# of cases is pretty much a useless statistic to be monitoring between countries or even regions/states/provinces as it all depends on how much testing is going on and what groups of people the testing is aimed at. Until widespread serological testing can survey the population for a more accurate number of people that have had the infection, the case # statistic really doesn’t tell us too much.

Deaths and hospitalizations are more useful to monitor as for the most part give a better representation of how serious the virus is in a given country/state/province etc. There are of course still some issues with how countries are reporting those numbers…just look at how China added a bulk 50% to their death total a couple days ago claiming “a mistake in reporting”…LOL

I think it is becoming clear that countries that went easy on guidelines like Sweden and UK are now feeling the full brunt of their delay. Even Singapore is now being hit hard again despite their early success with less draconian restrictions.

I like the TVs best. My drive to the lake is three minutes at most.

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