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Rick Rosner: Carol had us join the Y again. We quit The Y two years ago because it made no sense to pay 69 bucks a month for a family membership. It shut down for almost a year I think and then we waited another year before joining up again because it just seemed too risky but now the numbers are L.A’s daily Covid cases hit a low of 138 one day in last May, May 2001. And then they exploded 300-fold to like 43,000 a day during Omicron. Now they’re back down to under a thousand the last two days. So we rejoined because Carol hikes every day but it’s wrecking her legs so she needs to exercise in the swimming pool. So anyway, it’s nice to go back to The Y and it feels pretty safe. Meanwhile, Europe and the Far East are brewing an incredible new sixth or seventh World Wide wave. The first day the world hit 2 million new cases in a day worldwide was December 30th of last year; two and a half months ago. The last day of 2 million cases was February 17th of this year and then it declined. It had been declining for four or five weeks, it got up to nearly 4 million a day for a few days, dropped back under 2 million, and today was at like 1-9.
We’re headed back up to 2 million a day probably hit it next week. It’s some of the usual suspects; England which got up to 2,00,000 cases a day under Omicron and then dropped to 30,000 cases a day,, just no more Covid mandates or anything and now they’re back up to 90,000. Then South Korea which was one of the greatest countries for keeping Covid down had 4,00,000 new cases today; more than 20% of the world’s new cases which is terrible. So, South Korea bad, Vietnam bad; those were the two new big players. Vietnam and South Korea did great for the first two years of Covid but now they’re exploding with Covid but people are not dying in South Korea and Vietnam like people died in the in the early country or any of the countries. Mortality is less than one-third of one percent in a lot of countries around one tenth of one percent and it’s because the countries that are getting hammered now. South Korea, Vietnam, everybody’s vaxxed.
By holding Covid off so long it gave those countries time to get everybody vaxxed. In the early days the first month of Covid mortality was eight percent and then it settled down to two percent and then dropped to like one and a half percent. Now after these countries where they’re being idiots like England’s governed by Boris Johnson who’s an idiot, they’re back up to 91,000 new cases today but their deaths are still under like one-fifth of one percent of that because freaking 91.7% of everybody who can be vaxxed in England; the 12 and overs has at least one vax and two-thirds of everybody are boosted. My kid in London just got Covid, she’s vaxxed and boosted and she felt like shit for a week but she just had two negative tests, so we’re hopeful that she’s pretty much over it.
We get hit in America and I guess you in Canada because we share the same continent. In April, we’re going to get hit with the wave that boiling up in the Far East and Europe but the mortality will probably still stay under one-third of one percent even as cases skyrocketing in.
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