Good report Houston. You are our poster child, keep talking.
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Good report Houston. You are our poster child, keep talking.
If the thermometers have enough range, a two point calibration should be sufficient. 50 / 50 mix of ice and water is 0 oC, boiling water is 100 oC unless you are at altitude.
If the thermometers don't have enough range or you want a third point, boiling acetone is 56.5 oC but don't do this indoors or near an ignition source.
This is a great application for a real infrared camera instead of a single-point thermometer. I used to give demos to schoolkids and would end the class with a group picture. It's amazing how a fever stands out in a group of faces.
I know people are hurting financially. I know people want to get back to work. I know people are bored out of their minds and feeling trapped.
But why are they being selfish jerks?
My wife and I live in a large apartment building on a higher floor and can see (and hear when windows are open) cars on a major local road known as the Riverway. The traffic is 10x more this morning than it has been in a few weeks. We also can see 10x more people getting on and off the local T (aka subway).
We live down the street from a few major hospitals (many doctors and nurses live in our building) and can tell the difference between medical professionals going to work and people who should still be at home under the local stay-at-home-order. Most of these people are not "essential" workers who suddenly needed to go back to work today.
WTF people? Do you all want to die and make the rest of us sick? I am so tired of people, of all ages, not respecting the stay at home order, not respecting physical distancing, and generally not giving a damn. They are the reason more people are getting sick and dying.
Welcome to America, my friend. :(
Zamb isn't being political, I know political that's not it. Sympathetic sarcasm yeah fer sher.
Here is one for you (all). Maryland is under pretty strict lockdown. Getting to the point...my audiologist is not considered essential WTAMFF? One of my hearing aides has lost it's weather seal and shuts down randomly. My already faulty brain has become pretty comfortable with this "hearing" concept and I hate not having them on.
What's a brother to do?
My audiologist is a friend of a friend's best friend of the family so she takes care of me. If I get stopped by le flick (that's French slang for PoPo) she will say she is my medical provider.
Now ain't that a third world problem? Poor me. Roof over my head, too many bicycles, food in the fridge and a checking account.
Nut up folks, this is not going to be easy. Focus on the real.
It's not political. I am sure the people not following stay-at-home-orders/advisories are being 100% selfish.
Even the non-essential reporters on the Today show felt important enough that they are in the studio today. Since there really hasn't been any news besides COVID-19 related stories, is there a reason they could not all continue to report/broadcast from home? What example are they setting for most of America, that you can do whatever you want.
/rant over
Coronavirus tests: Why the US needs millions of tests per day - Vox
"By one estimate, America may need 35 million Covid-19 tests per day for people to return to work. We now know you can’t effectively fight the coronavirus pandemic without widespread testing to find out who has the disease. Developed countries that have managed to keep their case counts and deaths tolls low or bring them way down — including Iceland, Germany, and South Korea — have generally tested a greater proportion of their population than the United States.
It’s especially critical for finding those people who may be spreading the virus without showing symptoms. "
I definitely wasn't trying to be, just saying that individualism is a cultural problem. Will be doing some pushups today, anyway. Try to throw in some extras.
Also, Josh, I broke my own sarcasm rule. I learned in Greek sarx= flesh, sarkazein - to cut the flesh; --sarcasm. Every word comes from Greek atmo. I try not to do that.
How can you and your wife tell who should still be at home?
I was on the road (riding a bike btw) a couple miles away from those hospitals, and my observation was that this morning's commute up the Southwest Corridor -> Northeastern -> South End - > Chinatown felt an awful lot like last Tuesday's.
It felt like dawn on a Sunday in August, streets nearly empty of cars, but for a handful of runners and dogwalkers and one guy on a bike.
I know around here that some groceries close Monday for restocking so Tuesday is the day with the best selection for goods. Might be the reason for more traffic? Also rain yesterday like out of a bucket for hours so maybe extra dose of cabin fever in effect.
But admittedly these day to day fluctuations in human behavior are exactly what makes quarantines in democracies hard to make efficient.
I think about it like this. all of us have been inundated by messages telling us that we shouldn't litter ever since we were small children. for some generations it was a crying native american. other got Woodsy Owl (give a hoot. don't pollute) or Captain Planet and the Planeteers. It's even been made very easy not to litter. There are public trashcans on most city blocks, at the gas pump, outside pretty much any business with a parking lot, in every park, etc. but as everyone that rides road bikes knows, along every roadway in america there is trash. everywhere.
the sheer volume and variety of garbage is amazing too. I see a lot of beer cans which is doubly distressing since we've also all had "don't drink and drive" beaten into us. but I'll see plastic bags, sex toys, random shoes, used needles, and on and on.
it's the tragedy of the commons. a lot of people just straight up don't care. or despite knowing what the rules are they choose to ignore them to have their fun.
I see mostly good behavior but I live in a suburban environment, not in the city of Chicago. I just finished a 5 mile morning walk and didn't come within 15 feet of another person and then only a couple times in passing.
It is not clear why walks of this nature are anything other than benign. There is virtually no possibility that I can discern of me passing the virus to someone else in this circumstance or of me contracting it. Some human interaction will be unavoidable and we can't all stay home forever.
I'm still curious how people think this ends eventually, because it will eventually end. Just now sure how.
You know where I live so please do not disclose it publicly.
We are in a no-mans land near the hospitals and for the past 2 weeks it has been 1-2 people every 15-20 minutes getting off the T and heading on Longwood into the hospitals area whereas normally it is 50-75 people getting off the T doing the same thing before the pandemic. Today, it has been several people getting off - and on - each T which is an obvious increase. And most importantly, it is not at "shift change" times.
Nobody has been on the streets; lucky if we saw 1-2 people an hour. This morning it is several people every few minutes on foot.
Cars on Riverway (those not turning onto Longwood towards the Hospitals) were simply non-existent. Traffic is now backed up at the lights at the same intersection. This is the most obvious increase in traffic. This is traffic going east/west and not north/south in and out of the Longwood Hospital area so I am very doubtful these are essential workers who suddenly decided today that they need to be at work. Our windows look down on the T, point towards Wheelock (now BU) and the Synagogue, and span towards BI, Brigham and Women's, and other area hospitals so we have a direct view.
Simply, it is at least 10x more foot and car traffic than even this weekend when we assumed some people were traveling for Easter. Before that, a ghost town.
And you are coming up from the South by Northeastern (closed) and Chinatown (all closed) and as you stated a few miles away from this area.
Why would I make this up?
And we are not stalking people but rather sitting in our home office (aka dining room) so it is difficult to not see or hear the additional "traffic noise".
Most people in this area walk to groceries. It would take longer to get your car (or uber) and find parking rather than just walk.
I'm not saying you're making this up! It is a legit question. I didn't see any increase - compared to last week - on my route to my office (where I am an essential employee on Tuesdays & Thursdays. woo hoo.) which is another artery into town. Every place I've moved through is dead as it's been since mid-March.
So you're seeing something very different in Boston than I am, and the only thing I could hypothesize is that it's hospital employees. I can't make sense of it being anything else and yet being that localized...
I don’t think you are making it up.
We just went past the local Post Office and the parking lot was full with a line (albeit a 6 ft spaced line) out the door. Our supposition is that even though the deadline for filing taxes has been extended, people need their refunds so are filing now anyway.
But my prediction has been that regardless of government regulation, three weeks of restricted movements are about the max for most people and economic anxiety is going to be a strong propellant. We are there now, give or take based on which news channel you watch. And again, this is why mass quarantine restrictions in democracies are so difficult to make effective long term. Expect an uptick in infections in a couple of weeks.
Sorry, I am aggravated so I may have read tone into your earlier post. It really has been dead until today.
You know the Longwood/Riverway intersection I am referencing and there has literally been no traffic until today except for the few cars coming from the south and making a right on Longwood into the hospital area. My wife's school donated their parking lot to hospital employees so those who normally take the T could drive to work. We can see people walking down Longwood from Coolidge Corner or getting off the T or coming out of our building, and walking to the hospitals and that foot traffic has been constant, even today, and you really notice it due to schedules and shift change. I am talking about the large increase today in car traffic coming to/from Jamaica Pond area and to/from Fenway area on the Riverway/Jamaica Way corridor passing by the tun off into the hospital area so they are not essential hospital employees. And if they were essential employees, why have they not been going to work the past 3 weeks. This is a significant change.
Exactly. People are putting their lives, and the lives of others, in their hands which is wrong IMHO. And that is why I am aggravated.
And since Boston still has retail locations closed and this is not essential hospital workers, this can probably only be people bored and going for a drive (but doubtful since this is not necessarily a scenic route) or office workers coming from the suburbs and headed downtown (and to other areas) so they can go to work.
My Today Show example is telling. For the past 2 weeks two of three anchors have been broadcasting from home yet today all three found it necessary to be in the studio which requires more support staff and they are not physically distancing themselves. One comes from CT and the other Upstate NY (according to the earlier headline but it is probably Westchester County) so why did they need to be in the studio as of today when they have been home for the past two weeks? The news has still been broadcast and they have all been involved.
At least Al Roker has had the good sense to stay home and he lives in Manhattan not that far from the studio!
At this point, it seems like everyone with resources should have a mask.
The people who are pissing me off are the people who are not wearing masks. Especially the young couple having a loud video chat with a friend while walking down Centre St Sunday afternoon, or the young couple walking their dog towards the Public Garden this morning.
Hey, I don't like looking like some paranoid loser in my bike helmet, facemask and nylon jacket over knickers (even though my luxurious Zank gives me so much street cred...) but I am doing what is necessary to protect myself and everyone else I encounter.
Get over yourselves and comply for all of us!
David's and Fixie,
You will both enjoy Japan's virus fighting population.
A picture in front of the train station last Friday
https://i.imgur.com/LSG1V81.jpg
A picture on Monday after the government requested a 80% reduction in commuting.
https://i.imgur.com/LSG1V81.jpg
Obviously, tongue in cheek. But on NHK nightly news, this is essentially how it looked when they were reporting.
I am sure Chik can back me on this.