Or, how about the theme that appears to be popular today, muh Sunday! (Weekend reporting of data is lower.) Well, as is my usual practice, let's take a look at Italy - more specifically, the last 19 days until today. (So convenient they are 9 hrs ahead of west coast time.)
So it does appear there is a slight blip up from Sunday, whether from spurious weekend data or just a typical timing pattern. Sadly, however (at least for the chicken FReepers), Italy's high was reached 10 days ago, with today 31% off that high.
IOW, the trend is now pretty obviously down. And, since the US lags Italy by approx 8 days, the US of course is trending down. (Oh, but NY will still come through with some more scary days!)
Here's a suggestion: rather than a daily CV thread, perhaps we should begin running an over-under thread predicting future FR retirements? As noted above, while the true believers work through negotiation, there will be periods of anger & lashing out. That's to be expected, so go ahead and get it out of your system.
But then comes depression, resulting from disappointment that the zombie apocalypse didn't occur, as well as the dawning realization that the posting history from your 'nick will be used against you by more aggressive FReepers. And so comes acceptance, when a new ID is created, and a brand new persona is invented and launched to the world.