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 Larimer County cases doubled since yesterday, which may indeed be true, although yesterday's numbers and today's numbers should be multiplied by 100 to get a closer approximation of how many people in Larimer County are actually positive.  Those who advocate sailing along, business as usual, should be a bit disappointed that the curve is rising so fast both in Larimer County and in Colorado.  Or maybe they are morticians.  Or closet morticians.  Or budding morticians.  In any event, the current tally of deaths in Colorado, six, represent infections occurring two or more weeks ago.  Since people still have until Monday to vacate the Stanley, can you imagine how many deaths will occur as a result of their short-sightedness two to three weeks from now?  Maybe the Stanley should have advertised a Coronavirus and Dyspnea package.  Heck, you've still got until noon Monday, why not go and pick up the coronavirus/salmonella combo from their ...

Those dolts who are still saying this outbreak is nothing compared to influenza, or traffic accidents, are soon to have blood on their hands.  Italy is a smaller version of what is about to happen in the United States, and Italy just lost another 793 souls yesterday.  In 24 hours.  Italy now has a total of nearly 5000 dead.  Tomorrow, it will be over 6000 people dead.  Italy's population is 60,000,000.  Do the math.  For every 10,000 people alive in Italy last month, by tomorrow, one of them will be dead.  Why?  Because three weeks ago, Italians were running around spouting nonsense like US, saying, "Oh, this is a hoax, oh, this is just like the flu".  Soon enought, 6000+ Italians will no longer saying this.  If your stupidity here on this side of the Atlantic gets thousands of old folks killed, with hundreds dead in Colorado, I hope they leave detailed instructions with their children and grandchildren on how best to extract...

Look, the BDC outed him, and it sounds like he had already outed himself, so rather than rain shi* down on this site for putting two and two and two and Narcissus Drive together, how about ya prick up your ears and listen to what amazing things he can accomplish once he recovers and a series of RT-PRC tests come back negative.  He can do anything he wants, go anywhere he wants, and not have any concern about contracting the virus.  Total.  Immunity.  It's like Bill Murray and the total consciousness line.  Total.  Immunity.  Can answer the front door at the hospital, escort people to their rooms, get slobbered on, sneezed on, coughed on.  Nothing.  No fear.  So, he's got that going for him. Marathon Man - Unbreakable edition

Remember those nightmares when you are back in school and show up to your exams unprepared?  This is like that, only you are not in your pajamas.  Or maybe you are.  Serious now, makes no difference if we stop testing completely and just put everyone in lockdown, or start the f*** testing and make decisions based on test results, but we got to do one or the other:  Either start testing and separate ayes from nays, or get out the plywood and nails and start covering the exits.  That missing last word is "death"

a few days back that the Republic of Hawaii was about to get body slammed Dwayne Johnson style.  This was when two cases had grown to four, and then to ten.  Not that many days ago.  Remember the Diamond Princess?  Remember how islands are like stationery aircraft carriers?  Remember this day, neap tide of the spring solstice, when Hawaii reported just 26 cases, and within weeks had passed New York and Los Angeles until they stopped bothering to count.  Do cry for me, Anahola.

Here is the letter from below: "I urge the town to limit access to visitor services."  Translation:  Allow without protest the federal government's decision to make admission to Rocky Mountain National Park free for the foreseeable future, and go ahead and advertise the hell out of an open Stanley Hotel while you're at it.

Look, the Broadmoor is high on the list of places that thumb their nose at the surrounding community.  Up until two days ago, they were keeping their restaurants open for public seating, in direct violation of the order handed down from the Governor's office.  Today, though, common sense (while maintaining the underlying sense of privilege and nose thumbing at authority) prevailed, sort-of, and Broadmoor management agreed to close the entire campus (starting at noon two days from now, so less than urgently) until Memorial Day. Fine, fine, but when you ask people in Estes Park why they hate the Stanley, this would be reason #337.  The Stanley has no intention of closing.  Ever.  In fact, they are actively encouraging tourists to spend a little time, maybe spread around a little throat coating. Why recreate an underlying Native American burial ground when you can just create a COVID-19 burial ground as much less cost? We are all quite aware that John Culle...

In Vietnam, the combat soldier typically served a twelve-month tour of duty, but was exposed to hostile fire almost every day. In Estes Park, a 19-year-old male has CV-19.  He will recover.  We may not.

enough of their service-industry employees alive next year to recreate a tourist-based economy.

somewhere in the state with the capability of running these tests, in any of the taxpayer-supported microbiology labs that proclaim how cutting edge they are.  And then, while we are suggesting hypotheticals, if there were any county commissioners out there who would actually act on their constituents' suggestions, rather than just pat them on the head and say "Good boy".  Double loss. Oh, and for those of you playing along at home, the answers were:  CU and CSU

Look, it's traumatic enough to have to report three deaths now in Colorado.  But it is irresponsible to suggest there was some relationship between a 60-year-old man and an 80-year-old woman besides the well known fact they played bridge together.  The 80-year-old played bridge in six or seven different groups.  Why make two families suffer more than they are already suffering?  Again, another reason to stop protecting patient privacy during an outbreak.  It just leads to stories like this, implying titillating "connections" that may or may not extend beyond shared dates of death.

 Just so you know what the asymptote is

Hi - Here is a link to the article: doomsday scenario We gather our news from both Democratic-leaning and Republican-leaning websites.  The "Daily Kos" is very anti-Trump, so it goes a bit over the top on the doom and gloom aspects of these reports, but the important point is, the reports themselves are non-partisan, and come from highly respected institutions, and come to essentially the same conclusions:  Shut everything down now, or risk having what is going on in Italy happen in the United States.  Even worse, those "success stories" of slowing down or stopping transmission in South Korea and China (sort of) may not actually be successes, since both counties still have a lot of people who are not immune to the virus, and will be infected if another wave sweeps through later this year. Attached are two "screen grabs" of the most disturbing portions of these studies.  We can't put Americans in total lockdown for 18 months, and the altern...

and the insistence on patient privacy has me completely confused.  Is the death in Weld County related to the women who worked at Banner Health and infected the 90-year-old whose friend had recently traveled to a bridge tournament in Colorado Springs?  If Jim got a B on his test, what color shoes is Debbie wearing?  All I know is, when you screw up enough to earn a visit from the CDC crew, there is more, much more, going on than is being reported.  One thing that will absolutely change as the result of this outbreak is that people will demand more rational and reasonable reporting of those infected in the future, by name, so the guess work and hearsay is eliminated.  If you want us to make good decisions as far as social distancing, you have to let us know who the players are, and who we need to distance ourselves from.

This Steve Carrell/Keira Knightley, what, ?romantic end-of-worlder?, ?mismatched wish fulfillment for caged birds when the rainbow isn't enuf road-trip comedy? with its "fade to white" ending, stank up the box office worse than a skunk on garlic roller skates, but had one moment you'll probably want looped at your funeral, when T.J. Miller, the greeter at "Friendsy's", offhandedly remarks that they burned all the restaurant chairs in a bonfire, well, you have to know the context of the movie (asteroid hurtling toward earth, 21 days until impact, December-June couple thrown together by circumstance), but it is T.J. Miller's sole redeeming feature.  It may get him the coveted "get out of jail free" card in Purgatory.

We are all going to have to avert our eyes.  14 cases today, up from 4 yesterday, and 2 the day before. Weep for the islands.  If the governor is just "recommending" delaying travel plans, those folks with timeshares are either going to bankrupt the industry by demanding refunds, or show up and take their chances with the screeners at the airports.  My money is on Jurassic Park scenario.  This is what happens when the lifeblood of your economy requires catering to the unwashed masses.  Shut everything down NOW.

 Boulder County.  Larimer County.  Weld County.  We hope you've prepared.

 Look at that low plane, fine, then Uh oh, overflow, population, common group But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, right You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light The odometer will be tripping by 1000 every 24 hours, then even 12 hours, then every 6 hours.  This is going to be a lot worse than other pandemics you've lived through and ignored.  8000 in Haiti died from cholera.  Keep repeating that to yourself, and keep wandering outside, leaving your home to meet friends for no reason, no reason except you want to bring it on faster.  Some people just like watching things burn.

 One of our best.  But my question is:  Do you know the neighborhood, and how well can you drive?

 It's a chance to fly home when things get dicey.  Look, I understand that we don't want to be losing Peace Corps volunteers.  But isn't one of the things they sign up for adventure and exposure to new thing?  It would be funny if some of the volunteers turn down the return flight, arguing that they are safer staying where they are.  That would certainly be true right now in sub-Saharan Africa.  Not saying it will continue being true, just saying...

 Circuit breakers kicked in, gold and oil both getting kicked in the teeth.  Your only safe haven is your home.  Stay there.  Stop going out and reporting on empty grocery shelves.  You should have done all your shopping last week.

If we lose our ER docs during this crisis, we might as well go out and lick stripper poles.

in the past two weeks - Just go ahead and reserve your room in the ICU.  You've got the money.  Maybe they can monogram your respirator.

Just notcha body We're in love with the shape of your money We just don't need the hassle of your bone sack Especially the breathing end part Cause it may infect our underpaid staff Oh Eye Oh Eye Oh Eye Oh Eye Oh And that goes especially for Ohio Under one of these cups is the coronavirus

Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend      --"Jim Morrison, The Doors" Until American wakes up, the death toll will now increase by at least 1000 every day, until the outbreak is over, meaning once enough people have become infected the total population achieves herd immunity.  Look it up if you don't understand.  Easily 100,000 people will die worldwide, and that's if we start self-isolating in every state in the United States TODAY.   Since that obviously won't happen, everyone is on their own out there.  It wasn't like you weren't warned.  It's just that you had too many other people telling you too much nonsense to filter out.  You can thank Mark Zuckerberg for that.  Didn't Facebook start all because Mark was rejected by a girl at Harvard?  We get to watch 100,000 deaths because of one Ivy League rejection?

Now it is perilous, bordering on regime changing.  The number of deaths in Italy is going to pass the number of (reported) deaths in China.  Soon.  Before that was just a good guess.  Now it is an absolute.  The differences in population are significant, which makes it even more appalling.  Italy is going to lose 0.1% of its population, easy.  If America loses 0.1% of its population, it will lose 325,000 people, essentially the entire population of Larimer County.  Are we ready for this loss of life?  Are our hospitals and health care workers ready for this loss of life?

Add three more to the list, in two new places.  As deaths mount, many of these will be post-mortem tests.  China likely would have had more cases, but they burned a lot of bodies prior to diagnosis.

Two days ago, Idaho had zero cases.  Yesterday, they reported their first case, and today, their number of positive cases doubled.  Three weeks from now, they will have more cases than their actual population.  They will have to kidnap people in from Montana to make up the difference.  On a completely unrelated note, everyone over the age of 70 in Britain is being asked to self-isolate for four months.  Four months.  They are going to have to get off their own lawns.

We are going to pass 6000 deaths by tomorrow morning, one day earlier than the previous rates indicated.  Increases by additional 1000s when soon be occurring every day, then every few hours.  Has everyone noticed the Scandinavian countries zooming up the charts?  If you are reading this information from somewhere other than in your home, you need to get from wherever you are into your home.  Pronto.  That's Latin for moveayarass.

Colorado fights back.  In the push to return to the top five active cases by state (hey, with the NCAA tournament cancelled, you got to root for something), Colorado broke the century mark today.  This means, for those who couldn't take advantage of the drive-through testing because there are too many people taking advantage of the drive-through testing, that there are currently at least 1000 active cases in Colorado.  Bank it.

I'm particularly enamored of the use of "barricaded" instead of, for example, "blocked" or "inaccessible".  The word "barricaded" is generally used when pitched battles are being fought, or in the context of barbarians storming a gate.  Hope people don't need to enter the hospital for any reason this weekend, cuz they are "barricaded".

Two days ago, it passed 1000.  We are witnessing a country's health-care system being OVERWHELMED.  Italy has more doctors and hospital beds per capita than the United States.

New York is going to pass the state of Washington soon in total number of cases.  Ohio shut down everything earlier than other states.  Let's see if this helps in any way.  Illinois seems to have more of a handle on things than, say, Florida.  Hawaii just doubled their total number of cases, from two to four, and these are going to be "imported" until it establishes a foothold, which is never good on islands.  Colorado is so dependent on tourism (just look out your windows today, Estes Park, and see how tourist traffic has slowed down NOT AT ALL) they will end up with cases well out of proportion to surrounding states, but that's the way the ball bounces when the kindness of strangers you depend on is attached to a hacking cough. Except...