Hate to interrupt whatever's going on, especially whatever brought Joanie to the thread, but I attended part of a research seminar on the epidemiology of the pandemic yesterday. Take-aways (and via biology researchers I know). 1. Things are so bleak in the US right now, almost everywhere. The detailed datasets were quite alarming -- I witnessed a granularity of the domestic outbreak and rates of increase I'd not seen elsewhere. To see the presenter be so shaken by the rise in cases was sobering. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better this winter. 2. The return to strict measures in places like Germany and Spain are having a good effect, so that's good news. That's good news: we can still save a lot of lives. 3. Canada saw a big uptick about 10 days after Canadian Thanksgiving. Probably a bad sign for us. 4. Limiting the time of your T'giving gathering can have a big positive impact. Don't lounge around for hours after filling your gut. Just elbow bump and leave. If you have multiple families coming together, this expert recommended sitting at separate tables and not sharing serving ware between families. (I know, fat chance.) 5. Vaccines are already arriving in medical centers to be stored in deep freezes. Once permission comes from the FDA, some medical personnel could start receiving vaccines in mid-December! That seems like great news. 6. Weird Spanish study showed that people who regularly walk a dog were 78% more likely to contract COVID-19 there than people who did not walk a dog. The presenter wasn't sure what to make of this, but it suggests that you can still get COVID in open air if you're not careful, perhaps just standing and talking with folks on a sidewalk without masks. Take care, y'all.
Hosting a Thanksgiving party tonight. Another one of many we've had over the past 8 ****ing months. We'll have a photo booth, face painting, a jager machine, and enough food to serve the roughly 30 folks we're having. All in a clubhouse. I'll let you know how many get Wuhan. So far with the other parties? 0.0.
I follow data. It'll take a month to disprove this, only for someone to post another asinine article. It's an infinite loop that I keep disproving...
Any other country follow up on Spain's study with the dog walking? Pretty bizarre stat, 10 home runs in a game at Dodgers park bizarre.
Here's more info. The study surveyed 2,000 spaniards. https://news.yahoo.com/dog-walkers-...AidagqSBrKX1GTjy9k7AjHXFtLXGRxKdgY8gwuIRTsiC6 The same study suggests disinfecting store-bought products is really important. That stinks, because that's a pain in the butt and I'd stopped doing that months ago. I've often wondered about a dog sniffing a gross kleenex on the sidewalk or picking up a beer can or whatever.
