Comments on: COVID-19: Don’t Just Flatten The Curve, but also, do this…. https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/03/26/covid-19-dont-just-flatten-the-curve-but-also-do-this/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 02:59:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/03/26/covid-19-dont-just-flatten-the-curve-but-also-do-this/#comment-869900 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 02:59:58 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32797#comment-869900 The widespread shortages of PPE are not abating, and it looks like they won’t abate soon. With more and more places mandating those who go out cover their faces, knowing how to make your own masks is a Good Thing.

It is not difficult to cobble something together. I’ve been using paper towels the few times I’ve gone out. I was surprised to learn today that paper towels are among the best materials for filtering droplets that could carry the virus.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/best-coronavirus-face-mask-materials-new-study_l_5e99b576c5b6a92100e63129?fbclid=IwAR1u-ty_-MdMs9LIN2mtzLbjbpUej9Rjmf8IWfnONEdQNH6wo51SFEYCRT4

Note that such masks are scant protection against someone infecting you, and are no substitute for keeping that 6-foot distance. But they can prevent you from infecting someone else.

If you need instructions on how to make a mask, go to YouTube; it abounds with them.

]]> By: Joseph M. https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/03/26/covid-19-dont-just-flatten-the-curve-but-also-do-this/#comment-862787 Sun, 05 Apr 2020 09:11:35 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32797#comment-862787 In reply to Lionel A.

A CALL TO HONESTY IN PANDEMIC MODELLING
Maria Chikina and Wesley Pegden
https://medium.com/@wpegden/a-call-to-honesty-in-pandemic-modeling-5c156686a64b

Wesley Pegden
https://math.cmu.edu/~wes/index.html

Maria Chikina
http://chikinalab.org/index.html

]]> By: Foresight: the good, the bad, the ugly | Rturpin's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/03/26/covid-19-dont-just-flatten-the-curve-but-also-do-this/#comment-858477 Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:21:27 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32797#comment-858477 […] What we’re doing now may more delay the tsunami than flatten it. Greg Laden explains why even that is important. Some of the right seem to think if we had just ignored this, business would proceed […]

]]> By: Lionel A https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/03/26/covid-19-dont-just-flatten-the-curve-but-also-do-this/#comment-858040 Sat, 28 Mar 2020 20:02:47 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32797#comment-858040 In reply to RickA.

I am hoping for good results!

Here is one such:

Brain isolation and lockdown

]]> By: Lionel A https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/03/26/covid-19-dont-just-flatten-the-curve-but-also-do-this/#comment-858022 Sat, 28 Mar 2020 15:49:09 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32797#comment-858022 I wonder how many of the bozos that have hindered efforts to contain and control the spread of Covid-19 realise that this is just another round of virus infection of the genome the like of which have been going on since near enough the dawn of life. It is evolution in action.

As is known the human genome is full of what was once glibly called junk DNA (although retroviruses are in fact of RNA not DNA and junk DNA—could be transcribed as non coding RNA) which provide clues about past infections and also heredity, genealogy. That being a simplistic version.

I wonder what, say Betsy Devos would say about that idea if put to her?

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/03/26/covid-19-dont-just-flatten-the-curve-but-also-do-this/#comment-857932 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:30:08 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32797#comment-857932 In reply to RickA.

You’re missed the same way the skin cancer I had taken off my ear is missed: glad it was gone and hoping it wouldn’t return.

]]> By: RickA https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/03/26/covid-19-dont-just-flatten-the-curve-but-also-do-this/#comment-857925 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:01:19 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32797#comment-857925 It is nice to be missed!

I am waiting for the results of the trial in New York, which started on Tuesday.

I am hoping for good results!

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/03/26/covid-19-dont-just-flatten-the-curve-but-also-do-this/#comment-857902 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 18:05:54 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32797#comment-857902 In reply to Lionel A.

” Is the crassness of his support for the Donald beginning to sink in?”

No, I’m sure he’s trying to figure out a way to say “Get back to work and if the poor people die well, they weren’t important anyway” the trump and other right wingers say it – but he’ll end it by stating “It’s just my opinion.”

]]> By: Lionel A https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/03/26/covid-19-dont-just-flatten-the-curve-but-also-do-this/#comment-857898 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:53:45 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32797#comment-857898 Flattening the curve in the US will be difficult considering Trumps attitude, avoidance of facts, and voicing of stupid hunches.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/27/trump-narcissism-american-blood-coronavirus

I note that absence of a certain RickA in these threads. Is the crassness of his support for the Donald beginning to sink in?

]]> By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/03/26/covid-19-dont-just-flatten-the-curve-but-also-do-this/#comment-857838 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 04:06:05 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32797#comment-857838 USA Today has graphs of state-by-state growth.

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/03/18/u-s-coronavirus-growth-rates-show-many-states-could-close-behind-new-york/5072663002/

And Wikipedia has compiled some useful statistics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_States#Statistics

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