Super Cali COVID count is somewhat out of focus, server crash and expired cert makes numbers quite atrocious A system crash and subsequent bungling of a digital certificate caused California to fall behind in reporting the results of around 300,000 COVID-19 coronavirus tests last week. Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday that after a weekend-long slog, officials had managed to get through hundreds of thousands tests that, thanks to …
I notice that masks are becoming trendy designs, getting the 3 ply disposables mask is getting harder, not because they're in short supply, but because they're not what sells, so shops don't stock them. They sell the trendy designs instead.
But the 3 ply are better. That outer water repellent layer to repel droplets, the inner layer to absorb droplets, the middle filter layer. That is a better functional product, even if its less stylish.
Perhaps a simply star marking would help, 1 star, 2 start or 3 star for the level of protection on fashion masks to encourage better functional mask design.
Also a water repellent only type for water parks, pool parties and the like. I was at a water park/pool party thing a few days ago and got a cough and wheeze the next day I did not like. Cold and flu virus are so easy to transmit, it reminds you how easily Coronavirus rips through groups like that. I would like to have a mask while Covid is around, even at a water park. But that needs to be water repellent only and made so it does not disintegrate in water.
Also this, *does* work:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30954271/
Perhaps a simply star marking would help
I was at a water park/pool party thing a few days ago
Why?
it reminds you how easily Coronavirus rips through groups like that
Not sufficiently, it would seem.
Ah, California is not a separate country (yet*), and Gavin Newsom is hardly a Trump supporter. Also, I seriously doubt the state of California is now turning a profit** since the last I heard they were looking at a $50 billion (sic) deficit. This is strictly a state cock-up - they didn't need the federal government's help to screw this one up.
* Yes, there are people proposing that California secede from the United States.
** Government bodies can have a surplus, but I've never heard it referred to as a profit.
If you are a left-Pondian (or were born after the 1980’s) then you may not be aware that the original was a Sun newspaper headline referring to a Scottish footballing defeat (itself inspired by an earlier 1960s original one)
El Reg has since refined this headline to an art-form, emerging Brigadoon-like at infrequent intervals.
Why everything in US is broken down by "race"? Does it really matters what color your skin is when your are positive to COVID??
Keep on changing words while keeping the same mindset. As an Italian writer wrote in his masterpiece "Il Gattopardo", "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change".
Because there is money/power to be made by keeping a level of tension between different groups.
MLK believed a color-blind society was the only way forward to less racism. I think he was right, but there are many factions whose self-interest insists on keeping racism alive by separating and classifying us.
Does it really matters what color your skin is when your are positive to COVID?
No, but if certain racial characteristics make you more susceptible to catching it (which appears to be the case) then classifying people by those characteristics in order to get the best preventative care before you catch it does not seem unreasonable.
From my reading it appears to be less of a race issue and more of an economic issue. Poor communities with overcrowding in housing situations and with little access to preventative care are being hard hit.
However, we are still learning about this disease and time will give us more insight.
Maybe some genetic characteristic may make you more or less susceptible - but you would then need to match it to a DNA analysis, not simply "race" which may mean absolutely nothing - and just look to be a relic of the past.
I don't know for sure what happened, but people below Newsom KNEW for days, maybe weeks, there were problems with the data, and they let him make public statements about how good the numbers were.
They deserved to be fired. You don't set your boss up like that. Never.
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