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Unfortunately, in Italy, space for other hospital departments has had to be converted to extra space for acute COVID-19 cases. (And they're still overflowing, to the point of doing battlefield triage to determine which severe but potentially viable patients get the ventilators.) It would be very unfortunate for that to also happen here, but unfortunately, Seattle at least seems to be trending that way.
Most parents that have young children aren't in their 70s
I dont know about current boards but would warn you to be very careful with cheap boards from china.

A few years ago I bought a couple arduino compatible gsm boards and although they worked well and enabled me to to send data logs from remote devices via sms, after I finished using them, I was deluged with spam sms messages!

Im assuming that while the boards were sending me messages they must have also sent my receiving number to another place where my number was sold to spammers.
Here's the transcript from the press conference: https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/CmrNxLAP9wohLWA...

I searched for "Sunday" there, and they only mention they'll be able to provide details of when the testing website will be available by Sunday evening. They didn't say the website will go live Sunday.
My understanding of a lot of countries approaches is that they're not trying to minimise the total number of people that have or will be infected, but they're trying to minimise the maximum number of people infected at a time (to ensure that healthcare is still available to everybody that needs it). In these simulations, that would correspond to drawing some horizontal line across the chart and trying to keep the orange under there the whole time.

I'm not sure if the long-term outlook is "we're all going to get it" like the flu, or we're trying to stave as much of it off before a vaccine is widely available.
You:

> for the Bay area

Them (in the Tweet you linked to):

> ... with the hope of expanding more broadly over time.
Hey, there! I'm a product manager working on Jenkins X. We are at work right now on multi-cluster support, actually.

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Lasers were not banned and are more heavily used now than ever before. Only blinding lasers were banned by treaty, and even with those China is semi-openly defying the ban.
> You know what is MUCH more effective than an authoritarian response? An _earlier response_.

Absolutely. If this were Kerbal Space Program just about everybody would be able to tell you that the best moment to deflect an orbit is early on when you only need a little push for a giant effect later on. With exponential developments timing is everything.
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Well, smaller loser than they would have been if they'd allowed the virus to spread unchecked.
> Why should I/We have to?

Because law enforcement will tell you they have bigger things to deal with, so while nuisance makers are learning to shut tf up, people triggered by noise can learn to chill tf out.
"nostromo", can I ask you to just do something for me?

Open Excel. Or use a calculator and pen and paper.

Start with the known number of confirmed patients in <insert your country here>. Or just "100" to use nice round numbers. Whatever. It doesn't matter that much.

Write out some rows like this:

Date, Cases
2020-03-15, 100 -- today
2020-03-20, 200
2020-03-25, 400
2020-03-30, 800
...

Each row is 5 days apart, which is the typical slowest doubling time in days. The cases double each row. Use a calculator if you need to.

Work out when you'll be at 10,000 cases and 1 million cases. Please. Just do it.

Now, you might think that <your country> is magically immune, that it's not populated with humans that have lungs, or that the weather will magically make the virus behave differently when it crosses your borders.

If you believe that, look at these graphs: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/03/coronavirus-i...

None of those countries are magically immune.
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Here's updated tweets from Google Communications. Their effort is in addition to what Verily was already doing:
https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238989460127338497
Aldo if you expect the true positves to be a small percentage (which should still be the case in most countries), false positives will dominate in a ranom sampling. Apparently false positives are high for unsymptomatic cases. Of course if you can estimate the false positive rate well enough, the random sampling might still give useful statistics.
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if that is the case, it seems reasonable that it is indeed the majority. under your hypothesis the "majority that doesn't" isn't advising the government in the first place.
Wait, I hope you are joking because you are spreading misinformation. Japan and Korea were NEVER banned. China was and Italy was just a few days ago.

Japan: level 2 (exercise caution)
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...

Korea:level 3 (reconsider)
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
There aren’t any in theory, but there absolutely is a limit in practice. Beyond a certain point if you’re caught you will be arrested and surely convicted for reckless endangerment.

And how do you plan to get up to that speed? If you’re going to use something with motorised assistance, it will almost certainly be a device that the State will class as a road vehicle. Driving on the sidewalk is illegal.
It's unclear to me whether this applies to viruses, much less this particular virus.
Wow, fermatslibrary has gone further downhill. It's almost unusable now with all the engagement stuff.
Ask HN: What happened in Italy with Covid-19?
Italy now has the highest number of Covid-19 deaths after China. This is worse than Iran. So what happened here that is so bad compared to continental Europe. Or put it another way what didn’t happen in Italy and is happening else where and hence Italy situation is so bad?

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
I think these claims of "this is not acceptable in the West" are absurd and one of the causes of the current catastrophe.

All you need is to pass a law and enforce it with police and military, it's not hard.

Since there is a good reason for the law, there won't be widespread resistance, and in fact on balance citizen are likely to help enforcement rather than hinder it.
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More stuff like this in https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/31ac/b7abaf3a1962b27be9faa2...
The dumb but funny youtube channel How Ridiculous (https://www.youtube.com/user/whoisjimmy) is currently doing a series where they drop large items onto their "world's strongest trampoline" that they designed with Mark Rober. It's worth watching.
Unfortunately, this does not answer the question. In the case of overwhelmed hospitals, the ratio (deaths / serious cases) should be bounded from below by a constant close to 1.

The number of serious cases is the only useful datapoint, but this gives a very bad lower bound on the question, even if the age distribution is known. This data is similar to what Worldometer has, and that is just a mix of confused and misleading information.
Express.co.uk has a Yellowstone bot that assembles a shrill article presenting copypasta facts in a tone of gibbering terror, every few days. 'Load More' goes on forever because they've been doing it forever.

https://www.express.co.uk/latest/yellowstone-volcano
Here is what is happening: non-emergency surgeries are cancelled all over the place right now to make room for more ICU capacity, to free up personnel and to ensure that those that are post-op and have their immune systems working overtime already are not exposed to one more very nasty virus.

So right now the situation is already changing, and rapidly so. Looking two weeks ahead I'd say that the chances that any non-emergency surgeries will be cancelled are much higher than today.

New York is but one example of the same pattern that you see happening over and over again and with an exponential spread (the early stages of any pandemic) two weeks is a very long time.
I live in Dallas and two of my friends who work at hospitals both have multiple corona patients. It's everywhere, the official numbers are lying.
There's no "luckily". It's the exact behaviour that spread the virus all over Italy.

If you love your family and you have some sense of responsibility your duty is to stay where you are for a while. You can embrace your family in the near future.
The problem is the microphone is too good. I just bought my entire team headsets because I'm sick of the background noise from other rooms or in one case his next door neighbour coming over the macbook microphone. Also it stops people shouting which my experience is most people do when on speakerphone, despite the fact that they have never needed to.

It would be fine if your team is used to this and understands mute buttons and whatnot. Not fine when its an employee who doesn't mute and types at 100wpm on the same macbook.
Testing the entire population is not viable. If you don't have many in-country cases, you can delay the epidemics arrival by controlling just the people that come from elsewhere.

Of course, after the disease starts propagating internally, testing becomes irrelevant, and it's time to reduce its spreading speed.
I did miss that in my initial pass. But I'm also referring to how last March was warm too. https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/new-york/10007/march-weath...
I didn't see them say anything about "fleeing a lockdown." She was fleeing a potentially life-threatening virus in a scary situation in order to be with her family. That isn't so hard to grok, and obviously she felt she was making the right decision. Shaming someone for looking for security and safety in a scary situation (i.e. for being human) is just absurd.
The video recommends against fasts longer than two days during the pandemic, based on the rise in cortisol, which is associated with compromised immunity. Dr. Attia is clear that this recommendation is just on that general principle and not specific knowledge.
Newly mutated flu strains don't become pandemics because they aren't severe enough for people to care, they certainly proliferate.
Food for though: if you are asymptomatic and test positive, you self-isolate as to not spread the disease further. Same for when you are symptomatic but not showing symptoms yet.
Point is to change the behavior of the individual.
To counter the counter: solar/wind as an energy source for non-tethered transport (ie cars that require batteries) needs raw materials for the batteries. This will require mining of lithium and other minerals. This also has land use impacts.

There are serious challenges to recycling or repurposing lithium batteries:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1682-5

Granted there might be another battery breakthrough that could resolve this:

https://www.androidauthority.com/graphene-batteries-explaine...

At this stage, we should be exploring all options as some are likely not to pan out as expected.
Yeah, there would be rioting pretty much immediately if anyone tried that here, and I'm sure the same would happen elsewhere.

I'm personally a fan of controlled, opt-in infections to help speed up research for a vaccine along with moderate quarantine (cancel many public events, encourage self quarantine). It may not be as effective, but it's much less likely to end in riots.
We throw away several hundred million pre-born babies every year away due to economical impact, and people are ok with that, how is this any different?
My mistake. You are correct. They weren't travel bans but "don't go there" recommendations.

Regardless, they're still a response which refutes your original point.
People should stay where they are. Lockdown is not a disaster. People fleeing lockdown are literally the carriers of this disaster.

There will be test of this thesis in Poland soon. As government closed down universities, some of them told students that they have to vacate their dormitories and go back home (dormitories are usually occupied by students from countryside and smaller cities), and it caused massive migration. It is already confirmed that students in my city were infected for two weeks, but is not known yet how widespread it was. To make situation worse, some dormitories are now being turned into quarantine hotels, so students are told to come back and take their belongings with them (initially they were told they can leave their stuff behind).
Iceland. Population 300,000. Something to keep in mind.
Relying solely on the federal government for a response is a single point of failure. Regardless of who is in control of the FDA and CDC, neither agency should have had the ability to block testing. Not having a breakglass feature is downright stupid.
Like pretending it was an unknown disease that showed no sign of person-to-person spread when they'd already sequenced its entire RNA and found cases of it spreading within the community. Like having to be pressured into revealing what little details they did. Like, as I recall, only admitting that it was spreading person-to-person when another country spotted this. That kind of not sharing information.
Leaving aside the fact that here in the US tests are literally not happening on an epic scale that will be the subject of numerous investigations, hearings (, and prosecutions?) in the years to come. And forget that even if we had legit numbers, those numbers we can see are a tip of the iceberg, representing at most 20% of the actual more-serious cases.

Put that all aside.

Remember-- the numbers we see now are a look at the PAST. The infection incubates silently for a median 5 days. Then symptoms present. Then a week goes by with relatively mild illness. THEN shit gets real. THEN comes the hospital visit, the fight for a test, the time it takes for the test results to come back (if it happens). THEN the number gets added. Then you see it on wikipedia or the news.

These numbers we're seeing today are a time machine view backwards to recognize infections from 14 days ago. So infections spreading TODAY will show up AFTER the current Italy-like situation has already taken hold in the United States.

If it is possible, STAY HOME.
I absolutely love this, and cruising through it on mobile is a good experience. It reminds me of sacred-texts.org, but obviously more focused and with better navigation.
Nobody in the real world understands Alphabet - they just say Google.
I'm aware that is happening. It seems like you are jumping from the fact that some non-urgent surgeries are being cancelled in some wards to an inference that this person's potentially more urgent surgery will be cancelled in the particular ward that was going to perform it.

I don't think that's right. There is no need for you to speculate in any case when that person is just sharing their worries. There's no upside.
Are there any examples of countries isolating vulnerable people (elderly, obese, breathing problems, smokers)? It doesn't seem like that is actually viable at all.
This isn't an NIH-affiliated article, to be clear. It's from a Chinese set of authors on a Chinese journal. But, it's not, because the article is now nonexistent.

http://rs.yiigle.com/yufabiao/1183773.htm
Thanks for being devil's advocate.

I too think it's too risky, FWIW. I read a while ago there might be permanent damage as well, but maybe that was hocus.

Edit: Business Insider reported HK doctors found some people have 20-30% reduced lung capacity after recovery: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-recovery-damage-... (n=12)
Abstract (too general) nonsense. Just bullshit.

Lockdowns are just to decrease the rate of spreading (and avoid high concentration of virus particles) not to eliminate the virus, so everyone should prepare oneself to face it and get through. Just this.

Some small percentage of population in isolated regions have chances never meet the virus, but hiding is not the stable strategy. Getting through and become immune is. This is what UK government is saying. Let's face it.
Accurate information is critical at this juncture.

The news outlets should be holding the president's feet to the fire and demanding accountability.
And even that says:
Some American sources state that a second F-117A was damaged during the same campaign, allegedly on 30 April 1999;[61] the aircraft returned to base, but it supposedly never flew again.[62][63]

Point is with AA missile is that getting them "on target" is almost as effective as a hit. target has to deploy its counter measures and return home, else next time they are destroyed.
> the virus seems to be relatively inoffensive for young people

Not enough is known about the long term effects of this virus. There are reports that those who recover are experiencing reduced lung function [1].

[1] https://www.sciencealert.com/even-those-who-recover-from-cor...
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Huh. I knew about Aphrodite's epithet "laughter-loving".

It's interesting to see that Homer gives her two similar-seeming epithets (among others) -- φιλομμειδής philommedes "laughter-loving" (cf. μειδάω "smile") and φιλομμηδής philommedes "genital-loving" (cf. μῆδος "genitals").

They're both good fits for her divine duties. I wonder which came first.
Shaming somebody for potentially spreading a disease, on the other hand, is precisely the sort of thing that needs to happen in a situation like this. Epidemics don't give a tinker's damn for anyone's feelings.
You might check the actual article first, not just a database entry.
Actually we do know one number :the total number of people in ICU is normal for this time of year. There are a handful of confirmed cases (I'm not sure if they are in ICU), but the total number of cases is still low.

It is hindsight, but expontial grow means that despite not testing we didn't have a problem two months ago. Maybe we should have been in lock down a week ago, but anything sooner would be overreacting and not necessary. Most of the US is on lock down now which seems like about the right time to start. No more than a week sooner can be seriously argued.
As far as I know lab performed PCR tests are assumed to have 0% false positives and about 29% false negatives.
Antibodies tests have about 10% false-positive rate but to the best of my knowledge countries in Europe widely use PCR tests.
The only way I see the mocking change is when they see their close ones being infected. We haven't seen anything like this (at-least in our lifetime) where the entire world was in semi-lockdown.

Sure our president is really downplaying it, but how do you even fight something that makes some people sick, and not others. There could be 1000s of carriers of COVID-19 who don't even know it.
what's the source for italy being the oldest country? As of 2018 Germany was the oldest in the EU and their crude mortality ratio is among the lowest so far.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/median-age/
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The Italian strategy is simply to try to prevent running out of ICU beds or at least minimize the number of people that can't get IC in the short-term due to the current uncontrolled spread.

As far as I can tell, what to do long-term is still up to debate, and continuing the lockdown only for higher-risk/older people is certainly an option.

Note however that jumping straight to such a differentiated lockdown seems much less likely to work, because behavior changes are easier in a total lockdown with full media and discourse focusing on it, as well as much easier enforcement since you don't have to distinguish the high-risk people.
There are several articles about he CDC being silenced in various ways on early measures because they would hurt the economy.
Again, two weeks is a long time. All of the non-emergency surgeries in my own circle have been called off already and so far this region is - for now - doing ok. A little bit further South (35 miles) the hospitals are on 'Code Red', which means that there is no ICU capacity available, 'Code Black' is when they will start triaging, which is probably a few days away.

Because every operation has a chance of developing complications if there is no ICU capacity available the operations will be cancelled regardless of whether or not the operation itself is a risky one.

Also, this being a forum and the person making their statement in this forum I feel that I'm totally free to speculate. Forum participation invites speculation, and in this case my speculation is backed up by local experience. If that is not the kind of message you want to be passed on then fine but that's your opinion, which in this case you are more than welcome to spout as long as you realize that you have just as much right to do so as I do.

Oh, and in case you want a citation to go with this then maybe this will help you:

https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1238817274590629888
Except what was really implemented in Wuhan was really not just quarantine, but was also an extreme form of social distancing, where essentially the whole province of Wuhan was locked down.
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they all 'ruin' your life by showing you everything's wrong about daily realities.

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You know, last week when we were starting to WFH I thought of it as a blessing in disguise since I always liked staying indoors and often take a day or two to WFH per week to focus on docs etc.

However, once everyone is WFH the experience turned out to be less than ideal to say the least. I found that I worked more, worked more at overtime hours and have been more stressed out than usual.

I think it really had nothing to do with my habits and preparedness. I already had everything set up (multiple displays, standing desk etc which I've had for a long time) and had almost no productivity drop on my side. However, now all my colleagues are pinging me, the video meetings take longer to finish since people are talking over each other and now I'm asked to write much more documentation and communications for rather trivial matters instead of just talking to someone face to face for a couple of minutes. People (management) also have less respect for normal work hours.

In the end I think if your company doesn't have the preparedness and more importantly the systems ready for remote work, you won't be ready for full remote work either.

I just hope people will begin to adjust to the new normal better as time goes on.
Ask HN: Why so few virus cases in Russia?
Russia is reporting so few cases of coronavirus. Why? Are they not reporting? Not testing? Not admitting?
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Israel stopped intruding into Syrian airspace with the F-35 after the deployment of the S-300 air defense system, which suggests that the most modern aircraft are stacked against even last-gen air defense.

Prior to that they had no issue going deep into the country and taking out Pantsir S1 and other Soviet-era systems
Missing the point completely. Being in lockdown for an extended period requires preparation. Not everyone has the ability to stay where they currently are when the lockdown comes.. some are stuck in hotels or airbnbs for example. Saying you should lock yourself down where ever you happen to be before the lockdown is even enacted is dumb.