
FYI, for those engaging in exercise while trying to maintain effective social distancing, it's probably safer to stay 4-5 meters (13-16 feet) away from the people around you when running in a line, and up to 20 meters (65 freedom units) behind a person cycling ahead of you. (Caveats: white paper, so not peer reviewed; affects mainly movement in a line/column vs. running/cycling next to someone; recommendations extrapolated from model of droplet dispersal in slipstream, with no component evaluating detection of actual virus or infective potential)
This is why I've been using the treadmill in out basement. They are too many people out exercising around here and I don't trust the distances. Of course, I should probably apologize to Mr. Z for teasing him months ago when he got our 3RD treadmill, because he never uses them, but then again, I was right, because I'm the only one consistently using it.

Meanwhile, in other Covid-news, my step-father tested positive for Corona, which means that the "cold" my mother has been dealing with is...yup, you guessed it! But the good news is she no longer has a fever, and her stuffiness gone, and taste is back. I would get mad at him, but he does work for a national company that got considered "essential", and they need the money for retirement. So.

In other positive news, my uncle's (by marriage) brother was brought home from the hospital today. He's been at NY Presbyterian for a week on oxygen and being treated for Covid-pnemonia symptoms. But he beat the odds, responded to the treatment and is 90% breathing on his own again, so that's a win. He is a very nice man and it would have been a shitty loss, to say the least.
 
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My county has just shut down. All non-essential businesses are shut. And the only people allowed to be in a residence are the ones that live there. We were on stay at home orders. But the no gatherings is a little surprising.
 
So much for flattening the curve.

Arizona just added 289 new cases today, the most since Day One back on Jan. 26.

Brings us to 3,018 total cases, and 89 deaths.
 
They're testing out a curfew on Oahu this weekend. In the meantime, my newest favorite quote is in this article about how we are still getting "visitors" and they aren't following the quarantine order.
Added state Sen. Michelle Kidani: “To me, asking local residents to lock down and allowing tourists in is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool. It makes no sense."
Also, a number of those visitors are homeless people who have been sent here from other states with no safety net in place.
 
a number of those visitors are homeless people who have been sent here from other states with no safety net in place.
Have you checked to see if Patrick Warburton is among them?

EDIT For @WasabiPoptart and others: In the first episode of the 2001 live-action The Tick TV show, it's shown that the titular character (played by Patrick Warburton) ends up in the city because someone "finds" a bus ticket that he "...must have dropped" and gives it back to him.

--Patrick
 
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Doesn't Krakatoa erupt every couple of years? That's not the super eruption it had over a century ago that caused a mini ice age.
 

figmentPez

Staff member
NYT Spring Break wasn't shut down 00virus-springbreak04-superJumbo.png

"This image was generated by Tectonix GEO and X-Mode Social by analyzing secondary locations of anonymized mobile devices that were active at a single Fort Lauderdale beach during spring break." - source

That's from just one beach. Florida hurt the entire nation by not shutting down.
 
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