Monday, March 30, 2020

An anniversary of sorts, more of a milestone I guess

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Sunday, March 29, 2020

Real GDP growth since 2007 lags the Great Depression era by 42% and the post-war by 52%

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And Trump thinks this is the greatest economy ever.

Climate update for KGRR February 2020

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Climate Update for KGRR February 2020 Max Temp 51, Mean 50 Min Temp 4, Mean -2 Av Temp 27.5, Mean 24.5 Rain 1.2,...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

How Wuhan/Hubei deaths from coronavirus might have been 27,000 or 33,000 not 3,177

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From the story here : Urns are reportedly being distributed at a rate of 500 a day at the mortuary until the Tomb Sweeping Day holiday,...

China drops to third in world coronavirus cases behind US and Italy: China's numbers look less credible by the day

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Friday, March 27, 2020

MI moves up to 4th in COVID-19 rankings thanks to high-density Detroit metro, but no place compares with NY

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Thursday, March 26, 2020

I am so sick of all this winning, Donald Trump

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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Welcome to hell, courtesy of "just a cold"

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Hospitals across U.S. consider universal do-not-resuscitate orders for coronavirus patients : The conversations are driven by the reali...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Trump The Libertarian to America: We have to get back to work and infect the whole country in order to save it

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“Our country wasn’t built to be shut down. This is not a country that was built for this". “America will again and soon be open fo...
Monday, March 23, 2020

We've gone from 0 cases here in Michigan on Mar 10 to 1,324 on Mar 23, putting us 5th in the nation

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Our mortality rate is 1.2%, 12x worse than for influenza. A week ago I expected the nation would have only 25,000 cases by now at a 5...

Gramps, born in 1926, says this is worse than 2008

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Dad will be 94 this year if the coronavirus doesn't get him first. He's been through a lot, seen it all. Darmouth graduate. Ser...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

Why coronavirus spread in the USA

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Because instead of issuing a travel stop on Feb 1, Trump let everyone keep flying hither and yon, except for Chinese nationals. Do you ...
Friday, March 20, 2020

Things on my list I couldn't get at Sam's Club today due to coronavirus panic shopping

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butter bacon lettuce Got everything else I wanted, though. 19 items. Interesting that I wasn't permitted to buy two bags of...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Politically speaking about coronavirus . . .

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The virus and the economic problems themselves have basically drowned out the Democrat race for the presidency. Trump is front and center i...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

America is truly great again: Trump has the best stock market losses, I mean, they are YUGE! Top shelf stuff!

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Top 20 daily percentage losses Dow Jones Industrial Average Top 20 daily percentage losses S&P 500

West Virginia still has no cases: Boomers say it's the moonshine, zoomers say it's the meth, I say it's because they don't fly and no one flies there, at least on purpose

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Still waitin' for Trump to lockdown the country, eh?

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US coronavirus cases are exploding, up 4.4x in 7 days, current mortality rate is 1.92%, 19.2x worse than for influenza

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Sunday, March 15, 2020

The real reason Trump & Co. didn't want you to panic

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To avoid the Federal Reserve Bank having to intervene to rescue the economy, that's why. But, too late. The Fed dropped its benchma...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

Death rate from COVID-19 remains a catastrophe in Italy, China and Iran less so if you can believe them, USA France and Spain form another group, South Korea Switzerland and Germany all are under 1%

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The USA is, unfortunately, not looking more like South Korea. If the USA gets 30 million COVID-19 cases, a mortality rate of 2.15% tr...