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Tag Archives: COVID-19
What happens when you break quarantine?
Coffee shops post-Covid
“La Colombe, a Philadelphia-based coffee chain, is taking pages out of the airport and pharmacy handbooks in retrofitting 30 of its cafes in six cities for safety. Customers line up outside, where a greeter takes orders at the door “to keep fingers off of touchscreens.” Once inside, patrons, who must wear masks, move through a line. Rather than use the ribbon tape that creates a maze at an airport check-in, La Colombe has installed acrylic panels to frame the lines. Customers must wait six feet apart, and may add food from the grab-and-go case while waiting in line. Inside seating is still prohibited by law.”
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Natural Selection
“If a vaccine against coronavirus becomes available to the public, 49% say they plan to get vaccinated, and 20% say they will not. Another 31% are not sure.”
Let’s see what happens
If 80% of Americans wore masks…
“If 80% of Americans Wore Masks, COVID-19 Infections Would Plummet.” Good, hard science. If you’re not wearing a mask, I don’t want to be within 20 feet of you. Stay the fuck away.
RAYGUN makes clever face masks
“If you don’t solve the biology, the economy won’t recover”
This is the best thing I’ve read so far on knowing and avoiding the risks of COVID-19. The author is Erin S. Bromage, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Bromage graduated from the School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences James Cook University, Australia where his research focused on the epidemiology of, and immunity to, infectious disease in animals.
Dr. Bromage’s research focuses on the evolution of the immune system, the immunological mechanisms responsible for protection from infectious disease, and the design and use of vaccines to control infectious disease in animals. He also focuses on designing diagnostic tools to detect biological and chemical threats in the environment in real-time.
This short article was packed with useful information. One of my favorites:
“We know most people get infected in their own home. A household member contracts the virus in the community and brings it into the house where sustained contact between household members leads to infection.”
You can download (PDF) the full article here.
If someone can see you, mask up.
Katie Notopoulos, writing BuzzFeed’s How To Plague advice column:
“A good way to gauge the amount of distance where it’s OK to dangle your mask around your neck or off one ear is to imagine your mouth is your asshole. If you were completely alone, it would be fine to let your nude tushy hang out, but you’d want to pull on your pants as soon as you saw anyone coming, even from 100 feet away. Basically, if someone can see you, mask up.”
Custom mask by Tonya Lear.
Why you should wear a facemask
- If we all run around naked and someone pees on you, you get wet right away.
- If you are wearing pants, some pee will get through, but not as much. So you are better protected.
- But if the guy who pees also is wearing pants, the pee stays with him and you do not get wet.
Yuval Noah Harari: COVID-19’s Impact on Humankind
I’ve read all three of Yuval Noah Harari’s books and found them… interesting, to say the least. I’ve been eager to hear his take on COVID-19 and was a little surprised to get it from an interview by James Corden, who I think of as a late-late-night comedian. But his questions were brief and to the point and he allowed his guest to answer the questions without interrupting.