Some Covid-19 thoughts
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"Some Covid-19 thoughts"
Reopening is a huge political gamble for Trump.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
"Some Covid-19 thoughts"
Reopening is a huge political gamble for Trump.
I agree, but I don't think he understands the basics. Too soon and we have to take a step back and his word is forever damaged. CYA bye 4 more years. But he has only one speed and one direction.
More Covid-19 thoughts:
Cars:
- The few times I've been out driving it was weird, almost like I had to keep reminding myself that I was driving. It felt so unfamiliar - for obvious reasons. I've noticed that in other drivers as well. One guy ran into the middle of a busy intersection in front of me, against a red light, and had to slam on his brakes. Other people just driving sloppy and waaay too fast.
- I read of an uptick in drag racing because the streets are more empty. I was outside the other day and could hear some heavy duty engines revving and racing not far away. Have fun!
- There has to be a serious reduction in DUIs, which is great news. File under the bizarre label: "How Covid is Saving Lives"
- How COVID-19 Will Reshape Global Gas
https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-covid-19-will-reshape-global-gas
I know with ultra cheap gas this may not make sense, but I feel like now would be a good time to push electric transport even more. "The air is cleaner now, lets keep it that way..."
- More on how the Covid Lockdown is actually saving lives:
https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities/490601-am
id-coronavirus-lockdowns-traffic-accidents-in
New study finds coronavirus lockdowns dramatically cut traffic accidents and fatalities
A study shows that both collisions and fatal accidents have fallen by approximately half in California since the lockdowns began
From 400 a day to 200 in CA.
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Quote:Not following through with any of these 7 ideas is a huge political gamble for Trump. But maybe not since most Voters can't be made aware of what is not being done. Most voters won't remember in November what could have been done but Trump refused to do. Trump certainly won't remind them:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
"Some Covid-19 thoughts"
Reopening is a huge political gamble for Trump.
Experts’ 7 best ideas on how to beat Covid-19 and save the economy
Multiple countries have suppressed the coronavirus and significantly curbed the rate of new infections. America’s leading biological and social scientists say there is plenty the US can do here, too.
1) Masks for all
Wearing masks is really important for reducing coronavirus transmission. A study by a team of five researchers out of Hong Kong and several European universities calculates that if 80 percent of a population can be persuaded to don masks, that would cut transmission levels to one-twelfth of what you’d have in a mask-less society. Widespread use of masks is likely part of the reason Japan’s coronavirus outbreak has been mild thus far, and grassroots mobilization starting with masks is almost universally seen as part of the Hong Kong success story.
For the broad population, the key fact is that while wearing a mask does little to protect the wearer from the risk of getting infected, it does a lot to prevent the risk that the wearer spreads the virus to other people. Consequently, an interdisciplinary Yale team featuring biologists, medical doctors, economists, and public health specialists calculates that “the benefits of each additional cloth mask worn by the public are conservatively in the $3,000-$6,000 range due to their impact in slowing the spread of the virus.” And the benefits of professional-grade masks for health care workers may be even higher.
The big problem is that, months into the crisis, the US continues to be afflicted by shortages of N95 respirators for medical personnel, never mind ordinary Americans. The situation has improved since early March, but not by nearly enough.
A huge barrier to increasing production of either kind of mask is that nobody knows how long high levels of demand will last. Prestige Ameritech, a Texas-based company and the largest American manufacturer of surgical masks in the United States, thought the surge in demand associated with the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 would be a godsend. But in a recent NPR interview, co-owner Michael Bowen recalls that efforts to scale up rapidly during that crisis nearly killed the company.
“We hired a lot of people and ramped up,” he told NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly. “And then we nearly went bankrupt afterward. We laid off 150 people and nearly went out of business. You know, it’s not like flipping on a switch. It’s building machines. It’s hiring people. It’s training people. That’s the issue.”
Caleb Watney from the R Street Institute and Alec Stapp from the Progressive Policy Institute suggest avoiding this situation with an idea that will recur several times on this list: The federal government should agree to pay above the pre-crisis market rate and guarantee that it will buy lots of masks and lots of respirators for an extended period. That gives business owners confidence to invest. The risk is that the country ends up “wasting” money on unneeded equipment if things end up going better than expected. But surplus equipment can be stockpiled so the US doesn’t get caught short in the next pandemic, or can be donated to lower-income countries that don’t have the financial capacity to engage in massive purchase guarantees.
6 more ideas at www.vox.com/2020/5/13/21248157/testing-quarantine-masks-stimulus
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Entered my project into the NASA Tek Breefs contest:
https://contest.techbriefs.com/2020/ent ... ical/10256
Hopefully it will attract investorz befor everybody iz ded from the virus.
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Provincial and Federal parks are open for limited use over this long weekend.
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Very nice! I hope you have a park nearby and good weather to go with it.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Very nice! I hope you have a park nearby and good weather to go with it.
There is a small city one near me but alas the weather in BC. Not so nice. Wet all over the province with a risk of thunder storms.
But people will get out and use them. Enjoy a nice walk or whatever in the rain.
Long weekend up here and Canadians just can't do without their parks.
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You know me, I've always liked the rain. So I could imagine going out for a nice stroll in the park, and then coming home to a nice warm, dry place.
But I know your preference is to sunny and warm and perhaps beautiful blue skies.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
You know me, I've always liked the rain. So I could imagine going out for a nice stroll in the park, and then coming home to a nice warm, dry place.
But I know your preference is to sunny and warm and perhaps beautiful blue skies.
Everybody's got their own thing.
But yes, I do. Will just have to wait a bit longer for more sunny days and blue skies. Spring in British Columbia.
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First time I dipped into these Coomph threads for over a week. Between not reading here and not watching the news, I'm honestly surprised that this is still a thing, really.
Except for one hardware store chain that forces you to wear masks nationwide and the fact that you still can't get a haircut until next week, there's really not much evidence that people are even talking about it around here anymore.
Oh well... Got company now and I've got plenty more work to get to today. Maybe I'll post about my travails in the Garden Thread in a week or so. May has been super productive so far.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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