Ongoing coronavirus happenings

Actual article:

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.

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deaths by state

Deaths by state for states with at least 10 deaths

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Interesting how the South China Morning Post does do not mention Germany.

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“suggests” is apparently the NYT euphemism for “lied about”

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WaPo: Anthony Fauci’s security is stepped up as doctor and face of U.S. coronavirus response receives threats

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/anthony-faucis-security-is-stepped-up-as-doctor-and-face-of-us-coronavirus-response-receives-threats/ar-BB122LOX?ocid=spartanntp

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Well, we don’t have a national lockdown, we have totally-not-a-lockdown social distancing restrictions…
Oddly enough, they have “Baviera” on that map.

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But

That’s just…
Yeah.

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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.

I wish they would call things by name.

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They can’t, they’re using enhanced journalistic techniques.

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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”.

Given what’s going on with Peter Thiel’s baby…

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/palantir-in-talks-with-germany-france-for-virus-fighting-tool

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-02/coronavirus-news-palantir-gives-away-data-mining-tools

…I think that my assessment that we will not recognize our world in a year’s time was rather modest.

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Dataheads: take a look.

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).

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https://twitter.com/carlbeijer/status/1245522555349413890?s=21

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countries

ft.com/coronavirus-latest

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Typical Daily Mail style: Have someone write a good detailed factual article, and then give to a team to make sure that all the sensational nonsense fluff gets added.

(No, there are no Tom Cruise and John Travolta ‘special bunkers’, especially at that location.)

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^ The Coronavirus Roman Candle

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