4/26/2020
A friend, Mark Veilleux, has been posting things on facebook and I finally had some time to listen to one of them. I have not finished it by any means but it is interesting and worth thinking about. The speaker Doctor Erickson seems to be a fairly knowledgeable California doctor arguing for opening up.
I think it is hosted on Utube. I have had some trouble running it but now at least you have a lot of the info and should be able to find it yourself.
I have also come across 3 more articles in the April 29 Economist. I’ll paste their URLs here. If you have any trouble accessing any of them, just ask and I can send them to you. I don’t have the same control over the Erickson utube video.
This first is Bill Gates. As we always say, we hope he is wrong but he is very pessimistic. In light of his article it is my intention to sell stock as soon as things run up again and I think they will in the next week.
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2020/04/23/bill-gates-on-how-to-fight-future-pandemics
This next one is about data. They look at who died in NYC and elsewhere and then look at where there are a disproportionate number of the same kind of people in a county in the USA. Looks like Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi may be hard hit. Again, we always say I hope I am wrong.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/25/the-south-is-likely-to-have-americas-highest-death-rate-from-covid-19
Below link leads to great article about pandemic history. It is not science, just research ideas. You know that a very hard part of convid 19 is that, especially in the old, the immune system goes crazy and over fights the virus filling up the lungs with fluid. One of the strangest things about the 1918 Spanish Flu was that it killed people 20-40. This article hints at the idea that in 1890, Russian Flu was the pandemic and people who were young then had their immune system screwed up so when it saw the 1918 virus, it went wild.
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/04/25/a-peculiarity-of-spanish-flu-may-shed-light-on-covid-19