In NZ the number of new cases per day has been roughly constant for over a week now, a linear rather than exponential increase. Which is good but hard to know what to make of it, given that testing strategies and case definitions have changed over time, and that a lot of the previous increase seems related to people arriving from overseas rather than community transmission.
In an unusual move Peru and Panama began enforcing rules for movement by gender to slow the spread of covid-19. In Peru, men are allowed to leave home only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; women on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; and nobody on Sundays. Panama instituted similar measures as part of its quarantine.
I bet there's no provision for transvestites, transgenders, intersex, and others.
If you identify as a nobody, presumably you could go out on Sunday.
Also - nooo! Brewing is essential business!
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Grupo Modelo announced it would temporarily suspend production of Corona, the Mexican beer whose name has coincidentally become synonymous with the coronavirus pandemic. Yet sales of the pale lager had actually spiked recently. Grupo Modelo said the hiatus was prompted by a Mexican government order to cease non-essential business activities.
ETA: the numbers are off from my current daily ones
Now I can't trust any other stats from worldometers.
It's not a big deal, just has to do with the way their source logs the positive tests, as I mentioned above. Some log them for the day the result comes back as positive, others instead influence the numbers for the day the test was originally taken. In the long run it makes little difference.
And the deaths seem to correlate, as that is less open for interpretation.
I saw this email from a company serving landlords (Naborly). It asks landlords to report non payment of rent in April and beyond so it can be filed in a prospective tenant database that will be used to screen future applicants. Truly awful. pic.twitter.com/OgMBUp7a6S
I saw this email from a company serving landlords (Naborly). It asks landlords to report non payment of rent in April and beyond so it can be filed in a prospective tenant database that will be used to screen future applicants. Truly awful.
One of the follow-up tweets "In order for Naborly to TRULY be your tenant credit bureau..." You know, as completely different and seperate from, I don't know, an actual credit bureau. (Who are also twisted and evil.)
I saw this email from a company serving landlords (Naborly). It asks landlords to report non payment of rent in April and beyond so it can be filed in a prospective tenant database that will be used to screen future applicants. Truly awful.
One of the follow-up tweets "In order for Naborly to TRULY be your tenant credit bureau..." You know, as completely different and seperate from, I don't know, an actual credit bureau. (Who are also twisted and evil.)
Having been involved in virtual worlds with their own in game economy, every attempt at setting up some sort of a Better Business Bureau was a gigantic clusterfuck of drama. Landlords setting up their own snitch line looks similar and shittier since it's people's lives, not digital penises.
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