Corona Virus Daily Thread #41

[BusterDog]

“No, there’s no way that a continued lockdown is going to happen.”

They are not obeying it now. Over the last two weeks, I’ve been in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arkansas and Louisiana. It seems like more and more people are getting on the road each day.

Dallas has to have been the worst. I’d say about 90% of normal traffic mid day.

All the cities are doing poorly on the stay at home. People can’t go out to eat and to the bars, they can’t go to the mall, but they are finding plenty to do.

Out in the country, you do see a definite slow down of people out. I was in the UP of Michigan last weekend, and there are few people on the road there.

[mrsmith]

Yeah we don’t know enough yet.
They made a reasonable try.

[firebrand]

Isn’t that the movie where the main character finally becomes a nice guy and then nobody likes him anymore?

[chris37]

It’s been so long since I’ve seen it that I can’t actually remember how it ends.

[metmom]

And even further, prep individually as if you are going to be one of the few sole survivors.

I know that’s not likely to really happen, but every family needs to be as self-sufficient and independent as possible.

That includes learning skills that our grandparents had, such as growing your own food, putting it up, sewing, repairing things yourself, being armed and ready to defend yourself.

We as a whole culture, have become too dependent on the supply chains and live as if that’s never going to change. This virus is a wake up call for those paying attention, that NOTHING in this life is a given and what we’ve taken for granted for far too long, can evaporate in a heartbeat.

Many people cannot handle that.

[metmom]

You stated it far better than I did.

Thanks.

[Black Agnes]

Tax laws need to change. Stop punishing businesses for having cash reserves and inventory on hand.

[metmom]

Repair, not repaid......

[firebrand]

Just going to lobby to get the mail I was forced into a discussion with a lib about how hydroxychloroquine has side effects and how Trump is benefiting from it.

What would you do if you were being rushed to the hospital? Worry about possible side effects? Refuse the drug because Trump has a tiny interest in one company that makes it?

Nothing will ever change these people, not even being at death’s door.

[metmom]

We’ve been traveling between our home here and in NH and the roads are fairly deserted.

In the CNY area, people are staying home more. There is definitely less traffic on the roads.

I suspect that school being out plays a big role in that. For us in rural America, that’s a bigger percentage of the traffic than in the cities.

[dakine]

“I was in the UP of Michigan last weekend, and there are few people on the road there.”

That is called ‘Early April’...

[metmom]

Yup.

Seen that in NYS.

The biggest deterrent to business in NY is the tax system, run by the dems, of course.

[metmom]

then, fine, they don’t have to take the drug if they don’t want to.

They can deal with the consequences of their own decision.

[chris37]

“We as a whole culture, have become too dependent on the supply chains and live as if that’s never going to change. This virus is a wake up call for those paying attention, that NOTHING in this life is a given and what we’ve taken for granted for far too long, can evaporate in a heartbeat.”

Truer words have never been spoken. I wish I knew how to sew. My mom was a master seamstress.

She used to take me to Clothworld when I was a kid. I hated Clothworld, so boring! She would look through pattern books for hours, then buy what she needed to go home and make from scratch her own professional clothes, because she could not afford to buy them in the department store at the time.

The clothes that she made were amazing. She could have made a career at that.

My mom is an old and wise soul. She is my greatest treasure.

[firebrand]

But they would take it. That’s why they are despicable hypocrites.

[miserare]

Preferably in a deep, dark dungeon in some third world hellhole!

[miserare]

But...but...Junior Mario says the curve has flattened.

[Fury]

“Guest View: Kindness in the face of COVID-19”

- see https://www.registerguard.com/opinion/20200402/guest-view-kindness-in-face-of-covid-19

[ETCM]

We as a whole culture, have become too dependent on the supply chains and live as if that’s never going to change.

We also have a small business economy that runs on a shoestring. Businesses are living paycheck to paycheck like an 18 year old who just moved out on their own. Now some are folding after a single month of shutdown. Margins have become incredibly thin, as people obsess over saving a few dollars on made-in-China crap, or forcing family businesses to bid against illegal aliens and outsourced employees for their projects. It's impacting virtually every segment of our economy.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Here's a table that combines the Coronavirus death numbers from bing and population data from wikipedia to get deaths per million, sorted from lowest to highest. The info is not 100% reliable and some countries were left out due to lack of data but it might be interesting to look for trends. Warmer countries seem to have fewer deaths for example.

Country	Deaths per Million	Population	Deaths
Tanzania	0.02	56318348	1
Ethiopia	0.02	109224559	2
Myanmar	0.02	53708395	1
Nigeria	0.03	195874740	6
Sudan	0.05	41801533	2
Malawi	0.06	18143315	1
Zambia	0.06	17351822	1
Angola	0.06	30809762	2
Benin	0.09	11485048	1
Haiti	0.09	11123176	1
Uzbekistan	0.09	32955400	3
India	0.11	1352617328	149
Kenya	0.12	51393010	6
Bangladesh	0.12	161356039	20
Senegal	0.13	15854360	2
Zimbabwe	0.14	14439018	2
Libya	0.15	6678567	1
Nicaragua	0.15	6465513	1
Ghana	0.17	29767108	5
Guatemala	0.17	17247807	3
New Zealand	0.20	4885500	1
South Africa	0.22	57779622	13
Mauritania	0.23	4403319	1
Kuwait	0.24	4137309	1
Mali	0.26	19077690	5
Pakistan	0.27	212215030	58
Sri Lanka	0.28	21670000	6
Afghanistan	0.30	37172386	11
Cameroon	0.36	25216237	9
Togo	0.38	7889094	3
Kazakhstan	0.38	18276499	7
Costa Rica	0.40	4999441	2
Oman	0.41	4829483	2
Thailand	0.43	69428524	30
Botswana	0.44	2254126	1
Gabon	0.47	2119275	1
Niger	0.49	22442948	11
Hong Kong	0.54	7451000	4
Jordan	0.60	9956011	6
Liberia	0.62	4818977	3
Japan	0.64	126529100	81
Paraguay	0.72	6956071	5
El Salvador	0.78	6420744	5
Georgia	0.80	3731000	3
Azerbaijan	0.80	9942334	8
Indonesia	0.90	267663435	240
Burkina Faso	0.96	19751535	19
Cuba	0.97	11338138	11
Colombia	1.01	49648685	50
Jamaica	1.02	2934855	3
Latvia	1.04	1926542	2
Mexico	1.12	126190788	141
Ukraine	1.17	44622516	52
Saudi Arabia	1.22	33699947	41
Singapore	1.24	5638676	7
United Arab Emirates	1.25	9630959	12
Bolivia	1.32	11353142	15
Argentina	1.35	44494502	60
Belarus	1.37	9485386	13
Iraq	1.69	38433600	65
Philippines	1.71	106651922	182
Suriname	1.74	575991	1
Uruguay	1.74	3449299	6
Cabo Verde	1.84	543767	1
Tunisia	1.99	11565204	23
Australia	2.00	24992369	50
Malaysia	2.06	31528585	65
Qatar	2.16	2781677	6
Honduras	2.29	9587522	22
Chile	2.30	18729160	43
China	2.39	1392730000	3333
Morocco	2.50	36029138	90
Belize	2.61	383071	1
Kosovo	2.71	1845300	5
Lebanon	2.77	6848925	19
Armenia	3.05	2951776	9
Bahrain	3.19	1569439	5
Montenegro	3.21	622345	2
Bulgaria	3.27	7024216	23
Brazil	3.28	209469333	688
Peru	3.34	31989256	107
Poland	3.58	37978548	136
South Korea	3.87	51635256	200
Algeria	4.59	42228429	194
Croatia	4.65	4089400	19
Trinidad and Tobago	5.04	1389858	7
Lithuania	5.38	2789533	15
Mauritius	5.53	1265303	7
Hungary	5.94	9768785	58
Guyana	6.42	779004	5
Moldova	6.77	3545883	24
Puerto Rico	7.20	3195153	23
Finland	7.25	5518050	40
Greece	7.55	10727668	81
Albania	7.68	2866376	22
Israel	8.10	8883800	72
Serbia	8.74	6982084	61
Turkey	8.81	82319724	725
Dominican Republic	9.22	10627165	98
Bosnia and Herzegovina	10.23	3323929	34
Canada	10.28	37058856	381
Antigua and Barbuda	10.39	96286	1
Barbados	10.47	286641	3
Romania	10.73	19473936	209
Cyprus	11.77	1189265	14
Isle of Man	11.89	84077	1
Ecuador	12.88	17084357	220
North Macedonia	13.92	2082958	29
Panama	14.13	4176873	59
Cayman Islands	15.58	64174	1
Iceland	16.97	353574	6
Norway	17.50	5314336	93
Estonia	18.17	1320884	24
Slovenia	19.35	2067372	40
Guam	24.13	165768	4
Germany	24.32	82927922	2017
Monaco	25.85	38682	1
Liechtenstein	26.38	37910	1
Turks and Caicos Islands	26.55	37665	1
Austria	30.86	8847037	273
Bermuda	31.27	63968	2
Northern Mariana Islands	35.16	56882	2
Portugal	36.96	10281762	380
Denmark	37.60	5797446	218
United States	39.44	327167434	12905
Ireland	43.27	4853506	210
Sweden	68.25	10183175	695
Luxembourg	72.40	607728	44
United Kingdom	92.63	66488991	6159
Switzerland	99.34	8516543	846
Netherlands	130.46	17231017	2248
France	154.18	66987244	10328
Belgium	196.11	11422068	2240
Italy	283.41	60431283	17127
Andorra	285.69	77006	22
Spain	311.51	46723749	14555
San Marino	1006.36	33785	34