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  1. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    Great article about Germany's (and probably the world's) leading coronavirus expert that also gives details about the origins of the coronavirus and COVID-19: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6490/462 Personally, *this* is my favorite Zelda rap video: View...
  2. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    Ok, I have the data up by country: https://radegast74.shinyapps.io/InternationalTrendsCovid19/ Thanks! It definitely helps "smooth" over (ha ha) the data entry weirdness we see, over the weekends and other issues... Like, check out Georgia (below)...on April 12, they reported *fewer* total...
  3. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    Since I was sick and tired of looking at states report of new cases, and trying to divine whether the number was increasing or decreasing (esp. with data entry being spotty on the weekends) I took the NYTimes data and added a trend line (7-day centered moving average, so for example, Wed would...
  4. Radegast74

    TEST Merchant Navy: A well oiled disciplined money-printing machine!

    a meme from another era https://gfycat.com/angelicmeekamazontreeboa
  5. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    There may very well be something like that, now that you mention it (but aren't people also close at work?). If you want to look at a "trend" for something in data like that, where there are predictable peaks and valleys, you would want to remove the "seasonality" (in this case...
  6. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    Based on Louisiana, Mardi Gras, and how long it took for the cases to pile up, I'd say you'd want to give it at least 2 weeks, and preferably 3 weeks. Somebody catches the disease, they can have it 5-7 days before feeling any symptoms, and then they need another 5-7 days before they either get...
  7. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    lol, get used to it...the deficit has been increasing *every* year and will only get worse with the current budget...we were on quite a spending spree before this, which didn't help:
  8. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    The plan for the Fall is: get out there pleb and get back to work!
  9. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    Interesting article here, comparing Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland; these countries are all adjacent to each other. Sweden didn't take any "extraordinary" measures, the rest did impose some sort of social distancing, business closings, etc...guess which seems to be working best? Here is...
  10. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    He said (later) he was being sarcastic! The video is worth watching once to get a flavor of the guy; don't watch it too many times or try to make sense of his statements, as you will lose IQ points: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1253733779769884675/pu/vid/1280x720/PXnbET7hNoaWyxuP.mp4?tag=10
  11. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    Here is the dystopian version: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-23/wuhan-s-return-to-life-temperature-checks-and-constant-anxiety?utm_source=pocket-newtab
  12. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    That is a good article! I dug up this article, as I wanted to find out more about NZ's response...it is from April 10 (author byline: Michael Baker and Nick Wilson are professors at the University of Otago’s Department of Public Health in Wellington), and goes into a bit more detail, but...
  13. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    yeah, yeah, yeah, next thing you all will be also bragging about your socialized medicine & free health care if you do get sick. Well, I'll have you know that everything in America is better, even if you do have to pay for it...
  14. Radegast74

    I love this game: From The Commons to New Babbage by Ground Transport

    You don't need no stinkin' Hyperloop or Metroloop ... all you need is a ground vehicle! On my way back from the bar, I noticed a set of elevators that said "To Surface" ... I wondered, could I just drive from the city to the spaceport? Going up the elevatr, I found the Vehicle kiosk, called...
  15. Radegast74

    Black & Yellow Stinger Armor - May Subscriber Flair

    Thanks all for everybody's help...I finally logged in yesterday into the PTU and my stuff seems to be there. Looking back, I can't tell if I just might have been stupid...my stuff was all there, and so was my top hat...it has been so long since I wore civilian / "street" clothes in the game (due...
  16. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    With some states starting to re-open now (like Georgia) it will be interesting to see what the outcomes will be. I'm concerned about a premature "rush to claim success" when based on the transmission and disease characteristics of the virus, we really need a minimum of two weeks of data (and...
  17. Radegast74

    Black & Yellow Stinger Armor - May Subscriber Flair

    FYI, haven't had time to read everything, but the news is now they do NOT want you deleting and re-copying your account to the PTU...they want you to do that character reset. Me not having my stuff has gone on so long, I don't think just a simple reset on my part will fix anything, unfortunately...
  18. Radegast74

    Black & Yellow Stinger Armor - May Subscriber Flair

    My CitCon stuff hasn't been showing up either....I think I'm going to have to put in a support ticket, unfortunately.
  19. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    Well, that information is available: So, it looks to me like they aren't conducting a whole lot of tests... If you look at their deaths, I'm not seeing a good trend: TL;DR --> slicing the numbers various ways, Sweden doesn't look like they are doing so well right now.
  20. Radegast74

    Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

    You can visit! Australia just won't ever let you come back in...this is what you'll look like going back to Oz, can you blame them for not letting you back in?
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