Ping.
We’re also seeing a decrease in the number of new cases in China
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You can’t trust any numbers coming out of China.
Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines are pretty low as well. Similar climate. This bodes well. I would have expected China like numbers coming from those areas due to regional vice habits, customs and sanitation. Great news.
Warm weather will settle in across the southern US in early April and you’ll see temps in the 90s (in some locations) by mid-May. As with the flu, you’ll see a drop in cases and that trend will shift north as we move from spring into summer.
I presume the heat will help; I didn’t think humidity helped, I thought lower humidity was harder on a virus, because high humidity helps with droplet formation which seems to be the way this thing spreads.
(Note: there are some reports it can be aersolized, but those also seem to come from places where they actively did things that would help; like the old folks home in Washington that was actively using nebulizers and CPAP machines on positive patients).
The fact that the entire cruise ship wasn’t infected suggests that this thing isn’t easily passed on through airborne means; the fact that we don’t have entire planeloads infected also suggests that.
“Granted, China is using extreme measures to stop the spread”
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And aside from boarding and welding people up in their home, no serious person believes China’s low numbers. They still haven’t come clean on the Tienanmen Square Massacre numbers.
Not seeing a decrease in Singapore, whereas we are seeing a decrease in S Korea, despite cool, seasonable temperatures.
Things to think about in Singapore.
They have had the gold standard response.
The Singapore contact tracing has been outstanding.
Singapore has been doing “sentinel” testing, which is testing everyone at every medical contact. This has allowed them to catch “clusters” before the virus pops up on any screening.
When you are told to quarantine in Singapore, the penalty is severe and imposed.
Those things are on top of a higher outside temp.
Singapore is a small, modern, and compliant country. They are ahead of the virus. They have been since the start.
The US is none of those things.
We’ve had “outbreaks” in the past, where it turned out that the dangerous “new” virus was just another strain of the flu/common cold that we hadn’t had a specific test for.
So when we started testing, we saw exploding numbers of infected, not because of the spread of the particular strain - it had already spread pretty much world-wide in the years before we started testing - but simply because we’d greatly increased the number of tests we were doing.
Is that the case with COVID-19?
I have no idea. No one has any idea.
That’s the whole point.
Also because the people of Singapore are hyper-sensitive to any filth that can accelerate the spread of the virus. That’s why the disease had little effect on the population of that small country.
Maybe this is why the temperatures in our local emergency rooms have become recently bearable. Usually these emergency rooms are freezing cold. A staffer once told me the coldness was to keep the spread of germs down. I guess they changed their mind.
*This hysteria is more harmful than the virus itself.*
PEOPLE!
This is not good news for the Dems and the media. Please refrain from spreading any information that might undermine their undermining of our country and President Trump.
Remember, if its anti-Trump anti-America it LEADS, this stuff or anything positive cannot b shared /s