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but only for the past 18 years. so i'm still a little green..... ;) |
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I still usually wake up at 6:30 AM to check the markets, then if nothing exciting is happening I go back to sleep. The good side is that markets close at 1 PM West Coast (and AZ) time and business people can pretty much relax and enjoy the rest of their day. |
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^^I really do blame public transit for a lot of this. The NY metro has the most intensive transit dependency in the US. People ride it because they have to. And as far as I'm concerned, it's got to be a risk equal to or greater than dining indoors or most other activities pegged high risk.
We now know that what really exposes you to COVID is the concentration of aerosolized virus-containing particles you breathe in over how long a period of time. So wiping down surfaces and the other things various transit agencies have done to try to cut transmission probably don't help much. In warmer weather you can open the windows of above-ground vehicles; not much you can do in a subway. |
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That said, there are exceptions to the rule--Las Vegas and Manhattan have later nightlife than just about every place, for example, but as a rule Americans generally don't regularly go clubbing until 4:00 a.m. |
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What is going on right now in New Jersey is very disturbing:
They seem to be having a new wave unlike most of the rest of the country: https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/ser...637204/enhance and it's focused mainly around the New York metro: https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/ser...637204/enhance Above 2 images: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...rus-cases.html But it's in spite of doing a better than average job of vaccinating people: https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/ser...637203/enhance https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/c...-distribution/ I would have thought that with roughly ⅓ of the adult population vaccinated and likely another 15% or more immune from infection, we'd be seeing the virus have difficulty finding susceptible victims by now. |
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Going out to dinner at 10pm is not unheard of here, not in Los Angeles, anyway. Maybe your California buddy is from Orange County? Hehe I remember a friend of mine who was a student at UC Irvine (back in the 1990s), she would complain about the lack of ANYTHING that was open past 10pm in Irvine, apart from Denny's and In-N-Out. :haha: And in my clubbing days, a lot of nightclubs (gay clubs, anyway) had afterhours that would be open until about 4am. And some underground clubs got around the 1:30am/last call for drinks/no selling alcohol past 2am law by charging more for cover at the door past 2am, and not charging for liquor... kind of like an open bar but you just pay a higher cover charge. |
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Remember, the only reason the idiotic lockdowns started was to flatten the curve so that hospitals didn't get overrun; which didnt happen in most of the country outside of a few major cities. If younger people are getting it, which is most likely what is happening than whatever, doesn't matter as most people dont even get sick from it if they get it. |
Another reason to get your jab:
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But just the fact that these supposedly younger, healthier folks ARE needing hospitalization is worrisome. |
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The first reopening of indoor dining coincided with the beginning of the winter surge. The second reopening of indoor dining has coincided with the plateauing at an elevated level of infections. But the transit system was never shutdown throughout the entirety of the pandemic, and for most of the summer and fall of 2020, New York had some of the lowest rates of infection in the country. Another change has been schools. Schools in NYC have been reopening over the past few weeks, after having been closed for most of the winter. I just heard of an outbreak this week in a school in Brooklyn that has forced some teachers, students, and their families into a self-quarantine. |
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I must say I consider your post an example of New Yorkers being rather unaware of what's going on west of the Hudson. SF schools still aren't open (but there are plans to open them when the unions can be convinced to come back to work). |
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Since there are a number of participants on this site who are good at fat shaming, I expect you'll now have your say. But donuts are the alternative to pizza . . . only Krispy Kreme thought of giving away high calorie bribes first. |
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Commented one person: "I would rather be pummeled by a horde of rabid baboons, thrown off a cliff, and eaten slowly by sharks than to strap that thing on my schnoz." But I can see this too getting political. |
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Regardless, a single glazed donut isn’t going to make anyone fat. Especially if they work out. |
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But I don't want to get into all that yet again. I just think it's fine to get a free donut and if I had a KK nearby I would. I also think it would be nice if pizza parlors everywhere gave you a free slice for getting vaccinated. |
Zero transmission of Covid for a month here in Australia - rule changes coming this monday in Sydney
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US: Population 328 million Australia: Tight travel controls, even on returning citizens, and no land borders US: Porous land borders and travel controls with numerous exceptions and loopholes Australia: 1.4 million Chinese visitors in 12 months before COVID. Essentially shut down its borders on 1 February, denying entry to all travellers who had been in or transited through China within 14 days of arrival in Australia US: 3 million Chinese visitors in US (in 2018). The US also shut down entry to non-Americans from China but continued to allow tens of thousands of Americans living in China to return home. And delayed putting controls on even non-American travelers from Europe. In spite of the limited and perforated limitation on entry of possibly infected persons from both Asia and Europe to cities all over North America, the US government at the time was heavily criticized for being racist and xenophobic. In Australia the tougher measures were accepted, even if criticize and the number of entry points were much more limited to a few major cities. The Australians did a great job, no question. But they had a much easier job than we did. We are a country connected extensively to every other part of the world and to a greater degree than almost anywhere else. And people fly from all over the world to all over the US (not to mention cruise and other ships returning from ports all over). With the amount of travel still being allowed, even an efficient contact tracing system would have been overwhelmed and our system was far from efficient. |
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I think less of a very fat person and I always will. |
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p.s. I am not going back to the UK until travel restrictions are lifted (even though they don’t apply to me as a US passport holder) out of principle. |
Hopefully the link works, but this is an amazing level of detail showing the percent of the population that has received at least one dose of the vaccine in the entire state of Louisiana at the census tract level. The highest rate in New Orleans is the census tract representing much of the central business district where 66.2% of the 2,859 residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
http://nola.com/app/graphics/interac...tract_map.html |
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Fellow mods, I know moderators shouldn't necessarily post something like this, but you can't deny thinking what I have just typed. ;) Aaron (Glowrock) |
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Now I mostly stick to segregated paths or nice bike lanes. |
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The highest local infection rates are in Hasidic areas. Lakewood, NJ, the largest Hasidic enclave on earth outside of Israel and Brooklyn has super-high rates. But deaths continue to drop, so, while concerning, it doesn't seem like the high-risk population is getting sick (they're vaccinated, already had it, or dead).
Hasidic cultural practices probably mean that virus transmission is inevitable. |
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of course to be fair, the no mask brigade and the young underground party ragers probably spread covid just as much and to even more difficult to assess/scattershot areas around the region. at least the hasids tend to stick to themselves. thinkiing about that gives me a headache. i just got shot #2 this morning, so hopefully things are looking up. :tup: |
Per Governor Newsom, all California residents age 50 and up will be eligible for the COVID vaccine starting April 1st. And beginning April 15, all California residents age 16 and older will be eligible.
Woo hoo! |
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I turn 51 in a few weeks and am hoping to get it as soon as I can. I'm hoping that I can get it through my doctor's office or through Rite Aid or something. |
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Signs of the midnight curfew being lifted soon here. There have always been speakeasies, but places are openly flaunting the rule and have lines outside to get in post-1am now.
The US seems to be rapidly returning to “normal life” led of course by Florida and Texas. |
working in the energy sector i was able to get my first vaccination pretty easily. its hard to find an appt. in st louis but i drove 1.5 hours sw down I-44 and theres tons of open appts and everyone can get vaccinated at this point down there if youre willing/able to drive. i dont know too many people who don’t at least have their first shot at this point.
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Anecdotally it appears my moms town in Arkansas (pop around 75k) is having an issue of getting enough people to get vaccinated. They had an event at the university and eventually said anyone who wants one can come and at Walmart yesterday they had someone outside asking if *anyone* wanted one.
Here in Chicago it seems quite different. On my colleges slack channel students appear very eager to get the vaccine but keep running into obstacles. |
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^ yeah, I'm getting mine through work later today, but for my wife (who is eligible for health condition reasons), I had to autorefresh like 3 different websites and barely got it after many attempts.
It';s relatively easy to get an appointment at a CVS in e.g. Hoopeston or Pekin downstate, but renting a car and driving 2-3 hours each way on a weekday kind of sucks. |
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