Careful. Most of those mansions were retirement plans for your boomer overlords and are probably empty. https://www.redfin.com/WA/Shoreline/151-NW-Highland-Dr-98177/home/76663 I first saw that for sale in 2018 for $9m. That there is a bag holder recognizing that he will never. Ever. Ever recoup his investment and doing whatever he can to get out from under it. $4k a month in property taxes. $1500 a month in HOAs. Probably $500 a month in power to keep the pipes from freezing and the plaster from crumbling. How long ya wanna carry that? And can you hold out until you can donate the fucker to the city? We're about to see just how naked the emperor is.
IRL (RIP) I've also been saying to my wife that this is the "emperor has no clothes" moment. Apparently people can't read fucking graphs, but China contained this thing. Yes, there will be hotspots popping up that require quenching, but they're largely done with anything remotely resembling exponential growth. By my maths, U.S. cases will surpass the ~80,000 Chinese cases within about two weeks, and roughly exponential growth will continue even for weeks after that. I agree with some projections that we're looking at bare minimum around 100 million U.S. cases by the end of 2020. Most people still have no idea just how much the U.S. fucked up. Sorry, world. Again, I want to be wrong. Please, let me be wrong.
And it still kicked their ass. I think the US is hosed but I think the UK is more hosed. Brazil? Venezuela? Africa? Suppose we do get a vaccine. That's gonna go to the same people the tests go to - the Twitter Checkmark Posse. I guess Indiana could do about 70 tests a day when they tested all 58 people from the Utah Jazz organization.Apparently people can't read fucking graphs, but China contained this thing.
UK is playing this weird "herd immunity" game. They figure let the millennials get sick while the 'boomers hunker down in their flats for four months. I'm willing to bet there's a memo in Downing Street somewhere that says they can cure the pension crisis by allowing some percentage of old people to just fucking kick the bucket.
My implicit trust in Chinese statistics and reported living conditions is a bit perilous, totally agree. LOL, maybe we've been doing too much digging? Nah, actually, it seems mostly retaliatory.
We call it the Spanish Flu because everyone's journalism was heavily censored during WW1 so the only country anyone could report on was neutral Spain. If you were Xi you'd expel the shit out of all American journalists too. Everyone else's journalists? You can threaten their aid if they don't say what you want them to say.