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shadowkat1. Well, turns out that I was wrong - I do live in one of the 20 hot spot or cluster zip codes. It has a 2.5% -3% infection rate.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today updated New Yorkers on the state's progress during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In the top 20 ZIP codes in areas that have seen recent outbreaks - Brooklyn, Queens and Rockland and Orange Counties - 5,392 tests were conducted, yielding 261 positives or a 4.8 percent positivity rate. In the remainder of the state, 104,937 tests were conducted yielding 961 positives or a 0.91 percent positivity rate.
"Local governments have not done an effective job of enforcement in these hot spot ZIP codes. The State will be doing aggressive enforcement starting tomorrow," Governor Cuomo said. "As we saw with bars and restaurants, when the State initiated enforcement actions compliance greatly increased. However, the State cannot take over effective enforcement for every jurisdiction and if a local jurisdiction cannot or will not perform effective enforcement of violating entities, notify the State and we will close all business activity in the hot spots where the local governments cannot do compliance.
"I'm concerned about the lack of testing in the schools," Governor Cuomo continued. "If the localities do not do testing immediately in the schools in those areas, the State will close them immediately. We all want schools to reopen IF they can reopen safely. I have assured the parents of this State that I would not send my child to a school that I didn't know was safe. Without testing we can't assure parents and teachers of the safety of that school."
The governor also announced that New York State will deploy personnel to directly enforce state guidance within the hot spot ZIP codes. Enforcement has already begun and will increase this week. The new effort is modelled on the State Liquor Authority and State Police Task Force that has been enforcing state guidance at bars and restaurants in New York City and on Long Island. Local businesses that violate the law can be subject to fines and closures.
New York State continues to track clusters with a particular focus on areas where there are hot spot, cluster situations. Within the top 20 ZIP codes in counties with recent outbreaks - Brooklyn, Queens and Rockland and Orange Counties - the average rate of positive tests is 4.8 percent. The rate of positive tests for the remainder of New York State, not counting these 20 ZIP codes, is 0.91 percent. These 20 ZIP codes contained 21 percent of all positive cases in New York State yesterday, but represent only 6.7 percent of the state's population.
Areas in hot spot communities, predominantly in Brooklyn, Queens and Rockland and Orange Counties, will continue to be subject of focused testing efforts including access to rapid testing machines. The top 20 ZIP codes for highest positivity over the past seven days in these counties is available...see link:
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-updates-new-yorkers-states-progress-during-covid-19-pandemic-40
Lovely. Stupid people who refuse to wear masks. Also been seeing more ambulances and hearing more lately.
2. Watched Enola Holmes - the casting of Sherlock Holmes felt a bit off, Henry Caville just doesn't work as Sherlock. The whole point of Sherlock is that people underestimate him. He doesn't have presence. Although Mycroft Holmes worked for me - Sam Claflin playing the plain, annoying brother was interesting.
Otherwise it was entertaining - and it's political. Very political. Which is okay, I agreed with it - but I'm trying to avoid anything that gets me keyed up. I wanted to kill Finola Hughes halfway through - however that's reasonably resolved - so no issues, also not done with violence.
Interesting cast. There's Finola Hughes, Milly Bobby Brown, Sam Claflin, Henry Caville, Helena Bonhem Carter, and Lestrade is played by POC, as is another female character. Very diverse or more so than usual. Also the dual mysteries were kind of fun. There's a very pretty boy cast as Enola's love interest.
3. Teen Wolf - I'm on S3 now. S2 was a lot better than S1. The series still follows a bit too closely for its own good some well-established tropes. To the point in which it's almost cliche. We have the best friend, who is nerdy, snarky, comic relief, a virgin (which they make a big deal of - seriously these kids are sixteen), and he's not physically strong, and is the brains or detects things. Then we have the star-crossed lovers, aka Romeo and Juliette. She's from a family that hunts werewolves, he's a werewolf. And she has a friend who is popular and has lots of sex.
I'm beginning to wonder if writers can come up with characters who do not fall into these teen cliche stereotypes. Vamp Diaries was slightly better because it kind of circumvented the teen stereotypes. Buffy had the stereotypes and tropes, but subverted them - by having Buffy be the lead, and her best friend being gay, also she was the hunter, the boyfriends were the monsters. Most of the shows in this genre do the opposite.
All of that said? It's entertaining and funny in places. Also the male leads are rather fun. It lacks in the female lead department. Bianca Lawson is in it - and she's...well, reminding me of why I rarely see her in anything.
Allison is kind of growing on me now that they've broken her and Scott up.
Lydia, I'm curious about and the actress is better than I thought. They need some better ones in there, it's still a wee bit too male heavy.
It has some intriguing mysteries or monsters of the week - which are more three to four part arcs that lead to a bigger arc. Much better in the plot - mystery arc department than either Vamp Diaries or Buffy were. Buffy and Vamp Diaries were better at character arcs than mystery arcs. Teen Wolf has better mysteries.
Anyhow, it's good escapist fare. I don't have any romantic ships though. And I can't say I'm shipping any characters at the moment...although I do like all the characters, I like them equally.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today updated New Yorkers on the state's progress during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In the top 20 ZIP codes in areas that have seen recent outbreaks - Brooklyn, Queens and Rockland and Orange Counties - 5,392 tests were conducted, yielding 261 positives or a 4.8 percent positivity rate. In the remainder of the state, 104,937 tests were conducted yielding 961 positives or a 0.91 percent positivity rate.
"Local governments have not done an effective job of enforcement in these hot spot ZIP codes. The State will be doing aggressive enforcement starting tomorrow," Governor Cuomo said. "As we saw with bars and restaurants, when the State initiated enforcement actions compliance greatly increased. However, the State cannot take over effective enforcement for every jurisdiction and if a local jurisdiction cannot or will not perform effective enforcement of violating entities, notify the State and we will close all business activity in the hot spots where the local governments cannot do compliance.
"I'm concerned about the lack of testing in the schools," Governor Cuomo continued. "If the localities do not do testing immediately in the schools in those areas, the State will close them immediately. We all want schools to reopen IF they can reopen safely. I have assured the parents of this State that I would not send my child to a school that I didn't know was safe. Without testing we can't assure parents and teachers of the safety of that school."
The governor also announced that New York State will deploy personnel to directly enforce state guidance within the hot spot ZIP codes. Enforcement has already begun and will increase this week. The new effort is modelled on the State Liquor Authority and State Police Task Force that has been enforcing state guidance at bars and restaurants in New York City and on Long Island. Local businesses that violate the law can be subject to fines and closures.
New York State continues to track clusters with a particular focus on areas where there are hot spot, cluster situations. Within the top 20 ZIP codes in counties with recent outbreaks - Brooklyn, Queens and Rockland and Orange Counties - the average rate of positive tests is 4.8 percent. The rate of positive tests for the remainder of New York State, not counting these 20 ZIP codes, is 0.91 percent. These 20 ZIP codes contained 21 percent of all positive cases in New York State yesterday, but represent only 6.7 percent of the state's population.
Areas in hot spot communities, predominantly in Brooklyn, Queens and Rockland and Orange Counties, will continue to be subject of focused testing efforts including access to rapid testing machines. The top 20 ZIP codes for highest positivity over the past seven days in these counties is available...see link:
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-updates-new-yorkers-states-progress-during-covid-19-pandemic-40
Lovely. Stupid people who refuse to wear masks. Also been seeing more ambulances and hearing more lately.
2. Watched Enola Holmes - the casting of Sherlock Holmes felt a bit off, Henry Caville just doesn't work as Sherlock. The whole point of Sherlock is that people underestimate him. He doesn't have presence. Although Mycroft Holmes worked for me - Sam Claflin playing the plain, annoying brother was interesting.
Otherwise it was entertaining - and it's political. Very political. Which is okay, I agreed with it - but I'm trying to avoid anything that gets me keyed up. I wanted to kill Finola Hughes halfway through - however that's reasonably resolved - so no issues, also not done with violence.
Interesting cast. There's Finola Hughes, Milly Bobby Brown, Sam Claflin, Henry Caville, Helena Bonhem Carter, and Lestrade is played by POC, as is another female character. Very diverse or more so than usual. Also the dual mysteries were kind of fun. There's a very pretty boy cast as Enola's love interest.
3. Teen Wolf - I'm on S3 now. S2 was a lot better than S1. The series still follows a bit too closely for its own good some well-established tropes. To the point in which it's almost cliche. We have the best friend, who is nerdy, snarky, comic relief, a virgin (which they make a big deal of - seriously these kids are sixteen), and he's not physically strong, and is the brains or detects things. Then we have the star-crossed lovers, aka Romeo and Juliette. She's from a family that hunts werewolves, he's a werewolf. And she has a friend who is popular and has lots of sex.
I'm beginning to wonder if writers can come up with characters who do not fall into these teen cliche stereotypes. Vamp Diaries was slightly better because it kind of circumvented the teen stereotypes. Buffy had the stereotypes and tropes, but subverted them - by having Buffy be the lead, and her best friend being gay, also she was the hunter, the boyfriends were the monsters. Most of the shows in this genre do the opposite.
All of that said? It's entertaining and funny in places. Also the male leads are rather fun. It lacks in the female lead department. Bianca Lawson is in it - and she's...well, reminding me of why I rarely see her in anything.
Allison is kind of growing on me now that they've broken her and Scott up.
Lydia, I'm curious about and the actress is better than I thought. They need some better ones in there, it's still a wee bit too male heavy.
It has some intriguing mysteries or monsters of the week - which are more three to four part arcs that lead to a bigger arc. Much better in the plot - mystery arc department than either Vamp Diaries or Buffy were. Buffy and Vamp Diaries were better at character arcs than mystery arcs. Teen Wolf has better mysteries.
Anyhow, it's good escapist fare. I don't have any romantic ships though. And I can't say I'm shipping any characters at the moment...although I do like all the characters, I like them equally.
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Date: 2020-10-05 07:31 am (UTC)I've yet to see it but my impression of so far from other reviews is, just relax and enjoy it and don't think too hard about canon from either Springer or Conan Doyle. (-: It sounds as if Millie Bobby Brown does a good job of it.
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Date: 2020-10-05 12:06 pm (UTC)It's an adaptation from a YA book of the same name. It is basically Sherlock Holmes fanfic - that doesn't follow that closely to canon. So yeah, if you watch it - view it as an AU Sherlock fanfic.
Heh, now I'm reminded how "Grimm"'s arcs typically seemed rather weaker than the monster-of-the-week episodes.
Teen Wolf has monster arcs. It really isn't episodic at all. Instead it has a season long monster mystery, with subplots in the background. Similar to the Vamp Diaries model, except a little less soapy. I think it's targeted more towards teen boys. Although the boys are pretty and have their shirts off a lot...
I think Grimm was more along the lines of the X-Files model, which had the same problem. The arcs were weaker than the monster of the week episodes. It's interesting but the procedural monster/mystery of the week model - has better stand-a-lone than arcs, while the teen soap model has better arcs than stand-a-lones. Which makes sense, the writers of episodic series suck at lengthy plot arcs, and writers of teen soaps suck at mystery of the weeks.
Lucifer has the reverse problem of Grimm and X-Files - it's trying to be monster/mystery of the week model, with the mythology/season arc in the background, but
it's monster/mystery of the week stuff sucks.
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Date: 2020-10-05 11:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-05 12:11 pm (UTC)It's just kind of jarring seeing him as Sherlock, although I felt a bit the same way about Robert Downy, Jr and hand-waved that. In my head - Sherlock is Basil Rathbone or Benedict Cumberbatch. Skinny, lean, slightly balding, with an angular nose, and sharp cheekbones - not pretty really, but compelling.
Henry Caville is far too pretty to be Sherlock.