2020.04.13
Official Numbers
- 1,935,646 confirmed infections (Δ 85,119)
- 120,914 confirmed deaths (Δ 6,669)
- 464,995 confirmed recoveries (Δ 33,468)
- 856 confirmed infections in my city (Δ 82)
- 22 confirmed infections in my ZIP code (Δ 1)
- 11 confirmed deaths in my city (Δ 2)
- 144 confirmed recoveries in my city (Δ 4)
- 93 confirmed (non-ICU) hospitalizations in my city (Δ 4)
- 49 ICU Inpatients in my city (Δ 7)
- 23 ventilated patients in my city (Δ -9)
- 582,634 US
- 172,541 Spain
- 159,516 Italy
- 137,877 France
- 130,383 Germany
- 89,571 United Kingdom
- 83,306 China
- 74,877 Iran
- 61,049 Turkey
- 31,119 Belgium
- 27,580 Netherlands
- 25,807 Switzerland
- 25,680 Canada
- 23,830 Brazil
- 21,102 Russia
- 17,448 Portugal
- 14,159 Austria
- 11,868 Israel
- 11,445 Sweden
- 10,647 Ireland
- 10,564 Korea, South
- 10,541 India
Updates
- My city just passed a new lockdown order. It is now a crime punishable by 180 days in jail for any adult to be outside of their homes without a mask for any reason. The only exceptions are 1) if you’re currently in the act of eating food; or 2) if you are exercising somewhere where there are no other people. If you get caught hiking on a trail and passing someone while not wearing a mask? JAIL. Now, I’m certain this will actually be enforced less than 5 times, ever. But, honest to fuck, the actual law in my city right now is “it is a crime to leave your house without a mask”. You know, the same masks they said two weeks ago don’t work. So much for due process, eh? As of this moment I am officially more concerned about the erosion of my civil rights than I am the erosion of my public health, and I intend to proceed accordingly
- NOT MEDICAL ADVICE: chronic marijuana usage appears to be protective towards COVID-19. For the first time, the marijuana actually is medicinal. Mechanism, if I understand it, is that cannabis suppresses IL-6. IL-6 levels get elevated by infection and this triggers cytokine storm
- ALSO NOT MEDICAL ADVICE: The same seems to be true of cigarette smokers, against all reason. Only 1.3% of severe patients in the US are current smokers, and 2.3% are former smokers. Consider that the background rate of smoking in the US is about 15%, and that’s dramatically under-represented. Who knows why.
- CDC Recommends Wearing Anime Shirts To Socially Distance Others Away From You
- One of the largest pork-processing plants in the country is closing indefinitely. Food supply chain starting to look mighty fragile
- Speaking of food supply chain fragility, Michigan just made it illegal to buy gardening equipment. As in, you can go to the grocery store to buy groceries, but if you want to pick up some vegetable seeds, you know, to grow your own food WHEN THE FOOD SUPPLY BREAKS, that’s illegal. Those sections of store are blocked off with caution tape. It’s “non-essential”, you see. Meanwhile, lottery tickets are still considered essential. Odd, that.
- It’s definitely not a lab accident: China bans research into origin of coronavirus. Because you definitely ban nosy people asking difficult questions when you have nothing to hide. Definitely.
- Mossad brags about stealing medical supplies in the NYT
