Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

President fauci has already put the kibosh on schools opening.

 

She's gonna take care of everyone...about that much!

 

“A Ton” of buzz about college football being postponed to spring- “Expect news to be breaking soon”

- Details the mortality rate as a range from 0.1-0.5%.

With regard to number of infections:

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- Details the studies allowing us to extrapolate number of infections.

Here are some graphs (from last week or so, so a bit dated) describing how we're doing:

 

Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down Tony Evers' stay-at-home order that closed businesses, schools to limit spread of coronavirus

Interesting ruling.

 

Trump's coronavirus evolution. This would almost be funny if the subject matter wasn't a pandemic.

 

Wait til you see the collection of posts I started gathering on Feb 25. When we reach about the four month mark, I will share some of the things said about this virus, but all posters will remain anonymous. A timeline and chart of cases will be included.

 

Texas smashed their high for cases today. We will see if it’s a trend or a one off.

 

I drove to Austin Friday to say goodbye to a college buddy I hired 26 years ago who was getting laid off. Had dinner at a lakeside restaurant. Not a single employee in a mask. Amazing.

 

even with texas having their high day, a day to be cautiously optimistic.new cases 21,712, almost 4,000 less than the previous 4 wednesdays; deaths 1772, again almost 6,000 less than 4 previous wednesdays, plus almost 336,000 tests done.this is the 4th or 5th straight day that numbers have gone down over the same day the previous 4 weeks, i guess the 64,000 dollar question is what happens at the start of next week when most states have been re-opened for 2 weeks, will we see a spike, or will we remain stable or continue to go down, maybe allowing states to move to phase 2 of re-opening.hope they go to at least 50% occupancy, especially in restaraunts, still see alot of sit down and fast food places take out or deliver only,, guess right now 25% occupancy is not cost effective, some employees are still not back to work.

 

positive testing is down to about 14%, 2 weeks ago it was about 18%, another positive trend.

 

Many fast food operations are UP since covid started using drive through only. Doubt they are itching to open back up till those numbers fall.

 

Oops... people keep hating Trump for blaming China, but now the CIA is blaming China too...

Oh, and this is from a liberal mag...

"In a report titled “U.N.-China: WHO Mindful But Not Beholden to China,” the CIA detailed that China threatened to cease cooperating with the WHO’s coronavirus investigation if the agency declared a global health emergency, Newsweek reported on Tuesday."

CIA Believes China Tried to Prevent WHO from Declaring Coronavirus ‘Global Health Emergency’: Report

 

Wait, you think National Review is "a liberal mag?"

 

Most people recognize that there can be more than one problem. It is possible to hold China accountable for what they did wrong and still hold our leaders responsible for they got wrong. The intelligence community was beating the drum hard in late January and Trump refused to listen. His own HHS secretary tried to tell him late January, senators tried to tell him, he refused to acknowledge the problem and failed miserably to try and lead a national response. China lied, Trump believed them. Many good qualified people tried to tell Trump we needed to get ready, he refused to believe them and poof..80k dead and counting

 

Although this should be an international comment I suggest people look at what's happening in South Africa. 47 days lockdown, military and police enforcing it. NO alcohol purchased or home brewed and no cigarettes sales!
The country is going to erupt soon. This comes from my long time SA friend when we spoke tonight.

 

so why not put it there?

 

Current death rate per confirmed case is 6% and holding steady at that number. What leads you to believe that less "at risk" people will become infected as states open up? If anything I would suspect that % of at risk infections to go up

 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30229-1/fulltext

The result of global shutdown has consequences.