Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[Iormlund]

I decided to pitch in my 10 cores and 1080 GPU.  It's not doing anything at the moment even on full power.

It took a while for mine to start folding, and so far only the GPU is doing so. The CPU slot keeps timing out when it polls the server. 
Also, I can't see what I'm working on, but apparently it's connected to the issue above.

[DGuller]

I decided to pitch in my 10 cores and 1080 GPU.  It's not doing anything at the moment even on full power.

It took a while for mine to start folding, and so far only the GPU is doing so. The CPU slot keeps timing out when it polls the server. 
Also, I can't see what I'm working on, but apparently it's connected to the issue above.

Yep, my GPU spooled up now, but CPUs aren't doing shit.  Maybe there are no jobs for CPUs, GPUs are usually far more effective at heavy lifting.

[Legbiter]

There's always a fresh batch of work units assigned each day. Sometimes it lays idle for a while until it starts crunching and you leave the computer on all night because you feel guilty about turning it off if your data set turned into the eureka! lottery ticket.

[mongers]

I wonder if it would make sense to draft low risk people to be infected right now, all at the same time? They'll do their 14 days in isolation and then take themselves out of the pool of potential super-spreaders.

I am looking at my hospital census right now and I see quite a few 20-50 year olds who are intubated in the ICU with COVID-19. Just because you're unlikely to die doesn't mean you can't get extremely sick.

Damn that's grim.

[Eddie Teach]

Video by a worker of the Excel centre space in London that's being converted into an emergency 4,000 critical care bed hospital (NHS Nightingale):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=hiXVdfOSlF8&feature=emb_title

I had not realised the scale

Oof. This is going "Threads". 

What was that building originally used for?

[Sheilbh]

What was that building originally used for?

I think it's a convention centre. Some of the Olympics were definitely hosted there (I want to say gymnastics). But I think it's normally big corporate expos and stuff like that.

[PDH]

It's where cruise ships have their old furniture and freshly departing customers...

[mongers]

Video by a worker of the Excel centre space in London that's being converted into an emergency 4,000 critical care bed hospital (NHS Nightingale):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=hiXVdfOSlF8&feature=emb_title

I had not realised the scale

Oof. This is going "Threads". 

What was that building originally used for?

Mainly weapon fairs for 3rd world dictators to get their guns in order to kill and suppress their people.

[mongers]

Something which probably only Shelf will take a polite interest in:

The six London borough I've all been keeping an eye on all have very similar case rates Brent, Lambeth, Southwark, Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea all have between 58 and 65 cases per 100,000. Oddly Haringey is the outlier with a rate of only 28.

But it's the rest of the country is worrying me, there seems to be a great deal of inexplicable variation.

For instance the conurbation here, Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch has just 15 cases for 395,784 people, a rate of only 3.79 p100th. And yet this is a big urban area with good connections to London, only 1.5 hrs drive.
For comparison it's surrounding rural county of Dorset has nearly double that.

Maybe it's the sea airs in the UK because some other 'conservative' coastal counties have suspiciously low rates, East Sussex 3.97 - no major city called Brighton and no London links.

I'm beginning to think London has a better set of testing regimes and some other areas don't consider testing that important or are turning people away from hospital

[merithyn]

It's the lack of testing that just makes all of those numbers almost worthless.

[mongers]

It's the lack of testing that just makes all of those numbers almost worthless.

Yes. I'm not leaving my semi-rural county to go shopping in the nearby large urban area that supposedly has a case rate only a 5th of where I live.

[grumbler]

Katmai just made it across the border in time.  The Federal Quarantine Act has just been amended to make quarantine mandatory for anyone entering the country.

You'll get him next time.

[merithyn]

Katmai just made it across the border in time.  The Federal Quarantine Act has just been amended to make quarantine mandatory for anyone entering the country.

Here's hoping they don't quarantine him when he crosses over into Alaska.

[11B4V]

Katmai just made it across the border in time.  The Federal Quarantine Act has just been amended to make quarantine mandatory for anyone entering the country.

You'll get him next time.

[mongers]

I've found one silver lining to this crisis, the political career of Jeremy Corbyn will pass with barely any acknowledgement.