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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Collecting some of my comments about Sacramento County's poor response to COVID19

Posted this rant on March 9

This does not seem like a good plan: "Sacramento County Announces New Mitigation Efforts COVID-19" https://t.co/5W3Dv4Lqr9 #COVID19 #Coronavirus - especially the plan to shift from containment to mitigation #Sacramento cc: @sacbee_news 1/n pic.twitter.com/dYUwEoUGb1
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 9, 2020

And then another rant

I think the Sacramento plan is problematic - if they are correct that it is time to ditch containment and move to mitigation then why is their mitigation plan among the weakest announced anywhere ? See https://t.co/mHnvLbdGGG https://t.co/mHnvLbdGGG
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020

And this one

But couldn't you do quarantine for some people but not necessarily for health care workers?
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020

And then Placer and Yolo County came out with their somewhat more aggressive plan

So #Yolo and #Placer counties have announced that they are also stopping containment efforts. I still think this is a bad idea but at least compared to #Sacramento county these counties are at least pushing the mitigation strategy a bit more strongly. See https://t.co/pbtsOMbmGN https://t.co/ZZlO2NtmFX
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020

And more

The Sacramento County plan is a joke - 1) containment is still useful in some cases, they should not ditch it 2) their plan for mitigation (reducing community spread) is the most limited of any place I have seen in the country -see https://t.co/ZZlO2NtmFX
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 11, 2020

And this

Brutally behind the curve - Sacramento’s public health leader - Q&A: Sacramento’s top health official on what’s being done to stop the coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/enebtjqNkK
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 15, 2020

And another

So - I went through the #Sacramento County plan for dealing with #COVID19. It is bad. https://t.co/ek99YNBzSw
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020

And this

Really incredibly important and calls into doubt the inane claims from #Sacramento, #Yolo and other local counties that we have to stop contact tracing and other containment actions https://t.co/qp5rE3uACg
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 11, 2020

And another

Really disappointed in #Sacramento health director’s approach: Sacramento County Health Director Defends Coronavirus Strategy, Says Lack Of Tests Made Containment Impossible - https://t.co/tiWN9gGBkS https://t.co/nqikmcSc67
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 14, 2020

And another

Really great article by @edyong209 about some of the problems with the UK #covid19 strategy and communications; sadly some similar things have been going on here in #Sacramento area https://t.co/jtdVqkfPel
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 16, 2020

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Birding while ill ...

OK so am pretty sick with bronchitis and such. But I had to get out. So I went for a brief birding outing, mostly in my car (I walked around a bit here and there). I went to Yolo Bypass and then drove briefly around rural Davis on the way home.

I posted some of the pics to iNaturalist.

See https://www.inaturalist.org/calendar/phylogenomics/2019/12/15

Posted the best pics to Smugmug. See here

Saturday, May 25, 2019

My observations for the City Nature Challenge 2019 - Sacramento #iNaturalist

So - last week I participated in the City Nature Challenge 2019 Sacramento Area effort. See https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019-sacramento-region for more details on the challenge.

My colleague Laci Gerhart-Barley was one of the co-organizers for our region and I saw some posts from her in the run up to the event and, as I have gotten more and more into iNaturalist I decided to participate. Fortunately in a way, I got a nasty bug with fever and chills and such and this meant (1) I did not want to go to work and (2) I wanted to avoid people. This gave me some extra time to go around. The vent ran from Friday to Monday April 26-29. And I tooled around UC Davis campus a few times and Sac State Campus once (on Saturday where my daughter had a concert) and around Yolo County and also my yard a bit. And I took a lot of pictures and posted as many as seemed interesting to iNaturalist. And the most amazing thing was the community of people that Laci and others had gathered together did an incredible job of helping ID many many many of my posts.

So here are some more details

Day 1. Link to observations. Screen capture below.

Day 2. Link to observations

Day 3. Link to observations

Day 4. Link to observations.

Some of my favorite observations from these days are below;

And many many more.

Thanks to all the people who helped ID many of my pics and thanks to Laci and the other coorganizers for running the show. It was a great experience.