From The LA Times: The California Department of Public Health has directed all laboratories to report positive results directly to county health departments until the problem is resolved. Some county health departments are resorting to counting the testing results by hand to get accurate totals. Counting. We’re having problems counting. Wikipedia: Notched bones were also […]
Tag Archives: SARS-CoV-2
9-9-9
From The New York Times: Herman Cain, who rose from poverty in the segregated South to become chief executive of a successful pizza chain and then thrust himself into the national spotlight by seeking the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has died. He was 74.
Top Ten States
From The New York Times: The surge in the United States is so extreme that, once adjusted for population, these 10 states are recording more new cases than any country in the world. USA! USA! Number One! 🤦♂️
Remarkable Ignorance, In The Face of YouTube
My mom got a pulse oximeter. She asked me to put a mask on and check to see how my blood oxygen lowers. I put a mask on at 98% oxygenation, and it stayed at 98% while I told her that as a former nurse she should fucking know better. — بوكيبلينكي (@pookleblinky) July 13, […]
Zombies are US
I always found it questionable why zombie movies only showed the US. Now I know why. The rest of the world was probably just doing fine. — Ben #BlackLivesMatter (@BenchR) July 10, 2020
PPP Loan Gossip
From Matt Levine, writing in Money Stuff: I have engaged in this sort of gossip before, but for the most part I am pretty chill about “inappropriate” businesses getting PPP money. The idea of the PPP is that if a smallish business lost revenue, the government would give it a cheap loan, and if it […]
You Gotta Wear a Mask, Bro
From Newsweek: The man gets up after falling down and continues to walk into the store as the security guard wearing a face mask attempts to block him from shopping without touching him. The customer pushes the security guard into a basket of tomatoes and continues walking into the store before he is surrounded by […]
Avoid it like the plague
We’re gonna have to retire the expression “avoid it like the plague” because it turns out humans do not do that — Jenny Nicholson (@JennyENicholson) June 12, 2020
Staying Home
From FiveThirtyEight: The Cuebiq data suggests that behavioral changes were largely driven by people making a voluntary choice to stay home rather than being forced to do so by a state-sanctioned stay-at-home order. One need only look at the behavior of residents in North Carolina and their neighbors in South Carolina: While North Carolina issued […]
But in the Face of Evidence
From FiveThirtyEight: Then how’d it get here at all? There’s a simpler, if less flashy, explanation for the emergence of a new SARS. A study, published in 2018, of four rural villages in Yunnan province located near caves containing bats known to carry coronaviruses found that 2.7 percent of those surveyed had antibodies for close […]