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Hi. I'm Treklink256. That's with a captial T, a lowercase l, and don't forget the 256 at the end. I'm very picky about how my name is written. Most people just call me Trek though. :<)
I joined Sept 20, 2007.
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Whew, talk about a roller-coaster! Is someone in your department down with it, and that's why they tested everyone? Or is it going to be a regular thing for awhile?
We're still coasting along here -- I got word that a couple relatives in the Midwest came down with it, but they're recovering. Apparently there was a wedding a couple months ago in the small town I'm from, a couple prominent families or something. Anyway, I gather a bunch of the attendees ended up sick -- which might end up being a lucky break, because that town and several others in the area shut down everything in response, even church services, so it's actually one of the regions where cases aren't skyrocketing now (which isn't proof of spread in churches, according to the Supreme Court, but that's a whole nother rant).
Unfortunately, though, the case count, running average, positivity rate, hospitalizations, all the numbers, they're all spiking in my county, which is doubly frustrating because it's Southern California, and we can't really use "but it's cold outside!" as an excuse for indoor gatherings. These last few days, though, the Santa Ana winds started blowing, and we've already had a bunch of small fires nearby. It's about at the point where people start crossing their fingers, hoping we've seen the worst for the season, which is usually just before a Big One breaks out. =/
What's funny is that you usually don't see huge, national news types of fires in my immediate area, though small ones are frequent. My theory is that it's because we have several hundred feral donkeys that live in the hills north of town. Yes, feral donkeys, no joke! But 2020 is such a sadistic year, there's been an outbreak of equine encephalitis among the donkeys. There's a rescue group that works exclusively with them, and they've been doing an amazing job with raising funds for vaccinations, but it's like, "really, 2020? The burros, too?" When it rains, it really does pour, doesn't it? gonk
Besides, it could be so much worse -- viruses are nasty, but we know how to beat them, by and large. It's bacteria that might be our undoing. We're too cavalier about them, since we figure we have antibiotics. The Black Death officially kicked off in Europe in the 1340s. Y'know how long it lasted? Guy in New Mexico died of it two weeks ago. I'm not even kidding. It started off, killed a bunch of people, abated, then surged back after a few decades -- most recently in San Francisco in 1900 -- but it's still out there. Antibiotics are effective against it if you catch it early enough, but if there were a major outbreak and widespread administration of antibiotics, it would develop resistance pretty quickly, just like strep and even tuberculosis have. I dunno what other fun surprises 2020 has waiting for us, but I really hope that's not one of them.
And by all means! We can stagger our breaths so it's one long, continuous scream, even -- I think that'd be pretty cathartic!
I haven't been -- it's kind of obsolete now. My original intent was to get everyone to take it seriously, but not to panic. I mean, when I started it, more than 95% of the cases were in Wuhan, and over 99% were in China. So updating that thing daily, watching as other countries' outbreaks made China's an afterthought... it was sickening, it really was. I think when everything's all done and we can go places again, I'm gonna find some isolated mountaintop and just scream for awhile.
Anyway, information-wise, at this point you're better served checking in at either the main Johns Hopkins site (that's where I was getting my numbers, anyway) or their county-by-county breakdown, and/or your local county and state heath department sites. But at this point, the proportion of each country's cases is kind of a moot point.