Jurgis

Yes. Now can all you have to is turn Americans into Japanese. Hygiene obsessed, mask wearing little drones, social distance, no kissy huggy stuff. Good luck. https://youtu.be/XedDyR0opow?t=63

THEY ARE BOTH! Nasty little hobbitses! We hates them! We hates them all!

How is Okta better than Microsoft single sign-on solutions?

Indiegogo project for reusable N99 masks: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lmp-s2-reusable-protective-face-mask#/ Cautionary notes: This is not buying a mask - the project may fail. I have had both positive and negative experiences with kickstarter and indiegogo. Shipping to US is extra.

Daily stats from states are unreliable and I hope people don't make conclusions based on them. There were zero cases in MA one of the days: https://covidtracking.com/data/state/massachusetts#historical Of course. It's still a better sign to see it down than up, it's just a small update to priors that should be tracked over time to get a significant sample. I mostly didn't know that MA had done this about masks, that was the most interesting part of it, so it'll be interesting to track It's not as restrictive as you probably think. It just pretty much means that you have to wear mask inside a business. You can go maskless outside. Edit: Here is the official ref: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/frequently-asked-questions-about-covid-19#should-i-wear-a-mask-when-i-go-out-in-public?

Daily stats from states are unreliable and I hope people don't make conclusions based on them. There were zero cases in MA one of the days: https://covidtracking.com/data/state/massachusetts#historical

Would it not have been more informative to tweet "Emergency Rooms still open!" than "Liberate Michigan!"? I sympathize with the difficulty in public messaging during a time of panic and confusion. But I don't think public figures have devoted enough attention to nor sounded the alarm enough about the huge public health collateral damage. The media hasn't helped either. That treatments for all these afflictions that are many times as deadly as COVID have been forgone can only be charitably viewed as a failure by public health officials. Moreover, we won't see the effects immediately - they'll only surface over time at which point they'll surely be another data point and forgotten. My wife is in HR at a large healthcare company that owns and operates hospitals and clinics. She was telling me that some organ transplants didn't happen because they were classified as "elective surgery". She works from home so I hear a lot on the conference calls about the red ink spilling. Yeah, just sad. What demarcates the line between elective and non-elective? It also seems like an arbitrary line that hospitals are unsure of as well. Any scheduled surgery is elective. Cancer surgery is elective because it is scheduled. They were all banned in order to make room for the surge that never came close to occurring. Meanwhile, the elective surgeries are the bread-and-butter cash cow for the company. Cancelling surgeries was supposed to free up staff, but instead they had to lay off staff. Mistakes were made in what was locked down, but it would look different if the surge really did come. This pretty much. I think this discussion is a bit colored by locality too. Some clinics closed everything preparing for the surge. Some already reopened. Some never closed. Even in California friend's wife works in Stanford cancer center (not sure exact name), and AFAIK they never closed.

The prior article on the suicides suggested that lifting the lockdown will reduce the suicide rate. Those new articles you offer are suggesting that COVID-19 is scaring them from coming in to the hospital or clinic, which were never locked down for heart attack and stroke patients. They will vaccinate your children. Lifting a lockdown may scare these people even more if it led to an increase in the numbers of people infected with COVID-19. If a major part of the rationale for a lockdown was its practicality, then I think that public health officials were very impractical in not sufficiently considering the second order effects from the lockdown. Yes, emergency care was never stopped but how many people would really know that? Can you expect the vast majority to distinguish between what's considered an emergency and what's not? Can you expect the majority to properly weigh health risks and think rationally when everywhere they look they're reminded of COVID? I think the answer is a clear no given the data in the articles and I think it's a leap too far to assume that the majority of the populace will make rational decisions when the public health messaging on this topic has been ambiguous at best yet extremely black and white on lockdowns. So basically you are saying that everything should open and people should be told that going out is perfectly safe so that the people who don't understand that medical clinics are open would go there? Medical clinics actually have been emailing their patients and telling them what is open and what they should do if they have medical condition - whether emergency or chronic one.

You know that you are voodoo cursed now, right?

Definitely this.

Brand power is not what it used to be. ::) Right when COVID-19 went live in America in March, the crappiest brands and items were sold out. The high end stuff generally was still available. So that was the reason I could not buy Ferrari to race with rb! :o

Neiman Marcus is not high end enough anymore?

Brand power is not what it used to be. ::)

You have to admit that going to supermarket is much more fun that the other things you listed. I would race a Ferrari through the empty streets of Manhattan with a 25% chance of Corona. Fuck it! That would be a good way to die! But what would you do for a Klondike bar?

You have to admit that going to supermarket is much more fun that the other things you listed.

It basically says that it's not worth for Bill Gates to pick $100 bill from the pavement, since his time spent picking the bill is worth much more than $100. For discussion:

See, Bill Gates' test really works.

I was joking. Although I would have picked the bills and washed and disinfected hands and bills afterwards. And then FBI would have arrested me for money laundering.

Practical-side observations/thoughts of masks: I and my wife wear masks to stores and anywhere we have to interact closely with people. We wear masks at home when someone comes from outside - e.g. we had a chimney sweep come recently. Since mask wearing sucks (I cannot wear a mask and eyeglasses - they fog over), and IMO the infection risk outdoors is very low, we don't wear masks outdoors when we go for walks. I guess this is being bad role model though. ::) It would be nice to be able to buy N95 masks for store visits, but AFAIK they are not reliably available. (Feel free to post pointers if you think they are). I thought about buying face shields for going to stores, but still not sure it's worth it. It's additional hassle, you still have to wear mask underneath and supply is unreliable. (Feel free to post pointers if you have pointers for good supply.) It sucks when a neighbor comes over without a mask and starts talking to you. First, no mask - bad. Second, talking - also bad (worse than just walking by or standing closely and not talking). I don't have a good way to tell them not to do it without them being offended. ::)

Fed cannot buy everything. Where would they put it?

So we were driving into Boston on Monday and there was a panhandler asking for money from drivers at the intersection. He was not wearing mask or anything. And people were actually opening car windows and handing him money. Talk about going risky IMO. ::)

Now we know who is a real value investor on CoBF and who is just a wannabe. I pick up pennies too. Although by Bill Gates' test it's probably money losing activity.

I hope Bill Gates and his people monitor Moderna's progress and will apply necessary pressure/controls for them not to release worthless or dangerous vaccine. It could be quite a hit to the reputation of Bill Gates and his foundation if Moderna screws up while being supported by them.

You'll have to create another topic for it then. 8)

I wrote on this on another thread, so I won't repeat much. But yeah, for me as a consumer Grubhub is making the world a better place . It provides consistent ordering interface, with past order history, easy switch from restaurant to restaurant if restaurant is closed (welcome Covid!). (It could be improved: they should allow me to mark/comment on ordered dishes like "this dish is crap", "this dish is great". I don't want to write reviews, but I want to have notes/flags to remember what I liked where. But then most services don't provide this: I want this on Netflix/Amazon Prime/etc, but can I get it? Noooo. ) And I wrote on another thread if restaurant leaves Grubhub, I'll most likely stay with Grubhub and not with the restaurant. Grubhub has added a fee for orders, so we'll see how that works out for them and customers. This is something that may make me leave the service if the fee is high enough. Grubhub is possibly not a benefit for the restaurant, so there's that.