[DEPcom]

I just got thinking maybe the USA should be divided into regions. The peak is different depending on where you live. I think California might take off in number of new cases.

California started with the weaker strain, could the deadlier strain (New York) just now arrived in California?

This all depends on if a person is not resisted to the other strain if they had one strain already or the antibodies effect don’t last that long.

[cgbg]

A local (CT) radio talk show host (who is a pastor) slipped into dark humor this morning—he said he was glad that states like Georgia, Tennessee and others are starting to open up—so we can learn from them.....

Then he said something like—”better them than us....”

[amorphous]

I just got thinking maybe the USA should be divided into regions. The peak is different depending on where you live. I think California might take off in number of new cases.

I completely agree this is how the spread will go.

But, IMO, we have to fight this at the individual level, through appropriate PPE, training, education, making our own medicines, equipment, supplies, and etc.

I don't see dividing up the country as being successful in the fight. It would have bought us more time if we had locked down the entire nation better in the beginning. That opportunity has long past.

The ultimate way to stop this is via the individual. Individual people are where the buck (virus) stops. Personnel protection first, treatment second, and immunization ultimately - if immunization is even possible.

In no way directed at you DEPcom, but I see government as too slow, too bureaucratic, too politicized, too wasteful, too afraid of its own shadow to effectively put measures in place to control the spread of a fast moving virus. Our billion dollar government agencies can't even collect and make available accurate and timely data, critical for making decisions in the fight.

We the people are the final solution...

[amorphous]

California started with the weaker strain, could the deadlier strain (New York) just now arrived in California?

I wonder the same. And could some unseen hand be helping to spread or re-spread deadlier strains?

[amorphous]

Where would a enemy release the deadliest strain?

New York: 19,257

Just sayin'...

[Thud]

The last I heard, California's Dept. of Health believes, based on a University of Oregon study, that CV19 deaths in California will spike in the last week of May and the first two weeks of June. That means new cases will peak in early May. In which case we've just entered the last doubling period.

My wife told me last week that she had heard another Univ. of Oregon study on the same subject was coming which might adjust the predicted peak period, but I haven't heard anything about it.