Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

I don't want to interpret more from these data, since not much is known at this point and people are afraid right now.

My own conclusions for now, re, what I can control beyond medical preparedness: consider skipping large gatherings and travel, even if it's majorly disruptive and reported cases are still low, until adequate testing is available. And please have a plan in place, both for illness and in case major con travel gets disrupted.

Takeaways from my reading of it:

1. Asymptomatic cases are primarily responsible for community spread.
2. There is a lag time of up to two weeks between figures being reported and the number of cases in the wild.
3. When accounting for clusters and other factors, morbidity rate from illness is closer to 0.5-0.9%.
4. However, that rate is much higher when medical facilities are overrun by severe cases.

Despite the alarmist URI and use of crude extrapolation methods (clustering, simplified mathematical models without more available data), this is the best explainer I've seen so far on how to interpret data from media reports and what to expect the spread and impact of covid-19 to look like: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

I should also point out that I regularly participate in multiworld games with these fine snoots, and that you can also watch my own antics over at twitch.tv/goldkindrake

If they're a crow, they're pretty big. Those are full scale cinder blocks to scale, and it appears to be about 1/3 meter tall when standing?

Corvid question: crow or raven?

We have a mixed population here, so it's hard to tell which is which, and I haven't heard this friend caw or grackle yet.

It's interesting to rewatch this video from 2004 today and compare its predictions with reality: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt3TmUW90B8

(There's also an updated version from 2005 that took things further with local search.)

I like this aesthetic so very, very much: http://d.facdn.net/art/fortuna/1559384536/1559384536.fortuna_mini_derg.png

Cosplay Pikachu can't be transferred forward from ORAS unfortunately. So I made it the head of my party and started hatching eggs for transfer.

And then I ran into a trainer battle I'd forgotten, in which I beat a full opposing party with my level 20 frilly Pikachu to finish hatching those eggs.