What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
someone in my office has been confirmed as having Covid. yeah...
So at this point, literally everyone I know in Nebraska has been exposed. Admittedly a small cross section, but as the hard stance "no lockdown" state, doesn't seem to have avoided the infections like they expected.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
someone in my office has been confirmed as having Covid. yeah...
So at this point, literally everyone I know in Nebraska has been exposed. Admittedly a small cross section, but as the hard stance "no lockdown" state, doesn't seem to have avoided the infections like they expected.
You're not wrong.. And they're reopening everything.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
someone in my office has been confirmed as having Covid. yeah...
So at this point, literally everyone I know in Nebraska has been exposed. Admittedly a small cross section, but as the hard stance "no lockdown" state, doesn't seem to have avoided the infections like they expected.
The lockdown was never about avoiding infections, it was about slowing it down so as not to overwhelm the healthcare system, which is currently wide open - in fact in some places they are actually furloughing nurses, and staff because they patient load is so low, they don't need the staff.
Of course, Nebraska has reopened to elective surgeries as of last week, so I'm guessing many of those furloughed have been brought back. -
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
in fact in some places they are actually furloughing nurses, and staff because they patient load is so low, they don't need the staff.
That's unrelated to the overwhelmed hospitals issue. The ERs that are overwhelmed are not the ones that are laying people off. This is, again, repeating obvious fake news. People ARE being laid off, but they aren't medical workers with any way to help with the COVID crisis. NY, for example, was way, way, way beyond overwhelmed and was laying off doctors and nurses because the facilities are overwhelmed, not the people.
Here in Dallas, we can't provide basic medical care, yet we're actively closing hospitals. The one doesn't explain the other. Don't conflate the ideas.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
which is currently wide open
That seems unlikely, Nebraska has so much ER capacity that they aren't treated those in need or helping all the other neighbouring states that lack capacity?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
someone in my office has been confirmed as having Covid. yeah...
So at this point, literally everyone I know in Nebraska has been exposed. Admittedly a small cross section, but as the hard stance "no lockdown" state, doesn't seem to have avoided the infections like they expected.
I have no idea where you came up with the stance that we were expecting to avoid the infections.
While we didn't have as hard a lock down as many states, many non essential businesses were in fact closed - movie theaters/barbers(hair salons)/dine in restaurants/tatoo parlars. I'm not sure if non essential manufacturing was closed or not, not that we have a lot of that here. Luckily, I think we are mostly either white collar or service industry here, not much typical blue collar (construction being an obvious exemption).
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I have no idea where you came up with the stance that we were expecting to avoid the infections.
That's a key part of the social distancing. Trying to make it so that the vulnerable don't get infected at all - either by waiting out the clock and herd immunity arriving, or by a vaccine arriving. The rest of the country isn't just trying to flatten the curve, but also trying to reduce the area under it.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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Administrative Assistant
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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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lol
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Sitting an almost empty O’Hare, waiting for my flight to Nashville.
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Just finished and uploaded my latest astronomy article.
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@JaredBusch wow that's just so
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
just received 7M of firewood
What in the fuck is that?
In ‘Murcia we measure ranks of wood by the cord.
1 cord of wood = 4’ x 4’ x 8’ stacked = 128 cubic feet.
Though if it is cut and split, you use something like 110 or 120 cubic feet as a cord.
I haven’t been a pseudo lumberjack since 1991.
Yeah, grew up always measuring in cords.
Never heard of the term. Heard of chains, but 7 chains of firewood would be quite a bit.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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tea lady
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Update - No one in the house is showing symptoms. No fevers or anything - Doctor said if we dont show symptoms by friday (this week) we can end our quarantine.. SO far So good.
that's great news, hope things continue to improve.
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tuesday morning, cloud increasing, expecting rain over next 4 days. mild.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Update - No one in the house is showing symptoms. No fevers or anything - Doctor said if we dont show symptoms by friday (this week) we can end our quarantine.. SO far So good.
that's great news, hope things continue to improve.
Thanks!
No news is good news at this point.
