US COVID-19 cases:
1 to 100k - 77 days
100k to 200k 5 days
200k to 300k 3 days
Texas is testing at a lower rate than every other state not called Mississippi or Oklahoma.
Louisiana is testing at a rate almost 5x greater than Texas.
âWell, as long as we beat Oklahoma.â - about half the state
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NYC is going to start using public parks for âtemporary internmentâ of the dead. They will dig trenches for the caskets and bury them there for later exhumation and reburial.
Also, the death toll from the virus is being undercounted because they are only counting those who die having received a positive test. This does not take into account those who die at home never having received medical treatment. At-home deaths in NYC average 20-25 a day; right now theyâre running at just over 200. Every day.
The other half is thrilled to claim an SEC victory.
Boris Johnson now in intensive care.
The Deputy PM is now running the country. This is serious shit. Johnson isnât exactly a picture of health and the threat of death rises dramatically if the virus has you bad enough to need hospitalization (and itâs even worse if you end up on a ventilator).
Of course, because itâs 2020, itâs also ridiculous. Boris was denying the threat of the pandemic and bragged about shaking everyoneâs hand after having visited COVID-19 patients in hospital. He tested positive about a week later.
Just saw a report from the UK that their mortality rate for COVID-19 patients moved into ICU is 50%. Wow!
That is a crazy number. I went looking for something similar for the US and didnât find anything, but I did come across a couple of studies from February in Wuhan. They said that the mortality rate among patients needing ventilator support was 80-90% depending on the type of ventilation used (non-invasive vs. invasive).
I donât want to be alarmist, but for him to have been hospitalized, he already had to be in a bad way - you know he would have done everything in his power to avoid going to the hospital. I donât think this turns out well.
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Saw on Yahoo that Boris Johnson is still in ICU but stable and not on a ventilator.
They do now have him on oxygen, which means this thing has a foothold in his lungs. Intubation is next which, if he ends up there, means heâs in serious danger.
Just imagine what it does to a population to focus their minds to see their ebullient character like Johnson - whoâs on their TVs every day - leveled like this. I donât wish it on anyone, but it almost seems like we need that to happen here so that everyone will take this seriously.
We donât âneedâ someone to die just to try to make a point.
Of course not. Lotâs of people are already dying. Thatâs Limeyâs point.
Never said âdieâ.
We are in a very dangerous and deadly moment here, where a significant chunk of the population is listening to the Presidentâs propaganda - and only the Presidentâs propaganda - and are endangering themselves and others as a result. Yet while information may be kept at bay, the virus wonât be. Sadly, many of these people will discover reality only when it sucks the air out of their lungs or out of the lungs of someone they love.
I would contend that most of the folks who are pointing to the presidents rhetoric would be doing the same behavior any way, they are just cherry picking his vacillating statements to try to give power to their position.
This is why I said that it would take something like an ever-present media personality to get laid low by this thing in order for it to wake up those who are happy to swallow the BS theyâre being spoon fed.
ETA: Georgia - whose Governor ordered the beaches opened this weekend - has reported over 1500 new cases and 100 new deaths already today. None of these are the result of the beaches being open; those cases and deaths are about 2-3 weeks away.
The US has recorded 1,375 deaths today - our highest single-day death toll ever. That number was reached by lunchtime. This is going to be a bad week.
Texas has now fallen behind Oklahoma in testing. Still third-worst though, as we are staying marginally ahead of Alabama and Kansas.
Of course, all this means is that Texasâ relatively low case-count is down entirely to lack of testing, and nothing to do with our stateâs response. It may also mean that our death count is artificially low too, because we are probably not testing dead people to see if they had it (which makes sense seeing as we arenât testing that many live people either).
In NYC there are 200 people dying in their homes every day, up from the usual 25 or so. Thatâs obviously COVID-19 related, whether they die from complications directly caused by the virus or cannot get healthcare for other conditions because the healthcare system is overrun counts the same to me. None of those deaths are being added to the official death count. The impact will be much higher than weâll ever officially credit it.
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