WHAT? I had a reaction years ago, and that would’ve explained it. 
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Interesting twitter thread discussing outcomes in US states based on when they ended lockdown:
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Our state’s Attorney General, showing how you handle it if you start feeling sick:
He’s relatively young and healthy, so hopefully this won’t be one of the bad cases.
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Unmasked MAGA protests and brunch parties? Yup people are getting sick. But masked protesters, not so much. (People forcibly unmasked and crammed together in police custody should count under a different set of statistics).
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This!!! Very much so. “Police induced spike” perhaps.
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And, there it is:
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We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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I hate these sadistic and cruel fucks.
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What treatments are preventing infections? What vaccine trial is preventing infections? What’s wrong with, I dunno, counting the number of people who are actually being infected? What an odd piece of happenstance that the ICUs that had been emptying are filling up again! It must be because people are getting better?
Directed at article, not yourself. And just realised it was an “Opinion Piece” by Mike Pence. I’m sure the editorial staff vetted it as well as the NYT vetted Tom Cotton’s piece.
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Helsingin Sanomat asks this morning what can be done to prevent a second wave of the coronavirus, especially as Finland begins reopening its borders with the outside world.
HS writes that the first wave of the virus largely arrived to Finland through holidaymakers, especially Finns returning home from ski resorts in northern Italy, who continued their daily lives after arriving home without any mandate to self-quarantine. Mistakes such as these must be avoided if Finland is to prevent, or at least limit, the effects of a second wave, HS writes.
Jari Jalava , a leading specialist at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), told HS that it was surprisingly rare for infections to spread on airplanes, but they usually do spread at destinations.
“Trying to avoid infections there is rule number one,” Jalava said. “There you have to follow the same instructions as here. In other words, emphasis is placed on good hand hygiene, keeping distance, avoiding contact with sick people.”
Jalava added that tourists from Finland should carefully consider the destinations to which they intend to travel, and plan how to avoid any risk of infection. Self-quarantine on the return home is still recommended, especially for those coming from countries with a more severe coronavirus situation.
“Quarantine is the best way to avoid the spread of infections here,” Jalava said.
HS writes that authorities in Finland feel they are better prepared for the second wave than they were for the first. Measures, such as the mandatory wearing of masks by Finavia employees, that have been introduced to Finnish airports since February, are intended help minimise the risk of the virus spreading again.
“If the second wave of the pandemic is similar to the first, we will already have adequate safety and hygiene arrangements in place,” Finavia’s Communications Manager Annika Kåla told HS.
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yeah – but read between the lines.
A hairstylist at the Great Clips location served 84 clients while symptomatic. The hairstylist infected a coworker, who worked with 56 clients.
The health department also offered testing to all potentially exposed to COVID-19 and remained in contact throughout the incubation period. All 46 people tested returned negative results. “If any developed, they would have been referred to testing,” the spokeswoman said.
so 140 people were exposed, and they tested 32% of them.
i guess? that’s a pretty decent sample size – but it doesn’t give me confidence that there were no infections. since they didn’t test all the exposed people – were any asymptomatic carriers?
worker to co-worker (as happened) is an r of 1. if any single other person was infected that’s an r > 1. which means covid is still gaining.
it also means going back to business and just using masks won’t stop it, just slow it.
the question is more, how much does it slow it?
if they actually tested all 140 people we’d have a better idea.
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What the actual fuck. I noticed the two important cases, but not the circumstances.
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I was confused and outraged. Then I saw the byline. And it all made sense. Idiot.
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“This requirement will be enforced by the Sergeant at Arms and noncompliant Members will be denied entry,”
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) is particularly upset by the idea of covering his mouth, telling CNN last month: “It’s part of the dehumanization of the children of God."
Geeze Mr. Higgins, pass the snakes already will 'ya?
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Sigh. The usual distancing arguments based on large droplets from coughing or sneezing. If anyone is coughing, (a) I hope they stay home, (b) no way I’m going within 10 meters.
The case for reducing distancing is purely political/economic. Probably dangerous in an indoor location too, since it ignores finer aerosol spread, where they need to stress increased air exchange. Wearing masks too. I know that even a surgical mask isn’t comfortable, but putting it on only when a customer enters the shop is pure theater.
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What a coincidence, that’s my exact reasoning for walking around the Louisiana Statehouse with my cock swinging in the breeze. (Well, that and the envious look on his wife’s face.)
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It all started with fig leaves.
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Yet I’m sure this gentleman is perfectly okay with putting actual, literal children in cages.
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Bill Burr Calls Out Joe Rogan about Covid-19 and Wearing Masks
tldw: Burr tells Rogan (and, more importantly, his audience) that neither of them is qualified to know whether masks are effective but that he trusts the WHO, and calls out the mockery of mask wearing as toxic-masculinity bullshit.
(And even better, a link to this video is currently sitting at #2 on /r/all on Reddit.)
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