MoA’s gloomy prediction: The U.S. Will Drown In Covid-19 Cases

Saudi Arabia suspends Umra and has asked Muslims planning to take part in the Hajj pilgrimage to delay booking amid uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic.

USA state governments condone church services and crazed ministers encourage them!

Saudi may have one of the nastier and most fanatical government in the world but they are not delusional overall. The USA?

Posted by: jrkrideau | Apr 2 2020 16:15 utc | 1

Now overlay those maps with maps of gun ownership.

Unemployment, government fecklessness, collapse of health care is going to lead to riots, with xenophobic hate-mongering added to the fire. And guns.

Posted by: occupatio | Apr 2 2020 16:19 utc | 2

I heard an anecdote that ISIS is urging its adherents to practice social distancing. In the favelas of Rio, the drug gangs are enforcing social distancing. The world has turned upside down when drug gangs and ISIS are more solicitous of the health of the people than the elected officials in the US.

Posted by: Peter VE | Apr 2 2020 16:20 utc | 3

The good news is that the days when the Empire's default reaction was to bomb anything that annoyed it is over.

The bad news is that the new strategy is to mount massive propaganda campaigns in the hope that the public will accept that the ruling class doesn't make mistakes-but foreign devils will do anything to hurt us. Thus placing their trust in the longevity of the anti Chinese Anti-Russian and anti-communist themes that dominated western conventional wisdom for the past century.

The bottom line is that, if you want to prepare for the future, plan against eventualities and provide security for society you don't employ an "invisible hand" to take the big decisions and trust in Providence that market forces, driven by greed, will do the right thing. They never have.

Posted by: bevin | Apr 2 2020 16:20 utc | 4

Verity et al. (March 30, 2020) have estimated the (adjusted) case fatality ratio, infection fatality ratio, and proportion of infections requiring hospitalization:

             Crude    Adjusted           Hospitalization
             CFR (%)  CFR (%)   IFR (%)  Rate (%)

    0-9       0.000   0.00260   0.00161   0.00
    10-19     0.182   0.0148    0.00695   0.0408
    20-29     0.193   0.0600    0.0309    1.04
    30-39     0.237   0.146     0.0844    3.43
    40-49     0.443   0.295     0.161     4.25
    50-59     1.30    1.25      0.595     8.16
    60-69     3.60    3.99      1.93     11.8
    70-79     7.96    8.61      4.28     16.6
    80+      14.8    13.4       7.80     18.4

    Total     2.29    1.38      0.657

Posted by: S | Apr 2 2020 16:23 utc | 5

The distance traveled map is inverse to the number of actual nCOV cases though.
New York, New Jersey and Michigan are the 3 worst hit states by far...

Posted by: c1ue | Apr 2 2020 16:24 utc | 6

Homo sapiens is certainly the second most stupid creation, after the Ebola virus. The Ebola virus is killing everybody and thus removes its basis for reproduction. Imagine how smart rhinoviruses are! They do not kill but have managed, during evolution, to make their hosts sneeze and get running noses, so can spread and flourish. They can also mutate to ever increasing variants, so no vaccine made by homo stupidus could ever limit their reproduction, season after season. Sars-CoV-2 is a different story. It doesn't kill like Ebola but is much more contagious. It leads to overwhelmed health care systems, so people indirectly die of lack of care.

Seems so as if Corona is quite smart. It will stop unhinged capitalism. Global warming will come to an end, at least for some time. Homo stupidus may become part of the evolution again. The old and unfit, wealthy and spoiled, will die and die quickly.

Posted by: HPM | Apr 2 2020 16:32 utc | 7

Philip Giraldi knows who to blame:
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/02/another-expensive-war-another-intelligence-failure/

"...the intelligence agencies were warning about information derived from medical sources in China that suggested viruses were developing that might become a pandemic, but the politicians, most particularly those in the White House, chose to take no action. He writes that “…the Trump administration has cumulatively failed, both in taking seriously the specific, repeated intelligence community warnings about a coronavirus outbreak and in vigorously pursuing the nationwide response initiatives commensurate with the predicted threat. The federal government alone has the resources and authorities to lead the relevant public and private stakeholders to confront the foreseeable harms posed by the virus. Unfortunately, Trump officials made a series of judgments (minimizing the hazards of COVID-19) and decisions (refusing to act with the urgency required) that have needlessly made Americans far less safe.”

"The article cites evidence that the intelligence community was collecting disturbing information on possibly developing pathogens in China and was, as early as January, preparing analytical reports that detailed just what was happening while also providing insights into how devastating the global proliferation of a highly contagious and potential lethal virus might be. One might say that the intel guys called it right, but were ignored by the White House, which, per Zenko, acted with “unprecedented indifference, even willful negligence....”

Posted by: bevin | Apr 2 2020 16:32 utc | 8

Here's an insightful scary piece on the prognosis (very bad) for the U.S. economy:

"This Looks Like a Depression, Not a Recession:
Until we have a vaccine, we are barreling towards economic catastrophe"

https://marker.medium.com/this-looks-like-a-depression-not-a-recession-16a123f966d8

Posted by: JPM | Apr 2 2020 16:33 utc | 9

- I see another reason why the Corona virus could spead more than is necessesary. More and more lock downs will drive up the cost for state government and those state governments will be "reluctant" to impose a lock down. And when a lot of minorities die then that would be a solution to their financial problems. Then they can save on social benefits etc.
- Brian Kemp is one those "racially motivated" to not impose regulations to combat the spreading of the virus. Kemp made efforts to keep the black and latino population in his state from voting in the elections in which he became the governor of Georgia.

Posted by: Willy2 | Apr 2 2020 16:33 utc | 10

god family and country Americans are stopid

Posted by: JC | Apr 2 2020 16:35 utc | 11

"The world has turned upside down when drug gangs and ISIS are more solicitous of the health of the people than the elected officials in the US."
Peter VE@3

Has it though? Few institutions on earth have been less solicitous of popular health than the elected officials of the United States- sponsored as most of them are by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse- Big Pharma; the MIC; chemicalised agriculture/ food processing; Silicon Valley and the mainstream media.

Posted by: bevin | Apr 2 2020 16:38 utc | 12

Stanford U. Prof. of Medicine & Epidemiology:
Covid-19 is ‘evidence fiasco’ –
‘Official 3.4% [fatality] rate from WHO’ is ‘meaningless’ –
‘We are making decisions without reliable data’

https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/03/18/stanford-u-prof-of-medicine-epidemiology-covid-19-is-evidence-fiasco-official-3-4-fatality-rate-from-who-is-meaningless-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/

Posted by: Hannibal | Apr 2 2020 16:39 utc | 13

Why The U.S. Will Drown In Covid-19 Cases

Western Mitigation Strategy vs. Eastern Suppression Strategy

Mitigation = high Big Pharma profits

Suppression = low Big Pharma profits

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Flatten the Curve: A Prescription for Failure

Covid-19 Trumped-up CRISIS! Allows Government-assisted Profiteering: Chloroquine vs. Remdesivir

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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Apr 2 2020 16:42 utc | 14