MiguelVieira

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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
California desperately needs something like this.
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
Has there been a single peep from the federal government about how to make airports and air travel safe?
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
One thing this chart highlights is the unsung success stories among the US states. Some isolated and sparsely populated states are doing quite well: Alaska, Hawaii, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Vermont.
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
I prefer this one. Use "New Deaths, 1 Wk. Avg." Plots US states as well as countries. http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
This is what the WHO has been saying for a while. From over a month ago: https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-... "But we have not seen an urgent enough escalation in testing, isol
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
These kinds of maps always end up far less enlightening than I'd hoped. Maybe because of noise from counties with low populations? Like, "Oh, there's elevated levels in Finney County, Kansas. Hmm." Anyway I find this map
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
I've been using 0.5% for mental math, rounding down from the lower bound from this study in The Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... I would be surprised if, after this
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
Likewise, South Korea reports a fatality rate of about 2% https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore... Since they have coronavirus relatively under control and have been doing extensive testing
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
This site does this https://epiforecasts.io/covid/posts/national/united-states/
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
From the CDC: "Mortality among patients admitted to the ICU ranges from 39% to 72% depending on the study. The median length of hospitalization among survivors was 10 to 13 days."
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
Even if the current US shutdowns are effective, no more than 5 or 10 percent of the population will have gained immunity. We'll be nowhere near what's required for herd immunity. The shutdowns will at best give us a "do over&
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
Wilderness areas, at least in the United States, are best thought of as vast gardens where natural processes of predator-prey relationships, flooding, fire, etc are left to play out without much human intervention. If anything, we're r
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
It feels like Europe and the US only have a few options: * Let the virus run its course and accept a huge death count. * Continue the lockdowns for months, strangling the economy. * Do what's in this article and allow life and
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
This blog post covers the math of why this is necessary https://medium.com/@donnellymjd/covid-19-nyc-should-brace-fo...
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
Right now it’s paradoxical: according to the government, masks are useless for civilians, but essential to medical personnel.
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
Same in the California Bay Area https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/current-air-quality...
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
That, and Japan's first recorded infection was almost two months ago.
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
Also only seems to show the cumulative counts, rather than the counts per day, per region, which makes it impossible to tell where the situation is improving or deteriorating.
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
Oh really: https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1233970271318503426 "This strongly suggests that there has been cryptic transmission in Washington State for the past 6 weeks."
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
In developed countries that have done lots of testing the ratio of infections to deaths is about 50 or 100 to 1. This death implies that there are a lot of undetected infections.
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
The latest word from the CDC is that they’ve run 3,625 tests and that the testing capacity should double soon.
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
Maybe a toucan near Iguazu Falls. I’d always kind of assumed they were some silly Froot Loops cartoon birds. But watching one fly through the forest, it was incredibly graceful and majestic.
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
Planting so many trees would destroy so much grassland and shrubland habitat that it would probably kill off more species than climate change.
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
There was a popular book about this written over 20 years ago, The Song of the Dodo. https://www.amazon.com/Song-Dodo-Island-Biogeography-Extinct...
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
That reminds me of a sticker I saw on someone’s mountaineering helmet once: “My dream vacation is your worst nightmare”.
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
PG&E maintains over 18,000 miles of transmission lines.
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-16/alder-cr... "After more than seven decades of ownership, the Rouchs have struck a deal to sell their sequoia-studded piece of the Sierra Nevada to the
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by MiguelVieira 7y ago
Did they plant native tree species? Did they plant them in places that should naturally be forested? Most of Ethiopia's naturally occurring landscapes are deserts, savannas, and shrublands. I worry they're destroying native landsc
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Seek app uses computer vision to identify plants and animals in real time(inaturalist.org)
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by MiguelVieira 9y ago
Increase your investment allocation of Treasury Inflation Protected Securities: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tips.asp

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