COVID-Wave II

When It Comes To Making Plans, COVID Is In The Driver's Seat, Not Mere Mortals

Next month is my friend's birthday. His wife called me today to ask me to come over for a little birthday party. "How little," I asked. She named about a dozen people. "This year?" I asked to confirm my suspicion. I told hold all my plans are being made by the pandemic, not by arbitrary dates and wishes. She did not want to hear that.

Gavin Newsom Closed Too Slowly And Is Opening Too Fast-- History Will Not Be Kind To California's Weak, Narcissistic Governor

I don't understand exactly why, but there was a time when I was looking at the daily COVID statistics and watching Califiornia with so much lower numbers than New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and other early states, and I felt some kind of primitive, tribal pride in my state (although I was born and raised in New York and lived for a time in New Jersey and in Massachusetts). Anyway, that's been over for a while.

Phony COVID-Statistics Will Just Prolong The Pandemic-- Someone Needs To Explain That To Xi Jinping And Ron DeSantis

Give Him A Break by Chip ProserIf you've been visiting this blog with any regularity since the beginning of 2020, you probably know that we started covering the coronavirus intensely by early February. And we were quick to point out that China was feeding international organizations fake COVID-statistics pretty early on-- as they have continued to do right up until this day. Yesterday, for example, they reported just 2 new cases and no new deaths.

As The Big Cities Begin To Banish COVID-19 With Rigorous Social Distancing, Rural Areas Find Themselves In The Covid-Crosshairs

Wave II of this pandemic is probably going to be centered more in rural areas than Wave I was. And it's started already. Friday morning, Axios ran a series of graphs showing how the Wave I states are showing significant decreases in serious cases in the last 2 weeks. Massachusetts is down 22.5%. New Jersey is down 19.4%. Connecticut is down 16.0%. New York is down 13.0%. Those were the hardest hit states.