Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Just listen to his press conferences. He is giving himself plenty of credit. His minions are doing it, too.

 

When's the 12-hundred comin?

 

The reason is there's no point of reference. The reason is a deadly virus in which many carriers are asymptomatic. The reason is self-denial for preservation of businesses or finances. The reason is fear of all the uncertainty ("If they shut us down, when will they ever open up again?").

The reason is . . . human nature.

 

CIDRAP is an excellent source on this.

 

That's more than half the number of U.S. soldiers killed in the Viet Nam war.

 

So this quack here is siding with Trump.
'Trump is right about the coronavirus. The WHO is wrong,' says Israeli expert

 

I've tried not to play this card a ton, especially with the doubters, but I just got off the phone with my wife and feel like venting, sharing, whatever. I've said it before, but my wife is a physician. She is not on the front lines. She knows plenty of doctors and nurses who are. We're in Northern Colorado. She says everything she's heard is that it's just a shit show, even here, and that hospitals are close to capacity as it is (Fort Collins and Greeley as specific examples). She says these numbers are way low, which I know we know, but she said even many hospitalizations aren't getting tested at this point. She's said more than once and others have told her that media, as much as many want to say have caused the panic, actually are underreporting just how bad it is already. It scares me knowing what we know just second hand. I can only imagine those who have to deal with it all hands on deck.

 

That's a big assumption over that long a period. According to the Rule of 72, you need a continuous 24 percent gain to achieve doubling every three days.

We're around that now (22% today), but other hotspots are dropping. Italy had an 8% gain today, Spain and France 12%. When our numbers start dropping is the key to whether such 3.2 million projections happen in such a short amount of time.

 

Yes I am a horrible person.

 

NYT editorial board calls for national shelter-in-place.

Opinion | Coronavirus Is Advancing. All Americans Need to Shelter in Place. — The New York Times