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Mon Apr 27 06:00:01 EDT 2020 ======================================== Slept from eleven to seven without waking. Sunny in the morning, then partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds up to 10 mph. Work ---------------------------------------- - Email Heidi about Yardi call and licensing (CC Julie) Done. - Dell quotes Done. (Emailed Dell rep, sent estimate to Heidi.) - 2 PM Fifth Third call Done. - Update Entrata rollout schedule in ticket Done. Half-hour walk at lunch. Beautiful, sunny, and warm. Saw a morning dove, and a turkey! Home ---------------------------------------- - Wish Jay a happy birthday Done. - Teledoc checkup? 248-355-0880 Routine appointment canceled. Need to reschedule at some point. New neighbors moving in below me. https://sarkos.tumblr.com/post/616561164165529600 > The conflict between McCoy and Spock isn’t emotion vs logic, because they both have those things. The difference is Kantianism vs Utilitarianism. > Look at The Galileo Seven, which is basically the trolley problem, but in space. The trolley is coming down the track and will hit five people; if you push a lever it’ll only kill one person. Kantians would say you can’t push the lever, because then you would actively be killing one person. Utilitarians would say that you must push the lever, because one death is a lesser evil than five deaths. > McCoy’s argument (along with the others) is that leaving one person behind is actively killing them and killing is wrong, while Spock’s argument is that leaving one or two people behind saves the rest and not leaving someone behind would be wrong. (And then the episode wimps out and kills some characters so the choice doesn’t have to be made lol.) > They have this argument over and over and over and over again in a variety of situations in a variety of episodes. Every time McCoy questions Spock about whether or not he cares about that away team when he acts to protect the larger crew on the ship, that’s what the argument is! https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1253351877787467779 > “It usually takes four or five people over three days to do one full contact trace, on average,” > > — @ASlavitt , fmr head of @CMSGov during the Obama administration. > He said California (40M pop) could need up to 20k contract tracers, depending on circumstances. > Wuhan, China (11M pop) deployed 9,000+ contact tracers… > @NYDailyNews reported last month that NYC was hoping to triple the number from 50 to 150. Can't find it on the NPR website, but this morning they had a poet on for National Poetry month. Something she said stuck with me: each of my poems starts as a question I ask myself. US new tests: 164,648 → 160,553 → 144,717 → 168,751 → 149,108 → 149,831 → 315,927 → 195,091 → 235,202 → 273,635 → 207,993 → 135,505 (today) (three-day averages: 156639 155897 248740 205711) US new deaths: 1496 → 1450 → 2299 → 2492 → 2136 → 2069 → 1774 → 1654 → 1528 → 2674 → 2133 → 1886 → 1772 → 2194 → 1184 → 1163 (today) (three-day averages: 1748 2232 1652 2231 1717 1163) MI new tests today: 3423 → 3207 → 3582 → 3471 → 4589 → 4673 → 768 → 9934 → 4137 → 3428 → 999 → 10096 → 7975 → 7748 → 6962 → 6754 (today) (three-day averages: 3404 4244 4946 4841 7562 6754) MI new tests positive percentage (we want 10% or less): 19% → 31% → 38% → 30% → 26% → 16% → 100% → 6% → 14% → 28% → 100% → 13% → 17% → 7% → 8% → 6% (today) (three-day averages: 29 24 40 47 11 6) MI new deaths: 95 → 115 → 166 → 153 → 172 → 134 → 81 → 83 → 77 → 232 → 113 → 164 → 108 → 189 → 41 → 92 (today) (three-day averages: 125 153 80 170 113 92) Oakland county new deaths: 30 → 19 → 20 → 18 → 23 → 22 → 10 → 25 → 10 → 18 → 19 → 8 → 11 → 1 → 3 → 1 (today) (three-day averages: 23 21 15 15 5 1) Beaumont 4/23: COVID-19 patients: 701; COVID-19 ICU patients: 174; all patients bed occupancy: 57% Beaumont 4/27: COVID-19 patients: 613; COVID-19 ICU patients: 237; all patients bed occupancy: 66% Servings: grains 5/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 3/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: coffee, banana, bagel with egg, cheese, and avocado Lunch: ramen Dinner: carrots, macaroni and cheese -31

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