Let us move now to Washington DC. They are totally f(*&ed with a full blown explosion of cases which have not been tested yet.
How do I know this?
The one known case (articles in Washington Post etal) is the Rector (aka Pastor) of Christ Church in Georgetown. This is an Episcopal church where several of the “big wigs” in DC go to worship.
In the few days before he reported symptoms and then was tested he held three separate worship services with a combined total of more than five hundred people in attendance.
Then when you factor in all the folks who may have been at risk at the CPAC and AIPAC conferences (positive test individuals there), you get the idea.
The link I gave earlier shows a total of only eleven people have been tested in Washington, DC!
It does not take a pandemic expert to figure out what this means.
When the tests get started for real in the nation’s capitol, people are going to freak.
If the Rector was involved in Ash Wednesday activities...bohica.
Next: Saudi Arabia.
They have ordered a full quarantine of city of Qarif, population 500,000 to protect the rest of the country from the CV cluster there.
_Smart_ move by the Saudis.
Northern Italy in “lockdown “
yet people still usings trains and flights per lookner
The case in DC is also significant because the kind of people that go to church in Georgetown tend to be highly mobile.
There are also now 2 cases in Northern Virginia. One is active military who just returned from work-related travel to Italy. The other is an elderly person who just returned from a cruise on the Nile.
Case #1 in Italy is thought to have been visited by friends from China. Case #1 in Egypt is thought to have been a Taiwanese tourist who had been on a cruise ship on the Nile.
How many Governors are Republican?