Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 1)

They just opened the borders a few days ago! Wow.

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“…I’m just going to check the basement/cemetery/abandoned asylum…”

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I’m imagining the mummy looking about then crawling back in the sarcophagus and closing the lid on top of themselves. Would if I could.

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I still think it was the particle accelerator at CERN back in 2008; I swear those fuckers must have messed up something in the space-time continuum…

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Can we get the Mummy to run as Libertarian, free guns for all? Anything to bleed off Trump voters.

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History is weird

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That…actually makes sense. Any day, an infinite chimpanzee will write Hamlet.

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Covid hotspot
Finland’s traffic light system has tightened rules for some travellers arriving in the country, but the strict criteria have thrown up an oddity: bits of the country that have so much Covid that travellers would face restrictions if they were a separate country.

The rule is that places with more than 25 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the preceding two weeks should isolate for a fortnight on arrival in Finland.

That level puts Central Finland in the ‘red’ zone, with 41.9 cases per 100,000 residents in the last two weeks.

That’s higher than Estonia with 30.87 cases, and Sweden with 26.09. Quarantine is not on the agenda for those leaving Jyväskylä however, and Iltalehti reports that the situation is not so critical: the sources of nearly all the recent cases have been traced.

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Plot historical reported deaths on a logarithmic scale, fit a straight line?

Doesn’t have to be complicated

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So either an Antediluvian or the bearer of the seven plagues among them? Either Gehenna or Armageddon?

Don’t open it.

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“KN95s are not useless,” Schabacker said. “We still believe they’re better than standard surgical masks, so there’s no need to throw them out. Just don’t use them in high-risk areas.”

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Not shocking in the least, but worth being aware:

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That isn’t surprising. The N95 part is supposed to be a grade of filtration. That has nothing to do with the fit of the mask, how you wear it, the materials, etc. Some are rigid, and don’t shape to the contours of the face if it doesn’t fit you well. Some are floppier cloth and just sort of hang and don’t form at all. Some SHOULD be right in terms of filtration but the fibers spread under pressure and with use, etc.

People dealing with patients are actually fitted for their masks. Just grabbing one off a shelf isn’t going to give you the full benefits of filtration without some luck. Just remember the more you are breathing around them instead of through them, the worse they are actually filtering. If they feel like normal breathing, you probably aren’t getting filtered much.

Regardless, masks are good things now, and no one should be without one in public.

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“Faith, if he be not rotten before he die — as we have many pocky corses nowadays that will scarce hold the laying in — he will last you some eight year or nine year.”
–Gravedigger, Hamlet Act 5 Scene 1

With an administration pretty much made up of pocky corses, you have a point.

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CDC weighs in on Halloween 2020 :skull:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/holidays.html#halloween

Higher risk activities

Avoid these higher risk activities to help prevent the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19:

  • Participating in traditional trick-or-treating where treats are handed to children who go door to door
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We are doing a candy hunt in the front yard with one friend from down the street. Masks for everyone. Like easter eggs but with halloween stuff.

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