More holocaust every day
This is getting crazier and crazier, eviler and eviler. The Spokane bus system is still operating, but going into "emergency mode". No fare, board and exit at rear doors.

I'm sure a shutdown is next, forcing people to walk everywhere.

This is a state of siege, fully intended to kill and starve all "non-essential" citizens.


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Just for my own records, here's the set of numbers from RealClearScience as of today:



For US:

782 deaths
Deaths per 1 million population: 2.4
Confirmed cases 54,881
Death rate within confirmed cases 1.42%
Confirmed cases per 1 million pop 167.7

Those rates are not dramatic, and wouldn't count as an epidemic for an unbranded disease. The unbranded ordinary flu kills 100 per day, so it has killed about 6000 during the two months we've been counting the branded deaths. We don't call it an epidemic.

Even the death rate among confirmed cases is nothing special, since confirmed cases tend to be pretty serious to begin with.

Some countries do have dramatic rates. Italy stands out as an extreme case with 112 deaths per million pop. There must be a specific reason for such an outlier, but nobody seems to be looking for it. [Later: the reason is clear. Northern Italy has a huge connection with Wuhan through the fashion and textile industry, with lots of people and materials traveling back and forth.]

Compare with Russia at the other end: exactly 1 death, 495 confirmed cases. Not even enough to figure percentages.

Russia must have been doing the right things BEFOREHAND, but nobody seems to be looking for it. We know for sure that Russian medical care is excellent and free, but that can't be the main variable. Italy also has a good single-payer system.


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Later: Here's the answer on Russia.

Russia announced back on January 31st that it was closing most of its 4,200-kilometer border with China and banning Chinese citizens from entering the country. This occurred during the same time period when western nations and the WHO insisted that they wouldn’t stop the international flow of people despite the threat of a pandemic.

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  ¶ 11:39 PM