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Looks like mask-wearing guidance is coming. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/02/coronavirus-facemasks-policyreversal/

Wasn’t a stunt. Baker specifically involved the NE private plane to keep the masks out of the feds’ dirty hands and prevent them from stealing the masks like they did the last time MA had masks shipped to the US.

Laredo, TX is making masks mandatory when going inside.

Re: masks "The government has yet to curtail exports by U.S. companies, however—roughly 280 million masks in warehouses around the U.S. were purchased by foreign buyers on Monday alone, according to Forbes. A FEMA spokesperson said the agency “has not actively encouraged or discouraged U.S...

Those are very specific kinds of masks - N95 respirators and (less good) surgical masks which have a fluid barrier in them. Other kinds of masks don’t do much to prevent you from getting it but do make it harder for infected people to give it to you.

Problem is with this that you don’t know (at first) that you’re not healthy. So you feel fine and then you happen to sneeze or cough (not necessarily because of coronavirus — just one of those random sneezes or coughs we all have) and congratulations — you probably contaminated a surface and/or...

Yeah really. I’ve been amazed and depressed that at virtually every forking point the timeline takes the worst fork.

And it can likely “live” on all services since it’s not really alive. It just sits there until something (which can be the properties of the surface) disrupts the lipid membrane that holds it together.

Well, we have research that at *room temp* they can “detect” the stuff on cardboard for a day and plastic/stainless for 3 days, and in copper for 4 hours. However, just because it is detectable doesn’t mean what’s there can infect you. So the “worry about” time is probably less than that. On...

I will generally agree with you with respect to the CONTENTS of mail and packages. However, how much are you willing to risk that the delivery person or letter carrier or whatever didn’t unknowingly put a bunch of virus on the exterior of your stuff while delivering it? As for foodstuffs, just...

We’ve been wearing bandanas. Not from any illusion that it’ll help us but instead to lower the chance we will transmit it if we are unknowingly infected.

Rage-inducing news. Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook

Good news. https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/game-changer-britain-days-away-from-releasing-millions-of-coronavirus-finger-prick-tests-20200326-p54dyy.html

Bad news :( Malaria Drug Chloroquine No Better Than Regular Coronavirus Care, Study Finds

That's not what they are complaining about. They are complaining about that the unemployment bonus amount makes some workers WEEKLY checks more than what they'd make working.

Shyt continues to get really real :( https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/25/coronavirus-patients-do-not-resucitate/ (Hospitals considering universal DNR for COVID-19 patients, regardless of wishes of patients or patients' families.)

Even when the economy does eventually get "re-opened", sports will be the very last thing that will be "re-opened" because of the mass gathering nature of them (unless the leagues are willing to go zero gate).

MA school closures extended through at least May 4, which should not surprise anyone who has been paying attention.

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Yields on 1-month and 3-month US Treasury Bills have gone negative (-0.01% and -0.03% respectively). That means you are in effect paying the government interest to own them rather than the government paying you interest to own them.