Avoid UT areas as well:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/austin-spring-breakers-coronavirus-trnd/index.html
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Due to lack of testing for deceased folks, countries are undercounting the mortality due to Coronavirus:
The above article is for Spain. Similar stuff is now being reported for Italy. The death toll in the past month is significantly higher then similar time frames in other years (even after adding in the deaths attributed to the virus)
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Florida classifies religious activity as essential business. That’s likely a deadly mistake.
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You have made an academic comment.
Don’t wear scarf.
Don’t carry handkerchief.
Don’t have a sewing machine.
No needle and thread.
No thick string.
Wear a bra?
Wear an underwear?
Wrap a blouse over your face?
Wrap a tablecloth over your face?
Wrap a pillow case over your face?
Those who have masks are already wearing them.
Population of
Los Angeles county 9.8 mil, 3512 cases
Santa Clara county 1.9 mil, 956 cases
San Diego county 3.1 mil, 849 cases
San Francisco county 0.8 mil, 434 cases
San Francisco has the highest confirmed cases per million!
Compare with Hong Kong my friend. 30% bigger population than SG, an inept government that cares more about relation with top brass in Beijing than welfare of its fellow citizens, and still fewer cases than SG.
Does SG arrest people for wearing masks? After all PM Lee said masks are useless and should be reserved for hospital use.
HK: 765 cases, 4 dead, 7.4m pop. 103.4 cases per 1m.
SG: 1000 cases, 4 dead, 5.7m pop. 175.4 cases per 1m.
SG has 70% more cases per capita than HK. BIG FAIL.
“Unlike parasites and bacteria that like warm and wet conditions, viruses generally prefer the cold. They need dry air behind shut windows to spread reliably…”
No air-con! in home during hot days. And don’t stay in crowded air-con places for too long.
…any benefit of warmer weather is dependent on a sustained period of such conditions. Over the past decade, British summers have varied from the cool and wet to savage heatwaves.
That is, probably won’t reduce much because hot days are too short.
He says current outbreak epicenters run a “real risk” of shifting from the U.S. and parts of Europe to other world regions and even back to East Asia over time.
Scary 
Probably shift to Southern Hemisphere 
Herd immunity refers to a situation where sufficient people in a population have become immune to a disease such that it effectively stops the disease from spreading. Teo explained that it can be achieved either via a vaccine, or acquired as the natural result of being exposed to the virus.
Prato’s Chinese community went into lockdown from the end of January, three weeks before Italy’s first recorded infection
“Among Chinese resident in Prato there isn’t even one case of Covid contagion,” he said, referring to Covid-19, which has killed almost 12,000 people in Italy, more than in any other country.
Remuzzi said local doctors considered these cases to be “unusual” but ruled out the possibility of seasonal influenza, as all these patients had been vaccinated.
Vaccine is only 25% effective 
He discussed the difficulty of combating a disease that people did not know existed, and said the unusual cases in November and December could mean that virus was already circulating in Lombardy…
If it is that early, it should be as bad as Wuhan around the same time and not lag two months 
What testing in South Korea is like. It’s a roadside test station. Compare this to what we have, we are like cavemen banging on rocks.
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Right: Stimulus Goliath, Research Firepower, State Leadership
Wrong: Medical Supply Shortages, Testing Delays, Political Squabbles, Social Distancing Failures
The US federal system of government, which delegates broad powers to individual states, has proven to be both a blessing and a curse. In good times, it allows local leaders to experiment individually with various public policy solutions, testing out best practices that can then be adopted across the nation.
In the case of a deadly pandemic, however, a patchwork response can be inadequate - and result in avoidable deaths and economic disruption.
“Every governor is making decisions on their own,” Levi says. “Some are making good decisions; some are not.”
Queueing outside Costco. 60 % didn’t wear mask. Spotted 1 scarf, a few home made masks, 1 respirator, mostly surgical masks.
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huge improvement from 3 weeks ago
Automate, automate, automate. The government should provide low interest loans to support automation at a time like this. Thousands of US jobs created. Food supply safer and more secure.
…but global markets are selling off because the affected areas consume all their exports.