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Next thing you know you'll try to ban khakis

Gatherings of family or friends in backyards might not lead to a big spike though. If groups are kept small and the people at the parties just go home afterwards the transmission will still be somewhat contained.

That's a very low percentage of non passholders.

Philly is still very red, but they are selling cocktails to go so at least I can get a drink and wander around outside? Edit: Might have to take this to the Running Thread to plan out a good route that will end at a nice bar near some outdoor space.

I think the best course of action would be to trap this groundhog by tracking it's fresh prints.

It's West Phillly, they have bigger fish to fry and bigger caliber rounds to worry about.

For the reasons mentioned above and more I think we are mishandling the data across the board. I would think the more correct statistic to look at would be Cases/Tests Cases/Tests per Capita Fatalities/ (cases/tests) Or a whole host of other ways to break this down and contextualize it. Of course the cases aren't going to be going down as testing ramps up. That's why looking at total cases as a monolithic number doesn't do anything. Example: You go out and are panning for gold in a stream. you find 10 ounces per day. Now you get a friend to help you out and the next day you find 15 ounces, then 20 ounces with a third guy and 22 ounces with a fourth guy. All this is saying is that more looking yields more results and it doesn't tell you how much gold is actually in the river. Now you start looking and realize that some of what you're doing is finding fools gold (false positives) and one of the guys you got to help you accidentally dropped his gold chain into the jar (mixing in antibody tests).

Thanks for the awesome information. That makes a lot of sense. I was able to get in for an emergency appointment, but all my other ones are just pending at this point. Makes sense though.

And yet my dentist is closed. I don't understand the kind of cherry picking that's going on with open and closed medical services.

Which Country Junction are you guys talking about? I thought most turned into just furniture stores?

Bingo! Hopefully the handful of people worldwide who are smart enough and are working on this are able to figure out a simple, fast, reliable test that is able to be brought up to scale quickly with existing supply chains. Until then, I'll probably just go back over to the train thread. I see Norfolk Southern trains quite often when I'm out running. I was watching one cross the bridge over the Schuylkill the other day and the engineer saw me looking and blew the horn. Not going to lie, that was pretty cool.

Does it though? I mean when you look at things like the table I posted yesterday, the only thing I can think of is "Not Enough Data".

Check your data people....... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/20/coronavirus-florida-gov-ron-desantis-disputes-data-manipulation/5226744002/ Like I said before, I would be out on the street if I was using data the way that these governmental organizations are using it.

For Today's Dose of Numbers Numbers Numbers! I pulled out the interesting counties but have the rest in a spreadsheet. Enjoy! County Total Cases Negatives Total Tests Total Population % of Population Tested % of Population Infected Allegheny 1,658 23,485 25143 1,229,912 2.04% 0.135% Berks 3,735 9,058 12793 412,948 3.10% 0.904% Bucks 4,573 14,730 19303 626,377 3.08% 0.730% Centre 132 1,529 1661 155,100 1.07% 0.085% Chester 2,199 8,964 11163 506,190 2.21% 0.434% Dauphin 989 7,977 8966 269,797 3.32% 0.367% Erie 147 3,278 3425 280,823 1.22% 0.052% Lackawanna 1,374 4,497 5871 214,428 2.74% 0.641% Lancaster 2,593 12,256 14849 526,436 2.82% 0.493% Lehigh 3,513 11,215 14728 354,746 4.15% 0.990% Luzerne 2,554 8,400 10954 321,423 3.41% 0.795% Monroe 1,267 4,363 5630 168,436 3.34% 0.752% Montgomery 6,063 26,151 32214 808,946 3.98% 0.749% Northampton 2,758 10,286 13044 299,371 4.36% 0.921% Philadelphia 16,487 44,335 60822 1,548,648 3.93% 1.065% *Sources https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Cases.aspx https://us-places.com/Pennsylvania/population-by-County.htm

turo.com might be of some help with this kind of thing

Stimulus Debit cards? They aren't being made here.....

I mean it makes sense. NASCAR is realistically a handful of participants and support staff and realistically they are all distanced from each other for the most part. Plus keeping these few hundred people together as they travel from place to place and isolated from the general population won't be that hard. The Olympics to me seems like literally the opposite of what you should do during a global pandemic. Gathering hundreds of thousands of people from across the globe in a relatively small space, having a decent amount of them sweat all over each other and then in two weeks disperse them all back from whence they came? Perhaps not ideal for curbing the spread of a global virus.

I would not really be upset if there was a death industry logistics thread. Always keep learning

I don't think there is a second one. If I recall, they decided to run both races in the same weekend this year. This was before all of the Corona stuff too. Interesting article pasted below. Explains why they decided to push for the Doubleheader this year. One of the reasons seems to be that they can get two races in on one weekend and then NBC can have a few weeks off from NASCAR to air the Olympics. With the Olympics cancelled and NASCAR seeming to be trying to come back one would think that they can go back to the status quo of doing two races on two weekends, but with no fans what's the point of doing that? The decisions behind all the sports leagues right now is fascinating. https://beyondtheflag.com/2019/03/30/nascar-cup-series-why-did-pocono-raceway-doubleheader/

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.