From CBS:

CBS: “A week ago there were no cases reported in New Orleans, now there are HUNDREDS!”

Of course, a week ago, no one had been tested for Covid-19, either.

Now, since we are testing everyone with any symptoms that are in any way flu-like, the number of cases is, of course, exploding.

Prior to that, of course, folks were assumed to have the FLU (one of many) and were sent home.

Now, of course, they are tested for CV-19.

So yeah, the number of cases is skyrocketing.

(There is a lot of speculation that this disease has been here since early January, that it took a long time for us to notice).

Also, the Media is starting to try to panic everyone with the “there are no medical supplies!!!” “People are gonna be triaged and some will be left outside to die!!” .

Again, if they choose to continue to use masks only once before disposal, then yeah, that might happen. In other countries, they use ’em for hours. I haven’t yet seen the bodies stacked like cordwood, nor have I seen old people refused treatment (or left on an ice floe)…at least not yet here is the US.

As to the rest? I dunno. I do know that the Media like death and blood and panic. At this point they are beyond crying “wolf”.

There are times I am thinking this is a giant Social Experiment in control of the populace.

T the number of people, especially women, who think somehow that the only way to cleanse your hands is to use “Hand Sanitizer”…..that simple handwashing with soap won’t do it, that using a small spray bottle with Isopropyl (or ethyl, for that matter) alcohol and vigorous wiping won’t do it.

They gotta have hand sanitizer or they gonna die. No other way to cleanse your hands.

Sometimes people’s ignorance amazes me. 

That if this “shelter in Place” shit goes on for as long as they say it might…

We are gonna find out what a whole shitload of women’s hair color really is….

So it is bad enough that the “Social Distancing” has caused the NASCAR race to be cancelled in an “Overabundance of Caution”…

But they were showing the 1986 Richmond 400….Which was kinda entertaining…seeing the older cars (back when they were really “stock” cars) and the terrible resolution of the then state of the art TV cameras…

But then the Governor of Illinois pre-empts the channel to bloviate about the efforts to….something and the fact that something else was being done and blah blah BLAHBLAH BLAH. and then he talked about AMAIRHGHROEWNBSXDS and then some other person came up and spent 5 minutes saying nothing about MLKJFFAJDP{WQNF and then the Governor came back and discussed the fforts in reducing the alkfjads;kfja;kfjalskf.

thank god they are done. So much hot air wasted to say essentially nothing that has not already been said about a (apparently, it appears) non emergency disease “outbreak”.

I think he is just trying to get as much camera time as possible.

Thank god I didn’t miss much of the race rerun.

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At some point the Feds and the State Governments are gonna have to address this. 

(yeah, I was raised by my Dad and Mom (and a few other mentors) to ask a lot of questions. I question everything and I like to turn a lot of data over in my mind)

We get stats on the Media about “number of cases” of CororinaVirus, and we get stats for “number of deaths” (those I question…not that they are dead, but that they died from Covid-19…often they are already old, weak or otherwise compromised and have other complicating factors).

But one bit of data I don’t ever see is the number of people needing little or no care, or some level of hospitalization because of the effects of Covid-19. In fact, if you look, the data is pretty much only aimed at “deaths” and not much else.

Out of the several thousand cases for any one given area that have shown enough symptoms that they are tested, how many need any level of hospitalization?
I guess because they aren’t anything the media can sensationalize, they don’t give us any of that data.

I do think it would be a good bit of data though.

People showing symptoms and tested vs people tested showing positive vs people needing actual care vs people needing hospitalization vs people needing intensive care vs people dying.

I think the numbers would be not as terrible as the media and our governments might like you to think.

Then again, until I see some data I just don’t know.

At least for the online version:

(I got my census the other day and did the online entering).

told ’em two people live here.

One male and one female.

The website kept trying for more info but if you keep hitting “enter” it eventually moves to the next page.

Fuck ’em they don’t need to know about my hispanic heritage.

They don’t need to know my age.

Nor the amount of money that I make
Nor anything else that their questions asked.

Legally, I gave ’em the answers that the Constitution demands. Anything else is not legal, no matter what they say.

2 adults, one male, one female. Unless they are gonna start counting black and Hispanic folks as 3/5 again or something, it shouldn’t matter. Despite the scary warnings, I don’t think they are gonna prosecute me because I chose not to tell them my income, nor my shoe size, nor the size of anything else (Ahem, Large, Ahem), how many cars I own, etc.

So if you get the online version, just hit enter a few times and it sill go to the next question.
At least it did for me.

“now that Coronavirus test kits are widely available, the number of confirmed cases has skyrocketed”

Duh.  No shit? Prior to that, they couldn’t be confirmed.

There should be a minimal IQ level to be a newsweasel At least …70? 

As to why a lot of people (myself included) are not taking the “Panic! (Don’t panic) news about the CoronaVirus as seriously as the powers that govern us might like us to.

Apocalypse Fatigue

(He fails to mention the Swine Flu, which was supposed to leave diseased corpses stacked up in the streets around the hospitals as overworked Doctors and Nurses fell from exhaustion trying to Save Us All….)

Look: I think this is serious. I think closing the schools and large-ish gatherings is not a bad idea. Greater emphasis on personal hygiene..handwashing, sanitizing yer hands, etc. is probably a good idea that we should practice most Clold and Flu seasons…or any time, really.
Closing the roads and “Shelter in Place? I dunno. But I’m not a doctor.

If they really believed the predictions they quote, then the larger cities would stop mass transport.

But at the end of it, they, (the Media and/or the Government) have cried wolf too many times. No one knows what to believe. Should we REALLY panic THIS TIME? Or will it end up being a nothingburger like the last 57 or more times they told us to panic?