COVID July 22 - guess what? We still suck.

Gunnison gained 19 cases over my weekend.

Meanwhile, a group of assholes from Texas and Arvada formed a Super PAC insisting that they have more rights to property than my community and I have to health and life. And by God they are going to come traipsing all over this county they don't ACTUALLY live in because they have money. Fuck everyone else. We're rich we have rights you don't.

It's time to close down again. Kick the assholes out.

We deserve to be 8th in the world in Cases. We deserve to be 9th in deaths. Don't worry, we'll get their soon. We are top 10 in every statistic the New York Times tracks. Our tendency to export pain and devastation to everyone else in the world, spread Pandemics around the globe despite easy to understand evidence, is hurting us right now. If not the most, than close.

As a bonus, Here's a map that shows what states should be exiled from the Union. They are in red.

July 18 COVID race

It has been a while since our last check in with the Great Race to the Bottom. While the New York Times gets better and better at creating The Best Source for Coronavirus Information, the US is holding "strong": 1st in total cases by a mile (though Brazil is catching up), 1st in cases in the last 7 days, back to 10th in the world for cases per person (my primary statistic), and 6th in the world for cases per person in the last 7 days. We are 1st place in most deaths, are 2nd behind Brazil for most deaths in the last 7 days, 10th for deaths per person in the world and tie for 9th for most deaths per person in the last 7 days.

Good work.

I guess the death rate has dropped considerably and no one is worried anymore.

If we go back to school, maybe we can be #1 in every statistic!

If you're wondering where our numbers are coming from, the statistics above are the states with the greatest caseload per person in the last 7 days. Florida is "winning". Making good on all the jokes the world tells about them.

Last time I reported (7/09), Gunnison was at 125. A few days ago, I checked Gunnison's statistic, it was 127. Now we're at 130, and have a lot of pending tests out. I think one of them was from my place of work. It's getting closer and closer to home again. Tourism! The Most dysfunctional of all dysfunctional economies. Even though we have mask laws in place in the state, the tourists are coming from Many of the states above: Texas, Arizona, Alabama... 

Don't be an asshole. Stay home.

July 9 COVID race

I have a friend who thinks this virus has been in the US since last August. The data doesn't support this claim very well, and the bump in overall deaths doesn't either. It is very difficult to tell when it first arrived, but we can easily read the effect. The requirement is that you have to believe the global medical community, and realize that it is impossible to run a conspiracy at this magnitude. "Plandemic" is dumb. And impossible. 

In the week since our last check in, the race has been heating up. Qatar has gained 0.2%, which used to seem like a lot. San Marino hasn't moved in weeks, so Bahrain is inches away from passing them as they shoot into the 2% club. Chile is thankfully slowing down, Kuwait is not. They have both gained about 0.1% in a week, it will take Kuwait a long time to catch up, if at all. They probably will not. I wish them the best. Andorra has figured this out. If they maintain the course, they are done. Nothing's happened for a long time.

Oman jumped from 9th to 7th (Armenia and Peru) gaining a little more than 0.1%. Panama jumped Peru and the US. We aren't slowing down our newest climb, but we have so many people it'll take us a while to move. And to slow down. And Brazil, our most tenacious new competitor jumped into 12th place, right behind the US, also gaining about 0.1%, but a little heaver 0.1% than ours in the US. If they pass us up, they will be hard to catch. Our wildcard is Arizona and Florida, which are both aiming to have more disastrous curves than Qatar itself.

Will Brazil win the title from Darth Drumph of Worst Government Ever?

Not really, I suppose. Our Darth has so many other impressively terrible qualities. So does theirs. We'll both overtake Peru by this time next week, leaping into the 1% club. We'll pass Andorra by the end of the month, as will many others.

Meanwhile in Tourist central Gunnison, we gained 2 cases in the last week. I checked yesterday, so we haven't grown since the 7th. That we know of yet.

July 2 COVID

Kuwait overtook Andorra, Armenia overtook Peru, and Brazil overtook Sweden. The US is 1/4 of the way to shooting through the 0.8% club and into the 0.9% club. With no signs of slowing the outbreak, we'll join the 1% club in a few short days. With Peru's new cases dropping, we're likely to overtake them soon, though it'll take us a little while to overtake Andorra. Oman and Armenia are out of our reach at the moment, until we manage to turn our rate red... which I hope we can't quite do.

Wear a mask.