SARS-CoV-2: Electric Superflu

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People like him are why I like to refer to myself as a statist.

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Stop asking them. If you aren’t the person who can tell them to, convince the person who can.

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Because their hospitals are so overrun, they are having to tell the worst cases, ‘sorry we can’t help you.’

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Are you wearing a mask?

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I understand this perspective from some people. For people in America, things are continuing to get worse and following the news is probably not healthy.

But I actually feel optimistic when I read the news about where I live. The fact that the number of new cases isn’t increasing daily tells me that what’s happening here is effective. That we are flattening the curve. That people aren’t going to lose their salary here because of the quarantine is great news. The fact that people are being properly treated here is good news. The fact that we aren’t going to be another Italy is good news.

It could also provide hope to others that this thing is beatable. There’s too much doom and gloom about other countries in the news. The news is just trying to keep ratings high by pushing our panic buttons.

We don’t need that shit. We need to know that we can overcome this so long as we’re smart about it. We need to know that there are people on the front line of this who I would argue are far more brave than soldiers fighting wars overseas.

Most importantly, we need hope. If posting news about countries successfully fighting this helps, then I’ll keep doing it.

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Snyder wrote the foreword to one of Mason’s books. I’m pretty sure they were friends until they got in a public catfight over some maths in one of Snyder’s books.

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This makes sense for sure.

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3404

God, it took me several tries to read this the way you meant it, but sadly, it was equally horrifying either way.

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I saw it that way too. Reminded me of Vincent Price’s 1964 movie “The Last Man on Earth”.

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Thank you. Thinking of picking up a couple of these and using them for store runs etc.

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They sell out quickly - these were not available last night.

They say they filter out 99.9% of particles over .1 micron, while I believe N95 are 95% of particles over .3 microns: Reusable Dust Mask Information | M1 vs M2 vs M2.5 Masks - RZ Mask

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Heyyyyy, that’s the not as awful as the really awful adaptation of I am Legend

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So add another 20k corona virus cases to the world total.

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Yes. Although maybe just die in a hallway or something.

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I remember “The Last Man on Earth” as being a pretty good movie. But then I was about 8 years old when I watched it. Introduced me to zombies.

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I was never the government.

Not every word from every government is always a lie. After all, sometimes the truth suits their purposes. But governments should not be trusted.

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I took data on testing by state from this site (https://covidtracking.com/) and added population data. Here are the top 10 states in terms of testing per capita.

state name population positive negative total tests per thousand positive rate
WA Washington 7,614,893 1,524 21,719 23,243 3.05 6.6%
NM New Mexico 2,096,829 43 3,771 3,814 1.82 1.1%
NY New York 19,453,561 8,516 25,325 33,841 1.74 25.2%
ME Maine 1,344,212 57 2,264 2,321 1.73 2.5%
NH New Hampshire 1,359,711 55 973 1,970 1.45 2.8%
VT Vermont 623,989 29 779 808 1.29 3.6%
ND North Dakota 762,062 26 912 938 1.23 2.8%
MT Montana 1,068,778 20 1,146 1,166 1.09 1.7%
SD South Dakota 884,659 14 663 947 1.07 1.5%
AK Alaska 731,545 12 686 698 0.95 1.7%

New York being among the top in testing per capita and still having a 25% positive rate is worrying.

Here are the states with positive rates above 20% (excluding Virgin Islands, which is 6 for 6):

state name population positive negative total tests per thousand positive rate
AL Alabama 4,903,185 106 28 134 0.03 79.1%
NJ New Jersey 8,882,190 890 264 1,240 0.14 71.8%
MD Maryland 6,045,680 149 94 243 0.04 61.3%
OH Ohio 11,689,100 169 140 309 0.03 54.7%
DE Delaware 973,764 39 36 75 0.08 52.0%
TN Tennessee 6,833,174 228 563 791 0.12 28.8%
LA Louisiana 4,648,794 537 1,394 1,931 0.42 27.8%
NY New York 19,453,561 8,516 25,325 33,841 1.74 25.2%
CT Connecticut 3,565,287 194 604 798 0.22 24.3%
HI Hawaii 1,415,872 37 124 170 0.12 21.8%
MI Michigan 9,986,857 549 2,069 2,618 0.26 21.0%

Many of the states with the highest positive rates are among the lowest in tests per capita. Here are the 10 worst in terms of tests per capita.

state name population positive negative total tests per thousand positive rate
OH Ohio 11,689,100 169 140 309 0.03 54.7%
AL Alabama 4,903,185 106 28 134 0.03 79.1%
MD Maryland 6,045,680 149 94 243 0.04 61.3%
AZ Arizona 7,278,717 65 211 377 0.05 17.2%
PR Puerto Rico 3,193,694 14 114 180 0.06 7.8%
VI U.S. Virgin Islands 104,914 6 6 0.06 100.0%
MO Missouri 6,137,428 73 369 442 0.07 16.5%
DE Delaware 973,764 39 36 75 0.08 52.0%
IN Indiana 6,732,219 79 475 554 0.08 14.3%
TN Tennessee 6,833,174 228 563 791 0.12 28.8%

These numbers mean there are many, many more cases in the U.S. right now than what is currently being reported. Of course we already knew that.

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Patents are evil - this should be in the public domain.

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I’m a big fan of the Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell videos - I dare say I’ll be watching a load over the next few months - and they’ve done a Covid19 one.

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