USA doesn't bother reporting. Maybe other countries are under-reporting too, like China did. India for example, might have umpteen cases and they seem to not care. Fatalism is fatal. India makes an art form of fatalism. Many countries seem to have rounded up the few cases and stopped the spread. China might be on the way to doing so too.
Cumulative deaths and other statistics:
who.int
x = 10 deaths.
26 Feb ?
..5 Mar x
12 Mar x
19 Mar x
26 Mar xx
...2 Apr xxxxx
...9 Apr xxxxxxxxxx
.16 Apr xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
.23 Apr xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
.28 Apr xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [actual 321]
Deaths for the week.
x = 10 deaths.
z = early days, fewer than 10 per week.
26 Feb z
..5 Mar z
12 Mar z
19 Mar z
26 Mar x
...2 Apr xxx
...9 Apr xxxxx
.16 Apr xxxxxx
.23 Apr xxxxxxxxx
.30 Apr xxxxxxeeee [e = my estimate]
Mqurice
Who over the past few days survived a vicious attack of Sars, which didn't cause a cough and managed to infect me despite no contact with people from Hong Kong or China and with no other cases in New Zealand - obviously a different, cunning and malevolent mutant form.
Other infectious diseases are going to be very annoyed at Sars for making it so hard to earn a living in humans. Even the common cold will have trouble making the usual rounds in China. The number of days off sick will reduce. Productivity will zoom up. China's economy will take off. The amount of spit on food from food preparation people will reduce. They should be banned from using the letter p if they are not wearing a mask - they should always have to wear a mask. Imagine the waitress saying, as she prepares to place your potato and patisserie on the plate, "Potatoes and patisserie, pesto and pumpkin, pickles and peppers - prepared and presented". Every p spraying an aerosol of tiny droplets onto your dinner. Which you then put on your palate. Toast, tea, tomatoes or buns, butter and bananas are not much better. Those plosive letters invariably cause spittle spray.
Some customer relations places have glass windows between the service person and customer. Once I asked why was it necessary. The person pointed to the window to show me the amount of muck that is sprayed onto the glass from the customers. It was pretty disgusting and I can see that good air extraction, a long arm or goggles and masks are necessary to protect such people from people using p in their pronouncements. |
