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I started this blog on 12 March. Unfortunately it was crossposted to the wrong Medium account. So I am going to catch up this account with several old posts each day until it’s up to date as today is day 54, 4 May, of the Pandemic. There is useful information in these posts and it’s also interesting to see the projections and the progressions.
CDC is reporting 1,215 cases of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19/Coronavirus. Pick your name. The first is the technical one. The latter is what everyone is calling it, but its misleading because there are at least four other coronaviruses, that are rather different. Regardless.
Deaths: 36
Does it seem silly to chronicle this? Perhaps. But things will get forgotten as time goes on. I think two months from now we will look back on the way we’re acting now and wonder: how stupid and naive were we?
First, the numbers: Ridiculous. We’ve barely tested a percentage of population. The president keeps lying about testing. They turned down WHO’s offer of tests almost two months ago and no one knows why, but my suspicion is the president simply wanted to keep the numbers down. Just the other day he publicly admitted he didn’t want to let people off a cruise ship because they’d double the numbers.
We’re at the very beginning of this while it seems China is coming to the end. So we’re looking at a two month, if not more, worsening.
I told my wife that while the virus is definitely a threat, I’m equally worried about the ripple…
