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Troy wrote: What's up with these harsh restrictions in Michigan?

TheCatt wrote:

Troy wrote: What's up with these harsh restrictions in Michigan?

I don't get it, but I also don't know what's going on in Michigan.

Things are slow enough around here that I would hope to have some lessening in early May. We've got more ventilators, etc.

Lead scientist says coronavirus vaccine could be ready soon

Kizzmekia Corbett, the National Institute of Health's lead scientist for coronavirus vaccine research tells CNN's Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta that a vaccine for coronavirus could possibly be available to the general public by next spring

GORDON wrote: I heard Michigan was shutting down plant nurseries...

Leisher wrote: Whitmer's executive order blocking people from selling/buying plants, lumber, paint, etc. Nobody really knows why.

GORDON wrote: If we could have made people stop having sex outside of committed, monogamous relationships, we could have eliminated HIV in the 80s.

The Navy’s testing of the entire 4,800-member crew of the aircraft carrier - which is about 94% complete - was an extraordinary move in a headline-grabbing case that has already led to the firing of the carrier’s captain and the resignation of the Navy’s top civilian official.

Roughly 60 percent of the over 600 sailors who tested positive so far have not shown symptoms of COVID-19, the potentially lethal respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, the Navy says. The service did not speculate about how many might later develop symptoms or remain asymptomatic.

thibodeaux wrote: This is making me wonder if the really high R0 reported for the disease is wrong bc of all the "carriers" (people who test positive but aren't sick). I dunno nothing about how that works, but the high R0 was very scary. So if it's not really that bad, maybe we can end the lockdown.

Fear is viral. While there have been only two cases of coronavirus in Spain—as opposed to 22 million flu illnesses leading to 12,000 deaths this season in the US alone, according to the CDC—snowballing hysteria over the possibility that a few people may get a flu-like illness, but not the flu, led to the cancellation of the biggest trade show in the mobile device world.

MWC has been my favorite week of the year since I started going in 2005. It's not just a place to see a bunch of new phones, it's a place to connect with everyone smart in the mobile industry, to learn from the best, and to get a grip on the trends that will define the upcoming year in mobile.

This cancellation is a huge loss. It's a huge loss for the industry, for innovation, and for 5G, and it isn't going to save any lives. The hysteria over the new Covid virus outside China appears to be the Shark Week of epidemiology—playing up a low-risk threat into screaming terror because it has a scary face, in this case, the face of China, newly terrifying enemy of all things Western.

The GSMA gave a weak statement saying that MWC will be back next year, but I don't see how the organization, the industry, and Barcelona will get over this hump. It's just too big a burn in terms of the millions of dollars wasted—not just the eight figures each dropped by giant exhibitors, but the big percentages of smaller companies' marketing budgets. Little of this will probably be recouped by insurance, as Spain has not declared any sort of emergency warranting the cancellation of the trade show. It was canceled merely through a snowball of panic.