13 Days To Bend the Corona Curve, 2985

Good morning, I’m still reporting on coronavirus.
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Now, I know that there are a lot of you out there who believe that this coronavirus thing is just an overblown political operation to take down this president, and it is being used that way to some extent. However, make no mistake, COVID-19 is still a serious, stealth killer.
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So, COVID_19 that is 3 to 4 times more transmissible than the normal flu but the worst part is its stealth transmissibility among those 30 and under. You guys don’t know you have it, but you are getting it and then you are transmitting it to us older folks without knowing it and that threatens to decimate the 75 and older population before you younger ones realize what you have done by ignoring Trump’s 15-day warning.
The Italians put up a video yesterday saying they are 10 days ahead of us and want to warn us of what our country could look like if we don’t start paying attention.
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One thing is for sure, hospitals are filling up already in the U.S.. The Gov. of New Jersey announced that they were close to being out of hospital beds, plus they are losing nursing staff because of themselves becoming infected, or having had contact with someone who was.
Yesterday, President Trump asked the nation to give him 15 days to help bend this curve of confirmed cases. Now, I’m talking about this yellow line here on the Johns Hopkins site. Right now, it’s going up like a rocket ship, but eventually it will turn over and flatten out just like this orange line – the one that represents China’s confirmed cases has.
To me all of these numbers are suspect at this point – suspect for two reasons - #1 nations don’t want to admit how bad it is. Iran and China are prime suspects here. But #2 is that according to a new Johns Hopkins study – the same folks who put up this world coronavirus map website – 84% of coronavirus cases go unreported. That’s because the younger you are – in general – the lighter it hits you. But you’ve still got it and you can still transmit it by every door knob you touch. That also means that all these numbers are 7 times as big as they look today. And the bulk of those infected don’t know it and are transmitting to us older ones without knowing it.
So, for the time being, I’m giving up on trying to predict the rate of increase in infection – the 2nd derivative – in an effort to predict when the peak will come.
Let’s worry about the stuff we can fix. According to the President, we have until March 31st to bend this curve over to the maximum extent. I trust President Trump more than any president in my lifetime. He’s the one sitting on top of this huge flow of incoming information. So I’m going focus my efforts for these last 13 days of March doing what he suggests – primarily staying home.
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Even Hannity is now calling for everyone to follow the President’s requests.
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The Gov. or New York is now concerned enough about hospital beds being used up in his state that he’s called on the Corps of Engineers to start erecting emergency hospitals somewhere in the state. The Sec. of Defense this afternoon said he is sending the Corp to meet with the Gov. tomorrow, and is clearing out military hospital ships to see how they can be used.
Governor Cuomo is no longer a Trump basher. Now that he sees that Trump is actually trying to help all of America, and setting aside the politics of this super-politicized era. Cuomo, in a stunning reverse, is not praising the President.
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In fact, Gov. Cuomo went on Chris Cuomo’s show – his brother - and they got into a heated argument about Trump:
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So this pandemic is roaring up on us and we don’t yet see it. Yesterday, the Italians put out a brief video trying to warn the U.S. not to ignore the coronavirus because they did, and now they believe they are just 10 days ahead of us and want us to pay attention to their horrible plight with mandatory shelter-in-place orders throughout the nation - to save ourselves from a similar fate:
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This still hasn’t hit most of America. It’s still a big joke or a ruse to many. This tough guy is so typical.
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But this is coming to your town. Listen to the President. Let’s all pitch in, get behind him and glide thru this as best as we can. After this has past, the American economy is poised to shoot back up way past what it was before the fear of coronavirus hit Wall Street.
I’m still reporting from just outside the citadel of American freedom. Good Day.