17 October 2020

Parallax View - part the twenty eighth

[Off to the island for our annual pilgrimage. Waste water analysis last showed 0 Covid, but even more of the island will be shut down than usual for the time of year, and the common area of the facility is off limits. Sigh. At least the weather is predicted to warm up after a rainy Saturday's travel to it. Anyway, this episode is running early since I don't laptop, and won't have my workflow flowing for the normal Monday night posting.]

Another week's up, so here are today's numbers:
  >= 1,000 - 304
100 to 999 - 1,507 
(New) grand total of counties reads at 3,107. While I've not gotten into an argument with the Topo folks over this re-definition of 'affected' counties, it certainly looks like a move to bolster ex-President AuH2O 2020's perpetual lying.

This one's has to be terse; off to catch the boat to the island. Batshit J. Moron's notion that we're 'rounding the corner' or bend or the edge is yet another Big Lie. Hopefully only the few empty heads in the shit kicking empty counties will be stupid enough to vote for ex-President AuH2O 2020 because they believe such nonsense. May be they'll see that $46 billion bribe as sufficient payment to be cannon fodder in his genocidal Herd Mentality effort. Yeah, we may be going around a sharp bend, but that just means we'll be heading into the Sunset Limited coming our way. May be he'll really rip off his dress shirt, show us his Superman jersey, run down the tracks, and stop the train. Ya think?

This is also, it seems, Friday data, but still, I'd suggest doing the previously described visual analysis of adjacent groups. Note also that the two smallest group counts have fallen off a cliff. Total keeps creeping up (but not too many left, so...), and the small group counts keep falling. They's gots to go somewhere. Lots of promotions in the middle executive ranks. The three groups under 1,000+ are ominous: the lower count counties are nearly always surronded by (or, at least, abutting) counties with the next higher count. Oops.

Most problematic: the 1,000+ group is dispersed everywhere, and not too surprisingly, surronded by or abutting 100 to 999 counties. Double oops.

As I type, the new casecount from yesterday was 62,830. It's updated frequently, so YMMV.

Atlas, ex-President AuH2O 2020, and their lemmings seem to take Sweden as the exemplar. Some in Sweden claim that their herd immunity approach has worked. May be yes or no. But what is clear is that, 1)Sweden is fully Socialist both in governing and mindset, and thus more willing to follow behavioral rules and 2) a fraction of the USofA both in territorial extent and population. In other words, a much smaller country of people willing to adhere to a social contract. The Rural Radical Right Wingnuts?? Not so much. We see it in the explosive growth of Covid in God's Country.

Sweden:  population -  10,343,403    territory -   173,860 sq mi
US of A: population - 328,239,523    territory - 3,796,742 sq mi 
[the wiki]
Ever try to herd cats?

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