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Lulu KC

Lulu KC's Journal

March 17, 2020

Math people, need some help here

Without testing, the data on our rates of infection are unknown. But we do know the # of deaths.
Once we get testing going on a large scale (assuming we do), will we probably show a smaller percentage of deaths--due to proportion?
Please be kind, and answer as if I'm in fifth grade--I'm in recovery from a mathphobic childhood. Thanks!

March 13, 2020

Detectorists

I've never recommended it to anyone who hasn't thanked me.

March 11, 2020

He had me at Seamus Heaney

I pulled this up to review the quote Joe used in his speech last night--which, by the way, did not involve teleprompters--and I didn't notice him looking at notes, did you?
He said he often thinks of it and he used it before in a speech in Northern Ireland.
We used a Seamus Heaney poem in our wedding, so I have a little soft spot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cure_at_Troy

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Hometown: Duluth, MN
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