this is in line with what most of the brainiacs are thinking. it's not really counter-productive to deceive people w/ false hope IMO, because pushing those infections into the future is still going to minimize hospitals being overwhelmed
this caught me off guard though:
In fact, because of the role of weather in the model presented in the Kristof article, two months of mitigations actually results in 50% more infections and deaths than two weeks of mitigations, since it pushes the peak of the epidemic to the winter instead of the summer, whose warmer months this model assumes causes lower transmission rates.
pulling the two key figures for the clickphobic
good thing I'll be dead soon, cause I'm tired of liars winning
Gee I wonder if any intrepid politicians would use this modeling information to cynically depress the total infection numbers temporarily in an effort to secure a win in November
fortunately for my against-hope hopes that liars will not persist in their tiresome winning, it's kind of a lose-lose - maintaining social distancing for months will kill (has killed?) the economy; doing less will kill large quantities of people before "president choosing" day
but what the fuck do I know - orange man's approval is up & disapproval is down
good thing I'll be dead soon, cause I'm tired of liars winning
I think 180M is an area under the curve total - it's admittedly confusing when it's a curve instead of a bunch of discrete bars
like all the infections under the "filled in" red snakey part on the left total 14M, even though number of infections at any given time never comes close to the 10M mark
good thing I'll be dead soon, cause I'm tired of liars winning
Showing real leadership in a crisis, former covid-skeptic Boris Johnson adopted a new method of social distancing by being placed in a wooden box under several feet of earth.
I'm being furloughed every other week due to low hospital census (can't pay the bills without elective surgery, and there is not much margin on a covid patient who spends a long time on a ventilator). I have to work every other week to onboard new hire staff.
The wave hasn't really hit yet here in Lansing, MI, and I really don't want to travel to Detroit to work so instead of applying for underemployment I'll try to pick up per diem work at a jail or homeless shelter. I already applied to the health department clinics, but I may be disqualified from working there because my parter would be a supervisor.
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I'm being furloughed every other week due to low hospital census (can't pay the bills without elective surgery, and there is not much margin on a covid patient who spends a long time on a ventilator). I have to work every other week to onboard new hire staff.
The wave hasn't really hit yet here in Lansing, MI, and I really don't want to travel to Detroit to work so instead of applying for underemployment I'll try to pick up per diem work at a jail or homeless shelter. I already applied to the health department clinics, but I may be disqualified from working there because my parter would be a supervisor.
this is in line with what most of the brainiacs are thinking. it's not really counter-productive to deceive people w/ false hope IMO, because pushing those infections into the future is still going to minimize hospitals being overwhelmed
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