Elon got a lot of press for promising to build ventilators, then he got a lot of press for promising to provide them (but not necessarily build them), then he got a lot of press for delivering some “ventilators” which are… not. They’re BIPAP machines generally for home use to treat sleep apnea and while they can be used to aid people with respiratory distress generally, they are not the type of ventilators hospitals have a shortage of (you could have one delivered tomorrow to your home for a grand or less), and certainly no substitute for those ventilators which there is a desperate shortage of, and even in normal times cost a hell of a lot more than a grand.
The particular graph being used is showing on the county level when the average weekday daily travel distance fell below 2 miles. If 10% of people had to go > 1 mile for groceries, so long as they aren’t doing daily grocery shopping getting the country average below 2 miles should be doable in most cases.
It’s really depicting people continuing to commute to work.
They probably chose 2 miles in reference to the table in the article where an average daily travel of 2 miles puts you in the top 20 worst counties (with population >500k) in the US.
On the other hand their map shows Poland as being in lockdown while in reality it’s not that harsh. Even non essential businesses are mostly allowed to operate.
Well, following your argument (despite the spelling), this would be correct. However, I was more wondering about the evaluation, and the overall gist “Europe is too slow and not strikt enough, and should learn from China”.
Berlin’s water usage has shifted to later hours due to closed schools, closed public institutions, closed shops etc. (FTR: no full lockdown, groups of two people who are not family or from the same household are still on the streets, as are families).
