03-30-2020, 07:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2020, 07:37 AM by Eric the Green.)
(03-29-2020, 11:40 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Trump is extending social distancing guidelines to April 30, saying peak deaths could occur in two weeks and puts the US coronavirus death levels at 100,000 or more. That is not quite Happy Talk, far better than releasing everything by Easter (April 12). He is beginning to shift his perspective, but I am not convinced he is going anywhere near fast enough.
He didn't, already, go fast enough, and right, he isn't now. And he keeps shifting between serious and dangerously silly. I'm sure social distancing will be needed after April 30. The problem with this virus is that is spreads so easily and incubates so slowly that it takes at least a month before social distancing has any effect. Right now the trend lines remain straight up; a peak is nowhere in sight yet, and a peak also won't be the end.
We see it mentioned in our obituaries already. Noted jazz performers and composers in their 80s have died, according to Democracy Now. John Prine is very sick.