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An unintended consquence of sheltering at home?

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What's for lunch?

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Tragedy of the commons

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Neglecting a communal job (i.e. social loafing)

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May

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After I got my balance back from the initial shutdown shock:

Taking 6-7 Zoom yoga classes a week now. My studio was an 8 minute walk where I did 4-5 week.

Taking 3 Zoom fitness classes/week now. Fitness center was a 4 minute walk and I took 6/week but 3 were spin and I had sold the bike....so walking more, alternating days of intensity & miles.

Reduced the food intake as things were getting out of control.

Still trying to establish regular bed and wake up times. Too many up past 1 or 2 events.

Indica only in the evening and reduced dose by half.

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https://www.newswise.com/coronavirus/case-western-reserve-team-studying-unprecedented-levels-of-trauma-caused-by-covid-19-pandemic/?article_id=730825&sc=sphp

Case Western Reserve team studying ‘unprecedented’ levels of trauma caused by COVID-19 pandemic

“There are some valid concerns that this coronavirus pandemic could cause emotional trauma and PTSD at a level we’ve never seen before,” said Megan Holmes, an associate professor of social work and the founding director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity at the university’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.

Currently, the United States has the largest COVID-19 outbreak in the world. Testing for the virus has been slow to keep up with the spread, but the effort is at least underway. Little is known, however, of the pandemic’s impact on mental health of Americans.

Holmes assembled a team of a half-dozen researchers—from the Center on Trauma and Adversity, the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and the School of Medicine—to study the issue.

In just two weeks, researchers gathered nearly 600 participants for the pilot study. The idea, she said, is to collect and analyze survey responses about how the novel coronavirus may affect participants’ emotional well-being and the coping strategies they’re using to minimize emotional distress.

“Our pilot data showed that nearly 90% of the sample reported experiencing one or more post-traumatic stress symptom, a rate that is much higher than reported for other traumatic events,” Holmes said.

The preliminary results highlighted that 86% of respondents experienced at least one trauma symptom, while 94% reported some levels of grief.

Holmes noted that this pandemic is set apart from other traumatic events, such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks or World War II, because the psychological stress caused by those events was limited by geography.

“They also did not involve mandatory quarantines or isolation and did not have ongoing stressors of physical-health threats—all which independently have been documented by research to increase anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress symptoms,” she said.

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https://twitter.com/lnachman32/status/1255741010535047168?s=20

Number of days since Taiwan has had a new domestically spread coronavirus case: [image of 18-day Taiwan Beer]

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Early internet follies:

So I forgot until late in the day, but I first started an ebay account to sell off a giant truck-sized spray booth that came with a building I bought to convert to 41 live/work units. The dumb thing is I didn't put any contact info in the posting, and I couldn't understand why the bidding was so low. Well AFTER I sold to some local guy for $500 ($50,000 new? I don't know) I saw that I had bunches of questions from interested buyers that I never answered. Ah well, at least we got it out of the way which was the main point.

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Hmmm...Alturas (in the extreme northeast of California) is opening up...

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Watching the markets closely - but not too closely. I have a long time horizon. My bet is that tech will continue to be strong even after the epidemic begins to burn out.

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Interesting Things

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The crumbling economy

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Sporting spite

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An upside of sheltering at home

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Our collapsing democracy

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Pro

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Cal

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