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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

MindzEye said:
I'm not sure if this is just a statistical blip or not, but Ontario came in under the 3 day average today for new cases

1st: 426
2nd: 401
3rd: 462 (3 day average of 430)
4th: 375

It's hard to say with testing backlogs getting sorted and the pretty big increase in cases potentially being a function of those larger numbers (there was a pretty solid jump from previous announced levels) whether or not this is a decrease or just noise with how the numbers were generated.

It's a cause for mild optimism though until we see otherwise.
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I mean, at least it's staying relatively steady. I'll take it.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I can tell you LA is taking it pretty seriously. The city is dead. I’m actually at the office right now and went down earlier to the nearby mall to get some food. Other than the grocery store, absolute crickets other than a few people just our walking (it’s an outdoor mall).

I’m biased because I want things to not get bad here, but I’m objectively optimistic I think just based on the lack of activity outside.
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How do you manage to keep 30 million in California under control much longer

People are going to lose it if this drags on another month
 
CH1 said:
Keep your distance. The research is all over the place. 6 feet might not be enough.


Richard Corsi, a Portland State University dean, has studied the spread of COVID-19 through both large and tiny droplets in the air and recommends people stay 20 feet away from each other when they’re outdoors.

Indoors, where ventilation is much worse, Corsi recommends extreme caution and carrying out essential tasks like grocery shopping when truly necessary.

“I don’t think we’re being safe enough,” he said. “People need to understand that the airborne route, that’s a serious transmission pathway.”

Corsi’s advice is bolstered by a study published las week in the Journal of American Medicine by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher. It found that the virus can travel as far as 27 feet indoors when somebody sneezes and remain floating in the air for hours, waiting for the next person passing by to breathe it in.
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Well, this makes me feel even better about my decision to have worn a mask on my most recent shopping trip.
 
hockeylover said:


I mean, at least it's staying relatively steady. I'll take it.
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That's exactly what flattening the curve is supposed to look like. It's trusting the data that is the hard part right now, but yeah we should be seeing some sort of reasonably steady exponential growth until we hit inflection, and we were until the last few days.
 
MindzEye said:
That's exactly what flattening the curve is supposed to look like. It's trusting the data that is the hard part right now, but yeah we should be seeing some sort of reasonably steady exponential growth until we hit inflection, and we were until the last few days.
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Yep, mostly just hope people recognize the fragility of this though and the importance of continuing to follow through as the weather warms up. 400 new cases/day is still going to stress the system but if we can manage not to completely overwhelm it, that'd be great.
 
Well it looks like it’s going to be meh weather for the next week or two Minus a day or so, thankfully. Will make it easier for some to not get sucked in. I hate it though. We need warmer weather so I can get this kiddo out more into our yard. Going stir crazy in here.
 
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LeafGm said:
Well, this makes me feel even better about my decision to have worn a mask on my most recent shopping trip.
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Can I ask where you got your mask or if you know where I can get one? I have groceries to do tmrw.
 
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hockeylover said:
Yep, mostly just hope people recognize the fragility of this though and the importance of continuing to follow through as the weather warms up. 400 new cases/day is still going to stress the system but if we can manage not to completely overwhelm it, that'd be great.
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Yeah, flattening the curve means a plateau at these high ass numbers for a while before a steady but hardly precipitous decline. This means that we're probably putting ~30 people a day into ICU care a day. The system obviously can't handle that for a long time before it's just out of capacity. We may have done just enough, just in time though.

May have.
 
hockeylover said:
I'm pretty envious of people with backyards right now.
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I have 2 balconies and feel like this whenever interacting with someone who has one...or even none

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So yeah, can't imagine how people feel having a backyard right now
 
MindzEye said:
Yeah, flattening the curve means a plateau at these high ass numbers for a while before a steady but hardly precipitous decline. This means that we're probably putting ~30 people a day into ICU care a day. The system obviously can't handle that for a long time before it's just out of capacity. We may have done just enough, just in time though.

May have.
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For wave 1, yes. Long long battle ahead but so far I'm relatively encouraged.
 
MindzEye said:
I have 2 balconies and feel like this whenever interacting with someone who has one...or even none

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So yeah, can't imagine how people feel having a backyard right now
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Mr. Fucking Fancy. I've got one where I do my grilling and most of my gardening and I don't know what I'd do without it. My backyard is big but not private enough for my liking. Been meaning to put in a fence but never got to it. I'm paying the price now.
 
Jeremy said:
Can I ask where you got your mask or if you know where I can get one? I have groceries to do tmrw.
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I kept the mask the hospital gave me when I went in for a COVID-19 test a few weeks back.

Any kind of face covering is better than nothing, though. A homemade mask, a scarf, neckwarmer, etc.
 
MindzEye said:
I have 2 balconies and feel like this whenever interacting with someone who has one...or even none

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So yeah, can't imagine how people feel having a backyard right now
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lmao. I’m still pretty fortunate, my balcony (yeah, only one, fuck you) is at least very spacious. Could fit a dining room table out there I think.

At least my veggie garden is protected.
 
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