{"id":5739,"date":"2020-04-18T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2020-04-18T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T23:14:09","slug":"no-time-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/18\/no-time-to-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"No time to quit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Until there is a vaccine, or enough testing and tracking capability to ensure new cases are spotted quickly and isolated, this is no time for Collin County to quit its effective social distancing protocols. The doubling time for COVID-19 cases now is 25 days; before social distancing went into effect, it was 2 days. You do the math.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Collin_New_Cases.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Collin_New_Cases.png 800w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Collin_New_Cases-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Collin_New_Cases-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Collin_New_Cases-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Collin_New_Cases-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Collin_New_Cases-120x120.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>(Orange) New cases per day in Collin County, averaged over the prior 7 days; (Black) New cases each day. Arrows indicate when various actions went into effect. You can see the effect when full stay-at-home measures locked in, helping to halt and reverse the trend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Collin_County_Cases-2-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Collin_County_Cases-2-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Collin_County_Cases-2-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Collin_County_Cases-2-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Collin_County_Cases-2-1536x768.png 1536w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Collin_County_Cases-2.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Arrows (left to right) indicate when limited, followed by full, stay-at-home measures went into effect.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until there is a vaccine, or enough testing and tracking capability to ensure new cases are spotted quickly and isolated, this is no time for Collin County to quit its effective social distancing protocols. The doubling time for COVID-19 cases now is 25 days; before social distancing went into effect, it was 2 days. 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