COVID-19: Anastasia Lin

From Worldometer,  COVID-19 new deaths:

DAY           USA   WORLD  Brazil  India South Africa

May     13   1772      5314

            14    1715     5317
            15    1595     5072
            16    1218     4360
            17      865     3618
            18    1003     3445
            19    1552     4589
            20    1403     4685
            21    1418     4934         1188     150         30

Summary:

• Not a particularly good day for humanity.
• I have deleted those European countries, China and South Korea, but added Brazil, India and South Africa to speculate on future hotspots.

Here are some sobering statistics.  Of the 3711 passengers and crew of the Diamond Princess:

• 19% tested positive for COVID-19
• 58% had no symptoms when tested positive
• 46% remained asymptomatic (this is the group that will innocently walk around and infect others)
• 1.7% of those infected died (this is a very high percentage because the CDC just reported that only 0.4% of those contracting this coronavirus will die--further, related to the above, they say that 35% of cases are asymptomatic--I might further add that 0.1% of those who get the flu will die)...this probably shows that ships just don't have the capability or equipment to save serious cases

Another example of how contagious this coronavirus can be:

The CDC released a report this week highlighting the spread of the coronavirus at a rural church in Arkansas in March. Among 92 attendees, 35 developed confirmed cases of the virus and three died, according to the agency. Another 26 cases linked to the church took place in the surrounding community, the agency said, leading to one death.

Which nicely leads to President Donald Trump's one-minute press conference today:

Trump described churches, synagogues and mosques as "essential" institutions and said that if governors decline to reopen them this weekend he would "override" them.

First, he can't legally do this. Second, I guess it again links to November 3.  89% of Americans believe in God.  He hopes to squeeze out a few votes here.





But that was not all, for after he brusquely walked of, having Dr. Deborah Birx present a confusing and terrible slide presentation of how areas in the USA are coping with COVID-19.  It's almost like he wanted to have someone look worse than him.  It was embarrassing for someone like her to do this, for she is generally well-respected and has been reasonably scientific in an obsequious manner.

One reason why he did not take any questions is because his ego was again crushed, if that is possible, by a just released study in Lancet reporting:

People treated with hydroxychloroquine, or the closely related drug chloroquine, were also more likely to develop a type of irregular heart rhythm, or arrhythmia, that can lead to sudden cardiac death, it concluded.

Let me end this list of pathetic, but again perilous, string of goobers by our imbecilic ruler with a 12-minute statement by Anastasia Lin.  Nothing to do with the above, but continuing my now and then foray into perceived reality.  You can take it as supportive of Trump condemning China...or replace China in that talk with Trump, and you get a new perspective of how terrible he might well be.

Anastasia, now 30, came to Toronto at the age of 13 with her mother from Hunan, China.  She was Miss World Canada in 2015, but was denied entrance into China for the Miss World pageant.  She is an actress with 20 films to her credit.  I urge you to click on that presentation.

I'm into 1990, a pivotal year for me.  That was 30 years ago.  The Billboard #1 hits for that year in 12.5 minutes.  For the year:

• The USSR began to unravel, first with Poland.
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa closed to the public because it was leaning too much.
• Nelson Mandela released from prison in South Africa after 27 years behind bars.

• Pale Blue Dot photograph, from Voyager 1 from 3.5 billion miles away.
• Census announces population of USA:  248 million.  Today?  328 billion.
• Jeanne Calment becomes the oldest person, and dies in 1997 at the age of 122, the oldest ever.

• East and West Germany reunite.  Angela Merkel, the most powerful female on Earth, grew up in East Germany.  
• The Berlin Wall torn down.
• The Gulf War.
• First ban of smoking in bars occurs in San Luis Obispo, California.  The first in the world.
• First Pizza Hut in USSR and China.
• USSR shifts to a market economy.

• Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
• First portable digital camera.
• Akihito becomes the 125th emperor of Japan.
• The World Wide Web is invented.

• End of the Cold War.
• Chunnel Tunnel connects UK and France 40 meters beneath the English Channel.  Amazingly enough, the UK and mainland Europe were connected by land 8,000 years ago.

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Cyclone Amphan killed more than a hundred, 500,000 homes were lost, and 3 million were evacuated, causing $13 billion in damages.  Now toss in COVID-19 and expect a lot worse in India and Bangladesh.

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