mike carey

I agree to an extent. Reducing the spread is the key. All the mitigation measures help, and that includes social distancing, masks, hand sanitising, cough etiquette. They mean even if someone has it they pass it on to fewer others. That can result in local elimination, but you can't stop the preventative measures then because you never know when it might come back. We will need to keep doing those things until there is a vaccine, and even after that as the vaccine is likely to be, say 50% effective, so we won't be able to see the spread. Even with that, we need to maintain the testing, tracing and isolation for the disease so we can lock down any cases that appear, and that needs to be mandatory. It is here, and as @samhexum noted in another thread isn't and likely can't be in the US. Diseases die out when they can't spread. Everything we can do to stop them spreading helps. Covid-19 measures all-but snuffed out seasonal flu in Australia this year. This disease is likely to be endemic in the community so we need to reduce its ability to spread and ensure we have the public health measures to detect it and stop it if it does.

Well, for some of us, forum Palm Springs weekends won't be happening for a while. I suspect (to trivialise the question for a moment) masks as fashion statements might become a thing when we resume.

This is interesting. I had a vague idea that cities and counties (or parishes) were overlapping entities in the US. The explanation for Philly helps me make sense of it, as does @augustus' explanation of the overlapping jurisdictional issues. Here we have one layer of local government jurisdictional areas, whether they are called cities, municipalities or shires. There are no cities or towns that have any sort of local government overlaid on them. Also, they don't have their own courts or police, they are all run by the state government.

Damn, I missed the chance to meet you in 2019, and almost certainly won't be able to be there in 2021.

Be careful about this. Two grey check marks means they have opened the app after your message arrived, but they may not have seen your message or even seen that it was there if they have a lot of new messages in their inbox. The check marks turn blue once they have opened your messages (and hopefully actually read them).

Indeed, but it's 5 Nov here earlier than in Nevada (although I posted this late in the evening of the day). I did add, 'A penny for the Guy', when I tweeted it. I usually remember to post this every year.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot.

I never did that intentionally but one escort I met sat on me. TBH I don't have a particular memory of it.

I liked that post and then rechecked the thread rules and found that 'liking' meant I had done that. I'm another who has never done that. Or a cigar or a pipe. Or a joint.

Click on the number 1 next to the thumbs up icon and a dialogue box with the poster's name will open up.

Wasn't it Mark Twain who said that he would have written a shorter letter if he'd had more time?

All spaces matter.

At the risk of being Captain Obvious, the Admin comment you posted was in a repost of the photo, presumably it replaced a political comment that had been made on the photo. Like you, politics is not what comes immediately to my mind in response to it.

True indeed. Even if you do that it doesn't guarantee that you won't be pinged here for being verbose.

This is his RM profile - https://rent.men/Russ_NYC

Has the pizza @MikeBiDude ordered been delivered yet?

Being held and cuddled is truly an amazing thing.

Yes, it is exactly that! /s

Someone should have asked him if he means the Dominican Republic or Dominica.

I haven't watched it, but it has garnered a lot of publicity here, so much so that our public broadcaster's flagship Q&A panel discussion program had it as the subject of this Monday's episode. They had a panel that included the federal government's eSafety Commissioner, a tech journalist and a thoughtful pair of widely followed instagramers. They had one of the producers of the doco on the line to answer some of the audience questions.

When you know everything there's no need for that.

Love a Channel Islands accent!

The Financial Times has published this data analysis of Covid-19 so far, outside their pay-wall. https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-global-data/ John Burn-Murdoch at the FT has done some great data analysis and charts over the months. He's on Twitter @jburnmurdoch.