D&D and the rising pandemic

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Sigh. I thought Canada would have learned this from the rest of the world before it happened there too:

Canadian care homes become coronavirus hotspots

Health officials say nearly half of all known coronavirus deaths in Canada are linked to care homes.

news.yahoo.com

 

[Zardnaar]

Sigh. I thought Canada would have learned this from the rest of the world before it happened there too:

Canadian care homes become coronavirus hotspots

Health officials say nearly half of all known coronavirus deaths in Canada are linked to care homes.

news.yahoo.com

Kept it out of most of them so far.

But

Stuff

i.stuff.co.nz

 

[Istbor]

Kept it out of most of them so far.

But

Stuff

i.stuff.co.nz

Wow. And the ward is named GG? That is dark...

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

And for any fans of the San Francisco 49ers, or live in that area, this is a scary "what if" story:

Did the 49ers' Super Bowl loss save lives in San Francisco?

A Wall Street Journal report indicates that the lack of a Super Bowl victory parade may have slowed the spread of coronavirus in San Francisco.

sports.yahoo.com

Can you imagine the potential explosion of cases California could have had if SF had won the Superbowl and had that victory parade?

 

[Zardnaar]

Wow. And the ward is named GG? That is dark...

It's a story that's gonna be repeated around the world.

 

[tomBitonti]

From: US may have to endure social distancing until 2022 if no vaccine is quickly found, scientists predict

"Intermittent distancing may be required into 2022 unless critical care capacity is increased substantially or a treatment or vaccine becomes available," they wrote in their report.
"Even in the event of apparent elimination, SARS-CoV-2 surveillance should be maintained since a resurgence in contagion could be possible as late as 2024."
Another important factor: Whether people become immune to the new coronavirus after they have been infected. That's not yet known.”

The questions becomes, how to enable folks to continue working while social distancing, and what economic shifts would be necessary?

Also, US just stopped (hopefully just paused) WHO funding.

Be safe, be well,
Tom Bitonti

 

[NotAYakk]

Someone must be looking for WHO to blame.

 

[Garthanos]

We have people with no clue about science in charge who cut funding and fired 700 scientists who were in charge of pandemic response as spite politics .... not quite as bad

Oh, it's bloody insane. See, Japan doesn't actually have a CDC. As in a separate body, funded by the government, staffed by scientists whose job it is to combat diseases. No, instead, Japan has bureaucrats in charge of science, with little or no actual science background, and often responsible to their political parties.

Oh, yeah, it really inspires confidence in the government's handling of things when you flat out KNOW that the people making all the decisions actually have zero science background.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The questions becomes, how to enable folks to continue working while social distancing, and what economic shifts would be necessary?

Be safe, be well,
Tom Bitonti

In other discussions over the years, I made the observation that there’s a lot of fiction that is set in semi-utopian societies- sometimes they’re even post-scarcity.

You never see fiction set in the transition from what we have now to the societies they posit.

Over the past 20 years, we’ve been seeing the rise of technology that would seem to point in the directions the futurists are predicting. In 2012, a robotics company unveiled a prototype modular manufacturing robot that could do 200 different tasks, for the same projected 5 year cost as an Indonesian factory worker.

We’re seeing bigger, longer tests of autonomous automobiles hit the road.

On the computing side, AI programs have gotten to be 60% as good at diagnosing illnesses as actual MDs, according to a couple of studies,

And those companies surely weren’t the only ones with projects like that in the works.

So my guess is we’re going to see the acceleration of technology eliminating the need to work in centralized locations AND outright eliminating jobs. IOW, I really think we’re at the dawn of that transitional period nobody ever talks about, and Covid-19 is the catalyst.

 

[abirdcall]

26945 new cases and 2407 new deaths in the United States


New York City today has reported 3,778 additional deaths that have occurred since March 11 and have been classified as "probable," defined as follows: “decedent [...] had no known positive laboratory test for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) but the death certificate lists as a cause of death “COVID-19” or an equivalent" [source]. We will add these to the New York State total as soon as it is determined whether the historical distribution can be obtained

USA just had its highest death toll today by 400 with 2407 deaths.

3778 additional deaths are thought to be attributed to COVID 19 in New York which haven't been part of the tally so far.