Cumulative announced US COVID cases through 12/26/20 = 19,023,776
Cumulative announced US COVID deaths through 12/26/20 = 332,011
That works out to 1.745% of all COVID cases dying.
In any given year in the US, 30 million people get the flu.
If 1.745% of 30 million died, that would come to 523,500 deaths, about 17 times worse than the average reality of 30,000 flu deaths annually.
That's the difference between 0.1% and 1.745%, which Rush Limbaugh could never figure out.
Did Trump say Afghanistan was "better than the US" as Drudge claims? Nope. Trump said their elections were better run than the US election in 2020.
Was a "White House" counselor's brother recently hired by Amazon as a lobbyist? Depends on which "White House" you mean. Certainly not the current one. The "White House" counselor is Joe Biden's counselor, and his brother conveniently was just recently hired by Amazon to lobby for it.
When I don't have Rush Limbaugh to kick around anymore, I'll always have Drudge.
California's situation (blue in the graphs) is now mimicking New York's troubles (gray) in the spring, but not on a population-adjusted basis. Percent of hospital beds dedicated to COVID in California is also rising sharply.
Texas (pink) is reprising its experience in the summer in all categories.
Pennsylvania (not shown) is having a similar experience right now to number three New York.
Systems which find themselves under pressure from the pandemic have lattitude to refrain from performing elective procedures to free up beds. Doing so, however, comes at a cost to hospitals which depend on those procedures to remain profitable.
The total was 319k+ this morning and this afternoon is already 321k+
Current hospitalizations for the disease hit a new all-time high for a single day yesterday of 115,351
US COVID deaths have averaged 2,488 per day in the first twenty days of December 2020. Projected through the 31st that will result in over 77,000 deaths.
April 2020 had been the worst month for deaths to date with 58,836.
A couple of days earlier than I had expected.
The basic premise is that Trump was winning on election day, only to lose overnight as a flood of fraudulent ballots washed away his lead.
This is completely mistaken.
It is now clear that just 54% of voters voted "in person", either early or on election day. 46% voted by mail/absentee.
66% of Trump's vote was "in person", but only 42% of Biden's. That's why it appeared that Trump won on election day.
Most of Biden's vote, 58%, was counted after the polls had closed into the next day(s) because it was absentee/by mail. He had a larger reservoir of his voters to draw on than did Trump, whose post-election day reservoir was only 34% of his vote.
There were doubtless more fraudulent votes cast this election because so many of the ballots were absentee/by mail, and so many more people voted and voted this way. The problem has been proving it, and proving it was large enough to flip places like Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona.
Absentee/by mail ballots typically post high rejection rates for voter noncompliance reasons: failure to sign the envelope, failure to return it on time, failure to mark the ballot correctly, failure of the signature to match the record, failure to show a return address matching the file, and much more. These rates typically exceed 1%, often by quite a lot. The problem is rejection rates in this election are coming in much lower than 1%, which, contrary to the Democrats, is a huge red flag.
Investigation of these problems should have been Team Trump's number one objective in challenging this election. Unfortunately and characteristically it got side-tracked by craziness and laziness, the hallmarks of the Trump era. Pieces of paper are evidence. Fanciful theories using computer "data" are not. Courts are not interested in jeopardizing their claim to impartiality by facilitating fishing expeditions for one political party against another. Either you've got the goods, or you don't.
It's sad Trump is such an incompetent and wasn't ready for this, but it is what it is. All the "shouldas wouldas and couldas" in the world ain't gonna fix it.
Buh-bye.
Deaths per day from COVID by state since Jan 22 through Saturday 12/12/20:
October 2020 Climate Update for KGRR
Deaths were approximately 289.5k early this morning, but blew right through that in short order to get almost to 292k tonight.
107,258 are currently hospitalized.
Think of each of those 11.5 million full-time units forming a household, buying a house, buying a car, buying a washing machine, raising some kids, paying taxes for good schools to which to send them, etc.
That's what's missing.
Sad!
As a percentage of population, full time in Nov 2020 remains in the basement digging holes at 47.6%, reminiscent of the historic lows pre-Reagan and the double Reagan recessions of the early 1980s.
Full-time never recovered after the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, if you mean a return to pre-GFC1 levels. Under Obama and continuing under Trump full time after eight long years finally clawed its way up to 50.4% in 2019 on an average annual basis, only to be felled again by a lousing, stinking virus.
But don't make the mistake of blaming the virus. Conditions were long too weak to support pre-GFC1 levels of full time employment. Contrast this with the vigor of the Reagan/Bush surge in which full time went from 47.3% to 52.2% in just six years.
That missing vigor is the irreducible fact of the present economic malaise now in its twelfth year which very few acknowledge let alone understand.
Congress allocated the spending Biden threatened, unlawfully, to withhold, but Trump became the bad guy and Biden was elected instead of Trump.
Simply amazing.
