The Observation Deck

Is this the face of a tyrant? See bottom of this post.

For various reasons I took a break from posting daily cases and deaths. One of the reasons was that I wanted to sit back and get this from a slightly different perspective. When looking at posting the numbers daily, it gets you worn out, and also numbs a person a little bit. I mean what is the difference between 45 a day, and 36 a day? 650 new cases a day as opposed to 450 cases a day?

First, the daily numbers have been designed to get it to as small a number as possible. There are no weekly totals, just all of them, and the daily number. Most of us have lost track of time and time depth. In other words, it is hard to think back 3 months. But here is one thing we can put into perspective. The number 1. Think about that 1 person. One single person. That is the number of people that caught COVID-19 and then passed it to 5,636,993 innocent people. Which does not include the 52,000 a day that catch it and report it everyday. One person, one single person has indirectly caused the death of 350,000 people world wide, including 100,000 Americans who had no idea in December of 2019 that their lives would end because of a person in China.

Which brings us to today's numbers, and I really want everyone to keep them in perspective. This is the by product of about 2.5 months of the virus being here. And guess what? It was brought here by a single person, then another, then another. Not one person cutting up bats in a open air market in Wuhan China. No, these carriers are not that obscure to us. They are friends, neighbors and families. You know the one, the one that never listens, the golden person. Probably one of the many that spread the disease without showing any symptoms. They stumble through life, usually just causing head shaking, but now they are followed by a plume of death. Not as big as the person from Wuhan. But it has every chance to grow as big or even larger. After all, we know so little about all of it except it is a monster, and even worse if you catch it.

Be smart, be safe, and hopefully we will all laugh about people thinking their freedoms were under attack for simply asking them to wear a mask.

State of Ohio
337,231 - Total Tested

33,006 - Total Cases, 1,623 for the weekend. 21-Day Average is 573 a day
2,002 - Total Deaths - 93 Deaths this Weekend, 21-Day Average is 41 a day

5,579 - Number of Hospitalizations 183 for the Weekend, 21-Day Average is 77 a day
1,450 - Number of ICU Admissions, 24 this Weekend, 21-Day Average is 16 a day

United States
1,704,110 - Total cases, ↑ 7,527 (0.44%)
17,084 - ICU Admissions
99,702 - Total Deaths, ↑ 278 (0.28%)
354,153 - Total Recovered
1,250,255 - Active Cases



In "more positive places on the net," this is being circulated. Now I am not a huge fan of this trio and how they handled this, but to call this the face of tyranny makes me laugh at the over privileged little white snowflakes that post and share this crap.

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Nino Vitalie??? was he back up for Frankie Valie?

I may have said this before, Jim. But I think we're in agreement.
I'm much less interested in the hard numbers I see here than in the trends. Are they rising or falling or plateauing. This presentation fails to tell me that unless I go back and line up all the numbers from days past, which would be easier for them.

It is normal to have a pandemic every few decades.
these humans deal with them differently than they used to.
the closest comparison for the COVID-19 contagiousness and mortality rate is the 1957-1958 flu pandemic.
I do not know if a chemical test was applied to Precisely diagnose every suspected case or mortality of the 1957 flu.
but there was certainly not much in the way of computers and internets for tabulating the information.
newspapers had to use telephones and reporters to gather information. they may have even been still using telegraphs.
there may have been a half an hour of national television news on each night, but you had to watch it on a small black and white television.