Thursday, December 23, 2021

Day 653

  • If you want to see why I don't have much faith in about much of anything going to plan for the foreseeable future:  There is a group at the University of Washington who has done models as to the spread of the Omicron strain of COVID-19.
  • Their report to USA Today is somber:  They believe, from January 1 to March 1 alone, 40% of the population of the United States of America -- 140 million new infections -- will get the Omicron strain.
  • They also believe that only about one in six, if that, will ever get reported.  Oh fucking gee, I WONDER WHY!!!!  
  • I know there's a way to read that article in saying only 400,000 TOTAL admitted infections out of 140,000,000 would be reported, but I find that completely impossible.  The only way that could happen is if everyone HAS, in fact, already gotten COVID at least once!
  • If this is any degree of accurate and the current death rate (and this is from the announced numbers on Worldometers, not what I believe is true, where both numerator and denominator are at least a factor of 3 higher!!!) were to hold, that would be TWO POINT TWO MILLION PEOPLE taken by the virus in just that sixtyish-day period.
  • Even if the one in six is reported and no one else dies (which is one of the reasons I think this country HAS, largely, gotten the Republican-desired 1.5% initial die-off!), the death rate of admitted cases would make it somewhere between 350,000 and 400,000 deaths to the Omicron strain in cases acquired in January and February.
  • The theory is most won't be sick enough to notice -- I think that's a lie, because confront that number on a large-society scale and see what everybody's holidays is going to look like!   
  • Not only that, but if this thing were to spread as much as the measles, who WON"T get the Omicron by about April 1st?   
  • Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, is one of the traditionally biggest days of the year for the English Premier League.  Already, two matches have been called off for December 26th due to Omicron:  Liverpool vs. Leeds United and Watford and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
  • Cincinnati Bengals QB Joe Burrow said yesterday he believes his team is healthy from COVID because Cincinnati has a comparatively-negligible night life.  Sorry, bud...  I've BEEN IN Green Bay.  You want to talk about no nightlife...  AT ALL!!!  .....   
  • A very probable sacrifice to the altar of football in the recruiting wars:  Robbie Roper, an advertised dual-threat quarterback in Georgia, has died due to complications suffered during a routine surgery.
  • Word this morning, a day after it was announced President Biden has been exposed to COVID in the last couple days -- so has Vice-President Harris.
  • The starting running back for the Vikings has gone to the protocols...
  • ... as have the two top QBs for the Saints.
  • .... and the starting center for the Browns...
  • The Nets got three players back today -- Saturday's game at...  I'm not even dignifying it, you fucking fraudulent...  may be on.
  • The Associated Press reports today that the baseball owners have succeeded -- player payrolls are now the lowest they've been since 2015.
  • There was a bit of a stink on Wheel of Fortune a couple nights back.  A contestant named Charlene won the main game, got to the bonus round, and chose "What Are You Doing?" as the category...

Wheel is anal about this -- it's one of the reasons the "Crossword" category should be shitcanned, because the contestant is supposed to give only the list of words, no "and" included.  The puzzle solution must be exact and complete.

Charlene had another solution in mind, said it, was not correct, then corrected the final word but did NOT re-complete the puzzle -- and was ruled wrong, with Pat mealy-mouthing (as he is known to do as he is more than a bit of a pig) the reason why.

The prize was an Audi -- and fans were up in arms.

Apparently, so is said sponsor of said prize:

Merry Christnas, Charlene. 

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