Case numbers today actually look promising?
Every so often the weekend reporting lag goes an extra day.
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Christmas and New Years. If this holds through the week of the 4th Iāll start to believe.
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fuck Nazi Jack
Chattanooga is pretty close to the middle right? I mean, you head pretty much due south from Nashville,and itās probably near to the same latitude as Memphis
Iām really struggling to relate to asking where a place is rather than looking at any of the dozens of free mapping options we all have at our disposal.
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It is interesting how the upper Midwest has peaked and is now on trending down. One explanation might be that a large percentage of people who engage in high risk behavior are actually a relatively small percentage of the population and have already gotten pozzed so are now effectively broken links in the chain of infection.
Places like California with large immigrant populations that have high occupancy multi generational household are ripe for high infection rates. There are a lot of poor people in LA and for a wide range of reasons poor people have higher exposure risk. But I dont think a new covid mutation spreading in California should be ruled out.
I wasnlooking at the Georgia infections today and saw 9000 new cases, thats a lot for a mostly rural state out side of Atlanta. And Alabama next store, even more rural, had 4500 or something. Maybe not cali numbers but damn. Thats a lot.
I struggle to relate to asking any question that canāt easily be answered by using Google.
I inadvertently ended a business relationship bordering on friendship by wondering that same thing in an annoyed email.
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I canāt fucking believe they fucking all but confirmed that Florida basketball player fucking had a motherfucking cardiac fucking arrest on a fucking basketball court and no one has done fucking shit.
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I just told my wife earlier- by saying nothing about his event they said everything.
Baba Booey
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Especially a holiday weekā¦?
We tested Thursday and got results today. 5 day lag in Northern California. It had been much faster june through November.
Iād expect odd numbers through new years plus a week.
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I guess Iām a stan for Oster by saying this, but how on earth does the linked article in Science falsify the notion that transmission in schools reflects the transmission in the surrounding community? Iām not saying that I disbelieve the article. Iām saying that the article doesnāt remotely seem to do whatās claimed in the medium article. If anything, it seems like itās saying the opposite - it offers several stories where the vast majority of positive cases among school-aged kids turned out not to be transmitted in school.
Iāve been going into the office 5 days a week since early October when I accepted my new job.
The big advantage I have COVID-wise is that I work night shift which means Iām in the office by myself and only am in with the day shift people for like 45 minutes in the morning tops.
Today I got an email from the CEO that someone in our office tested positive. Theyāve notified everyone who meets the CDCās contact tracing guidelines, which was not me given that Iāve heard nothing further.
Iām in a row with desks about 6 feet apart from each other with 5 other people in the mornings. Masks arenāt worn when people are at their desks. The other main row of traders is about 8-9 paces from our row, then thereās a couple of one off tech people who have to be in office that are 20-25 feet from everyone else.
Feel like the chances that Iām pozzed are low and Iām surprised that itās taken this long for the office to have a positive case.
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It would be interesting if we had reliable data on what the case rate is among adults who arenāt WFH. Just comparing to the overall population case rate doesnāt seem valid, because the population includes people like me who never leave the house and have a much lower infection rate (also people in prisons, HCW, etc., who are at much higher risk). I think the question (at least a question) you want an answer to is how the risk that teachers are exposed to compares to working at a retail or office job. Or, failing that, at least an age-matched sampling of the population.
Also, I was shocked to understand that 4% of Ohio has gotten COVID in the last three months, but then I looked it up and saw that that isnāt even unusually high. 
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What concerns me is that while the case count has flattened, the testing count has almost stopped increasing as well.
Itās the hospitalization thatās the biggest flag. Slight inflection but still going up at a good pace. I have no idea if there is less of a lag in reporting that vs deaths.
https://twitter.com/covid19tracking/status/1341552471064244227?s=21
Itās wholly expected that not all students/teacher cases are from transmission at school. Iām not sure what that proves or what the point is absent an agenda. In Fitzmagicās^ top 10 football games we can project he must be the among best QBs of all time.
The main point of posting is the connections and support of organizations that are known partisan actors in the OFS-OFB-herd immunity debate and not shockingly there is a Venn diagram overlap with human caused climate change denial.
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^for the non American football followers, there is a guy knicknamed Fitzmagic (Fitzpatrick) that has either incredible or horrible performances. On average he isnāt very good but and he is often not the starter, but on a few occasions he has gotten to start and runs off 3 great games in a row but then stinks for 6 games.
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