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texxgadgetThe job search continues on.
Tech has not crashed as much as Travel, Leisure, Dining, Entertainment, and Retail.
In the case of Retail, it just sped up what was already happening anyway.
Those people are going to be hurt for sure.
I dont think we are headed for a 2008 style crash.
I believe that instead, we are looking at 2 years of roller coasters, ralleys up, crashes down,
and multiple repeats.
This will be better because the ENTIRE economy wont be in the dumper.
Despite the depressing numbers, Ive been keeping sane by crunching those numbers.
I finally started plotting them.
More than a week ago, I noticed that Washington State was heading towards a plateau.
I cant paste one of the plots into here.
NY got bad increasin 5k 7k 8k 10k more cases each day.
Last 2 days only increasing by 8600 then 8200 and I havent added todays numbers yet.
Even NY is getting itself together.
Nobody is publishing active cases percent of state population.
I may have to plot that. This would be some much more useful numbers.
NYs curve takes off, with NJ also off on its own and recently MI has broken out of the pack and everyone
else it at the bottom of the chart.
The bundle of states below MI has CA, FL, LA, MA, & PA in it and they are all tightly bundles tracking each other.
The next bundle of states below has IN, TX, OH, GA, and a number more.
Then there is one more bundle at the very bottom with everyone else.
One bright light out of this whole thing is that I now know and can recite the territories of the US.
I was asking my father if he noticed that that the Whitehouse policies and rhetoric were screwing over
the Presidents supporters.
He showed me an article in the paper about how Whitehouse staffers have noticed this, but the President
doesnt care.
Aparently Fauci doing facepalms when the President says something stupid and correcting the President has
gotten him death threats from Trump supporters and thats why he now has a Secret Service detail.
I notice that the "Ventilators" Tesla donated to Los Angeles were really Bi-Pap machines.
Sadly, the hub of mask production was in Wuhan and the hub of nasal swab production in the world was near
Lombardi Italy, the first 2 major outbreaks.
File this under "single point of failure"
Because of our lack of testing, the published numbers are lower than reality, likely by a factor of 10x.
Everyong is excited that NY is finally flattening its curve.
That will lead to an easing of the lockdown and then another wave.
Znd then another lockdown and another wave, ed nauseum.
Bummed as I am about the cancellation of events,
I realize that the "faire folk" community is not a very healthy cohort.
Im actually hoping Dickens takes a hiatus this year.
It will be a bummer, but if it doesnt go on hiatus, the death toll would be a worse bummer.
Im not wild about the mask designs Im seeing on the net.
Most leak like a sieve and wont do squat.
There are some good pics of Coyotes walking down Market St in SF.
You wouldnt believe how clear the air is here at night.
Tech has not crashed as much as Travel, Leisure, Dining, Entertainment, and Retail.
In the case of Retail, it just sped up what was already happening anyway.
Those people are going to be hurt for sure.
I dont think we are headed for a 2008 style crash.
I believe that instead, we are looking at 2 years of roller coasters, ralleys up, crashes down,
and multiple repeats.
This will be better because the ENTIRE economy wont be in the dumper.
Despite the depressing numbers, Ive been keeping sane by crunching those numbers.
I finally started plotting them.
More than a week ago, I noticed that Washington State was heading towards a plateau.
I cant paste one of the plots into here.
NY got bad increasin 5k 7k 8k 10k more cases each day.
Last 2 days only increasing by 8600 then 8200 and I havent added todays numbers yet.
Even NY is getting itself together.
Nobody is publishing active cases percent of state population.
I may have to plot that. This would be some much more useful numbers.
NYs curve takes off, with NJ also off on its own and recently MI has broken out of the pack and everyone
else it at the bottom of the chart.
The bundle of states below MI has CA, FL, LA, MA, & PA in it and they are all tightly bundles tracking each other.
The next bundle of states below has IN, TX, OH, GA, and a number more.
Then there is one more bundle at the very bottom with everyone else.
One bright light out of this whole thing is that I now know and can recite the territories of the US.
I was asking my father if he noticed that that the Whitehouse policies and rhetoric were screwing over
the Presidents supporters.
He showed me an article in the paper about how Whitehouse staffers have noticed this, but the President
doesnt care.
Aparently Fauci doing facepalms when the President says something stupid and correcting the President has
gotten him death threats from Trump supporters and thats why he now has a Secret Service detail.
I notice that the "Ventilators" Tesla donated to Los Angeles were really Bi-Pap machines.
Sadly, the hub of mask production was in Wuhan and the hub of nasal swab production in the world was near
Lombardi Italy, the first 2 major outbreaks.
File this under "single point of failure"
Because of our lack of testing, the published numbers are lower than reality, likely by a factor of 10x.
Everyong is excited that NY is finally flattening its curve.
That will lead to an easing of the lockdown and then another wave.
Znd then another lockdown and another wave, ed nauseum.
Bummed as I am about the cancellation of events,
I realize that the "faire folk" community is not a very healthy cohort.
Im actually hoping Dickens takes a hiatus this year.
It will be a bummer, but if it doesnt go on hiatus, the death toll would be a worse bummer.
Im not wild about the mask designs Im seeing on the net.
Most leak like a sieve and wont do squat.
There are some good pics of Coyotes walking down Market St in SF.
You wouldnt believe how clear the air is here at night.
Masks
Date: 2020-04-10 06:40 (UTC)The cop are harder to make, but fit better, plus can take an extra filter. They need to be sized to faces though. They are similar in shape to N95
The pleated are directly analogous to surgical masks. While they can be made to take an extra filter, I don't.
All of the ones I make now are cotton with an inner layer of non-woven interfacing. The first ones I made didn't have that, and weren't satisfactory. I also put in an aluminum wire for the nose now.
None are "professional" masks. But they'll still filter 70% based on the two layers of cotton alone. Which is better than nothing.