We also asked American experts whether states can meet all or most of these benchmarks. Their answers coalesced around a single point: None of you are close to being ready.
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Oil prices have just gone negativeā¦
https://www.ft.com/content/a5292644-958d-4065-92e8-ace55d766654
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The US President will be devastated. He so wanted to attend.
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I had an extremely traumatic childhood.
I was just getting over it and had gotten a well paying job I was laid off from after a long string of low paying, highly intense gigs. Luckily the money I was going to spend on furniture also doubles as an emergency fund.
It absolutely will affect them, and while Iām terribly sad I also hope weāll come out of this with more sympathy for people for whom trauma has been a barrier to success, lead to support for universal physical and mental health care, and possibly a UBI scheme to supplement existing social programs.
On my end, Iām so burnt out, Iām seriously considering just giving up and moving to SE Asia to be one of those weird bums who teaches English for a decade. I canāt keep working so hard, only to have things I donāt have control over smash me down. I simply canāt muster the energy to ājustā learn Yet Another Thing. I canāt do it anymore, I just shut down, feel hopeless, and cry.
Edit: I got a ānice replyā for this which uh, is a bit lulzy, but well uhā¦ I appreciate the sentiment folks 
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Iāve read that about 6 times now and I canāt make sense of itā¦
The part of my brain that parses stuff like that is preoccupied by the possibility of beer and pizza prices going negative.
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Ah, understandable.
Yeah, we do this stuff a lot.
Also, we have a tendency to use English (well, mostly US American) expletives very casually. I know I shocked some anglophones more than once doing that.
Anyway.
āShitshowā might sound hard when describing the wording in that particular article on TP. But in general I am at odds with a lot of framing these days.
Sometimes I just whish for neutral news.
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Does this virus have some kind of temporary immunosuppressant effect? All these weird symptoms that implicate all kinds of other pathogensā¦ thrush fungi for anosmia, secondary bacterial pneumonia, odd little blood clots everywhereā¦ Maybe it isnāt the virus causing the Covid symptoms, which seem like some insane smorgasbord of random badness to me, but secondary infections, which arise because for some period of time after infection, your immune systemās efficacy is greatly reduced. Am I totally off-base here?
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Gold-plated, velvet-lined, med-staffed ābunkersā.
WaPo: A billionairesā compound with its own coronavirus testing center stokes anger on the French Riviera
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I expect any disease that causes massive cellular damage like this simply overwhelms the immune system, making other infections likely.
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Wouldnāt it be a shocker if our contact tracing strategy only worked for relatively wealthy people?
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Oh when itās their life theyāre scared for, they are suddenly for it huh?
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Iām not, but probably hit the reply on your comment instead of the reply at the bottom and now I canāt edit. Thank you for your continued patience while we work out the remaining issues with the use of the user interface.
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Iāve been following this with a certain āwhat the actual fuckā state of mind, since the main point still stands: Bluetooth in its current form does not allow such an app to work.
So, while everyone is discussing privacy and security and whatnot, RSSI simply will not work as advertised.
Iām still asking myself if I missed a very crucial part which would make it work.
I tried to contact some journalists who could possibly use their leverage to find out. I am at a dead end. I donāt know who to ask. My contacts either have no grasp of the technology and admit as much - or, if they have some, they tell me I should forget about it because it wonāt work, causing massively false negatives and comparatively massively false positives.
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Are you trying to figure out if a Bluetooth device can deduce its position absolutely in space, or if it can detect relative proximity to another Bluetooth device?
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This sounds fun: probably wonāt be able to do it myself.
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ETA: Iām trying to figure out if an app could work to determine the distance between two smartphones accurately enough to be of use to trace contacts without to many false positives, and even less false negatives.
Have a look at what @Aciantis wrote.
While you can use Bluetooth to measure the distance between two phones, the results arenāt useful for this kind of app. You would have to determine if you have been closer that, say, two meters. It would be better if you even had an additional measure about the time you spent together.
Using RSSI, on smartphones, is not accurate enough for this, as @Aciantis tells us, and thus confirms an engineer I asked about this. Physics and technical limitations of even most recent smartphone seem to say: forget it.
This looks bad.
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