by David Sims THE DATA from four days ago gave the total number of US coronavirus-related deaths as 16498, a rise of 1736 during the preceding 24 hours. The daily percentage increase was 11.8%. The corresponding doubling time was 6.23 days (or 150 hours). The best-fit logistical function is D = 34963.99…

by David Sims I AM NOT a Christian, but probably the best thing about Christianity is that it inculcates, through its contemporary moral teachings, a degree of conscientiousness into people who need a little external help in behaving morally. Conscientiousness consists of keeping your promises,…

by David Sims THERE APPEAR to have been more asymptomatic to mild cases of COVID-19 than anyone previously imagined. On 31 December, I began to have a dry cough. In early January, I had what, at the time, I believed to be an unusually severe chest cold, with sinus congestion developing a little later. When…

Coronavirus shows the state-sponsored corporate capitalist West the error of Its ways by David Sims THE SARS-Cov2-19 pandemic has, or by now should have, taught the capitalist West a lesson about its unwise business model, which was designed for maximum short-term profits, but which was always rickety,…

by David Sims Coronavirus Update, 0h UTC 3 April 2020 AS OF YESTERDAY, the reported number of coronavirus cases worldwide has surpassed 1,000,000. US cases: The number of coronavirus cases in the United States is 244,254, a rise of 32,556 in the past 24 hours. The daily percentage increase in coronavirus…

Maybe natural, inborn racial proclivities have a lot to do with it, too. by David Sims THERE ARE many evil persons within the bureaucracy of the US government. Together, they are so powerful than not even an elected President who wants to take them down and put them into prison, where they belong, can do…

by David Sims THE cumulative number of known cases outside China is 383,818. The rise in the cumulative number of known cases outside China during the past 24 hours is 47,326. The number of coronavirus deaths outside China is 17,829. The daily rise in the number of known cases worldwide is 1.14 times what…

by David Sims Coronavirus update, 0h UTC 17 March 2020. THE cumulative number of known cases outside China is 101,324. The rise in the cumulative number of known cases outside China during the past two days is 25,670 (or 12,835 new cases per day). The doubling time for the cumulative number of known cases…

by David Sims TURKEY HAS been making good on its threat to flood Europe, via Greece, with unwanted migrants. Greece has deployed its military to prevent the illegal entry of those migrants. So far, the Greek troops have used only non-lethal methods to repel the Third World invaders. The Turkish government…

by David Sims THE CORONAVIRUS was first brought to Italy by a Pakistani migrant who worked at a Chinese restaurant. He served food to customers, and he made home deliveries, spreading COVID-19 everywhere he went. When his infection was discovered, the Italian civil authorities asked him to self-isolate.…