Does anyone here not know anyone that has/had COVID? I can think of 10 people off top of my head. But my family/friends mostly from NYC area. I don’t think the rest of the country realizes what’s really coming.
I pulled wire one summer - mostly in 100 year old school buildings - intercoms and fire alarms and stuff. That was the first job where I had to think. Every pull was a puzzle. I loved how fast the day went by compared to my usual monotonous labor jobs.
I still remember the frustrating early days when I sucked at pulling wire.
I know close to 50 including Misses Mikes parents who are in their 70s, but live very healthy. Her dad was on lockdown for months but gave in and went out for a couple afternoon pints to see his buddies and believes that’s where he got it. Both cases seem mild but they did lie to us about his fever which has now gone away. Fingers crossed.
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I loved when we’d get to some giant tunnel and the experienced guys would whip out some crazy tool I’d never seen before - like the vacuum-mouse-leader thing.
Other times just wrapping your head around the topology was a brain teaser.
Ha, I also pulled wire (cable, usually–fiber-optic was a bitch) several summers in high school and enjoyed it.
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Mostly it’s just doing the conduit right so the wire pull is easy.
No one for me (that I know of).
Add me to the list. Installed Cat-5 for a hospital one summer in college. I thought it was relatively enjoyable work as well.
Not an option in 100-year-old schools.
I don’t know anyone who has/had it. But I have the good fortune to live in Canada and mostly know people who are both taking this seriously and privileged enough to not be seriously affected economically.
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Yeah I pulled and was in charge of a bunch of college kids pulling cat-5. There were no conduits accept going into rooms. Most of it just got zip tied to ceilings.
Then I got put in charge of the punchdown crew which was much better than climbing in and out of ceilings all day…
One of the morning supervisors and one other person I work with had it.
I went through the 5 counties and only two were worth graphing (Allegheny and Lebanon). One of the interesting products of this is that SDI was very high in all of the PA counties at the beginning.
Lebanon had 50+ for 5 weeks, and it’s highly unlikely that’s less than 20 points above their target SDI guess. That likely effectively crushed their curve before they even got started.
Allegheny County had great SDI for a long time with SDIs 50 or over for 8 weeks. They were over 60 for 4 weeks. That’s the exact kind of SDI a place needs to crush the curve, and based on looking at these two graphs, I think it’s highly likely the longer you are at that high SDI the longer it takes to see any bounce return once you’re below it. This might have bought Allegheny 4 weeks before a bounce instead of the usual 2. The problem is they fell way below what I’m guessing is their target SDI guess and are starting to get hammered now. Without looking anywhere else other than comparing Philadelphia County, I would say Allegheny is probably driving Pennsylvania’s case rise right now.
Jefferson County has almost no cases and they spent 5 weeks over 40+ SDI at the beginning. That might have crushed their curve. Their highest weekly total was 9 cases two weeks ago and the second highest weekly total was the last measurement period with 7 cases. Their SDI is down now, but I don’t think you’re going to find anything of significance going on.
Genesee County is in pretty much the same boat as Jefferson County but on a slightly larger scale. They had 5 weeks of 40+ SDI which was probably well over their target SDI. Their highest weekly totals of 48 and 47 happened in the middle of April. In the last measured period, they had 11 weekly cases. The highest recent total was 6/22-6/28 with 16 weekly cases.
Finally, Wyoming County effectively did nothing on the weekdays. Their SDI on weekends was high, so it made the weekly SDI look higher than it was during the weekdays. They hit 40 SDI one day since March 11 on a weekday. They are one of the few places I’ve measured that only had one instance of 40+ SDI in a single weekdayday so I’m guessing it’s sparse. Their highest weekly totals were 22 on 4/21-4/27 and 15 3/31-4/6. They had their highest weekly case total since 5/5-5/11 this past measured period with 5.
Here are the graphs of Philadelphia County, Allegheny County, and Lebanon County for reference:
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I’m up to 6 people, but none in New Orleans somehow. All NYC or rural Louisiana. I would not be surprised at all though if some of my friends were just asymptomatic back in March given how aggressive we did Mardi Gras this year.
The ideas you reject as too obvious and trite are the same ones I present as wise insights. I regret nothing.
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I guess I’m missing something here…
Obvious? Trite?
I’m confused. There are online poker players who haven’t pissed in bottles?
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A lot of Americans revel in not caring about others. There isn’t a eureka moment for these people. If you can’t care about others during a pandemic, it’s never going to happen. Wipe out their entire family and they’ll just find others ways to be angry and unkind.
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Just being sarcastic. I’m three drinks deep dont overthink it.