So it looks like LOTS of cases in New York. (No surprise there).

Yet I can’t help but notice that the City Government has not yet shut down the busses and Subways.

One would think that this would help prevent the spread of the disease by keeping people farther apart when they walk instead of ride, and even more by keeping people closer to home.

I dunno. 

Today I finished sorting the gravel in my driveway by size, shape and color.

And not just because it says (better than I have!) what I have been trying to point out all along:

The numbers just don’t add up as to why we have destroyed our economy and essentially shut down. 


You can look up actual WORLDWIDE cases here, sorted by country. Cases/deaths/recovered.  This is Johns Hopkins data, so I would expect it to be pretty reliable.

(as of 18:30 local time here in the Midwest) there have been WORLDWIDE:

375,458 CASES. IE tested for and found to have the virus. (Probably more that were asymptomatic and did not bother to get tested though). Please note that the world population is approximately 7,690.000.

16, 371 deaths. Please note that the “normal” flu killed more people this year just here in the US than the CoronaVirus has killed worldwide.

100,958 have recovered.

Notice how low these numbers really are?

And for this we have essentially shut down the WORLD economies?

One wonders what, exactly is going on here. (unless these governments know something about this illness that they aren’t sharing, this is a massive overreaction)

Go, READ this article. It is longer than 20 sentences, but it is worth reading and no skipping.

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.

Like Here

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