Coronavirus: US overtakes China with most cases

Woooo hoooooooooooo……….

On the other hand:

I am a naturally pessimistic feller. I prefer to think of it as holding to proper engineering standards: engineering tells you with certainty that some things WILL fail, some things WON’T work… what it won’t tell you is that something is assured of success, but only “probably.” When you can see a hundred ways in which a situation cannot work and only a few ways in which it might, this makes you a good engineer, but also someone that other people find kind of a bummer to hang around. Still, while I’m focusing on the worst case projections and looking forward to a likelihood of a dim personal future (because failure to recognize how things can go terribly wrong leads you to walking directly into terrible things), I expect the American people to be able to deal with this problem the way we’ve dealt with so many others. Yes, the government can certainly help, but as with FDR’s Depression Extension Programs and LBJ’s Eternal War To Perpetuate Poverty, the government is a dubious ally at best. But when the entrepreneurial spirit of the American people is unleashed, there are few things we cannot tackle.