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by 40four 7y ago
For sure, many fond memories of playing this! I’m not sure what the secret sauce is, but it was but it was so much fun. Might be worth dusting off and see if it holds up.
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by 40four 7y ago
Yeah, I just wish we were doing it it a more precise way. Ramp up the more aggressive measures only in the areas seeing acceleration. My girlfriend’s brother in-law owns a large, successful restaurant in the city next door. They city has on
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by 40four 7y ago
Well said. Nobody seems to know what is being done with the time we're 'buying'. I get the feeling everyone just thinks if we sit at home for a month (or two? or three!?!), it will just magically go away. This site even admit
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by 40four 7y ago
I live in South Carolina https://www.scdhec.gov/monitoring-testing-covid-19 . You are correct testing is still low, but I don't think that data is useless. I don't agree with the notion that it 'will be too la
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by 40four 7y ago
Good point. As someone else said, deaths might not have caught up yet. But if we keep it together, I think we can hope to land at numbers similar to South Korea. They are well into deceleration phase, and are currently sitting at about 1%.
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by 40four 7y ago
Thanks, little typo there by me. This does seem to be a more realistic number that the original 3+. South Korea is sitting around 1% and they into the deceleration phase.
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by 40four 7y ago
Agreed, I don't understand why there isn't a concerted effort to ramp up testing. NYC is doing this now, part of the reason their total cases are going so high so quickly. Lockdown makes sense for them right now. The medical facil
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by 40four 7y ago
This is happening in my area right now. The number of cases is little to none, but the governor threw a blanket lock down on bars and restaurants, etc, over the whole state. It was too early for my area for sure. So in the meantime, busines
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by 40four 7y ago
I agree... it doesn't make sense to just throw a blanket lock down over the whole county indiscriminately. Same goes for state governors to throw these blanket shutdowns of bars a restaurants over the whole state at once. I don't
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by 40four 7y ago
I think the growth is a result of a focused effort to ramp up testing. Meanwhile if we are to have any confidence in the numbers (we probably shouldn't), according to the John's Hopkins counts, New York state currently has a surpr
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by 40four 7y ago
Yeah, this looks terrible. I’m sure the creators pre populated all these initial posts. Anonymous, unverified ‘reports’? Analytics cookies with no option to decline? Seems like a great place for shit posting. Thanks but no thanks.
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by 40four 7y ago
I agree. This is the second story list this we have seen come across the front page of HN this week. I'm glad they sorted it out quickly, but it is almost certainly a result of Mr. Eisenberg's high profile. We saw another story li
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by 40four 7y ago
Ok, a reply to my own rant, LOL. To be fair, the WaPo article is laced with caveats like ”without any measures to slow it down”, or ”If the number of cases were to continue to double every three days”. But there ARE measures to slow it down
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by 40four 7y ago
Yeah, that CDC page is one of the best resources I’ve seen. Explains everyone great detail. I didn’t mean to make it sound like it happens naturally. I imagine it probably only happens through human intervention. It just says ” The duratio
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by 40four 7y ago
Yeah, I mean if they entered into another acceleration phase, that would be terrible. I suppose it possible another region in China not hit as hard still might enter one. I guess we just have to trust they will keep things under wraps long
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by 40four 7y ago
This stuff drives me crazy. I know the author of this (and of the linked Washington Post article) are trying to help people gain clarity, but it worries me that it only serves to accelerate fear and panic. These articles are making it sound
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by 40four 7y ago
I was surprised, but apparently in the US, there ARE legal instruments in place to enforce isolation & quarantine. https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...
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by 40four 7y ago
This was my gut feeling as well, but apparently it is not the case. https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...
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by 40four 7y ago
Nobody know where a reputable source is. It’s just a laundry list of all the ‘talking points’. I keep hearing people say this stuff, but nobody knows where it came from. It is certainly not the message the CDC is putting out in the USA. ht
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by 40four 7y ago
I liked this article because it is a very measured and reasonable analysis, which has been very hard to come by in the last few weeks. The author goes into great detail about why/ how the numbers about the 1918 'Spanish' flu
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Covid-19 Is Nothing Like the Spanish Flu(wired.com)
15 points by 40four 7y ago|5 comments
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by 40four 7y ago
Those numbers are skewed. It’s only more dangerous for elderly people. For most age groups below 50 is 60, the numbers are inline with common flu. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
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by 40four 7y ago
That is a terrible talking point. It paints a picture that is not inline with reality. It’s the only ‘evidence’ anyone can grasp to as to why this is any more concerning than the common flu. Meanwhile the numbers are HIGHLY skewed by age gr
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by 40four 7y ago
It is worthy of coverage, but it’s only interesting because it’s new. It really not the super virus they make it out to be. The news coverage does not paint a realistic picture. The height mortality rate is mostly due to the novelty and the
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by 40four 7y ago
I think this mans perspective is important. For the vast majority of people who get this it isn’t much different then having a cold or the flu. The large majority of people this is killing are elderly, whose immune systems are less likely t
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The Deer in Your Yard Are Here to Stay (2017)(citylab.com)
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by 40four 7y ago
> The ocean is acidifying because it's absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which lowers pH levels in the water. Doesn't matter how sustainable the fishing practices are, or how well they manage the populations,
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by 40four 7y ago
This gained traction a few month ago. Previous discussion === https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21490151
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by 40four 7y ago
This has been trending now a few days, but I still don’t get it. Seems nobody can really say what exactly about this design says ‘advertisement’? I get the feeling Mr. Mod’s tweet caught fire because of the sentiment, of Google oppression a
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by 40four 7y ago
https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics

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