Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I'm not sure how crowded places are going to be ... beaches notwithstanding. I do believe that some of the restaurant/bar openings will be heavily policed, and that there is not an appetite for anyone to go into a heavily crowded space. Places are going to get shut down if things go back to "business as usual." The whole conversation about this is so extreme on one side or the other. It's either stay the fuck home or open everything up. The phased approach set forth by Virginia's governor seems like a reasonable middle ground. Take three weeks or so with very limited openings -- 10 people to a bar/restaurant, no hair care without an appointment, etc.--and see where we stand.

Here's the thing, too. There has not been a gigantic spike of cases here, though I wouldn't be surprised if there was one, just due to the ramp up in testing. And though people have been staying home, I wouldn't say we're social distancing all-stars. Still a lot of people in the grocery store or in parks and on trails.

Read an interesting story on Yahoo from a guy who went to the gym in Missouri the day it opened back up. Had his spray bottle with him, wiping down everything, etc. He said it was more of an unnerving experience than he expected. I guess if I went back to the gym, I would limit myself totally to machines because there are only so many touchpoints -- the handles, the seat, armrest, weight stack. You start going with free weights, and there are so many other variables, wiping down every weight you come in contact with, etc. It's going to be an interesting few months. I want to get out, but I don't want to put myself in a position where I'm in a huge throng of people, which actually would be "back to normal" for me anyway.

 

This is a loss for the NYT. I don’t get it.

 

I have a short hand rake used to clean gutters. I could clean it up and put it in the bad for raking when and if I get to play again.

 

Most supers are saying to just rake the sand with your foot as best as possible after hitting out of bunkers.

 

https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily

big beautiful tests more than anyone quite frankly not enough credit for it but that's ok

 

The biggest hotspots nationwide are meat packing plants, where workers “fell prey” to needing to work because they are relatively poor, relatively unaware of the dangers of the disease and, in at least some cases, sending some of what they make back to family in another country.

That’s the issue. Not an open beach or your dopamine.

 

Fun.

 

That’s quite a graph. The % growth from 1 to 2 is greater than the % growth from...never mind. Yeah, let’s use that graph. I’ll graph the year over year % growth of Bill Belichick’s career win Total, in which we discover his finest work was done in Cleveland.

 

Thank god those brown folks ain’t ever out and about roaming around their community, coming into contact with the good, old white folks like us, amirite @Alma?

 

Preprint paper, not yet peer reviewed, getting tons of side-eye from Virology Twitter. I would be wary of hyping this too quickly.