COVID-19: Chapter 4 - OPEN FOR BUSINESS

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This is America. Hopeless. Hopefully twitter will do its thing but JFC

https://twitter.com/jsv4/status/1277048058275074050?s=21

Really impressed that she doesnā€™t weigh more given the rare condition where shredded cheese must be placed on food for her stomach to handle it.

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thoughts result in feelings, feelings in words and actions

but watevsā€¦ I relapsed into a political thread.

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In better news, made my weekly trip to the grocery. Out of about 100 shoppers, I counted only two without a mask (one a child).

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Horry county S.C. record 214 cases today. I went to a 35 person outdoor baby shower. I had the only mask including 2 bartenders. On a separate note, 2 different couples I know took separate flights into New York w no problems. I have no idea how / if they are enforcing our 14 day quarantine. Seems like a scare tactic to me

Trying to avoid all comment sections like the plague these days, and Iā€™m sure they get toxic at some point, but the first several dozen are all a shining beacon of joy in these troubling times.

https://twitter.com/nwhepcat/status/1277073762500907008

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What are UP thoughts on outdoor stuff? Weā€™re meeting with family and friends some outdoors, golfing, etc Weā€™re not masking up outdoors, just trying to keep some distance, but I canā€™t tell if Iā€™ve just been dragged down by the OPEN FOR BUSINESS folks that surround me.

IMO outdoor plus masks is extremely safe.

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That tweet says everything about Americaā€™s failure in this thing.

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@Danspartan gave me this link for weighted density: A better measure of population density captures urbanization . Iā€™ve put that into an R file here: https://github.com/unstuck-pol-dev/covid19/blob/master/density/WeightedPopDensity.R . Iā€™ll export it to CSV in the morning and upload the result.

I couldnā€™t see any way to get the UMD data from the site, so maybe we can ask them to share it. Iā€™m not very hopeful about that.

As for where to put the data, it would be in the same github org. Iā€™ll PM the details (Ā”maƱana!), and you can start uploading. We can always move stuff around or undo mistakes, so donā€™t worry about getting everything super organized.

Thanks!

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LOL hope it was worth getting coronavirus and a divorce for this

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Seems like a lot of cheese she could have scraped off of there for the fajitas.

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https://twitter.com/PollerPhoto/status/1277084333593858048

I started laughing so hard when I scrolled down to that, I spit water on my monitor.

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https://twitter.com/skolanach/status/1277070465731723264

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I wrote an essay on The Sound of Silence in JHS. The teacher read it to the class. I was mortified. Pretty sure thatā€™s why I never became a writer.

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I went to Target in West Palm Beach two days ago and was pleasantly surprised with the amount of people wearing masks. Probably over 90% with masks or some kind of face covering.

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I wonder how the rest of Europe is doing. Our numbers in the Czech Republic are at their highest since the peak of the pandemic. The place that stopped documenting the R0 has restarted and has Czech Republic at 1.6, up 0.4 from yesterday.

Not sure if the government has the political conviction to do another lockdown if it comes down to it.

Looking a little closer at the numbers, this again seems to be driven by the recurrence of another outbreak along the Czech-Polish border. But this still originates from an outbreak that was supposed to be taken care of 2 weeks ago. Only a matter of time before itā€™s second wave oā€™clock here.

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