Thanks. The college campus is closed, so I am designing the program from my basement. A lot of MSTeams and Blackboard collaborate meetings. It looks like they are, essentially, giving me carte blanche on the design of the program. I drafted an 8 page memo about moving classes, adding a couple, dropping a couple and the dean said she will likely accept all of my proposals. I am pretty stoked about it.
It looks like they mean before an antibody test is available. If so, that's a crazt idea. What bloody idiot came up with that? “Some of the best minds here at the White House are beginning to think about what recommendations will look like that we give to businesses, that we give to states, but it will all, I promise you, be informed on putting the health and well-being of the American people first,” Pence said. OK! Don't answer that Actually, talking about antibody tests, I read this the other day and I can't remember if I posted it here... https://www.newscientist.com/articl...y-test-for-covid-19-really-be-a-game-changer/ But I read this more recently... https://www.theguardian.com/society...esting-approach-chris-whitty-germany-covid-19 As the first announcement was almost a fortnight ago you'd have thought they would have asked those organisations to help with that before now, wouldn't you
Well, maybe not always.. But it definitely is messed up... Just, in this case, they are going to get wrecked by covid-19z
Low numbers. Warm weather? Aussies have more space? I know it's not stricter social distancing, since my friend's kids were in school long after we were shut down in Illinois.
Under any other president we've ever had I would consider this a sign that things are getting better. But under Trump, what kind of fool would trust the CDC to make the right call? I mean, yeah, maybe...but I'm not betting my life on it.
There is considerable social distancing in place. All restaurants, and bars have been closed. Shopping centre food courts have been closed. Gyms, cinemas and a few other businesses where people gather have been closed. People are required to stay at home unless they fill one of the reasons that are exempt. Businesses that remain open can only have 1 person inside per 4 square metres of space. Exercising outdoors is allowed provided group size is a maximum of two. People can only be together in a group of 2 (an exception made for family groups that live in the same house). You can have a visitor at your home provided they fit one of the exemptions but only one at a time. The main drop came after we closed the borders to everyone (not completely but everyone coming in must spend 14 days in quarantine in a designated hotel, initially at government expense but now at your own cost). In the course of a week restrictions were increased from stage 1 to stage 3. Schools are still open but 80% of students are now doing distance learning. Child care has been made free so that essential workers have somewhere to leave their children.There are a few other restrictions I haven't mentioned. Most of the large spike was due to people returning from overseas with infections (mainly from Europe and North America, we shut the border with China and Iran pretty early on) and most infections now are community transmisions. One cruise ship accounted for over 10% of the infections at the peak time.
I have a pre-existing condition.... So, no, bending the curve doesn’t mean [emoji90] to me. This isn’t “over” until there’s a vaccine. Why are there people that think everything will magically “go back to normal” once the lockdowns are lifted?!
https://markets.businessinsider.com...sential-items-select-states-2020-4-1029075941 I bet Wal-Mart can still sell guns
So do I. I'm surrounded by people who've been conditioned over generations to buy into the stupidest part of religion. I hope you and your family continue to stay healthy thru all of this. I'm sure it sucks to have just that much more to worry about physically. He didn't say that. In fact, he said something fairly close to the opposite. So I'm not sure whether you're in absolute disagreement with him, or concerned that his comment doesn't address all the concerns of all the people.
Not if they end up having to ration guns like they do TP... lol Guns should have been the first nonessential banned. But 2AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
In terms of getting the economy running and not causing a depression, they're both important, obviously. I saw a report today that said the resultant economic hit from this will cause half a billion people to suffer economic hardship.
I'm sorry. I so prefer Slack to Teams. Man I hate Teams. Do you have Blackboard experience? I hope you have Blackboard support. The college I was at recently used Blackboard, but once the 3 year contract was renewed, the support was reduced. They moved to Canvas and liked it. The school I was at also used Canvas and it looked good, but wasn't really implemented. I was going to try and design a training for Canvas for the teachers, but with the current situation, and my dislike of the admin in the school, I'm not returning. Dude, that is awesome!
Yeah, the opposite will be be case. Well, unless by 'normal' we mean hundreds of thousands of extra deaths. We need to adopt a multi-prong strategy... working towards a vaccine as quickly as possible, protecting vulnerable groups, testing for cases as the become apparent, (including contact tracing, obviously), and testing for people who have had the disease so they can be allowed back into the work-force.
While this is true, the important part right now is containment. Antibody tests can only tell you who is in recovery or has recovered from Covid-19, it can’t tell you who is in the early stages of the disease.
In Scandinavia, Sweden is experiencing a rising death toll from COVID-19 -- as well as growing doubt about the country’s more relaxed approach to handling it. They have close to 700 deaths now. Meanwhile in Norway next door, they shut down the country early on and have been able to contain the damages and have around 106 deaths. The Guardian reported that the Swedish government is in the process of drawing up “extraordinary” legislation to deal with the growing threat posed by COVID-19. It may be a case of too little too late since the numbers of cases are increasing rapidly in the country.
Tesco supermarkets in the UK received a £585m coronavirus tax break from the government shortly before announcing a £635m dividend windfall to its shareholders.
Sorry to hear. I hope you are well and stay well. Because we have no experience with viruses like this. We don't even have experience with the first wave, as is obvious. And I'm talking about the general public. It was discussed as far back as the SARS crisis that because our medical system has been so effective and efficient and preventing potentially deadly viruses/diseases from entering the US that we don't have much experience with how to respond. The last major medical issue we had was polio, and that was effectively eliminated since the mid 1960s, but officially eliminated since 1979. Thus we have nearly 2 to 3 generation who have no experience with any large scale disease and how to respond. This is unlike Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and even China (when the locked down, they locked down hard). So, this idea that people are able to understand the severity is not surprising. I am actually impressed at the number of people who do understand and are listening.