Monday, May 18, 2020

COVID19 Update - Day 69

US Tests: 11,834,508
US Cases: 1,499,722
US Deaths: 84,640
Worldwide Cases: 4,798,594
Worldwide Deaths: 318,303

If you want to protest the lockdown, at least keep it to yourself.  It's one thing to protest the lockdown.  It's another thing entirely to be stupid about it, so that you actually make the pandemic worse:
In the 48 hours following a 19 April “Operation Gridlock” protest in Denver, devices reached the borders of neighboring states including Wyoming, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Utah.
In Florida on 18 April, devices returned to all parts of the peninsula and up to the Georgia border. In Wisconsin on 24 April, devices returned to smaller towns like Green Bay and Wausau, and the borders of Minnesota and Illinois.
Following the initial wave of anti-lockdown protests in April, epidemiologists warned that they could lead to a new surge in cases.
In North Carolina in late April, one of the leaders of the state’s anti-lockdown protests tested positive for Covid-19 but said she would attend future rallies.
Dr Rob Davidson, executive director of the Committee to Protect Medicare, said that although “it’s hard to draw a straight line between devices, individuals at these protests, and cases”, the data suggests that the protests may be epidemiologically significant events.
“The behavior we’re seeing at protests carries a high risk of infection. We can see protesters are going from a highly concentrated event and then dispersing widely,” he added.
It is completely appropriate to refer to these morons as the Trump Death Cult.  They're not content merely to off themselves; they want to take the rest of us with them.

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