Opening Day has come and gone and you'll be happy to know that we have a 30-way tie for first! The Detroit Tigers are super stoked. Thanks to an old pal, I was informed yesterday that we officially moved past China for that Gold medal. Sure enough, the CDC reports 85,356 cases! That's four days faster than I predicted! Boy do I suck at this. He also noted his source was built by a 17-year old...in December. I sure hope our leaders' thumbs don't hurt from all that twiddling. But I'm not stopping this train, so break out McFadden & Whitehead's "Ain't No Stopping Us Now", and dust off that foam finger, because we are kicking some serious tail!
If we keep this current growth rate of 15.73% per day up, stay-at-home orders should be lifted by May 23rd when there's no one left to infect in the US! We're under two months!
Once they do finally open up the ballparks, 4.5 million of us will be unable to attend due to that 1.46% mortality rate. Hopefully, this will take the price of a Yankees ticket back to three digits.
From my past numbers, I've clearly made this a smaller deal than it is today. My bad. My post on March 11th put the United States on track for complete infection or recovery by July 8th. My estimates, as fear mongering as they seemed back then, have been way off. Looking at the growth on March 11th, there SHOULD have been 13,201 infected today; less than 1/6th what it actually is.
To maintain my fear mongering, allow me to revise that original post based on our current success: by July 8th, based on growth between January 14th and March 27th, COVID-19 will have infected all 7,500,000,000 of us on this great planet...38 times. It will have killed more people than Thanos.
As always, have a great weekend, hug a stranger...wait...no....but leave a comment!
If we keep this current growth rate of 15.73% per day up, stay-at-home orders should be lifted by May 23rd when there's no one left to infect in the US! We're under two months!
Once they do finally open up the ballparks, 4.5 million of us will be unable to attend due to that 1.46% mortality rate. Hopefully, this will take the price of a Yankees ticket back to three digits.
From my past numbers, I've clearly made this a smaller deal than it is today. My bad. My post on March 11th put the United States on track for complete infection or recovery by July 8th. My estimates, as fear mongering as they seemed back then, have been way off. Looking at the growth on March 11th, there SHOULD have been 13,201 infected today; less than 1/6th what it actually is.
To maintain my fear mongering, allow me to revise that original post based on our current success: by July 8th, based on growth between January 14th and March 27th, COVID-19 will have infected all 7,500,000,000 of us on this great planet...38 times. It will have killed more people than Thanos.
As always, have a great weekend, hug a stranger...wait...no....but leave a comment!
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