[ncfool]

Set your clock for 15 days and we will see what happens. Hopefully Missouri will continue to tread down. Not a pretty picture but if there is not rise in cases 15 days from now then we know how the social experiment went at the lake of the Ozarks.

[cgbg]

Many of the CV deniers around here keep pointing to the spring break in Florida and say “nothing to see here”.

Of course, when you don’t look you don’t see.

The cell phone data from spring break showed the largest number of spring breakers returned to their home state—and the state with the largest number of returnees was....

Illinois.

I leave it as an exercise to see how Illinois has been doing the last few weeks.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The big social experiment at the beaches in Florida didn’t lead to any huge outbreak anywhere. I doubt this one will, either.

Restaurants have opened at half capacity in Idaho. My wife, daughters and one boyfriend at North Idaho for the holiday and had lunch in Coeur d’Alene today. But, even in the worst of it, North Idaho was hardly hit. The three northern-most counties still haven’t had a single case!

[Freee-dame]

Since we have no immunity to this disease, eventually a huge number of people are going to be infected. Hopefully most won’t have any symptoms and not even know they have it. The number of cases is not what should be most important. The number of hospitalizations, the number of ICU patients and the number of deaths are what really counts.

The more specific data we know about the characteristics of people needing hospitalization and, especially, dying, the better informed people’s decisions will be in making their choices about going places. Elderly people with underlying conditions may want to stay away from crowds until there is a vaccine or an effective treatment. It should still be their choice.