On this beautiful, sunny Tuesday morning, the Louisiana Dept of Health is reporting 21,518 cases of corona virus in the state. That is 502 more cases than we reported yesterday. The hospital census is 1977, down substantially from the 2134 reported yesterday. Regrettably, the death toll today stands at 1013. Yesterday, the state reported 884 dead. I find it troubling that today we've broken 1000 dead. I wonder how far the reporting is lagging the actual event.
Here in Rapides parish we're reporting 175 cases with 5 deaths.
We had some bad weather in North Louisiana yesterday, with serious property damage. Our governor went and toured that area, and then did a press conference. He told us we were doing a lousy job on social distancing. Evidently, he's using cell phone data to track movement of individuals.
Click on the link above for more info, but evidently, there is some ability to track individuals using cell data. That's problematic from a big government standpoint. Both troubling and disturbing. By clicking links, we can go down to county level.
At a time when the President is talking about reopening the country, Bel Edwards is talking about keeping Louisiana locked down through May. He's a petty tyrant who really likes being the Big Boss Man. All he wants to do is suck federal dollars and keep Louisiana in economic servitude.
Louisiana deserves better than John Bel Edwards.
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"Our governor went and toured that area, and then did a press conference. He told us we were doing a lousy job on social distancing. Evidently, he's using cell phone data to track movement of individuals."
Assuming your cell phone has bluetooth or wifi, it has a unique identifier called a MAC address. It also has an IP address.
You can view it by following these instructions: https://oppo-au.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1318/~/how-to-check-ip-and-mac-address-of-your-phone
I don't think our governor is having LSP track individual phones, what they are seeing is mass locations of phones in total.
Edward Snowden warned about this.
To add some clarity- does Louisiana log the cases and deaths by age and pre-existing condition? In every chart I can find that does, (Italy, NYC, Virginia)it shows almost all deaths among the elderly, with an extremely high concentration in nursing homes. The old, and the sick, are at risk.
Instead of shutting down an entire economy, and isolating everyone, a better approach might be to isolate the at-risk people and their caregivers, and let the rest of the country make some money, pay some taxes, and keep the supply chains open so we don't end up like Venezuela.
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