Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Here's what Gov. Trumpfluffer's chart should look like. Looks like a slight downward trend over time, but not the totally downhill image he and his klan would have people believe.

 

But it doesn’t affect children, so let’s plan to reopen the schools.

‘Straight-Up Fire’ in His Veins: Teen Battles New Covid Syndrome — The New York Times

 

See also: West Coast cities like San Francisco, Portland, Seattle ...

 

Or the DFW Metroplex, Houston or Austin, thereby hastening the purple shift in the nation's largest purple state. If you're a political franchise of some sort and aren't making plans to slip south of the Red, you're a fool.

 

Any numbers from the last seven days in that table are preliminary, as cases reported tomorrow will be assigned to the date when symptoms first appeared (if known), and a few of them will be as far back as two weeks ago. Looking at the state as a whole, and ignoring the numbers from the last two weeks because of this, the seven-day average gradually declined from an average of 767 cases for the week ending April 20 to 654 cases for the week ending May 3. The numbers for the days in the last two weeks appear to plunge because not all of "their" cases have been reported yet, but the plunging does look consistent with a continued slow decline.

I also think it's a little misleading for the state's website to call four Atlanta-metro-area counties and one Atlanta-exurb county the state's five most afflicted counties. They're the ones with the most cases, but Dougherty County (Albany) has under 100,000 people and more deaths than any county except Fulton. Its per capita case rate is five times that of the four Atlanta metro-area counties, and some of the small counties around Albany have been hit even harder per capita. My county has almost 200,000 people and 15 deaths; Randolph county has fewer than 7,000 people and 21 deaths.

 

Might it be because Dougherty County is 71% black and therefore doesn't count according to Gov. Trumpfluffer and his klan?

 

Russia is battling coronavirus across 11 time zones. But Moscow and the regions are worlds apart - CNN

 

Thoughts and prayers for Trumpists' favorite country.

 

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How Germany Is Saving Jobs During the Pandemic

The difference in numbers is striking. The IMF expects German unemployment for 2020 to hit around 4%, and in the more volatile UK, the Bank of England recently warned that unemployment may double - to 9%.


“These schemes have done a lot to keep unemployment down,” says Jessica Hinds, an economist at Capital Economics in London. “And since the workers are getting paid, that means that consumer spending should recover more quickly. But there are also benefits for the companies, since they retain the same staff with the same skill set. Workers don’t have to deal with uncertainty, and the larger economy doesn’t have to incur all the efficiency losses that could be associated with a lot of firing and re-hiring.”


The most famous – and longest-running – of these European programs is the German “Kurzarbeit,” or “short-work” scheme. It dates back to the early 20th century, and is credited with being one of the reasons Germany recovered so quickly from the 2008-2009 recession. Employers can respond to short-term reductions in demand by simply notifying the government, which gives firms the money they need to pay most of the difference. Since the financial crisis, many other large European countries have copied the program, or expanded their own versions. They were designed for normal economic downturns, but have been perfectly suited to the pandemic.

 

It should be noted that the expanded unemployment insurance adopted by the US has been successful in preventing a lot if not all possible economic misery here. Of course it ends in July.