If it was the right kind of flu, hopefully it did.

Edit: (Apparently there's 4 corinaviruses that commonly infect humans).

Unfortunately, Influenza is not a Coronavirus. Different colors (because that's how it works)


SI

Even viruses are racist now.

Well, actually...

SI

16 days. My wife finally got the results of her COVID test after sixteen days.

Negative, btw.

I was reading an article about 3 weeks ago talking about Sweden and how no one was mentioning them. The point of the article was things were not good for a bit, but things plateaued and were tailing off and things were not nearly as bad as people were predicting when Sweden first came out with their approach to the virus.

Because Swedes kind of took it upon themselves to social distance and wear masks?

Here in the Netherlands, things looked nearly over, but we're rapidly growing to the to be expected second wave. Apparently previous "plan" (expectations with a 'normal' flu wave) was to have that start mid-October and be prepared for a peak in December, but at this pace the second wave will start early September.

Ugh. Just found out my 85 year old mother has been exposed to COVID through her physical therapist. We're waiting on test results and so far there are no symptoms. Say a prayer if that's something you do.

It's dropped off in most of Europe, not just Sweden.

Deaths yesterday:

UK 20
Spain 0
Italy 10
France 17
Germany 8
Sweden 0
Netherlands 2

Even Canada only had 15.

United States 1,386

What's odd is that I read something weeks ago about Sweden where the architect of their plan was openly questioning whether they did it right.

Man. Glad the wife is ok, but tough blow to hear about your mom right after.

oof, thinking good thoughts

"Sweden has about 8200 confirmed cases per million people as of 12 August, compared with 1780 in Norway and 2560 in Denmark. (For the UK it is 4600 and the US 15,400.)

Sweden has had 57 deaths per 100,000, compared with five in Norway and 11 in Denmark. (For the UK it is 70 and the US 50.)"

From: http://www.newscientist.com/article/...success-story/

I wouldn't say that things went well for Sweden.

It appears the failure in Sweden of dealing with care homes drove most of their deaths. That appears to be the case here early on, as well.

The reason FL/AZ/CA/TX don't have the number of deaths that NY and other NE states had despite the increased number of cases was knowing how to handle care homes and the knowledge/advances gained in the several months since NY was at its worst.

Bigoted :)

Great pics. Are those "real" colors or did they photoshop to bring out the differences?

For a nation that did nothing to prevent the spread, they did well. They came out ahead of the UK and several other EU nations, and are within spitting distance of the US as we muddle through. That is pretty dang good for a nation that did nothing.

They didn't quite "do nothing". They just weren't as extreme as some other countries. For example they shut down colleges but not grade schools.

I'm assuming those are enhanced images. Stuff that small always is (just like telescopes too). From what I understand - and real scientists, please correct the stupid parts here - when you look into SEM microscopes like that, it's computer generated - you're looking at the reaction of electrons bombarded off of the objects - you're not actually seeing what something actually /looks/ like. And then they add color because color sells.

SI

They had almost the same economic dropoff as the countries around them, and had way more deaths. You think that's doing well?

As if 2020 wasn't bad enough already:

Dr Pepper is the latest pandemic shortage

I remember when Diet Dr. Pepper was the only drinkable diet soda (e.g yuck TAB). Haven't had one in a while.

It's interesting to see people's reaction to the aluminum shortage. Most are fine with it. The small minority that aren't fine with it though, are really not fine with it, if you catch my drift.

Say what?!

Well, I'm sure Coca-Cola will have their access interrupted last, right? RIGHT?

This has been an issue for several months here, for Coke. The odd thing is, at least around here, it only seems to affect Coke Zero products, Fresca, etc. We can barely get Coke Zero cans and we haven't seen Zero Cherry, Orange Vanilla or Cherry Vanilla (or Fresca) for at least 3 months. I don't know why regular Coke is still plentiful if it's just an aluminum shortage.

Haven't run into Dr. Pepper shortages except for diet Cream Soda. Yet.

Hmm, just did a Kroger pickup today and no issue with Coke Zero (2 12 packs). Granted, I live inside the perimeter in the Atlanta metro.

Starting back in June I have been doing surveys of all Lexington-area stores - Kroger, Meijer, WalMart and Target. Nothing. Plain Coke Zero appears to be rationed - if I get to our local Kroger at the right time, they'll have maybe 8-10 12 packs out, and when those are gone it's a few days before another stash shows up. The other flavors have been MIA for months. And Fresca has disappeared. Most shelves at all of those stores just have regular Coke/Pepsi taking up all of the space where the other flavors should be.

Can't Mitch just get on the phone with Rusal to get things on track?

I don't know. Is he or Trump a Coke drinker? I would assume Trump only drinks the regular stuff, so that would explain why it's always in stock, I guess. I'm sure wearing a mask and drinking Coke Zero makes me less manly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-that-healthy/

Pansy

confirmed addict here (DDP) and it's been harder to come by of late...imma be okay, imma be okay... tryna get by on my Xevia but come on

I picked a good time for my next attempt to get back off sodas I guess(a month so far, was off of them for ~7 years then had 1 during my last move for the sugar & caffeine boost and I've been fucked ever since).

I am still on a 1-2 Diet Mt Dew per day kick at home. Once I go back to work it'll be Diet Coke in the same quantities. But I'll never get off the stuff. It's my only source of caffeine.

I noticed months ago that the DG near us had almost no soda variety. I have only seen Mt Dew Zero like once in the past several months at wal mart. You can’t find regular diet dew too often either.

Saliva-based coronavirus test funded by NBA, NBPA gets emergency authorization from FDA

These guys should really just stick to sports...

Been about 3 weeks since I've been to Kroger. Tonight they had a sign that said masks were required. The intercom repeated that periodically.

Right thing to do. So simple for a grocery store. What took them so long.

They say it here too, but they don't enforce it at all.

Our school district. The video is actually not half-bad. Kudos to them for doing something fun and yet a public service.

Forsyth County School turns ‘Ice, Ice Baby’ into COVID-19 song

Now we have this to worry about:

Pepperoni shortage 2020: The new COVID-19 shortage item is meaty

Happy First Day Of School, North Carolina!

Canvas is down in DeKalb County, GA. Maybe it's a nation wide outage, which, good job, Canvas

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In fairness, how could they anticipate heavy usage this month? :rolleyes:

The first couple weeks of virtual for us in March we had similar issues with whatever the platform was. Wold work fine until 11:30 then all the west coast schools came online and it would crash every day.

I wanted to use Big Blue Button last Spring as it is integrated into our learning management system, but in all the times I tried, I could never access it without crashing. So now I know how to use Zoom.

Our Dekalb day 1 was pretty much a disaster. My son is in 2nd grade with one of the better teachers in the school, but is old and had no idea how to work anything. She was logged in 3x, couldn't share her screen, and told the kids about halfway through that this was her worst nightmare.

My daughter in 6th grade say 2 teachers argued for half their session on the volume. Happy times.

Thank for being a beta tester. Our kids start next week on Canvas.

I thank them as well though next week is mostly about COVID-19 safety/work the bugs out for us.

UNC-Chapel Hill pivots to remote teaching after coronavirus spreads among students during first week of class
By Nick Anderson

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...1c4_story.html


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