The bellyaching, Monday morning quarterbacking, and Obama remembrances are gumming this thread a bit. Start a new thread if y'all want to debate Trump/Obama as the best/most prolific liar.
This link should be free for the time being:
The virus has reached all 50 U.S. states, sickened thousands and reached more than 100 countries
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First, I have to acknowledge that with limited testing comes limited information, and limited projections - but it's the best we have. Half of the quarter million cases are in NY/NJ/CT. That gives some a false sense of it being "far away". Most alarming, to me, is the growth in LA, keeping pace with FL despite having less than one-quarter the population. Other metro areas (Detroit, for example) are spinning up and will approach NYC levels relative to their populations. One only needs to look at Albany, GA to see how it can move through a non-nursing home elderly population. Albany has the highest infection rate in the nation as a percentage of its population. One pastor from Washington state, two funerals and one or two jury duty sessions got it all started.
Locally, my cousin has been in CCU at Grandview in Bham for several weeks, showing some signs of slight improvement. Thankfully, he's avoided a ventilator. He's 54, not a traveler, don't know how he picked it up. His wife was in the hospital, but she got out and is doing okay. Some in his extended family has positive results and all are home quarantining. My traveling musician son is nine days into his test result wait, and he's been quarantined for the last two and half weeks. It knocked him for a loop, he barely made it from bed to couch over a three day span, and he went over a week without playing his guitar. I think that last happened during a Grand Canyon rafting trip when he was nine, and he's 28 now. Still has a cough and a low-grade fever, but he'll be here until it's nothing. We are all making sure that shitty virus stops with him.
RTR,
Tim
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