That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
http://garbi.online/forum/
Yes because they are being force fed bad data like this constantly. The data representation presents a false impression. There is no real idea what the data source is. They labeled blue as 0 instead of the actual minimum when there are 0 states in the United States with 0 news cases in this period. I could nit pick it all day. It is designed to misinform and I have every belief it is intentional because they made choices that aren't natural to begin with. In other words, they can't blame it on the incompetent intern because no intern would choose 6 classification labels or dedicate 3 buckets to 3 states. Even if they cared to defend it which they don't.Skinypupy wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:37 pmThe last time Utah was at 49.64 (a weirdly specific grouping) was Oct 22, according to this. We're currently sitting at 97.6, as of yesterday.Max Peck wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:21 pm The numbers don't jibe. The 7-day average for North Dakota hasn't been below 49.64/100k since 23 Sep. Even just cherry-picking that specific date range, using the low counts from two weekends, doesn't bring the numbers close to that threshold.
It does help me better understand why those who live in the Fox News bubble don't think it's nearly as big of a deal though.
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I'm pretty sure she's missing a number of Civil War battles.Blackhawk wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:26 pm D-Day should be between Tuesday and Wednesday, knocking Pearl Harbor off the list.
https://twitter.com/RonGOPVet4Biden/sta ... 9374152704Isgrimnur wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:20 pm Florida
State police raided the home of a former Department of Health data scientist who is accusing Florida officials of wrongfully firing her for refusing to manipulate COVID-19 statistics.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement served the search warrant at Rebekah Jones’ Tallahassee home Monday morning in connection with an investigation into who hacked the state’s internal notification system with a message urging state employees to come forward with information about Florida’s handling of the pandemic.
The alert read: “It’s time to speak up before another 17,000 people are dead. You know this is wrong. You don’t have to be a part of this. Be a hero. Speak out before it’s too late.”
Jones, a vocal critic of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ handling of the pandemic, tweeted a video of agents entering her home Monday morning with guns drawn.
https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1 ... 7900145665
There are some hopeful signs that the third wave is ebbing in parts of the Midwest. The number of newly confirmed cases has declined for two straight weeks in 10 states, including hard-hit Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan and New Mexico.
But new data shows other states experiencing substantial increases. In Alabama, where authorities reported about 14,000 new cases a week through middle and late November, case counts jumped to more than 22,000 in the first week of December. Georgia’s case counts rose in early December by about 50 percent from its November figures. Florida cases spiked to 65,000 last week, a substantial increase over its averages last month.
“At this point, we could be just picking up the beginning of the Thanksgiving surge, but surely in the following week we’re going to see it,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Prevention at the University of Minnesota. “We’re slingshotting this surge of cases into the holiday season in a way that is truly dangerous.”
Is that actually Amazon or someone selling through the Amazon marketplace? People are always going to try and make a profit off shortages (real or perceived).Max Peck wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 7:31 am Dear Amazon,
Fuck you for profiteering from these fucking price gougers.
Sincerely,
The World
Here's the 8-page affidavit for the search warrant. It raises so many questions...malchior wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 2:30 am BTW - if you haven't seen the details of the raid it is ridiculous. Someone sent a chat message to an 'emergency alert system' App the health department uses internally. They are claiming that person 'hacked it'. It uses a *SINGLE SHARED USERNAME AND PASSWORD*. They traced it to her IP address so they seized all her electronics. It looks to be a total overreaction.
FWIW this is a pretty standard search warrant for a computer incident. Computer crime investigations are often overboard. They argue everything could be involved, the judges are often technologically clueless, and often the investigator gets an all-clear to clean out a suspect. According to her lawyer they swept up offline storage devices as well. The chances that she browsed or has relevant browser history on an offline device are vanishingly slim but why not? The judges authorized a fishing expedition so Carpe Data. Anyway, computer civil liberties issues/wrinkles aside without seeing the logs it is hard to determine if they made any mistakes.Skinypupy wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 10:03 amHere's the 8-page affidavit for the search warrant. It raises so many questions...malchior wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 2:30 am BTW - if you haven't seen the details of the raid it is ridiculous. Someone sent a chat message to an 'emergency alert system' App the health department uses internally. They are claiming that person 'hacked it'. It uses a *SINGLE SHARED USERNAME AND PASSWORD*. They traced it to her IP address so they seized all her electronics. It looks to be a total overreaction.
Yeah, it just seemed very excessive and unfocused. Then again, I don't really know anything about how these typically work, so...malchior wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 10:28 amFWIW this is a pretty standard search warrant for a computer incident. Computer crime investigations are often overboard. They argue everything could be involved, the judges are often technologically clueless, and often the investigator gets an all-clear to clean out a suspect. According to her lawyer they swept up offline storage devices as well. The chances that she browsed or has relevant browser history on an offline device are vanishingly slim but why not? The judges authorized a fishing expedition so Carpe Data. Anyway, computer civil liberties issues/wrinkles aside without seeing the logs it is hard to determine if they made any mistakes.Skinypupy wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 10:03 amHere's the 8-page affidavit for the search warrant. It raises so many questions...malchior wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 2:30 am BTW - if you haven't seen the details of the raid it is ridiculous. Someone sent a chat message to an 'emergency alert system' App the health department uses internally. They are claiming that person 'hacked it'. It uses a *SINGLE SHARED USERNAME AND PASSWORD*. They traced it to her IP address so they seized all her electronics. It looks to be a total overreaction.
Yup welcome to intro to computer crime investigations. Leave all sense of proportionality at the door.Skinypupy wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:07 am Yeah, it just seemed very excessive and unfocused. Then again, I don't really know anything about how these typically work, so...
I didn't find it threatening *at all*.Incredibly lax password security notwithstanding, it is a bad look for a former employee to log into a state system and send vaguely threatening messages to thousands of employees.
It’s time to speak up before another 17,000 people are dead. You know this is wrong. You don’t have to be a part of this Be a hero. Speak up before it’s too late.
I don't think it was wise but who'd think sending that message would lead to full on raid of their house? It is such an overreaction. The crazy thing is that there is a good chance she'll be strong armed into a plea. Defending this charge (if and when it comes) will be complicated and fraught with risk.Skinypupy wrote:That certainly doesn't justify a "we're going to raid your house and draw guns on your kids" response, mind you, but feels like an incredibly bad idea on her part to begin with.
Of course not, you're not the governor, et al, arguably responsible for a large number of those deaths.
Given the heightened tensions, emotions, and lack of rational thinking around the pandemic, I guess I wouldn't simply brush off "You know this is wrong. You don't have to be part of this." as completely benign. Again, I don't think it in any way justifies the reaction it got, but it feels at least slightly threatening to me. YMMV on that point.malchior wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:27 amI didn't find it threatening *at all*.Incredibly lax password security notwithstanding, it is a bad look for a former employee to log into a state system and send vaguely threatening messages to thousands of employees.
It’s time to speak up before another 17,000 people are dead. You know this is wrong. You don’t have to be a part of this Be a hero. Speak up before it’s too late.
Fully agree. The response is not even remotely in proportion with the (ill-conceived) action.I don't think it was wise but who'd think sending that message would lead to full on raid of their house? It is such an overreaction. The crazy thing is that there is a good chance she'll be strong armed into a plea. Defending this charge (if and when it comes) will be complicated and fraught with risk.
Minutes into a public health district’s virtual meeting to vote on a local mask mandate in Idaho on Tuesday evening, Ada County Commissioner Diana Lachiondo tearfully excused herself after getting a phone call that anti-mask protesters had surrounded her home.
“My 12-year-old son is home by himself right now, and there are protesters banging outside the door,” she told the Central District Health’s Board of Health, which serves four counties in the state’s most populous region. “I’m going to go home and make sure he’s okay.”
A visibly upset Lachiondo then disconnected from the video call, leaving her colleagues at the meeting stunned. They soon learned that protesters had gathered outside the Central District Health office and one other board member’s residence as well, targeting the public officials who were meeting virtually from their homes and private offices as a precaution amid the worsening pandemic.
“I’m a father and that’s just unbelievable,” David Peterman, a doctor who had been giving an update on the status of the coronavirus pandemic, said after Lachiondo left the meeting.
Hundreds of anti-mask demonstrators poured out to protest a public health order that would have limited gatherings to fewer than 10 people and required face masks be worn in public and private around non-household members when social distancing is not possible, among other restrictions. More than 3,000 public comments had been submitted on the order between Friday and Monday, the health district said in a statement. The health district board was set to vote on the order Tuesday evening.
The Idaho Statesman first reported the abruptly terminated public meeting a short time after it ended on Tuesday.
Police formed a barrier between Tuesday’s protesters and the Central District Health building as a precaution following a tense meeting last week. On Friday, when the health board met but decided to delay a vote on the public health order, anti-mask demonstrators tried to force their way into the building. No one was arrested.
Skinypuppy, I wish I had more to offer than positive vibes. Healthy wishes for you and your family.Skinypupy wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 1:47 pm Co-worker's girlfriend started running a fever on Sunday night and got a positive test back yesterday. He's currently asymptomatic but figured that since he spent the entire weekend with her, he should probably get tested.
Because he is asymptomatic, he had to call 12 different testing centers this morning before he could find one that would schedule him for a test. He finally had to tell them that he "feels a little crappy" before they reluctantly agreed to test him in the one open slot they had available today.
I feel like that is a microcosm of why Utah is where it is in regards to COVID.
Also, Little B 11.9 started running a fever last night and said she was achy. While I think it's just some generic gunk and not COVID (lots of head congestion but no coughing), she got tested last night and will be staying home from school rest of the week. I'm sure she'll be fine, but it still makes me panic a little bit.
Is it wrong to want to load all these people into a rocket and shoot them off into space?
Just one week after the United States broke a daily record for coronavirus deaths, it did so again on Wednesday, when officials across the country reported at least 3,011 new fatalities.
Last week’s record — 2,885 deaths reported in a single day — was a milestone because not since the pandemic’s first peak, in spring, had so many deaths been reported. The high point then was 2,752 deaths, on April 15.
As a brutal surge gathers speed across the country, the country went on last week to record its most coronavirus-related deaths over a seven-day period.
With a seven-day average of 2,249 deaths, the U.S. broke the previous mark of 2,232, set on April 17. Seven-day averages can provide a more accurate picture of the virus’s progression than daily death counts, which can fluctuate.
And all the while, the United States is speeding toward another stunning total: 300,000 total deaths since the coronavirus slipped into the country at the beginning of the year and began laying siege. At least 288,000 deaths have been recorded, according to a New York Times database.
And the same people who wanted to start a war over 9/11 and proudly hung "Official Terrorist Hunting License" stickers on their trucks now rage against the concept of being ask to simply wear a mask to help save lives.
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Yeah pretty silly. I imagine that's just their work around to closing bars.pr0ner wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:46 pm Virginia is going to a stay at home order that requires being at home from...midnight to 5AM each day. Wooo?
Representative government, indeed.GungHo wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:03 pm I don't know what's sadder: that we are a country full of spineless, cowardly politicians or that we're a country full of selfish assholes.
Effective Sunday, Mass. is rolling back to phase 3 stage 1...which amounts to tinkering at the edges and will make no measurable difference. A recent survey found that 65% of Massholes (including 50% of Republicans) support an immediate stay-at-home order thru the holidays -- which we all know is what's needed to flatten this curve. The governor won't go there because, absent a federal aid package, we can't pay people to stay home.GungHo wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:03 pmYeah pretty silly. I imagine that's just their work around to closing bars.pr0ner wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:46 pm Virginia is going to a stay at home order that requires being at home from...midnight to 5AM each day. Wooo?
I don't know what's sadder: that we are a country full of spineless, cowardly politicians or that we're a country full of selfish assholes.