All's quiet here, work continues at a snail's pace and still no word on funding for my Paycheck Protection loan - I'm pretty resigned to not getting it, but it would be a big help if I could. I'm not stressing too much, looking at it as a temporary period of retirement but still having to work lol. (I'm drawing on retirement funds).
Newest data out of NYC shows 25% of the population infected and 0.77% fatality rate among all those infected (including mild and asymptomatic cases). However, if you look at the excess mortality figures - most of which could safely be assumed to be due to Covid - the fatality rate is more likely 1% or higher.
At a 1% fatality rate, if only 25% of the entire US got infected (a very conservative estimate) we could expect around 850k deaths before this is done. If 50% of the USA eventually gets infected, that's 1.7 million deaths.
Just because things are quiet where you live FOR NOW, thanks to the lockdowns, don't assume you won't be seeing more, especially once we open up and people start tp travel. So keep wearing a mask in public, advocate for others to do so as well (thank goodness they are req
