<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 12:42 PM Doug Moen <<a href="mailto:doug@moens.org">doug@moens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div></div><div>For people who want to read a detailed technical explanation:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1584147693240000&usg=AFQjCNFhyUn3ihXLWnp3iKMvOZWJbbCy2Q" dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca</a><br></div><div>As
an addendum to this, for people with math knowledge, the # of confirmed
infections in Ontario has been rising at an exponential rate since Feb
23. Here are the numbers that I gathered from news reports:<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Someone mentioned that article yesterday and it is scary. It predicts a dire situation for France and Spain too.</div><div>I childhood friend works as a doctor in Italy, and he tells me that next week will be very hard there as the health system is swamped. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The USA media has been making visualization from the article too, such as this:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/-SoZcjMWxm8?t=621">https://youtu.be/-SoZcjMWxm8?t=621</a></div><div><br></div><div>It is good that Canada took these measures, but one wonders if they are enough or timely.</div><div>Also the sheer neglect of facts by the administration south of the border has seeded Canada with cases from the USA. Do we need to do more? Time will tell.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div>P.S., for KWLUGers who want to raise their anxiety levels further, I recommend the continually updated graphs and statistics at: <br></div><a href="https://covid19info.live/" target="_blank">https://covid19info.live/</a><br></div></div><br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I follow this from Johns Hopkins. <br></div><div><a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6</a></div><div><br></div><div>No graphs, but I extracted the following number over the days (worldwide total)</div><div><br></div><div>2020-03-07 11:45 102,475 cases, 3,491 deaths<br>2020-03-07 15:50 105,820 cases, 3,588 deaths<br>2020-03-08 13:15 107,835 cases, 3,658 deaths<br>2020-03-07 18:00 109,832 cases, 3,802 deaths<br>2020-03-08 21:45 110,034 cases, 3,824 deaths<br>2020-03-09 09:30 111,363 cases, 3,892 deaths<br>2020-03-09 14:30 113,432 cases, 3,994 deaths<br>2020-03-10 12:05 116,166 cases, 4,088 deaths<br>2020-03-10 18:55 118,252 cases, 4,262 deaths<br>2020-03-11 13:00 121,564 cases, 4,373 deaths<br>2020-03-11 15:00 121,977 cases, 4,373 deaths<br>2020-03-11 16:45 124,947 cases, 4,591 deaths<br>2020-03-12 09:00 127,750 cases, 4,717 deaths<br>2020-03-12 14:00 127,863 cases, 4,718 deaths<br>2020-03-12 21:45 128,343 cases, 4,720 deaths<br>2020-03-13 12:45 137,387 cases, 5,088 deaths<br><br></div><div>There are some photos I took at SuperStore and Freshco yesterday</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/11381732@N08/albums/72157713465901768">https://www.flickr.com/photos/11381732@N08/albums/72157713465901768</a></div><div><br></div><div>Not too bad considering the stores were packed. People still civil.<br></div></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><br></div></div>