In Perspective: CV-19: How we doing HERE? as of 5/27/20

As of today’s data on the new Mercury News CV-19 Dashboard (which is really 5/27) San Mateo County is …. Ooops!  5th worst in deaths per Million in California. I guess THAT’S why they’re still keeping us from parking near parks and beaches…  We’re the worst in the Bay Area…  [Click to Enlarge Chart]>>>>>

Also SMC is 8th worst in Cases per Million…. among counties in California.  And deaths follow cases, so we’re not getting out of this quickly.

On the whole, California just can’t shake the virus.  Most days, we’re leading the country in new cases; we’re consistently in the top 5 in new deaths daily.  But adjusted for population, we’re better than half the states.  As the chart below shows in cases per million,  we’re still better off than Washington, which got hit early.  And Colorado, which re-opened too early.  And Georgia looks bad, having faked the data to trick people into believing re-opening was a good idea.

Some of the states that currently look better than California are lying, and they are trending to catch up.  Not only did Florida fire the scientist who built their state’s CV-19 dashboard for refusing to manipulate the data, now they’re calling CV-19 deaths “Pneumonia” to hide the re-opening issues.  If they corrected those death classifications, they’d be at 280 deaths/million, 14th worst in the country, and above/worse than Colorado.  So move that green line on the chart WAY up…

Plenty of states are faking the data to match their preferred ideology and policy choices.  So, at least we’re honest, but we’re being hit by a wave from Mexico, and part of that wave is the 265,000 U.S. retirees and legal residents in Baja, returning for health care they don’t dare get in Mexico and crowding SoCal hospitals.

Finally, nationally, we just can’t get it together.  Other countries which were hit hard (like Italy), have recovered with their death rates declining substantially.  But with the rise in cases on our southern border, and the ‘reopenings’ in the SouthEast and MidWest, we’re not under control as a country, and Mexico is closing in on us fast.

So that’s why we can’t get to our own beaches, that, and people who don’t realize we’re not out of this yet.

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* “Chuffed” an English term meaning “bursting with pride” as in, “I’m chuffed my daughter made the Honor Roll.”