Drifting Fate

China, amidst strong world condemnation for falsifying the number of deaths in Wuhan, recently released new numbers. The amount dead almost doubled, but considering this is the epicenter of the pandemic, less than 4,000 deaths in a city of 11,000,000, it’s still hardly credible. Either they are still lying (very possible), or its just more evidence of extreme over reaction on everyone’s (ok, not Sweden’s) part. Let's pretend for the moment the numbers a real, in Wuhan, 4.6% of the population caught the virus. Of those. 7.7% died.  But that means the death rate to the overall population is currently .035%. Meanwhile, South Korea reports that about 2% of those who had COVID-19 test positive a second time within a month of initial recovery. They say these people are not nearly as contagious as an initial case and the only some show even mild symptoms. While doctors are choking teenagers for not properly social distancing, the world actually seems to be handling this pretty wel...

This morning, numbers came out from Italy and China.  Surprisingly, they were very similar.  Mortality rates are low until the 60's at which point they climb precipitously, upwards of 20%+. However, a bit of caution must be maintained when we look at these numbers.  First, Italy was barely hanging on economically and was expected to be one of the falling dominoes of the EU.  Their health care, socialized, of course, was pretty much being held together with bubblegum and hope.  China, manufacturer to the world, has never realized population-wide health care which came anywhere near to Western standards. China is a closed country and while we can only guess how they have treated their corona virus patients, we know life is cheap within those borders and we have no reason to believe that an overstressed system was when those standards would change. Multiple reports have come out of Italy that the dramatic lack of ventilators meant anyone over 60 was literally...

Hello, Since it's been awhile since I posted, I figure I owe my faithful readers a recap of recent events.  To both of you.  Well, OK, just you.  Alright, fine, I'm teaching the dog how to use the computer. Impeachment went about as expected.  I run hot and cold.  Part of me says the Republican Party should have shut this down hard when it hit the Senate and promised anyone coloring outside the lines not only no funding but the exercise of every power within their grasp to crush those who didn't toe the line.  Yes, the show of force would have been that important. The other side of me recognizes that the longer the charade went on the greater the likelihood of Trump being ousted (all hail President Pence!), but it would have put on full public display the likes of Biden, Obama, Hillary, and the likelihood for the coup they attempted.  It is that serious and I can't help but feel Washington, DC, closed ranks and chose the lesser of the evils in te...