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2020-05-17 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fred 2020-05-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Netherlands data shows what CDC won't: next to zero risk; "Homogenous intervention in the face of heterogenous risk is cruelty passed off as equality"

Given their corona-stats, they should zip their stinking yaps.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-17 01:40|| 2020-05-17 01:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Coronavirus may force hog farmers to kill 10M pigs by September

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-17 10:19|| 2020-05-17 10:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Farmers dubbed the 'Carbon Cowboys' say business is booming during coronavirus

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-17 10:21|| 2020-05-17 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Aerial footage shows San Francisco's first camp site for the homeless with space for 50 socially-distanced tents as number sleeping on sidewalks rockets amid coronavirus

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-17 10:43|| 2020-05-17 10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Plane graveyard: Hundreds of jets are parked in the Arizona desert as coronavirus kills air travel - with many unlikely to ever take to the skies again

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-17 10:53|| 2020-05-17 10:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I was about to be happy at the fact that the percentage of wu positive tests in the USA is way down in the past month.

Then I realized that the mix of devices used for testing have changed and the sample of the population being tested has changed. So no reason to be happy on that basis.

The futility of analysis.

Posted by lord garth 2020-05-17 11:05|| 2020-05-17 11:05|| Front Page Top

#7 50 states, 50 Governors
200 sizable cities, 200 (likely inept) Mayors

That's a lot of variation in means and methods, and reporting.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-17 11:11|| 2020-05-17 11:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Look on deaths garth. Look on deaths.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-17 11:23|| 2020-05-17 11:23|| Front Page Top

#9 I see, from worldometers, that Russia passes Spain and is now #2.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-17 11:37|| 2020-05-17 11:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Climate change dorks getting what they wanted with this coronavirus.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-17 11:49|| 2020-05-17 11:49|| Front Page Top

#11 and on the subject of metrics,

today is a Sunday and if you look at the Worldometer stats you see that the previous few Sundays (May 10, May 3, April 26 and April 19 were local low points in the fatality count

likely as not it is due to lag in post death examinations

Posted by lord garth 2020-05-17 12:12|| 2020-05-17 12:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Some might say God was looking over the faithful on Sunday. Doesn't say much for those with Sabbath on Saturday though.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-17 14:12|| 2020-05-17 14:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe death rested on the 7th day.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-17 14:13|| 2020-05-17 14:13|| Front Page Top

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