Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

no, they go on GMT which runs from 8pm to 8pm, a 24 hour cycle,and a 24 hour period matters not from when to when you measure.

 

Maybe if it’s done as a special class of stock, similar to TARP. It would be straight up stupid to buy shares on the open market, hopefully that isn’t what they are talking about because that actually does nothing to get companies capital, and trying to manipulate is likely a futile effort even for the fed. But buying secondary offerings or creating a new/temporary class of stock that puts cash straight onto the balance sheet is actually a good model imo. I’m sure not everyone can be saved, but if you are looking at 1000’s of bankruptcies it’s probably a good idea to mitigate that to the extent possible. Even if you are only reducing it 50% or 75%, don’t want to lose a bunch of otherwise viable companies.

 

So we’ve gone from “15 and headed to zero” to “If we can keep this to 100K we have done a good job” and “My news conference ratings are as high as the Bachelor finale”

For the life of me I don’t understand how anyone takes anything he says seriously.

Symptoms of narcissism include an excessive need for admiration, disregard for others' feelings, an inability to handle any criticism, and a sense of entitlement.

If that last factual statement is against the rules the mods can feel free to delete it. I’m learning my way here.

 

Deaths, while still appallingly high, have declined for 2 days in a row in Italy now. Both health ministers of Italy and Spain said they feel as though that their countries are at the peak of viral spread.

 

Longer than a month.

 

just relooked,at the numbers for today I quoted, but also if you click on the usa tab on the main page it goes to charts that give infected and death numbers and you can narrow them down to 7 days, already on tomorrows,just saying.

 

On the bright side, at least he is listening to the experts and realistically pushing the social distancing til 4/30. Better than the madman in Brazil. Though obviously the bar is low, real low.

 

I'm glad that the death rate is lower today but I don't believe it marks the beginning of the decline unfortunately.

 

Very true. I keep an eye on the serious/critical number. Once I see that number level off and start to fall then we have made serious progress.

 

While Captain Queeg looks for the strawberries.

 

Wouldn't this be like insider trading for you?

 

NY didn’t give their normal evening update (at least not yet, they reported 120 deaths and 1300 cases in that last night), and as someone pointed out a few pages ago, weekend reporting can sometimes be a bit less accurate.
See where we are in a few days before assuming any trends one way or the other.

 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom Says Federal Government Gave Them '170 Broken Ventilators'

 

There is going to be random variation. Dip in deaths or cases in a short time period such as a day is too easy to overinterpret.

I'm just sayin as well.

 

It is just impossible for him to rise to a level close to what is acceptable from anyone, much less the president of the United States.

As Death Toll Mounts, Trump Brags That His TV Ratings Are As Big As 'The Bachelor'

 

Agreed. At the end of the day his personality flaws never fail to rear their ugly head. It's the number one thing that turns most Americans off, and Trump just can't stop being Trump even in a moment of crisis.

 

More like expecting one, since science and math couldn’t be believed.

 

again take this with a grain of salt, according to worldmeter the last 4 days, from march 26 to today new cases have ranged from 18020 to 20986 a day, deaths from 260 to 620, with the 620 day abnormally high,so again, is this a trend or a slight blip?

 

Can't say with any certainty. The trend is def exponential overall but it's too soon to say anything about a slight change. Could be random variation, could be that it's starting to bend. We don't know. That said, for social distancing to be effective, we have to think about a considerably longer period of flattening the curve because we don't have any other weapons in the arsenal. Given the nature of infectious disease spread, there is a real possibility that we could see a second or third round of spikes if after we get the trend under some control but then don't continue to take some pretty extreme precautions until such time we develop those weapons.