Introverts in the age of #COVID19

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"This is what I learned during 10 days of treating Covid pneumonia at Bellevue Hospital" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html

“That not coding pitch of mine? Wrong. Yeah. Start programming again. Start with Python or Ruby. Yeah. I mean it. Your career depends on it.” https://randsinrepose.com/archives/technicality/

Sanity aid

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Today is the excision for the small #melanoma on my arm. I feel like I just don't have the emotional resources for this. Any other year I could probably cope much more easily. Instead I'm feeling really freaked out and scared.

None#Arizona is flattening the #COVID19 curve, but opening up businesses anytime soon is going to set us back and harm many many Arizonans. Data: http://monkinetic.blog/2020/04/22/rt-live

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(R_t) represents the effective reproduction rate of the virus calculated for each locale. It lets us estimate how many secondary infections are likely to occur from a single infection in a specific area. Values over 1.0 mean we should expect more cases in that area, values under 1.0 mean we should expect fewer.

R_t Live is tracking daily transmission rate values across the US States. My home state of Arizona is currently in a downward trend with an R_t right now of 0.77:

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Looking at the daily case numbers, you can see how small rises in R_t result in muliplicative rises in case numbers:

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We are noticeably flattening the curve in Arizona since late March, but opening up businesses and social gatherings any time soon will change these trends for the worse.

Experimental feature: Daily Digest emails. Inspired a bit by @davewiner's emails, which I really like.

http://monkinetic.blog/2020/04/21/new-feature-preview-daily-digest-emails

I have friends and family for whom RSS is not easy to explain or subscribe to, and who don't really follow blogs in general, but who have expressed an interest in my writing here, such as it is.

So I've hacked up an experimental feature, where I am sending out a nightly email (subscribe in the sidebar) that is comprised of all my posts for the day. Right now the blog posts and notes will be intermixed, so there might be some confusion in the content, it's an ongoing experiment.

If this is something you'd like to try, you can subscribe form in the sidebar of the site or use the subscribe page.

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I added a new feed to the blog today, the daily digest http://monkinetic.blog/feed_daily.xml -- this will be feeding my nightly email digest via @mailchimp

I got about 2/3 of the way through a long-ish post about Trumps's war on the states and had to pause to recover. Hopefully by tomorrow.

Anyone got a good idea on providing a daily-digest email list? I already have a daily digest page on my blog http://monkinetic.blog/2020/04/20/

Also, I really need to implement a webmention server https://webmention.rocks/

I like the look of the content on The Week - who publishes it?

Too may things to blog today. Content incoming

Thread: https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1251936242834563073 -- Same people resisting masking, different pandemic #COVID19 #masksforall #publichealth

Today in 1987, I received my Eagle rank award in the Boy Scouts of America, at age 16. I don't regret being involved in scouting at all, but I am hurt and incredibly saddened at all the harm the BSA has done to scouts by not handling abuse within its ranks. A Scout is Trustworthy, indeed.

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This is beyond sobering, to terrifying: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-out-of-many-one-36b886af37e9

Hubei shut down with 444 confirmed cases, and ended up with close to 70,000 cases and 3,200 deaths.

Arizona "shut down" (not really locked down) March 31, with about 1500 cases.

Evening project: started sewing simple tie-back surgical style cloth masks to donate #covid19 #masks4all

"Klatchian coffee has an even bigger sobering effect than an unexpected brown envelope from the tax man. In fact, coffee enthusiasts take the precaution of getting thoroughly drunk before touching the stuff, because Klatchian coffee takes you back through sobriety and, if you're not careful, out the other side, where the mind of man should not go."

-- Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett #coffee #humor #reading