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In places with crazy high density (e.g. Russian towns) no one walks more than a block or two to get groceries. In Alaska, the WHOLE STATE drives to the nearest Anchorage or Fairbanks to get their groceries from the same few huge stores. Sort of the same here-a few huge big boxes https://x.com/aaronAcarr/status/1246317861280366600
(here== here in Wash DC, grocery shopping is going to a few huge big box groceries... these tweet boxes still aren't big enough)
Your covid super power is that you can breathe underwater, but only half under water and only for about two weeks. https://x.com/RajuMariappan/status/1246467071128539136
Why does it feel like 1000 years have passed? Every time you sing Happy Birthday while washing your hands you're another year older.
I was planning to visit WV about right now-- fevers are now exploding in the counties right next to Charleston, WV: https://healthweather.us/?mode=Trends So I guess it was a good call.
Maine, Florida, NY, MA also looking feverish. Everyone else is crushing flu while trying to crush covid.
My choice of boxers now threatens my life. https://x.com/xiann/status/1246449207717789696
IDEA: give everyone that sits through all the covid PSAs an honorary degree.
Status: Rationing apples. Yeast is nowhere to be found. Everyone wants to blame it on hoarding like TP-- no one is hoarding apples and yeast. We get some sort of fruit tomorrow from the coop, but it is sold as a "bag of fruit" But Walmart etc, are always stocking & doing subs.
*stocking out*, ie. running out of basics.
Local company has cloth masks to buy https://x.com/metaskills/status/1246224087871098880
In a way, it is good knowing that Trump will not wear a mask. It implies that this is not Trump's idea, but someone in CDC's idea. LA & NYC also independently came to this conclusion, not to mention a bunch of foreign governments.
https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-says-wear-a-face-mask/
I will wear a mask (of some sort) outdoors
Mythbusters demo on how hard it is to avoid getting a virus from a sick person. Now imagine that sick person has no idea that they are sick for 10 day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQ9Kl9CqUU
@LegalEagleDJ - I learned from you that it is not legal for Batman to wear a mask. How do we square anti-mask laws with covid related mandatory mask laws?
7 year olds are giving each other Zoom tech support right now.
If investing isn't your day job, you are "stupid money"- Optimal strategy:
1) dollar cost average into market ASAP when you have extra $
2) HOLD for as long as possible
3) dollar cost average out of the market when you have upcoming large expenses
You can't time the market.
Buy one of everything (i.e. the S&P 500 or broader index fund), "stupid money" can safely bet the whole world.
You can't pick stocks.
Do pick things with minimum transaction costs. Dividends & Appreciation sometimes don't pay off. Lower transaction costs ALWAY pay off.
Yesterday, I ran 3.1 miles in my condo, no treadmill. 38m5s. THAT IS SLOW.
29-30m is my normal.
The non-stop 90/180 degree turns make my ankles hurt- it is like playing basketball, but only the running around the court part.
(proof of old times: https://www.strava.com/athletes/21567664 )
100% Endorse-- really good courses, 100x better than the stuff you might find on youtube. https://x.com/pluralsight/status/1245708345496834049
The company where I work is hiring:
- Java, PHP, Angular and Python Developers
- Tech project management types
- Usually Library of Congress is the client
- Remote friendly as the client, which is, right now, very.
https://artemisconsultinginc.com/join-us
Commute distance?
Gotta repave my wife's ubuntu laptop to resize the boot sector so I can install zoom on it before tomorrow.
Default boot sector so small that I could only install ONE app
So per this tweetstorm, once you're in the hospital with covid, you really have no choice- your fever will burn high and tylenol won't do much to control it. Dunno about non-hospitalized cases, we'll probably know sometime next year.
https://x.com/leorahorwitzmd/status/1244795554628067328 https://x.com/mistersql/status/1245147508260720641
No, we should leave the scuba equipment for doctors and nurses. Civilians should only where that Tyrannosaurus costume.
I heard it from a friend that this is the upcoming CDC guidance. https://twitter.com/AcqAlchemist/status/1245381022822383616
*wear* -- wow, I don't usually make homophone errors. ow, aye due knot due that if or E day.
April Fools joke this year was held two month ago back when we had a chance to crush this pandemic before it started.
Trader Joe does the right thing after all. https://x.com/ARLnowDOTcom/status/1245342834410106880
Like everyone has been saying, it's just like a snow storm.
Except instead of snow it is $#!+.
Trader Joes sells covid, too. It goes under a different brand name, but it is the same covid you can get at other stores. https://x.com/bradrstreicher/status/1245173124062220289
What we are living through is a stupid pigeon event. It is a statistical event as common as a pigeon, but everyone is stupider than a pigeon when it comes to preparing for it.
We thought out blinding genius would be blindsided by a black swan event. We thought we were smart. https://x.com/CMastication/status/1245291748190048256
out->our. Sigh. No edit.
Administration death toll projections are doubling every day. Who knew that realizing how overoptimistic your models are is also exponential relative to time?
I love how the Administration has essentially told Red states to drop dead because they weren't going to vote for a Democrat anyhow, like, not even Alabama would do that, right? https://x.com/mistersql/status/1245326847866478592
I don't understand how the Administration is going to keep their voters alive in Florida by simultaneously flooding the state with ventilators and at the state level discouraging social distancing. Everyone getting sick on the same week will crush even a well stocked hospital.
ref: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/governors-plead-for-medical-equipment-from-federal-stockpile-plagued-by-shortages-and-confusion/2020/03/31/18aadda0-728d-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html "As states across the country have pleaded for critical medical equipment from a key national stockpile, Florida has promptly received 100 percent of its first two requests"
Fever knocks down viruses... so if you get covid you will let your fever run-up to:
(nb 106.7 for adults causes brain damage)
The video that make me think of this question- inducing fever, or just overheating someone used to be a pre-antibiotics era therapy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1LHgyfPPQ8
tired: running a mile in my condo
wired: running a mile in my condo in shoes I bought for the purpose.
No street shoes allowed in the house, and oh my does running in bare feet on wood hurt after about a week of serious exercise.
No traffic anywhere in the US except the Bronx & a few places in the South. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1245099582536716292/photo/1
The only vote I've ever had rejected was an absentee ballot in Maryland, so 100% of all my absentee ballots. I have no idea who the absentee ballot shredding machine is going to favor this year.
Where do I find the online image editor to add a mask to my profile photo? I'm too lazy to fire up gimp and watch 8 hours of youtube tutorials.
Per the thermometer maps, we are fighting virus so hard that flu and the like is plummeting. Covid on the other hand, still exploding. (This is time lag? Other fever causing disease more susceptible to social distancing than covid?)
https://healthweather.us/
CDC, this is easy. Just look at all those ugly faces out there. We should be wearing masks.*
* seriously, even the most antimask articles say masks keep sick people (presymptomatic!) from spreading disease (flu, etc), is that not good enough reason?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/cdc-considering-recommending-general-public-wear-face-coverings-in-public/2020/03/30/6a3e495c-7280-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html
In Maryland you need 2 witnesses to create a will- kind of awkward inviting two people over now. Plus you'd have to go visit a notary & the courts to register the will are closed. https://x.com/tedstein/status/1244778206978355266
Vote people, last month we could have voted for something else, but we got covid. https://twitter.com/davemethvin/status/1244769532562083847
Ah, very doubleplus ungood.
"Trump pivots to emphasize lives that may be saved, not lost, during pandemic"
ref: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/30/coronavirus-latest-news/#link-H2JL4QO4YZDORF22PUNW3NIEZA
Bicycle pump arrived-- I can now bike indoors again on my regular-bike-to-stationary-bike converter.