The Dennis the Menace cartoon is gold.
Remember when a certain POTUS’s admirers said they liked him because he was a Disrupter?
Be careful what you wish for.
Singapore has seen a lot of new cases the last few days:
Not easy yo control in the dormitories, although doctors and nurses are assigned there to try to limit the spread and effect.
They did very good in the beginning, as can be seen from this time line:
CNN didnot cover today’s Trump’s ‘me Tarzan’ speech but started the briefing immediately after Trump left the stage but not the building. The war is on…
I’m watching the President live on CNN right now. Maybe they skipped the opening monologue? That’s the dull part anyhow.
I believe they cover the Q&A.
Propublica has an informative article about reopening and how to be ready based on experience from those abroad .
Good article on the significance of the U.S. showing 20% positive results from coronavirus tests and the reason the number of cases has plateaued:
A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat
Takeaway:
The high positivity rate also suggests that new cases in the U.S. have plateaued only because the country has hit a ceiling in its testing capacity.
And they give an anecdotal example of how the undercount is happening. Can you say “False Dawn?” I knew you could.
Earl
The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City
New York City’s multitentacled subway system was a major disseminator – if not the principal transmission vehicle – of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive epidemic that became evident throughout the city during March 2020. The near shutoff of subway ridership in Manhattan – down by over 90 percent at the end of March – correlates strongly with the substantial increase in the doubling time of new cases in this borough. Maps of subway station turnstile entries, superimposed upon zip code-level maps of reported coronavirus incidence, are strongly consistent with subway-facilitated disease propagation. Local train lines appear to have a higher propensity to transmit infection than express lines. Reciprocal seeding of infection appears to be the best explanation for the emergence of a single hotspot in Midtown West in Manhattan. Bus hubs may have served as secondary transmission routes out to the periphery of the city.
Earl, you post such good stuff on this beast and I’ve reposted so much of it that you might as well just post directly to my FB page. 
I see by RT Live that the state of SC is 3rd from the top. The Governor, Henry McMaster is planning to open some retail and the beaches by May 1.
Many years ago when Fritz Holling was one of the senators from SC Henry McMaster ran against him. During the campaign there were rumors of cocaine use in congress. McMaster said Holling should get a drug test and publish the results. When questioned about this Hollings said he would gladly do that if Henry would get an IQ test and publish the results. That was the end of that.
In years to come, if you want to avoid the flu, avoid the subway. Buses too.
From the NYT:
Antibody testing is problematic, officials say:
Saying that the coronavirus pandemic requires an urgent response, the Food and Drug Administration has allowed about 90 companies, many based in China, to sell antibody tests that are intended to indicate whether people may have built immunity to the coronavirus but that haven’t been vetted by the government.
The agency has since warned that some of those businesses are making false claims about their products, and health officials in the U.S. and abroad have found other tests to be deeply flawed.
In years to come
To 'scape the flu
Avoid the subway
Buses too
Burma Shave
A bit like when Sir Thomas Massey-Massey proposed in Parliament to change the name of Christmas in England to Christ-tide. Someone stood to respond and said he was all in favour if only Sir Thomas would change his name to Sir Toe-tied Tidey-Tidey. Or so I’ve heard.
If you become ill your best friend will be access to a fingertip pulse oximeter.
We are just beginning to recognize that Covid pneumonia initially causes a form of oxygen deprivation we call “silent hypoxia” — “silent” because of its insidious, hard-to-detect nature.
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs in which the air sacs fill with fluid or pus. Normally, patients develop chest discomfort, pain with breathing and other breathing problems. But when Covid pneumonia first strikes, patients don’t feel short of breath, even as their oxygen levels fall. And by the time they do, they have alarmingly low oxygen levels and moderate-to-severe pneumonia (as seen on chest X-rays). Normal oxygen saturation for most persons at sea level is 94 percent to 100 percent; Covid pneumonia patients I saw had oxygen saturations as low as 50 percent.
The coronavirus probably uses two specific types of cells in the nose as a gateway to the human body. Researchers from the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) Netherlands have determined this together with British and French colleagues. They have discovered that goblet cells and cilia in the nose contain much of the so-called messenger RNA that the virus uses to spread quickly throughout the body.
I suppose to pinch the nose a clothespin is a cheap solution…
Cite?