Day 1184 – The Worst Could Be Yet To Come – Part II
Thursday April 16, 2020
199 Days until the election on November 3rd
279 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
That first part isn’t what I wanted to talk about.
Last night a doctor was interviewed that had tested all the pregnant women who had come into her ward. Of the 215 that came in 4 had obvious signs of the virus; 4 more were possible, but 29 were positive but showed no signs.
If her numbers hold then 14% of the population had the virus – now.
If that is true then for 300 million that’s 42 million. Plus the other 20 million if 280,000. In other words 300,280,000 could be walking around the U.S. shedding this virus and infecting others.
What are we doing about this? Well, that would require testing and we aren’t doing that.
Not in any significant numbers. In fact, our number of tests per day is going down.
No testing. No Problem. Head in sand.
Speaking of head in the sand, a big shout out to the Republican governor of South Dakota, who has the biggest outbreak of Corona virus in the U.S. What’s she doing about it? Talking to Fox News about opening up her state. Will she hep the mayor of the largest city in her state where the outbreak is occurring? No. You are on your own pal. While she is yammering on. The city is freezing it’s ice rink for an overflow morgue.
What is Fox reporting? I don’t have to watch because I heard it from an avid viewer yesterday. The talking point is some of the states didn’t need all the extra capacity and are taking it down and shipping it elsewhere. The inference is in line with the Jared/Donald talking point that the states really don’t need all the ventilators they are asking for. This is all overblown. Yada yada yada.
Okay, let’s be clear. Two states:Oregon and California got on top of this thing quickly and they slowed the rate of infection and have some extra capacity to lend to other states. That’s it. Those are Democratic governors who were both snubbed and belittled by the president.
I’m thinking South Dakota is going to be needing that equipment. Either that or body bags. Maybe both.
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