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12-04-2020, 03:02 PM | #1301 |
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I had a client ask me this week, "I guess we're not getting you on-site any time soon, are we..." I was second-guessing myself, thinking "maybe I AM being over-cautious..." but I found myself somewhat vindicated by the cancellation of the TT. "Okay, good, it's not that I'm paranoid or a scaredy-cat who is hiding from his own shadow. A bunch of people whose idea of fun is something that would terrify most people have evaluated the risk and concluded 'this pandemic is too dangerous, we're not risking it' and they're skipping the event that's normally the scary highlight of their scary year. I feel more confident that I'm on the right side of this."
I felt the same way cancelling my attendance at an engineering conference in April, after finding out that SXSW was cancelled. "These guys do ONE event all year, and they've decided not to do it because this disease is too risky. What on earth makes you think doing YOUR event is an okay idea?"
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12-04-2020, 03:05 PM | #1302 |
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Oh look, more stupid! It's contagious like the rona!
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15832 Pennsylvania college forbids on-campus students from leaving campus, president attends off-campus soccer game The president of Allegheny College is under fire after attending a soccer game off-campus, despite at the time requiring all students remain on campus grounds. One student even reported the president to the college's coronavirus reporting form. |
12-04-2020, 03:11 PM | #1303 | |
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12-04-2020, 03:12 PM | #1304 | |
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And, your daily dose of 'the science is settled':
https://www.businessinsider.com/who-dont-wear-masks-during-vigorous-intensity-physical-activity-2020-12 Quote:
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12-04-2020, 03:16 PM | #1305 | |
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The balance between valuing life and allowing roads racing is debated every year at the TT and the rest of the Irish roadracing season. If that level of soul searching happened with respect to COVID the situation would be much better. |
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12-04-2020, 03:28 PM | #1306 |
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I'm coming around on this masks don't work thing...
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2...b-article-info I guess when a mask mandate was instituted in Germany the transmission rate dropped by a mere 45% within 20 days. Hardly seems worth it despite masks costing practically nothing. |
12-04-2020, 03:30 PM | #1307 |
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That's not even the same. Everybody knows Germans breathe through their *******.
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12-04-2020, 03:37 PM | #1308 |
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12-04-2020, 03:44 PM | #1309 | |
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12-04-2020, 04:05 PM | #1310 |
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12-04-2020, 04:18 PM | #1311 | |
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We get a (weekly? bi-weekly? when something happens?) email about COVID related stuff at work...pretty sure it goes out to everyone with an @berkeley.edu email address. This was a fun bit of info:
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12-04-2020, 04:31 PM | #1312 |
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probably covid poop
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12-04-2020, 04:36 PM | #1313 |
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12-04-2020, 04:51 PM | #1314 |
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So I'm here in the hospital waiting for a course of remdesivir. I woke up at 3am and couldn't breathe. I went to the emergency room at 10am and I'm still waiting for a room. This should be fun. Like sleep away camp with drugs... so sleep away camp.
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12-04-2020, 04:53 PM | #1315 |
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Glad you woke up!
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12-04-2020, 04:55 PM | #1316 |
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Good luck to you, speedy recovery!
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12-04-2020, 04:59 PM | #1317 |
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No ****. Thanks for the update as meh as it may have been.
Hopefully they git gud and you get ok. |
12-04-2020, 05:02 PM | #1318 |
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Bay Area is going back into "lockdown" mode.
Starts Monday 12/7 @ 12:01 and ends (tentatively) 1/4. I had plans to hit up Target tomorrow AM for some general junk...looks like Saturday/Sunday will be a bit more of an extended shopping weekend. Might actually bite the bullet and do that grocery pickup thing...and that is what I'd miss the most, I love just wandering around a grocery store figuring out what I want to cook & eat. |
12-04-2020, 05:02 PM | #1319 |
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12-04-2020, 05:03 PM | #1320 | |
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Poison.. you ignorant slut.
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So,if you have an existing respiratory issue, wearing a mask while running could be more immediately harmful to your health than the very slim chance that you'll catch COVID-19 while outside and socially distanced. The entire rest of the 11 pages leading up to that couple of paragraphs is about how masks ****ing work and you should wear one.. with 171 citations. |
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12-04-2020, 05:07 PM | #1321 |
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12-04-2020, 05:16 PM | #1322 |
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12-04-2020, 05:27 PM | #1323 |
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12-04-2020, 05:45 PM | #1324 |
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#fraudgod
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