political will, uncertainty, and you

what political will there is involved in this seems to be earnestly wishing it would just all go away ( and, as a side note, i wish linsey graham would go away...he won't...but he should keep his mouth shut...or, at least, mind his phraseology...he might give someone ideas when he overdoes the south carolina good ole boy verbiage...another whore politician we all could do without...it does, however, provide insight into the drive by the elite to reduce us all to debt penury...keep in mind, debt is what creates new money and the elite are convinced they are entitled to anything they can extort )...and the numbers are clearly whacked...but they are "official" so we will run with them until something less distorted turns up...

johns hopkins' seem the freshest numbers i cam find out there and they have changed the format they present them in which eases some of my undue reliance on the number of deaths in the country which the cdc provides but which complicates things somewhat in other areas...they are still giving us the total number of "confirmed" cases in the u s...which today is up by 22593...the increase has been holding in the twenty-thousands for the last nine days...fluctuating from 22 to 29 thousand... they've added the total deaths in the u s ...which is up by 1472 today...for the same nine days it has varied from 1300 and change to 2300 +...there are variations in both but they are consistent...

they are still providing figures on the officially "recovered"...and new confirmed illnesses are outrunning recoveries at a rate of three to one...recovery would seem to be a lengthier process than two weeks...

they stopped giving figured for cities and went instead to states...so no more direct figures on new york city...and no one has "recovered" in illiois or california? one wonders why not...this state mostly began "re-opening" yesterday...except for three counties, one of which i live in..which are "closed" until next monday...what purpose a week serves is unclear to me since new cases continue to be reported..between five and seven hundred a day state-wide and my county is averaging sixty new cases a day... in the county 18% of those tested are positive and 21% of those tested state-wide have the disease...extrapolate that out and there are possibly a lot more folks ill who have not been tested for one reason or another and you have to wonder if "re-opening" is a good idea...the political will to do so is there and that is what will be done...a spike in new cases and we all go home again...we'll see what happens...with the state, the country, the economy...and if this becomes a seasonal visitor like influenza or vanishes...with all the talk about vaccines one supposes the clerisy is expecting the former...the variables seem manifold and no one can see them all...empirical territory is where we are at...time to be inductive.