Apparently it is based on percentage of those moving either in or out. The 15 listed all have more leaving than arriving. BTW, Iowa is about #8. New Jersey is right at two-thirds moving out and one-third moving in.
https://faarlo.com/blog/americans-dont-want-to-live-in-these-15-states-anymore/2/
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If your community is showing rise, plateaued numbers or beginning of slow descent, abide by cdc guidelines. Like a forest fire, don't ignore the embers and think that some rain will make this all go away. Listen to Birx and Fauci even if their opinion doesn't fit your agenda to return to normal.
Don't be a vector. Wear mask, washhands and sanitize. Develop personal protocols,
Be positive. But ignore covidiots.
I heard an analogy that equated ignoring restrictions was similar to one turning on their lights during the blitzkrieg in London in WW2.?ÿ?ÿ
Don't be a vector. Stay home. Do your community a favor. Do your BSng online, phone or Zoom.
So many unknowns,don't need to elaborate.?ÿ
Final thought. Don't think linear.
The lockdown here has eased, they canceled the school year and all the associated end of year activities including graduation. Prom was to be this weekend and students were upset. When they officially declared the schools shut for the school year the phones lit up. This isn't a happy community.
We got a doorbell ring last night that made SWMBO extremely happy. A bunch of students showed up at the door dressed up for prom, seems that if the school won't do it the kids and parents put prom on. Got to love that!!!
I continue to ignore the lockdown beyond using a mask at the hospital, social distancing, spreading out the chairs in the meeting room, keeping everything in the office clean.?ÿ
SWMBO is putting in looong hours at school, it's been brutal for her. I was able to finally go to get a hair cut Friday.?ÿ
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i've hardly modified my day-to-day in 2020.?ÿ my kids (teenagers) are the ones really suffering.?ÿ wife works 2 days a week at a rehab hospital (about as low risk as you can get in the medical field) and just got her masters, taking boards in a couple weeks to be an NP.?ÿ but my workload has shot up about, oh, 30% since february and everybody wants everything yesterday.?ÿ it's been pretty stressful as far at that goes, but it's work.?ÿ like i said, my gig hasn't changed much- most of my human interaction is at the gas station, and most of that has eliminated any actual human contact.
all that said- i was in houston area in early/mid february for about a week, doing a couple ALTAs.?ÿ came home from that and two days later had a fever and cold-like symptoms.?ÿ the last 20 years or so my illnesses have been so reliable as to almost be measurable with a clock.?ÿ so i was tired anyways, decided to take the weekend off from CAD work and running (my daily ritual which is likely responsible for the consistency in my health).?ÿ 4 days later i was no better, went to the doc, negative on flu and they jokingly asked me if i'd been to china recently (this was at that stage of things).?ÿ another 3 days go by and i'm still not better, and this defies everything i've ever been through with pneumonia, flu, bronchitis, etc.?ÿ another couple days after that the first two positive cases in texas are announced and guess where they were: same exact zip code where my two houston jobs were.?ÿ so... i don't know.?ÿ what i do know is i felt like... blech... for a solid three weeks.?ÿ like, i couldn't take the dogs for the daily run for 3 weeks.?ÿ that's the longest i've gone in almost 2 decades without a run.?ÿ (i run 6-7 miles a day.)?ÿ it wasn't the worst i've felt, it didn't keep me from working, but normal work days had me DEAD at the end of the day.?ÿ cough held on for over a month.?ÿ finally when i started running again it seemed to flush the end of it out.?ÿ?ÿ
all that happened before testing was available here.?ÿ younger daughter was sick a couple weeks ago with symptoms that prompted the doc to send her for covid testing, which came back negative.?ÿ i don't know.?ÿ?ÿ
everything here has been steadily opening up for a few weeks.?ÿ not by policy, but just by the number of people out and about.?ÿ again, my day-to-day has been almost exactly the same as always, so i know how many people are out walking the neighborhood at any given time, or how much traffic there is on any given road at any time, and it seems like each day for the past few weeks now there's a little bit more- more traffic on the roads, more people at the park working out or flying kites or whatever (it is the heart of spring, afterall), more cars parked at the greenbelt entrances in town.?ÿ then we had some kind of official soft re-opening yesterday and it seemed like all caution was thrown to the wind.?ÿ restaurants and bars still seem to be mostly closed, but there are TONS more people out and about.
i'm not wearing a mask when i'm working.?ÿ or when i'm home.?ÿ or here at our end of the block with neighbors (we're like a small tribe of hermits anyways, always have been).?ÿ or when i'm running.?ÿ but i give WIDE berth to everyone i encounter if i don't have a mask on, and i've been wearing one dutifully every time i enter a confined space like a store or a courthouse.?ÿ (the abridged courthouse hours/access has probably been the biggest wrench in the whole work situation, interestingly enough).
New York is on pause until at least May 15th.
As for work, I'm staying busy. Tomorrow pouring 2200 yards of concrete for a clean. That's 34 concrete trucks pouring for more than 12 hours. I will be checking?ÿ 1 1/2" x 84" anchor bolts, which tend to move during the pour.
Some of us have been wearing them long before all this. Here's what I wrote a few years ago, under the forum topic "Unhinged":
A couple of years ago we (4 of us) were out doing an urban road topo and here the black smoke diesel particulate fumes are terrible, so I was wearing a mask. The locals hate it, since any foreigner shouldn't escape sucking up their poison and I have been advised to "... take that f mask off and f off out of our country". However, one morning a stunning young blonde lady walked up to me and asked what was going on and inquired why I was wearing a mask. Sliding it down off my face I explained and she caressed my shoulder and expressed genuine sympathy for having to work in the filth, then went on her way. Soon after I joined the local staff and they had seen the interaction and sheepishly asked what she said, to which I replied: "She said she understands why I wear a mask as I am the most handsome man she has ever seen".
Be glad your grocery store isn't set up as one-way traffic. There's always someone who has to read the label in front of you. I usually don't mind but when you can read War and Peace to page 600 while waiting it becomes a bit rattling. However, in the grand scheme of things ain't nothin' ya can do but "deal with it". That or make an idiot of yourself publicly. ????
Show them the first Jim Frame post in this topic. ????
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Giant cookout at my place tomorrow afternoon.?ÿ Bring grill and meat.?ÿ I have the paper plates.
I've been wearing them for a while now, I keep some N95 masks in a bucket in the garage. When I get out the miter and table saws to cut lumber I put it on, when I'm sanding or spray painting I put one on. Never thought I'd need one going to the hospital.
Oregon, were there have been fewer total cases than New York has before breakfast of any day, has extended the "State of Emergency" to early July. Stand by for mass civil disobedience.
@mightymoe same situation here. I had a few boxes in storage because they were needed for safety requirements on jobs. Going into various petrochemical facilities Etc. mandatory
I always had a few hanging around for sanding other tasks.
I distributed most of them to high risk people that I know and some to ER Personnel at Ochsner in New Orleans. I keep one hanging from the rearview mirror so they can sanitize itself from the sunlight. I also have a HEPA half mask respirator that I use for painting that is more effective than a N95
That's a great idea, putting it up in the rearview mirror. I only had two of them left so I kept them for me and my FIL. He's been to the hospital twice, SWMBO was given a lame one there. But I had an old used one with some brown and green paint stains, I figured it's better than nothing.
Any lockdown release in Texas was locally ignored by the lack of travel on Highway 77 in front of my house today, only a few 18 wheelers have passed by this morning.
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There aint no limit to Dumb
The US has...
Sixty eight thousand dead;
The government predicting that number to at least double, maybe quadruple;
A failed health system.
Just how selfish can some people get?
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