[ExI] covid data

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike, I think you might have to retract your statement that there are
enough vaccine meds around but they lack volunteers.  That is certainly not
true here - Nat'l Guard was there when I got mine.  Today there are no
available appts. in the Jackson area.  No vaccines. I did get my second
appt. so it is not affecting me.  (did you think of that word in Steinbeck
that sounds like 'socdolager'? )  bill w

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 12:00 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Ok well… the signal is clear enough now, and not surprising.  We saw the
> covid cases go way up with the start of flu season.  It looked like it
> peaked and was heading back down in November, but… the festival of
> Thanksgiving, family gatherings indoors, back up it went.
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> Peaked once again in the third week of December as the Thanksgiving peak
> ran its course, was heading back down, reaching a local minumum on 29
> December, when new cases from Christmas family gatherings kicked in.
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> New Years celebrations contributed perhaps, but new covid cases in the USA
> peaked on 11 Jan 2021 at 255k.  Today they dropped below 70k for 7 day
> rolling average, so less than third of what it was  six weeks ago and
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> Vaccinations might have been part of it, but with 20% vaccinated, it isn’t
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> Theory: it is indoor gatherings doing this, always has been, just as
> indoor gatherings spread the regular flu since always.  This data isn’t
> hard to read.  It’s hard to mis-read.
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