And this is day 8.
And if there is any question or not in your mind as to whether or not staying home, shutting down everything and social distancing makes a difference – look at a comparison as to where New York is as apposed to California. Our cases are rising, but not at the same rate. Not that there is not fear, some panic, and increased burden on the health care system. CA population ~ 39M+, NY ~ 19M+. NYC is dense, so is LA and the Bay Area.
OTOH – it perhaps could be just an artifact of inadequate testing. Grossly inadequate testing. And not sure why that can’t be solved. But that doesn’t explain the difference in death rates. The NYT is putting in a lot of coverage. As are all the other newspapers as well as TV and radio. No matter what your political affiliation – listen to the medical experts – and stay home as much as you can. If you are an essential person – take care of yourself. This whole mess is going to get much worse before it gets better.
And next week is NOT a time to back off on restrictions.
Cal is on spring break, so I have no lectures around which to structure my day
Otherwise – it sit, stare out the window. Wash and repeat.
I now have an extremely hard deadline for my paper. It is not the end of April. it is 3 April. The 4th is when my free access to MS Word (the mandatory software) provided by UCHastings is going to want money out of me. I am a MAC person. I otherwise want Word why?
Valentines Day is long over – but I started this small cross stitch on a bit of 14ct white Aida with a Threadworx #12 Perle cotton.
Because – of course, I need another WIP….
If there’s any question about social distancing, this should cover it. https://swell.life/article/rMYhMFSSqDXi/bayarea-is-flattening-the-curve?fbclid=IwAR318FDsKoM87fMafXnF3Mu_4CF2GJOos2Jbn5mVSRg-E39wa1kEk5bqYxs
I think shelter-in-place is important. But the problem with her premise is that the testing done in California shows that we don’t have the same spread as NY. But that testing has NOT been done in the Bay Area. We have absolutely NO clue about how many people in our area are infected. The med folks I know at multiple locations who get sick are NOT being tested, just told to stay home.
NY is conducting extensive testing.
Seek and ye shall find..
stay away from people ….. !