I have been following the statistics reported at the site of the Illinois Department of Public Health on a daily or nearly daily basis. What I am seeing there may not comport with anything else you’ve read.
What I see is that the number of diagnosed cases has been going up by roughly 2,100 every day for the last two weeks. Over the last month the utilization of hospital beds, ICU beds, and ventilators by COVID-19 patients has been roughly flat. Increases in utilizations of all three are mostly due to increased utilization by non-COVID-19 patients.
Heh. Occupied by non COVID Yeah.
Anyway.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/closest-known-black-hole/611188/h.
Sooth your mind. Its all over. Go out and buy the best bourbon, scotch and hootch you can. Your neighbors wife? Well, time to get honest. YOLO
Corona? Who cares. Killer hornets? Who cares. Compressed into an infinitesimally small congealed ball of matter and energy……….what do any of us really matter?
Ultimately, we don’t. But perhaps we could set aside political power, control and wealth seeking. Nah…………
Lately I’ve been drinking American single malt whiskey. I’ve tried four different varieties at this point and when I get enough time I’ve got my eye on a fifth variety at my local Binny’s.
So far the best has been one from Texas—Balcones.
To get even more specific I think that President Trump should have used the DPA to get auto manufacturers to start producing ventilators and chemical companies to start producing the reagents used in testing back in February. AFAICT there are three different bottlenecks in testing: personnel about which not much can be done in the short term, limitations on how fast the manufacturers of the modulars (Abbott et. al.) can produce the test modules, and the reagents used in the testing for the other tests. Of those the last is the easiest to address and it should have been. It should not be a bottleneck but, apparently, it is.
Steady drinking is a proven way to eliminate anxiety. The key thing is to be responsible, don’t let up and don’t run out .