For the people who aren’t doing the low risk things in that chart, start doing them.
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I don’t see how bowling is a higher risk than a casino.
A lot of these would move around based on particular circumstances. But in general I think bowling is more risky. I’m imagining the typical group of 6 friends chatting, drinking, touching the same balls vs. someone sitting alone or with a friend at a slot machine. Of course, it depends. But yeah, I hear you. Poker is worse than bowling, for sure.
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Do we know if this travels through smoke? Have main floors banned smoking during this?
Glad to see takeout and tennis at far left.
Basically you shine two lasers through your finger and measure the changes. Blood with oxygen changes the light differently than blood without. Do some math and you get a number.
I checked, Wynn and Sands have banned smoking for table games only, Caesars and MGM allow it. Indiana banned smoking entirely.
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I would guess the main concern is smokers touching their lips a lot. Seems like a minor hazard compared to having people sitting together indoors at a table for hours.
- Happy hypoxic is kind of a misnomer, they still feel like crap.
- You don’t get put on a vent for having a spo2 of 80. Or even 60. You get put on a vent when less invasive oxygenation methods fail. Lots of people in the 70s/80s are perfectly fine with some extra oxygen in the nose.
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Playground on par with casinos and movie theaters?
So on that chart, working in a shared office space is medium risk without masks or with them? I asked my boss to let me continue to work from home and he agreed. Not many people in and out of our indoor office area but no one wears masks and a couple of the people I work with still think it’s all a hoax. We’re in a relatively untouched area so far but cases are on the rise and I’m not trying to perfectly time when I’ll be unquestionably justified in staying away.
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“As national demand for testing increases and results take longer to come back in DC and across the country, DC Health has identified a need to increase the reporting lag time by four days to reduce volatility in the data. The most recent data reflects an increase in community spread. To ensure this graph accurately reflects the most recent data, the community spread count is being paused as these adjustments are made.”
In other words, DC had been using data about trends in “community spread” (basically, how many folks are contracting the virus out in the wild as opposed to institutional settings or within households as a measure of how well contained the virus was (or wasn’t). A sustained (14 day in a row) decline in community cases was one of the metrics they used when deciding if it was ok to move from Phase 1 to Phase 2. They’re now effectively saying that testing delays are making the data so noisy that the metric is losing a lot of value.
Obviously the backlogs are having a similar impact on data from other places, they just aren’t being as transparent about it.
Anyone who thinks it’s a hoax you have to figure it extra dangerous.
If you can get it from one hour in a restaurant several tables away when the AC is blowing the wrong way, you can definitely get it from 40 hours/week in the office with someone.
I think a good test is how long farts linger.
This is why airplanes scare me. You never smell your own farts - but someone else’s (I always assume it’s the person in front of me) will just blast you for like 10 minutes solid. If that person has covid and it’s a 3 hour flight - you’re just fucked - mask or no mask.
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Haha yeah. Well one of the guys is going to Sturgis in August. And my boss is apparently going to let him come back into the office after hanging out with 500,000 RWNJ bikers for a week.
Yeah that one stuck out to me too. My guess is that the chart puts young kids playing as more dangerous than I (or many of us) assumed. See young kids play dates vs. older kid play dates. I suppose that at a playground you have no control of who is there and little control over who or what a young kid is touching.
Little snotty kids slobbering all over everything.
I would think it’s a medium or medium-high risk even with masks. My understanding is that normal cloth masks help for brief interactions but aren’t going to reduce your risk much in a small indoor shared space across hundreds (thousands?) of hours.
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Just a headsup for anybody that may have not grabbed an pulse oximeter. My Samsung Galaxy S9 can also measure it from the samsung health app. I’d guess other phones can too.