CORONAVIRUS: Monday 4/20 roundup

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Two weeks to go in the current stay-home order; no state, county, or city executive statements (about that or anything else) today, but we do have a variety of notes in our nightly roundup:

NEWEST KING COUNTY NUMBERS: From the Seattle-King County Public Health data dashboard:

*5,293 people have tested positive, up 121 from yesterday

*360 people have died, up 14 from yesterday

One week ago, those totals were 4,549 and 296.

STATEWIDE NUMBERS: Find them here.

WORLDWIDE NUMBERS: Find them here.

FIRST QUARANTINE-FACILITY DEATH: The King County isolation/quarantine facility n Top Hat (east of White Center) has not opened yet. But the first death at one of the facilities the county has opened – a former motel in Kent – was reported today.

UNEMPLOYMENT-APPLICATION DELUGE: On the second day since the state opened applications to an expanded group – adding self-employed people and independent contractors – they’re still having some online struggles. Here’s the latest.

GETTING GRADED: Seattle Public Schools‘ struggle to ensure equitable education for its 50,000+ students during building closures has led to a new grading policy for high-schoolers.

‘QUARANTINE DRAGON’: You’ve seen teddy bears and other critters in neighbors’ windows. But have you seen the “Quarantine Dragon”?

It guards a garage in Gatewood. Thanks to Michelle for the photo!

GOT INFO? PHOTOS? Email westseattleblog@gmail.com or text/voice 206-293-6302 – thank you!

Quarantine dragon? April 20, 2020 (10:14 pm)

Lol, Christmas themed quarantine dragon, why not?… as a commenter on another post recently said, ‘we are getting so weird.’

WSB April 20, 2020 (10:17 pm)

We see it on our daily walks and it’s always smile-evoking. Probably a riff on the “put your Christmas lights back up” campaign that went around early on.

Quarantine dragon April 20, 2020 (10:26 pm)

This made me smile too, appreciate the creative expressions, thanks for posting :)

West Seattle since 1979 April 20, 2020 (10:50 pm)

Cute dragon!

22blades April 21, 2020 (3:37 am)

Crush the curve? Slay the curve! PS: We need to do better. We’re slipping in WA: https://www.unacast.com/covid19/social-distancing-scoreboard

Consider the source April 21, 2020 (11:32 am)

In glancing through that “site”, it’s a poorly disguised attempt to capture individual contact information to build a database to create a sales environment. It’s important in times like these to be careful about what information we share.

anonyme April 21, 2020 (7:31 am)

Would it be safe to say that the relaxing/rebellious attitudes toward distancing have led to the death rate being back in the double digits?

WSB April 21, 2020 (8:54 am)

No, it would not. You can’t tell ANYTHING from one day’s data. Look at the county and state pages, tons of asterisks and disclaimers, doesn’t even mean all the people whose deaths were reported on any given day died the same day. But this is what we have.
Mon 14
Sun 6
Sat 9
Fri 11
Thu 8
Wed 9
Tue 7
Mon 4
The county website (follow the DATA DASHBOARD link) also has various charts and graphs. I just stick with the simple stuff, one day ago/one week ago.

Yma April 21, 2020 (7:32 am)

Love that dragon! I took a photo but never sent it in. Thank you, Michelle. bet we’ve passed by WSB folk on walks! At our place – we have assorted stuffies in the window & We put up the blue lights we use on our fish- themed Christmas tree. Oooooh – I might put out mariachi Santa!