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by pbourke 7y ago
After driving around our area today, in the Seattle metro, it seemed like activity (cars in the parking lot, people on the street, etc) was off 25-30% from a usual Saturday with nice weather in March. I feel like a lockdown / closure o
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by pbourke 7y ago
plus everyone is wearing a mask
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by pbourke 7y ago
> There are 1600 confirmed cases but the lack of tests hides how many real infections there are. 2,695 at the moment, per the NYT tracker https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-m...
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by pbourke 7y ago
> More rigorous tests than Italy, seriously? SK leads the world. 3,692 / 1MM pop vs Italy 826 / 1MM pop. Source: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/12/21175034/co...
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by pbourke 7y ago
Anyone who engages in rules lawyering (hey, my group is only 999 people, we're all good) is being unethical. Anyone who brings a large group of people together for frivolous reasons or without taking precautions is being unethical. Wha
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by pbourke 7y ago
> Even still, my partner and I are keeping an eye open on flights to Europe (we've always wanted to go) and seriously considering taking the risk of buying a flight for in a couple of months time because they are quite literally at
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by pbourke 7y ago
> (2) (this is the crazy part) does it actually make sense to get it now before hospitals are overwhelmed and you might be unlucky enough to be sick with something else. Basically choose the most opportune survivable situation to get it
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by pbourke 7y ago
The WHO's entire purpose is to act as health diplomats and coordinators. They have been ringing the alarm bell for weeks now, saying that countries need to take things seriously. Whether the WHO uses the term "pandemic" is ho
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by pbourke 7y ago
It seems to me that there’s also a wave effect at play. For instance, China’s largest source of new infections is now imported cases. China can’t exactly drop its guard until the virus is on the decline across the world. The same will apply
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by pbourke 7y ago
1665: Plague 1666: Great Fire of London It must have seemed like the world was ending.
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by pbourke 7y ago
Yes this immediately needs to be flagged as “not a newly-emerged JavaScript framework” in order to keep the front page in harmony.
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by pbourke 7y ago
1. This is a required response to the crisis, not something noteworthy. They're ordering masks because they didn't have enough and as we see now they're already running low. 2. How in the hell is yet another tax cut a positiv
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by pbourke 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/2275/
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by pbourke 7y ago
Yeah, I've been thinking something similar. In the American context, a successful response would be seen by the uninformed as an overreaction. The administration responsible (federal or state) would be blamed for the economic damage an
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by pbourke 7y ago
> Reality is there's effectively no containing it at this point Strong measures will still have an effect on the epidemic curve. Cancel the fucking St. Patrick's Day parade in Chicago, as an example.
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by pbourke 7y ago
He did a literal "just the flu" tweet yesterday ...
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by pbourke 7y ago
seems pretty grave to me: "From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy:" "Patients above 65 or younger with comorbidities are not even assessed by ITU, I am not sayi
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by pbourke 7y ago
Iran's numbers are either undercounted or under reported.
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by pbourke 7y ago
In this case the President has weaponized the virus as a political issue. A sizeable number of people in the country don't believe that it's a serious issue and won't until their local hospitals are literally overrun. Maybe e
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by pbourke 7y ago
It’s more like 18 or 19 confirmed now. 30 of 120 in the facility as of 19 Feb have died. Usually 3-7 per month die.
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by pbourke 7y ago
> The US equity market will unlikely to deliver exceptional returns. With each passing day in this crisis, I think you can make the opposite case. Long-term risk in equities is going down, not up, as the market falls and stocks move towa
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by pbourke 7y ago
> to be respectful to the netiquette of this site. Which is to deeply inhale one’s own farts and declare them delightful.
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by pbourke 7y ago
> We're talking about the very elderly dying a bit earlier than they would have otherwise. The 62 year old still in the workforce, living with managed diabetes. The 55 year old with asthma. The active and healthy 72 year old who jus
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by pbourke 7y ago
> They are trying in NY (they made it free) but you can't undo decades of societal conditioning so fast. I consider myself fairly well informed on these topics and I don't believe it, either (though I'm not in NY). I belie
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by pbourke 7y ago
Perhaps more aggressive early antiviral therapies?
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by pbourke 7y ago
One step further: hospitals are not prepared - at all - for this. Healthcare workers have been exposed within the last week at Harborview in Seattle, with a patient who later tested positive. Within the last week. This has been the global h
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by pbourke 7y ago
They are. A lot can just mint money in volatile markets.
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by pbourke 7y ago
Somehow I don’t think the ability to borrow money 0.5% cheaper than yesterday is going to make a material difference to a lot of firms.
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by pbourke 7y ago
Yeah seriously. Case histories and treatment protocols in the US have yet to be published aside from the one for the first patient.
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by pbourke 7y ago
> I believe, we'll have a huge wake-up-call in the next 2 weeks here in Europe. I would have thought the situation in Italy qualifies as a wake up call.

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