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2020-04-24

List of human disease case fatality rates

When I first came across this Wikipedia entry in January of 2020, the death rate for COVID-19 was below that of the Spanish flu. Day by day it has been creeping inexorably up.
2020-04-24

Webpage recording rise in COVID- 19 cases

As new numbers come in, Worldometer updates its page and by inference shows what a deadly impact the virus is having worldwide. The facts seem clear until one remembers how they can only show the recordable tip of the nightmare iceberg.
2020-04-23

Covid, my beaded snake, demonstrates 2 meters of social distancing

Beaded at about 3 hours a day (= 3 inches), Covid both recorded the passage of time and provided diversion, though truth be told, I’m rather enjoying this time out. There are various event and day markers built into the strand that also provide memory points in its construction.