Sunday, March 15, 2020

NOTICE THEY ATTACK TRUMP FOR THEIR OWN GUILTY SINS: Schumer attacks President Trump’s ‘autocratic tendencies’.
HEH: Bernie Bros threaten to throw the 2020 election to Trump.
THEY CARE ONLY ABOUT POWER, NOT PEOPLE: Connecticut governor revises unconstitutional coronavirus executive order after backlash.

MORE: Illinois mayor assumes emergency powers to ban the sale of firearms and alcohol. Both obviously related to coronavirus....
SHORT ANSWER, NO: Is there a dumber class of people in America than the Washington press corps?
COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A BETTER COUNTRY: Satellite images of Iran show massive burial pits for coronavirus victims.
AN UPDATED REAGAN MESSAGE to Bernie and Ocasio-Cortez.
The answer to our problems in this country … is to have a law that says there is a percentage limit of the people’s earnings that government cannot go beyond without getting the consent of the people.
I think if President Reagan were still alive he'd approve of my update.
IF YOU LIKE MANDATORY QUARANTINES, you'll love China.

Please return and stay there. Please.
IDIOCY BRIEF: COVID-19 and the stand for intersectionality.

The progressive Twitterverse self-identifies as a severe outbreak of crazy....
YESTERDAY I PUBLISHED a (thought-to-be sarcastic) random thought. Today I find that I was almost prescient (again): Nike says all stores in the U.S. to close to limit coronavirus spread.

It was meant to be sarcastic, boys and girls -- not a command.
THE DIPLOMAD: North Carolina is a zombie-free zone. With plenty of toilet paper....
OHIO OFFICIAL WHO CLAIMED 100,000 COVID-19 CASES in the state says she was 'guesstimating'.

UPDATED AND BUMPED TO THE TOP: A NUMBER OF RANDOM THOUGHTS/LINKS ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS WUHAN FLU:

Let's get real; it's a problem, not a panic.

More perspective.

Here are some tracking sites that provide useful daily updates: USA Today; NBC News; ARS Technica; and Coronavirus Dashboard, the last by a very innovative young blogger. The latter two seem to offer the best data with the least hype.

The CDC site is nearly worthless. Mostly hype and nonsense; very little useful data.

And now for my thoughts. Fox News reports a World Health Organization official stating that roughly 80% of coronavirus cases will involve mild symptoms, which I take to mean not reported to any health authorities. Given that as a base assumption, let's look at the data (Corona Dashboard; 5 pm EDT, 14 March).

As of this post, globally there are 157,309 confirmed coronavirus cases. Of them, there are 5,836 deaths, 5,425 reported as serious (assumed to be hospitalizations), and 77,921 reported as recovered. The balance of reported cases (estimated as the number of confirmed cases less the numbers of deaths, serious, and recovered cases) is 68,217. If we assume the WHO rule (above) that 80% of cases go unreported, then the total number of coronavirus cases worldwide is 786,545 (157309/0.20), yielding a death rate of (5836/786545) ~0.74%

Using the same logic and Coronavirus Dashboard data, there are 2,866 confirmed cases, 58 deaths, no serious cases, 2,800 mild cases (estimated as above) and 8 recoveries. Using the 80% rule of thumb as above, the total number of coronavirus cases in the United States is estimated to be 14,330, which in turn leads to an estimated death rate of ~0.40%.

The CDC estimated death rate for seasonal flu (over the last 10 years) is ~0.13%.

I'm no medical expert, but I do have some intellectual curiosity, a modicum of common sense, an ability to analyze data, and these numbers tell me that the coronavirus panic we're experiencing is mostly hype promulgated by a biased (read that as 'hate Trump') media in coordination with a Deep State determined to maintain (if not increase) its control over American citizens.
THE DREADED RED SQUAMISH: Some rational -- and needed -- skepticism about mass coronavirus testing.
WHAT TO DO WITH JIM ACOSTA? CNN's ratings collapse as coronavirus fears empty American airports.
TRUE: "It’s almost like all this panic is a luxury."

Sarah Hoyt is smart.
HE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom to commandeer (read as 'seize') property cuz Wuhan.

And you thought the Babylon Bee is a satire website.
HE STOLE IT FROM BERNIE: Biden has a plan for American workers -- unemployment.

An example of my 'earned income/approved income' nightmare.

More here.
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE: Trump cancels 2020 election over coronavirus concerns.

Yes, it's the Babylon Bee.