Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
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@Carnage said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I'm surprised I haven't seen FB stories linking jet contrails to COVID. "See? Fewer jets are flying now and things are getting better!"
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@dcon said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Carnage said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I'm surprised I haven't seen FB stories linking jet contrails to COVID. "See? Fewer jets are flying now and things are getting better!"
My guess is that it just hasn't exited those particular tinfoil covered echo chambers, yet.
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@mott555 said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
My employer already said they have enough cash in the bank to keep everyone employed for up to a year.
Luckily, the company I work for was bought by a "really big company". Part of us is considered essential, so they're still working/selling. I'm in R&D, so we're not essential. However, most of us can do most stuff at home - and what we're doing isn't going to be ready to sell for a while. FDA regulations are fun - and we just hit the first FDA inspection towards certification. So there's still a long ways to go. (tl;dr: there's money in the bank to cover us because that was the plan before COVID happened.)
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@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
and it takes only a second to put a big squirt of it on your hand which you can rub in while you walk over to the next patient.
When I went into the dr a couple weeks ago (after shelter in place started) for a normal infection issue (as my doc commented, regular medical issues didn't just go away because of this!), all the drs/assistants had gloves on. So, no, they can't use the sanitizer. I didn't see them change gloves, hopefully this happened between patients...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Dunno about 32-bit ARM devices...
They've been able to do it for as far back as I care to search, either through trivial carry-respecting operations (same as x86) or via a library inserted by the compiler when required (this is only really noticeable for division). More of an issue on some older 32-bit ARM is the lack of floating point (it's an optional module).
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Also scornful of "lax southern (Europe) standards". And at the same time, hospitals were already understaffed before the epidemic, so proper procedures got the cut-corners -treatment. (Again, anecdotal, I know.)
Healthcare is expensive (in part because so much of it is inherently labour intensive) so it is natural for societies that think they're not under significant health threat to want to seek to reduce health spending. Places where this sort of cost cutting has been significant recently will have a worse time of it now that the fundamental situation has changed.
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@dcon said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Carnage said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I'm surprised I haven't seen FB stories linking jet contrails to COVID. "See? Fewer jets are flying now and things are getting better!"
Well, the tinfoil hat brigade has now escalated from mere spouting nonsense to full-blown "Burn the witch!"
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@Rhywden said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@dcon said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Carnage said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I'm surprised I haven't seen FB stories linking jet contrails to COVID. "See? Fewer jets are flying now and things are getting better!"
Well, the tinfoil hat brigade has now escalated from mere spouting nonsense to full-blown "Burn the witch!"
Wonder how long before they stop asking politely.
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Playing around with Florida's official COVID-19 dashboard, I'm not seeing real exponential growth in any county (and we've done as many tests as California at this point, basically second to New York). Most of them are just random noise; the hot spots (Miami-Dade and Palm Beach) are growing but not exponentially.
The best explanation for that I've seen is the MarketTicker one: It's spread by the hospitals, due to bad hand-washing standards.
On one hand, his only evidence is the numbers. On the other, I've seen the exact same bad hygiene in hospitals myself around here.
Good article. At Johns Hopkins, they have had for a long time tattle signs encouraging patients to report any staff who come into their room without using hand sanitizer. I noticed a lot of them do, I didn't particular monitor them, but I imagine that such signs during the pandemic would pretty much put an end to the hospital staff transmission problem.
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Just spotted this tweet on Jeff's Twitter account (picture below for future reference):
Here's the link seen there: https://idlewords.com/2020/04/let_s_all_wear_a_mask.htm No clue what it has to do with avatars...
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@JBert said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Just spotted this tweet on Jeff's Twitter account (picture below for future reference):
Here's the link seen there: https://idlewords.com/2020/04/let_s_all_wear_a_mask.htm No clue what it has to do with avatars...
They're gonna need a new CDN to put masks on the letter avatars.
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@Gąska said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Then choose a tech stack that doesn't make it.
Hahahaha Hahaha you're funny!
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@Gąska said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
It's not as insane when you think about it (especially when you consider what kind of things JS was designed for and what these things require).
As Eric Lippert put it:
The by-design purpose of JavaScript was to make the monkey dance when you moused over it. Scripts were often a single line. We considered ten line scripts to be pretty normal, hundred line scripts to be huge, and thousand line scripts were unheard of. The language was absolutely not designed for programming in the large, and our implementation decisions, performance targets, and so on, were based on that assumption.
The problem is that backwards-compatibility constraints have required those basic assumptions to remain baked into the language long after it's been shown that they were very wrong assumptions that bear no resemblance to the reality of modern-day web development.
If the language can't be fixed, the next best choice is to abandon it and replace it with something else. Thankfully, WASM is making that possible.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Luhmann said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
So hospitals can't be the dominant vector here.
For some outbreak points common locations are known. In France the Elzas region outbreak is linked to one specific religious community. Austria and a lot of ski related victims traced back to one sick bartender at an après ski bar.
Right. Which confirms my distrust of the "it's the hospitals!" narrative being pushed by Market Ticker et al. Are at least some people getting infected in hospitals? Sure. Especially when they're near/around/in contact with infected people. But is that the main way it's being transmitted? Doubt it.
That's not the actual theory. The theory is that hospital workers, (doctors, nurses, etc,) who are not quarantining for obvious reasons, are getting infected in hospitals (often asymptomatic) and then spreading it back to the community when they go home.
How many of those people who have never been to a hospital shop at the same grocery store as a doctor?
(Not saying it's necessarily true, but at the very least it's more plausible than you're giving it credit for.)
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@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
That's what sanitizer is for. They have that in all the hallways and rooms in hospitals, and it takes only a second to put a big squirt of it on your hand which you can rub in while you walk over to the next patient.
And that does very little because it's a virus, not a bacterium. Hand sanitizer is the "security theater" of this outbreak. What does work is actually washing with soap, because the virus's body contains a significant amount of lipids.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
That's what sanitizer is for. They have that in all the hallways and rooms in hospitals, and it takes only a second to put a big squirt of it on your hand which you can rub in while you walk over to the next patient.
And that does very little because it's a virus, not a bacterium. Hand sanitizer is the "security theater" of this outbreak. What does work is actually washing with soap, because the virus's body contains a significant amount of lipids.
hand sanitizer (assuming it's properly alcohol) does destroy that envelop just fine. Not quite as effectively as soap & water (assuming proper protocol), but efficiently enough that it's not security theater.
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Status update: one Finnish guy apparently came back to life
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@anonymous234
You can't learn this from the Jedi.
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@anonymous234
Statistics are hard, let's go raise the dead
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@JBert said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Just spotted this tweet on Jeff's Twitter account (picture below for future reference):
Here's the link seen there: https://idlewords.com/2020/04/let_s_all_wear_a_mask.htm No clue what it has to do with avatars...
What a fool, he didn’t use the anti-virus cd. Totally ineffective.
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@anonymous234 said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Status update: one Finnish guy apparently came back to life
I can see how someone might have confused "medical" drinking coma with death.
@Carnage posted this elsewhere:
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@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Everyone wearing masks to the supermarket might work, but we unfortunately don't have enough of those, and I don't see people going to a restaurant or the theater with a mask on.
It's been mandatory for almost three weeks around here. Everybody¹ complies².
@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Also, someone else mentioned that might cause an inofficial lockdown anyway. Who knows.
Sort of, but it does not. See, it does remind people to be cautious, but it does not make people stop going to work as long as the business is open, because they can't afford doing that.
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@Bulb said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
of course the masks are whatever piece of cotton you could get and put over your mouth, but the normal surgical masks are just pieces of cotton, so there is not much difference
Not disputing that for widespread personal use simple cloth masks are better than nothing, but the second part is actually not true. These masks are made out of polymer nonwovens.
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@Bulb I'm not wearing any masks for two reasons: one, it's not compulsory here, two, I'm aligning with the recommendation that they should be¹ better left to the people who actually need it (shop assistants, medical staff, police, in general those who have lots of contact with many different people). I just keep my distance, well over what is recommended, and speak only when absolutely necessary.
¹ : Americanskis! Let's see if this is true: Wikipedia states that Americans strongly prefer the subjunctive mood in mandative clauses (where you express something that you wish to be true), whereas in British English the subjunctive is often replaced with an indicative mood or a modal construction (with should). So in this case, Americans would prefer "the recommendation that they be better left...". Is this the case, notwithstanding the fact that the subjunctive is basically posh, possibly pompous English?
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@admiral_p said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Americanskis! Let's see if this is true: Wikipedia states that Americans strongly prefer the subjunctive mood in mandative clauses (where you express something that you wish to be true), whereas in British English the subjunctive is often replaced with an indicative mood or a modal construction (with should). So in this case, Americans would prefer "the recommendation that they be better left...". Is this the case, notwithstanding the fact that the subjunctive is basically posh, possibly pompous English?
To me, at least, "the recommendation that they be better left" is understandable, but sounds a bit dated and "posh and pompous." Having the "should" in there feels more right.
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@admiral_p said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
¹ : Americanskis! Let's see if this is true: Wikipedia states that Americans strongly prefer the subjunctive mood in mandative clauses (where you express something that you wish to be true), whereas in British English the subjunctive is often replaced with an indicative mood or a modal construction (with should). So in this case, Americans would prefer "the recommendation that they be better left...". Is this the case, notwithstanding the fact that the subjunctive is basically posh, possibly pompous English?
"The masks should be better left to the professionals who have need of them..." is a weird way to phrase it. I would go with either "The masks should be left to the professionals" or "The masks are better left to the professionals.
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Also, I cannot fathom having sales cycles that long. Having to run a business that conservatively, I would go insane.
The company I work for generally operates on a specific 4-year cycle, with a much smaller bump in even-numbered off-peak years (plus one well-known client with constant load). Except this year's cycle appears to be cancelled because "how the hell can you be so insensitive, doing that during a pandemic!?"
@anonymous234 said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Status update: one Finnish guy apparently came back to life
"Positive test for COVID, must have been the 'rus." "... Did you even open the body bag and see the GIANT SUCKING CHEST WOUND from the moose gun his wife used?"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
washing hands is a prerequisite to masturbation
Last time, I promise!
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@anonymous234 As much as I'd like to believe that to be miracle (those do still happen), they're collecting the statistics by hand here. As in, the head physician calls them in on some basis. And they're all tired and mistakes happen.
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No confirmed infection or symptoms, so motivation is unclear. ...Unless it turns out he has AIDS or something.
The only other rational possibility is that he was hired by a rival shop, to shift some of the customer base. In which case this was probably super effective. Made the press and all.
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
The only other rational possibility
There's your mistake.
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
No confirmed infection or symptoms, so motivation is unclear. ...Unless it turns out he has AIDS or something.
The only other rational possibility is that he was hired by a rival shop, to shift some of the customer base. In which case this was probably super effective. Made the press and all.
Maybe he just hates old people.
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@El_Heffe said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@JBert said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
WTF is "twibbon" ?
Looks like it is a brand name for "a microsite host for your Twitter campaign" (seriously, Google it).
Or, in other words, Jeff usually hates Twats on soapboxes but now feels the need to make a statement.
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@JBert said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
No confirmed infection or symptoms, so motivation is unclear. ...Unless it turns out he has AIDS or something.
The only other rational possibility is that he was hired by a rival shop, to shift some of the customer base. In which case this was probably super effective. Made the press and all.
Maybe he just hates old people.
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
The only other rational possibility is that he was hired by a rival shop, to shift some of the customer base. In which case this was probably super effective. Made the press and all.
The answer is likely not a rational one. He's in a supermarket wiping spit on produce.
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@loopback0 said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
The only other rational possibility is that he was hired by a rival shop, to shift some of the customer base. In which case this was probably super effective. Made the press and all.
The answer is likely not a rational one. He's in a supermarket wiping spit on produce.
And got to a newspaper article because of it. Which has ramifications for the shop. ...I've seen people do weirder things for money.
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
No confirmed infection or symptoms, so motivation is unclear. ...Unless it turns out he has AIDS or something.
That can't be transmitted this way.
The only other rational possibility is that he was hired by a rival shop, to shift some of the customer base. In which case this was probably super effective. Made the press and all.
The only rational explanation is he's a dumbass jerk doing it for the idiot-fame or the kicks, and needs to get his ass dragged into juvy for some time.
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@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
No confirmed infection or symptoms, so motivation is unclear. ...Unless it turns out he has AIDS or something.
That can't be transmitted this way.
We know that. He might not.
The only other rational possibility is that he was hired by a rival shop, to shift some of the customer base. In which case this was probably super effective. Made the press and all.
The only rational explanation is he's a dumbass jerk doing it for the idiot-fame or the kicks, and needs to get his ass dragged into juvy for some time.
Although Occams Razor is a good general approach, I've found value in applying "Check the money and the women first" before it.
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Check the money and the women first
I don't want to imagine the chicks he's impressing with this stunt, but sadly there might be some.
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@JBert said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Or, in other words, Jeff usually hates Twats on soapboxes but now feels the need to make a statement.
He's getting the self-hate going? I can appreciate that.
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I'm going to change the sign so the pole is horizontal and the sign is mounted on the front like a plunger, so I can carry it around like a lance to gently push people back if they try to approach.(I still don't want to poison the Funny Comic thread)
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Newly wed couple goes on honeymoon... in jail:
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Interesting article of how we must be on guard that our medical workers don't get to suffer long bouts of mental health problems:
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@JBert this would have been a good Florida Man title.
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@JBert said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Or, in other words, Jeff usually hates Twats on soapboxes but now feels the need to make a statement.
Which is to say, he doesn't like competition.
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@Zerosquare Is there a study about the efficacy of ethanol against viruses when taken internally?