Week ending 8/16/20 Global Covid Cases: 21,715,859 Global Covid Deaths: 770836 New Deaths: 39,131 an average of 5,590 per day, down slightly from last week’s 5,845 per day average US Covid Cases: 5,541,022 US Covid Deaths: 172,836 New Deaths: 7576 – average of 1082 – just slightly up from 1024 per day dying average last…
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News Roundup for Week ending July 12, 2020
This is my weekly news roundup for the week of 7/12/20/ World Covid Cases: 12,925,331 World Covid Deaths: 569,097 (34084 newly dead – 4,869/day – from 4639 last week) : US. Covid Cases: 3,380,429 US Covid Deaths: 137576 (5189 newly dead – 741 deaths per day from 597 last week) This felt like…
People Seem Pretty Sure We’re Past the Worst of the Pandemic
I’m going to tell you now – what you are seeing is confirmation bias. People are seeing what they want to see, just like I saw that the economy would drop twice as hard as it did (so far). I’m not sure what people are smoking, but it’s definitely some kind of hopium. Unemployment is…