Daily percentage of new Corona virus deaths to previous day's total by country. 25% = total deaths double every 3 days, 20% = every 4 days, 15% = every 5 days, 10% = about 1 week, 5% = about 2 weeks.
ping to new daily thread.
US Fatality rate 2.57%, up from 2.47% yesterday
Thank you for the thread, Mariner, I hope you’re doing well.
Thanks—what is the latest in your world?
Bkmk
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.”
How was your trip Mariner?
#37th stop on the CV Express
For some folks, the train has gone off the rails. Scanning the front page, "new theories" include:
1. It's a huge insurance scam. No one is dying of CV19, the hospitals are just saying that to defraud the government and collect big checks.
2. The hospitals in NY are empty. There are no people in the ICU. It's all fake.
3. No one is dying, these are crisis actors.
There are more, but I feel weird even scanning through those threads. There are some really strange people posting these days.
Daily percentage of new Corona virus deaths to previous day's total by country. 25% = total deaths double every 3 days, 20% = every 4 days, 15% = every 5 days, 10% = about 1 week, 5% = about 2 weeks.
A local news person said in the past they get their Instacart order an hour after submitting it, was 2.5 days last week, now promised for five days.
China Is Reopening Its Wet Markets. That’s Good
Hold the outrage. Far from being cesspits of disease, they provide clean, fresh produce. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-04/coronavirus-closing-china-s-wet-markets-isn-t-a-solution
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/04/04/reports-coronavirus-panic-buying-sweeps-china-as-locals-refuse-to-believe-communist-party/
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Fake driver up test stations reported (question at Ohio Press Conference)
I was out for a drive today and I don’t think even with the lockdown measures enacted that the spread will be slowed enough. I went to the supermarket to get some necessities like milk and produce.
I drove by the Home Depot just to see and the parking lot was very busy. It was almost as full as a typical spring weekend. And based on my observation today less than half the people are wearing masks and even less so for gloves.
People still aren’t taking this seriously enough and are going to extend the lockdowns with their actions. I’m going to order any groceries online for now.
