2020.04.08
Official Numbers
- 1,498,833 confirmed infections (Δ 51,367)
- 89,733 confirmed deaths (Δ 6,262)
- 337,074 confirmed recoveries (Δ 28,859)
- 597 confirmed infections in my city (Δ 43)
- 20 confirmed infections in my ZIP code (Δ 0)
- 7 confirmed deaths in my city (Δ 0)
- 432,438 US
- 152,446 Spain
- 139,422 Italy
- 113,296 Germany
- 83,080 France
- 82,883 China
- 64,586 Iran
- 61,487 United Kingdom
- 38,226 Turkey
- 24,983 Belgium
- 23,612 Switzerland
- 21,898 Netherlands
- 19,290 Canada
- 16,238 Brazil
- 13,141 Portugal
- 13,105 Austria
- 10,423 Korea, South
- 10,131 Russia
Personal Updates
Guys I really apologize that the updates have been late, posting the following morning instead of the day of. Don’t worry, nothing crazy going on with me. In all honesty, now that I’m not sick anymore, I’m just hanging out at home with my cat, drinking whiskey and repeatedly taking over the world in EU4. That game is crazy, I sit down to play for half an hour and then I get up and six hours have passed. I’m going to try to be more disciplined about posting these updates when I should, but in all honesty the delays will likely continue until I push all the remaining Muslim powers out of India and secure it for myself and my Hindu allies
Updates
- Thread about how Coronavirus is affecting our food supply chains
- The “Things I Will Not Work With” guy is posting about Coronavirus. After you read his latest posts, check out his archives. One of my favourite articles is his article on FOOF, which is a chemical that is also an onomatopoeia. “The heater was warmed to approximately 700C. The heater block glowed a dull red color, observable with room lights turned off. The ballast tank was filled to 300 torr with oxygen, and fluorine was added until the total pressure was 901 torr…”
- “We used to go to the store… before the virus came”
- Singapore seeing second wave. Apparently their public health despotic utopia is not up to the task of containment, which is bad; if they can’t do it, I doubt anyone else can
- New candidate explanation for the weird progression of this disease: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase enzyme level.
- Another interesting Twitter account worth watching. He thinks the virus attacks heme groups hypothesis is false, and a new hypothesis: “microvascular microthrombosis”.
- PDF from a doctor in California outlining this hypothesis
- Boris Johnson gets to live, apparently. He’s like 15 days into his illness, he’s been in the ICU for 3 days but not intubated. This means his case is very unlikely to progress to critical. He will probably live. Well, either that or they’re lying about his status. That wouldn’t surprise me in this crisis