Both of these make me wonder about the future. Will we see the WHO gain power to contain the spread of diseases? Would travel become slower, with mandatory health requirements, quarantine, and checkpoints? Will policing get even worse than what countries with private forces and curfews have now?
It seems like whatever pandemic plans were thought up years ago were either never implemented or they fell apart due to lack of national and global leadership. Now all we get is flail and fail. Do we need a special code word in the scientific community to bypass political bs or what?
From the article, quoting some covfefe admin official: âAnd I do think this past week was probably the first week in a couple of months since the [George] Floyd protests started where I thought Trump won every single day of the week.â
Eh? Wtf? How do you âwinâ a day? By living until sunset?
As to trump doing these pressers alone- thatâs good. He wonât have a veneer of expertise by having real health officials standing by. Plus they wonât have to waste their time standing there. Iâm sure everyone has better things to do. These things just devolve into campaign messaging and word salad anyway.
Now. If only all major press outlets will refuse to air it live and print only âhighlights.â Let covfefe pay for his own campaign adverts.
Again, if Major League Baseball canât do this, Tallahassee Unified is supposed to?
Eschaton
Monday, July 27, 2020
That Was A Fun Couple Of Days
All the greatest minds and money of MLB couldnât make this work.
Tonightâs game between the Phillies and New York Yankees at Citizens Bank Park has been postponed following a coronavirus outbreak suffered by the Miami Marlins, according to sources.
The Marlins remain in Philadelphia, quarantined in a hotel after postponing their home opener tonight against the the Baltimore Orioles. At least 14 Marlins players and coaches have tested positive for COVID-19, with eight players and two coaches testing positive Sunday, according to ESPN.
The issue every school is facing isnât a plan for reopening, itâs the likely plan for reclosing.
In small-scale news about people recognizing that this is going to be a long haul, I just got an email from work about extending work-from-home requirements. Theyâve been pushing back re-opening the office month by month since May, but this time they just went ahead and postponed it until the end of December at the earliest.
Good!
I today got an official short-twem exception of the general recall of all personnel (except high risk groups and people who have to take care of relatives, and can prove it). I need to file for âTelearbeitâ, which only allows for 50 % remote work officially.
That said, other institutions managed by the same general admin already issued blanket regulations until the end of the year. Which basically say: âyou can come, but you can also work from home, and our building now officially may only hold 50% of all personnel at a time, and you are needed to figure out who is coming when while minimising contacts and maintaining productivity in your departments yourselvesâ.
I donât see whatâs going on here. This week, Iâll be in my office, since the two co-workers I share my room with are away. Next week? Donât know.
Hereâs another country with a second wave, that I didnât notice because the mediaâs attention was elsewhere:
They arenât even being subtle about it. Thatâs whatâs insulting. Itâs not that theyâre fudging the data, itâs that they canât even be bothered to make it look reasonable.
They donât need to do so, since theyâve got enough people who will believe whatever they throw out there as gospel truthâŚ
Oh, sure, but at least fake it convincingly. Itâs degrading, it is.
Well, not to us, cause we can see whatâs happening⌠their stans, maybeâŚ
It doesnât even make them look particularly good, either.
Great thread:
i get that distrust, but i donât think itâs well founded.
places like john hopkins tracker also show plateauing and theyâve never used the federal data
my understanding is that the cdc at the beginning at least wasnât providing daily data updates ( because trump and his unqualified appointees ) so places had to build their own.
more likely i think is that weâre seeing a plateau because of limitations in testing. turn around times are growing right now - in some places itâs almost two weeks, which is just about forever in covid terms - as are positivity rates - so that means testing is overwhelmed.
my guess is, weâre seeing almost exactly the number of cases we can test for. as ( or if ) we increase testing, weâll see the numbers rise again.
