ping for today’s daily thread...
MCHURRY Hundreds of Brits queue for HOURS outside McDonald’s drive-thru for final burger before 7pm coronavirus shutdown
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11235114/brits-queue-hours-mcdonalds-drive-thru-coronavirus-lockdown/
BUMP for later reading and possible commenting...
Dallas, Texas – Starting at noon on Monday, March 23, the two COVID-19 testing sites in Dallas are updating criteria and lifting the age restriction to test more North Texans.
Criteria for testing sites is as follows:
Shortness of breath
Cough
Must show a temperature of 99.6 or higher
The sites operate daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and are located at:
American Airlines Center, Parking Lot E, 2500 Victory Plaza
Ellis Davis Field House, 9191 S Polk St.
Source: City email
bkmk
Numbers thru the roof today, FluBros on the attack, the Rats being the commies who attack our nation.
Just another day....
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-PJ
From the looks of the epidemic numbers, traffic and demographics out there, we’re going to need a lot of forklifts, backhoes, dump trucks and garbage trucks soon. I doubt we’ll be able to keep up with the hawks, coyotes, eagles and pets, though.
WORLD: 354,677 cases, 15,436 deaths, 100,462 recovered, 238,779 unresolved. Globally, DCR 4.4%, CFR 13.3%
US: 35,530 cases, 451 deaths, 189 recovered, 34,890 unresolved. Now broken down by county, with deaths reported in over 100 different counties, mostly singles. New York City, NY and King County, WA make up around 45% of the deaths. Nationally, DCR 1.3%, CFR 70.4%.
SOUTH KOREA: 8,961 cases, 111 deaths, 3,166 recovered, 5,684 unresolved. DCR 1.2%, CFR 3.4%.
DIAMOND PRINCESS: 712 cases (a change from the earlier reports?) At least 9 dead. 8 listed as Diamond Princess, 1 listed as US, Diamond Princess (must be one of the ones brought home). 567 recovered, 136 still unresolved. DCR 1.3%, CFR 1.6%.
Over time the DCR and CFR will converge (as cases resolve). A measure of how early in the outbreak we are is the difference between them. [US early, World still chuggin’ along, SK pretty far along, DP nearly done. This is only a rule of thumb and precludes new significant outbreaks.] There is a great deal of chaos in the data at the moment, due to different reporting criteria and the efforts of some governments to hide the numbers. We can’t count China or Iran as honest. Nor Italy as they have stopped reporting and China has “intervened”. (Suddenly Italy has no more deaths. Right.) Next best foreign source to measure for worst case scenario appears to be Spain. Best case scenario SK.
Mostly we should go by our own stats in the US versus SK as a yardstick.
“NYC on fire...”
3 days ago a person on FR did not believe when I said the cases jumped in NY state by 3000 overnight to 7000. He wanted to see the link for proof.
Now it’s over 20,000 in NY State 3 days later.
7000 to 20,000 + in 3 days
There is a chance NY, CA, Illinois, Wash state go from blue to red.
Large, more liberal urban areas maybe wiped out leading the more conservative rural areas unaffected (to a degree) .
A tidbit on Wuhan, per my sources: They have now loosened up their lockdown to allow people to go out for 2 hours per day, but that’s it. They can go to the store, they can even drive their cars, but 2 hours (no doubt easy to enforce there).
By the way, this is 2 month anniversary of the start of their lockdown.
Workers crowd trains for home as Indian cities close further
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/india-stays-home-peoples-curfew-stem-coronavirus-69732734
#25 and feelin’ jive!
Finally Good News: Slowdown In New Cases, Deaths Suggests Italy's Outbreak May Be Peaking