outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

‘walls (e.g. glory holes)’

Is this what being happy feels like?

Every 18 seconds a person tests positive for COVID-19. This is that man. pic.twitter.com/06x1uV9MXA

— Charles Star, Hostile Witness (@Ugarles) July 22, 2020

Jair Deadsonaro

:)

Build The Wall! (e.g. Glory Hole)

and make Mexico pay for it

JFC.

For walk up testing, just stick matching UPC codes on two stickers. Stick one on the tube, stick the other on an info sheet for the tested, with facts about asymtomatic transmission and how they can reduce risk to others while awaiting their results, and a website that allows them to look up their own results via phone or pc browser...

That post coming immediately after the glory hole discussion is a bit unsettling.

I honestly am still confused as to how such a mixup could occur, because every drive-up testing site I've been to hasn't been run that way. At the Orange County Convention Center, which does the highest volume near me, you don't make appointments in advance. You get to the first checkpoint, they had you a short form to fill out. You go to the next checkpoint, they take it from you, then they attach it to another form and put it on your windshield.

Eventually you get to the testing area, and they take the form off of your windshield, print a label to attach to your vial, then take your blood, and give you the sheet of paper with expectations/links/phone numbers. So if you left the line early, nobody would accidentally get your results because nobody in checkpoint #3 even knew you existed yet.

At the places I've made appointments, they actually had to find your name on the list and input it into their computer, and a second person independently reverifies your identity at the next checkpoint, and then put your info on the windshield for the final checkpoint to take.

LIke literally cannot fathom how any of these locations are doing some clumsy numbering system like mentioned in the article.

YMP u better be glad I didn't have soda in my mouth when I read that

BREAKING: Statewide mask mandate for Ohio will take effect Thursday, Gov. Mike DeWine says https://t.co/LliszNdyLG

— Jeremy Pelzer (@jpelzer) July 22, 2020

alright we'll let COVID know to hold back until then

just watched a short WashPost video about how American tourists at Niagara Falls are becoming a tourist attraction for people on the Canadian side. American tourist boats are packed with people (limited to 50% capacity, so 350 people on a 700-capacity boat), while on the Canadian side the boats are limited to SIX people, total. so canadian tourists are taking pictures of the dumbass americans floating around in each other's covid-breath, astonished (yet again) at how reckless and ignorant we are

They should build a wall and make us pay for it

https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2020/07/11/patrick-corrigan-canada-us-border/patrick_corrigan_canada_us_border.jpg

warning: the following video contains extreme patriotism

Anti-mask protesters march around the #Indiana State House chanting “USA” & “We Will Not Comply.” pic.twitter.com/5EhmLBlzqK

— Karen Campbell (@KarenCampbellTV) July 19, 2020

it's gonna be a hard winter

P sure that's Offred at the end there.

What's with the people wearing masks?

its so fucking weird that those people never get tear gassed. i wonder why

They're already shedding tears for what is happening to their once-great nation. Try to keep up.

Number of covid +ve patients on ventilation in English hospitals went below 100 for the first time yesterday. pic.twitter.com/CzZKGkQ0cJ

— Daniel Howdon (@danielhowdon) July 23, 2020

in other news, tories seen pushing hospital beds into scotland.

more offended by the "abbreviation" "+ve"

oh you’d love medical charts

56F w/ PMH COPD and T2DM BIBEMS c/o SOB x3d

I once had a dire temp job translating hand-scrawled referral forms into diagnostic codes. My favorite was "HCG+" to mean "you're pregnant."

techno/house BIBEMS 2020

medical charts are the great white whale of ML/NLP research. whoever figures them out will make a ton of money, but they are literally the toughest language problem around given the accuracy requirements/high stakes.

The sole hospital in a remote South Texas county has become so overwhelmed with covid-19 patients that officials could soon start sending home those least likely to survive the disease caused by the coronavirus.

A health board in Starr County debated Thursday whether to authorize critical care guidelines to help workers at Starr County Memorial Hospital make painstaking decisions about how to allocate beds and other dwindling resources as infections soar.

Patients with little chance of recovering could be denied hospital care, said Jose Vasquez, the top health official in the county of 61,000.

“The situation is desperate,” Vasquez said. “We cannot continue functioning in the Starr County Memorial Hospital nor in our county in the way that things are going. The numbers are staggering.”

Oof. That is scary.

the whole RGV is getting slammed rn. high population of uninsured people, predominantly mexican american.

RGV=rio grande valley

Awful. Have a dear friend with lots of family there, just checked and she says they're okay but it's bad.

this whole article is harrowing and awful, but one detail in particular i had never heard of before:

a mysterious paralysis that has afflicted about a dozen others at Houston Methodist Hospital

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/us/coronavirus-family-houston-masks.html

she came back from work sneezing one day in mid-June and thought it was allergies. Soon she had a cough, fever, headaches and diarrhea, and lost her senses of taste and smell, telltale symptoms of the coronavirus.
...
Mr. Roberts and his wife started sneezing, then coughing, just like their daughter, and developed fevers and severe body aches.

Every piece of "is it covid" advice from day one has said sneezing isn't a symptom.

yeah could easily be coincidental.

Last I looked the CDC had updated their official list of symptoms to include basically everything/anything, but yeah, as of right now sneezing is not one of them.

I got invited to do another test on the symptom-tracker app, purely on my write-in response of 'sneezing and runny nose'. Friends with sore throat etc did not. I don't understand it either.
And due to the time lag and posting I will be doing the test 4 days after I reported this symptom (and 3 days after it cleared up).

i would guess sneezing didn't get listed as a symptom simply because it's something that frequently happens due to things like pollen-sensitivity and often sneezing doesn't necessarily indicate sickness, whereas a cough almost always means you have something if it recurs.

Google has officially pushed back reopening its offices by a year; Googlers are all working from home until July 2021. This will be the first of many such acknowledgments of the inevitable. https://t.co/OSoiJvWFLx

— Laurie Voss (@seldo) July 27, 2020

Been in western Kansas all day and have not felt so out of the “bubble” in a very long time. Counties out here opted out of mask mandates — apart from some businesses and buildings being closed you’d think all was normal. This is from a political meet and greet tonight pic.twitter.com/L7JSKyu2c4

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 27, 2020

more like a political hi and die

caek I'm officially wfh through the end of 2020 at minimum, this at a university department where as recently as February senior leadership was saying they were planning to consider devising updates to the remote work policy to be fractionally more flexible about it

i'm probably wrong about this on multiple levels, but it seems like the whole baseball thing might be a turning point of sorts in the US. for those who don't follow, the MLB season just opened the other day and already one of the teams (the florida marlins) has TWELVE players with covid19, along with 2 coaches. games are already being cancelled, and the story is just beginning. if/when multiple teams encounter this, it's likely the season will be cancelled. (note that this is me just being an internet guy, guessing).

in spring, the schools shutting down was one of those turning points - a lot of people didn't start to grapple with the repercussions until then, even though it was obviously a HUGE and obvious thing that those with eyes to see could see coming for weeks. the baseball thing is obviously very different, but it might serve as a similar marker of public acceptance/denial in the US.

As support for Karl Malone's point, I think the real "wait this is serious" moment for a lot of people was not so much schools closing as the NBA shutting down.

we have now crossed completely into the era of Magical Thinking

As support for Karl Malone's point, I think the real "wait this is serious" moment for a lot of people was not so much schools closing as the NBA shutting down.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, July 27, 2020 12:31 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i've been collecting these because it's also the night my wife went into labor and i figure one day my son might want to read them

An Oral History of the Day Everything Changed
On March 11, 2020, the coronavirus pandemic seemed to crystallize in the national consciousness. Americans look back on the turning point
https://www.wired.com/story/an-oral-history-of-the-day-everything-changed-coronavirus/

'Then God said, "Hold my beer"': The inside story of the night that changed L.A. clubs forever
An oral history of the coronavirus pandemic, as told by the staffs of four iconic L.A. nightclubs: the Troubadour, McCabe's Guitar Shop, Sound and the Satellite
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-06-02/la-nightclubs-coronavirus-troubadour-mccabes-sound-satellite

(tom hanks announced he had it and trump suspended non-resident entry from europe, plus the NBA, all in the space of about 2 hours)

caek I'm officially wfh through the end of 2020 at minimum, this at a university department where as recently as February senior leadership was saying they were planning to consider devising updates to the remote work policy to be fractionally more flexible about it

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Monday, July 27, 2020 11:54 AM (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i was already fully remote, my employer moved their reopen date back to october a few weeks ago, but i suspect they'll move it back again.

i'm also dabbling with interviewing right now, and am making it clear that i will still be remote after this is over and a bunch of places that are (in)famous for being anti-remote are all like: yeah, whatever, no problem, i don't think we're coming back any time soon.