StrangeSox

Just unbelievable levels of stupidity

I don't know that we have strong evidence that capacity limits are enough here. I'm definitely avoiding any indoor spaces for prolonged periods where people are going to be talking a lot. edit: of course come August my wife will likely be back to in-person teaching and my kids will be in daycare so our family's potential exposure will increase 10000% from current levels edit2: speaking of churches:

https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1273341809662595073?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1273341809662595073&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fforums.somethingawful.com%2F

some more stuff: Orlando airport tested around 500 employees, 260 came back positive. and, @greg775

We're not seeing spikes or increases in cities that had massive protests. It wasn't 100% of course, but a lot of people at these protests have been wearing masks. Could be some indication that outdoors + masks really knocks down transmission potential if it continues to hold up.

nationalize all teams and start tomorrow, imo

whyyyyyyy

I'm very happy to be in Illinois vs the sun belt or the south right now:

0% mask usage at Waterfall Glen this weekend. Including, admittedly, my family. We went early and it wasn't too crowded. I was glad we were heading out by 1030 or so though, because the trails were starting to get really busy.

Yup. My wife just got back from her building where she ran into her principal and chatted for a few minutes. She's overwhelmed with trying to figure out both covid and now racial tensions in a pretty diverse district. Of course, little to no help from district admin.

Going to be interesting to see what they do about in-person learning at k-12 schools. There simply isn't the physical space to do 6ft distancing with the ever-increasing class sizes.

Sounds like "MLB accounting" is similar to "Hollywood accounting" where they always find a way to show little or no profit. Expect this trend to continue:

My work suspended 401k matching and has indefinitely postponed annual COL raises. Unless you're in a good union, like some of the guys who report to me. They're getting their regularly scheduled wage scale increases and in one case, some pretty hefty Covid hazard premiums. That's the benefit of being in a good labor union. MLBPA is pretty strong, so the players are negotiating from a strong position. Owners are ensuring MLB's steady descent into irrelevancy continues at a time they could have capitalized on people's desire for entertainment outlets.

@bmags

Instead, public health officials across the country are resigning because of all the death threats they receive

Want to go back to a question that JoseAbreu asked several weeks back, at least I think it was them. What behaviors have people here in Illinois changed since we've moved to Phase 3? I went to Home Depot twice, but that's really been about it.

The paper you linked also does not contain the word "Sweden" in it or '90%'. The authors are looking at China, France, Iran, Italy, SK and US. Wonder if there's some other news article on nature.com Disney is referring to rather than the paper you linked? edit; the paper also says "We adjust existing estimates of case under-reporting to further account for asymptomatic infections assuming an infection-fatality ratio of 0.75%". It says right there, and they have more in the Supplemental section, what their calculated IFR is and run a sensitivity analysis on that assumption. It's explicitly not greater than 1.00%.

we're holding steady at ~1k dead Americans every single day, many more with serious illness that may have life-long physical and financial consequences, and we have multiple hotspots emerging. meanwhile, countries that didn't take the dumbest route possible are at or closing in on....zero new cases a day. definitely a good time to smug-post about not yet seeing exponential growth, just a steady churn of death. edit: I guess I'd appreciate acknowledging even once that multiple claims of "50-100m Americans already infected" as early as mid-March were completely baseless and totally wrong.

https://www.thelocal.dk/20200610/denmark-says-easing-lockdown-has-not-increased-infections

There's some real Paris Commune stuff going down in Seattle

WHO has had screw-up after screw-up throughout this thing.