Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I am interested in Colorado. It always ranks first when the fitness mags do their "healthiest American states" articles. This doesn't mean people won't get the virus same as anyone else, but if the population is in better health overall, the fatality rate should be lower.

 

Good one from Neil Diamond

 

I think the argument is that so far, the relatively few people who have been tested are mainly those with obvious symptoms, risk factors, and reason to believe they've been infected (like patients at the Washington state nursing home), and that population is more likely to have had bad cases and already died from it than is the broader population that's being tested now and will be tested in the future.

I would give more weight to that argument if I thought we were relatively late in the virus's cycle and that: 1) not many new people were going to catch it; and 2) that those who already have it and have survived so far have a greater-than-average chance of recovering because they've survived this long. I'm not convinced that either is the case.

 

We'll see. Also in Colorado. There is a report of 58 hospitalized, so deaths will rise out of this number for sure. Five outbreaks at residential and non-hospital facilities, which is not good. My county is up to 31 from nine two days ago. Of the 12 new today, all are under 50 but two.

 

Asymptomatic cases aren't being tested. Mild cases aren't being tested (sufficiently). People who suspect they have it, but aren't in dire straits rushing to the ER, are not being tested (sufficiently). When they are, and these people don't die, they will be recorded as cases but not deaths. It's a mathematical certainty.

Other than the fact that Italy's population is off-the-charts old, I can't explain them. But there are 195 countries in the world.

Germany reported 2,488 cases today, and 10 deaths. That's a fatality rate of 0.4 percent. Heck of a long way from 3.7 percent.

 

But people will still die and deaths will increase at a high rate. How many are hospitalized? Because the U.S. still reports only 60 some critical cases, which just isn't true in any world. I've seen up to 70 deaths today alone, which is more than the critical cases listed. So someone isn't reporting well there either, just like every other number here. Even if the percentage drops, which there has been no indications it will across the globe, it's still really bad.

 

Got it. I'm just free fallin'.

 

OK. Rand Paul grew up in Texas. Tom Petty grew up in Gainesville, Florida. Happy?

 

I'm always happy.

 

No. You said Rand Paul grew up. I can't agree with that statement.

 

Damn it! Beringer all over the keyboard. And no paper towels.