COVID-19 (2): Turns out it's going to be pretty bad actually

great job all around imo

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

Italy is going to hit their IMHE projection for total all time deaths this weekend and likely still have 400-600 deaths a day for a while.

First-party grocery delivery services are better than going to the store yourself. Third-party services are worse.

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The end game of all this is really interesting to me. At some point we have to open things back up with the awareness that we will likely see a second wave when we do. The hope is that we flatten the curve for long enough that the 2nd wave doesn’t overwhelm our hospital capacity until we reach a point of herd immunity. This is the type of thing that an intelligent administration would be calculating out the appropriate timeline for, but this administration will likely just go by whichever way the wind happens to blow Trump’s toupee any given day.

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I’m obviously not defending Trump’s handling of the pandemic. But of course the Chinese government covered up the epidemic in December and January and are lying about it. They imprisoned whistleblowers ffs!

I usually am almost completely in agreement with your point of view on almost everything, but not here. For one, if every single household in the US tried to use a delivery service they would be overwhelmed. In many places, there are two week waits or more. These wait times would absolutely explode if everybody used them.

I’m going to continue shopping for my family using my RZ mask and being very careful, and I guarantee that I’m less of a risk to the shopping “pros” than they are to me. Many of them are very cavalier because they are generally young.

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why Don’t they just have the bulk shoppers have their own time slot so they can work efficiently and not be around everyone else?

I see them going around with individual orders. Seems like it would make more sense to have them divide and conquer. Joe you are canned veggies- sally you grab the frozen meals etc.

Then have a warehouse space to fill orders from the collected stuff (based on that days orders).

Maybe limit them from pulling 100% off the shelves.

With orders way up it seems like they shouldn’t be using the single shopper model. Time to reinvent the process.

(I think there is a true warehouse model-pea pod?). Just talking about instacart I see locally.

This pope is the Tom Steyer of popes. While he may not get your support he has really strong takes on societal issues.

I think he’s a good egg.

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I hope stores expand and improve curbside pick up. I would use that before using a delivery service.

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We just imprison children and fire whistleblowers. Well until Barr figures out how to charge them, not like he hasn’t been trying.

The charts still look like 20-40k is about right afaict.

This is how ‘Ocado’ do it in the UK

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Yes, I saw that on TV a while ago and was also going to post it here.

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I feel like this is way better context for people reading who aren’t familiar with him…

yes sorry i did end up getting the rona. i tested negative at first and then on that tuesday i felt fine

then the next weekend felt horrible, went back positive test.

cough gone but still recovering. this thing sucks.

i made a ton of NFL draft projections from my death bed tho and then i bet a bunch

here’s what i got, what do you think? A lot of this is dependent on San Diego trading up to 3 to take Tua

…followed by 30 plays with o/u and moneyline lol. He’s like a Terminator that was programmed to kill John Connor but only if John Connor was the name of a sportsbook.

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More stats from New York. Hope we continue to do high rate of testing even as number of hospitalization falls so we can learn more about infection prevalence.

Day Date Daily Tests New Cases Total Cases Positive Rate
Tuesday 3/31/2020 15,701 7,917 83,712 50.4%
Wednesday 4/1/2020 18,031 8,669 92,381 48.1%
Thursday 4/2/2020 21,555 10,482 102,863 48.6%
Friday 4/3/2020 23,101 10,841 113,704 46.9%
Saturday 4/4/2020 18,659 8,327 122,031 44.6%
Sunday 4/5/2020 18,531 8,658 130,689 46.7%
Monday 4/6/2020 19,247 8,174 138,863 42.5%
Tuesday 4/7/2020 25,095 10,453 149,316 41.7%
Wednesday 4/8/2020 26,396 10,621 159,937 40.2%
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is he the inspiration for uncut gems?

American crimes don’t excuse Chinese crimes any more than Chinese crimes excise American ones.

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what do all these people testing negative have? are they just hypochondriacs? the flu? a cold?