Amidst the Fading Excitement

So, the excitement is pretty much over, it seems. Kosciusko County had one dead, and nine who had to go to hospital, out of a total 62 positive cases. The county population is around 79,500, so that's a diagnosed infection rate of 7.8 E-4. The actual infection rate is almost certainly higher, but one assumes by the hospitalization rate that most cases are mild, or un-noticed.

Statewide, the deaths are still in the low 20s each day, but that's coming primarily out of Indianapolis and Gary. By and large, in America at least, this seems to be a disease of the cities.

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I'm going to continue wearing my mask when I go into town, for nothing else than that the governor wants us to. You really don't appreciate how good of a governor you have until something like this comes along.

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Ex White House butler died of Chinese virus.

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Doctors re-discover the virtues of naturally generated vitamin D.
One of the things that always caught my eye in photos of the 1918 Spanish flu is just how many patients are lying out in the sun.