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One Terrible Picture – Worth Thousands of Words
By Shlomo Maital
New COVID-19 cases in the United States, daily, from early March
The graph above shows new COVID-19 cases daily, for the United States, up to date. It speaks for itself. (The graph is from the New York Times).
This is what happens to a country with inept criminal leadership, or lack of leadership, and a politicized pandemic where wearing masks is ‘unconstitutional’, where political leaders buckle under popular pressure and open the economy too soon – and then find they can’t close it again. Go back to Memorial Day weekend, Monday May 25 – and the crowds that gathered at beaches and parks – and you can see the second wave 14 days later. And no, President Trump and Vice-President Pence, this is NOT because of increased testing!
So nations of the world! Look at this closely. If you make the mistakes the US has made, heaven forbid, this is what awaits you.
As I write this, new cases in Israel are exploding. But very little is being done.
The End of the Beginning
By Shlomo Maital
There is evidence that, to quote Winston Churchill, “we are not at the beginning of the end, but..at the end of the beginning.” Here are the daily totals of new cases worldwide, thanks to worldometer.com, and next to them, the % daily change:
| 3-Apr | 101736 | |
| 4 | 84821 | -16.6 % |
| 5 | 71502 | -15.7 |
| 6 | 74044 | 3.6 |
| 7 | 85116 | 15.0 |
| 8 | 84447 | -0.8 |
| 9 | 85638 | 1.4 |
| 10 | 94629 | 10.5 |
| 11 | 80963 | -14.4 |
| 12 | 72523 | -10.4 |
| 13 | 71572 | -1.3 |
| 14 | 73969 | 3.3 |
What this looks like, is a kind of ‘plateau’ levelling off — as the coronavirus spread globally, some countries were afflicted early, others later. So countries will reach their ‘apex’ at differing times… (the US is still not there yet)…. And this will produce a kind of plateau worldwide.
The reason this is important, is this — countries will begin to emerge from their ‘lockdown’ at different times, some sooner than others. Denmark is opening its kindergartens, China is sending Wuhan back to work in part.
But in terms of public health, we need to see this as a global system. If there are hot pockets in one country, no country is safe – because a return to normality will restart flights and travel. And we still do not fully understand the duration or extent of coronavirus immunity for those who had it.
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