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Bojo is going to give Trumpy some great ideas. They "refined" their death stats and removed 5000 people from their covid death total. Who knows which count was more accurate. They set a 28 day cutoff between diagnosis and death instead of medical reasoning as to how a death should be classified.

 
Cases per million population is a much more dubious number, subject to testing vagaries. The USA is 9th and likely to be 6th in a few days.

Update, 8th, overtook Oman. The USA is adding about 1500 cases per million population every day. At that rate, they will overtake Kuwait tomorrow, Panama on Saturday, thus 6th. Chile has its own problems. At that point, the only countries ahead of the USA in terms of cases per million population would be Chile who are in big trouble, city-states in areas that were heavily affected (San Marino) or very small countries barely bigger than city-states (French Guyana), or countries with interesting numbers (Qatar, Bahrain).

The reason I say Qatar and Bahrain have interesting numbers is that these countries have very high cases per million population but very low deaths per million population and they have also done a lot of tests per million population. Bahrain looks to have tested half their population.

It is possible that Qatar and Bahrain cases per million population are closer to "the real infection rate" than anyone else, i.e. they're missing fewer cases.

Or, they're getting false-positives and not filtering them out ...
 
It's a mish-mash. We've also opened up some of the economy, we don't really know yet, which industries have been decimated, but that's only a matter of time. I'm hearing of people who can't afford to live now, foodbanks are having a hard time, it's going to be a rough ride.
I have been noticing a lot of store fronts that look empty/vacant/papered up more recently then before. Have any of you noticed this as well?
 
I have been noticing a lot of store fronts that look empty/vacant/papered up more recently then before. Have any of you noticed this as well?

Mostly mom and pop restaurants and bars. Our favorite sushi place is closed.

Other stores are doing very well, mostly big chain, grocery stores, hardware, home improvement, recreational vehicles. Some places you wouldn't expect like Michael's and Fabricland have lineups everyday and can't keep product on the shelves long enough. Some places are having their best year in a long time.

Real mixed bag.
 
Some places are having their best year in a long time.

Our company has not only recalled every employee who was laid off, but is actually hiring new employees because we are exceptionally busy, which directly translates to the businesses we service being exceptionally busy.

We haven't hired anyone in approximately 5 years, so this speaks volumes.

Mixed bag indeed.
 
For those on Facebook, look up Don Noble in Waterloo. The local anti everything conspiracy theorist. This guy is against things i didn't even think possible.
 
Never touch the stuff.
I totally rely on you guys to get the news.
 

We all probably guessed this would happen, glad they confirmed it.
 
I have been noticing a lot of store fronts that look empty/vacant/papered up more recently then before. Have any of you noticed this as well?

out here in the 613 ghetto that's normal
don't know what happened to rural Ontario
typical trend of urbanization I guess?

traveling south (US) the difference is notable
small towns and rural storefront businesses seem to stay viable
 
Fat cats making a fortune, all give themselves bonuses . . .
 
saw a story today about a group of 30 that stayed at Deerhurst Resort
11 positives from them and many employees now in isolation awaiting test results
and a local restaurant shut down as they infected a server

resort didn't know as they made several separate reservations

WTF is wrong with people?
 
Grrr.


And this article that was linked from the above ... Grrr.

 
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