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Interesting, from one year ago today.

In the coronavirus pandemic, we're making decisions without reliable data (statnews.com)
In the coronavirus pandemic, we're making decisions without reliable data (statnews.com)

Sweden made decisions. It's worked for them.

I think it became predicable early on in this thing. 

More people have had it than we know. 5-10x as many. Even if it's 5x as many, the death rate is 0.36% as of today, in the US.

What part of your body did those numbers originate? 
The predictable part was our lucking out that this thing wasn't worse + our precautions = the naysayers eventually touting how we overreacted.  Ick.

From my brain, which contains considerable knowledge based on reading papers, such as the one I cited above (which you probably did not bother to open), and from talking to actual Scientists and Doctors (of Medicine). You know, The Science.

There were several experts who last year suggested that the case rate in Santa Clara County could be as much as 50x greater than known.

While I don't believe it's that high (we'd have herd immunity if it was), this virus has been here since November, or earlier. It was in Spain as early as September, based on municipal waste sample analyses. 

Asymptomatic Spread ran wild, and only when we knew what we had did people start to figure this thing out. It would have helped had the CCP and WHO come clean sooner, and had the CCP banned travel abroad - like they did for travel domestically.

Lots of people passed away from November through January and the medical community suspected pneumonia. Now we know better.

Anyway, here we are, sitting at a 1.8% death rate. Divide that number by 5 and you get 0.36%.

Makes me want to puke.

Meghan Markle, Prince Harry's fan-created GoFundMe page ends after dismal showing: report | Fox Business
Meghan Markle, Prince Harry's fan-created GoFundMe page ends after dismal showing: report | Fox Business

Badge. My friend. Why would it make you sick? Don't do that.

I've worked in a couple media adjacent fields, so I have half a feel for such things. This is a set of kinda of fascinating elements of the media landscape. 

This is outrage cotton candy. It's a story that people get low-key irked by and they share. And that's good for the outlet, cynical in it's approach. You can get a lot of traffic by saying something as simple as "Kids sure are crappy and ungrateful." You could write that at any point, and folks would heartily agree. This is something different. This is "look at this freak."

This person is at worst a weirdo, at best, a knowing grifter. And after getting highlighted by a national outlet, it can only help feed the weirdness or the grift. And here's the thing, we've had weirdos and grifters since time began, but we didn't have a way to highlight them quite as we do now. Or as profitably as we do now. 

Someone started a stupid gofundme, either because they're an sincere moron or they were trying to steal. No one cared. This is not a story or important. I could start a gofundme right now that says "Raise money to support 847BadgerFan after he was canceled for saying that racial slur." I could do that right now. It wouldn't mean you were canceled or said a slur or that I was seriously raising money for you. 

This is a weirdo being weird and a national outlet feeding us stupid content that bothers a lot of people because it's stupid. I don't think any of the weirdos on the board make you want to puke for any reason (hopefully), so no reason for some weirdo you'll never meat or wouldn't think about outside an outlet making them a freak show to either.