Daily Digest for Thursday, Jun 11, 2020
☀️ Earliest posts come first.
Gnarled old man moment: rewired a workstation in my shop so that 4 outlets powering 4 power tools and an overhead light can all be powered on with a switch.
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Arizonans: Wear. A. Mask.
Research continues to show that masks/face coverings DO help prevent community spread of the #covid19 virus. Please, Arizonans: wear masks anytime you are well, most any place.
Population-wide face mask use could push COVID-19 transmission down to controllable levels for national epidemics, and could prevent further waves of the pandemic disease when combined with lockdowns, according to a British study on Wednesday.
Reuters: Widespread mask-wearing could prevent COVID-19 second waves: study
“Our analyses support the immediate and universal adoption of face masks by the public,” said Richard Stutt, who co-led the study at Cambridge.
He said combining widespread mask use with social distancing and some lockdown measures, could be “an acceptable way of managing the pandemic and re-opening economic activity” before the development of an effective vaccine against COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus.
Going to keep recommending @sceneonradio’s “Seeing White” to white friends/family http://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
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