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Remember that time ( less than 2 months ago!) when COVID-19 wasn't a big deal?

Wow, this doesn't look good: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/us-projects-200000-new-covid-19-cases-per-day-3000-daily-deaths-by-june/

I've heard frames seem to be a bit lower, or at least more inconsistnet this patch. They are definitely ramping up their code to use mor cores...older gen CPU's will be sucking, but, at this point in the upgrade cycle you would be better off just waiting, unless you can get a great deal on a 6...

Welcome aboard! Yes....baby steps!

Here you go...looks like they are doing well; with the cases down their hospitals hopefully are nowhere near as overloaded as before: The US? not doing as great:

lol, I'm in California and that is exactly what I'm paying for electricity...and it's going up, since the utility is able to treat the customer & taxpayer like bottomless wallet, simultaneously paying out executive bonuses while also declaring bankruptcy and getting the state govt. to bail them...

It's all about acting quickly...exponential growth is a bitch; by denying and not doing anything the US govt leadership basically screwed the country. Once you found out about it/it was first detected in your country you had 30 days to be able to clamp down on it and nip it in the bud; if you...

ditto, not a trained virologist, but our hospital system is looking at conducting antibody tests. It is exactly as you said, the body forms IgG antibodies about 14 days or so after initial exposure, which are detectable with a high rate of accuracy (the IgM tests are much less accurate, since it...

If they were exposed, they should have developed antibodies. There are antibody testst currently being developed, and some are actually being deployed, with various rates of false positives / false negatives. So, they could go out and get tested right now, I'm not sure how easily available they...

Are you saying it is ok to marginalize "Flat-Earthers"? I'm ok with that! lol

In other parts of the world, they have much stricter driving requirements...the US is something of a joke in comparison... Anyway, re: freedom of speech, here is the relevant XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/1357/

Because it was staged? Nobody knowledgeable and/or reputable is saying this is anything like the normal flu.

The problem is, unless they are collecting data and studying the problem scientifically, it really is just a bunch of anecdotal info. Being licensed as a doctor just means you are minimally competent to practice medicine. Unfortunately, it is hands-off after that, and you had better do your due...

A great article (by a microbiologist) reviewing the current state of vaccine development: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/the-ars-covid-19-vaccine-primer-100-plus-in-the-works-8-in-clinical-trials/

...and the best way to do this is to NOT go by official COVID-19 posted death figures, but to instead look at the number of *EXCESS* deaths reported. The issue is that the "official" COVID-19 death counts have all the same problems of the # of cases reported, i.e., too little testing leads to a...

This bit: If they went ahead only to have to cancel later on...what a disaster that would be, for the attendees... Cancelling, while sucky, was the best call...

Hmmm, I wasn't expecting any big increase in Georgia's cases for another week or so...look at this:

The answer to "could weekly averages be more nice?" is...maybe. Everybody started tracking daily counts because, at first, the numbers changed so much (increased so much) on a daily basis, and decision-makers needed information about how fast the spread was. Two-three months into this now...

My thought --> if COVID-19 was a baseball game, we're about in the 5th inning...it's a little too early to say the score now is the final score, or to even call the game.

What about Sweden? Here is their latest data: Contrast that with Norway: ...or Denmark: Germany is actually the *GOLD* standard in the West: