Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Quite frankly, it'd be better if they closed Hobby Lobby/Michaels/Joanns. Maybe then I'd finish the half-done projects I've got and start working on the cabinet of yarn stash I have.

 

FTFY.

1) Washington state's fatality rate so far is 5.4%, and Georgia's is 3.8%. It's not particularly surprising to me that not many of the 12,000+ people who New York announced just today tested positive have died yet.

2) I'm surprised people aren't writing more about the numbers of those who have died compared to the number who have recovered, since pretty much everyone is going to wind up in one or the other tally. The dashboard I'm following says 14,558 have died worldwide so far and 97,340 have recovered so far. That looks like a 13% death rate, but maybe that's misleading for a reason like if you haven't died after x number of days with it, your chances of surviving are good even if you haven't recovered yet.

 

SEC values.

 

The part of the Rand Paul news that blows my mind isn't that he got infected, that could happen to anyone. In the middle of all this, the United States Senate, the world's greatest deliberative body just ask any Senator, has left its gym and pool open. Planet Fitness knew enough to close, but not our nation's leaders.

 

Some people call stashes hoarding. I like to think of them as potential in a plastic tote.

 

Hobby Lobby owner David Green is telling store managers to stay open despite the pandemic because his wife had a “vision from god.”

He also warns they'll all have to "tighten their belts" soon. His net worth is $6.4 billion—hourly employees don't get paid sick leave.

Never enter their doors again.

 

Here's what I'm absolutely sure of.

Number of cases will skyrocket.
Fatality numbers will not keep pace.
Fatality rate thus will keep declining.

And that's good, despite the numbing refrain of "worse and worse and worse and EVEN WORSE STILL!"

 

There are some weird anomalies in death rates so far, like the difference between Germany and Italy, or between Massachusetts and, oh, Georgia, which has about as many detected cases and like 10 times more deaths. Gonna need to be a lot more information to draw any conclusions.

 

Red Army invades Italy! Boycott Olympics!

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You have to be really fucking sick to get tested in some areas.

They are going to have to work death numbers backwards to get an idea about how many people had it.

 

Hopefully someone in this madness is setting up control groups and testing them daily to see how many positive cases never require a medical stay.