Here in Italy today it is close to 5% and I doubt there are many untested positives given the current psychosis.In hindsight we will probably learn the death rate was closer to 1%
This coming week is where things will get "real". There are likely thousands or tens of thousands already infected in the US. I'm pretty sure two of my employees have it. A town near us has just closed their schools by order of the CDC.
Two months ago I was trying to tell anyone who would listen about how serious this is and no one even blinked an eye. I feel like the guy wearing a sandwich board shouting "the end is near" and everyone is just walking by paying no attention.
Hyper-virulent and extremely deadly. It's time for the US to wake the f*&^ up and start taking this seriously.
Bay Area traffic this morning:
None of these highways are ever green at 9 am on a weekday. People reporting being able to get seats on BART all the way into the city. That's pretty incredible.
Sent my team home for the month starting last week but I'm kind of tempted to go into the office just to see what that kind of no traffic commute is like! I can't imagine 24 in the morning through Berkeley as anything other than bumper-to-bumper traffic.@iaresee Yep. It was kinda errie going into the office to pick up some test machines. The roads were pretty clear.
Here in Italy today it is close to 5% and I doubt there are many untested positives given the current psychosis.
Boston T inbound and outbound today were pretty empty. Not deserted, but way light. Foot traffic downtown too.Sent my team home for the month starting last week but I'm kind of tempted to go into the office just to see what that kind of no traffic commute is like! I can't imagine 24 in the morning through Berkeley as anything other than bumper-to-bumper traffic.
WFH seems like a symbolic gesture as long as my kids are in school. They're always the most likely vectors for viruses.There's one "presumptively confirmed" case in Arlington where I live. A parent with school age kids who was at that BioGen conference. That school is closed, at least today.
Yeah but the situation seems quite different here right now, pretty much everyone who has a common cold calls the authority to be tested for the fear of being infected.In Belgium, most of the actual cases are people coming back from holidays in Italy.
If the disease spreads slowly enough, there could be infected Belgian going on holidays in Italy (or elsewhere) for the next holidays in one month....
I could have been infected at work, and even if I’m mildly sick, I would not not be tested and free to go everywhere....
Yeah but the situation seems quite different here right now, pretty much everyone who has a common cold calls the authority to be tested for the fear of being infected.
Consider that almost 30000 tests have been made till now and "only" ~9200 are positives.
Btw, half an hour ago the government finally decided to extend the "red zone" to the whole country, I hope this works to stop the contagion.
PS: whatever the real mortality rate is, it is valid only until every person infected have the opportunity to be properly assisted in hospital. If most can't be assisted that rate might be much higher, that's why it is important to at least slow down the contagion.
There are only 4000 ICU beds across the whole country and we're more than 60 millions..
Bay Area traffic this morning:
None of these highways are ever green at 9 am on a weekday. People reporting being able to get seats on BART all the way into the city. That's pretty incredible.
The best...Belgium...
Lot of taxes but great beers
I've pulled my son out of school until this is over. Schools are literally virus incubators. Kids touch everything then put their fingers in their mouths then touch more stuff. Also pulled him out of Scouts and all the other extracurricular activities.WFH seems like a symbolic gesture as long as my kids are in school. They're always the most likely vectors for viruses.
This coming week is where things will get "real". There are likely thousands or tens of thousands already infected in the US. I'm pretty sure two of my employees have it. A town near us has just closed their schools by order of the CDC.
Two months ago I was trying to tell anyone who would listen about how serious this is and no one even blinked an eye. I feel like the guy wearing a sandwich board shouting "the end is near" and everyone is just walking by paying no attention.
Hyper-virulent and extremely deadly. It's time for the US to wake the f*&^ up and start taking this seriously.
I wish we could do that. We burned through all the unexcused absence time for the kids in December when we had our medical emergency. So everyone's out of random absence days and the school won't accept, "Children are fantastically unhygienic disease carriers" as an excusable absence reason. Extra curricular activities have been curbed for now. No parties. But as long as school is mandatory we're screwed. Not if, but when I figure...I've pulled my son out of school until this is over. Schools are literally virus incubators. Kids touch everything then put their fingers in their mouths then touch more stuff. Also pulled him out of Scouts and all the other extracurricular activities.
Cliff is going to be the last Fractal standing in this pandemic. As usual, he's way ahead of the curve.I've pulled my son out of school until this is over. Schools are literally virus incubators. Kids touch everything then put their fingers in their mouths then touch more stuff. Also pulled him out of Scouts and all the other extracurricular activities.