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from the lockdowns-were-supposed-to-be-just-one-part-of-defense-at-depth dept.
Economists warn of 'widespread costs' from lockdown:
Blanket restrictions on economic activity should be lifted and replaced with measures targeted specifically at groups most at risk, say economists.
[...] They argue that while the extent to which the lockdown contributed to a subsequent slowing in the rate of new infections and deaths is not easy to estimate precisely, it seems clear that it did contribute to these public health objectives.
However, they say it is "very far from clear" whether keeping such tight restrictions in place for three months until the end of June when they began to be lifted was warranted, given the large costs. They say that the costs of carrying on with such a lockdown are likely to have become significantly greater than its benefits.
Debate over the global dilemma continues.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 30 2020, @02:52PM (3 children)
About 3-4 closed in the entire state, one reopened after the cluster was eliminated and the business disinfected.
See for yourself [covid19data.com.au]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 30 2020, @03:13PM (2 children)
Disclaimer:
That topmost graphic is useless to a color blind old man like myself.
The chart below it is of some value. Public housing towers ranks higher than ANYTHING? Who'da thunk it? Informative, but it doesn't specifically address the food processing industries, which I was addressing.
1. Cedar Meats
2. Somerville Meats
3. JBS Abbatoir
4. Australian Lamb Company
5. Diamond Valley Pork
So, in Australia, public housing, health care, and retailing are the highest risks, in order, with a number of families figuring into total count. It appears that food processing ranks well below either public housing, or healthcare (to include nursing homes).
Interesting . . .
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 30 2020, @03:25PM (1 child)
Sorry, I don't have other source of info.
Yes, because they are as densely populated as New York [abc.net.au] (the link has a photo)
With the note that those are "infection clusters" and not "hotspots" - no, the Aussie families don't have hundreds of members. The name of the cluster is linked to where the origin of the cluster has been traced to. Many of these origins are now clear.
The worst hit are the age care - they can't isolated themselves more dependent as they are of a carer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday July 31 2020, @11:50AM
Sounds like his OS should have a feature whereby he could point to a pixel on the screen and get its RGB value.
Or a perhaps more useful one that imposes a time-varying transformation of RGB values so that the colour axis he doesn't perceive will be represented by easily perceptible continuous change in one of the colour axes he can perceive.