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Iran reports 1,289 new cases and 85 new deaths, raising total to 11,364 cases and 514 dead.
IN before the golf honks start blagging about "thinning the herd" etc ...
Based on the NCAA cancelling all spring sports up to and including the College World Series ... I'd say the chances are practically nil of the basketball tournament ever being played.Have you heard if they plan on finishing the tournament at some point?
I had mentioned a while back that I have a PhD BioChemist friend who was the the CIO of a large hospital chain. He and I were talking again last night. He remains more positive about our collective ability to respond than I do. I brought up my concerns about capacity being overrun and he made this exact point about critical care availability. He mentioned that "just counting beds" is a poor metric. "A bed" comes with different levels of a care. A cot... well, it is "a bed". An ICU bed, which counts the same as the cot, that has all the bells and whistles comes with a whole lot of more critical care. His point is that while the US may not have as many beds per capita as say SK, we've become ICU bed heavy.Critical Care (ICU?) beds per capita. US in better shape than some.
Slow the spread. Treat the very sick. Reduce your social interaction. Do your best. Be patient.
Life doesn't typically present chances to be a hero. You are now presented with many ways to be one, in little ways, going forward.
I was back of the enveloping this earlier...My company estimated peak impact on our hospitals to be mid-June. No clue how that translates.
It's been clear for days that Spain is right on Italy's heels and headed for disaster on an equal scale.The Spain updates this morning are alarming. 3 updates in the last hour.
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1238449944677285888?s=19
I had to explain to someone what a browser was last night. "I just click on the blue e."We do IT support for small businesses. One of our clients told their remote office users to work from home if possible. One of the guys took this to mean that he should box up his entire desktop computer, dual monitors, and local printer and take it all home. He plugged everything back in and called this morning fuming because he couldnt get logged onto the network. Its gonna be a long couple weeks.
Even without a magic-bullet COVID treatment ... the knowledge gained by studying this thing and it's spread for 7-8 months will be invaluable to mitigating the effects of subsequent outbreaks. For one, that's more time to collaborate with economic allies and get "easy & fast" testing ramped way up. Like "do 10 million tests in a week" ramped up.How do you not? Do you think they will have a vax by fall/winter?So do this all again then? I don’t see it.
Did you tell him to restart?We do IT support for small businesses. One of our clients told their remote office users to work from home if possible. One of the guys took this to mean that he should box up his entire desktop computer, dual monitors, and local printer and take it all home. He plugged everything back in and called this morning fuming because he couldnt get logged onto the network. Its gonna be a long couple weeks.
Our county Super sent out an e-mail last night saying this. "Our county is low risk for community transmission" and "we'll close schools with a positive test and reopen 2-14 days later". Not sure I've ever seen a more unanimous reaction from parents on any subject. He changed his mind by morning and closed everything.Same here in South Florida. Don't understand the mentality of waiting until a student is reported as contaminated before making a drastic move like closing the schools. Stupid and short-sighted. I won't go so far as saying it's a cultural thing but I'm close.
No, it's a very valid question that already has an answer: the spread of the virus is inevitable.I think it’s reasonable to consider whether spread of the virus is inevitable. You hate to go there but it’s a valid question to ask.
That’s disappointing then :(Not to be dismissive ... but so many of these science articles are bad due to their superficiality and their lack of journalists understanding of where the cutting edge of the research actually lies. The virus was "caught" on 12/30/2019 (or 12/31, I forget) in a Chinese lab, and its genome sequenced about a week later. SARS-CoV-2 has not a been a mystery pathogen that no one could isolate.
My wife told me I was crazy 2 weeks ago but she did it anyway. So also thanks to everyone here.I know it has been mentioned but bears repeating. Thanks to everyone in this thread that got me to casually buy a little more food each time to stock up over the past few weeks so I don't have to go out and shop now if I don't want to.
Told him it was his antivirus protecting him from Corona :rimshot:Did you tell him to restart?
Ok, I'm now going with cultural differences aka ignorance. I live down here and have seen it on a continuous basis over the past week or so.‘Hamilton’ weekend performances to continue in Miami despite coronavirus pandemic
>> No refunds offered at this time <<
>> One of the actors in the performance is calling that decision "disgraceful," since audiences are generally full of older people who are most at risk of severe illness.
One patron who planned to attend one of this weekend’s “Hamilton” performances told Local 10 News that they are currently caring for a sickly relative and are outraged that the Arsht Center is not providing refunds at this time to those who wish to skip out on the performance as a precaution. <<
I still think a lot of people think warm weather will protect them.Ok, I'm now going with cultural differences aka ignorance. I live down here and have seen it on a continuous basis over the past week or so.
Fah who foraze! Dah who doraze!
How is this different than the Chinese sharing the full genome on 2/25? Is this a step forward somehow?Looks like we caught the little ####er in Canada, now we learn how to kill it on a mass scale
https://sunnybrook.ca/research/media/item.asp?c=2&i=2069&f=covid-19-isolated-2020
The executive branch (probably via the FDA or another agency) can grant immunity to the manufacturers. I'm not really saying "rush and build them lousy" anyway. I mean more like an engineering challenge ... ventilators have been around a long time. What do they have now that they didn't have, say, in the 1970s? Would 1970s-style ventilators -- or something based on that design -- be useful in an emergency situation? And so forth.Instead of Riveting Rosie, we have Ventilator Vicky?
I don’t know, are these machines complex? I feel like most of the bells and whistles are necessary. I get your point, but you wouldn’t really want to rush build a breathing machine. The threat of lawsuit-palooza would likely keep this from happening.
I've had time to digest the spreadsheet @icon posted last night. Some of the variables could be wrong, and can be adjusted to change things. But it does a great job of pointing out the issues with death rates/confirmed cases, etc.Currently with 36 deaths, or 3%. I understand that's very high as there are people who have it who don't know or haven't been tested.
11 days ago we had right at 100 confirmed cases in the US, now we're at 1,215 cases as of yesterday. That's a bit over 28% growth per day, on average. If not contained, that means that 10 days from now we'll be looking at about 18k cases. 10 days from then, we'll be looking at over 200k. And that's only looking at the confirmed cases, not including those that are positive (possibly not realizing it) who haven't been tested.
This is a good point. A good counter point, given that the US has per profit healthcare, that the US has become ICU bed heavy because of demand. Demand that the coronavirus cases will add to, not replaceHis point is that while the US may not have as many beds per capita as say SK, we've become ICU bed heavy.
Good grief, totally agree.I'm all in for social distancing, cancelling events, stopping the spread, etc. But I'm getting pretty sick of being inundated with every single company's "response to Covid 19" email - I've heard from my bank, my insurance company, my lawyer, my doctor's office, PetSmart, CVS, Allen Edmonds, REI. What do I care what Allen Edmond's response to the virus is?
Maybe they want to be responsible.I'm all in for social distancing, cancelling events, stopping the spread, etc. But I'm getting pretty sick of being inundated with every single company's "response to Covid 19" email - I've heard from my bank, my insurance company, my lawyer, my doctor's office, PetSmart, CVS, Allen Edmonds, REI. What do I care what Allen Edmond's response to the virus is?
A lot of people in this thread have been asking about this -- especially regarding the limitations of an individual VPN -- and I've not seen anyone really address it.Something else that I am wondering about with all the work from homes going on. Can the Internet and Cell Companies provide the needed bandwidth to accommodate all of this?
still crickets from mine.Good grief, totally agree.
Side note: The email I got from my employer yesterday was basically "We're very troubled by all the news / please take precautions / but yeah...you still have to work"
Apparently it’s notHow is this different than the Chinese sharing the full genome on 2/25? Is this a step forward somehow?
doug- you're doing the lord's work in here... can't thank you enough for the info you've been providing all along- above and beyond.A lot of people in this thread have been asking about this -- especially regarding the limitations of an individual VPN -- and I've not seen anyone really address it.
For those who aren't particularly familiar with telework: it's likely that you don't have to stay on your VPN the entire time you're working ... or even all that much at all. Chiefly, you'd need to be on the VPN to transfer files back and forth from (a) your laptop at home to (b) a machine at your office or a centralized server somewhere. But typically, you can do the rest of your work with those files offline, without being on the VPN.
So, throughout your work-from-home day ... you'd be jumping on the VPN to move files, save to a central server, etc. and then jumping back off again. Talk to your IT folks at your work if you have them ... if not, your company's "computer guy". Or else I am happy to answer any questions about this here, either in this thread or via PM if we don't want to derail things too much here.
Or maybe a "Work From Home Issues & Answers" help thread? There's a ton I don't know, but I have worked from home off and on for 17 years -- I am happy to help brainstorm solutions and share what I know. There's also a lot of smarter folks in here that have helped with this kind of stuff in the FFA in the past and can likely help now.
you get my bologna if you can pry it from my cold dead fingers. or something like that.TP / Kleenex aisle completely cleaned out at the local Wal-Mart. Diapers and baby food stocked normally. That seems off to me.
From an intellectual curiosity standpoint, it's oddly fascinating to see this kind of mass panic.
I only say this because I love you all like brothers and sisters...if you don't have a gun, think about getting a gun. I don't think this virus is going to lead to the "dog eat dog" times where you'd need it. But in the future if we get hit with something, and the food shelves end up looking like the TP shelves do today, you don't want to be defenseless when you've got the last ham sandwich in hungrytown.
Maybe one of the ideas was minimizing the spread from young healthies to older professors, ancillary staff, etc. in typical college settings. At least kids going clubbing or partying amongst themselves generally spares the AARP set.I am not sure the strategy of having colleges finish out the year remotely is going to have the outcome as intended. Our son is home for break and was told not to go back to school. Classes in the classroom have been eliminated the rest of the year.
So instead, he’s partying at other campuses instead, and for kids that can’t stay on campus they are out clubbing or partying off campus. The point is, college kids will end up being in closer proximity than they were when they were going to class. Now they don’t have to worry about getting up and getting out to class. This will probably backfire. But I guess the colleges can say whatever happened was not on their watch, so they covered their butts.
Aldo Nova performing in Brasilia for a private audience as we speak. (Not really)My post yesterday was premature, but starting to see more reports of Bolsonaro testing positive for Coronavirus now.
https://twitter.com/joyce_karam/status/1238467592123117570?s=21
I stocked up on about a month's worth of liquor. i talked to the liquor store owner, "I wanted to get in and out early before the madness sets in." He looked at me like I had 3 heads and said "Nah. Won't be too bad aside from a normal Friday night. " i just shrugged my shoulders and left.i can neither confirm nor deny I'm in the liquor store parking lot waiting for it to open
You need more potatoes for a culturally correct dietLess serious news i grabbed a corned beef brisket flat that I'll smoke for some pastrami, rye bread, kraut, Guinness and some Tullamore Dew. If my ancestors had survived prolonged famine and poverty, we can get through this. Slainte!
Thank you!! I work for a Fortune 40 Company and my daughter for an huge lending institution so we are very well supported, we both presume (on a call last evening, it was mentioned the company has close to 90K VPN Portals (I think)?). Reading your post, it would seem that living in the EST, it would make sense to do the most online early in the morning to avoid major traffic. As an aside, while it was nice to have pancakes with the whole family for breakfast this morning, I fear this'll lose its luster, fast. I travel full time for work with extended deployments, then breaks at home and, being honest, have become accustom to so time to myself.A lot of people in this thread have been asking about this -- especially regarding the limitations of an individual VPN -- and I've not seen anyone really address it.
For those who aren't particularly familiar with telework: it's likely that you don't have to stay on your VPN the entire time you're working ... or even all that much at all. Chiefly, you'd need to be on the VPN to transfer files back and forth from (a) your laptop at home to (b) a machine at your office or a centralized server somewhere. But typically, you can do the rest of your work with those files offline, without being on the VPN.
So, throughout your work-from-home day ... you'd be jumping on the VPN to move files, save to a central server, etc. and then jumping back off again. Talk to your IT folks at your work if you have them ... if not, your company's "computer guy". Or else I am happy to answer any questions about this here, either in this thread or via PM if we don't want to derail things too much here.
Or maybe a "Work From Home Issues & Answers" help thread? There's a ton I don't know, but I have worked from home off and on for 17 years -- I am happy to help brainstorm solutions and share what I know. There's also a lot of smarter folks in here that have helped with this kind of stuff in the FFA in the past and can likely help now.
i also got red potatoes I'm going to grill with onions and carrots in a pan with brown sugar Guinness sauce.You need more potatoes for a culturally correct diet
Which is why I think it's important for the Fed Govt to help back that financially. Those companies that took losses then should have had those losses potentially covered.Some companies got burned when they increased production for Swine flu a decade ago. Production might have ramped up sooner without that bad experience.
Alright, I give up....My post yesterday was premature, but starting to see more reports of Bolsonaro testing positive for Coronavirus now.
https://twitter.com/joyce_karam/status/1238467592123117570?s=21
They isolated live copies of the virus. China just shared the genome.How is this different than the Chinese sharing the full genome on 2/25? Is this a step forward somehow?
Don't be sorry for posting that article -- it's great to know that there are so many teams worldwide working on different aspects of the problem. And it's not the scientists' fault that the reporter didn't understand their research.That’s disappointing then :(Not to be dismissive ... but so many of these science articles are bad due to their superficiality and their lack of journalists understanding of where the cutting edge of the research actually lies. The virus was "caught" on 12/30/2019 (or 12/31, I forget) in a Chinese lab, and its genome sequenced about a week later. SARS-CoV-2 has not a been a mystery pathogen that no one could isolate.
No snark, I just don't understand this stuff well enough to interpret it. This is helpful for a vaccine I'm guessing?They isolated live copies of the virus. China just shared the genome.
Even I think that the heat/humidity/UV combo will help ... I just don't think it will do magic. And, schmidt ... I could be deluding myself about all that.I still think a lot of people think warm weather will protect them.