22 March 2021

Parallax View - part the fiftieth

Another week's up, so here are today's numbers:
  >= 1,000 -   347
100 to 999 - 1,316
(New) grand total of counties reads at 3,101. 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 wannaBePresident Huey Long 2024's perpetual lying.

Total is down a smidge over the last month or so. Will that trend continue? Only the Shadow knows. I am not hopeful.

[17-18 March] I contacted Tectonix about doing the cellphone scan from Lauderdale this year, but got back a boilerplate response. Hopefully, they'll do the exercise anyway. It's important.

[19 March] Remind us all. Where did Covid-19 in New York come from? Oh, yeah, Europe, specifically Italy and France. They're doing it (btw, youshould subscribe) again with nasty variants. No herd immunity before the variant assault, no survive the variant assault. That may sound a bit odd, but here's the logic: the longer a virus remains rampant, the more mutations are generated. Some mutations are meaningless, but others, as we now know, are nasty. The only way around this problem is to get vaccines into arms to quell the spread. The Red State governments can't, or won't, grok such a simple idea. They didn't last Spring Break, and they aren't this one either. Expect another surge in a month.

And, now Bermuda is ramping up infections. In the middle of nowhere in the Atlantic Ocean? Read the comments. There are a horde of Neanderthals, just like our Red States. Wait... Bermuda supported the Rebels, and much of its commerce is from South Carolina.

Will Ronny VirusSeed© (along with the Texas and Mississippi morons) send the USofA into another surge? Only the Shadow knows. At the moment, were I a betting guy, I'd bet more likely than not, yes. All those Red states are Covid deniers, and vaccine deniers to boot. What else is a reasonable bet? As mentioned earlier, I asked Tectonix to re-run the Lauderdale phone trace. I sure hope they do, particularly considering that this Spring Break assault appears to be even greater than last year's. Need I remind: Miami Beach, not Lauderdale, is anarchy this year. What could go wrong?

[22 March] Looks like there's a canary in the coal mine. Bermuda continues to grow Covid.
It is understood the current spike has been caused by the prevalence of a UK variant of the virus which is more contagious, particularly among children.
Forewarned is forearmed. Or may be not.

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