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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Rush for haircuts in Denmark as lockdown eases
Danes can now get a haircut at a salon for the first time in a month, as the Nordic country takes the next step to gradually relax its coronavirus lockdown.
"We are crazy busy. I mean fully booked for the next two weeks," says Phil Olander, owner of Phil's Barber in central Copenhagen. The move, announced on Friday, has triggered a rush of appointments. Mr Olander says his booking system crashed because it was flooded with enquiries. Another hairdresser told me she's fully booked for the next three weeks and will work extended hours to meet demand. Other businesses including tattoo parlours, beauticians, dentists and opticians are now permitted to reopen. Driving lessons are also allowed. Each has new health guidelines to follow.Unless one of you all know someone willing to give me a haircut in the Wayne County area in Ohio, I'm in desperate need of one. Getting desperate enough I might buy clippers and just buzz my entire head.
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I've stopped trimming and am starting to look like an old, grizzled Basque fisherman coming in after months at sea.
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@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sweden could have 'herd immunity' by next month
...claims its infectious diseases chief amid as deaths stay low despite relaxed lockdown measures
Parts of Sweden could achieve 'herd immunity' as early as next month, the country's leading epidemiologist has said as the death toll steadily rises.
It's funny, I was thinking the same thing for a small town in Nebraska. There has been a rash of infections in Grand Island Nebraska. The last claim I saw said that 35% of the residents were tested positive to Covid-19. They could easily see herd immunity in a few more weeks, or possibly less.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
I have one style haircut, bald. So I rather take care of that myself.
Same here.
Considering it myself..
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sweden could have 'herd immunity' by next month
...claims its infectious diseases chief amid as deaths stay low despite relaxed lockdown measures
Parts of Sweden could achieve 'herd immunity' as early as next month, the country's leading epidemiologist has said as the death toll steadily rises.
"Could".
Could in relationship to the timing of the heard immunity. Not the fact of herd immunity itself. Even if it is not permanent immunity, there are almost no infections that the body does not naturally gain immunity to for at least a short period of time.
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@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sweden could have 'herd immunity' by next month
...claims its infectious diseases chief amid as deaths stay low despite relaxed lockdown measures
Parts of Sweden could achieve 'herd immunity' as early as next month, the country's leading epidemiologist has said as the death toll steadily rises.
Articles need to use % per 1000 (a standard for things when measure large populations) so things ca be measured on some sort of normalized footing between locations.
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@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
Articles need to use % per 1000
If they use %, then the "per" isn't needed as it's the per 100 as per 100,000,000
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
Articles need to use % per 1000
If they use %, then the "per" isn't needed as it's the per 100 as per 100,000,000
Prevalence rates use the term per.
I prefer % over raw numbers in prevalence rates, but yes, they mean the same thing.
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BBC News - Coronavirus: Immigration to US to be suspended amid pandemic, Trump says
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BBC News - US oil prices turn negative as demand dries up
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Immigration to US to be suspended amid pandemic, Trump says
President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus.
On Twitter, he cited "the attack from the invisible enemy", as he calls the virus, and the need to protect the jobs of Americans, but did not give details. It was not clear what programmes might be affected and whether the president would be able to carry out the order.Critics say the government is using the pandemic to crack down on immigration. Immigration has traditionally been a strong campaigning theme for Mr Trump, but has taken a back seat during the pandemic and in the lead-up to the November election. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Immigration to US to be suspended amid pandemic, Trump says
President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus.
On Twitter, he cited "the attack from the invisible enemy", as he calls the virus, and the need to protect the jobs of Americans, but did not give details. It was not clear what programmes might be affected and whether the president would be able to carry out the order.Critics say the government is using the pandemic to crack down on immigration. Immigration has traditionally been a strong campaigning theme for Mr Trump, but has taken a back seat during the pandemic and in the lead-up to the November election.Does it even matter anymore at this point?
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@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Immigration to US to be suspended amid pandemic, Trump says
President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus.
On Twitter, he cited "the attack from the invisible enemy", as he calls the virus, and the need to protect the jobs of Americans, but did not give details. It was not clear what programmes might be affected and whether the president would be able to carry out the order.Critics say the government is using the pandemic to crack down on immigration. Immigration has traditionally been a strong campaigning theme for Mr Trump, but has taken a back seat during the pandemic and in the lead-up to the November election.Does it even matter anymore at this point?
It means people who were approved or partway through the process but didn't complete it yet are now stuck in limbo, indefinitely. The American approach to immigration.... let you start, never let you finish.
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PSA - We now support Shortcode SMS and are routing all Canadian traffic entirely in Canada.
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@Skyetel said in Non-IT News Thread:
PSA - We now support Shortcode SMS and are routing all Canadian traffic entirely in Canada.
Awesomeness.
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Netflix sign-ups jump during coronavirus lockdowns
Netflix has seen subscriber numbers surge this year, as lockdowns around the world keep people at home where they want to be entertained.
Almost 16 million people created accounts in the first three months of the year, the firm said. That is almost double the new sign-ups it saw in the final months of 2019. However, the streaming service, which is behind some multi-million dollar productions, said shutdowns have halted "almost all" filming around the world. And sharp declines in the value of many currencies has meant new subscribers outside of the US, where Netflix is based, are not worth as much to the company as they would have been before the crisis. And that has hurt its international revenue growth. -
