Crap. That’s the largest stash of medicine in my cabinet.
Landlords generally have mortgages to pay. I guess the buck stops with the banks? The US plan is to let the restaurant go out of business, the landlord default on the mortgage and lose the property and then bail out the bank.
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I really hope everyone has read this by now. I wish I’d read it early when the graphs started showing up. It’s absolutely invaluable to this discussion imo as it shows what the US and UK think is coming in the next 18 months.
A student at my institution was diagnosed with it. Got an email reporting the last time they were on campus (over a week ago) at what time and in what building. None of which was close to where I was. So I’m convinced I’m next.
And wfh sucks. No one will leave me alone. I’m tempted to go back to campus because no one is there and I could actually make some progress on a few things. Ugh
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Are you me? Just got word that two individuals at my university have tested positive. University has apparently contacted everyone those two individuals have been in contact with, and I haven’t been contacted, so that’s a positive.
But wfh continues to be a disaster. I can’t remember ever feeling this degree of anxiety and inability to work, combined with wife and kids actually expecting me to be present occasionally.
A nod of my hatted head to you sir
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Round out checks coming April 6th. I wonder what the catch is.
Having Trump have to deny care facility building to keep his wall going is obviously what will happen.
You rich people don’t get one.
I’m in favor of poking him and daring him to do stupid stuff instead of coddling him in an attempt to trick him into doing the right thing.
Haha I ain’t rich. I’m on SSDI. Ironically, I’ll be the breadwinner if my roommates lose their restaurant manager jobs.
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Apropos of nothing, but my statistics professor said once that the US Census is the dumbest thing currently going (20 years ago). He said statistics already solved it and counting everyone is super super dumb
This argument lost in the Supreme Court about a decade ago. (Though not because it was incorrect.)
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McSally is about to be McGone forever. I’d just about walk through fire to vote her dumbass out.
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Great minds are miserable alike I guess.
My college let everyone know. It’s a pretty small campus and I can’t imagine how bad the union would have pitched a fit if they only notified those who were in reasonable proximity to the student.
This should be my undertitle. I never would have guessed this would be how I would be feeling, prior to them sending us home.
I’m hyped for the spacebro to win this for largely emotional reasons and also I read his brother’s biography and he seems like an okay dude.
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The inputs they use to model also seem fairly hopeful. They assume an extrapolated infection fatality rate of 0.9% (fair enough I guess). From that they infer a hospitalisation rate of 4.4% and an ICU requirement rate of 1.3%. Even if all that turns out to be true there is still a major problem with their work; which is that they seem to assume that every ICU will be empty when in reality they consistently run at 80% capacity (in the UK at least). Due to this they fail to take into account excess deaths from patients not suffering from Covid-19 but that nevertheless require an ICU to stay alive.
It’s a hell of a sobering study.
I may not have been clear. Everyone on my campus was notified that two individuals tested positive. They also separately communicated with everyone who had been in contact with those two individuals to let them know they were at risk. I received the global email, but was not part of that second group.
My university also extended the tenure clock for all untenured faculty by one year.
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