OT: Coronavirus
Wow....
I’ve flown in and out of Denver Airport roughly 50 times. I’ve never seen it empty like this.
Yeah, DIA is never that empty. My goodness, this thing has really gotten ahold of people. But I suspect that it's going to make a far bigger dent in the global economy than the global population.
What changes have you made? Personally, I have tickets to fly to San Francisco with my kids to see my brother in a couple of weeks. And, so far anyway, I plan to go. But I have to say I'm a little nervous about it, especially with my kids. Not as much about the virus as how people are panicking about it. A flight yesterday was rerouted to Denver because someone, um...sneezed. And I am narrowing in on some ridiculously priced tickets to Cancun in May. Am I crazy?
“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't." - Tom Waits
Fascinating (and hopeful) story on 60 Minutes Sunday evening...
The computer algorithm that was among the first to detect the coronavirus outbreakOn New Year's Eve, a small company in Canada was among the first to raise the alarm about an infectious disease outbreak. Its computer algorithm calculated where the virus might spread next. The technology could change the way we fight another contagion.When you're fighting a pandemic, almost nothing matters more than speed. A little-known band of doctors and hi-tech wizards say they were able to find the vital speed needed to attack the coronavirus: the computing power of artificial intelligence.
They call their new weapon "outbreak science." It could change the way we fight another contagion.
Already it has led to calls for an overhaul of how the federal government does things. But first, we'll take you inside BlueDot, a small Canadian company with an algorithm that scours the world for outbreaks of infectious disease. It's a digital early warning system, and it was among the first to raise alarms about this lethal outbreak.
It was New Year's Eve when BlueDot's computer spat out an alert: a Chinese business paper had just reported 27 cases of a mysterious flu-like disease in Wuhan, a city of 11 million. The signs were ominous. Seven people were already in hospitals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-outbreak-computer-algorithm-artificial-intelligence/
@"purplefaithful" said: Fascinating (and hopeful) story on 60 Minutes Sunday evening... The computer algorithm that was among the first to detect the coronavirus outbreakOn New Year's Eve, a small company in Canada was among the first to raise the alarm about an infectious disease outbreak. Its computer algorithm calculated where the virus might spread next. The technology could change the way we fight another contagion.When you're fighting a pandemic, almost nothing matters more than speed. A little-known band of doctors and hi-tech wizards say they were able to find the vital speed needed to attack the coronavirus: the computing power of artificial intelligence. They call their new weapon "outbreak science." It could change the way we fight another contagion. Already it has led to calls for an overhaul of how the federal government does things. But first, we'll take you inside BlueDot, a small Canadian company with an algorithm that scours the world for outbreaks of infectious disease. It's a digital early warning system, and it was among the first to raise alarms about this lethal outbreak. It was New Year's Eve when BlueDot's computer spat out an alert: a Chinese business paper had just reported 27 cases of a mysterious flu-like disease in Wuhan, a city of 11 million. The signs were ominous. Seven people were already in hospitals.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-outbreak-computer-algorithm-artificial-intelligence/
Gavin Newsom: It's just incumbent upon us to have a national lens. And to recognize we're
many parts but one body. And if one part suffers, we all suffer.
Bill Whitaker: From this experience, do you think the Federal Government needs to overhaul the way it tackles pandemics?
Gavin Newsom: I don't know that there's a human being out there, maybe one or two, that would suggest otherwise. No, the absolute answer is, of course, unequivocally.
Dylan George: We need to have professionals that their day job is dedicated to helping us understand how infectious diseases will-- will risk our well being economically and from a national security perspective.
Bill Whitaker: That idea has been kicking around for a while. It's never gotten the funding. Do you think things will be different this time?
Dylan George: When we see that there is $2 trillion being spent on stimulus bills to help us get out of this, to make sure that we can rebound, we need to think transformatively. We need to think broadly about how we can move these things forward. This kind of a center would help us do that.
Exactly. It's the same with foreign aid. Colin Powell was one of the first to recognize that the money you spend in aiding impoverished nations is a tiny fraction of what it will cost in the future when those nations become breeding grounds for terror.
Gavin Newsome really embraced this technology and the insights from it are driving CA's strategy and tactic. And lets keep in mind that LA, SF and NY are major destinations for those from the land of China Virus.
Major applause to him for being so forward thinking and open-minded...This is the kind of information he embraced to truly lead the shut-down show in America in our most populous state.
This is so much more than picking-up on news stories around the globe. Its truly transformative and leverages all that rich data - and makes it more insightful connecting all those dots..
@"purplefaithful" said: Why is that $$ going to such large entities as The Lakers????I'd answer that but then I'd get in trouble for "getting political" because it was 1 party that forced a provision into the bill that let the big corporations get "small business" money.I realize everyone is burning through cash (i.e. Ford $165mm a day!) but that is for small biz :(
Surprise...
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1254828461153271810
@"RS Express" said:@"purplefaithful" said: Why is that $$ going to such large entities as The Lakers????I realize everyone is burning through cash (i.e. Ford $165mm a day!) but that is for small biz :(
I'd answer that but then I'd get in trouble for "getting political" because it was 1 party that forced a provision into the bill that let the big corporations get "small business" money.
you werent going to but then you did... WTF? :s
@"JimmyinSD" said:@"RS Express" said:@"purplefaithful" said: Why is that $$ going to such large entities as The Lakers????I realize everyone is burning through cash (i.e. Ford $165mm a day!) but that is for small biz :(
I'd answer that but then I'd get in trouble for "getting political" because it was 1 party that forced a provision into the bill that let the big corporations get "small business" money.
you werent going to but then you did... WTF? :s
That was a pretty benign comment from RS, Jimmy. The pandemic and our response to it is wrapped up in politics. You can't separate the two.
Collateral damage from COVID/19 :/
⚠️A top ER doctor at a major #NYC hospital—Dr. Lorna Breen who treated #COVID19 & had it herself—died by suicide.
— Dena Grayson, MD, PhD drdenagrayson.bsky.social (@DrDenaGrayson) April 27, 2020
Her father said she‘d described devastating scenes of the toll #coronavirus took on patients.
“She tried to do her job, and it killed her.”😰https://t.co/4yKWVpTtXx
@"MaroonBells" said:@"JimmyinSD" said:@"RS Express" said:@"purplefaithful" said: Why is that $$ going to such large entities as The Lakers????I realize everyone is burning through cash (i.e. Ford $165mm a day!) but that is for small biz :(
I'd answer that but then I'd get in trouble for "getting political" because it was 1 party that forced a provision into the bill that let the big corporations get "small business" money.
you werent going to but then you did... WTF? :s
That was a pretty benign comment from RS, Jimmy. The pandemic and our response to it is wrapped up in politics. You can't separate the two.
well if it cant help but go political then we move the thread, because I guarantee you that somebody will want to respond and its off the rails from there. He knew his comments were not acceptable prior to making them or he wouldnt have prefaced them as he did. if we want this thread to be informative about the virus then we need to keep it as such.
@"purplefaithful" said: Not to get all negative, but does anyone really believe they're going to have 70k crammed into stadiums by Sept?I say NFW without a therapeutic or vaccine...
I ll be there in september.
@"kmillard" said:@"purplefaithful" said: Not to get all negative, but does anyone really believe they're going to have 70k crammed into stadiums by Sept?I say NFW without a therapeutic or vaccine...
I ll be there in september.
i seriously have my doubts they will be playing in front of fans.
@"JimmyinSD" said:@"kmillard" said:@"purplefaithful" said: Not to get all negative, but does anyone really believe they're going to have 70k crammed into stadiums by Sept?I say NFW without a therapeutic or vaccine...
I ll be there in september.
i seriously have my doubts they will be playing in front of fans.
I hope Millard is right...I read somewhere the only way they could make it work is if the players were sequestered away for the season in a hotel or complex, tested weekly and no fans in the stands.
In that case, the Wilfs can return my season tix $ I've paid for 2020 and ask for it again in 2021.
We'll see how/if things change between April and Sept...I really dislike our new abnormal (sighs).
@"Ralphie" said:
You don't have to have a good time to have alcohol.
U.S. Surpasses 1 Million Coronavirus Cases
U.S. deaths from the respiratory virus passed 57,000 on Tuesday, equal to the upper end of estimated flu deaths for the 2019-2020 flu season, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The true death rate of COVID-19 is still unclear because of a lack of widespread testing, but current numbers suggest a rate much higher than the flu, which infects between 9 million and 45 million people in the U.S. each year, the CDC estimates.
The U.S. has far more COVID-19 cases than any other country. Spain, which has around 50 million people compared with some 332 million in the U.S., has 232,128 cases. Italy, which has a population of around 62 million people, has 201,505 cases. China, where the outbreak began, is reporting fewer than 84,000 cases. Those numbers are as of Tuesday afternoon.
Now, more rural states are the latest to feel the effects of the pandemic, as they watch infection curves rise.
Cases are on the rise in Iowa, where the coronavirus broke out in one of the country's major pork packing plants. Despite a sharp rise in cases, the governor has begun to ease restrictions in some parts of the state.
Other states such as Georgia, Tennessee and Texas have also started to lift restrictions, even as cases in those states climb.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/28/846741935/u-s-surpasses-1-million-coronavirus-cases
1 million now, so to be a million more.
Defense Production Act will ensure this gets worse, get back to the slaughterhouse trump says.
amazing how badly this admin can fuck up the easiest of government powers
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