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Another stats update as of 7:46 AM today. Last stats were from 8/10 at 7:46 AM, exactly 7 days ago. Mortality rate is figured using the current death total divided by the total cases from the update 3 weeks ago (7/27):
- 5,567,765 cases in the US, up from 5,200,313, an increase of 7.07% which is a smaller increase than last time (8.03%). The new cases for this period were 367,452 which gives a 7-day daily average of 52,493, down from 55,190. A comparison w last period's new cases (386,329) gives a new cases increase rate of 0.951, higher than that of the last update (0.874) but still below 1.00.
- 173,139 deaths in the US, up from 165,619, an increase of 4.54% which is about the same as last time (4.57%). At this rate of increase, the US projects to have 200,000 deaths by about 9/9. The new deaths for this period were 7,520, which gives a 7-day daily average of 1,074, up from 1,035. The mortality rate is 3.96% (173,139/4,371,992), lower than last time (4.25% (165,619/3,898,694)). The rate for the week's new deaths is 1.59% (7,520/473,298), higher than last time (1.49% (7,244/484,589)).
- 21,833,432 cases worldwide, up from 20,012,523, an increase of 9.10% which is a smaller increase than last time (9.94%). The new cases for this period were 1,820,909, which gives a 7-day daily average of 260,130, up slightly from 258,582. A comparison w last period's new cases (1,810,075) gives a new cases increase rate of 1.006, which is about the same as last time (1.002).
- 773,768 deaths worldwide, up from 734,794, an increase of 5.30% which is a smaller increase than last time (5.97%). At this rate of increase, the world projects to have 1,000,000 deaths by about 9/21. The new deaths for this period were 38,974, which gives a 7-day daily average of 5,568, down from 5,794. The mortality rate is 4.72% (773,768/16,395,861), lower than last time (5.01% (734,794/14,663,785)). The rate for the week's new deaths is 2.25% (38,974/1,732,076), lower than for the previous period (2.50% (41,398/1,653,795)).
Rates of increase for both cases and deaths were smaller than last time for both the world and the US. New case rate increases went up for the US and remained the same for the world but both continued to be at about 1.00 or below. Overall mortality rates continue to decrease for both the world and the US.
Cases continue to surge in Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia, Mexico, Spain, India and Bangladesh. And cases in the Philippines, Indonesia, Ukraine and Iraq have surged in recent weeks. But case rates have decreased in recent weeks in Russia, Chile and South Africa and in the Middle East in general. In India, the daily new cases (over 60,000) continue to exceed that of the US.Comment
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people called me an idiot for burning popcorn in the microwave, but i know the real truth. - nullnorComment
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With the cancelling of the Big Ten season, it may be about college football soon enough. According to reports, it was a 12-2 vote with only Iowa and Nebraska against. Seems unlikely that osu, Michigan and psu would cancel without some new concern like thispeople called me an idiot for burning popcorn in the microwave, but i know the real truth. - nullnorComment
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according to today's reports, only Northwestern and Illinois are not waffling on whether to reverse coursefinished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84
SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
C Stallings 2, Casali 1
1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1Comment
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I'm just here for the baseball.
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viruses are specialists. like polar bears. if you change the environment just a little it will go extinct. it's a daisy. if it gets too much rain it wilts. it's a beautiful flower, under the right conditions it thrives. but if you wear masks of be careful or social distance it burns itself out. also, there are many different types of viruses. moreover, it concerns me that Covid-19 can infect other animals like cats and dog's on rare occasions. when a virus does burn itself out where does it go? for many years we've understood bats as a natural reservoir. so even when you do get it under control, it's always there randomly mutating in it's host.
in this sense bats aren't the enemy for spreading them. they are the warriors keeping viruses at bay. bat caves are a war zone. a mammal with a super immune system where mother nature's war games are playing out- and then a human wanders into the line of fire and gets hit.
I once asked myself, if bats are so dangerous why don't we kill all of them and make them extinct. we have that power. and then I learned that they are important to pollenization. like bees. they sting but are essential. also, there is a mold virus killing bats; there's something killing bees too.
when I tell you that there is a war going on with the worst viruses known to mankind inside caves with bats I don't think you really understand how intense it is. for example, the lifeforms on earth with the highest hearing is bats and the wax moth. 300khz. it goes up a little bit every year. it's the most intense example of evolution and selective pressures. because if the bat hits the moth with a higher frequency than it can hear it get's eaten. and it's way more higher to the next species max hearing range, I think it's dolphins.
so it's about selective pressure. not some 'nature'. the 1918 flu disappeared because it found a new host. pigs, is a H1N1 virus. humans eventually died out or enacted social measures that caused it to find a new host. it mutated and 'adapted' to birds or swine. and 100 years later we had a small swine flue epidemic. ..I am really just guessing here. but birds definitely played a role. H1N1 is a bird virus mixing with pigs. the birds carry the virus and spread it and the pigs infect.
I am pretty drunk right now, go to bed after. the problem is 1918 was influenza Covid-19 is a coronavirus. both are RNA viruses but are different. if this coronavirus evolves to be able to infect common pets or mammals like cats and dogs or elephants and whales the way the flu influenza can infect birds and pigs were are in trouble.
so, my theme here would be to protect cats and dogs from becoming infected. it might save the human race.
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Dumb Donald yesterday:
"Even New Zealand, did you see what's going on in New Zealand? 'They beat it, they beat it.' It was like front page, they beat it, because they wanted to show me something," he added. "The problem is, big surge in New Zealand ... it's terrible."
The "big surge"? NINE cases. NINE.Comment
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If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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