Everything posted by GabrielsHorn
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
I'm sorry, but this is complete horseshit. China is the one that was dismantling research and arresting/silencing people that were trying to wave the red flag at the start of this. They are the ones who had wet exotic markets in the middle of major metropolitan areas when we knew from SARS and the other avian flus that it was a tremendous risk. Our government's response isn't good at all, but China bears a ton of responsibility for this.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
From the article you posted and where those new cases are coming from: Indeed, even as Hubei’s numbers have dwindled to zero, China is facing another concern as imported cases continue to add to the country’s tally of infections. The National Health Commission reported 34 new cases for March 18, all of them patients who brought the disease from other countries. the point is that if China and South Korea are unable to deal with people bringing it back in, that means the whole world will have to essentially go under the same quarantine rules to get back to “normal.”
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Note that says local cases
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
And in completely awful news, China and South Korea are seeing a rise in their number of cases. If this holds, this may be months upon months for social distancing.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Honestly, those articles are great compared to some of the twitter journal papers that we are seeing. I've been reading their articles in the morning, and they are pretty damn good in terms of actual research.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
On the other hand, Fauci came on Pardon My Take, and he did a pretty good job of not being so grim while being serious about it.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
I don’t think it’ll necessary be a death count but more whenever we have images of hospitals making wartime decisions on who gets treatment and who doesn’t ala Northern Italy.
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What would you do if the US Treasury sent you $1,000
Is that per person or as a married couple?
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Eh, when you get these viruses, it doesn’t matter if you run all the time or not. I was consistently running half’s and whole marathons when swine flu came, and never felt sicker in my life. Had to get steroids to help with breathing. its crazy how the body reacts to these respiratory viruses and how they affect you.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Pretty much if you skied last weekend, you need to quarantine. Also, the ski season is over as Vail and Loveland announced that they are closed for the season. High country is really going to be hurting both from a hospital perspective where they don’t have the resources and financially from all the business at the end of season dissipating.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Austin should have done it earlier. Also, fridge/freezer died overnight. Seems like the worst possible time for this.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
"All models all wrong, some are useful." After reading through the paper, his overall conclusions that the US and UK need to go into a suppression instead of mitigation is correct and that's generally what we are seeing with the shutdown of bars, restaurants, etc coming down now. However, his model is definitely wonky and doesn't seem to be calibrated against China or South Korea's performance. There's a lot of smart conclusions in there in regards to policy, but the model seems off with those second peaks. I never thought I'd defend Reviewer #2, but a lot of this research that is being published to twitter instead of being checked is the reason for that reviewer being a complete jackass.
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Houston Texans Traded Deandre Hopkins to Arizona Cardinals for David Johnson
I was thinking there had to be a reason why Hopkins was traded in case he was old or a bad contract, but seems like he's absolutely in his prime and his contract is extremely manageable. Not a Texans fan, but the owner should have fired BoB on the spot when he brought him that trade.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Is there a defined time for another press briefing today?
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
With Vegas and NYC shutting down, it sounds like the guidelines released tomorrow is going to be similar to NYC's ban.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Thankfully they also don't get nearly the visitors that way as well. Hope she ends up okay though, I'm sure Alamosa and surrounding areas aren't as high on the food distribution/resources as other places.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Sorry that is along the front range are screwing up for y’all in the high country. I think it’s going to get awful up there as y’all just don’t have the capacity.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
It seems like it really depends on how wide the clusters are and how dense they become. Examples of that is the #31 case in South Korea who ended up fucking over a significant amount of people by breaking quarantine. Lodi seems like it's a bit further removed from the Milan area and density as it's not quite as developed towards there, whereas it seems like there's a relatively consistent population center towards Bergamo. They are within the greater metro, but I still would think that it affects it significantly. One of the authors of the study did say they were going to address it (and it's crazy that all those cases in Bergimo came from only 2 clusters!). I didn't mean to harp on you, but it is one of those things that a reviewer would really make the authors defend.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
I don't want to discourage people from social distancing and these shutdowns are super important and should happen now, but Bergamo is 2.7x the size of Lodi and with a population density that is 3x that of Lodi. It's not all that surprising that they are being hit harder than Lodi, regardless of the implementation of the shutdown.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Rumor going around that Colorado is going to shut down all non-essential businesses including all restaurants and bars.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
At this point, and after the shitshow of people being morons on St. Paddy's day, it's absolutely coming.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Seriously, NYC's excuse is bullshit. Other districts are coming up with contingency plans to deliver meals or have it where people can pick up boxed lunches.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Governor Polis closed all ski resorts in Colorado, essentially ending the season. That explains why Vail / Steamboat & Winter Park all closed. It definitely sucks, but it's clearly the right thing to do. People can't be trusted to not be morons and go and be disease vectors in areas without the proper health care.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Sucks for him as Vail (and presumably others) are set to close here. Coming was especially selfish since the high country really is underprepared in terms of health care, and getting to either the Western Slope or Denver can be a mess.
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I think I may have Covid-19 thread - 2 confirmed cases
Wife and I were exposed last week from one of the first confirmed cases here in Denver and hung out with that person pretty closely while grilling last weekend. After we found out, we immediately self-quarantined. Neither of us have had a fever, but both have had weird symptoms (have a congestion in my throat that hasn't decreased despite taking mucinex, allergy medicines, dayquil/nyquil) for the past week, and my wife has had an on and off headache. Sucks not knowing whether or not we have it, but seems dumb to potentially expose health workers to it if we feel relatively fine.