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Wed May 6 06:00:01 EDT 2020 ======================================== Slept from eleven-thirty to six-thirty. Decreasing clouds this morning, mostly sunny this afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Work ---------------------------------------- - Place Dell order Wrote PO's and emailed questions to Dell. - Schedule quarterly disaster follow-ups for the next year (1.5 years?) Done. - 1 PM Entrata accounting call Done. - Ask Scott not to throw shade, especially in writing Done. - Call Julie about migration blackout, validation Done. - Review invoices No. - Buy printer for PR Done. Twenty-minute walk at lunch. Sunny and windy. Home ---------------------------------------- - Instacart deliver 1–3 PM Done. - Buy stock? Done. Called Yvonne and spoke for a few minutes. She's OK, though she's sounding a bit like a "time to open up" crazy. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/therell-be-more-death-trump-says-urging-economic-reopening/ > The Washington Post yesterday published the results of a poll it conducted jointly with the University of Maryland, which found that Americans are making their peace with going to the grocery store but feel uncomfortable with leaving the house for other commerce. Among respondents, 44 percent said they are uncomfortable grocery shopping, 67 percent said they would be uncomfortable shopping for clothing in a bricks-and-mortar retail store, and 78 percent said they would be uncomfortable eating out in a restaurant. > In the poll, 82 percent of respondents also said movie theaters should not be allowed to reopen at this time. Nearly as many, 78 percent, said gyms should be forced to remain closed, and 74 percent said restaurants and nail salons should remain closed. > More than 60 percent of respondents also wanted gun shops, barber shops and hair salons, and other retail stores to be closed. Golf courses, which are primarily large outdoor spaces, met the least opposition, but even then, 59 percent of respondents said they should remain closed as well. Jesus, 33% _would_ feel comfortable shopping for clothes?? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071479 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/these-portuguese-libraries-are-infested-batsand-they-it-way-180969276/ > At the University of Coimbra in central Portugal, there are bats in the biblioteca. They swoop through the stacks, winging over a first-edition of Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s "Roman Antiquities" and past a 15th-century book of hours and Homer's "Opera Omnia" — snapping up bugs as they go. > It’s one of two 18th-century Portuguese libraries where bats are welcome guests, allowed to stay for the bug-eating — and, by extension, manuscript-preserving — services they provide. And visitors to Portugal can see them for themselves. > In Coimbra, a colony of Common pipistrelle bats makes their home behind the bookshelves of the university’s Joanina Library, emerging at nightfall to consume flies and gnats and other pests before swooping out the library windows and across the hilltop college town in search of water. The service they provide is indispensable: They eat insects in the library that might otherwise feed on manuscript pages. > Want to see the bats for yourself? The best chance at glimpsing them in action comes at nightfall: Stand on the steps just outside the library’s dense teakwood door, and wait for them to emerge and wing their way across the cobbled town square and into the hills. > You can also try visiting the library on a rainy day, when the chirps and squawks of bats will often resonate from deep within the stacks. Librarians say they often hear the bats “singing” — emitting social vocalizations — late in the afternoon on drizzly days. https://kottke.org/20/05/sars-cov-2-an-emerging-portrait > “By far the most likely scenario is that the virus will continue to spread and infect most of the world population in a relatively short period of time,” says Stöhr, meaning one to two years. “Afterwards, the virus will continue to spread in the human population, likely forever.” Like the four generally mild human coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 would then circulate constantly and cause mainly mild upper respiratory tract infections, says Stöhr. For that reason, he adds, vaccines won’t be necessary. > Some previous studies support this argument. One showed that when people were inoculated with the common-cold coronavirus 229E, their antibody levels peaked two weeks later and were only slightly raised after a year. That did not prevent infections a year later, but subsequent infections led to few, if any, symptoms and a shorter period of viral shedding. Huge full moon tonight. US tests are not growing. This reopening is going to be a shitshow. US new tests (We want at least 500,000–5,000,000 tests per day.): 315,927 → 192,012 → 232,225 → 271,256 → 206,403 → 190,443 → 202,233 → 230,442 → 220,522 → 305,118 → 253,431 → 248,125 → 231,812 → 259,150 → 215,443 (today) (three-day averages: 246721 222701 217732 268891 235468) US new deaths: 2133 → 1886 → 1772 → 2194 → 1184 → 1163 → 2198 → 2700 → 2041 → 1793 → 1651 → 1158 → 938 → 2527 → 1949 (today) (three-day averages: 1930 1514 2313 1534 1805) MI new tests today (How many do we want? Michigan's population is about 10,000,000. Whitmer threw out 10% — 1MM!?): 999 → 10096 → 7975 → 7748 → 6962 → 6754 → 7045 → 7547 → 7915 → 10238 → 11204 → 10823 → 9661 → 643 → 10395 (today) (three-day averages: 6357 7155 7502 10755 6900 ) MI new tests positive percentage (We want 10% or less.): 100% → 13% → 17% → 7% → 8% → 6% → 15% → 15% → 12% → 10% → 8% → 5% → 2% → 70% → 6% (today) (three-day averages: 43 7 14 8 26) MI new deaths: 113 → 164 → 108 → 189 → 41 → 92 → 160 → 103 → 119 → 77 → 154 → 29 → 86 → 130 → 71 (today) (three-day averages: 128 107 127 87 96) Oakland county new deaths: 26 → 12 → 19 → 13 → 15 → 10 → 12 → 7 → 14 → 10 → 10 → 6 → 4 → 1 → 1 (today) (three-day averages: 19 13 11 9 2) 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% Beaumont 4/30: COVID-19 patients: 559; COVID-19 ICU patients: 248; all patients bed occupancy: 71% Beaumont 5/04: COVID-19 patients: 449; COVID-19 ICU patients: 226; all patients bed occupancy: 70% Servings: grains 5/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 1/4, dairy 3/2, meat 3/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: pear, egg and cheese wrap, coffee Afternoon snack: left-over potato Dinner: Doritos, cheese, salami, pickle -33 119/70

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