tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:58489MonicaMonicaMonica2020-03-22T21:25:06Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:58489:2074336pandemic2020-03-20T03:19:52Z2020-03-22T21:25:06Zpublic11<p>Pennsylvania <a href="https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/03/19/gov-wolf-orders-all-non-life-sustaining-businesses-to-close-in-pennsylvania/">shut down "non-life-sustaining businesses" tonight</a>. There's a link there with a detailed list of what's in and out -- some oddities (beer distributors are life-sustaining, apparently), but mostly what you'd expect.</p>
<p>And California <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/california-governor-issues-statewide-order-to-stay-at-home-effective-thursday-evening.html">extended the stay-at-home order already in force in San Francisco to the entire state tonight</a>. Even so, their governor thinks half the state will be infected in the next eight weeks. I haven't heard any projections for PA, but cases here have been following the usual curve so far.</p>
<p><span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/'><b>siderea</b></a></span> <a href="https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1599025.html">posted a summary of the Imperial College report</a> that might be spurring the government to take this more seriously. (The report is linked.) They ran simulations of a few response scenarios, ranging from "basically do nothing" to fuller responses. Even with stronger responses, it's looking grim. And it's (at the national level) self-inflicted; we saw what was happening elsewhere and dallied anyway.</p>
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