Friday, November 06, 2020

Day 280: Pandemic Theater

The Boston Herald reports that Harvard epidemiologist Julia Marcus called Governor Baker's new unscientific 24/7 outdoor masking rule "pandemic theater" on Twitter. She also wrote about the dangers of quarantine fatigue in the Atlantic back when it was a new thing.

Despite the MDPH having moved their weekly reporting time from Wednesdays at 4pm to Thursdays at 5pm, the Massachusetts cities and towns data for this week is still not available today (Friday at noonish), so maps will be delayed.

P.S. Massachusetts cases were up one and a quarter percentage points today, partly due to delayed reporting of October cases from "a national laboratory".

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