Shanghai Disneyland will close in effort to contain coronavirus

For the US as a whole, the percentage of positive cases has been increasing since late September / early October. If the increase in positive cases was simply due to increased testing, I wouldn't expect to see the percentage of positive cases increasing as well. Over the weekend, England went into another shut down. Again, if it was just due to more testing, I don't think countries would be shutting down a second time.

Well, when you've "rounded the corner" three times, you're back where you started.

Jeff said:

Well, when you've "rounded the corner" three times, you're back where you started.

And then one day you find to your intense delight
That three wrong turns can really make a right
So why not be like me? be proud of all your crimes
'Cause when I screw up once, I do it two more times

Go Ohio!

"Ohio tops 4,000 cases in a single 24-hour period for the first time. Deaths double the 21-day average"

On a side note, I will say I was surprised at the (lack of) turnout on Halloween. While we didn't pass out candy, in the past we were always good for around 300 kids between 6-8pm. This year, the times I peaked out the window, my street was really dark and at most, just a few people walking with their kids. It's was surreal, considering our usual 'attendance'.

Same thing here. Not nearly as many people out nor as many handing out candy. I had to drive around to get enough houses to fill up the buckets this year.

You went trick or treating?

Just got off the phone with Paris kid.

"Le confinement" in Paris, at least, is mostly in spirit. Surprisingly equivalent to what we did/do here. Non-essential businesses closed for the most part. Don't be out without reason. Although, there's a system in place with an app and papers and such for when you're out, but it's apparently not really enforced - like the police aren't stopping you and verifying. The general observation is that people are out and about in similar numbers to pre-confinement and public transportation, especially, is still very crowded.

Not sure these posts are useful, but I find it very interesting to get first-hand feedback on what's really happening. It's one of those things where I think we see they're locking down, so to speak, and think we suck somehow in comparison, but the truth is that people are people and the situations are far more similar than not (and moreso than I would have expected).

In terms of infections per capita, France has always been in a pretty bad place even compared to us. I imagine that hospital saturation will also vary a lot regionally, the way it has here. I wouldn't want to have a heart attack and be at the mercy of the system in a lot of parts of the US right now.

Walk-Off HBP said:

You went trick or treating?

We did.  The neighborhood we go to every year was less mobbed than in years past, but still fairly busy. There were a few houses that had clever ways of delivering (mostly tubes aimed down the front stoop), but mostly it was pretty normal.  We wore masks, but there were a lot of folks who didn't (unfortunately not too uncommon around here, except in most public businesses that are decent about enforcing mask policy).

We did the same thing. Walked to a nearby neighborhood that’s popular for trick-or-treating - streets closed to all but homeowners and a lot of elaborate decor. I would say the crowd was about half of last year. Sporadic mask wearing but everyone doing a decent job at social distancing. There were a lot of the candy chutes like you described along with people pre-bagging candy or setting it out in batches on a table.

Voted it up, but that deserves a verbal high five or whatever. Well done.

Wait, wrong site...

It's the metric system.

I’m going to create a bunch of new accounts just so I can vote that up more. Well done, sir.

InB4 Jeff shuts down the Attaboys!

Of course, now I'm trying to think of an even better one using The Big Lebowski, but I'm drawing a blank. (And we don't need one anyways.)

Le Confinement with cheese.

Wisconsin had higher per capita new cases yesterday than did France. if the US new case numbers were at the per capita numbers in France for yesterday, the US would have had about 280k new cases. If they were the same across the US as they are in Wisconsin, the US would have had about 350k new cases yesterday. Maybe not a bad year for my kid living in Wisconsin to not come home for Thanksgiving.

I keep telling myself that Dane County (Madison, where my daughter now lives) is doing relatively well, but yeah. She's thinking about staying through the end of the term rather than come home at Thanksgiving, though.

I thought this was interesting, it took 40,000 Covid tests to finish making the new Jurassic World movie with various safety protocols, and I would call it a success. Think about the number of mandatory tests being conducted in other environments where people have to work closely and the relative success. It's as if testing matters.

https://deadline.com/2020/11/jurassic-world-chris-pratt-bryce-dalla...234610291/

The MAC (the little athletic conference that most of you have probably heard of) started playing a shortened football season this week. They are testing everyone....from athletes to coaches to trainers, etc...four times a week.

Whether you are a "sportsball" fan or not, there is no question the professional sports leagues (especially the NBA and Hockey, initially) figured out real quick that taking the advice of Dr. Fauci actually pays off.