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Vox:

Phase two should only begin after 14 days of sustained case reductions in an area, and only after testing capacity is dramatically increased. Even in phase two, they stress, if cases go up again, we’ll need to go back to severe social distancing. Before there’s a vaccine, we’ll have to remain vigilant.

We zitten hier nog wel eventjes. Sommige modellen voorspellen nu een piek in ziekenhuisopnames volgende week donderdag. Daarna kan het dan dalen. Dat doet me vermoeden dat 3 mei (na dus zeven weken lockdown) mogelijks nog altijd optimistisch is. En daarna gaat het zeker en vast niet zijn zoals ervoor.

MIT Technology Review:

But it won’t end there. As long as someone in the world has the virus, breakouts can and will keep recurring without stringent controls to contain them. In a report yesterday (pdf), researchers at Imperial College London proposed a way of doing this: impose more extreme social distancing measures every time admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) start to spike, and relax them each time admissions fall.

Even in the least restrictive of the Imperial College scenarios, we’re shut in more than half the time.

Ho boy. Tot pakweg eind 2021 gaan we een soort knipperlichtsamenleving tegemoet, vergelijkbaar met het smogalarm, waarbij we soms al eens wat meer mogen en soms al eens wat minder.

Wired:

The world is not going to begin to look normal until three things have happened. One, we figure out whether the distribution of this virus looks like an iceberg, which is one-seventh above the water, or a pyramid, where we see everything. If we’re only seeing right now one-seventh of the actual disease because we’re not testing enough, and we’re just blind to it, then we’re in a world of hurt. Two, we have a treatment that works, a vaccine or antiviral. And three, maybe most important, we begin to see large numbers of people—in particular nurses, home health care providers, doctors, policemen, firemen, and teachers who have had the disease—are immune, and we have tested them to know that they are not infectious any longer. And we have a system that identifies them, either a concert wristband or a card with their photograph and some kind of a stamp on it. Then we can be comfortable sending our children back to school, because we know the teacher is not infectious.

Wat een artikel! Van Ed Yong in The Atlantic.

The New York Times:

The narration begins customarily, with the play-by-play announcer enthusiastically welcoming his audience live to a competition unfolding on the screen.

Zie:

Li Edelkoort?

Born in the Netherlands in 1950, Edelkoort is regarded as one of the world’s most influential trend forecasters, advising fashion companies and consumer brands around the world. In 2003, Time magazine named her one of the 25 most influential people in fashion. She was director of Design Academy Eindhoven from 1998 to 2008.

En wat voorspelt ze in Dezeen?

Therefore, if we are wise – which sadly we now know we aren’t – we will start up again with new rules and regulations, allowing countries to get back to their knowhow and specific qualities, introducing cottage industries that would flourish and grow into an arts-and-crafts century, where manual labour is cherished above everything else.

Peter Wehner in The Atlantic:

It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over.

Hehehehehe:

Snap Inc. has seen a 10-fold surge in downloads since the beginning of the month of a tool that makes calls on services like Zoom Video Communications Inc. and Google Hangouts a bit more lighthearted. The feature, called Snap Camera, allows people to overlay their faces with an augmented-reality filter, turning them into a talking toilet-paper roll or slice of pizza, or evening out skin tone for those who would prefer not to apply makeup while working at home. 

Maandag eens proberen.

Interessant en verwarrend, op Github:

Ge-wel-dig:

The table is apparently designed specifically around the proportions of a pizza box, to dispense with the balancing act that usually ensues on a lot of furniture when a delivery arrives. And with expert follow-through from the creative team, the table even comes in packaging that mimics a pizza box. And Pizza Hut are simultaneously bringing the retailer’s most famous foodstuff to its canvas, offering a new Swedish meatball pizza.