Trump's 15 coronavirus cases going to zero now number 1,015 through 3/10/20

Monday situation summary 3/9/20

The CDC basically urged people 60 and over to become hermits at home to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2. High blood pressure appears to be the one thing most who die of the virus have in common.

The COVID-19 outbreak in Italy is killing off parents and grandparents at an alarming level because the healthcare system, though quite advanced up north, is overwhelmed by the disease outbreak. Reports say many patients die in hospital untreated, just as in China in the early days of the epidemic there, because of inadequate infrastructure and doctors for so many patients. The quarantine has been extended now to the entire country. That is not being done to make Donald Trump look bad. 

Stock market losses today were sizable. The decline in the S&P 500 made the top 20 list for daily percentage losses. The stock market is a confidence game, and valuation has grown to outrageous levels and stayed there for a couple of years already, so it has been vulnerable to a confidence shock. People just didn't believe it was. The virus hysteria is undercutting that confidence. 

The price of oil plunged as OPEC failed to agree to production cuts. Expect big trouble for the economy as a result, which was already in decline, which is why OPEC wanted the cuts. Declining demand. Max von Sydow died to mark the occasion. Hint: He played Joubert.

People are afraid to fly and some flights are nearly empty. It's a good thing, too, because a study from China is out indicating infected persons can infect others in enclosed, air conditioned spaces like buses, even after they've disembarked. One person infected 11 this way. This also happened in Japan you will recall, where a bus driver was infected by tourists from Wuhan on his bus.

US cases of COVID-19 soared to 654 from the 15 President Trump said back in February were headed to zero. Can't make this go away with the Power of Positive Thinking.

The full time jobs deficit in Feb 2020 in the US is enormous, in the many millions

There is reason to think this epidemic might result in just 100,000 deaths or so in the US at the very worst

And probably a lot fewer.

The US is too robust compared with places like China and Iran to descend into their chaos, but South Korea's can-do spirit in the face of this epidemic reminds me of nothing so much as Yankee ingenuity. If the bureaucracy in the US can be tamed, we may well have an experience similar to South Korea's.

Just four candidates left in the race for the 2020 Democrat nomination heh heh

Coronavirus has been more severe in Asia likely due in part to insanitary squat toilets

Coronavirus mortality rates in countries with 100+ cases as of 10am 3/4/20

Super Tuesday 3/3/20 results for AR, MN, NC, OK, TN, VT, VA, AL with 100% of the vote counted

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So much winning from Donald Trump, even with coronavirus: "We have the best mortality rates"

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Unfortunately, the mortality rate for COVID-19 in South Korea has suddenly rebounded to 0.60%

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The mortality rate from COVID-19 has already dropped from 0.54% to 0.48% in South Korea

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If you want to know how COVID-19 is going to go, watch South Korea, they are doing just about everything right

Update 5/12/25:

COVID-19 deaths per million of population in South Korea stand at 694 vs. 3,727 in the United States.

The good news is, outside China, the mortality rate from coronavirus is only 7x worse than for influenza, not 30x

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I know NOTHING!

Huge GDP slowdown predates coronavirus: Look for Trump eventually to flip and blame a slowing economy on the disease instead of on his ineffectual GOP

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Rush Limbaugh, a household name for dumbass in every corner of the world

Trump promised to appoint only the best people, this one totally botches death rate from flu

The global death rate from coronavirus at this hour stands at 3.36%, 33x higher than for ordinary flu.

In Hubei Province, where ground zero Wuhan is located, the coronavirus death rate is 3.88%

Contrary to Jewish opinion about whiteness, Bernie Sanders identifies as white

Rush Limbaugh is a fool and an imbecile, says coronavirus epidemic is just the common cold, kills fewer than the flu

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The coronavirus is the common cold, folks. ... The survival rate of this is 98%! You have to read very deeply to find that number, that 2% of the people get the coronavirus die. That’s less than the flu, folks. 

The maximum survival rate from the Spanish flu pandemic 100 years ago was 96.6% when at least 17 million died globally. The death rate was 3.4%. Coronavirus death rate on the Chinese mainland is nearly that right now.

Ordinary influenza kills at most not quite 650,000 people globally every year.