Re: [omni-consensus] flat screen monitor for entrance hall - sudo-discuss

11 May 2022

I changed the subject line to the other thread we were talking about, with a
public information monitor in the main entrance hall.  I agree that sudoroom
should have one too.

Personally I don't like raspberry pi's, they're too expensive and I dislike
broadcomm...but if we have them then i guess they're good for this purpose and
are power-efficient.  We have tons of monitors and can totally dedicate one on
the sudoroom tables, facing the entrance, for a welcome screen.  I recommend
fixing the pi onto the back of the monitor and making the whole thing easy to
pick up and move around.

As for the entrance hall, it's the same basic idea, and so we should keep that
in mind and work on both equally.

We might even put a monitor outside the front door!  If it gets vandalized, we
can recycle it and put another one out there, we have so many monitors it's not
a problem.

-jake

On Wed, 11 May 2022, Andrew R Gross via sudo-discuss wrote:

...
  I think we should set up a digital sign visible
through the front doors,
 and use that for all sorts of general community communication. I'm going to
 try to find a small, light monitor, a Raspberry Pi, and a power source and
 then figure out how to mount it to the inside of the door, although
 realistically I have no timeline for this project, so if someone else wants
 to just take that idea and run with it, have at it.

 *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
 412.657.5332    -   shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>

 On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:27 AM Lucas Gonze &lt;lucas(a)gonze.com&gt; wrote:

  A sign on the door would work socially. IMO it
would also be a good
 approach to mitigation.

 The sign would be something like this:

  The current asymptomatic positive rate is: FOO%
 Masks are required when the rate is greater than: BAR%

 The problem is that somebody needs to do the work to update that. Maybe
 there is a no-maintenance approach, like:

 Masks are required when the asymptomatic positive rate is greater than:
  BAR%
 See http://FOO for the current rate

 On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:05 AM Andrew R Gross via sudo-discuss <
 sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org&gt; wrote:

  I'm just getting over it, and I can attest:
in the best case scenario it
 totally fucks up your month because you have to cancel so much stuff and
 can't go into work.

 Also, that link to wastewater testing is about the hundredth time during
 the last two years that I've wondered why I'm learning a piece of what
 feels like critical information for making good decisions from informal
 word-of-mouth. We can trace the virus through waste-water!?!?! SINCE
 WHENENENENNE!!!!f AHGHGGH WHY ARE WE DOING SO BAD AT FOLLOWING THIS AND
 COMMUNICATING RISKS!!!!!!1

 Okay. I'm good. Patrik, thank you for sharing this.

 I think we should base the masking requirement on the asymptomatic test
 rate and then just have a sign on the door and an email that goes out when
 the masking policy returns to effect or goes out of effect.

 *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
 412.657.5332    -   shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>

 On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:43 PM Patrik D'haeseleer via sudo-discuss <
 sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org&gt; wrote:

  With the discussion around masking, let me just
forward this email that
 I sent to the Omni discuss list yesterday...

 ---------- Forwarded message ---------
 From: Patrik D'haeseleer &lt;patrikd(a)gmail.com&gt;
 Date: Mon, May 9, 2022 at 4:44 PM
 Subject: Covid numbers rising rapidly around the Bay

 For those of you who have gotten used to thinking that Covid is over -
 here's a reminder that we are still very much in the midst of a pandemic!

 The two metrics that I personally put most stock in these days include
 wastewater monitoring, and *asymptomatic* test positivity rates.

 Covid levels in East Bay wastewater have been rising rapidly over the
 past few weeks, and are now back at levels we've seen during the main
 Omicron surge early January:

 [image: image.png]

 https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CalSuWers-Dashboar…

<https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CalSuWers-Dashboard.aspx#>

 As far as I know, only UCSF reports asymptomatic test positivity rate,
 which is currently around 3.4% - see
 https://coronavirus.ucsf.edu/dashboard Meaning that if you are in a
 room with 30 perfectly healthy looking people, there will likely be at
 least one who has an asymptomatic infection and may be infecting others.

 The good news is that infection fatality rate has dropped to almost the
 same level as the flu, thanks to vaccinations, protection from prior
 infections, and improved drugs to treat Covid patients. It is still a
 pretty nasty disease though, so do yourself a favor, and keep that mask on
 indoors and whenever you're in a crowd!

 Patrik
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