Re: What have we learned from all this?

[Bob Kuykendall]

At 23:55 05 April 2020, Gregg Ballou > wrote:
>...Yearly flu has a higher body count...

Quick update: Some time in the next few days, US deaths from Covid-19 will
exceed 250,000. That's in about 9.5 months since the first death reported
in early February. At that run rate we're on track to hit well over 300,000
at the one-year mark.

--Bob K.

[Jonathan St. Cloud]

That is about 19% of the total world wide deaths!

On Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 9:00:06 PM UTC-8, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
> At 23:55 05 April 2020, Gregg Ballou > wrote:
> >...Yearly flu has a higher body count...
>
> Quick update: Some time in the next few days, US deaths from Covid-19 will
> exceed 250,000. That's in about 9.5 months since the first death reported
> in early February. At that run rate we're on track to hit well over 300,000
> at the one-year mark.
>
> --Bob K.

[Martin Gregorie[_6_]]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 05:46:44 -0800, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:

> That is about 19% of the total world wide deaths!
>
That's about right (current figures on Worldometers) shows US deaths at
19% of world total:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

The only caveat I'd add is that the Indian deaths/million figure is
surprisingly low, quite possibly due to delays in collating COVID
statistics. The time it took to count votes in the most recent Indian
elections makes the recent US Presidential election look blindingly fast
by comparison and the Indian data collection procedures for both COVID
and election are probably quite similar.


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Martin | martin at
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[Craig Reinholt]

On Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 9:00:06 PM UTC-8, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
> At 23:55 05 April 2020, Gregg Ballou > wrote:
> >...Yearly flu has a higher body count...
>
> Quick update: Some time in the next few days, US deaths from Covid-19 will
> exceed 250,000. That's in about 9.5 months since the first death reported
> in early February. At that run rate we're on track to hit well over 300,000
> at the one-year mark.
>
> --Bob K.

Number reached. For the nay-sayers, imagine what the number would be without some mitigation procedures in place and help from the media raising the alarm on how widespread the infection is. If you compare the flu (that has effective vaccinations) to Covid (that does not), you are short sighted and not comparing "apples to apples".
Craig

[Gregg Ballou[_2_]]

Is the 2021 season canceled yet?

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On Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 12:57:24 PM UTC-5, Gregg Ballou wrote:
> Is the 2021 season canceled yet?
Well Gregg, looks like we will all be under house arrest, things are not looking goog for the soaring contest venue. I will still be towing here on the Treasure Coast, 200 feet away from any infected glider pilots. If anyone wants to come down to Vero for some good soaring please feel welcome. Bob