Eeep...first time we’ve been mandated to wear masks...that indicates to me that Mark McGowan is freaking out...
The two housemates have tested negative thus far but I’m sure they are expecting that they’re going to test positive in the near future.
The man went to a massive amount of places with high traffic so honestly expecting more cases. My friend lives in the main exposure area, I called him as soon as I heard and said he better bloody get tested...and on a family law page I’m on a lady is feeling ill, has visited several of the named exposure sites and has been ordered to test and isolate...however she has court orders that say she is to pick the kids up at 8.30 am tomorrow from her ex-who in the spirit of things(insert massive eye roll here) is refusing to continue caring for the kids...and family court is basically closed.
Kids also get an extra week of holiday though all parks are closed, even the dog park...which I spent far too long debating with miss 7 and mr 5 over whether it was a “park” or not))
TLDR...Yep, Mark’s done it again!
Breaking:
The COVID Tracking Project @COVID19Tracking ·1m
Some important news about CTP: After a year of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting COVID-19 data for the United States—and months of preparation for what we’re about to announce—we’re ending our data compilation work on March 7.
https://covidtracking.com/analysis-updates/covid-tracking-project-end-march-7
"Every day for almost a year, hundreds of COVID Tracking Project contributors from all walks of life have compiled, published, and interpreted vitally important COVID-19 data as a service to their fellow Americans. On March 7, the one-year anniversary of our founding, we will release our final daily update and our data compilation will stop. Documentation, analysis, and archival work will continue for another two months, and we will bring the project to a close in May.
The seeds of this choice have been with us from the beginning. From its inception, this project was both unlikely and unprecedented: No one expected a volunteer pop-up collective to publish and interpret public health data for the United States for the first year of a global pandemic. We began the work out of necessity and planned to do it for a couple of weeks at most, always in the expectation that the federal public health establishment would make our work obsolete. Every few months through the course of the project, we asked ourselves whether it was possible to wind down. Instead, we saw the federal government continue to publish patchy and often ill-defined data while our world-famous public health agencies remained sidelined and underfunded, their leadership seemingly inert.
That we were able to carry the data through a full year is a testament to the generosity of the foundations and firms that gave us the resources we needed, to the counsel of our advisory board, to The Atlantic’s support for our highly unusual organization, and above all to the devotion of our contributors. But the work itself—compiling, cleaning, standardizing, and making sense of COVID-19 data from 56 individual states and territories—is properly the work of federal public health agencies. Not only because these efforts are a governmental responsibility—which they are—but because federal teams have access to far more comprehensive data than we do, and can mandate compliance with at least some standards and requirements......................"
Much more at link
I cringe that Johns Hopkins has lost some of their originals, and if that goes away... I'm just not sure of my disappointed feelings to express.
Breaking:
The COVID Tracking Project @COVID19Tracking ·1m
Some important news about CTP: After a year of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting COVID-19 data for the United States—and months of preparation for what we’re about to announce—we’re ending our data compilation work on March 7.
https://covidtracking.com/analysis-updates/covid-tracking-project-end-march-7
"Every day for almost a year, hundreds of COVID Tracking Project contributors from all walks of life have compiled, published, and interpreted vitally important COVID-19 data as a service to their fellow Americans. On March 7, the one-year anniversary of our founding, we will release our final daily update and our data compilation will stop. Documentation, analysis, and archival work will continue for another two months, and we will bring the project to a close in May.
The seeds of this choice have been with us from the beginning. From its inception, this project was both unlikely and unprecedented: No one expected a volunteer pop-up collective to publish and interpret public health data for the United States for the first year of a global pandemic. We began the work out of necessity and planned to do it for a couple of weeks at most, always in the expectation that the federal public health establishment would make our work obsolete. Every few months through the course of the project, we asked ourselves whether it was possible to wind down. Instead, we saw the federal government continue to publish patchy and often ill-defined data while our world-famous public health agencies remained sidelined and underfunded, their leadership seemingly inert.
That we were able to carry the data through a full year is a testament to the generosity of the foundations and firms that gave us the resources we needed, to the counsel of our advisory board, to The Atlantic’s support for our highly unusual organization, and above all to the devotion of our contributors. But the work itself—compiling, cleaning, standardizing, and making sense of COVID-19 data from 56 individual states and territories—is properly the work of federal public health agencies. Not only because these efforts are a governmental responsibility—which they are—but because federal teams have access to far more comprehensive data than we do, and can mandate compliance with at least some standards and requirements......................"
Much more at link
I cringe that Johns Hopkins has lost some of their originals, and if that goes away... I'm just not sure of my disappointed feelings to express.
