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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:

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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:

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...