Fred99:

 

For anyone still unable to access the PDF, I've uploaded an image converted from the PDF:

 

Thanks

MikeB4: Clearing my snail mail box today and the only item in over a week was hand delivered official Covid-19 leaflet. As I slowly made my way up our driveway I thought a hand delivered leaflet about a pandemic delivered during a pandemic isolation lock down. Seems a little counter intuitive.

It does seem a little strange, I agree.

However, I suspect that when the leaflet was designed and sent to print, the idea of going to Level 4 was something considered fairly likely, but certainly not imminent.

The physical delivery process was, as we used to frequently say of IT Strategies when I was in the paid workforce, Overtaken By Events 😬

iamaelephant:

At some point sympathy for Americans runs completely dry. For me this is that point. This is so utterly absurd I really am struggling to believe it's true.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/03/wisconsin-election-coronavirus-pandemic

Rikkitic:

is forecasting a three-day or so shutdown of the Internet soon. 

freitasm:

Sympathy runs out with things like these:

 

US accused of 'modern piracy' after diversion of masks meant for Europe:

neb:

Rikkitic:

is forecasting a three-day or so shutdown of the Internet soon. 

It's true. The government is going to shut it down to stop the spread of false rumours.

gchiu:

Why are they asking for our ethnicity?

cshwone:

I am really at a loss as to how you draw the conclusion above I bolded. The increase in cases in NZ at the moment is following a linear progression.

neb:

cshwone:

 

I am really at a loss as to how you draw the conclusion above I bolded. The increase in cases in NZ at the moment is following a linear progression.

 

Could it be the common use of "exponential" to mean "it has a positive slope"? In any case even what looks like exponential growth is rarely true exponential growth, it's geometric.

Could be but it's not a meaning of the word I have used.  Exponential is very much where the rate of change is increasing (or decreasing) so graphically it follows an ever increasing curve rather than a straight line with a slope where the rate of change is relatively constant (which is what I am seeing in our data)

neb:

iamaelephant:

 

At some point sympathy for Americans runs completely dry. For me this is that point. This is so utterly absurd I really am struggling to believe it's true.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/03/wisconsin-election-coronavirus-pandemic

 

It's actually a clever strategy: The Republicans will believe Trump and Fox News that it's contained and a vaccine/cure is just around the corner and go out and vote, while everyone who can think rationally will stay at home rather than risk their lives and the lives of those around them. So it'll be a Republican election win.

sorry to ruin your conspiracy theory but it is a primary election for Democrats.  Republicans aren't voting.

debo:

sorry to ruin your conspiracy theory

neb:

cshwone:

 

I am really at a loss as to how you draw the conclusion above I bolded. The increase in cases in NZ at the moment is following a linear progression.

 

Could it be the common use of "exponential" to mean "it has a positive slope"? In any case even what looks like exponential growth is rarely true exponential growth, it's geometric.

"exponential" has never had the meaning "has a positive slope", except perhaps in a logarithmic graph.

cshwone:

 

Could be but it's not a meaning of the word I have used.  Exponential is very much where the rate of change is increasing (or decreasing) so graphically it follows an ever increasing curve rather than a straight line with a slope where the rate of change is relatively constant (which is what I am seeing in our data)

 

It's plotted on a log chart.  So, straight line => exponential.

debo:

 

sorry to ruin your conspiracy theory but it is a primary election for Democrats.  Republicans aren't voting.

 

FYI, there are 2 types of primary, open and closed. For example, South Carolina recently had an open primary Democrat election, where Republicans got to vote. Wisconsin also has open primaries.

(I know, it seems crazy to me too... surely all the Republicans would vote for the *worst* Democratic candidate to make sure that when the actual election happens, their own candidate is more likely to win).

frankv:

"exponential" has never had the meaning "has a positive slope", except perhaps in a logarithmic graph.