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Four weeks later and Georgia is still flat. If this holds, it will be good news. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/us/georgia-coronavirus/index.html

I’m skeptical that will hold, but we’ll see. I did a little digging and realized my zip has had 34 cases total since Jan. The last reported case was weeks ago. I feel a lot better about being around my neighbors now.

The closer to uptown you buy, the better your return will be. For 500k, you can get a 2500sq townhouse in south end. That area seems to be appreciating the fastest.

That house is definitely in the far outskirts of Charlotte, but it’s in a nice area. The owner of that house would have a long drive to get to anything worth doing. Perspectives are interesting though. I would never consider that house to be a mansion. It’s all in what a person is used to.

1. Politicians and their families and staffers 2. Celebrities 3. The very wealthy 4. Hospital executives 5. Medical personal. 6. People with insurance 7. everyone else It will be easy to get since so many people think it is too risky/used by Bill gates to implant microchips.

Yeah, let’s spike Charlotte’s infected total. A packed arena of 15k yelling people who just got off planes. What can go wrong?

Woah...flex check. You don’t think there are a lot of parallels with the way people react? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/health/coronavirus-plague-pandemic-history.amp.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/bubonic-plague-inspired-eerily-similar-reactions-among-the-rich-as-todays-pandemic

Read about how people reacted to the Black Plague. It’s all the same. People don’t change. This is predictable. This pandemic will end like all others. People will start to ignore it long before it really goes away.

Maryland....working on their social distancing and mask wearing.

We don’t really know what’s happening yet. Phase 2 just started yesterday. The higher “infection rate” mostly comes from the state exceeding its testing targets. More testing = more know infections. Before the lock downs, very few tests were being done. Our ‘estimated death total’ was revised down by 40% last week. NC’s positive test rate continues to fall. The number of Covid hospitalizations are rising some, but it’s hardly a spike. We won’t know the effects of easing restrictions for another two weeks. Remember, lock downs were not implemented to eradicate the virus. It was just to ease the burden on hospitals.

Well...that’s a problem. The Oxford University team in charge of developing a coronavirus vaccine said a decline in the infection rate will make it increasingly difficult to prove whether it’s been successful, the Telegraph reported. “It’s a race against the virus disappearing, and against time,” Professor Adrian Hill, director of the university’s Jenner Institute, told the newspaper. “We said earlier in the year that there was an 80% chance of developing an effective vaccine by September. But at the moment, there’s a 50% chance that we get no result at all.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-24/oxford-university-vaccine-trials-run-into-hurdle-telegraph

I had a business until about 6 years ago. Before I went full time with it, I set aside 1 year of living expenses. It saved my ass several years later. Many industries don’t have the margins to do that for their entire company though.

I haven’t been hearing much on inflation. Deflation is what everyone is talking about. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/05/03/coronavirus-us-deflation-falling-prices-new-economic-risk/3070084001/

Yeah, I’ve seen some of that recently. I wouldn’t mind it if masks prevented the wearer from getting it vs keeping someone from spreading it (what it really does). I’m hoping this data makes the rounds and governors and businesses start requiring it. I know, if given the choice, I would much rather wear a mask than have another lock down.

According to recent studies (and what happened in Hong Kong), if everyone wears a mask we can greatly reduce the infection rate. https://www.vox.com/2020/5/18/21262273/coronavirus-hong-kong-masks-deaths-new-york

Look at that man behind her in the photo. She just giving those old guys a reason to live. A national hero.

I’m sure that’s true, but it just started getting warm here in Charlotte about a week ago. It’s been really mild (70’s) since March.

Yay us! https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/covid-19-forecasters-slash-projections-for-nc-death-toll/19106241/ New modeling from a group of researchers at the University of Washington has significantly cut the number of COVID-19 deaths expected in North Carolina through August. Projections from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation now forecast more than 2,500 deaths from the disease through Aug. 4. That's down about 40 percent from the group's projection last week of 4,400 deaths. North Carolina saw one of the largest decreases in the forecast compared to other states. Arizona's forecast, on the other hand, increased by more than 3,000. But they wrote they also expected to see a bigger jump in cases due to rising mobility – a signal that people are social distancing less. "Yet such a surge has yet to materialize, suggesting that increases in human mobility alone may not fully capture risk of transmission," researchers wrote. The group is now trying to figure out how to incorporate other social distancing factors, like mask usage consistent with CDC recommendations, into the model.

States should just do drive in voting. Get your ballot in the mail, fill it out, drive to your polling station, present your ID and voter form through your car window, drive away.

Is it universal in China? I don’t know. I do know Hong Kong is one of the densest cities on earth and they are doing well. They are doing something right.

Interesting data out of Hong Kong. https://www.vox.com/2020/5/18/21262273/coronavirus-hong-kong-masks-deaths-new-york Universal masking at 80 [percent] adoption flattens the curve significantly more than maintaining a strict lockdown," researchers wrote in the study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, as of last week.

Buddy, calm down. The thing I read was from one of the big UK papers. They were quoting an official from the WHO. I know the WHO has been full of poo on some things, but I just thought it was interesting. They said many of these kids were testing negative for Covid. I can’t find the link, but I’ll keep searching. Also, I haven’t voted for a republican in 20 years.

Actually, now docs don’t believe that issue is caused by Covid. I’ll find the link, but basically they found that a number of kids with this disorder tested negative for Covid and Covid antibodies. They think this is the same autoimmune disorder (not Kawasaki) that has been around a long time and routinely impacts a small percentage of kids every year. If you’re wondering why the news isn’t reporting on this anymore, this is why.

I was called delusional yesterday for basically saying this same thing. We can keep these types of practices in place while also opening a lot of businesses. Yes, bars and restaurants are screwed, but we can let other people get back to work.