COVID-19: Chapter 4 - OPEN FOR BUSINESS

The traffic in the outer boroughs is getting noticably heavier but Manhattan is still relatively quiet. Manhattan often becomes a bit of a ghost town in the summer anyway with everyone taking off for their various residences in the Hamptons and Fire Island and upstate and Connecticut and wherever else they go. I’m guessing it will be even quieter than usual without the tourists too.

Think all of this increases the likelihood of schools opening in the fall, which sucks obv, but when you handle things well, this is what happens

I would love it if NY/NJ issued a mandatory 14 day quarantine for people arriving from Florida. It would be borderline poetic.

Florida has set case records 5 of the last 8 days. That’s only going to happen with an outrageous R value.

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Wtf

https://twitter.com/owhnews/status/1273590559077216257?s=21

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Just gave blood for a healthcare worker serology study. Should get results back tomorrow.

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Americans ‘skip payment on more than 100 million loans’

Since March, Americans have deferred payment or sought relief on more than 100 million student loans, auto loans and other forms of debt, credit-reporting firm TransUnion tells the Wall Street Journal.

As of May, 106 million accounts were “enrolled in deferment, forbearance or some other type of relief,” the Journal reports.

Student loans make up the majority of the total, with 79 million accounts seeking relief.

Car and personal loan payment deferrals also doubled in a one-month period.

CNN should quit trying to do their own analysis because UP is leagues ahead of them.

Arizona looking way more dire than Florida right now. 2,500 cases/day in a state of 7 million is nuts; way worse than Florida.

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I have friends that made fun of us for canceling our trip to Florida that was suppose to be this week.

They are going in 3 weeks.

I’m sure they think this is fake news.

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Florida is visibly trending upward on the log plot, it’s gonna get wild over there.

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Onward and upwards!

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1273657714112159752?s=21

Plugged this in manually, ballpark, and it took them from 7 to 23 days from overflow down to 6 to 20.

Houston Cougars
Houston Texans
Dallas Cowboys
Texas Longhorns

https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1273659806402912258?s=21

13 players got COVID and only 10 others were contact traced? That’s way fewer than I would have expected.

Now there is already stuff posted about what a low morbidity rate is in that age group so it’s no big deal.

But
1 coaches
2 many of those kids are obese. They all ain’t massive muscle machines. Also they get that heavy via massive calorie intake, Ya think maybe there are some blood sugar issues?
3 older family members.

Anyone else out there think that some coaches (specifically in college sports) might actually try to get most of their team infected now so that they’ll be able to play the whole season?

You mean the guys left?

Coaches doing nefarious things to gain an edge? How dare you?

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Nice to see that UT football is relevant again.

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Funeral update: I talked the wife’s family into just doing a 10 person service at the outside cemetery and then hosting a gathering in the backyard for a larger group. Whew.

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Now you just have to get them to cancel a large outdoor gathering and you are set.

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