Sat, Feb 29, 2020 10:50 p.m.
Fast Food Robot Costs Less to Employ than Minimum-Wage Worker
Miso Robotics' machine named Flippy is "the world's first autonomous robotic kitchen assistant that can learn from its surroundings and acquire new skills over time," according to the company's website. This is good news for restaurant owners because it would cost them less to employ Flippy than a minimum-wage worker, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
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HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS OF UNDETECTED COVID-19 CASES IN WASHINGTON ST
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(ZH)Last night the US got its first dose of really bad coronavirus news, when Washington State announced it was the site of the country’s first coronavirus death on Saturday, while additionally reporting that two confirmed cases of covid-2019 were confirmed at a long-term care facility in Kirkland, Washington, prompting the state to declare a state of emergency, even as President Trump issued new foreign travel warnings and restrictions on Saturday afternoon in an effort to stop the spread of the virus, while also urging calm among members of the public.
There was worse news: researchers who studied two cases in the state say that the virus may have been spreading there for weeks, suggesting the possibility that up to 1,500 people in the state may have been infected. Specifically, the researchers compared two cases to learn more about how the coronavirus spreads. The viral mutations suggest that it has been spreading in the state for close to six weeks, according to one of the scientists who compared the sequences, Trevor Bedford, an associate professor at the University of Washington.
If that is true, it could mean that 150 to 1,500 people “have either been infected and recovered or currently are infected now,” said Mike Famulare, a researcher at the Institute for Disease Modeling in Bellevue, Wash., who performed the analysis. Those cases, if they exist, have thus far been undetected.
And most problematic of all, many of those people might not yet have symptoms even if they are contagious. Dr, Famulare characterized his estimate of community cases as a “best guess, with broad uncertainty.” Another method, based on census data and estimated sampling, produced similar results, he said.
GRA:If undetected,these 1500 people HAD to have infected others in the tens of thousands and then those would exponentially infect others.Not all cases have been noted as symptomatic,so what can you make of this?
Maybe the virus kills a certain vulnerable group and others its not noticeable,My question is,symptomsxor not--does it cause damage to the individual that has the virus sitting inside their bodies.
I've heard that some people who go through the illness and recover--get a relapse--signaling a stubborness of the virus to be cured.
Meanwhile,hoarding at some Costco stores is beginning in some areas.
This news won't help.
---GRA
Given my experience with fast food employees, the robot not only costs less but probably does the job better.
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