Sunday March 22nd (aka We're Fucked & I Can Prove It)

[ArtWilliams]

Morning.

It's funny how little things like car sales can give great insight.

First off, this is not a patriot "Canada is better than the US" post. Please don't take it that way. Whenever Canadians look at the US in numbers, we think 1/10 or 10% of ... because we are 1/10 the size of the US in population. So, I've been checking the cases numbers here and doing the math:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

At the beginning, Canada actually had more cases than the US. In part this was likely due to banning flights from China and we started testing early. As this thing went on, there were a number of days where Canada was in fact 10% of the American numbers. Now that is falling (though it is leveling out). This is happening despite the fact we are testing more people per capita than the US! Today, the number is 1,328 / 26,747 or just under 5%. Canada can't pat itself on the back though. Both numbers are exploding exponentially but the USA is off the fucking charts! AND Trudeau need to tell EVERYONE non-essential to stay inside for two weeks. Doing this State by State / Province by Province isn't going to hack it.

Here's a good article from Wired talking to one of the greatest experts in infectious diseases:

https://www.wired.com/story/coronavi...pidemiologist/

Ignore the fact that this legend of a epidemiologist looks like Larry The Cable Guy. He makes many interesting points. What I took from it was as long as is making the decisions, the US is fucked. They need a public health expert in charge with political cred.

I'll be on my elliptical today plus I've got a number of business things to do. Likely followed by a game of classic Roller Coaster Tycoon III.

Have a good one and try to ignore the plague if you can!