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I haven't been able to get the data to load in that link all morning. I guess a lot of people were listening to NPR this morning and are all trying to access it. I'll irrationally blame Microsoft Power BI for this failure. They should have used Tableau

I was literally about to post this as I heard it on the radio this morning.

I would be curious to see the county by county breakdown in cases in these hard hit states. My thoughts from the beginning, and why I think PA killed it in the reopening, is that population density plays a gigantic role in the spread of this thing. It's so easy for the news stories or snippets to say Florida, California, Arizona and just start blaming governors. These stages are gigantic and CA has some of the strictest rules in the nation. The country is not a monolith and neither are these states. County by county makes and putting the numbers in context is the only way to go.

6 feet or not it's all recirculated air inside a bar/restaurant. Not sure why anyone would want to be inside one at this point.

Devil's advocate for a second here. The concept behind the quarantine and shutdown was to flatten the curve. This seemed to be effective. No amount of mitigation will eliminate this disease. Wouldn't a regional, rather than sweeping federal approach therefore be more effective in keeping the curve flat since we know we cannot get it down to zero while maintaining not only economic but quality of life factors? That article cited the shutdown of 13 sites across the country, 4 of which were in the currently hard hit areas of Texas. I would argue that due to red tape and bureaucracy, the state and local governments are more nimble at locating need and providing necessary services. Perhaps federal funding should be a part of this but operationally I would think it would be easier to have cities and counties take care of themselves.

I never had a day out of the office through this and we've had 3 confirmed cases in the building (all on the production floor) across this time. No one in the building caught it from the infected people here as they did extensive contact tracing and testing. Anecdotal I know, but it's something to think about.

I think there is a big disconnect between taking a class in high school because you have to and the next level stuff the biomedical experts are doing. I took a pretty STEM heavy course load in high school and I'm glad I have the general knowledge of physics, chemistry, biology and Calculus but at the end of the day most of what I learned there is gone. I wish there were more business and finance classes offered. Also this makes me think of something I remember hearing a while back. I think it was either a series of articles, or podcasts and for the life of me I cannot find out the title or the author but the general idea was. "What do I actually know to be true?". The premise was that the author took a look at things that are just completely well known scientific truths such as "the world is a globe and not flat" and asked the question, do I know this to be true because I've been told, or because I know for a fact myself? Pretty interesting concept. I'm not advocating for anyone to think the world is flat, but at the end of the day we take a lot of things for granted without actually pressing our own knowledge about it. I believe the author then did experiments and such to prove to him or herself that these widely accepted truths are indeed true. I'll see myself out of here and take it to the Psychology/Philosophy thread now.

What's it called? I'm looking to find a decent spot to get a slice at lunch every now and then.

I used to hang out with friends at a pizza shop late night because we know the owner and most of the staff and they have a killer beer selection. The regulars who would come in at 10pm inexplicably covered in dirt and/or concrete droplets and pull out wadded up ones and coins to buy keystone ice pounders were amazing. My favorite were the ones who you knew lived a few miles away and would roll up on most likely stolen bicycles to buy their beer. One would ask for his six packs to be put in separate bags so it would balance better when he hung it from the handlebars to go home.

I work with a plant down in Brazil. One of the guys I talk to frequently was seriously scared of both Covid and losing his job. Haven't heard much from him in a few weeks though.

How come you haven't tried to cut "PASR" into that luscious lawn yet?

I don't think so, but they did get the initial test when they got sick.

Some of my family members had Covid, but their situation was a tad unique I guess. My cousin was in Malawi for the past 6 months working in a hospital before he starts his residency this fall and flew home right in the beginning of this whole thing and essentially gave his entire family Coronavirus. My aunt was sick for like 2 weeks with what she described as a not so great flu and the two college aged boys were sniffly and had a fever for maybe 48 hours.

I wold love to see the demographics of these new cases. We don't seem to be seeing a major spike in deaths or hospital utilization. Hopefully these are just mild cases in those crazy youths.

One of them is near Blue Mountain and has a roof.

I've got a bridge or two I could potentially sell you if you're interested in real estate.

Lots of old folks down in Florida. Hope the hospitals are ready.

I drove past In Riva last night on Kelly Drive along the SRT and the place was absolutely packed. Every table I could see was full.

Best depiction of the data I've seen yet. Really shows that where you're seeing these "second waves" of the virus in Florida/Arizona, etc. it's really just the first wave there.

This whole thing would be a lot smoother of the Illuminati and Free Masons were on the same page about things and could work together.

Last time I was there it was full of kids.

mountainvertical.com is awesome. I can see myself spending some time looking at this site.

Predictions, chatter and nearly daily updates on Covid. Someone remember to make a note to look back and reread this thread in 10 years.

Hit the nail on the head! This is why people clamoring for a big national decree are dead wrong. It needs to be managed in individual areas completely differently.

PA killed it with the way that we handled this whole situation. Breaking it up into phases by county was a great move and I'm surprised more states didn't copy it.