Light At the End Of The Tunnel?

Actually, there are some signs of hope from here in NYC, one of the epicenters of the Kung Fu Grippe. Despite our idiot health director's claim that mass graves are being dug in Central Park (the same idiot health director who only a month ago exhorted people to party on in Chinatown), the Rotting Apple's hospitals have been discharging more patients than admitting for four straight days, Governor Nipsy Cuomo stating that no more ventilators are needed, and an economist from MIT reporting his analysis shows the so-called "curve" flattening in NYC. 

On a national level, President Trump is already calling for the formation of another committee to spearhead the post-lockdown restarting of the economy. With the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) model that has been cited by the administration now lowering its death projections in the US, the lifting of the lockdown can't happen fast enough. 

At the very least, the administration should be looking at targeted and phased in lifting of restrictions where people who test positive (sick or asymptomatic), the elderly, and those with poor pulmonary or immune systems remain quarantined until a date TBD. 

The President, who had been uncharacteristically glum for the past week, said on Sunday "we see light at the end of the tunnel."

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.

Even though I personally believe the Coronvirus is being hyped into Hysterialand - way out of proportion to it's actual lethality - I also think the fact that things may be getting a little better in NYC does NOT mean this is over.

I would love it if it meant that. And maybe it does.

But I suspect we will see outbreaks in other cities as well.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

For Four Straight Days, NY Hospitals Discharging More Patients Than Bringing In

IHME Model Lowers US Chinese Coronavirus Death Projections

MIT Economist: NYC Chinese Coronavirus Curve Already Flattening

NYC Health Committee Chair Says Mass Graves in Parks Could Happen... But 30 Days Ago He Told New Yorkers to Party in Chinatown

Cuomo: "We Don't Need Any Additional Ventilators"

Cuomo Wants Trump Admin to Increase HCQ Supply Since NY Tests Show Promise