Global Pandemic Event 201

[Ninurta]

In Virginia, the governor has banned any gathering of people over 100. COVID-19 cases are on the rise. Since yesterday, the number of people tested has more than doubled, from 489 to 1028, and in that doubling of tested individuals, they picked up a few percent more infected, rising from 51 to 67. Deaths have apparently doubled as well, from 1 to 2. Oddly, the virus seems to be hitting mostly liberal areas. Here is the map of infections:



A smaller, but easier to view version on the RN background (I probably shouldn't have used a PNG with transparency the first time):



That map is from yesterday, but today's map looks exactly the same, except the number of cases within the affected areas have increased. I'm in the far left tail of the state, well away from the hotbeds. The hardest hit areas are in Northern Virginia, directly adjacent to Washington DC, the same bastards that gave us our current communist-leaning legislature. There may be some poetic justice in that...

West Virginia reported it's first case about an hour ago, and it's reported to be "in the eastern panhandle", but without a specific location provided. That is where my son and his family live, so He may be in the danger zone now. He ought to pack them up and haul ass for here, where we are a minimum of 5 1/2 hours from the nearest infection, but he won't - he has work to do where he is.


   

   


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