The Daily Dread - Tracking the spread, 5/27/20

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All times Pacific, source: Johns Hopkins/NBC News

At 10:01am - domestic data only - I waited a couple of hours for ANY numbers at all.*
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,878
Deaths US - 99,967

At 10:02am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,308
Deaths worldwide - 351,662
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,878
Deaths US - 100,112

At 10:15am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,365
Deaths worldwide - 351,666
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,935
Deaths US - 100,116

At 10:30am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,808
Deaths worldwide - 351,687
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,378
Deaths US - 100,137


*Note the time. The change that reflected reaching the 100-thousand

As MSNBC anchor Katy Tur just aptly put it - each of those 100-thousand "had names, had families, and were leading their lives."

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1. I have noticed one thing that's quite the indicator of where we are:

It took all morning, til the 10 o'clock hour, for MSNBC to start showing graphics.

ALL MORNING!

WTF?

SERIOUSLY????? And with the news all day yesterday talking about, and even headlining about, the coming milestone o 100-thousand deaths. All day they beat that one like a drum. And then when we woke up and tuned in this morning (granted, it was about 8am (don't know what happened earlier), we were first on CNN, but switched to MSNBC to check the numbers there, for consistency purposes. I settled on their numbers early-on, and those are the ones I've been tracking every day, except for a few days ago when the graphics were frozen, for some reason, on the "States with Most Cases" graphic - which really hasn't served me, here, at all. And there were no numbers. For almost two hours!

It might have been lazy control room or the show producer or the hour producer for those decisions. And okay, I've noticed the tapering off of some of the more intense coverage. Up til a few days ago, the graphics over on the right side of the screen rotated among FOUR: "Countries with Most Cases," "States with Most Cases," the map of the US, and "Total Confirmed Cases/Total Deaths." No longer! Now, it's just the fourth one - "Total Confirmed Cases/Total Deaths." But selfishly speaking, that's the one I used. I actually called in to complain on the NBC/MSNBC general phone number (and emailed the Maddow/Maddowblog people) because they were only showing the "States with Most Cases" graphic. The next day, they'd unfrozen the States graphic and put in the Cases/Deaths graphic instead. And then left it there. But that's okay, that's the one I use for these purposes here.

(BTW - I may write a separate OP about what I just discovered, by taking the time to register a complaint. It works! Rachel Maddow even said so - and I used it as one of the "Inspirational Openings" we run at the top of every new Call to Action email that my Indivisible group issues every week. "Pressure works." Two words. That's IT.)


But I digress. Sorry. What I've noticed is - that the intensity of the coverage has eased. They're talking other issues now, as well, instead of nonstop, round-the-clock 24/7 COVID coverage. That's indicative of a sense in the news biz that the lead story is not quite so strong a lead that it dominates the whole news day. And so you back off the intensity a little. You don't track the stats as closely - countries, states, etc. Maybe you feel like you don't need to press it that hard, that relentlessly.

The problem with that is - it sorta feeds into a false sense of security, a complacency, that it's over, we've seen the worst, it's behind us, everything's back to normal again.

Um... not so fast. It's NOT over. We HAVEN'T seen the worst. It's NOT behind us. And who knows if we'll EVER see "back to normal" aka the old pre-COVID "normal" again?

And the TV graphics and data people start backing off - AS WE APPROACH an ASTOUNDING MILESTONE. Yeah, I'm shouting. My apologies. But One Hundred Thousand deaths? Has any war or upheaval or superstorm done that? And in what? Less than THREE months?

Hey, all I can do is yowl about it...

Thanks for putting up with me!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. It also matches the Grotesque Orange Pustule's message

It matches the entire RW message, as well as m$m's message that we must re-open "the economy". Good luck with that, parasite class; you need those human capital stock consumer units to start spending again. Many are smart enough to recognize the gaslighting.

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2. And while I've been complaining...

We've had a whole new slew of data come in.

At 10:01am - domestic data only - I waited a couple of hours for ANY numbers at all.*
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,878
Deaths US - 99,967

At 10:02am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,308
Deaths worldwide - 351,662
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,878
Deaths US - 100,112

At 10:15am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,365
Deaths worldwide - 351,666
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,935
Deaths US - 100,116

At 10:30am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,808
Deaths worldwide - 351,687
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,378
Deaths US - 100,137


At 11:05am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,011
Deaths worldwide - 351,697
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,611
Deaths US - 100,147

At 11:07am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,041
Deaths worldwide - 351,697
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,611
Deaths US - 100,147

At 11:17am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,069
Deaths worldwide - 351,700
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,639
Deaths US - 100,150

At 11:23am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,502
Deaths worldwide - 351,742
Confirmed cases US - 1,699,072
Deaths US - 100,192 - already WELL OVER 100-thousand.

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3. Another update -

At 10:01am - domestic data available only
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,878
Deaths US - 99,967

At 10:02am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,308
Deaths worldwide - 351,662
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,878
Deaths US - 100,112

At 10:15am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,365
Deaths worldwide - 351,666
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,935
Deaths US - 100,116

At 10:30am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,808
Deaths worldwide - 351,687
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,378
Deaths US - 100,137


At 11:05am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,011
Deaths worldwide - 351,697
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,611
Deaths US - 100,147

At 11:07am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,041
Deaths worldwide - 351,697
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,611
Deaths US - 100,147

At 11:17am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,069
Deaths worldwide - 351,700
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,639
Deaths US - 100,150

At 11:23am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,502
Deaths worldwide - 351,742
Confirmed cases US - 1,699,072
Deaths US - 100,192


At 1:01pm - domestic data available only - the numbers haven't moved.
Confirmed cases US - 1,699,072
Deaths US - 100,192

SpaceX launch took over everything. I suspect there will be additional domestic-only updates as we get into evening. That's usually what Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell run.

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4. And another update -

At 10:01am - domestic data available only
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,878
Deaths US - 99,967

At 10:02am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,308
Deaths worldwide - 351,662
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,878
Deaths US - 100,112

At 10:15am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,365
Deaths worldwide - 351,666
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,935
Deaths US - 100,116

At 10:30am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,808
Deaths worldwide - 351,687
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,378
Deaths US - 100,137


At 11:05am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,011
Deaths worldwide - 351,697
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,611
Deaths US - 100,147

At 11:07am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,041
Deaths worldwide - 351,697
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,611
Deaths US - 100,147

At 11:17am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,069
Deaths worldwide - 351,700
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,639
Deaths US - 100,150

At 11:23am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,502
Deaths worldwide - 351,742
Confirmed cases US - 1,699,072
Deaths US - 100,192


At 1:01pm - domestic data available only - the numbers haven't moved.
Confirmed cases US - 1,699,072
Deaths US - 100,192


At 5:50pm - QUITE a jump:
Confirmed cases US - 1,705,714
Deaths - 100,715

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5. And yet another update...

At 10:01am - domestic data available only
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,878
Deaths US - 99,967

At 10:02am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,308
Deaths worldwide - 351,662
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,878
Deaths US - 100,112

At 10:15am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,365
Deaths worldwide - 351,666
Confirmed cases US - 1,697,935
Deaths US - 100,116

At 10:30am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,607,808
Deaths worldwide - 351,687
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,378
Deaths US - 100,137


At 11:05am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,011
Deaths worldwide - 351,697
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,611
Deaths US - 100,147

At 11:07am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,041
Deaths worldwide - 351,697
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,611
Deaths US - 100,147

At 11:17am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,069
Deaths worldwide - 351,700
Confirmed cases US - 1,698,639
Deaths US - 100,150

At 11:23am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,608,502
Deaths worldwide - 351,742
Confirmed cases US - 1,699,072
Deaths US - 100,192


At 1:01pm - domestic data available only - the numbers haven't moved.
Confirmed cases US - 1,699,072
Deaths US - 100,192


At 5:50pm - QUITE a jump:
Confirmed cases US - 1,705,714
Deaths - 100,715


At 8:17pm
Confirmed cases US - 1,707,227
Deaths US - 100,846

There are no words.

Only numbers. Increasing numbers.