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There are pictures on build reports or one of us can take one if you need.


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Jimi, you're the man! But we already knew that... Cheers!

Nah, thank you. I just don't delete anything. Cause times like these.


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Nice

And now, the CDC will be bypassed and hospitals will report to a small government contracted firm? How the actual F#%k does this make sense???

I really hope hiding unfavorable data wasn't the goal (such a plan would very likely backfire).  However, this move certainly hides data temporarily and could be used to somewhat manage the timing of its release.  It did make me think of the logic of slowing down testing to lower case numbers.  I'm guessing one of the side effects will be making correlation between test results and hospitalization  tougher to derive by the public.  We'll know more when we see how publicly available the new data is once the new system is up and running (the data is already gone from the CDC website).

Yeah, uh....it was said at a news conference that using Covid was not wanted an excuse not to return to school. I can't help but think it ties in. As a father of a school age daughter, it scares the hell out of me. I'd started waking up through your the night with mild panic attacks. Just enough to jolt me and make my heart race. This is just getting out of hand. Not recognizing actual science???

I tried to make that as neutral as possible.


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Hospitalization figures and related metrics are already being diverted (and are not published anywhere). Other historical data submitted directly to the CDC is still accessible. With the ousting of several senior public health officials in certain states, a very public fight over reporting metrics in another, and widespread mischaracterization of CoD and attributable/proximate factors in coroners' reports (remember that coroners are elected and do not require a medical license whereas medical examiners appointed and do have to have a medical license), I think that the motivation here is quite clear. Instead of relying on a premier public health institute with established practices and relationships with medical facilities, an entirely new system is being implemented because it'll be more accurate and efficient?

To be clear: This is a public health emergency, this is a natural threat, this is a virus. Viruses are investigated by scientists: virologists, immunologists, microbiologists, and other specialists. There has been a remarkable century of development in public health: fields of epidemiology, health systems programming, health delivery, monitoring and surveillance, biostatistical analysis, etc. We have developed labs designed for the studying of viruses and the development of vaccines/treatments. We have protocols in place to do research safely and efficiently. We have developed manufacturing and distribution networks to produce and administer vaccines and we have health facilities and trained professionals to treat the sick. We have public health systems in place to aid in the effective identification and monitoring of as well as the response to threats. Individuals dedicate their lives to (bio)ethical understanding of equitable health delivery. We've constructed vast information sharing systems to provide global cooperation. We have health delivery mechanisms to provide primary, secondary, and tertiary care. We have emergency response systems.

We also have the politicization of science and education. We have a movement of contrarianism that identifies science and facts as opinions that are not measured nor observed but rather fabricated. We have false dichotomies. We have emotion arguments take primacy over sound logic and reasoned debate. We have change what news is: it is no longer a reporting of events and measurable figures by those who understood the gravity of their position; we have opinion and bias presented as Truth. We have ad revenue on information sources. We have a systems that needs to have people scared and angry and distracted.

And we have consequences.

So true, and unfortunately right. The consequences don't outweigh the pros when it's your loved one that doesn't make it. We shouldn't be made to "just live with it", and it sure as hell won't "just go away".


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I love it! I use a Mac for future reference / The Gearside pictures. You've got a talent too.


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I tried to make that as neutral as possible.

I'm doing my best at this too.  It gets harder when I want to talk about my anxiety to not say the things that trigger it.  That why I wrote what I did a little while ago (my anxiety is not the same as my political viewpoint).  My wife keeps trying to plan a mini vacation for this summer.  I keep telling her I'm too afraid to help plan such a thing at this point.

I know what you're saying. We put off our vacation until the fall temporarily. We're afraid to try to go anywhere at this point. Plus the handling of this pandemic just makes me so mad.


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And now, the CDC will be bypassed and hospitals will report to a small government contracted firm? How the actual F#%k does this make sense???

I really hope hiding unfavorable data wasn't the goal (such a plan would very likely backfire).  However, this move certainly hides data temporarily and could be used to somewhat manage the timing of its release.  It did make me think of the logic of slowing down testing to lower case numbers.  I'm guessing one of the side effects will be making correlation between test results and hospitalization  tougher to derive by the public.  We'll know more when we see how publicly available the new data is once the new system is up and running (the data is already gone from the CDC website).

Yeah, uh....it was said at a news conference that using Covid was not wanted an excuse not to return to school. I can't help but think it ties in. As a father of a school age daughter, it scares the hell out of me. I'd started waking up through your the night with mild panic attacks. Just enough to jolt me and make my heart race. This is just getting out of hand. Not recognizing actual science???

I tried to make that as neutral as possible.


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And now, the CDC will be bypassed and hospitals will report to a small government contracted firm? How the actual F#%k does this make sense???


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Yep

Oooooh I bet you're having that on repeat all night... 

Just drooling in myself.


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Yeah, it's all a hoax, there aren't really millions of people falling dying and the earth is flat......./rant


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Tap tap tap tap


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Your pedalboard must look amazing, I love this artwork.

Jimi has exactly one guitar he can play through each DIY pedal he's built! Seriously, we need a group photo of everything

Only if you come down and help me take them all out of the cases and put them back when we're done.


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This mask is where it's at.


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