1953

they are still hesitant, here, the government cannot order to cancel the games. It is from state to state different, and the cities are responsible. Federalism ahoi

1954
1955

Here if you want to freak out listen to the first 2 minutes of this.

“Michael Osterholm is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology. He is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, all at the University of Minnesota.”

1956

and that my friends, is what collectivism looks like.

1957

The vaccine is only around 30-40% effective, and millions still get it. The answer to COVID-19 is not to downplay the flu. Comparisons are not off the table depending on how you do the comparison.

1958

Yeah, that is a terrifying two minutes. So, like, 40+ is not safe at all. I suspect most of us are in or near that age range.

1959

So Italy is what happens when you culturally have big family meals combined with lack of hand washing etiquette.

Mostly joking, but this reminds me of a story I like to tell when I was on a school trip in Italy in 8th grade. We would go to restaurants as a group – probably 60 or so middle schoolers. All of the meals were pre fixe. I remember specifically at one restaurant they were serving us out of large communal bowls. So large bowls of salad and pasta, etc. I went walking to find the bathrooms once and saw that they were re-serving any uneaten salad or pasta portions from the plates they picked up into a giant bowl which was taken and placed on the table for the next group.

I’m sure that wasn’t normal then (or now), but super gross!

1960

Haha, you old farts, I won’t be 40 until… October. 😢

1961

South Korea drive through testing, if you want to see how competent governments do things.

1962

Gonna be 41 in a month and a half. But I have the physiology of a 30 year old according to my Tinder dates so I’m going to go with those stats.

>__<

1963

Great info here in the first 20 minutes.

Incubation period of 4 days. There can be very high quantities of virus present in nose and throat before symptoms occur.

Interesting discussion of differing risk factors between China and US, particularly obesity in US.

He thinks that when China relaxes restrictions that the virus will pick back up there.

Concern about critical drug shortages because so much of them are made in China and India.

1964

35, but I have the physical fitness of a 20 year old according to my Garmin.

Aka I’m not super worried on a personal level, but my mother who is coming to visit in a few weeks is a different story.

1965

Yeah my parents, my ex mother in law, I worry about them. My parents are home bodies so they’ll probably be fine but ex-MIL is a traveler. She seems pretty freaked though, so maybe she’ll chill with the globetrotting for a while.

1966

I mean I look at it like this. I have three small kids, including a kindergartener. Aka plague carrier.

The middle school a mile and a half away had a kid test positive on Sunday. Which means it is very possible, even likely, that my kids came into contact with someone who came in contact with that kid. Playground, park district, whatever. Even if not… kids at that school bike around my neighborhood.

At this point there is fuck all I can do about it. Plague rats are out and about. Just limit what exposure I can I guess.

1967

You wouldn’t be the first parent who took the backyard hose to their kid.

1968

We’re doing the best we know to do. Wash hands, limit large groups, avoid touching our faces, working from home if we can.

Awareness is spreading and those who are not most at risk should be, by now, aware that the other groups are in heightened states of anxiety and trying to help there too. Like I am not sure why anyone would go to a retirement home while ill.

1969

Just saw something at my local gas station about COVID-19 and resuable mugs or something.
Didn’t really read it since I don’t care, but that’s still something affecting people in a small Iowa town that you normally never see.

1970

So almost immediately after I posted the above, the following article was announced:

TLDR; seems to be: kids have a bigger part in spreading the disease than previously thought, specifically because their symptoms are so mild.
…

1971

Yeah. Two weeks ago we went to visit my wife’s great grandmother at a nursing home north of Seattle. This was before any deaths. We do not take that trip today, even with everyone healthy and with no illness symptoms to speak of (unless crabbiness due to DST counts)

1972

Guy in the Rogan video said washing your hands and not touching your face is not going to have a big impact in slowing the spread of this virus. 43:12

Breathing air is how it spreads.