“In the United States, it was first detected in Chicago, and 47 days later, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. By then it was too late: 110 million Americans were expected to become ill, leading to 7.7 million hospitalized and 586,000 dead.”
Category: Plagues
I’m pretty sure we’re all fucked [COVID-19]
Just saying.
End points: banks ≈︎ foreclosure
The effect of masses of gainfully employed people being forced from their homes due to a global, viral, pandemic would be something unknown and so destabilizing that its effects – long term and short term – are simply immeasurable.
Coronavirus Update: NEW–ongoing CDC blackouts
UPDATE: new CDC blackouts in testing numbers and abrupt press briefing “postponement”
What’s really up with CDC COVID-19 testing
Kate Greenaway illustrated Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, and her “Ring Around the Rosie” – and my mother’s creepy, captivating, great-storyteller tale of what lay behind it – made me permanently hooked on plagues. Plus, I have a very weird but very real feel for pathogens. Always have.
What Makes Wuhan a Catastrophe?
A catastrophe is when a death log that took a hospital months to fill completely now takes several days; catastrophe is when a car taking bodies to a crematorium carries away body bags instead of one body at a time in a coffin. Catastrophe isn’t one person dying in your family, but an entire family perishing within a few days
Guillain–Barré, AFM, and whatever else is paralyzing healthy young people
“It’s definitely not polio, we checked” is about as definitive as it gets at the moment. This does not seem like several unrelated things, and I don’t think the CDC thinks it is either. They’re acting spooked, and they should be spooked.
serene 