by ezs | Jan 25, 2021 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – more discussion about how the US is somewhat blind to the new mutations and spread.
Weekly look at Washington State from The Seattle Times
Friday – more stories of vaccine restrictions and low numbers of delivery.
Thursday – EU/UK/NI spat over restrictions on vaccine deliveries.
Wednesday – more spread of the South Africa and Kent mutations; borders being closed; travel being stopped.
Tuesday – vaccine production lagging. Demand exceeds capacity.
Monday – Looking back at a year of COVID. First US cases in late January 2020. Watched the documentary 76 Days over the weekend. Today: 100M global cases, vaccines being delivered, wearing a mask is political.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
https://www.seattletimes.com/tag/coronavirus/
by ezs | Jan 19, 2021 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – A year since the first case in Washington State. Good write up on Twitter around UK rates, vaccinations and what next.
Weekly update from The Seattle Times, now showing vaccination data. We are still 3 months into the big wave; with concerns that mutations could make this go on for a while.
Friday – much concern about multiple new mutations.
Thursday – California running low on vaccines, last mile of US distribution is becoming an issue. Microsoft, Starbucks working on Washington State support; Amazon offering US wide support.
Wednesday – Inauguration Day. Hopefully a change of perspective and attitude to the pandemic. Meanwhile – record cases and deaths across the globe.
Tuesday – As the US prepares for a transition to President Biden, there is optimism that 100M vaccinations in 100 days, as well as a more competent and open approach to distribution will make a difference.
Monday – Washington State working on new vaccination plans, partners with Microsoft and Starbucks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
https://www.seattletimes.com/tag/coronavirus/
by ezs | Jan 12, 2021 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – much discussion of virus variants – and whether these will evade the current vaccines.
Seattle Times sometimes forgets to “un-paywall” daily updates. Here’s the status from this weekend. Cases are flat; deaths are up, hospitals are still coping. Still nowhere close to being able to re-open.
Friday – Hopefully the UK positive case numbers have peaked; the daily numbers for positive tests and the continued climb in hospitalisation is horrific. “Warp Speed” branding for vaccine production and delivery is being retired. Vaccine delivery in the US is far to slow and seems to be haphazard.
Thursday – King County, WA and Washington State investigating safe and equitable methods for mass vaccinations. School gyms, sports facilities, community centers likely to be used. Incoming President Biden announces goal of 100 vaccinations in 100 days.
Wednesday – Second Impeachment moves Covid off the headlines. Vast numbers of cases still in the US. US States being asked to change eligibility for vaccines at short notice. Incoming President Biden building a solid team for Covid response. Still being hampered by lack of coordination.
Tuesday – three coronavirus cases amongst lawmakers from the shelter-in-place at The Capitol last week. Very sad. Washington State cases picked up again – after a dip in reported numbers over New Year.
Monday – many, many cases around the globe. Flu season in the northern hemisphere, new variant with higher transmission, Christmas mingling. Moderna vaccine should give a year of protection; as noted in mid 2020 this is going to lead to an annual flu + covid shot.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
https://www.seattletimes.com/tag/coronavirus/
by ezs | Jan 5, 2021 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – More numbers. 46k NHS employees are sick with Covid. 3M cases in the UK, 80k deaths. UK CMO says “restrictions are too lax” – and probably there is a lot of rule bending going on. Washington State planning mass vaccination sites. 20% of England may have had Coronavirus.
New cases in Washington State are relatively flat – but still high. Data as always from The Seattle Times.
Friday – that UK data still going up. US at 4000+ daily deaths for a few days now. That news has been lost in the chaos. London declared a Covid emergency.
In April – shock at 5000+ new cases per day, in November – shock at 20k+ new cases per day. Now 60k+…
Thursday – vast numbers of UK cases, locally vaccination is slow.
Wednesday – rioting and attempted coup. Big news, and moves the pandemic off the front page.
Tuesday – The Guardian tracker now showing percentage in the UK having had at least once vaccination. Almost 61k new cases in the UK. Daily cases trending downwards in Washington State which is good.
Monday – “back to work” and “back to school” with everyone still stuck at home. The first week of the new year – “work week 1” – and the next milestone will be a year of working from home. Vaccines are being slow, England moved to full lockdown again. Vast numbers of new cases in the UK and the US. 350k deaths in the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
https://www.seattletimes.com/tag/coronavirus/
by ezs | Jan 3, 2021 | evilzenscientist
Well – after fixing broken zypper credentials – upgrade from SLES 15 SP2 to SLES 15 SP3 snapshot 5 went quickly. I don’t usually take pre-GA SPs for SLES – but I’m getting bitten with PHP update slowness.
zypper migration
by ezs | Jan 3, 2021 | evilzenscientist
Ran into this again – zyoper losing credentials – and something breaks in the Python dependencies.
/usr/sbin/registercloudguest –force-new
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/sbin/registercloudguest”, line 42, in <module>
import cloudregister.registerutils as utils
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cloudregister/registerutils.py”, line 32, in <module>
from lxml import etree
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/lxml/etree.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: PyFPE_jbuf
Fix is to download the “old” Python library (here for this specific example) – and wedge it in. Then do the usual zypper up.
rpm –force –nodeps libpython3_6m1_0-3.6.10-lp152.3.7.x86_64.rpm
by ezs | Jan 3, 2021 | evilzenscientist
More a personal note. Regular website sizing (normal traffic, fronted with CloudFlare and Azure) compared with active use (voting/ballots and interaction).
The website is all WordPress on LAMP – so RAM and disk writes are key for the voting.
Normal use: B2ms – 2 vCPU, 8GB RAM
Surge use: E16s_v3 – 16 vCPU, 128GB RAM
Planning around this – and it’s a few extra dollars per month.
by ezs | Jan 2, 2021 | evilzenscientist
Successful switch to the updated PHP repo for SLES 15 SP2
zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/php/SLE_15_SP2/ PHP7_SLE_15_SP2
by ezs | Dec 28, 2020 | evilzenscientist
New Year and weekend – entering the New Year with some hope that the multiple vaccines will slow and eventually eradicate the pandemic. All signs from the US are that distribution is being botched.
Weekend numbers from The Seattle Times – cases have decreased (yay!) and deaths seem to have peaked. Hospital beds are >85% utilised which is a big concern.
Thursday – looking back at the first year of Coronavirus: 83M reported, positive cases, 1.8M deaths. That curve isn’t slowing down. Data from JHU
US data shows a more pronounced jump since November. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year…
Wednesday – vaccination is slow in the US.
Tuesday – When the history of Covid and 2020-202? is written, there will be a lot said about how the US responded. Reading today that 40M+ Americans are behind in mortgage, car and credit card payments. Those payments all become due in mid 2021.
Monday – Already writing about 2021 – soon this will be a full year of working from home, school from home. The disruption to normal life has been immense. The loss of life, livelihoods and the elimination of societal norms will be here for a long time. UK, US and around the globe new cases are reaching new peaks. 41,385 new positive cases in the UK, NHS warns of collapse.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
https://www.seattletimes.com/tag/coronavirus/
by ezs | Dec 22, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Christmas and Weekend – The UK mutation is everywhere; reported by the UK because of good virus genomics teams. Some delays in reporting new numbers because of Christmas and the weekend – but Washington State continues to look bleak. Graphics from The Seattle Times.
Thursday – Call for whole of England to move into Tier 4 immediately. Almost 40k daily cases in the UK. Lots of breaking the travel ban happening.
Wednesday – 1M vaccines given in US so far.
Tuesday – UK positive cases up by 18k!
Monday – slight dip in WA case numbers – which is encouraging. Massive spikes in the UK. More vaccines arriving.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
https://www.seattletimes.com/tag/coronavirus/
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