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    SB, if you take I-88 through Illinois you can easily visit the house in Downer's Grove.

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      Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post
      It is no surprise. And we were already going through a number of banned states. We will be transiting NY and CT but that’s probably permitted under quarantine rules. And, I think, how we behave in MA might not be far from quarantine rules. (Although in MA there is no quarantine yet)
      You can stay here for a night if you’d like. I think it might be on the way.

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        The refusal of millions of Americans to wear masks is the lethal result of decades of selling folks on freedom without responsibility.

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          I got to witness a mask tantrum last week. Mrs. Inca and I went to a state park in Orange County for our anniversary. There's a shuttle bus that takes people from the parking lot down to the beach, saving about a 10-minute walk and crossing PCH. We decided to walk there and back, not wanting to be in a bus with a bunch of other people. When we were walking back to the parking lot, we came upon a woman with her two kids screaming at the shuttle driver that she can't be forced to wear a mask (anyone riding the bus was required to wear a mask). She tried using the fake excuse that she has a disability and her doctor says she can't wear a mask, and that no one can be asked her to prove this under the ADA. The driver refused to let her on. I decided against recording it on my phone. Thankfully other people around her were supporting the driver and told her that no one was making her ride the bus, and she could walk if she didn't want to wear a mask.

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            These tantrums have the potential to be absolutely textbook superspreader events.

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              Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post

              You can stay here for a night if you’d like. I think it might be on the way.
              A kind offer. You won't be far from our route, either. But we're going to have gone through locations that are pretty ropey (Imperial county, CA; AZ; TX; AR; possibly TN) so I don't think I would want anyone to stay around us for any extended period. A hotel gives us the opportunity to not impose ourselves on others - and the room is getting paid for as part of the moving costs.

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                Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post

                A kind offer. You won't be far from our route, either. But we're going to have gone through locations that are pretty ropey (Imperial county, CA; AZ; TX; AR; possibly TN) so I don't think I would want anyone to stay around us for any extended period. A hotel gives us the opportunity to not impose ourselves on others - and the room is getting paid for as part of the moving costs.
                Ok. Thanks for that consideration!

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                  Originally posted by Incandenza View Post

                  I got to witness a mask tantrum last week. Mrs. Inca and I went to a state park in Orange County for our anniversary. There's a shuttle bus that takes people from the parking lot down to the beach, saving about a 10-minute walk and crossing PCH. We decided to walk there and back, not wanting to be in a bus with a bunch of other people. When we were walking back to the parking lot, we came upon a woman with her two kids screaming at the shuttle driver that she can't be forced to wear a mask (anyone riding the bus was required to wear a mask). She tried using the fake excuse that she has a disability and her doctor says she can't wear a mask, and that no one can be asked her to prove this under the ADA. The driver refused to let her on. I decided against recording it on my phone. Thankfully other people around her were supporting the driver and told her that no one was making her ride the bus, and she could walk if she didn't want to wear a mask.
                  What is it about Orange County?

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                    An update on that missing pillar 2 data for English cases, if anyone is interested: it turns out there's one document published by PHE which uses the full pillar 1 + pillar 2 dataset, and that's the weekly surveillance report. Until last week, the data used to collate that report wasn't made available, but the latest report published last Thursday actually comes with a data spreadsheet so you can see the actual infection rate at local authority level.

                    Here are the areas with the highest rates of infection for the week finishing 20 June, if anyone wants to place bets on the next local lockdown (a new report covering last week is due tomorrow):

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                      Originally posted by Fussbudget View Post
                      An update on that missing pillar 2 data for English cases, if anyone is interested: it turns out there's one document published by PHE which uses the full pillar 1 + pillar 2 dataset, and that's the weekly surveillance report. Until last week, the data used to collate that report wasn't made available, but the latest report published last Thursday actually comes with a data spreadsheet so you can see the actual infection rate at local authority level.

                      Here are the areas with the highest rates of infection for the week finishing 20 June, if anyone wants to place bets on the next local lockdown (a new report covering last week is due tomorrow):

                      Bedford: what dodgy sweatshop industries are there?

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                        I know literally nothing about Bedford but it does seem out of place in that list, doesn't it.

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                          In purely geographical terms, even Leicester is an outlier, given that theirs is the only other one in a non-rose county

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                            Originally posted by Fussbudget View Post
                            I know literally nothing about Bedford but it does seem out of place in that list, doesn't it.

                            I think that Bedford has a sizeable South Asian population, which seems to be a common factor amongst the majority of the UTLAs listed.

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                              Originally posted by S. aureus View Post
                              Originally posted by S. aureus View Post
                              California reported over 4,000 new cases yesterday (June 17th) for the first time (per Worldometer).
                              It was under 1,000/day back in March when lockdown started and has been rising ever since.
                              26 Mar first day over 1,000 cases; 20 Apr first over 2,000; 30 May first over 3,000.
                              Mostly driven by LA.

                              Yesterday morning I posted that California had passed 5,000 in a day (June 22nd), and yesterday (June 23rd) we passed 6,000.
                              And yesterday (June 30th) California passed 7,000 in a day.

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                                Seven day average of new reported cases per 100,000 residents.

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                                  The USA has officially reached 130,000+ deaths. For reference, this is roughly the same population as Stamford, Connecticut. Or for a UK comparison, it's a little larger than the population of Solihull. It's also a bigger number than the population of Micronesia.

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                                    6 deaths reported in Wales today.

                                    I see some figures that aren't publicised (as far as I know) and there aren't many people in intensive care. A lot of the ones who are there, though, have been there for over 14 days. The grim reality is that the longer you are in intensive care the less likely you are to make it out alive.

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                                      Texas:
                                      https://twitter.com/KaceyonFox7/status/1277998632701235201

                                      "Bar Lives Matter"!

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                                        Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
                                        Seven day average of new reported cases per 100,000 residents.

                                        I have a friend who just came back from a bikepacking trip, a lot of it in Wyoming. He's suggesting that Wyoming is going to be very rapidly following Idaho's numbers. People are acting as if there is no disease.

                                        Idaho seems like a bit of an outlier, mind you. Most of the states with out of control rises right now are places that (a) weren't hit badly initially so people are still socialising; and (b) are basically unliveable without air-conditioning at this time of year meaning that people are doing their socialising indoors. Generally, Idaho's not so brutally vile and hot that you can't sit outside with your beer and burger, unlike Texas or Arizona in June.

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                                          https://twitter.com/sleeful/status/1278369720077606915?s=20

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                                            3 deaths in Ireland, but cases down to six today.

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                                              Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post



                                              Idaho seems like a bit of an outlier, mind you. Most of the states with out of control rises right now are places that (a) weren't hit badly initially so people are still socialising; and (b) are basically unliveable without air-conditioning at this time of year meaning that people are doing their socialising indoors. Generally, Idaho's not so brutally vile and hot that you can't sit outside with your beer and burger, unlike Texas or Arizona in June.
                                              How hot is it those states right now? It's been 34 C (93 F) today here but people still far prefer to sit outside. Mind you, practically everyone is wearing a mask.

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                                                  It's supposed to be around 110 F in Phoenix this weekend. That's not atypical, although I suppose there may be more 105+ days than there used to be.
                                                  https://kjzz.org/content/687576/qaz-...getting-hotter




                                                  This is in JAMA today, a study of excess deaths by some people at VCU and Yale. Sobering.


                                                  Between March 1, 2020, and April 25, 2020, a total of 505 059 deaths were reported in the US; 87 001 (95% CI, 86 578-87 423) were excess deaths, of which 56 246 (65%) were attributed to COVID-19. In 14 states, more than 50% of excess deaths were attributed to underlying causes other than COVID-19; these included California (55% of excess deaths) and Texas (64% of excess deaths) (Table). The 5 states with the most COVID-19 deaths experienced large proportional increases in deaths from nonrespiratory underlying causes, including diabetes (96%), heart diseases (89%), Alzheimer disease (64%), and cerebrovascular diseases (35%) (Figure). New York City experienced the largest increases in nonrespiratory deaths, notably from heart disease (398%) and diabetes (356%).

                                                  ...

                                                  These estimates suggest that the number of COVID-19 deaths reported in the first weeks of the pandemic captured only two-thirds of excess deaths in the US. Potential explanations include delayed reporting of COVID-19 deaths and misattribution of COVID-19 deaths to other respiratory illnesses (eg, pneumonia) or to nonrespiratory causes reflecting complications of COVID-19 (eg, coagulopathy, myocarditis). Few excess deaths involved pneumonia or influenza as underlying causes.

                                                  This study has limitations, including the reliance on provisional data, potentially inaccurate death certificates, and modeling assumptions. For example, modeling epidemiologic, instead of calendar, years would reduce the excess deaths estimate to 73 524.

                                                  Large increases in mortality from heart disease, diabetes, and other diseases were observed. Further investigation is required to determine the extent to which these trends represent nonrespiratory manifestations of COVID-19 or secondary pandemic mortality caused by disruptions in society that diminished or delayed access to health care and the social determinants of health (eg, jobs, income, food security).
                                                  This study uses data from the National Center for Health Statistics to estimate the excess deaths (ie, the difference between observed and expected deaths) in t
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                                                    Phoenix is 104 today (40C) - up to 111 (44C) by the weekend. Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Dallas all have highs around 100 (give or take) all week, but also have high humidity - Dallas apparently "feels like 108" at 3pm today according to weather.com. Miami is "only" 90F, but again they have "heat index readings" above 105 with a warning associated with it.

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