Our state governor just implemented a two-week quarantine. Nice way to kill small businesses. Talk about Kabuki theater...
Heading out today to do a little shopping - Home Depot, the metal store, hardware store. Get two weeks of project stuff laid in. Fine on basic foods - always have kept a couple weeks in reserve.
Now - if my coffee place is closed, I will be seriously ticked off...
And in other news - from the US Government's Centers for Disease Control:
CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 38 million flu illnesses, 390,000 hospitalizations and 23,000 deaths from flu.
And we are willfully tanking our economy over this? Some numbers:
- 38,000,000 (38 million) people infected with the flu virus. 33,000 people infected with Wuhan Flu - this is 0.086 percent. A pittance. Statistical noise.
- 23,000 deaths from the flu virus. 400 deaths from the Wuhan Flu - this is 1.73 percent. Still a pittance. Still statistical noise.
When we do more testing, the number of people infected with COVID-19 will rise simply because they have now been identified but that is only going to make the death rate go way down in proportion. Also, it is being reported that numbers from Italy are contaminated. Someone has a heart problem or diabetes and they die in a hospital? If they also have COVID-19, their deaths are being ascribed to the Wuhan Flu and not their underlying condition. Bad numbers.
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