davebarnes
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Peanut butter does.
Most brands, anyway.
Most brands, anyway.
I would refine your measure to be daily deaths per 100,000 averaged over the last 7 days. Why? Because you want to compare two places at the same point in time (right now) and cumulative deaths per 100,000 over a 10 month period won't do that, since different places have followed different trajectories.
What a way to start a new job!Our son started a new job last week (1st December). He and a few others were scheduled to go into the offices at specific times to meet with HR and do the paperwork that they had been sent. The morning of the appointment they were each called to say for Covid security reasons they would instead be sent company laptops on Monday the 7th and complete the paperwork online. The laptops didn’t arrive because of “exceptional circumstances “ and today (8th) he was told that someone had tested Covid positive in the offices so the laptops were being sent back for deep cleaning and they probably wouldn’t start work before January but will be paid from December 1st. He emailed in his paperwork today, and got confirmation that it had been received and he should expect December’s paycheck to be deposited a week before Christmas, on the 18th.
He said that this is going to be the easiest month’s “work” he will ever have been paid for.
Deep cleaning a laptop?
I think a lot of the new surface cleaning protocols, which were invented in the early days when "omg it lives for days on paper" was the news, have not left and will not, for some time.
Surface cleaning, or lack thereof, doesn't really make us measurably safer, but once the procedures become expected and part of new rules, it's much harder to undo them.
Exactly! Happened with school openings to.Right. To me the problem is many businesses are patting themselves on the back about their "deep cleaning" while ignoring or downplaying the airborne issue. See restaurant study a few posts above. They even tout their deep cleaning on advertisements.
Deep cleaning a laptop? I think 30 seconds with a hair drier would do it. Or leave it sit a couple of days. My library assures me that the books are virus-free, and not to try to clean them. I wondered how they do it (low oven?) or just time.
This study was published on Dec. 4. Interesting about A/C airflow in a restaurant.
https://zeynep.substack.com/p/small-data-big-implications
That's an amazing study containing some.very powerful insights. It certainly validates my instinctive practice of facing away from people when they inexplicably violate distancing.
To me it is not so much that it spreads so easily as that it spreads so specifically.
Thanks for posting that Rianne!
The only thing I didn't like was that I had to sign on the touch screen and I had to use my finger on a public screen! But I found wipes nearby and wiped my hands.
You may not want to waste a glove on this, but touch screens work with disposable gloves.
Also, I used a touch screen that my fingernail worked for signing my name.
Right! It shows people sitting right next to infected person not getting infected, so they must not have talked to each other face to face. Yet, the virus traveled long distances on the wave of the airflow to infect those far away.
This study was published on Dec. 4. Interesting about A/C airflow in a restaurant.
https://zeynep.substack.com/p/small-data-big-implications
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/01/9406...ural-colorado-doctor-catching-the-coronavirusHe isn't sure where he picked it up but thinks it might have been on a trip east in October. He said he was meticulous on the plane, sitting in the front, last on, first off. But on landing at Denver International Airport, Papenfus boarded the crowded train to the terminal, and soon alarm bells went off in his head.
"There are people literally like inches from me, and we're all crammed like sardines in this train," Papenfus said. "And I'm going, 'Oh my God, I am in a superspreader event right now.' "
This is what I fear for everyone of my traveling family members. We have one positive so far, it's still too soon to know the rest.Very interesting compilation.
Yesterday I read about a Colorado country doctor who caught it while traveling. He had everything set up - first seat on airplane, first to get on or off, etc. but once he stepped into the terminal train at the Denver airport which was jammed with people he realized he’d gotten stuck in a super spreader situation.
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/01/9406...ural-colorado-doctor-catching-the-coronavirus
I think a lot of the new surface cleaning protocols, which were invented in the early days when "omg it lives for days on paper" was the news, have not left and will not, for some time.
Surface cleaning, or lack thereof, doesn't really make us measurably safer, but once the procedures become expected and part of new rules, it's much harder to undo them.
Very interesting compilation.
Yesterday I read about a Colorado country doctor who caught it while traveling.
He said he was meticulous on the plane, sitting in the front, last on, first off. But on landing at Denver International Airport, Papenfus boarded the crowded train to the terminal, and soon alarm bells went off in his head.