2020.03.23

Official Numbers:

• 381,293 confirmed infections
• 16,572 confirmed deaths
• 101,344 confirmed recoveries
• 81,514 China
• 63,927 Italy
• 46,332 US
• 35,136 Spain
• 29,056 Germany
• 23,049 Iran
• 20,123 France
• 9,037 Korea, South
• 8,795 Switzerland
• 6,726 United Kingdom
• 4,764 Netherlands
• 4,474 Austria
• 3,743 Belgium
• 2,625 Norway
• 2,088 Canada
• 2,060 Portugal
• 2,046 Sweden
• 1,924 Brazil
• 1,682 Australia
• 1,582 Denmark
• 1,529 Turkey
• 1,518 Malaysia
• 1,442 Israel
• 1,236 Czechia
• 1,128 Japan
• 1,125 Ireland

Updates

Today was a slow news day, apparently, and I don’t have enough updates to justify splitting them out into categories

• Mayor of Bergamo says that for every coronavirus death, there are three ‘unidentified viral pneumonia’ deaths. To rephrase: Mayor of Bergamo says that real death stats are 4x the reported death stats
• My city goes into lockdown tomorrow. Having just recovered from what I’m pretty sure was mild coronavirus, which presumably makes me both immune and not a transmission risk anymore, I suddenly feel very strongly that this is an egregious violation of my first amendment rights.
• Washington State is still lacking test kits. I thought the federal government said they made 10,000,000 available? Weird, that, it’s almost as if they lied
• I swear to fuck I’m not making this up: Loss of your sense of smell is a symptom of COVID-19, because it fucks with the “sonic hedgehog protein”. There Was An Extinction Level Event In 2012 And We All Live In A Simulation. There is no other explanation