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Reading into it, looks like Michelle Lujan Grisham the governor has been on the ball. Wouldn’t surprise me to find that the fact Los Alamos, wich is New Mexicos largest employer and one of Americas most important places, is located there also plays a part.

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So, in Oregon, they are reporting pretty decent on the testing results:

But they just do totals. I decided on Mar 13 to start collecting these daily totals to show growth / changes, primarily as I was interested in when we would start to see testing ramp up.

We are doubling the number of cases every 5 days.

The governor put restrictions in place on March 12, 8 days ago.

I really don’t think the restrictions are helping and it’s going to have to do full lockdown as other states are doing.

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That as well as Sandia National Labs. LANL has all the scientists, SNL has all the engineers. Bomb design vs bomb delivery, at least before the labs moved beyond bombs.

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Looks like in Nevada the non-essential business closure has gone from recommendation to order.

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I’m a little late to the conversation, but Oregon has similar rules to New York. Spirits can only be purchased in state-licensed stores, can’t be sold in grocery stores. I think Oregon may actually have more restrictions on how those stores handle marketing and branding.

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This is not a very hopeful outlook, honestly. We’re probably fucked.

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Washington State with the daily update: 136 more cases from yesterday. 7 more deaths.

Washington has 1,512 COVID-19 cases, including 81 deaths, officials say

The Washington State Department of Health has confirmed an additional 136 cases and seven deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

The numbers released Friday afternoon bring the total of confirmed cases to 1,512, including 81 deaths. King County has seen about half of the confirmed cases with 793 infections. Cowlitz County reported its first death Friday.

Most of the state’s deaths from COVID-19 have been in King County, where 67 people have died.

The number of confirmed cases has risen as the state has increased its testing capacity, but also as COVID-19 spreads. King County officials said they expect case counts to double every five to seven days unless people follow social-distancing recommendations.

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I live in Oregon. You can buy wine and beer in grocery stores. I wasn’t really sure how to define hard liquor vs things like beer and wine so I put spirits in quotes. I don’t drink much but… it’s simply not true you can’t get alcohol if you close the state liquor stores here. You just can’t get specific kinds.

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Really that’s crazy. I know I originally thought your company was sort of being reasonable, but clearly I was wrong.

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Thanks for putting together this info, Tman. Sorry to hear the restrictions aren’t helping, and I’m hoping we shift to lockdown soon.

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Posting because I love Conan

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Sorry if I wasn’t clear, I meant you can’t get hard alcohol in grocery stores here, same as in New York. I’ll be curious to see if we make a similar exception in a lockdown.

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I hadn’t realized there was already a clinical trial for hydroxychloroquine in the states. The announcement on the same day as the french paper I posted above was published. Hopefully we’ll have replication soon.

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How long before someone buys all the hydroxychloroquine stock piles?

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There’s already people overdosing on it.

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It just feels like denial or a giant blind spot. I honestly don’t think they’re being malicious or would have any desire to intentionally put people in harms way. I just think they fundamentally don’t get it, which is pretty common around these parts.

I just got finished arguing with someone about COVID-19 and how we only have 112 cases here out of 3.3 million. I tried pointing out Italy only had 100 cases a month or so ago. I pointed out that we only had 78 cases YESTERDAY. He just didn’t get it. He could not get past that 112 number and how small that is compared to Utah’s population.

I also had an argument today with someone who kept insisting COVID-19 was no big deal because “for 80% of people, it’s just a common cold”. Well, how seriously would you treat a common cold that hospitalized 20% of the people who got it? And killed a number of those? You wouldn’t treat it like a common cold, would you? If I told you I had a common cold and there was a 1 in 5 chance it would put you and your family in the hospital would you take that chance? “Well, no, but for 80% it’s a common cold, it’s not a big deal”. What?!

The only thing I can conclude is that it’s denial, like psychological coping mechanism denial. I don’t have any other explanation for it.

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Here’s another theory: Money is the most important goal to this company, and we will do what we can to maximize the money.

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I can’t even.