Corona Virus Daily Thread #37

[Mariner]

Yesterday's thread here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3831367/posts?page=1

[Mariner]

We're on a crazy train

[Mariner]

ping to new daily thread.

[AppyPappy]

US Fatality rate 2.57%, up from 2.47% yesterday

[Pollard]

Nursing home that my wife works at just sent out a text saying they’ll be handing out masks to all employees and they’re to be worn at all times and left at the facility at the end of the shift. What was odd is they say they’ll supply brown paper bags for people to keep them in. I told her to bring a ziploc from home. When you buy a mask for 3M spray painting, it comes with a ziplock mylar coated plastic bag to prevent the charcoal from absorbing things while not in use. I have no idea what kind of masks they are or how long people are supposed to reuse them day after day. Don’t know if they’re planning on disinfecting them somehow. Guess she’ll find out next shift.

[chris37]

Thank you for the thread, Mariner, I hope you’re doing well.

[cgbg]

Thanks—what is the latest in your world?

[abigkahuna]

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[cgbg]

We’ve received 4,331 new positive #COVID19 cases, bringing our statewide total to 34,124.

Another 200 New Jerseyans have passed due to #COVID19 related complications, bringing our statewide total to 846.

https://twitter.com/GovMurphy/status/1246483450716131331

[Mariner]

All hotel staff in masks and gloves.

I avoid lobby and room service.

I use only the side exit, which from my room door to my truck is about 100 ft.

Sequestered, still.

Will close on a house in 2-3 weeks. Deal in escrow.

[Raebie]

Bkmk

[RightGeek]

Instapundit - https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/363704/

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In just ten days, we discovered that neither the tampon issue, nor the participation of transsexuals in the Olympic Games, nor the climate emergency were real problems, nor emergencies, nor anything of the sort. They were just fictitious problems, the pastimes of a generation that hadn’t known tragedy.” — Itxu Diaz, National Review. 

Via Ricochet, which has further thoughts worth reading: “This crisis will be resolved by truckers running the long haul on deserted highways, doctors and nurse working double shifts in scavenged PPE, grocery store and gas station employees keeping services and food available, utility and telecom workers keeping a strained system functioning, grad students and other researchers poring over data and running countless tests in hopes of giving us an advantage, and ordinary people trying to follow often-contradictory guidance and do the right thing while facing a locked-down economy. At the top, we have leaders whose every move is scrutinized and fraught with potential peril – there might not be any good choices, just bad and not so bad. There is no room for our useless media and most of the commentariat. Activists can either pitch in or get lost. We no longer have time for indulging the delusion that they matter.”

[SaxxonWoods]

Drill down a bit. Death rate probably close to 1% in America.

I say probably because it’s all estimates.

[absalom01]

Some interesting numbers a this CDC web page:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

Nation-wide, there is a significant decrease in the number of deaths vs. last year with one exception: New York City. They experienced %110 percent of their expected deaths over the past couple of weeks.

[chris37]

I wonder whatever happened to her.

[Mariner]

“There is no room for our useless media and most of the commentariat. Activists can either pitch in or get lost. We no longer have time for indulging the delusion that they matter.”

Fox new regulars have so sullied themselves they’ll forever carry the stench of Corona. There is no amount of backtracking or obfuscation that can rescue them.

[cgbg]

There are only two kinds of people these days—those who are part of the solution, or those who are part of the problem.

[353FMG]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3J_1B7kJbk

[353FMG]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3J_1B7kJbk

[RightGeek]

Also from Instapundit - https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/363737/

SEEN ON FACEBOOK:

The debate over immigration is over: restriction wins.

The debate over borders is over: they are needed.

The debate over globalization is over: the era of autarky begins.

The debate over Europe is over: it is a geographic expression, not a polity.

The debate over global warming is over: it is irrelevant.

The debate over international institutions is over: only nations matter.

The debate over the People’s Republic of China is over: it is a menace to the community of nations, not a member in good standing.

Crisis is clarity.

This has been an era of clarification.

[SaxxonWoods]

Reading that American deaths may be underestimated by a factor of 4.

That sounds really bad until the follow up, which is American cases may be underestimated by a factor of 10, or more when asymptomatic case estimates are factored in.

Death rate can’t be near the serious/critical rate of 5%.
The majority of serious/critical patients aren’t dying.