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I hope there is a trip report

Does he ever stop by the HotelHouse?

I just want to sit in my chair alone on a beach, 60 feet from the next person and drink beer until my cooler is empty.

Boys, cool your jets. Jets? Take it to the Aviation thread!

I think a decent number of states will follow suit. On the surface it doesn't seem like a lot of these executive orders would hold up when pushed to the courts.

Small Rant: Why do officials visit warehouses/factories/wheat fields/anywhere else? What is the point besides some sort of photo op? Do people and/or voters actually look at the president at a factory and think to themselves that this somehow accomplished anything? "Lovely forklift you got there, thanks for shipping out *Insert random product here*". I'll leave now and get back to actual things, thanks for the tour that I will likely forget until a speechwriter inserts it into something I'm talking about a year later.

There's probably a lot of truth to this. I know personally I used to shop at a few different places for different things, but I find myself just going to one place, getting what I need and calling it a day.

Oddly enough I don't wear hats that much in the real world, but it seems weird to not wear one in the parking lot for some reason, or it's cold, so I always bring one.

How's everyone's hair doing? Any good recent at home cuts? I'm officially past the point of no return and I'll be waiting for barbershops and just growing this thing out.

They will tack on 2 weeks to that.

Thankfully I don't really generate much garbage or recycling. I think this week is my recycling week.

It's only recycling if there is a market for it. Unfortunately in certain situations the recyclables get tossed in a landfill because it's either much more expensive to recycle it or there is no recycling capacity at the time. I met a guy who worked for one of the big trash firms and I was shocked to learn that.

There has to be an underlying market for recyclables too. If no one wants to take it down the line that might be another reason they are hesitant to take them.

I had no idea that the LVRR had such a reach!

Starbucks and Taco Bell lines are out of control. Can't people just make coffee and tacos at home?

This would be useful, but I guess one monolithic number does the trick too. It's not like we would be better served having nuanced information and then be able to focus attention and resources to the people that need it most though. It's day like today that make me really dejected about this whole thing. So the governor kicked the can down the road until early June now. He will kick it again when the time comes. The sad truth of the matter is that this is way out of anyone's hands right now and no matter how many numbers you crunch or how much context you try to add it's not particularly meaningful. I think it's safe to say that we flattened the curve, which is awesome. Now what though? Safe to go back to business as usual? Probably not. Good idea to quarantine at home indefinitely? probably not. What's the middle ground? The philosophical question I'm currently grappling with is this. When is it OK to go see mom?

Super Rough work here but from the numbers you get if you google "New Covid Cases in Pennsylvania" here's a tiny bit of overall perspective. For Reference I used the 2019 Census estimate of 12,801,989 people living in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Covid Cases Date New Cases As % of Population 15-Apr-20 1,145 0.0089% 16-Apr-20 1,245 0.0097% 17-Apr-20 1,706 0.0133% 18-Apr-20 1,628 0.0127% 19-Apr-20 1,215 0.0095% 20-Apr-20 948 0.0074% 21-Apr-20 1,296 0.0101% 22-Apr-20 1,156 0.0090% 23-Apr-20 1,385 0.0108% 24-Apr-20 1,583 0.0124% 25-Apr-20 1,397 0.0109% 26-Apr-20 1,116 0.0087% 27-Apr-20 885 0.0069% 28-Apr-20 1,214 0.0095% 29-Apr-20 1,102 0.0086% 30-Apr-20 1,397 0.0109% 1-May-20 1,208 0.0094% 2-May-20 1,334 0.0104% 3-May-20 962 0.0075% 4-May-20 825 0.0064% 5-May-20 865 0.0068% 6-May-20 888 0.0069% 7-May-20 1,070 0.0084% Total Cases 52,915 0.4133%

Then it'll be June 18th

Only 29 weeks until opening day at Mont Bleu

I hate to say it but I get weirded out every time I see these graphs and such. What's the data integrity looking like? Where is the data coming from? Is it scrubbed at all? Are we blending multiple sources? If so what is the common key? A good analyst can make anything look like anything (within reason), Who's doing the analysis? **Data are preliminary and subject to change ^^^^ It says right in the bottom right that this whole thing is meaningless.

Nope. Still doing the rowhome thing in Philly

So this is what my life is now. Watching videos of grass cutting and not begin mad about it. Also my astroturf back yard is getting messy, I should probably do a before and after when I go out and sweep it off.

You know what's super awesome about this whole pandemic thing? Millions of people chit chatting about it who have no medical knowledge in addition to no way of actually solving the problem. I'm willing to bet there are around twenty thousand or fewer people alive right now who can actually make a difference in terms of figuring this pathogen and disease out and developing an active medical mitigation. I bet when they have an answer they will tell us.

i mean why don't you think there will be a vaccine.

Why not?