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yes, so government projects finally get in the layout stage now, then get construction started in another month or so, then they are screwed when December hits.

Not always. Projects that are being staked out now are either multi-year projects or jobs that will take the whole season to build. Projects go out for bid in July and August,  build bypasses and crossovers in September and October, then either do pier work over winter or be ready to start digging or paving as soon as the frost is out.

Highway work here goes on year round obviously.  Some of the concrete freeway pavement in use is 50 years old or more.

There's a neat rebuild of a freeway interchange north of town.  The wife was in the hospital and had a window overlooking the work (one day, hip surgery, she's fine).  It's pretty neat to see, I imagine the design hours that goes into something like this is impressive, traffic control, soil sampling, drainage, ... $800 million.

https://www.reporternewspapers.net/2020/07/01/transform-285-400-interchange-project-completion-is-delayed-a-year-to-2021/

Then GA DOT wants to build parallel toll freeway lanes, which sounds to me like, well, I dunno.  Traffic here remains well off normal with the virus thing, it's kind of nice to be able to get around rather easily.  I was chatting with the wife about how much of this is permanent.

https://www.reporternewspapers.net/2020/05/29/gdot-responds-to-i-285-toll-lane-questions-concerns/

And our highway money can't be used for mass transit by law.

This is my favorite interchange, slowest stretch of highway in the country apparently...

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlantas-spaghetti-junction-ranked-as-no1-truck-bottleneck-in-us/689609804/

SIOUX CITY -- Sixteen more people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Woodbury County, the Siouxland District Health Department reported Sunday.

Those 16 positives come from 126 new tests performed, for a positivity rate of about 12.7 percent. This is lower than Woodbury County's peak positivity percentage in April, which hit roughly 52 percent at one point, but higher than Iowa's statewide positivity rate of 6.4 percent tallied on Saturday.


In Northwest Iowa, 11 COVID-19 patients are currently in the ICU and two are on ventilators, according to data from Region 3 of Iowa's Regional Medical Coordination Centers (RMCC), which represents counties in Northwest Iowa. In all, 31 patients in the region are currently hospitalized with the virus.

Since the beginning of the outbreak, 38,723 Iowans (or roughly 1 in every 82 residents) has tested positive for the virus. Of these, 27,896, or about 72 percent, are now considered recovered, while 793 have died. 

We don't do staking for government work, generally. They require union shops, and I'll be one of those over my dead body.

Another reason why Florida is great- right to work state lol. 

Govt work also sucks ass because of the hoops you have to jump through and the bonding can be a pain in the ass. Never been interested in it, never will be. 

What do the epidemiologists, or you, attribute this change in curvature to?

a lot of the hospitalization patients were not virus related but rather a catch up fro other medical issues which were put on hold back in March and April

They have run their course 

I just had a buddy released from the hospital. Needed back surgery - diagnosed in February. Postponed for Covid.

I hope this guy is a real "expert"................... of course this story is a month old

- Matteo Bassetti said patients who could have previously succumbed to COVID-19 were recovering without breathing difficulties

- Bassetti said the virus was like a tiger in March and April but had downgraded to a wild cat in the recent weeks

- The professor said the virus was weakening by itself and a vaccine was no longer necessary to quell it

- He further said though it was not scientifically proven, there was a huge likelihood that COVID-19 was losing its virulence and was mutating

The novel coronavirus is no longer lethal as it used to be and could die on its own without a vaccine, an Italian expert has said.

Head of the infectious diseases clinic at the Policlinico San Martino hospital in Italy, Matteo Bassetti hinted at a possible end in sight of the virus after stating that COVID-19 was losing its virulence since most patients who would have died from the disease in March or April were now recovering.


http://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/coronavirus-is-weakening-could-die-on-its-own-without-vaccine-italian-expert/ar-BB15N3hh?ocid=sf&fbclid=IwAR3D4891IbcSZA5jNZ3Q89__HoCJNWwglccPwLKybiY31MO5YXX6C9uue6c

please be true.