COVID thread is locked.
What I think is appropriate for this thread is LOCAL-related questions/comments regarding the pandemic and associated reopening, etc. Examples such as:
1. Does <business> have curbside pickup?
2. What is <counties> doing for school next fall?
3. Can I get tested <here>?
4. Is this <location> open and what restrictions does it have?
Policy discussion, case analysis, armchair epidemiology is not allowed.
Here’s what I’m thinking:
covid thread gets shut down
very limited covid related discussion allowed in banter, specifically things like questions about testing, reopening, logistics. No discussion about policy, case counts, government response, etc.
I think at this point, the testing and tracing capacity is really the remaining hope to control things nationally. I hope that places that have partially opened up will at least evaluate where things stand. But probably will be early or mid June before there’s any noticeable trend. Seems the country is just going to accept 1-3K deaths per day. Got to keep increasing testing capacity.
I was wondering about that. The thunder seemed to really roll and shake. Kept me awake until after midnight. I figured either positive strike or maybe an atmospheric duct that kept the sound going and traveling far. Ended up with over 0.5".
Someone posted the thread yesterday, but there are measures showing that the stay at home orders have worked. R has gotten down to ~1 or a bit below it. That suggests if we kept at this indefinitely, we would eliminate transmission. But it would be very slow. Probably a R around 1 is fairly sustainable in terms of hospital capacity. To reduce R below one probably means much higher testing rates and contact tracing followed by quarantines.