“We’re looking better alright. Praying the decline continues. I find S.K. troubling - deaths from Corona are increasing again. Also, note the two deaths from the Diamond Princess! What’s that all about?”
In SK they still have a ton of unresolved cases. DP also. Total deaths from DP are actually 12, as there have been 2 deaths of people evacuated, one in the US and one in Canada.
This is exactly what I told the FluBros touting SK’s former 0.7% DCR as their “just the flu” conclusive evidence, never mind that it was still 7x the average flu CFR and those people had a whole country on a war footing to help them.
Now it’s 1.3%, still climbing. :(
Wish I had been wrong, but more importantly, hope I stopped them from causing more havoc. One of the more horrible things about this disease is not that it kills off the weak fast, it is that you may linger for a long time as a formerly healthy person and die, anyway.
And SK is the best example we have to go by for a large scale infection. Hope we can do better.
Numbers are still coming in for the US tonight, so by EOD, we may not look quite as good - just wanted to let ya know that.
And yes, this is quite a ways from being over...
“This is exactly what I told the FluBros touting SK’s former 0.7% DCR as their “just the flu” conclusive evidence, never mind that it was still 7x the average flu CFR and those people had a whole country on a war footing to help them.”
Actually, I’m at the point of totally ignoring numbers, other than deaths and total infections per country (and only to some extent) - and I don’t care who posts them (although almost always FluBros, to justify their rationalizations). Testing is so inconsistent that it’s a waste of time. I look more for what’s happening in the field - are hospitals overflowing, do new drugs work, etc.
While I can handle numbers at least as well as most people here, I simply can’t trust their accuracy. For example, what good were numbers and trends in the US for the past month when we were rejecting the testing of people who, almost certainly, had the virus? What good is it now, with some states still saying they are limited in testing?
I’ll trust the numbers from SK, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, but that’s about it. They don’t seem to have the same requirements to get 20 government agencies and 6 Environmental Impact Reports written prior to being allowed to field testing kits.