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  1. wonder if that guy KC (card counting dude trekking across US in an RV) from the netflix doc is crushing it with the mask mandate and he can hide his face. some of that doc showed that casinos were starting to use face rec software to see through his disguises. anyway, it's exciting seeing stuff re-open
  2. dunno if there are any economic studies on Norway vs Sweden. The mortality ones are obviously out there. If Norway is a broke dick and Sweden is rolling like Croesus then that might be a starting point.
  3. tangent side rant, but Grubhub is a shitshow. generally do UE, but wife wanted a place that was only on GH. it's was 1:15 after we ordered (ap said 1 hour max) and we texted the driver and he said he has our food, but is claiming that GH is making him wait to pickup another order at another fucking restaurant near by. but that order was not ready yet, but should be in another 20 minutes. Told him he and GH were fucking crazy if we were going to wait for that and cancelled the order and called to get refunded. some stupid algorithm thought is was A-OK to have people's food sit in the car another 30-45 minutes on top of the normal delivery time. anyway, finally vaxed and now will moonlight as family's food courier to places that have a good bar to wait at. "sorry honey, food took forever. don't worry about those 3 cocktails on the total. must have mixed up the receipt"
  4. using SK as a case 'for' not locking things down seems a little misleading. They were kicking so much ass with robust contract tracing then keeping those individuals quarantined that things never got that bad at the start and middle of the year iirc. Now they are at a relative highpoint for cases, but deaths are back down to 0-2 per day. I mean there are lots of comparisons with Norway and Sweden and their different C19 responses. here is a graph (through July 2020) of total mortality (not just C19) between the two. The dotted lines at the bottom are C19 deaths pretty clear that doing something vs yolo will save some lives. Norway's lockdown was March 17th or somewhere around there. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201116/Study-compares-deaths-in-Sweden-and-Norway-before-and-after-COVID-pandemic.aspx I'm biased. I could work from home and was not an essential worker. i did not have my business shut down. My kids' school immediately pivoted to online learning and it was not a total joke. I realize this was not the case for most. If my job/industry was shut down or if my kids did not have a learning option or childcare if i could not wfh, then my views might different on what was an acceptable response for shutdowns. If you really believe that keeping a % of people from interacting in close quarters on a day to day basis for the majority of the day had zero effect the body count, then nothing is going to change your mind about any covid response being reasonable.
  5. because it did not go through the standard process, i guess? this is from the FDA.gov website
  6. yep, have a 13yo and will be signed up pronto. maybe even say my 11yo is 12 to get it over with.
  7. may want to stay away from 'Rosa' then: https://www.ktnv.com/news/crime/las-vegas-woman-accused-of-stealing-luxury-watches-from-men-on-las-vegas-strip-arrested-again
  8. same, 2 weeks was on Sunday. i don't have to use rubbers in Haiti anymore, right?
  9. guess they should have went with a sternly worded letter instead of a stern talking-to. That totally would have cured being a pedo
  10. put bob wheeler in charge of bus transportation. maybe their arson would be forged of a hotter fire
  11. that's some SW/STTNG level fan fic right there. dear Soldier of Fortune magazine, I never thought this would happen in my lifetime but i swear my deepest fantasy actually came true...
  12. thanks, i will take a look at that. i was able to brute force it in a similar fashion. I used a fixed INDEX(1,1)... INDEX(1,22) where you have the [@1]. and yes just parsing each row individually. Risking causing a coma from boredom, each row is Purchase Order (part #, qty, initial date). There are multiple POs for each part #. The table beside the 'Text' col (Table 1) is pulling from a condensed table that only has 1 row for each part # and has the total amount product available each week. The function of Table1 is to split up the condensed data into chunks that correspond to each PO and put those chunks into the right weeks. easier to see below. Condensed table on top and Table 1 on the bottom. The Text part of it is the result of any changes on how the POs are currently loaded. The group that makes all these changes wants the data in that format, so I was trying to automate it. I don't doubt there is a better way to ultimately input the data, but I am not digging into their SAP crap if I don't have to.
  13. bump so is this possible with excel? I have a table with Weeks for col headers and qtys in certain weeks. I want to create a cell (Text col) that will list each qty by week. Is there a way/function to do this? Parse a row, grab non-zero values, and then combine the qty with the corresponding week. I think i could do a massive IF chain tied to INDEX, but wondered if there was more elegant solution
  14. vax rate falling? Florida: "Hold my beer" https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2021/04/27/florida-private-school-wont-allow-teachers-staff-to-get-covid-19-vaccine/ This has to be a record for stupidity, right? Makes gender reveal parties look like a gathering for the Nobel prize in Physics.
  15. [aggy] don't knock the combusto-fecal trouserrian lifestyle until you have tried it [/aggy]
  16. hmmm. i am guessing there will not be an exception for kids under the age of 12. We had to cancel a fam trip to UK/France in summer 2020. kiddos are 13 and 10. good to see it's opening up again at least.
  17. reminds me of where i used to work. it was in the microchip assembly sector and we used a couple of xray machines. completely enclosed (lead lined) units and nothing like the dentist and doc office ones. I lost a bet and was the prestigious Radiation Safety Officer and had to explain any risks and procedures on what to do the machines were malfunctioning. I tired various factoids (rad dose from a 3hr flight is way more than using machine, inverse square law,etc...) and half the people that worked in the same room as the units said the machine did something to their blood when they were near it. Showing them the rad meter reading from the break room vs 10cm from the active machine (the same reading) made no difference. Dunno what it would take. either money, right to work, right to enter certain places.
  18. seems like that could save money in the long run. from the web, it said avg cost of C19 hospital stay with no insurance was between $35K-70K. - you have 550K deaths. Let's just cut it in 1/3 and say 185K were in a hospital at time of death and received expensive care as the worst of the worst cases. 185K * $35K = $6.48B. take that money / $50 incentive and you have a max potential of getting another ~125M vaxxed to save money on any hospital stays. Insurance companies should be righting over to right to pay people to get vaxxed. Some are, i think in forms of rebates or less taken out of your check for company provided ins. But we as taxpayers who foot the bill for emergency room primary care should want to spend money to save lives and money by paying people to get vaxed.
  19. So we are sorta back with some Q-level shit from texags https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3195807/1 started as a vax thread, but the Q is strong in this one. you know it's good when this is the OP and we have a Billy-bad-ass sighting. look out over here... This below guy is awesome. he gets a reasonable response to why flu is down this year and then...checkmate... an unbeatable analogy. and then the coup de grace
  20. In English phonology, t-glottalization or t-glottalling is a sound change in certain English dialects and accents that causes the phoneme /t/ to be pronounced as the glottal stop...It has long been seen as a feature of Cockney dialect (wiki on t-glottalization)
  21. ebay peeps, sorry to crash the thread, but we got hit when someone hijacked a dormant ebay registered to my wife, sold a bunch crap and now ebay is trying to come after us for money they paid out in refunds. We started getting all these return shipments from random people. It was all flea collars for pets. probably received 20 packages and it had info that it was an account for my wife. we could not log in the account or get a password sent (old email we no longer had access to). So called ebay and tried to report the fraud and that we were not in control of the account. They were spectacularly unwilling to do anything. would not shut down the account, would not tell us who was running the account the now or stop the auctions. zero fucks given by them. fast forward a couple months, the returns stop coming and we think we are done with it. but now ebay sent some collection letter because we had not refunded money to the people send back flea collars. Does ebay have no way to clawback money from the seller account receiving the money? I guess these guys just move on the next fraud account, set up to receive money and then shut it down when the returns start coming in.
  22. the only variant i have seen that AZ has not proven effective is the South African variant. there is just too little data to make sweeping statements like "the vaccine is ineffective against known variants" . AZ does very well against the UK variant (70% efficacy; linky). With the very limited data it had vs the SA variant, it did not do well in preventing infection. I don't think there is any data with AZ preventing hospitalization and death vs SA variant good or bad. https://theconversation.com/astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-faq-why-do-the-age-recommendations-keep-changing-does-it-cause-vipit-blood-clots-is-it-effective-against-variants-158302
  23. agree the message needs to move to incentivizing people to get the shot. There are several articles out there about people catching covid after the vax. This is not shocking as i think best case the mRNA vaxs are 90% at preventing infection. The initial numbers from the CDC on breakthrough cases seem pretty low (compared to the 90% expected efficacy) at the moment. one thing these articles are also saying is that pretty much everyone agrees that the vaxs are ~100% effective of stopping hospitalization and death. So again, another huge incentive, but vax hesitant people don't really care about probability of stopping death but likely would care about not wearing a mask to shop or travel. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/the-shock-and-reality-of-catching-covid-after-being-vaccinated https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/20/no-myth-catching-covid-19-after-being-vaccinated/ so again, people can (literally) live with getting a mild case of covid after vaxxing. no big deal in my mind and just a step in the process to 'getting back to normal'. 10-20% of vaxxed people will get sick, recover and move on again. I think as more and more people get vaxxed and hit their 2 week milestone, there will start to be pressure put on retailers to stop mask mandates. What's happening in India and other parts of the world are reminders how fortunate the US is in vaxs delivered to citizens and how effective they are. This is scary. almost 3K per day and you can bet that the number is vastly underreported right now. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavirus-deaths.html Also, India was poised to export AstraZeneca's vaccine Covishield to other parts of the world, but now will likely put that on hold. The AZ vax seems to have a good efficacy at 1 dose (~70%) so hopefully that will help. only 8% of the population has 1 shot administered so far and < 2% fully vaxed. compare to 42%/29% in the US.
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