I do not know what you mean. Could you please state it plainly?
Perhaps if you add nudge nudge, wink wink…or, better yet, actually stop with the hinting and tell us what you actually mean?
They aren’t just projecting case numbers if no new suppression measures are put in place. They are recommending detailed and far-reaching legislation. (Here’s the letter in full.) Those public policy matters are outside the scope of data modeling, which is why they may not be remaining within their own realms of expertise – or, if you will, staying in their lane.
What’s not clear is whether the state reversed its earlier course and welcomed their input. I would certainly hope so. Because if not, writing this letter and now having it in the press is not a good look for them.
This is pretty disconnected from reality. Yes, their models are not projecting all the side effects of their proposed policies. Everyone gets that they are mainly focused on covid spread. And who gives a crap whether the government “welcomed their input”? Wtf?
Has the state specifically requested you to weigh in on this issue? If so, don’t you think you should declare this political influence? If not, do you think you should ‘stay in your lane’ and not say anything about it?
Uhh, no one requested you to critique his post, thorny. Stay in your lane.
Perhaps we can agree that staying strictly within one’s lane is not helpful to a discussion forum, and return to or regularly scheduled discussion of breaking covid news.
I think i saw something about nyc restarting in-person school for k-5, with testing. But i can’t find it now, and I’m wondering about the logistics of the testing.
The New York Times: When school buildings reopen, the city will significantly increase its random testing in schools: rather than testing a sampling of students and staff in each school building once a month, the city will conduct tests weekly. Students will not be allowed to attend school in person unless they have signed consent forms from their parents, allowing them to be tested.
Nothing else about New York City’s safety plan will change: all staff members and students will still be required to wear masks throughout the day, and social distancing will be mandated. But the city will largely shed its hybrid learning plan, under which children physically attended school a few days a week and learned remotely the rest of the time. /end copy
Here’s Mayor de Blasio on the reopening of NYC schools. I didn’t watch it, but I’m thinking there’s more logistics in his press conference about it. It’s about 38 minutes long.
63,072,475 total cases
1,465,181 dead
43,545,829 recovered
In the US:
13,750,404 total cases
273,072 dead
8,107,203 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
States that have experienced their highest (seven-day averaged) reported COVID daily infection rates over the Thanksgiving Weekend (Nov 26-29, 2020)
Alaska
Massachusetts
Washington
Oregon
Delaware
Virginia
West Virginia
California
Tennessee
North Carolina
(Washington D.C.)
Mississippi
Only 11 states and the District of Columbia.
Astonishingly, the rate is going down in many states (although it is rising sharply in New York and some others). If it were not for all the Thanksgiving Weekend travel and get-togethers, which I fear will give us a new surge, I might be heartened by this.
By the way, overseas the rate is shooting up spectacularly in Turkey, and rising sharply in some other countries, like Brazil, Russia, and the Ukraine. And India has risen to be the country with the second-highest rates again, just after the U.S.
5 Arizona schools don’t have enough staff to open today. While the article says there haven’t been COVID outbreaks, it doesn’t explain where all the absent staff members are.
Well, it looks like teachers were abandoning ship right off the bat.
(as implied in the snapshot, the article also mentions Arizona has had a teacher shortage or years)
Yeah, AZ teachers haven’t been very happy with the conditions for a very long time. They are usually treated as not-very-well-paid babysitters, not as the highly trained professionals they are. Small wonder they are bailing.
This doesn’t give me much hope re climate change either; I afraid we’ll drag the rest of humanity down with us.
Ordinarily I would welcome this as good news, but with the current occupant of the Oval Office, one always wonders how much worse it can get.
I guess he’s grifted enough for now.
According to the AP article, he was hired as a “special government employee” which limited the length to 130 days, and he limited out.
Meantime, hospitals in Rhode Island have hit capacity.
“Hospitals at capacity due to COVID,” the state said in a statewide emergency alert. “Help the frontline by staying home as much as possible for the next two weeks.”
How many states are now reporting their hospitals cannot accept any more COVID patients? How long before they can’t accept any more patients at all?
On the other hand, how hopeful about climate change would you be if we were more like successfully-covid-fighting country China?
63,589,977 total cases
1,473,927 dead
43,985,242 recovered
In the US:
13,920,038 total cases
274,332 dead
8,223,391 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
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