COVID-19 vs. our Networks

Mon Mar 16 20:50:32 UTC 2020

It goes down to county level.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 4:48 PM Alexandre Petrescu <
alexandre.petrescu at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Le 16/03/2020 à 21:42, sronan at ronan-online.com a écrit :
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> https://hgis.uw.edu/virus
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> It does not say by City.  I cant find my city, department not even region.
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> I know all these URLs with maps, I can paste them if y ou wish.
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> I watch them every day.
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> Alex
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Mar 16, 2020, at 4:17 PM, Alexandre Petrescu
> <alexandre.petrescu at gmail.com> <alexandre.petrescu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Le 16/03/2020 à 20:08, Owen DeLong a écrit :
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> On Mar 16, 2020, at 07:04 , Alexandre Petrescu <
> alexandre.petrescu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Le 16/03/2020 à 14:58, Mark Tinka a écrit :
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> On 15/Mar/20 00:12, Eric M. Carroll wrote:
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> There is good news here. The infrastructure has never been better
> positioned to support this kind of mass event. We can shop from home,
> work from home, get groceries from home, order drugs, get
> entertainment, all via IP. The ISP community needs to be ready to
> respond to the magnitude of what is happening.
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> If the Internet was as large in 2003 when SARS hit as it is now in 2020
> under the Coronavirus, I think we'd have seen the same issues back then.
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> Nowadays, information gets around a lot faster and with more fuss and
> fanfare than before. On average, by the time you see a shared video clip
> on WhatsApp, you'll be receiving it from 100 other contacts inside of a
> 30 minutes.
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> As readier as the Internet is today, part of the mega spread of the
> fallout from the Coronavirus is because information is not only
> traveling way faster, a lot of it is also not (necessarily) verified or
> moderated before being shared with is consumers.
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> There is no other way to do that information filterning now. Nobody has
> any authority of knowing better than others.
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> This simply isn’t true…
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> Listen to qualified medical professionals, especially those who specialize
> in infectious diseases and epidemiology.
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> Doctors are many.  Some speak urgent: they say stay home.
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> Others say this, and yet others say that.
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> The information on the CDC and WHO websites remains the primary source of
> trustworthy information. It may be
> incomplete, but if someone is contradicting something there, they’re very
> likely to be wrong.
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> Stay home.
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> OTOH, anyone selling “survive COVID” or “cure COVID” etc. is completely
> untrustworthy and guaranteed to be lying to
> you in order to sell a product. Despicable, but common place.
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> Yes.
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> There’s no authoritative way to get false information off the internet, so
> we have to combat it as best we can with good
> information and education. Even in my own household, this is a constant
> battle as my GF continues to bring home
> odd superstitious rumors and embellishments from a variety of inaccurate
> sources and I constantly have to correct her
> perspective.
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> For up to date local information, check with the local public health
> authority in your jurisdiction.
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> I tell you I did.  There is 0 info from official channels telling where
> precisely are the cases.  I had to google the cityname and the virus word.
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> The official information here says number of cases, and names the REgions
> most affected (large regions).  Thats it.
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> Please tell me about your city: do you know the numbers in your city?  How
> did you get the info?
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> In the US, that will usually
> be your county public health agency. In some cases, individual
> municipalities also have public health departments.
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> Please try it and tell me if it works.
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> At the very least adhere to their orders and recommendations.
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> YEs I do.  It says this: tomorrow noon all stay  indoors, out only for
> pharmacy, alimentaiton or criticial job.  Thats it.
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> They also use other words that I will not type here.
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> Alex
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> Owen
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