4621

I like the advice from the video way upthread - always assume you have the virus. Assuming that, what would your choice be? Isolate - it’s safer for everyone, even though i know it must be hard.

4622

Those are a few graves that will need some pooping when the time comes.

4623

If that’s the intent, then they failed. The graph demonstrates how we can avoid exceeding capacity by flattening the curve.

I mean, at this point I think pretty much everyone understands that the actual capacity line is much lower than depicted. That means that the graph is bad. Even if you have a good strategy and a bad graph, you still have a bad graph. You shouldn’t give a graph a pass just because you already agree with the author.

4624

Imagine having advice and access to all the experts on viruses like this, and being that willfully ignorant and moronic. And his cultists slurp it like pablum.

It will be a huge shock for some of them to face hard reality. They’ll blame it on the media, or the libs, or Obama or whoever, but none of that fantasy will save their lives.

4625

Ya, those points need to be interposed on the graph with cases and deaths

4626

This author is hardly a lefty:

4627

Originally folks were calling it Winnie the Flu.

4628

Absolute deaths or per capita?

(ducks)

4629

My casual, non-scientific observation is that the people of my city are taking our lockdown very seriously. I just went out, walking, to buy some fresh produce and necessities, which is permitted under the rules. Here is what I observed and experienced:

  • Restaurants, bars, retail stores etc are all closed, as are all businesses. The only things I saw open were markets, food stores, pharmacies and banks.
  • The streets are largely empty of traffic, as are the parking lots. Buses are circulating but every one I saw had five or fewer people in it.
  • I stopped at the bank on the corner to use the ATM. As I finished, the customer behind me stepped up and offered to let me use her bottle of alcohol to clean my hands. This was unexpected. Looking in the bank, I saw they had set up alcohol and gel stations throughout the space and all the bank staff were masked.
  • I went to a pharmacy, two markets and a small store that sells dried fruits, nuts, bulk beans and rice and so on. At every place, the staff were masked and gloved and had gel and / or alcohol for customers.
  • The people I saw on the streets all kept their distance from each other and me. Many of them were masked, and a number were carrying alcohol or sanitizing gel in one hand.

It was…impressive.

4630

That, if it is true that you can be reinfected after having been positive and recovered, that this is quite possibly a decimation of the human race (if not worse).

4631

No, I understood it quite well. Why didn’t you?

Similarly, you shouldn’t shit on a reasonable one because you disagree.

4632

There really doesn’t seem to be evidence of reinfection. The few cases that have been reported are most likely due to faulty tests.

If we had reinfection occurring, you would be seeing that fairly widespread in China at this point.

4633

I know, but it’s still my most worrisome thought

4634

I personally appreciate the local reports but would find them more useful if I knew where they were from :)

4635

Spoke to my m8 in Italy today. He’s like “omg everyone is obeying the rules! I thought I lived in Italy” (bar a few exceptions of course) which made me laugh and was telling me was Full Quarantine is actually like and how he cant believe what is going on in the UK.

He, like me has been shouting at his family in the UK who are all out and about in town, going to pub, the gym etc

4636

From my current vantage in San Francisco I can see a lot of the sunset district. There’s still quite a bit of traffic going up and down 19th ave. Less than usual, but not outside the bounds of a rainy Sunday.

One effect of this crisis I notice looking out my window is that the sky has never been so clear. We had some rain not long ago which always helps, but the clarity is beyond anything I’ve seen before. I’m high enough on a hill that I often see the outline of the Faralon Islands, but these last few days they aren’t just a silhouette. They are sharp and I can see color on them. I know the pacific is quite wide, but I can’t help but think that the vast reduction of emissions in China has something to do with it.

4637

One of my tenants is casino worker in Vegas, another is retired with army pension and social security, and the 3rd I can’treally keep track of what there job is. I was actually more concerned if I their rent check were deposited yesterday than what the market did today.

4638

If we don’t get better at testing and soon we are fucked.

4639

Contrasted to a little over two weeks ago when I was getting off a flight and man, American, seemed to deliberately cough into the face of an Asian woman wearing a mask. He grinned after. I watched him turn and cough at her, the jerk.

4640

With the numbers flattening a bit that would be great news if so!