COVID-19 # 36 (Required Parts are Highlighted)

Check out this video. It is not that long, but pay attention. It isolates cellphones along Miami Beach last week (remember the covidiots on spring break?), and then tracks where they went.

This shows the location data of phones that were on a Florida beach during Spring Break. It then shows where those phones traveled.

First thing you should note is the importance of social distancing. The second is how much data your phone gives off. pic.twitter.com/iokUX3qjeB

— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) March 26, 2020

I'm from back east. This pattern is not really surprising: most people in Florida come from the stretch along I-80 and I-90 running from Chicago east to Boston.

The Prime Minister of the UK, Boris Johnson, tested positive.

Yeah ... cases and deaths softened for a couple of days in Italy, but they're back up again.

Remember Hurricane Katrina? The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 will probably pass that by the end of the day. Remember 9/11? We'll probably pass that next week.

China has an internal threat level for the outbreak. It has 3 levels. Wuhan has been reduced from the worst one, to the medium one.

Seattle, which started out bad, seems to have flattened its curve. The thing is, in the Seattle area, it was really bad inside a nursing home, but not too bad outside of it. So they may have had an advantage in self-quarantining that other areas may not.

FWIW: I used self-quarantining in the previous sentence. This phrase is so popular that it will now come in spell checkers.

Bad news. If you scope out the outbreak maps, Salt Lake City, Boise, and Denver look like some of the worst parts of the country. Nothing like NYC, but what is?