Trump wants to end the federal social distancing guidelines.
http://monkinetic.blog/2020/04/30/expiring-federal-social-distancing-guidelines
Archive for April 2020
Expiring Federal social distancing guidelines
Trump seeks to further distance himself from increasingly unpopular and politically costly coronavirus lockdowns.
"Unpopular", "politically costly", but effective at flattening the curve. I think maybe people don't realize that in order to #flattenthecurve on #covid19 you have to maintain the suppression activities over the life of the curve. If you stop, the curve goes back up.
This are projections for Arizona from CovidActNow.org:
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Right now the "expected hospitalizations" curve is nice and flat, but lift the restrictions on activities too soon, and the demand for beds exceeds supply in about 10 days. Calling for new restrictions after they've been lifted would be a hard sell to a population frustrated with the isolation and hurting from the economic effects we're already seeing. There's no easy answer, but I believe that solutions are going to involved more government aid to -- yes, small businesses -- but especially to disadvantaged populations who are getting hit the worst.
In order to fix my archives and daily digests, I might have to address timezone handling on my blog. Or I might just stop blogging #timezonehell #blogging #programming
Daily Digest subscribers: posts should now appear in the email in the order they were written -- more narrative style -- not in reverse-chronological "blog order #blogging 💌 😁
This pandemic is silent
Drowning is silent. There is no splashing. No cries for help. Every breath is precious. None can be spared.
This pandemic is silent.
Also on the topic of #fantasy literature: I’ve found that I’m deathly allergic to most Anglo-centric narratives. The moment I see druids, fairies (or worse The Fae or derivative), I pretty much always click “Back” hard.
After getting a bit tired of my library’s digital collection of #scifi, I’m branching off into #fantasy for a while, and finding some great series to dive into. I really need to add to my list of “books-read” posts #reading2020
This data from https://mackuba.eu/corona/#united_states.daily is a week or so old, but this does NOT say "go back to work!" to me #covid19 #stayhomestaysafe
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Perhaps I've missed this with git or on Github/Gitlab, but it would be amazing if we could add a "branch description" when creating a branch so that when I'm looking at stale branches i have an idea of WTH I was thinking at the time.
They almost had the right headline #fify (Keep the disinfectants outside your body please!)
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