Non-IT News Thread
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
There is news that testing was beginning to be allowed without complete federal oversight about two weeks ago... but only that private labs were allowed to start to get involved. I've yet seen a report that open testing is allowed without any federal caps. All reports have agreed all along, and all observation agrees, that the fed had provided limits. Nothing has disputed this. If those caps have been relaxed, unless they are lifted, they are still caps. And the only reports that I can find is that they were easing the limits, not allowing completely open testing.
One makes you wonder if they don't want testing, because they don't want to show that many many more people are infected and are asymptomatic - showing that the lockdown is really doing little to nothing. Because while the lockdown is bad - it's giving the government control, which they love.
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Coronavirus: Worst economic crisis since 1930s depression, IMF says
The coronavirus pandemic will turn global economic growth "sharply negative" this year, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.
Kristalina Georgieva said the world faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. She forecast that 2021 would only see a partial recovery. Lockdowns imposed by governments have forced many companies to close and lay off staff. Earlier this week, a UN study said 81% of the world's workforce of 3.3 billion people had had their place of work fully or partly closed because of the outbreak. -
@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:
How is this not anything but a near total failure - 5K of 825K people, not even 1%, any data gathered by this would be borderline pointless, the sample size really isn't large enough.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:
How is this not anything but a near total failure - 5K of 825K people, not even 1%, any data gathered by this would be borderline pointless, the sample size really isn't large enough.
Same as here in Dallas. Two facilities, each that can do 250 a day, in a metro area just a hair bigger than Philly. The sample size is insanely small, means nothing. We'd get the same results if 10,000 or 5,000,000 were infected.
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Salt Lake County extends 'Stay Safe, Stay Home' order until May 1
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Salt Lake County extends 'Stay Safe, Stay Home' order until May 1
https://kutv.com/news/local/salt-lake-county-stay-at-home-order-extended-until-may-1I've been seeing this for hours now - hasn't this already been recommended federally for a week?
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Salt Lake County extends 'Stay Safe, Stay Home' order until May 1
https://kutv.com/news/local/salt-lake-county-stay-at-home-order-extended-until-may-1I've been seeing this for hours now - hasn't this already been recommended federally for a week?
I don't know. But the Salt Lake County lab-confirmed cases is higher compare the other counties. So I guess each county is handling it their own way.
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@black3dynamite doesn't that county have like half the state population in it, though?
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite doesn't that county have like half the state population in it, though?
I was wondering something similar. Of course it has the most cases - it has the most people.
In Nebraska, the same can be said about Douglas and Sarpy counties, we have more than half the state's population.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite doesn't that county have like half the state population in it, though?
Yes!
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sounds like the water add some added flavor, namely racoons.
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Coronavirus: Indonesian village uses 'ghosts' for distancing patrols
A village in Indonesia has reportedly taken to using volunteers dressed as ghosts to try to scare people into social distancing over the coronavirus.
Kepuh village, on Java Island, started deploying the patrols at night last month. In Indonesian folklore, ghostly figures known as "pocong" are said to represent the trapped souls of the dead. Indonesia so far has about 4,500 cases and 400 confirmed virus deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. But there are fears, according to experts, that the true scale of the infection across the country is much worse. -
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