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by Exmoor 7y ago
It was discussed in another thread that I'll try to dig up, but the percentage of the population required to reach herd immunity goes up the more contagious a virus is. If way more people are infected then we think, then it points to s
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by Exmoor 7y ago
>Nearly one third of 200 Chelsea residents who gave a drop of blood to researchers on the street this week tested positive for antibodies linked to COVID-19, a startling indication of how widespread infections have been in the densely po
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by Exmoor 7y ago
This is an anecdote not data, but I've heard several USPS delivery folks mention that a lot of long-tenured drivers decided to take vacation and sick time when the lockdown started ramping up. This has caused other drivers to pick up t
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by Exmoor 7y ago
I recall buying a USB Bluetooth adapter in the mid 2000's that was maybe $12 shipped from Asia. If that was a the cost to the consumer for a device that was mostly a bluetooth radio I suspect that the cost to add bluetooth to a high vo
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by Exmoor 7y ago
Your risk of dying is, accepting the 0.37% for the sake of argument, 0.37% if you're infected . The actual chance of anyone, even of someone in a more dangerous demographic, of dying of Covid in their lifetime is significantly lower t
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by Exmoor 7y ago
Other than the obvious drop in drivers due to unemployment, I don't see a plausible way that happens. Taking public transit is probably one of the riskiest activities the average person might undertake in their day as far as contractin
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by Exmoor 7y ago
My wife had a similar experience. Her issue is probably not major, but it could also be a serious cancer and who knows when they'll start taking clients again, much less catch up to her. Making a rough guess of two months of shutdown
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by Exmoor 7y ago
I can't speak for the drives mentioned in this article, but the WD Red drives were de facto marketed as PMR since the Red line was marketed by WD as the best drives for NAS. It'd be a little like if you went down to the your local
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by Exmoor 7y ago
It almost feels like a parody. "These 7 incredibly talented people brought 100 years of combined experience together to design...some rubber bands tied together." If it works, then great, but why does it need a marketing director,
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by Exmoor 7y ago
It will certainly be interesting to see how long it takes landlords to realize that there's about to be a ton of retail space on the market and that trying to absorb a couple months of not collecting rent from their businesses may make
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by Exmoor 7y ago
Obviously things will differ greatly from industry to industry and company to company, but you're lying to yourself if you think this is going to end at startups. It takes a bit of time for dominoes to fall, but as the various factors
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by Exmoor 7y ago
If you pay rent on your building you pay the same rate all the time, even if you're not open. If you open up, the cost of powering your appliances, lighting, heating, etc. is all essentially the same whether or not you feeding 100 peop
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by Exmoor 7y ago
While I don't think anyone would argue that we are testing anything approaching "enough" people in the US, I would certainly not say we're testing "almost nobody". Looking at Politico's testing tracker (
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by Exmoor 7y ago
I did the math on this a few weeks ago because I was curious. My math was this: (Population x A) / (LifeExpectancyInYears x 365.25) A is an unknown variable that equals the what amount of a day people consider as "lost" as a
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by Exmoor 7y ago
For anyone looking for flour, I suggest looking for stores that supply local small businesses and restaurants with supplies. I stopped by my local "Smart Food Service" (formerly Cash & Carry) for something else and noticed tha
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by Exmoor 7y ago
I have heard anecdotally that some grocery stores are starting to carry 25lb bags. Another grocery store apparently started having their bakery rebag flour into smaller bags and sell it. I made the mistake of buying a 25lb bag of flour a co
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by Exmoor 7y ago
Newegg has a good website, but their customer service and return policy is not up to par with other retailers and I have started buying from other vendors if the price is remotely close for this reason.
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by Exmoor 7y ago
As someone who just got off the phone with Lowes not an hour ago with a very similar appliance delivery issue, I took a little solace in your comment since I at least feel like I didn't just choose the wrong hardware store. With that s
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by Exmoor 7y ago
1) Very hard to say. As others have commented, we have not seen anything of this nature before, where governments have essentially made it illegal for perhaps ~40% of the workforce to work with no end in sight. 2) One thing that keeps occu
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by Exmoor 7y ago
My wife and I are trying to manage a 6 year old and 3 year old and the original comment made me try to imagine what the theoretical hardest age to try to work from home with would be. 5mo and 2yr is roughly what I came up with in my head.
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by Exmoor 7y ago
Also, likely homicides: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/tenant-suspected-property-o...
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by Exmoor 7y ago
This comment is mind boggling to me. There is a incredible difference between "I'm taking a month off of work" and "I'm being forced to stay in my home, physically isolated from my friends and forced to be around
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by Exmoor 7y ago
I'm willing to bet the name "Great Horned Owl" was purposeful for a vehicle where quiet is a priority. Owls have feathers which make them essentially silent in flight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FEaFgJy
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by Exmoor 7y ago
Suicides is certainly the most obvious and explicit way to measure loss of life from the 2008 recession, but it's certainly not the whole story. Overdose deaths (70,000+ in 2018 in the US), and other addiction-related deaths are probab
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by Exmoor 7y ago
Perhaps in the short term, but in the long-term a weeks or months long delay in care will likely cause an uptick in deaths. Many major issues are initially caught as patients investigating what seem like minor issues, but turn out to be can
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by Exmoor 7y ago
I am not a microbiologist, but I'm not confident that this "three week annual quarantine" even works in an ideal world, much less the imperfect world that we actually live in. Is it a guarantee that 100.0000000000% of the pop
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by Exmoor 7y ago
As someone with a fairly limited understanding of how these sterilizing UV rays work, I've wondered if it would be possible to install overhead UV lights that either came on at intervals or were on constantly to help sterilize surfaces
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by Exmoor 7y ago
..And suicides will likely go way up. Probably a lot of other issues as well that may be more difficult to track. Mental health crisis, domestic violence, etc.
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by Exmoor 7y ago
Costco has done a really good job of handling this tough situation. Beyond this, I've noticed a few other things: * Stock most items overnight so that if you absolutely need something you can prioritize getting there before they open a
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by Exmoor 7y ago
Probably mostly this, but I also notice a major uptick in my own daylight Coyote sightings in the early spring. My assumption has always been that this is breeding season and animals with new pups are forced to spend more of their time fora

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