The Number Of Coronavirus Cases Is Growing In Every State

Donald Trump has said he wants to open America for business again and send people back to work by April 12th (Easter). He thinks the economy going into recession is more important than fighting the Coronavirus epidemic. He is a moron. Doing that would endanger many American lives, and set back the fight against the epidemic by many months.

The truth is that we have not yet reached the peak of this virus spread, and have not flattened the curve to allow our medical establishment to handle those who need hospitalization. If you doubt that, just look at the numbers below

These numbers show the number of people with the Coronavirus in each state (and territory). The first number is the number of cases last Saturday (3/21/20). The number in parentheses is the number of cases just 3 days later (3/24/20). Note that the number has grown in every state, and grown substantially in most.

Alabama..........138 (242)
Alaska..........14 (42)
Arizona..........154 (367)
Arkansas..........118  (232)
California.........1531 (2102)
Colorado..........475 (912)
Connecticut.........223 (618)
Delaware..........47 (104)
District of Columbia..........98 (183)
Florida..........830 (1467)
Georgia..........600 (1097)
Hawaii..........48 (77)
Idaho..........42 (73)
Illinois..........759 (1551)
Indiana..........201 (365)
Iowa..........90 (124)
Kansas..........55 (98)
Kentucky..........99 (157)
Louisiana..........837 (1388)
Maine..........89 (125)
Maryland..........244 (349)
Massachusetts..........525 (1159)
Michigan..........807 (1791)
Minnesota..........169 (262)
Mississippi..........207 (320)
Missouri..........90 (255)
Montana..........31 (51)
Nebraska..........48 (61)
Nevada..........190 (278)
New Hampshire..........65 (108)
New Jersey..........1327 (3675)
New Mexico..........57 (100)
New York..........15168 (25665)
North Carolina..........255 (398)
North Dakota..........28 (36)
Ohio..........247 (564)
Oklahoma..........67 (106)
Oregon..........141 (209)
Pennsylvania..........479 (851)
Rhode Island..........66 (106)
South Carolina..........173 (342)
South Dakota..........21 (30)
Tennessee..........371 (667)
Texas..........334 (715)
Utah..........136 (299)
Vermont..........49 (95)
Virginia..........219 (290)
Washington..........1793 (2469)
West Virginia..........12 (39)
Wisconsin..........281 (457)
Wyoming..........24 (33)

Virgin Islands..........6 (17)
Puerto Rico..........23 (39)
Guam..........27 (32)

NOTE -- The Numbers above are from The Covid Tracking Project.

Sen. Ron Johnson - Portrait Of An Uncaring Republican

“Getting coronavirus is not a death sentence except for maybe no more than 3.4 percent of our population… probably far less. We don’t shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways.”

Those are the words of Senator Ron Johnson -- the Republican senator from Wisconsin. Frankly, I am shocked by his attitude. Does he really not care that we could lose 3.4% of the population?

Maybe he failed math in school. But in a nation of 330 million people, 3.4% of the population is not "tens of thousands" -- it is 11.2 million people. If we lost only 1%, it would be 3.3 million people.

I'll give Johnson the benefit of the doubt, and figure he was talking about only those who actually contracted the disease. If half the the population got the disease, the death toll would be about about 5.61 million at 3.4%, and 1.65 million for 1%.

Say only 25% of the population got the virus (which is very likely), that would still be 2.8 million deaths at 3.4% and 825,000 deaths at 1%.

Those are still NOT ACCEPTABLE FIGURES, and I can't believe a U.S. senator (any senator) would believe they were.

Is Trump A "Moron" Or Just An "Obnoxious Racist" ?

(Cartoon image is by Chris Britt at Creators Syndicate.)

Prime Minister Netanyahu likes Donald Trump. But other Israelis are aghast when they look at the narcissistic conman living in the U.S. White House. Consider these remarks by Chemi Shalev in his column in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz:

“Stupidity is one of the more easily accessible and widespread explanations for Trump’s behavior. It’s true that Trump has claimed in the past that his IQ is much higher than that of Obama or of comedian John Stewart, but in that case, he’s doing an excellent job of concealing his intelligence, as his visit this week to Puerto Rico showed.”

“(R)ather than trying to cheer up Puerto Ricans, as he did in Texas, or console them, as he would later do in Las Vegas. Trump insulted the island’s residents on their own home turf. He told them they should be grateful they weren’t hit with a ‘real catastrophe’ like Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005. He didn’t stop complaining about the drain of Puerto Rican recovery on the federal budget, which he didn’t even mention in Texas or Florida. And to cap it all off, Trump was filmed tossing out paper towels to his audience in a scene deemed by one broadcaster as ‘the least presidential ever.’”

“Prejudice and racial stereotypes are such a prominent feature of his personality, they maintain, that he just can’t keep them under lock.”

“He has described himself as ‘the least racist person ever,’ but since he launched his presidential run by describing Mexican immigrants as rapists and murderers. Trump has described Puerto Ricans as lazy, Muslims as wannabe terrorists, African-Americans as thugs, Jews as proficient with money and women as inferior sexual objects. It’s only among neo-Nazis, apparently, that Trump has found ‘some fine people.’”

The U.S. president has shot himself in the foot so regularly that it is only natural to assume he may not be the sharpest pencil in the box.” 

“But even if we assume that Trump is far from stupid, and definitely not a ‘moron', most people would agree that both his election and his presidency are an insult to America’s intelligence, as well as the world’s.”