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My sister is an ER MD and says despite the reported numbers, they are flooded with people showing symptoms. After diagnosing them based on their symptoms, they send nearly everyone home to self-quarantine without testing them. I assume only those requiring hospitalization are tested, and only those tested are reported. That test costs $$$ and there aren't enough test kits to go around to test everyone.
I find it misleading that the reported numbers of infected in the news are limited to those who are tested using those test kits. Obviously, that's only a fraction of the true number. But at the same time, I get why they only report that number as anything else is speculative.
I was feeling fortunate that my area issued the stay at home order this week while the numbers were so low. But now I know the numbers weren't anywhere as low as I thought. I wonder how many other people living in areas that have only a handful of confirmed cases are lead to a false sense of security, and how that is leading to the spread in their areas.
And for those of you who bought all the TP, I ask why? I buy a large pack from Sam's Wholesale and it lasts my family of 3 for at least 6 months. Did you think they's stop making toilet paper? I mean, it's not like you weren't going to go shopping again for other things before this was over.
Hmm... The thought did occur... Could some people use more tp per wipe? Could it be like a tootsie pop and that classic commercial with the owl? How many squares of tp does it take to wipe your bum? One, two, three? [crunch]. Heh.
Because of spring breaks and people being in isolation, instead of posting multiple chapters over the weekends, I'm posting a chapter each day over the entire week until we reach the content not present in Tim, the Teenage MC.
That means Chronicles will be caught up by Monday the 30th. After that, I will be posting only one chapter a week for the next 99 weeks.
That's my plan at the moment, anyway.
Lol. Zen Master recommended checking out Joe_J's blog. It's a riot.
Just as a reference, if just averaging the raw votes for Love's Shepherd, it would currently have 8.32, while the site displays 7.18.
The algorithm itself isn't actually that hard to understand, but without knowing what all the votes were over the past 12 hours, you can't really know what a particular vote rating would do to a story's score.
Unless you vote a 1 or 10, the value used is completely subjective to what everyone else voted in the past 12 hours.
Like what someone else voted on someone else's story should matter. Do readers as a group give higher scores one day compared to another? Like does everyone give out more 10s on Christmas? I personally don't think so.
But its been this way for a long time now, and I don't see it changing.
For those who aren't authors, you might be surprised how your vote affects a story's rating. If you want to know how the voting works, read this
From what I've seen, when someone votes an 8, the scaling reduces it to 6.6 - 6.8. That number fluctuates on what others have voted on other stories in the past 12 hours, but it's been within that range for three books when the first vote was an 8.
Now, if you vote a 10, the value used in the average score is 10, not a scaled value. That makes 10s far more powerful than a 9 or 8.
I find the scaling very misleading. When I vote an 8 on a story that was already an 8, the last thing I would expect would be for it to reduce the score. Obviously, the more votes, the less each individual vote matters, but I've seen each of my books slowly climb up into the 7s, then one person votes a 7 or 6 and tanks the score back into the 6s. That ain't right.
I'm not suggesting to change the rules, however. It's far too late for that. I just think people should know how it actually works.
Heart's Blooming is the opposite to Fractured Souls in many ways. There is no m/m content whatsoever and Tim actually completes an entire year of high school at Oakley Senior without interruption.
Heart's Blooming begins the process of repairing the damage inflicted in the previous book while introducing a new love interest.
Book 4 will finish posting next weekend, and the first four parts of Book 5 will post begin posting in chunks like Book 3 and 4 have. But that's when all of Tim, the Teenage MC content ends. The final 10 chapters of the final part of book 5 and all the following books will upload one chapter at a time as it is all new content from that point on.
Book5 is where things become truly interesting, even magical. The remainder of the books just keep building on that, adding moments of humor and adventure of the likes you haven't seen in the story before.
I honestly can't wait for the new content to post. It's the later content I'm most proud of. The story so far seems somewhat sluggish to me in comparison.
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