COVID19: Social Disease?

Picking up where COVID19: Parabellum? left off... We've Nattered about crowded environments, transmission, seasonal flu numbers, mortality rates, imagined vs real, the backdraft of draconian measures, predicted "superspreader" events, pigs in a poke, monetary policy, preexisting conditions and a lack of global leadership for many reasons. Unlike others, this was not to infer that COVID19 is much ado about nothing...
In week's sociable offering's submitted for your acceptance, you'll find renewed greatness, predictive models, meltdowns, cancellation lateness... apropos music, freezes, bigger boats, sharks, bazookas, and heated hopes... holy water, wafers, slippers, service providers, witches, and double dippers... a look at the boot, serial killers, houses of worship and ill repute.  
As predicted: First, infected cases exploding past 500K, unchecked circa April 5th to 1M?  Second, with 67K+ the US is now #1 in active cases. Third, 3.28M highest number of initial jobless claims in history, previous high was 695K October 2, 1982. In tonight's pulchritudinous and pious offering for your consideration, one can find dispersion, heated hope, a look at the boot, houses of worship and ill repute. Getting down to business and our apropos title, we think...

so·cial dis·ease noun
1. a social phenomenon viewed as an evil or inconvenience.
2. [DATED] a sexually transmitted disease.

Keep that definition in mind as we now dispense with the Sunny Days ahead narrative.  Moving South?...

To date, COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has established significant community spread... roughly along the 30-50 N” corridor... [this study] suggests that overall, human coronaviruses... which usually lead to common cold symptoms, have been shown to display strong winter seasonality... assuming the virus doesn’t continue to mutate, we would expect that COVID-19 will diminish considerably in affected areas (above the 30-degree N”) in the coming months... it appears that the virus has a harder time spreading between people in warmer, tropical climates. That suggests once average temperatures rise above 12 degrees Celsius and higher (54 degree Fahrenheit and higher), the virus may be harder to transmit... but this is still a hypothesis that requires more data. - Zones Of Increased Risk

Your ridin high in April, shot down in May? Foundational keys underlined and... which usually leads to common cold symptoms? But not today... COVID19 is still proving much deadlier than the flu, so its not your grand parents or parents flu, nor common. Said proven fact can be difficult to drive home when wading through a pile of regurgitated MSM parrot food, but I digress.  Roughly 88% of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, with about half north of 27 degrees north. Despite that fact and little testing outside of S. Korea and Iceland, which will eventually reveal the true scope of global saturation...

Alex, I'll take The Boyz of Summer for $500. Trebek queries: during a long hot summer usage of these electrodomestic's surges.  What is a fan or air conditioner? Summertime, cooling ventilation systems get cranked up.  Don't forget in Winter, it's the heater. 


Alex, to find the infected I'll take There's Waldo as opposed to the Where's Waldo Viral version for $500.  Trebek queries...host to 12% of the worlds population with LOWER average levels of INCOME and TRAVEL frequencies.  What is the Southern Hemisphere? 

COVID19's preferred infection method is aerosolization into HVAC recirculation systems which serve contained and crowded areas, and are more prevalent in the higher income Northern Hemisphere. Yet, this virus is spreading rapidly in the Southern Hemisphere during their SUMMER. Speaking of a cruel summer...

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore? The last five June-August periods are the five hottest on record.  Do I look like Glinda? Don't even go there... Do you truly want to go home to Kansas? Then close your eyes, click your heels together three times and say... there is no anthropogenic (human assisted) global warming, and you'll be there. The rest of us tolerate the self serving carbon industry disinformation machine and their acolytes ass hattery.  Misery loves company? It's going to be a long, hot summer, stuck with the cerebral cortex impaired AGW science deniers wallowing in their ignorance, while sucking up and on COVID19? That's life? TBD and like Glinda's sister Theodora, Moving West...

With all the subjective and creative viral data "interpretation", masks, gel, hand wipes, and draconian lockdowns floating about, one could find a false sense of security and hope, which along with faith are the currency of houses of worship. Speaking of which f
rom a Naybob of Telemetry... Italian Corona Wafers?

Could it be that the Priests are handing them out to everyone?  Would explain the rapid spread.  Close it for at least two weeks.. or more.
Speaking words of wisdom? The Nattering One RAISES your wafers... ONE finger dip into a communal bowl of blessed water, ONE sign of the cross touching the temple (pun intended). AND to be communion wafer eligible, ONE absolution seeking climb into a confessional booth. Said practices by an 85% Christian; 81% Catholic base of which 25% or 15M attend 65K churches on a regular basis. BTW, all religious gatherings and ceremonies were banned in Italy on Feb 23rd. Let it Be?  We will revisit this train of thought in our next missive. Speaking of habits (pun intended) another Mary just came to mind...   

And RAISES ONE Sweet Painted Lady?  In most of the world, the world's oldest profession is legal or tolerated. In 2008, it was estimated that the country once known for "La Dolce Vita" had 100K legal service providers. Much like the Wuhan wet market, there's an open air market in Rome. Current conservative estimates are equal if not greater at 120K
40% operate indoors and 7% could be the woman next door DIY supplementing a regular job. 

Temporary Marriages? Above, "temporarily married at least once" estimates from 2010. Said loophole known as a sigheh in Shia Islam is no joke.  US regulars are estimated up to 20% of the male population. In Italy, up to 9M regular clients would engage 33% of the male population. Safely assuming service providers are closer to 200K, with 10% of online ads for Asian women, = 20K from China. 

And RAISES ONE Dispersion? Aside from wafers, water and working girls, the Bel Paese hosts the largest diaspora population in Europe with 300K from China (#2 Spain 190K; #3 Germany 133K)the largest concentration being in the hard hit Lombardy sector or vector?  More to come on that. Factor in high petrol cost, lower wages, which drives a high reliance upon crowded public transport.  Greetings? The embrace and two cheek kiss, speaking of salutations...

Covid or Love Is In The Air? Remember those COVID19 rankings earlier? If one thinks Italy's "working girl" numbers are high, guess again. Updating per 10K population estimates: Italy 33; Germany 60; 
US 63; Spain 64; China 70; Iran 72: and coming in at #1 in this weeks countdown S.Korea with an astounding 200. Said 
tally is not the only one somebody is higher in, and whom is being very quiet about all of this. On that high yet quiet note, in short order we'll be warming our cockles by engaging in another type of what many still consider a social disease. Salutations of good health to all...  
 
More to come in COVID19: Viral Vectors? stay tuned, no flippin.


Recommended Reading:

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COVID19: Secondary Infection?
COVID19: Bat Out Of Hell?
COVID19: Pig In A Poke?
COVID19: Great Gig In The Sky?
COVID19: The Sound Of Silence?
COVID19: Parabellum?
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Comments

Salmo Trutta said…
Interesting dispersal. Harvey Weinstein seems to have infected the prison population.