Shows I do not want to see for $2000, Alex.
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Good Lord thatās like 200 years of plastic surgery in one picture. None of them look like a normal human being.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/map-us-still-staying-home-coronavirus/
The national percentage of time people were at home: March 1 72% April 1 89%, April 7 93%, April 30 89%.
Here is an interesting article on how Shanghai handles international arrivals:
TLDR: Mom and 2 kids travel from US to Shanghai. Airport medical check and screening takes 16 hours before you are allowed to go to your home or quarantine location. You are quarantined 14-days, checked for symptoms twice-a-day. A sensor is attached to apartment door, which may only be opened 5x-a-day.
Well, yeah, obviously. But I was anticipating the performative outrage from the right when somebody AOC retweeted once says something even mildly critical of the guy.
I guess weāll get bad faith pearl-clutching from them regardless, soā¦
This article is about the restaurant that opened today for Motherās Day. Had no idea eating in restaurants was in the Constitution.
"Iām so happy so many people came out to support the Constitution and stand up for what is right.
Oh and a giant LOL at having an armed bouncer for a breakfast place.
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There was some data that the spread we have seen indicates that itās not spread by anything other than person to person transmission, so the only point of danger is any transaction where you deal with another person and not on containers you bring home. Also washing your hands is important so you donāt contaminate your mucus membranes (mostly your nose); the act of eating tends to make the virus less of an issue (chewing and swallowing means that any virus in your mouth doesnāt have time to reproduce in your upper respiratory tract). I do think a virus like this spreading through like your groceries would be highly unusual but it has displayed some otherwise strange behavior so who knows.
The other day I went to a grocery store (trader joes) for the first time in 2 months. They limited how many shoppers could be inside at once, and everyone had to wear masks. Still, it was way too close quarters for my liking and I wonāt be going back. A decent # of shoppers entered my ābubbleā.
That trip was significantly more risky than getting takeout. Obviously I canāt say exactly but Iād wager 10x. If Iām ordering 4x large pizzas for takeout which feeds me for 10 meals, at 10% of the risk for a grocery store trip which feeds me for 100 meals, the risk is equivalent. Iām not absolving the risk of getting takeout, just trying to put it in perspective.
Fwiw Iāll be going back to instacart or late night grocery runs and continue to do bulk only takeout orders (have done 2x since this thing started).
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I think itās a complicated moral calculus, and I wish we had more guidance from the scientific/economic community on whether we should be getting takeout. Peoples livelihoods are at stake here. I normally get takeout like only twice a month because cooking is a hobby of mine, but lately Iāve tried to hit up my locally-owned Japanese/Korean place for curbside takeout once a week, tipping about twice what I normally would.
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I thought the fact that takeout was allowed by the federal guidance and the state lockdown orders was adequate moral guidance that takeout is ok.
idk whoās in charge of the federal guidance. Are they a Kushner knobslobber? I want someone trustworthy like Dr. Amy Acton to tell me whatās up.
They were written by some obscure agency I had never heard of, so Iām 90% sure they were developed by civil servants and 70% they were written before Trump took office. Most state lockdowns were based on them.
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I know itās a football article but thereās a lot of interesting stuff from Fauci.
Meat packing plants maybe?
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Thatās some Island of Dr. Moreau shit right there.
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Iāve been asking to teach a class in Los Angeles starting mid-June. Class sessions are four hours long.
Is there any way I should do this? And if so, what kind of accommodations should I be asking for from my employer? I donāt think my employer cares much about anyoneās safety; I asked about everybody wearing masks and that seems to be off the table. Iām also concerned about the room size and number of students allowed plus the poor air circulation in some of the potential hotels.
A 4 hour class would be insane. Iād say absolutely not.
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You can ask them to pay for āHere lies a superspreaderā on your tombstone.
These are a bunch of 4 hour classes with random people in each?
I canāt give good advice because I am not in your shoes and it is easy for me to say hell no.
But from the little I have gathered this seems like an extraordinarily bad situation in terms of bad corona environments.
If these are being held in different hotels they canāt really guarantee much about the environment.
Maybe you could ask that one of your bosses sit next to you during each class just to demonstrate how safe it is. If you donāt have to do it, I wouldnāt. If you have to do it and they have already vetoed masks I donāt know. Maybe require ten feet from where you will be to the first students. And then have the students eight feet apart. Donāt fall for the six feet nonsense. That is literally the maximum distance they found expulsed droplets travel. You want more than six feet.
Turning a four hour class of fifty people to one of just eight people, probably is not what they want either.
One final thought. What if you are in a totally isolated room and they just project you onto a screen in the front of the room. Let the students worry about themselves.
There are just a lot of things people can not do if they want to be safe and practice proper social distancing. What you are talking about is one of those things. I know none of this is helpful but there is so much employers are pushing to do that donāt make sense if you donāt want to actively distribute the virus.
Hmm John travolta and Jake gyllenhal both starred as boys living in a bubble. What if you teached from inside a giant bubble? OR turn off all air circulation and be suspended from a high ceiling so you are teaching down on the students. This might make it harder for the virus to reach you.
Can you say what would make people feel compelled to attend these classes?
If we had a lesser leader they might make rash and irrational knee jerk decisions based on what they saw on television.
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