The Virus - Are You Affected?

[ZiprHead]

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From here.
The slope of the logarithmic plot is flattening, which means that the growth rate is going down.

I'm admittedly math illiterate but using a logarithmic scale doesn't seem to me to be the best way to measure how steep the total cases curve is. Making it appear flatter than it really is.

 

[crazyfingers]

Speaking of isolation, we've just been informed that not only can we not visit my mom in assisted living, all residents are required to stay in their own apartments all the time. No dinner downstairs. No group activities. I've encouraged mom to turn the TV on and get some virtual company. Even having Gilligan's Island playing in the background for 5 hours a day will help.

I don't know how I could take that. While I stay home almost all the time, I have a wife and kids and 2 acres of land that I can walk around outside.

The only thing I miss about the situation is hiking. (The land isn't flat enough around here to just go wandering around in most places, and if you follow the trails you meet plenty of people. The norm for most areas is get there early or you won't find a parking space.) Once you're an hour in avoiding people would be easy in most situations (once in a while you're in an area where stepping appreciably off the trail isn't possible) because there aren't a lot of them but it's not feasible near the trailheads.

Are you actually under quarantine? There are no trails with few people? I think that if I were in the mood to go to one of the state parks around here I could hike with practically no risk of being too close to anyone. But as it is our property abuts several hundred acres of town conservation land and if I wished to take a hike in the wood the chances are probably 1 in 100 that I'd see anyone else on the trails. Much safer than the necessary trips to the grocery store.

 

[Keith&Co.]

So you are OK with someone being forced to work there with a fever because they can't close down if he doesn't show up to work?

I didn't say any such thing.

Personally, I think your story is the Trump equivalent of "people are saying...".

Frankly, if someone said they were being forced to work with COVID-19 symptoms, I'd be on the phone to the county health department. Which also makes me wonder WTF is wrong with you that you didn't do that too.

I know how it works there. I knew people who worked there when I was younger and I know someone who works there now. They have 2 people work in the store overnight. If one person is sick, they can not call out because then there is only 1 person working and they can not have only 1 person in the store. They need 2. So, that is why the manager was screaming that he had to come in: because they can not close down the store since it's 24 hours 365 days a year.

I do feel sorry for those people. If they are sick, they are forced to choose between being fired and coming to work because the store can not close down ever.

So, let's see... The media hype over C19 is going to blow over very soon because, look, they allow the 7/11s to be open, which are redundant to tge supermarkets, but that's cruel because the 7/11 clerks are in danger of being sick, and no matter how sick they get, the boss won't let them have a sick day because keeping the 7/11 open 24/7 is paramount.

So, in sum, regardless of C19, the convenience stores are always open because the convenience stores will always be open.

Mods, can we get Halfie's -defeating derail stripped out of here? He's forgotten hus purpose in trolling the thread.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Florida effectively ends school year. And the longer we wait, the worse this is going to get. Shut it down already!

The US will go into a Depression because idiots voted for the most incompetent President in our history by magnitudes.

 

[crazyfingers]

Florida effectively ends school year. And the longer we wait, the worse this is going to get. Shut it down already!

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Massachusetts hasn't shut the school year down yet, three weeks off so far, but I expect that they will.

My daughter is going nuts. She is a senior and has been accepted into a college for the fall. She worries about those last graduation credits she may not get that will keep her from graduating. I keep telling her every single high school senior in the country, possibly the world, are in the same situation and they will figure something out.

What I haven't said is good luck if colleges even open come fall.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Florida effectively ends school year. And the longer we wait, the worse this is going to get. Shut it down already!

.

Massachusetts hasn't shut the school year down yet, three weeks off so far, but I expect that they will.

My daughter is going nuts. She is a senior and has been accepted into a college for the fall. She worries about those last graduation credits she may not get that will keep her from graduating. I keep telling her every single high school senior in the country, possibly the world, are in the same situation and they will figure something out.

What I haven't said is good luck if colleges even open come fall.

That is rough. Graduating High School is supposed to be a right of passage. But certainly, the problem of the fall exists because we have tens of millions of Americans that jerk off to the President's statements and angst of liberals who would prefer people not needlessly die.

Oh, and California looks like they'll be cutting the year soon.

Akron is using the Internet to continue education. Luckily my daughter is in first grade, so education is a little less complicated.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Maryland announces that looting hordes are now to be limited to no more than 15 looters.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

All schools are recommended to do electronic learning. Parents and teachers are unprepared for the transition. But it can work for families with Internet.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

All schools are recommended to do electronic learning. Parents and teachers are unprepared for the transition. But it can work for families with Internet.

My Aunt needs to transition her college classes into online classes out of the blue.

And then the Internet thing. Some companies are coming out with free Internet packages for families that don't have it.

 

[Keith&Co.]

All schools are recommended to do electronic learning. Parents and teachers are unprepared for the transition. But it can work for families with Internet.

Two big problems in our district, interrnet access and Special Education. The SEd teachers cannot effectively meet the demands in yhe brick and mortar schools, thrrre's no way to manage it online.

 

[Politesse]

Florida effectively ends school year. And the longer we wait, the worse this is going to get. Shut it down already!

.

Massachusetts hasn't shut the school year down yet, three weeks off so far, but I expect that they will.

My daughter is going nuts. She is a senior and has been accepted into a college for the fall. She worries about those last graduation credits she may not get that will keep her from graduating. I keep telling her every single high school senior in the country, possibly the world, are in the same situation and they will figure something out.

What I haven't said is good luck if colleges even open come fall.

We're already exploring an all-online possibility for the Fall Term. Definitely closed through June.

If she was accepted but can't attend due to a campus closure, she should have priority when she re-applies.

 

[crazyfingers]

Florida effectively ends school year. And the longer we wait, the worse this is going to get. Shut it down already!

.

Massachusetts hasn't shut the school year down yet, three weeks off so far, but I expect that they will.

My daughter is going nuts. She is a senior and has been accepted into a college for the fall. She worries about those last graduation credits she may not get that will keep her from graduating. I keep telling her every single high school senior in the country, possibly the world, are in the same situation and they will figure something out.

What I haven't said is good luck if colleges even open come fall.

We're already exploring an all-online possibility for the Fall Term. Definitely closed through June.

If she was accepted but can't attend due to a campus closure, she should have priority when she re-applies.

On-line learning is a good option. But there is the issue of equal access. Not all kids have high speed internet at home. The haves's can finish high school while the have not's won't. Perhaps the 10% have nots could actually go to school? The place would be empty.

I don't know the right answer.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

We're already exploring an all-online possibility for the Fall Term. Definitely closed through June.

If she was accepted but can't attend due to a campus closure, she should have priority when she re-applies.

On-line learning is a good option. But there is the issue of equal access. Not all kids have high speed internet at home. The haves's can finish high school while the have not's won't. Perhaps the 10% have nots could actually go to school? The place would be empty.

I don't know the right answer.

A lot of poor people rely on schools and libraries for computers and Internet.

Yeah, it's an issue:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-ta...income-americans-make-gains-in-tech-adoption/

 

[Politesse]

We're already exploring an all-online possibility for the Fall Term. Definitely closed through June.

If she was accepted but can't attend due to a campus closure, she should have priority when she re-applies.

On-line learning is a good option. But there is the issue of equal access. Not all kids have high speed internet at home. The haves's can finish high school while the have not's won't. Perhaps the 10% have nots could actually go to school? The place would be empty.

I don't know the right answer.

Very true, and I'm extremely concerned about that. Have yet to determine how many of my students will actually be able to participate fully with a remote option, but I know beyond any doubt it won't be all of them. even those with internet can't necessarily afford to live-stream videos every week.

 

[Rhea]

We have a lot of threads on this huge topic. This one is about personal stories from the members of the TFT community. Please leave discussions of the 7-11 or the curve flattening or comparisons to Italy in the other threads that are more appropriate to those topics.

 

[Trausti]

Tom Hanks Disease has made downtown Seattle sparse and quite. Super quick commute now, though.

 

[Trausti]

 

[Derec]

Good one Trausti, but I like this compilation too.

 

[blastula]

Tom Hanks Disease has made downtown Seattle sparse and quite. Super quick commute now, though.

There are some bright sides to the Tormund plague. Traffic is amazing now!

 

[blastula]

Good one Trausti, but I like this compilation too.

Curb Your Enthusiasm had an unintentionally timely corona related episode this week.

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vLmbHrIm0w[/YOUTUBE]

It's a strong season at season 10.