Do you think many members of the GOP have noticed that the $600 extension has been actually lifting people up, instead of just keeping them from sinking, and theyâre afraid of what empowered citizens will do?
Yes.
âThe Democrats are primarily interested in a $1 trillion bailout of the poorly run states,â Trump said. âWe have some states and cities â you know them all â we donât have to go through names, but theyâve been very poorly run over the years, and we canât go along with the bailout money. Weâre not going to go along with that, especially since itâs not COVID related.â
"Unlike the cruel Leonidas, who demanded that you stand, I require only that you kneel. "
Thought kids were âlike immuneâ to covid? Of course, most are not white, so I guess it doesnât matter? 
There are folks who latch onto reports confirming their belief that this pandemic will wipe out people they hate, leaving the survivors better off than before. Many have been told for years that they were chosen - so they donât worry about medical advice or the increasing number of deaths. Just like when unarmed people are shot by the police and they seize on any excuse to blame the victims, Iâll bet they have all kinds of explanations why people who share their beliefs have also died from coronavirus.
(Has this been linked in this topic? I missed reading some posts along the line here.)
Itâs from Georgia Techâs Applied BioInformatics Laboratory.
COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool
The risk level is the estimated chance (0-100%) that at least 1 COVID-19 positive individual will be present at an event in a county, given the size of the event.
(Shows counties in the U.S. Choose an event size and ascertainment bias, then click on your county on the map.)
Finland considers lifting restrictions at Swedish border
With the situation improving in Sweden, government said border restrictions between Finland and Sweden will be reviewed in two weeks.
Internal border controls at Swedenâs land, sea and air borders will be assessed separately. If the threshold is met, restrictions will be lifted either partially or completely.
Yes, perspective does seem to be unusual these days.
Itâs a good thing he at least wears a helmet. Canât afford to lose any more brain cells.
I think these links will work for everyoneâŚ
Clinical child psychologist points out that âkids are actually in school only about 13 per cent of the year with approximately 110 instructional minutes daily. It is highly unlikely that kids spend more than half of this time on task.â That agrees with my N=2 study, which revealed a motivated child could keep up with school in 60 to 90 minutes a day of effort.
Doug Ford is selling his back-to-school plan with all the reassurance of a bear driving a garbage truck. Itâs not great ⌠yeah ⌠the plan stinks⌠itâs not much different from what weâve seen failing badly south of the border.
So, a big thank you to all those 
citizens who volunteered their kids as crash test dummies for premature school re-opening experiments; Iâm not sure it was a necessary sacrifice, but the sacrifice has made for some very concrete examples we can hold up for our less scientifically inclined citizens up here in 
. Since that describes the entire Ontario provincial government, you need a fairly thick plank to get ideas into their well armoured skulls.
So here comes my wife and Iâs (western, privileged, white, adequately well off, well educated) decision on this one: itâs going to be online schooling for our kids this year. Hopefully we can overcome the resistance in 50% of our subject population by setting clear expectations, but frankly, having seen kids who were laxly home schooled catch up to high school in weeks, Iâm not panicking.
âŚwell, not about the education partâŚ
A study is making the rounds⌠usual caveats apply⌠methodology makes me a little mad, if anyone wants to do another one of these and doesnât mind me tagging along as a co-author Iâll cook up a proper network simulation⌠still, this is probably in the ballpark.
Actually, yeah, if thereâs an epi out there wants to do this with a highschool simulation, then thatâs probably not a huge project. Drop me a note via the BBSâŚ
Question What screening and isolation programs for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) will keep students at US residential colleges safe and permit the reopening of campuses?
Findings This analytic modeling study of a hypothetical cohort of 4990 college-age students without SARS-CoV-2 infection and 10 students with undetected asymptomatic cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection suggested that frequent screening (every 2 days) of all students with a low-sensitivity, high-specificity test might be required to control outbreaks with manageable isolation dormitory utilization at a justifiable cost.
Meaning In this modeling study, symptom-based screening alone was not sufficient to contain an outbreak, and the safe reopening of campuses in fall 2020 may require screening every 2 days, uncompromising vigilance, and continuous attention to good prevention practices.
Note: a brief report is just that. âWe saw a cool thing yâall should know about.â
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30287-X/fulltext
OK, no one box.
Summary
Background
Concerns regarding potential neurological complications of COVID-19 are being increasingly reported, primarily in small series. Larger studies have been limited by both geography and specialty. Comprehensive characterisation of clinical syndromes is crucial to allow rational selection and evaluation of potential therapies. The aim of this study was to investigate the breadth of complications of COVID-19 across the UK that affected the brain.
Yeah, itâs bad for brains. We really donât know how bad, what proportion of recovered patients have neurological issues, nor how long they may last. But it is bad for brains, and no reason to think still-developing brains will be less vulnerable to such outcomes.
