WUHAN VIRUS DAILY UPDATE FOR APRIL 2
Today, much like yesterday, only better, much like yesterday. Our new total for incidents is 239,009 (+28,239), down to an increase of only 13.40% over the previous day (another new low record - sixth in a row!). Deaths have totaled 5,784 (+1,084) which is an increase of 23.06% (-2.40% rate of growth) over the previous day. Some additional positive news. There were 120,130 tests performed yesterday. We seem to finally be busting through the 100k capacity limits that we've had for almost a week. Washington state has a temporary delay in their numbers but seem to be back in action. California is, well, California. Don't expect anything useful there for a while. Really need to see this daily testing volume to rise throughout the week then hopefully start expanding to people who have no symptoms. At that point we can really start to model the proper behavior of the virus and it's likely end state due to large amounts of immunity.
The most concerning situations now are the likely new hotspots. Illinois, Michigan, and Louisiana are at risk right now - basically New Orleans is already legit a hotspot. We'll be watching their curves develop and hopefully will stay significantly smaller than NYC.
- Start ethical and moral rant. Skip if you like as no more stats follow -
I have recently seen a lot of articles posted by people who were attacking my data and methodology which now agree that the "curve" is flattening in USA and things aren't as bad as they previously insisted they must be. Finally. Seems like the onslaught of FUD has finally started tiring. Of course now that means these same people will start resuming political attacks... so we have that to look forward to.
It'll be interesting to see how many do, but I doubt many of them will have changed their minds. They'll still espouse the wonders of single payer (maximum dier) health care systems despite all the evidence to the contrary. There's already a push to use the virus as an excuse to centralize everything and move America to a single payer system. It's insane. All I can say is that we MUST put the free market back in charge of - well - everything that we possibly can, especially our medical and health treatment options. That's the only way to bring to bear our vast resources against dangers like this. Central planning fails us every time no matter how many billions we throw at it.
We need to make the independent clinic owned by private doctors a viable and attractive business model again. This is the only way smaller communities can self-organize and improve their standards of health care and keep it affordable. To do this requires massive deregulation of government controls. Precisely all the things that the President's emergency order allowed plus a lot more. Stop tying our medical professionals hands behind their backs by a bunch of academics and accountants who suffer no consequences when your family member dies - who aren't held accountable for ANYTHING! Only people with skin in the game should have anything to say about our heath care options and decisions. That individual freedom and personal responsibility is what made America great and that's what we had to restore in order to attack this pandemic. Every solution to this pandemic involved getting the government the hell out of the way of us Americans fixing the problem. Well it needs to be our standard operating procedure once again.