Covid-19 Journal

I did not post yesterday due to not having a computer. I had lasagna and German's chocolate cake for dinner. Someone online asked how many people died of the flu compared to Covid-19. Abut half that many last year, so far: What I think is happening in the US is about 1/3 of the people are afraid to go out of their houses and are doing a good job of sheltering in place. About 1/3 of the people are doing some reduced social contact but still have to go to work and such. About 1/3 of the people are going about doing exactly what they were doing before and completely ignoring any restrictions. I heard someone say that if everyone stopped moving for two weeks the virus would disappear. But if a significant portion of the population keeps moving around then the virus has a chance to continue to spread and basically we trash the economy without getting any of the benefit. I think the US is about to learn a very hard lesson. Most people around here look at New York and think yea

Wisconsin had a jump in deaths over the past two days. I was feeling rather comfortable here as the death rate seemed to be trending downward and following the model. Then we jumped by 19 in one day. This is the two day increase by county since I missed a day due to my computer breaking down. 28 Total 12 Milwaukee 2 Clark 2 Grant 2 Kenosha 2 Racine 2 Waukesha 1 Brown 1 Dane 1 Manitowoc 1 Monroe 1 Richland 1 Rock It seems suspicious this is about three weeks after the election. It rained nearly all day today. Yesterday it got up to 70 degrees. The CDC changed their color scheme again. They also took away the cvs data which makes it harder to parse and sort.

My computer died today so I am writing this on my phone.

The US got rid of or moved the clickable file download for the data so I have to copy and paste from the website. Hopefully it will be back soon. My wife started having sharp abdominal pains. Hopefully she will feel better. Made stir fry for supper, had leftover salmon chowder for lunch. Planted bok choy and snow peas in the garden. Here are some graphs for today:

Planted snow peas today. Saw a bunch of protestors driving through town blowing their horns and waving yellow flags. There was a major rally in Madison yesterday. Dane county (Madison) has the third highest number of cases in the state. Then they come back home and have a rally here. The do not have a grasp on epidemiology. Wow, Green Bay went up by 115 cases from yesterday.

Wisconsin had been trending downward but has taken a turn upward. Seems suspicious that this is about two weeks after the election. These are the counties showing the largest increase from April 20-24. 320 Brown 240 Milwaukee 57 Kenosha 55 Racine 40 Rock 31 Dane 27 Walworth 20 Waukesha 8 Outagamie 6 Jefferson 5 Washington 5 Winnebago Here are the graphs for today. And now for some series maps: Had eggs, ham, peas, fried potatoes and onions, English muffins, tangerine marmalade we got in Florida over Christmas for dinner. Tuna sandwiches for lunch. Got the fence up in the garden.