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We’ve all seen the relentless reporting about how Italian hospitals are overrun with Wuhan Virus victims. But the data from Italy begs the question; why? As of 1400 CDT today, Italy has recorded a total of 64,000 infections. Approximately 3,000 of those are listed as serious or critical. This 5% rate is similar to the […]
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Readers might remember the panicked reporting when the cruise ship The Diamond Princess discovered several passengers were sick with the Wuhan Virus. All 2,600 passengers were quarantined and the worst was assumed because of the tight quarters, the impossibility of ‘social distancing’, the same crew members cooking, cleaning and interacting with all the passengers, and […]
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This table attempts to provide context for the ‘crisis’. Numbers reported for all causes of death other than the Wuhan are based on 2019 annual numbers and estimated on a per day basis for 2020. Because the table merely attempts to provide context for the overwhelmingly lack of proportionality, please do not obsess over small […]
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“I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life — schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned — will be long lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself. The stock market will bounce back in time, but many businesses […]
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