OK, *now* we're in trouble ...

[rslade]

For some reason, on the Johns Hopkins CoVID-19 dashboard, Canada, as a country, has disappeared.  (If you switch to the province/state/dependency mode, the individual provinces with infections still show up.)

This is disturbing, for someone who lives there ...

[rslade]

As the poster noted, we all need this right now ...

[rslade]

Great explanation and illustration of the numbers, the curve, and why you need to follow the rules ...

[rslade]

A very long, and very detailed analysis, recommending extreme suppression measures followed by relaxation of suppression but additional preparations and other mitigation.  It doesn't actually address all factors, but it does provide a lot of detailed information.

[AppDefects]

People LISTEN to @rslade. This article is a MUST read. The epidemic calculator is a scary tool that is predicting the future.

LISTEN to the news there will be a VENTILATOR SHORTAGE. Your only hope for staying alive is to build your own home ventilator. Buys parts NOW!

Check out this document "Specifications for simple open source mechanical ventilator" and these Open Source Hardware projects.

[rslade]

How are you coping with the stress of the coronavirus outbreak?  Two psychology researchers are looking for people to participate in a survey about thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and how people are coping.  Anyone can participate online.

[AppDefects]

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@rslade wrote:

How are you coping with the stress of the coronavirus outbreak?  Two psychology researchers are looking for people to participate in a survey about thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and how people are coping.  Anyone can participate online.

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Stress? Who's stressed? Not me. I'm going to to full survival mode and planning to hike into the "interior" and camp this one out.

[dcontesti]

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@rslade wrote:

As the poster noted, we all need this right now ...

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OM, I so need to do this right now......even into a snow bank would be good.

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[rslade]

Some cute videos, with some added virus advice, from Pluto the Schnauzer.

For example, the first, a general message of encouragement:

[rslade]

Parodies of various Broadway show tunes.  The virus advice isn't always great, but it's an amusing time-waster, with a few decent reminders ...

[rslade]

You can help fight CoVID-19 with your computer.

Folding@Home is a "distributed" supercomputer that uses the "spare" time on your home computer to work on medical problems. You can choose to let it run only when you are not using the computer yourself, or in the background all the time.