by ezs | Jul 13, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – the usual look at the ever more bleak numbers. This does feel like a slow roll to millions of deaths in the US.
US daily cases; via JHU. Surely on the path to 100k per day by month end. Lack of strong policy on mask wearing, distancing and healthcare will make this become a reality. This is WA, NY, NJ played out large four months later.
The Seattle Times- rolling average new cases is now way higher than March/April – so the Governor is having to roll back reopening. I’m planning for no school, no in-office work until at least the new year.
Friday – UK looks at “significant normality by Christmas”, US has record 77.3k new cases, GA Gov v Atlanta major legal action over masks. Restrictions returning to WA state as cases continue to creep upwards; more new cases now than back in March/April.
Thursday – WA DOH changing the counting mechanism again. Back to school is going to be a real issue, really soon. Health, safety, funding – and possible labour cuts (no buses, no schools – what to do with bus drivers and custodians?). What is a hybrid model? K-2 in school?
Wednesday – Fauci is an honourable man. Work from home until 2021 is likely.
Tuesday – masks required in UK shops. WA COVID death reporting via the state is broken again. Lockdown returns around the world. Second wave? Continued first wave? Unknown what September brings for return to school – quarantining teachers on every positive case amongst pupils would remove the workforce within a week.
Monday – back in March I had thoughts that this would be through the spring; looking at Wuhan and Italy, then New York, then New Zealand – it seemed like the coronavirus could be contained and a planful return to work sometime in the summer.
Where we are today, in both WA state and across the US, is anything but contained. Local hotspots in Yakima County, national runaway cases across many, many states who opened early.
Without national leadership, and some selfless actions to distance, wear masks and quarantine – the US is going to be isolated and work from home for another six months minimum.
by ezs | Jul 10, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Now the UniFi deb packages are fixed – the script from Glenn Rieveld works perfectly on Ubuntu 20.04
https://community.ui.com/questions/UniFi-Installation-Scripts-or-UniFi-Easy-Update-Script-or-UniFi-Lets-Encrypt-or-Ubuntu-16-04-18-04-/ccbc7530-dd61-40a7-82ec-22b17f027776
Backup, certs, download, update. It’s a work of art.
by ezs | Jul 6, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Saturday – 3.2M cases in the US, 12.5M global. Almost 135k deaths in the US. For context that’s half a Vietnam war in 4 months.
JHU data shows accelerating positive cases in the US. Sunday: 15,300 new cases in FL.
Weekly look at The Seattle Times data. Continued climb in cases; deaths picking up too. Yakima County almost caught up with King County in absolute numbers; off the chart for per capita.
Friday – international travel restrictions starting to ease in Europe. Runaway cases in the US.
Thursday – 60k daily cases in the US. TX, AZ, FL worst hit. They opened early.
Wednesday – International students must return home for remote learning.
Tuesday – US gives notice to exit WHO, 10k cases/day in CA, virus could be airborne. Bolsonaro positive test. Masks required again in WA.
Monday – Texas warns of overwhelmed hospitals; US deaths over 130k.
Local and global coverage for future reference.
by ezs | Jun 29, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – July 4th. No fireworks, no parades, no festival in Issaquah. Continued long slow climb in positive daily cases in WA state. 2.8M cases in the US, accelerating numbers. 130K deaths. Lockdowns return in Spain, India, Kazakhstan.
Friday – many stories of tens/hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 survivors with crippling long term health issues.
Thursday – lack of lockdown discipline caused virus explosion.
Wednesday – Leicester back into lockdown; huge growth via factories in the East of the city.
Tuesday – “US has way too much virus” and “There is a general anti-science, anti-authority, anti-vaccine feeling among some people in this country”. Dr Fauci predicts “100k daily cases” in the US.
Monday – The worst still to come, pandemic accelerating say the WHO.
Local and global coverage for future reference.
by ezs | Jun 28, 2020 | evilzenscientist
I need to look for a “better” solution to PHP and SLES.
I understand the balancing act between long term support, backporting patches etc – and that’s why SLES has been such a good friend.
I’d just love WordPress and other apps to stop griping about older versions of PHP.
by ezs | Jun 26, 2020 | evilzenscientist
More to come on this – here’s my placeholder to do a cleaner write up.
Notes:
[Zoom] – OAUTH – API – PowerShell – Excel
Great Zoom PowerShell module from Joseph McEvoy
Quick and dirty PowerShell to read meeting registrants and values of custom questions.
$ZoomRegistrants = Get-ZoomMeetingRegistrants [meetingid] -pagesize 300
$reghashtable = $zoomregistrants.registrants
$outputs = $reghashtable |foreach-object {
return [pscustomobject]@{
regtime = “$($_.create_time)”
email = “$($_.email)”
fname = “$($_.first_name)”
lname = “$($_.last_name)”
member = “$($_.custom_questions.value[0])”
pco = “$($_.custom_questions.value[1])”
campaign = “$($_.custom_questions.value[2])”
}
}
$outputs | convertto-csv
by ezs | Jun 23, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – “cases surge” in US sun belt states. Another delve into Google search to find the missing Saturday BBC update.
Now over 10MM global cases – and the daily cases is quickly picking up again. Sustained 170k new cases per day.
US new cases is massive – 40k plus per day. Even comparing against Tuesday this is horrific. Again – from JHU.
Weekly update from The Seattle Times. That long slow uptick in cases looks to be mainly from Yakima county. Moving average of around 400 cases/day – which is similar to early April.
Friday – 40k daily cases in the US, TX bars ordered to close. The status quo isn’t working. Social distancing and wearing a mask does. VP Pence claims “US Progress” which is not clear.
Thursday – UK sun – and tens of thousands crowding beaches. US cases continue to climb.
Wednesday – over 9M global positive cases; 500K deaths.
Tuesday – WA Statewide requirement to wear masks in public. Booming cases in Yakima county and broad uptick across the state.
Global daily cases is growing; US daily cases dipped in May after the NY outbreak slowed; but is now picking up again. Back at March/April new cases rates. Graphs from JHU.
Monday – UK starts to open up fully. UK considers social distancing change from 2m to 1m.
Local and global coverage for future reference.
by ezs | Jun 15, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – WHO reports 150k new cases globally on Thursday. Almost 9M reported cases. 2.2M in US.
Usual weekend update via The Seattle Times.
Friday – UK alert system lowered, King county (and Issaquah) move to Phase 2 of reopening. Meanwhile cases are picking up again and WHO warns against a new danger. Virus detected in sewage water from Turin and Milan that was collected in December.
Thursday – contact tracing is hard. Contact tracing with untested mobile applications is even harder. Google and Apple built a framework; UK NHS decided otherwise. It doesn’t work.
Wednesday – WA cases, like in many other states, have ticked upwards. There’s a big argument whether this is more exposure and transmission (warmer weather, folk not distancing, holidays) or through more testing (I don’t believe so). Dexamethasone improves clinical outcomes. No vaccine in sight.
Tuesday – slowly and carefully WA state opens up. King County applies for “Phase 2 reopening”. New Zealand has two cases via travellers from the UK – quarantine testing wasn’t consistent.
Monday – another week. The news continues to oscillate between coronavirus, BLM protests and other news. June gloom (overcast, cool, raining) as always. Looking back – I didn’t think this would be a quarter of the year spent collecting news and data. Looking forward – what is the appropriate update frequency? So much was new and concerning back in early March. That now seems the new normal. Documenting the changes so there is a contemporaneous record I think will be important.
Concerning this morning: new hotspots in Beijing (see yesterday), India and Iran. This looks like a second wave.
Local and global coverage for future reference.
by ezs | Jun 14, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Since adding the Ubiquiti access points and security gateway – I’ve been using the Unifi Controller on an Ubuntu server.
Much hackiness to get this installed on Ubunto 20.04 with a newer Mongodb. The good news is that the newest release (5.13.29) has the correct metadata to support installing on a new Ubuntu, with newer mongodb.
Happy news – and no more reliance on community hacks.
by ezs | Jun 8, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – Second wave stories everywhere – US states, Beijing, UK.
UK death rate slowing quickly. Latin America growth; Brazil as epicenter.
Seattle Times data for the week.
Friday – UK GDP shrank by 20% in April. Lots of discussion about the steps needed to “be in the office” to get a task done – VP approval, limited ingress and egress routes, security notification, masks required.
Thursday – the news cycle slowly pivots back to coronavirus. US at more than 2 million positive cases. Contact tracing not working well in the UK – third of positive cases missed.
Wednesday – UK needs planning for return to school in September. Work is looking at “next year” for return.
Another reminder on searching for specific day coronavirus coverage:
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mmm/dd/coronavirus
BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world and “As it happened”
Tuesday – Somehow my post from this day got deleted – rewrite time. Lots of examples of “early reopening” causing a huge uptick in positive coronavirus cases.
Arizona:
Monday – yes, this is week 14. We will be at day 100.
As we approach the end of the school year (in the Northern hemisphere at least) – eyes are looking forward to school and university return. Still unknown what any of that really looks like.
Good news: Berlin, Paris, Dublin reopening. UK reports lowest coronavirus death toll since 22 March.
Bad news: More reports of moving average positive cases ticking up across multiple US states.
It looks like The Seattle Times have stopped with their live local updates page for coronavirus. I’m not surprised – the massive protests across Seattle have drained their newsroom.
Local and global coverage for future reference.
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