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  1. homer
    What about managers and coaches?
  2. homer
    It's an interesting question but any data you find will be piecemeal or anecdotal at this point. It's gonna take a while for that to be reported as some places just don't do it on a monthly basis. (by way of example, Michigan just released its traffic fatality report for 2019 two days ago, and CDC is only through Q3 of 2019 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/mortality-dashboard.htm). You can look around and find some data but unless you get the whole picture it's not that meaningful - WI had 146 traffic fatalities through May 17 this year. Last year it was 166, year before was 177....that's been trending down for a while so not sure if it is due to quarantine. I guess you'd have to see what the rate in decline was for the last 10 - 20 years to see if that's a really big drop or not. In Arizona, they have a ton of "other" deaths relative to years past. Specifically those are deaths classified as "Symptoms, signs, and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified.” So far, through May 3, there’s been 1,141 deaths classified in the category. The previous average for an entire year: 1,307. The guess is that most of those are Covid but obviously not 100%. https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/data-expert-says-arizonas-death-rate-from-covid-19-may-be-much-higher-than-reported Sorry, this might be better suited for the off topic thread.
  3. homer
    If you're asking because you don't want to watch Breaking Bad at all, ever, then no, you don't have to watch Breaking Bad in order to understand Better Call Saul. But if you intend to watch both shows I'd recommend watching Breaking Bad first. Mainly because the characters in Better Call Saul aren't as in the forefront of the story in Breaking Bad so you'll come off watching Better Call Saul only to see the characters you grew to know really well on that show be pushed off to the side in Breaking Bad. Not that they aren't important, they're just not the focus. I just think it would be awkward to watch it that way. Now that I've watched 4 seasons of BCS I'd be really curious to hear from someone that watched BCS first and then watching BB. Another couple of shows I really liked recently: Mr. Inbetween on Hulu and Zero Zero Zero on Amazon.
  4. homer
    Cubs?
  5. homer
    That or Milwaukee's real estate market has really skyrocketed. Asking price is a 9% annual increase since he bought in 2013? That was my thought as well. I was surprised he got it for $635K
  6. homer
    Kind of amazing how much better WI has gotten through this thing so far relative to other midwestern states. The case rate and death rate are much lower than Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana and obviously Illinois.
  7. homer
    That seems like an incredibly dumb strategy in any sales field unless you are absolutely sure your prospective client is on the same political wavelength.
  8. homer
    In addition to Georgia and Virginia, you can add Pennsylvania, Vermont, Texas, Maine, and the CDC to the list of places mixing serological and PCR tests. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/ I stand updated.
  9. homer
    Here are the showtimes for the Franklin Drive In: https://fox6now.com/2020/05/20/milky-way-drive-in-movie-theater-at-ballpark-commons-in-franklin-opens-friday-night/?fbclid=IwAR3eLqoBJk9__8cI6JE-77YCLqO00btu8O5UbIWPVQ2YEieGtsHBlbJu_bk Taking kids to The Goonies would be fun.
  10. homer
    Packers should piggyback Rodgers, Boyle, and Love.
  11. homer
    I was referring specifically to the mixing of antibody and viral tests. I know most states are slicing and dicing data. Georgia has had a series of issues with its data reporting beyond this example which was the genesis of my post.
  12. homer
    A lot of states are doing this. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/covid-19-tests-combine-virginia/611620/ Whether or not it's a bad practice depends on what one is trying to understand from the data. Per that article and the one from Georgia, it looks like two states are doing it.
  13. homer
    This is scary if true. https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/19/florida-health-department-officials-told-manager-to-delete-coronavirus-data-before-reassigning-her-emails-show/ "One day before a top Florida Department of Health data manager lost her role maintaining the state’s COVID-19 data, she objected to the removal of records showing people had symptoms or positive tests before the cases were announced, according to internal emails obtained by the Tampa Bay Times."
  14. homer
    Georgia is a mess: https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/coronavirus/article242831786.html "Georgia has performed more than 378,000 coronavirus tests since the beginning of the pandemic, and the state health department reported more than 50,000 new tests over the weekend — the highest two-day total since the state’s first cases were confirmed. Nearly 800 tested positive for the novel coronavirus. But some of these tests aren’t meant to find those currently sick, a practice that public health experts say artificially raises Georgia’s testing totals and artificially lowers the state’s percentage of positive tests."
  15. homer
    You'd have to redo every bathroom. And I believe you'd have to rip out all the carpeting and replace it with tile. Cynical side of me says this is less about hospital beds and more about reimbursement to the provider.
  16. homer
    I can see a whole host of reasons why you couldn't use hotels with an elderly population. 95% of the rooms aren't handicap accessible being the major one. Not saying I agree with what they are doing (I assume they have their reasons) but hotels aren't the answer.
  17. homer
    Thought this was interesting as it pertains to antibody tests and the rates of false positives: https://davidepstein.com/antibody-tests-when-95-percent-accurate-isnt-enough/ If a test to detect a disease whose prevalence is 1/1000 has a false positive rate of 5%, what is the chance that a person found to have a positive result actually has the disease, assuming you know nothing about the person's symptoms or signs? The test had perfect "sensitivity," i.e. that it detected all true positives. answer:
  18. homer
    I remember that. Joe Buck said something like "This thing...." and then silence. I'll see if I can find it.
  19. homer
    If you want reliable data, apparently the Georgia Dept of Health may not be the place to go: https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/just-cuckoo-state-latest-data-mishap-causes-critics-cry-foul/182PpUvUX9XEF8vO11NVGO/ "Where does Sunday take place twice a week? And May 2 come before April 26? The state of Georgia, as it provides up-to-date data on the COVID-19 pandemic."
  20. homer
    I've never had a problem.
  21. homer
    He was one of those guys where if he was doing an improv scene everyone on the cast would stop and watch. Just a terrific comedic actor. This is one of my faves (of many):
  22. homer
    This is the county where Jacksonville, FL is: Be curious to see where this goes in another week or so. I don't know how much testing has changed here.
  23. homer
    Josh gave away $500 worth of Custard at Kopps last night.
  24. homer
    Let's not get into the climate change debate. Thanks
  25. homer
    I read somewhere a few years ago that grade points are up but standardized test scores are down. The biggest culprits are ritzy private schools. People joke about schools with no grades but grades become sort of meaningless anyway.
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