I doubled the number of songs with guitars recorded tonight. I had three, now I have six. They all suck and my attempts at keeping things low-fi are making them suck even more. What can you do, right? Two of the songs are in 7/8 time because prog, and two are in 3/4 time because… I don’t know, waltz maybe?
So… COVID-19. WHO has declared it a pandemic. Duh. It is pretty global now so, yeah. Pandemic. Dig it?
I’m seeing all sorts of people calling the responses so far “panic”. They don’t seem to get it. It’s not panic, it’s resource management. Every single infectious disease expert is telling us to put “social distance” into practice. Why? Resource management. There are going to be x number of infections, based on the data we have from China, and y percent of those infections will require hospital care. Finally, we only have z number of hospital beds available at any given time. y is less than x, but y is greater than z. Dig? Statistically speaking there will be more infections requiring hospital care than there are hospital beds to put them in. If we put “social distance” (I fucking LOVE that term and I’ve been practicing it since I was about four years old) into place then we spread out the infections over time, thus reducing the number of cases requiring hospital care at any one time so that suddenly y is less than z. Boom. Problem if not solved then partially alleviated. Statistics, babie. Stats for the win.
Read this from the New York Times: Flattening the Coronavirus Curve
Read this from WBUR: Harvard Global Health Expert: Mass. Hospitals Face Capacity Problem If Coronavirus Cases Spike Quickly
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