Just to keep track of the nonsense that has wrecked our economy and generally made our politicians run around as if their fool heads were on fire, each day I publish the corona virus total death toll in the US based upon the latest data I can find. A single death is an immense tragedy if you love the person. However, we are not talking about love, but rather public policy, which should always involve a sober analysis of risk and cost. Please recall that in a bad normal flu year our death toll in the US can be as high as 90,000.
Note: this will be a total death toll since the beginning of this bad farce, and not a daily toll. As of the beginning of May 13 the death toll is 83,425 . May the Perpetual Light shine upon them.
We had a significant drop yesterday in deaths, as we can see looking at the death tolls on the Tuesdays during April, since March 31, when the ramp up of deaths was beginning, and on the Tuesday in the first week in May.
may 5: 2,350
April 28: 2,470
April 21: 2,683
April 14: 2,566
April 7: 2,228
March 31: 1,085
The total deaths reported on May 12 was 1630.
These facts must be most disappointing to Democrat politicians. Surely, they will find a way to keep the panic anti-Trump party going.
Of course, the death count itself is fake. “The US is roughly 4% of the world’s population. Yet the US has 32% of the world’s reported cases, and 26% of the reported deaths. In what most consider the country with the best medical system.
Now either those numbers are correct or the way the US is counting is different from most other places. I say the latter.”
https://wmbriggs.com/post/30804/
Good news. Metro Detroit, Covid19 HQ for Michigan, may open for public Mass on May 19. I assume ArchB Vigneron or his direct staff will have Mass at the Cathedral, and the expectation is fairly light attendance (it’s a Tuesday, afterall). All parishes will resume (w SD, masks, etc) on May 29.
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What I wonder is how will they enforce 25% capacity.
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/05/12/public-masses-resume-archdiocese-detroit/3119513001/
At a certain point you run out of old, sick people so the death rate will go down.
Not to worry. Lockdowns are “no big deal” in the still-being-paid bureaucracy, public pensioners, and welfare state. They have no idea nor do they care from whence the money comes.
Blue city/state mayors/governors to their personally-responsible, hard-working citizens, “Drop Dead.”
They will continue the lockdowns until the economy is so devastated that President Trump can’t be reelected.
Science: In the (is it?) 90 days they’ve been exaggerating the China Murder Virus death count, they say [emphasis on ‘they say] 83,425 [a 99.97% survival rate] Americans died of CMV. In the real World that adds up to 927 [out of 330,000,000] killed each day. That is daily dead @ 0.00028% of the US population. In some crazed psyches, that’s a “high plateau.”