COVID-19 Update

The growth rates are down pretty dramatically (1.01) across the board.

Hoping this good news is real news, and not the result of governments playing a little fast-n-loose with the reporting. 🤞🏻

If we assume the numbers are reasonably accurate, and it means we can expect this monster to ease up a little, it fits with some of the projections that came out of CDC and WHO earlier - ie: expect a big drop-off as the good weather kicks in.

Unfortunately (as they also projected), that could mean we can expect people to lower their guard and create the conditions necessary for the contagion to make a big comeback this fall.

And it's particularly likely to come back on us in a big way as President Stoopid continues to urge people to get back to work.

I see it all over my FB and Twitter feeds - people are saying things that make me aware that they're buying the bullshit about how we just have to be brave - that we can beat the monster by going out there and taking our chances - that we win if we're bold - that achieving "herd immunity" is a simple matter of everybody getting sick so the virus has nowhere else to go.

This is the "reasoning" of a death cult.

The only encouraging part is that most people aren't going along with it so far.

Businesses have opened up - with great fanfare in many cases - but their traffic is off by upwards of 90%. Because, as dumb as we are sometimes, we're not going to patronize a restaurant (eg) if we think it's not clean and safe.

I'm not going back to my favorite pub for Fridays-Out-With-My-Boys until I'm relatively sure the bartender and the kitchen staff and the patrons aren't plaque-ridden.