unclevlad

Best response I saw to this mindset:
 

The only point of disagreement I have is, neither incident was despair-related.  The first incident was the Missouri bombing attempt:
 
 
And this one is just a paranoid whackjob, who thought it was part of a government takeover.
 
There will, I fear, be many cases that do fit your pattern.  And couple that with a big spike in gun sales......

The only point of disagreement I have is, neither incident was despair-related.  The first incident was the Missouri bombing attempt:
 
 
And this one is just a paranoid whackjob, who thought it was part of a government takeover.
 
There will, I fear, be many cases that do fit your pattern.  And couple that with a big spike in gun sales......

Wimbledon cancelled.  Postponement, even if the fall allows tournaments to be played, would be a real bear.  Also, as pointed out, at B/R, you get into, say, late August, and sunset is an hour to hour and a half earlier.  That would make scheduling that much more difficult.  Rainfall also goes up a bit;  by itself, that might not be a big deal, it's from 1.6 to 1.8".  But coupled with shorter hours of light for scheduling, any early delay would be more impactful.
 
Need to go to market...been lazy so far.  Glad I was now.
UPS just dropped off the Porch Pirate Mother Lode.
A box, all white with big black printing on the top and all the sides:  Amazon Ultra Soft Toilet Paper.
OK, I can leave now.  Back soon.  

The line of cars waiting to get in to our parking lot for the food bank distribution already stretches around the block.
 
I’m trying not to cry.

the linear trajectory may be misleading because we are limited by the number of tests available.  The death trajectory, sadly, will be likely the most accurate measure of pace.  The next 3 months will be a combination of boredom, depression and terror.  

CDC Director is hinting at 24 months?

OK, so I'm stuck at home and reading.  This one's one of Michael Anderle's KGU novellas from the "Frank Kurns Tales of the Unknown World" where the new character, Yelena, gets introduced.  She's got a mild power set...but one of them is dog-related.  She actually enhances her dog, just by being with her.  Other parallels would be a druid's animal companion in D&D, and how shamans make Great Dogs in Bujold's World of the Five Gods.
 
So...yeah...I like that.  I figured I'd buy the dogs as followers.  250 points.  And 2 of em, a black Lab male and yellow Lab female.  NOT all the points spent at this point but hey, I can add some more stuff or just cut the cost of the Followers back a little.  
 
Soft Step's Dogs
Obsidian and Topaz
VAL    CHA    Cost    Roll    Notes
15    STR    5    12-    HTH Damage 3d6  END [1]
18    DEX    16    13-
15    CON    5    12-
8    INT    -2    11-    PER Roll 13-/20-
8    EGO    -2    11-
15    PRE    5    12-    PRE Attack: 3d6
5    OCV    10
5    DCV    10
3    OMCV    0
3    DMCV    0
4    SPD    20    Phases:  3, 6, 9, 12
6    PD    4    6/12 PD (0/6 rPD)
2    ED    0    2/4 ED (0/2 rED)
12    REC    8
50    END    6
12    BODY    2    
30    STUN    5
Movement    Cost    Meters    Notes
RUNNING    -12    18m/72m    END [1]
SWIMMING    0    4m/8m    END [1]
LEAPING    -2    8m    8m forward, 4m upward
Characteristics Total: 78
Cost    Powers
3    Ultrasonic Perception (Hearing Group) - END=0
5    Nightvision - END=0
5    Discriminatory with Normal Smell - END=0
6    +2 PER with all Sense Groups - END=0
4    +2 PER with Hearing Group - END=0
5    +5 PER with Normal Smell - END=0
3    LS  (Longevity: 200 Years; Safe in Intense Cold) - END=0
12    Regeneration (1 BODY per 5 Minutes) - END=0
12    Resistant Protection (6 PD/2 ED) - END=0
29    Running +18m (18m total), x4 Noncombat, Reduced Endurance (1/2 END; +1/4) (29 Active Points) - END=1
9    Leaping +8m (8m forward, 4m upward) (Accurate) - END=1
17    Telepathy 4d6 (Humans class of minds), Persistent (+1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (35 Active Points); Empathy All Emotions (-1/2), Always On (-1/2) - END=0
Powers Total: 110

Cost    Skills
0    Language:  Canid (basic conversation) (1 Active Points)
1    Language:  English (basic conversation)
5    KS: Explosives (by scent) 14-
3    Acrobatics 13-
3    Stealth 13-
Skills Total: 12

Base Points: 250
Experience: 0
Experience Unspent: 0
Total Character Cost: 200
 
 
NOTES:  I bought the running and leap in the Characteristics to 0 largely out of habit, cuz END can be wonky with HD when you don't.  Physical Def makes a lot more sense than a lot of Energy Def...but I'm not shooting for particularly combat-worthy anyway.  The languages are one-way, and reflect the INT.  They can understand spoken English decently, and can express some things with their whines and grunts...which Side Step, their owner, can understand now.  

Perception roll's incorrect, but that's HD's fault.  It's 13- sight, 15- hearing, and 18- scent.  So that KS:  explosives is just one example of a skill...a bomb-sniffing dog.  Others can probably get added.
 
This was a lot more fun to consider than fixating on covid-19 devastation for the evening....

The link above had it.  That's good enough for me.  Also, I think I see why it wasn't showing up Sunday...because this was Thursday, the 26th.  The link you cite is from the 27th, but the decree
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000041755775&categorieLien=id
was issued on the 25th.  I didn't go back that far.  I looked for confirmation *Sunday*.
 
What bites, to me, is the need IMO to be this anal with regard to confirmation.  So thanks for your patience and diligence finding it.
 
Let us keep our fingers crossed.

Good luck to you, sir.
Oh, and yeah, speaking of bodily fluids, FDA has warned that CV has been found in stool samples.  Risk is unknown, and generally small most of the time...but here......
 
Good luck again.

Spain passed China...at least in terms of officially reported cases...to take the #3 slot in number of cases.  They've been #2 in deaths, only behind Italy, for several days now.
 
Number of cases per million people, for the world as a whole, broke 100.  It was a touch under 93 yesterday.  Number of deaths per million people will break 5 tomorrow easily...went from 4.4 to 4.8 today.
 
Closer to home...yesterday, total # of deaths was Italy, Spain, China, Iran, France, USA.  Today, it's Italy, Spain, China, USA.  We passed France...despite the fact that over 400 people died today there.
 
A large part of the reason why France is willing to try the HCQ-AZ treatment is, discounting Andorra and San Marino where the sample sizes are too small for the death rates to be meaningful (that said, wow, San Marino is getting *hammered*....230 cases and 25 deaths out of a population of 33,000)...among the larger countries, France has the 4th highest mortality rate in the world.  Italy and Spain are suffering the worst by a huge margin;  Netherlands is 50 per M, France is at 46.  
 
EDIT:  sorry!  Rephrase...I *think* a large part.  I stated as fact, it's not.  It's opinion, and not informed by anything but the numbers.  Lots of dead bodies means lots of pressure to respond *somehow.*

OK, so I'm stuck at home and reading.  This one's one of Michael Anderle's KGU novellas from the "Frank Kurns Tales of the Unknown World" where the new character, Yelena, gets introduced.  She's got a mild power set...but one of them is dog-related.  She actually enhances her dog, just by being with her.  Other parallels would be a druid's animal companion in D&D, and how shamans make Great Dogs in Bujold's World of the Five Gods.
 
So...yeah...I like that.  I figured I'd buy the dogs as followers.  250 points.  And 2 of em, a black Lab male and yellow Lab female.  NOT all the points spent at this point but hey, I can add some more stuff or just cut the cost of the Followers back a little.  
 
Soft Step's Dogs
Obsidian and Topaz
VAL    CHA    Cost    Roll    Notes
15    STR    5    12-    HTH Damage 3d6  END [1]
18    DEX    16    13-
15    CON    5    12-
8    INT    -2    11-    PER Roll 13-/20-
8    EGO    -2    11-
15    PRE    5    12-    PRE Attack: 3d6
5    OCV    10
5    DCV    10
3    OMCV    0
3    DMCV    0
4    SPD    20    Phases:  3, 6, 9, 12
6    PD    4    6/12 PD (0/6 rPD)
2    ED    0    2/4 ED (0/2 rED)
12    REC    8
50    END    6
12    BODY    2    
30    STUN    5
Movement    Cost    Meters    Notes
RUNNING    -12    18m/72m    END [1]
SWIMMING    0    4m/8m    END [1]
LEAPING    -2    8m    8m forward, 4m upward
Characteristics Total: 78
Cost    Powers
3    Ultrasonic Perception (Hearing Group) - END=0
5    Nightvision - END=0
5    Discriminatory with Normal Smell - END=0
6    +2 PER with all Sense Groups - END=0
4    +2 PER with Hearing Group - END=0
5    +5 PER with Normal Smell - END=0
3    LS  (Longevity: 200 Years; Safe in Intense Cold) - END=0
12    Regeneration (1 BODY per 5 Minutes) - END=0
12    Resistant Protection (6 PD/2 ED) - END=0
29    Running +18m (18m total), x4 Noncombat, Reduced Endurance (1/2 END; +1/4) (29 Active Points) - END=1
9    Leaping +8m (8m forward, 4m upward) (Accurate) - END=1
17    Telepathy 4d6 (Humans class of minds), Persistent (+1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (35 Active Points); Empathy All Emotions (-1/2), Always On (-1/2) - END=0
Powers Total: 110

Cost    Skills
0    Language:  Canid (basic conversation) (1 Active Points)
1    Language:  English (basic conversation)
5    KS: Explosives (by scent) 14-
3    Acrobatics 13-
3    Stealth 13-
Skills Total: 12

Base Points: 250
Experience: 0
Experience Unspent: 0
Total Character Cost: 200
 
 
NOTES:  I bought the running and leap in the Characteristics to 0 largely out of habit, cuz END can be wonky with HD when you don't.  Physical Def makes a lot more sense than a lot of Energy Def...but I'm not shooting for particularly combat-worthy anyway.  The languages are one-way, and reflect the INT.  They can understand spoken English decently, and can express some things with their whines and grunts...which Side Step, their owner, can understand now.  

Perception roll's incorrect, but that's HD's fault.  It's 13- sight, 15- hearing, and 18- scent.  So that KS:  explosives is just one example of a skill...a bomb-sniffing dog.  Others can probably get added.
 
This was a lot more fun to consider than fixating on covid-19 devastation for the evening....

Ratchets up the suspicion they're lying through their teeth....
 
From a planning perspective, it also says that if we want a more reliable estimate of the mortality rate of the virus......we have to take the Chinese data out.  It is completely unreliable.
 
Lessee...
  total cases total deaths case/1M Est Pop (M) Deaths/1M Mort Rate World 746178 35347 95.7 7797 4.53 4.74% China 81470 3304 57 1429 2.31 4.06% World – China 664708 32043 104.4 6368 5.03 4.82%  
Just a bit of number crunching.  The top 2 rows' data from worldometers.com,(https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) except for the population estimate...that's from cases per million and total cases.  The third's simple math, only here the cases /deaths per million people is computed from the total cases/deaths and estimated population.  Mortality rate is simply deaths/cases.
 
So the big upswing is, both infection rate and death rate go up about 10%.  The death rate goes up but not by enough to matter *yet*.  It's too early, there's too many variables at play for that mortality rate to be considered final.  And the data for Spain and Italy are disastrously high;  their mortality rates are about 8 and 10%.  

EDIT:  Mortality rates by country.  Same data source.
  Cases Deaths Rate World 746178 35347 4.74% USA 145131 2608 1.80% Italy 97689 10779 11.03% Spain 85195 7340 8.62% China 81470 3304 4.06% Germany 63929 560 0.88% Iran 41495 2757 6.64% France 40174 2606 6.49% UK 22141 1408 6.36% Switzerland 15526 333 2.14% Belgium 11899 513 4.31% Netherlands 11750 864 7.35% S. Korea 9661 158 1.64% Austria 9520 108 1.13% Turkey 9217 131 1.42% Canada 6671 67 1.00% Portugal 6408 140 2.18%  

Trump dropping a BIG announcement.
 
PEAK death rate by the modeling should hopefully be in 2 more weeks.  
Declaration of emergency and measures extended to April 30th.
 
 

It's always debatable, but Green Lantern...?  The power ring's not a focus, it's SFX.  Makes a sizable difference in the costing if you take that out...well over 100 points.  You also assigned a -2 to the yellow vulnerability?  -1/4, maybe -1/2.  Yeah, it does nothing against something yellow, but that doesn't represent a near-complete loss of functionality *generally*...which is what the limitation represents.
 
But you did do a nice job in showing how crazy-broad the ring is...all the utility powers.

Ratchets up the suspicion they're lying through their teeth....
 
From a planning perspective, it also says that if we want a more reliable estimate of the mortality rate of the virus......we have to take the Chinese data out.  It is completely unreliable.
 
Lessee...
  total cases total deaths case/1M Est Pop (M) Deaths/1M Mort Rate World 746178 35347 95.7 7797 4.53 4.74% China 81470 3304 57 1429 2.31 4.06% World – China 664708 32043 104.4 6368 5.03 4.82%  
Just a bit of number crunching.  The top 2 rows' data from worldometers.com,(https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) except for the population estimate...that's from cases per million and total cases.  The third's simple math, only here the cases /deaths per million people is computed from the total cases/deaths and estimated population.  Mortality rate is simply deaths/cases.
 
So the big upswing is, both infection rate and death rate go up about 10%.  The death rate goes up but not by enough to matter *yet*.  It's too early, there's too many variables at play for that mortality rate to be considered final.  And the data for Spain and Italy are disastrously high;  their mortality rates are about 8 and 10%.  

EDIT:  Mortality rates by country.  Same data source.
  Cases Deaths Rate World 746178 35347 4.74% USA 145131 2608 1.80% Italy 97689 10779 11.03% Spain 85195 7340 8.62% China 81470 3304 4.06% Germany 63929 560 0.88% Iran 41495 2757 6.64% France 40174 2606 6.49% UK 22141 1408 6.36% Switzerland 15526 333 2.14% Belgium 11899 513 4.31% Netherlands 11750 864 7.35% S. Korea 9661 158 1.64% Austria 9520 108 1.13% Turkey 9217 131 1.42% Canada 6671 67 1.00% Portugal 6408 140 2.18%  

Ratchets up the suspicion they're lying through their teeth....
 
From a planning perspective, it also says that if we want a more reliable estimate of the mortality rate of the virus......we have to take the Chinese data out.  It is completely unreliable.
 
Lessee...
  total cases total deaths case/1M Est Pop (M) Deaths/1M Mort Rate World 746178 35347 95.7 7797 4.53 4.74% China 81470 3304 57 1429 2.31 4.06% World – China 664708 32043 104.4 6368 5.03 4.82%  
Just a bit of number crunching.  The top 2 rows' data from worldometers.com,(https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) except for the population estimate...that's from cases per million and total cases.  The third's simple math, only here the cases /deaths per million people is computed from the total cases/deaths and estimated population.  Mortality rate is simply deaths/cases.
 
So the big upswing is, both infection rate and death rate go up about 10%.  The death rate goes up but not by enough to matter *yet*.  It's too early, there's too many variables at play for that mortality rate to be considered final.  And the data for Spain and Italy are disastrously high;  their mortality rates are about 8 and 10%.  

EDIT:  Mortality rates by country.  Same data source.
  Cases Deaths Rate World 746178 35347 4.74% USA 145131 2608 1.80% Italy 97689 10779 11.03% Spain 85195 7340 8.62% China 81470 3304 4.06% Germany 63929 560 0.88% Iran 41495 2757 6.64% France 40174 2606 6.49% UK 22141 1408 6.36% Switzerland 15526 333 2.14% Belgium 11899 513 4.31% Netherlands 11750 864 7.35% S. Korea 9661 158 1.64% Austria 9520 108 1.13% Turkey 9217 131 1.42% Canada 6671 67 1.00% Portugal 6408 140 2.18%  

I watched the live stream from France24, from its web site, for about 15 minutes.  

Shouldn't.  They are in direct violation of orders prohibiting the action they're taking.  Those orders have the force of law.  Description of the order from nj.gov:
 
 
So they're not simply breaking both aspects, but completely flouting them.  

If I'm the DA, I dunno what charges I'd lay;  not that familiar with the law.  BUT...each and every person there almost has to get tested, IMO......and I charge the *host* a set amount for this.  As a fine, as part of his punishment.  Or maybe 2/3 to him (for everyone), and 1/3 to every party attendee individually.  That latter might not be an option if they don't want to charge every attendee...but that might be a blanket deal for NOT charging them with a crime.

47 guests, in a 550' apartment?   That's ridiculous to begin with...
 
If anyone at that party comes down with CV and dies from it, not that I'm hoping or wishing for it but...can we nominate them for a Darwin Award?
 
EDIT...late thought.  There's gonna be one punishment I can pretty much guarantee.  Apartment means renting.  Renting means landlord.  Can you spell "eviction"?  

Gee, I wonder what's going to happen if people continually flout the law and endanger the lives of others.
 
"WHY IS THERE MARTIAL LAW?!!!!"