âCover all your faceholes!â
That would include ears tooâŚ
âWHAT?â
Your ears are on your face?
[drastically revises mental image of @Melizmatic]
Technically, the eyes count tooâŚ
Seriously, this is also true, at least on the receiving end of the virus. Glasses or goggles recommended.
Especially if @beschizza has been at work.
Been wearing a pair of these when Iâm out walking. (No relation to the vendor other than as a customer.) ANSI Z87.1 compliant (the wraparound goes back far enough to count as side shields), >0.999 UVB/UVC blocking, and theyâve got cheaters so I can read my phone. (And they donât look atrociously nerdy. Iâve even seen a picture of Barack Obama wearing what look to be the same glasses.)
Goddamit, this is not how this fucking works! 
Oh, this winter will be funâŚ
UVA has tracked all healthcare worker Covid acquisition, and found that 100% (of a fairly small sample) were not wearing goggles at the presumed time of exposure. Obviously not directly applicable to the general population, but still food for thought.
Some information for any US citizen who might have thought they were ineligible for a $1200 stimulus check, due to homelessness or currently residing outside the country.
I thought to post this after meeting a Latino man here in Tijuana who has US citizenship because he was born in Queens, NYC. He was not aware he was eligible for a check.
Hopefully itâs not single use.
President Robert Robbins the next steps in campus reentry will depend on how well the disease is controlled.
That is such fundamentally dishonest bullshit. You have to decide on next steps now, so it âdepends on how well the disease is controlledâ â now. So, how well is it controlled now? And donât tell me âWell, cases are coming down.â: is it controlled? No, it is not, not even close. If cases come down at this rate consistently thenâŚDecember?
What he means, what they all mean, is âwe will look for any single out-of-context statistic that can be interpreted as positive, and then weâre going to start murdering again.â
The states seem to be going for the âpositivity rateâ, tests vs positives. The number of positives are rising, but the numbers of tests are rising more, so the positivity rate is going downâŚ
The going concern though is as we get into colder weather, the amount of virus we are in contact with when we get sick is going to be higher, in enclosed places. That means it is harder to fight off the virus, and the death rate goes up, irrespective of the positivity rate.
Interesting article here about the effectiveness of contact tracing, showing the importance of local knowledge in working out how the spread has occurred
Key quote
That ârichness of local knowledgeâ can help to identify where clusters are coming from, he says. For example, local tracers were able to establish a cluster of cases in a factory came from the community, not the factory - it was just there that they were being spotted. Local tracers knew workers at this particular factory mostly lived in one area, in buildings containing lots of different households, and many shared cars into work.
Via The Shirk Report:
âSomeâ?
