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My family lives in Walton County, and my sister seems to think that because they live in the country, they are immune to the COVID-19 virus. Meanwhile, I am trying to protect my parents, who are in there 70’s, and keep everyone safe. It’s hard to explain probability when you have no data, but this morning, I found GA Tech’s risk assessment tool.
https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu/
In the lower left corner, use the slider to select crowd size and then hover over a county to see the risk level. For instance, if there are 50 people in a grocery store in DeKalb County, there is an 87% chance that at least one person there will be carrying the COVID-19 virus. Push the occupancy up to 100 people and the risk moves up to 98%.
For Walton County where my family lives, if a gathering consists of 100 people the risk is 84%; not that far behind DeKalb. By comparison, that same population in Gwinnett drives the risk level up to 98%. I am sharing this with my team and with my family in the hopes that they will start to take social distancing seriously. It’s hard to ignore when you have data to back it up.
Thanks to the hard work of Core Systems, we now have access to the Wall Street Journal for current Emory students, faculty and staff.
Beginning in July 2020, the Emory Libraries are offering a NEW Wall Street Journal digital access program! With our new program, Emory students, faculty, and staff will have continuous access to the digital version of Wall Street Journal and its online content, including the WSJ app. The archive goes back four years. For more archival research, go to Factiva which has 30 years of the WSJ, Wall Street Journal Historical, and Proquest WSJ.
Instructions are here on the WSJ libguide and include what to do if you or a patron holds an existing subscription.
Sign up here: https://partner.wsj.com/partner/emoryuniversity
Libguide is here: https://guides.libraries.emory.edu/wsj
An Emory Libraries blog post will be forthcoming as well.
The DEI, LEAF, and LAC leadership will be hosting a second Anti-Racist Forum for Emory Libraries on July 29, 2020 at 11 am. A registration email will be forthcoming. In the meantime, please save the date!
We want to ensure that this Forum serves you. Do you have a specific topic you would like to discuss or a breakout room structure that would most benefit you at this time? Please share your ideas with us no later than July 21, 2020.
Looking forward to seeing you at the Forum!
Members of the Emory community have created two new guides worth checking out!
Emory’s Black Lives Matter LibGuide contains resources and information about how to take action. Materials included in the guide have been crowdsourced by library staff. If you have suggestions of additional resources or organizations that you would like included, please add them to our googledoc. Pages on the guide include:
Also take a look at the Emory Libraries Social Justice Corner Guide, which serves as a starting point to learn more about social justice initiatives across the Emory Libraries, Emory Campus, Atlanta, and beyond. It also points members of the Emory community to key social justice resources. The pages include:
For questions about the Black Lives Matter LibGuide or to get involved contact the DEI’s Professional Development Committee Chair Melissa Hackman and for the Social Justice Corner Guide, contact group lead, Kim Collins.
My significant other Chris and I adopted our cats, Bobo and Premium, on the same day from the Atlanta Humane Society. Although they’re from different litters, they became best buddies within moments of meeting each other. They’re three years old now and totally adore each other, and us.
We’ve been naming our pets after cartoon characters. Previously we had Maggie (The Simpsons), Penny (from the Penny cartoon on Pee Wee’s Playhouse), Churchy (from Pogo), and Nemo (adopted from people who had named him Emo but I misheard them).
Bobo (aka Mr. B., Big Tub of Goo, Big Boi, The Big Dripper, Blobby Hill) is the orange tabby. He was originally named Rusty. We re-named him after Mr. Burns’ teddy bear. Coincidentally he had a raggedy teddy bear in his cage that we brought home. His favorite thing is to be belly up on your lap getting tummy rubs.
Premium (aka the Cruise Missile, Monkey Brain, Henry Wriggler) is the black and white one. We kept the name they had given him at the Humane Society because of the Simpsons connection. His littermate was named Retro. He’s physically the opposite of Bobo. Premium is lithe and athletic and races around, launching himself like a torpedo onto high places.
Once Chris was doing some work on our A/C. He had the grate off of one of our inside floor vents, but got a phone call and wandered off. I walked into the room a few minutes later to see Premium coming UP out of the vent. Bobo wasn’t in the room. I yelled “HANG UP THE PHONE!” just as Bobo clawed his way up and out of the vent.
Premium is the smarter of the two. We have an automatic kibble feeder that dispenses food into a bowl in the morning. Premium has learned how to grab it by the top and shake it until more food falls out.
They love that we are working from home and spend much of the day curled up next to me.
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