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  1. 2 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    Thanks. I saw that, which is good to know current status, but I don't see any way to view historical data by day?   

    Admittedly I haven't spent much time looking for it, but I haven't found the historical data yet. The box just to the left of that one has a tab for dashboard notes that reads: 

    Hospitalizatons data: Travis County hospitalizations with discharges from March 1, 2020 through April 29, 2020. | St. David’s Healthcare, Seton Ascension, and Baylor, Scott and White hospitals

    I went to the main covid page (http://austintexas.gov/covid19) and nothing jumps out immediately to me on where to find past data.

  2. 2 hours ago, utee94 said:

    SIAP, but does anyone have a link to a place that tracks Austin/TravCo hospitalizations and/or deaths by day?  

    I looked on the TravCo dashboard and saw a lot of data, but couldn't find the above.

     

    Upper right-hand corner has the data (the graph can be expanded by clicking on the icon in the corner). Unfortunately, I can't find what it looks like over time.

    Inpatients: 88

    Inpatients in ICU: 31

    Inpatients on a ventilator: 20

    https://austin.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/39e4f8d4acb0433baae6d15a931fa984

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  3. 4 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Took a trip down to Sea Rim SP today...Bought my pass online in advance and arrived around five PM to find the gates locked and nobody in the office...So we just parked outside the gate and walked in and had the entire park to ourselves. I recommend it to anybody. 

    Hope you've got a small fire going there. It seems like that'd be a perfect thing to start the day with.

  4. 9 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


    What’s your point? We increased testing this last week by double and had a meat plant outbreak that resulted in 1100+ cases.

    My point was that deaths are still rising and cases are not constrained solely to meat packing plants, unless you consider Minneapolis and its suburbs as being packed full of meat plant workers.

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  5. 18 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


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    It really is amazing how we choreograph our deaths to follow the same pattern for 5 straight weeks

    You're right. It could only be an elaborately choreographed ballet performed by individual doctors, medical examiners, state health officials, and coroners from across the country from multiple jurisdictions to act in such unison to put on this intricately detailed and coordinated display of mathematical uniformity.

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  6. 3 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

    Bashing utterly stupid actions is within bounds, left or right....and this is weapons-grade, virtue signaling stupidity.  Layered with other pressing matters such as getting people back to work and reigniting a collapsing economy, this is utterly indefensible.  

    Question: Is it within bounds to criticize states opening things up contrary to specific guidelines set forth by the CDC and the scientific community? Would the patriotic call of folding under pressure by a bunch of Karens not be considered "virtue signaling" by weak economic "cucks?" I mean, god forbid that there would be so many "snowflakes" who couldn't "toughen up, buttercup."

    If they can't handle it, maybe they should've behaved responsibly and chosen essential jobs or worked from home instead of losing their nonessential ones. I guess they'll just have to eventually pull themselves up from their bootstraps like real men or starve, because it's a man-eat-man world out there.

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  7. 4 hours ago, SA-KC_Horn said:

    NSIAP

    Rona in your skeet

     

      Reveal hidden contents

     

    Traces of the COVID-19 coronavirus have been found in the semen of some severely infected men, raising the possibility that the virus might be sexually transmitted, a new study from China claims.

    Researchers found evidence of the virus in six men out of a group of 38 COVID-19 patients at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital in China who provided samples.

    The six men included four who were still infected and two who were recovering, the researchers said.

    It's not surprising that the virus was found in semen samples, since it's also been found in stool and other body fluids, said Dr. Ryan Berglund, a urologist with the Cleveland Clinic's Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute.

    Infectious viruses commonly are found in semen, with Zika being one recent notable example. The Chinese researchers noted that 27 different viruses have been detected in human semen.

    However, Berglund and infectious disease experts warn that this does not constitute concrete evidence that COVID-19 can be sexually transmitted.

    "I think that's premature," Berglund said. "You have to look at this as a sign that semen, as along with a number of other body fluids, can contain the virus."

    The new paper comes on the heels of another study from China that found no traces of coronavirus in 34 men with mild to moderate cases of COVID-19. That study was published in late April in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

    Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore, said "the fact that the novel coronavirus' genetic material is found in the semen of male patients is an important finding that will need follow-up study."

    Agreeing with the need for further research is Dr. Greg Poland, director of the Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

    "To me, it raises a warning, and now we have to attend to that warning and do the research," Poland said.

    But both Adalja and Poland have doubts about the potential for COVID-19 to be sexually transmitted.

    "We know the virus is transmitted efficiently through the respiratory route and we have not seen any documented cases of sexual transmission, therefore this may not necessarily represent proof of sexual transmissibility via the male genital tract," Adalja said.

    Poland noted that the new study relies on testing that only detects traces of genetic material from the coronavirus.

    "It doesn't tell you that it's whole, viable, infectious virus," Poland said. "If I ground up the virus and performed this test, it would be positive even though that virus has no infectious potential."

     

     

     

    I'm curious about the sample collection method used for this.

  8. Man, those were the days...the Shag's Golden Years. I can't remember who, but someone put together a collage of screenshots that was hosted on its own dedicated site, detailing her entire sordid past. That someone needs to step forward as does the owner of the sidestep drill gif. I want to say it was Hollywood Colt.

    Holy shit! I just checked my contacts and still have her number from when she was trying to "engage in debate" and "exchange of ideas" during her brief radio show period.

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  9. 20 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

    it really seems like this lost his attention when he saw the demographics of who it was killing most.

    He seemed to have given up as soon as he was called out for his bleach injection suggestion. He's taken his ball and gone home.

    In other words, our "war president" has capitulated to the "silent enemy."

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  10. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    This captures what I mean better than anything I have said.

    Trump and his followers concede the broad or major point in order to argue the ephemera.  And the press has been a more than willing arguer of ephemera, causing the broader or more major point to be lost in the noise.

    Yeah, but that doesn't really address the line that I bolded where you accused his opponents of "countering Trump's unverifiable assertions with unverifiable assertions of their own and sometimes ones that strained credibility as much or more than Trump." That's what I questioning.

    Now, I will agree with the idea that an "orange man bad" argument won't get you very far with his supporters, because that does indeed appear to be a big part of his appeal for them.

    I'm old enough to remember back in the days before November 2016 when the old CR was the primary residence of those who now occupy DT when they were absolutely gleeful about wallowing in his hot orange shit. That's absolutely what got them most excited about his candidacy and brings up a classic Brisketism that cruelty isn't a bug; it's a feature. It's  kind of the point.

    But, contrary to that article, they won't even argue that bit of "ephemera." Hell, they won't argue about any of his policies. Instead, they've fucking left the board and refuse to address anything, which is why they've largely abandoned it altogether and have retreated into their own "no politics' safe space and flatly refuse to acknowledge any criticism with the threat of getting his critics banned.

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  11. 9 minutes ago, Mole said:

    If you follow the thread you’ll find the longer clip on CSPAN. The short clip is entirely dishonest just to set up the joke about empty boxes.

    In the longer clip, they:

    1. Finish the boxes

    2. Pence is told that the other boxes in the truck are empty

    3. He makes the “for the cameras” comment

    4. Someone else comments about them being easier to carry

    5. They all laugh and Pence closes the doors to the van

    He didn’t get caught on a hot mic. This time it actually was a joke, unlike Trump’s “sarcasm.”

    See, now this is good work. Thanks for that.

  12. 12 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    It appears the issues go far beyond this guy. Remember the Glynn County police didn't want to press charges:

    https://www.statesboroherald.com/local/glynn-county-police-chief-3-ex-officers-charged-scandal-grows/

    It looks like that PD has been in hot water for a couple of years now, having lost their accreditation in 2018.

    https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/county-police-panel-holds-first-meeting/article_37c9355a-b330-51f9-b45b-12f9b30b183d.html

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  13. 15 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    Mayor Adler apparently made another social distancing order this morning at 10:30a, but of course it's buried behind paywalls, and the City of Austin links aren't updated yet.  

    I know we're not allowed to talk about official municipal policy on here, and my love and adoration of Adler is so well documented on this site.  

    But anybody know the details?  It's insane to me we can't discuss shit like this on here anymore.  

    AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin Mayor Steve Adler and Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt have extended city and county “Stay Home, Work Safe” orders that were set to expire Friday, they announced in a virtual press conference Friday.

    “I think what’s remarkable about these new orders is that there’s not much remarkable about them,” Adler said. “These orders are continuations in substance of our past orders. It still maintains the same structure.”

    The lone tweak in the orders, Adler said, was that businesses included in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s phased reopening of Texas are exceptions to the local order. The city’s orders are extended until May 30, while the county’s are extended until June 15.

  14. 5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I've said on several occasions that I do believe a number of media outlets have gone a bit overboard in critiquing Trump so that it created a "boy that cried wolf" effect.**  I should say, rather than critique, I guess, countering Trump's unverifiable assertions with unverifiable assertions of their own and sometimes ones that strained credibility as much or more than Trump.  It was unnecessary, in my opinion, and helped fuel the base with ideas of Trump Derangement Syndrome and Biaasssss!!!111!!!

    **rather than cried wolf, maybe a better analogy is "don't get in the mud and wrestle with a pig, you'll both get dirty and the pig will like it."

    Can you provide examples of the bolded? And I don't mean one or two, but enough that would fuel 40% of our population to think that every criticism of Trump is TDS?

  15. No shoes, no shirt, no service. We've seen that posted on the doors of countless conveniences stores our entire fucking lives, but I'm willing to bet a good portion of our population would boycott a similar sign that simply added a mask to that requirement until this ends.

    You know what? I fucking hate wearing pants, but I do so when in public out of respect of others. It's not that gotdam hard. Hell, I could go even further and talk about public decency laws and whether they do or do not have a direct relationship to public safety or sanitation.

    Clearly, for the time being, wearing a mask does appear to mitigate the risk of spreading this shit. It's not that hard. As someone posted elsewhere, some seem to want 100% freedom with 0% responsibility.

    The solution is simple: Don't be a selfish prick.

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  16. 27 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

    I've looked but haven't seen the data for daily tests.  I do know that as of 4/18 Texas was right at 250k tests (I have a post from that day).  We were also right at 10% positive test when we were in the 250-300k range.  

    Scroll down to infections and testing (second chart) and click on daily tests.

    https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/texas

    ETA: I should add that the chart is interactive, so you can slide your cursor along the line to see the exact daily figures. Looks like there's a few days lag on the data though.

  17. 3 hours ago, B00M said:

    ANYONE WANT TO SHARE DATA OR NEWS FROM ACROSS TEXAS? Fuck this NY tax and transit talk and dry fuck China. For good measure, fuck you too. 

    New case count on the rise (probably due to increased testing); deaths remain fairly level.

    Biggest hot spot in the state is Jones County just north of Abilene (I think there's a prison there). Warm spots concentrated in the Panhandle, East Texas, North Texas (mostly suburbanish counties, plus Dallas Co. proper), and Caldwell/Gonzales counties).

    Overall, it looks like it's mostly a case of a slow burn of smoldering embers and glowing coals with various smaller counties falling like leaves into the fire and briefly flaring up.

    Overall, my assessment would be to use best judgment, remain cautious, and not add a lot of fuel to the fire.

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/texas-coronavirus-cases.html

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  18. 1 minute ago, DDD Dad said:

    I read that as "permanent" not as a policy but as to eligibility for service under our current understanding of the virus and its potential long-term and even possible permanent effects, but subject to revision (as a policy) as more is learned about the virus.

    You're the lawyer so I don't have a problem with you taking the lead on interpreting something so confusing. 

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