I think you underestimate grammar in Georgia and the southern states, even on official websites.
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Today brings terrible news. From my local Sunderland newspaper today:
The latest statistics show that in the seven days up to Tuesday, September 1, the infection rate per 100,000 people in Sunderland was 11.9, or 33 cases.
In the week after that, up to Tuesday, September 8, it rose to 91.1 cases per 100,000 people, with 253 cases recorded – an increase of 666%.
This is catastrophically faster than the 8 day national doubling time that was reported a day or two ago. They’re going to have to lock down here again within days, unless they’re fools. I don’t think they’re fools.
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that is shit , stay safe friend .
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A nice and beautiful day today, the warmest this 3rd Tuesday of September has been since record keeping began in the Netherlands according to the evening news.
As this picture taken in Delft shows: a lot of people took to the water. So this bridge had to be opened several times in the hour I spend there.
And as a consequence lots of people had to queue and wait for the bridge to close again:
Testing showed that we had 8.265 new covid cases last week, but these scenes sometimes help to lighten the mood.
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Last night my daughters school district announced they’ll be re-opening for in-person learning next Tuesday.
Even though they’ve said they can’t meet CDC distancing guidelines because they dropped their plans for a hybrid model that would reduce class size by only having students in class 2 days a week and the other 3 on-line. They were the first district in our town to announce a hybrid plan back in June…then in July they dropped it at the same time the other districts announced they were adopting hybrid plans. The real kicker is they announced their reason for dropping the hybrid plan as being the same announcement from the governor that the other districts say requires them to offer hybrid options.
Since they aren’t offering a hybrid option and therefore can’t comply with distancing requirements they can’t open until our county attains “minimal” spread metrics. But the state delays those metrics by two weeks because they can lag. The last update on Friday showed our county going back UP in the one metric it had just started to meet and no longer meeting it. And that’s at the “moderate” level needed for distancing compliant opening. Basically they announced that they’re opening on the 22nd and are basing it on data that won’t be announced until the 24th. Which…is just crazy.
They’re justifying it by saying enough parents have opted to stick with remote learning even once in-person is made available that they will be meeting distancing requirements even though they don’t really have the capacity to do so. In other words it sounds like 50% or more of parents are saying they’re going to stick with remote.
Thankfully I have no problem doing my job from home (I did it that way for years up until shortly before my daughter was born) and my daughter is really enjoying remote learning so we’re going to stick with that until I’m confident the spread is truly minimal in our area. But I hope we continue to stay trending downward…but…we attract a lot of snowbirds in the winter. And friends near the RV parks are saying they’re starting to see them show up already. So things could get worse again fairly easily here.
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Yeah, if at all possible, that’s clearly what needs to happen.
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That went well.
Two weeks into the English school Autumn term, they’re running out of both staff and testing kits.
In my region we’re waiting for an official announcement which is expected to impose slightly more stringent contact rules and a pub curfew. I hope they do much more. If not, they’re not scared enough. The region will be the largest yet to be locked down.
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I am perplexed by it all, our local football (UK) team is opening the ground this weekend for spectators… Yet we are telling people to stay away from each other in homes?
If we locked down now, tight for three weeks, we may save another 4 month heavy lockdown.
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“[UK Health Secretary] Hancock told MPs that the infection rate in Sunderland was now 103 cases per 100,000 people, nearly four times the England average, and was above 70 in South Tyneside, Gateshead and Newcastle.”
I think this is based on a seven day rolling average. Here’s the article. I don’t think the government is taking it seriously enough. The restrictions seem rather toothless, not to mention nearly unenforceable.
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We are bucking the trend, but without UK internal travel restrictions it may not last.
6 cases per 100,000 people in the latest week 7 Sep-13 Sep. The average area in England had 18.
7 cases in the latest week 7 Sep-13 Sep
-5 compared with the previous week
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They should close the pubs. It makes no sense to have all kinds of restrictions and keep those open.
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Welp.
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Ugh.
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I think I could handle that if it was just one crackpot, but with an army of like minded people…
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Has anyone ever read the Silo Series by Hugh Howey… Feels like he will be in Silo 1…
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The Prime Minister has conceded that the second wave of Covid-19 has reached the UK.
One of my greatest personal heroes has died. What a brilliant life and career.
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She was America’s cool grandma.
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R.I.P. we lost a great person who fought " for the people" . we are fucked …
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The Sunderland outbreak appears to have been traced to a charity football match held in late August. Community transmission is believed to account for some cases throughout the region.
It would have been great if after six months we had better contact tracing. Precise knowledge of transmission modes still seems comparatively rudimentary.
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Heroes can inspire us and, paradoxically, they can also make us complacent because we assume their broad shoulders will be there to fight the good fight forever. Fortunately in this year when so many great heroes of an older generation have died I see no shortage of great new heroes taking up the burden.
This death may impact the composition of the US Supreme Court, but I also think it may provide a catalyst to progressives to pay more attention to the Senate races and, ultimately, the composition of the judiciary. Right wing extremists leading the Senate have been confirming their preferred candidates to lower courts as a priority for at least a decade. Winning and keeping control of the Senate is the only way to slow this process.
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yes I guess I shouldn’t be so pessimistic . the farther the minority pushes to the right the farther it will swing back . just hope we survive long enough .
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