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Yep. Looking at the CT list, it seems as though everyone other than clowns and mimes are "essential." Makes it kind of a faux lockdown.
What I can say is that 40% of the factory workers in my place have chosen not to work. I would probably work from home but I have 2 kids doing online learning and a wife doing online teaching and at work I have my own office with a door.Oh and my commute that is normally 40-45 minutes has been 25 minutes and on cruise control most of the way.People are definitely working from home.
Sometimes even good leadership can't fix stupid. Idiots get together to intentionally try to get coronavirus -- and it works.https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/03/24/coronavirus-kentucky-one-ill-after-coronavirus-party-beshear-says/2911870001/
Glad to see that people are voluntarily taking steps to flatten the curve. They are showing more leadership than many of our “leaders.”
Yes this is theory and from what I hear from South America and India it makes that not seem to be playing out like portrayed in the model.
The current data does support the theory, though. What we're seeing in India right now seems to be very much a precautionary move, not a response to a surge in cases. And South American is similar. I know Ecuador has seen an increase, but as we look at all the data globally, South America represents a disproportionately small percentage of cases. And yes, of course, testing plays some role in this, but everyone's testing is limited. Everyone is under-reporting. To what extent, we'll probably never know. Unless you've seen something different for these areas, I think they're actually good examples to support the theory that warmer, more humid weather can/will slow this thing down.Even looking at the US, the northern states are more heavily impacted than southern states. Seattle has been hit much harder than LA. New York has been hit much harder than Atlanta. All 4 cities have a ton of international flights and would probably be the most likely cities for carriers of the virus to be arriving. That seems to line up with the weather-related research.
You might be right. But I think it's too early to say. We need either to have significantly more testing or significantly more lab data to draw any conclusions.
I'd probably stay quiet about this until we see what Florida has to show us. Rumor is that it will be horrible.
I'm trying to stick with research as much as I can. We might see something different from Florida, but so far, the trends from warmer areas in the US align with the conclusions drawn from research. I'm hoping that trend continues.
Really??Louisiana and Florida are among the hardest hit states. And, SoCal is still part of the US the last I heard.
Right now, there are 11 states with more than 1,000 confirmed cases. Of those 6 are "northern" states, 4 (Florida, Louisiana, Georgia and Texas) are "southern" states, and 1 (California) is large enough to qualify as both. IMHO, that seems like a pretty tenuous basis on which to assume warm weather makes a significant difference. I hope you're right, but either way we will probably have a better sense in a few weeks.https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Think about how many people traveled to New Orleans for Mardi Gras a few weeks ago. That's an exception to the general trend. Florida is similar with high travel in winter months, plus they have an older population when compared with the rest of the US. Looking at broad trends, warmer areas in the US and globally have been much, much less affected.
I don't quite get why an older population in Florida matters. Aren't we talking infection rate rather than results of the infection?Also, why does Mardi Gras matter? Wouldn't the warmer weather (under your argument) have worked to reduce the amount of infection?As far as broader trends, we just don't know. There are not nearly as many business travelers to China from these 3rd world countries, so they are way behind us and Europe right now. We have yet so see what the rates will be once this takes hold in warmer climates.I hope you are right, but we really don't have the evidence yet that we need to declare that warmer climates are safer.
What the actual f?@ndrew_lawrence: Tx Lt Gov Dan Patrick says grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy for their grandchildren https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1242245135129346050/video/1